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The Pursuit Of The Valdakk

By: Douglas R. Maercklein

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The Pursuit of the Valdakk. A spaceship is missing. It belongs to the alien Tasak, and they have come to the planetary commonwealth of Ancinnion to seek help. The provincial council minister is in no position to refuse the Tasak, and Anadar Tolarin, a political cogwheel with a checkered past, is persuaded to shepherd the recovery operation. It is a simple job that will return great patronage and large sums of money for everyone involved, but there are a few problems. The ship in question turns out to have been missing for eighty-five years. The Valdakk is a warship, and evidently, it carries some secret weapon. The Tasak cannot explain exactly how this ship has become lost, why it has taken so long for them to come for it, or what terrible cargo it contains; however, they are convinced they know where it is. Anadar embarks aboard a powerful new combat vessel, but his nefarious political career has produced enemies, and the selection of the crew has left him suspicious, if not fearful. The dark corners of such a large warship conceal myriad dangers, and he senses only resentment from everyone aboard except the ship physician, a woman without a past. Against his better judgment, he picks up an alien pilot for his quest into the Rim Nebula, and to no one’s surprise, they are shadowed by the ships of a notorious criminal syndicate, the Ultracaan. They locate the Valdakk , but the ship evades them, and recovery becomes pursuit. It is a race now against a treacherous competitor—a contest at gunpoint with each played against the other by a quarry that always seems to stay one step ahead. Every contact grows more perilous, every battle more dangerous, every confrontation more personal. Anadar’s future and the fate of his mission will ultimately depend on the skills and courage of people he cannot trust. The closer he comes to the vessel, the more he discovers about the fears of the Tasak, the motivations of the Ultracaan, and the real purpose of his quest. Anadar Tolarin will grapple with his enemies, his past, and himself before he can face the Valdakk. What begins as a routine military excursion will go beyond the exercise of ships cannon, and he will discover that although much is offered, much is also demanded in the pursuit of the Valdakk .

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1453503722

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The Historical Foundations of World Order

The Tower and the Arena

By: Douglas M. Johnston

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The Historical Foundations of World Order

The Tower and the Arena

By: Douglas M. Johnston

In The Historical Foundations of World Order: the Tower and the Arena, Douglas M. Johnston has drawn on a 45 year career as one of the world s most prolific academics in the development of international law and public policy and 5 years of exhaustive research to produce a comprehensive and highly nuanced examination of the historical precursors, intellectual developments, and philosophical frameworks that have guided the progress of world order through recorded history and across the globe, from pre-classical antiquity to the present day. By illuminating the personalities and identifying the controversies behind the great advancements in international legal thought and weaving this into the context of more conventionally known history, Johnston presents a unique understanding of how peoples and nations have sought regularity, justice and order across the ages. This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from lawyers interested in the historical background of familiar concepts, to curriculum developers for law schools and history faculties, to general interest readers wanting a wider perspective on the history of civilization.Winner 2009 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004161678

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War

A Guide to Memoirs

By: Brian Douglas Tennyson

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War

A Guide to Memoirs

By: Brian Douglas Tennyson

Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort--400,000 of them overseas--out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don't even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson's The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Ancient Households of the Americas

Conceptualizing What Households Do

By: John G. Douglas,Nancy Douglas

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Ancient Households of the Americas

Conceptualizing What Households Do

By: John G. Douglas,Nancy Douglas

In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures—Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya—are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and results of households as primary producers; and Section III investigates the role of, and interplay among, households in their greater political and socioeconomic communities. In the past few decades, household archaeology has made substantial contributions to our understanding and explanation of the past through the documentation of the household as a social unit—whether small or large, rural or urban, commoner or elite. These case studies from a broad swath of the Americas make Ancient Households of the Americas extremely valuable for continuing the comparative interdisciplinary study of households.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457117444

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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation

A Bicentennial History, 1799-1999

By: R. Douglas Brackenridge

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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation

A Bicentennial History, 1799-1999

By: R. Douglas Brackenridge

For two centuries, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation has been at work serving the church and undergirding its mission. In this authoritative and carefully researched history, R. Douglas Brackenridge unfolds the story of how the Foundation developed its unique role in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It is a history filled with strong leaders, vigorous challenges, and lively debate. Brackenridge shows how the Foundation, even in times of struggle, has been shaped over the decades as a significant instrument of support to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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Geneva Press

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0664500439

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Alcuin II

Theology and Thought

By: Douglas Dales

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Alcuin II

Theology and Thought

By: Douglas Dales

Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin can be seen as a true hidden saint of the Church, of the same stature and significance as his predecessor Bede. His love of God and his grasp of Christian theology were rendered original in their creative impact by his gifts as a teacher and poet. In his hands, the very traditional theology that he inherited, and to which he felt bound, took new wings. In that respect, he must rank as one of the most notable and influential of Anglo-Saxon Christians, uniting English and continental Christianity in a unique manner, which left a lasting legacy within the Catholic Church of Western Europe. This book is intended for the general reader as well as for those studying, teaching or researching this period of early medieval history and theology in schools and universities.

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James Clarke & Company

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0227900863

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Speech Processing

A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented Approach

By: Li Deng,Douglas O'Shaughnessy

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Speech Processing

A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented Approach

By: Li Deng,Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Based on years of instruction and field expertise, this volume offers the necessary tools to understand all scientific, computational, and technological aspects of speech processing. The book emphasizes mathematical abstraction, the dynamics of the speech process, and the engineering optimization practices that promote effective problem solving in this area of research and covers many years of the authors' personal research on speech processing. Speech Processing helps build valuable analytical skills to help meet future challenges in scientific and technological advances in the field and considers the complex transition from human speech processing to computer speech processing.

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CRC Press

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1482276232

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American Orientalism

The United States and the Middle East since 1945

By: Douglas Little

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American Orientalism

The United States and the Middle East since 1945

By: Douglas Little

Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture, Little examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of U.S. policy. He concludes that a peculiar blend of arrogance and ignorance has led American officials to overestimate their ability to shape events in the Middle East from 1945 through the present day, and that it has been a driving force behind the Iraq war. For this updated third edition, Little covers events through 2007, including a new chapter on the Bush Doctrine, demonstrating that in many important ways, George W. Bush's Middle Eastern policies mark a sharp break with the past.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877611

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Financial Miracles and the New Financial Nature

By: Douglas C. Knisely CPA

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Financial Miracles and the New Financial Nature

By: Douglas C. Knisely CPA

God can do a lot more for you than simply provide gainful employment—He can help you endure frightful losses caused by bad personal decisions and enjoy financial miracles. Douglas C. Knisely knows because he has been blessed with the glory of God’s grace. In this book he answers questions such as: How can you get close to God, so that you can reap the rewards of a new financial nature? What steps can you take to change employment from a burden to a service to God? Why is it so important to give to the church and charitable causes? The author emphasizes that God will only bring financial miracles into the lives of those who love and fear Him, who understand there is a cost for a financial miracle, and who realize miracles require human participation—as well as obedience and prayer. Get close to God today and make an immediate and dramatic change in your financial nature and financial future with the wisdom in this book.

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WestBow Press

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1973699079

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Building Information Modeling

BIM in Current and Future Practice

By: Karen Kensek,Douglas Noble

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Building Information Modeling

BIM in Current and Future Practice

By: Karen Kensek,Douglas Noble

The bright future and exciting possibilities of BIM Many architects and engineers regard BIM as a disruptive force, changing the way building professionals design, build, and ultimately manage a built structure. With its emphasis on continuing advances in BIM research, teaching, and practice, Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice encourages readers to transform disruption to opportunity and challenges them to reconsider their preconceptions about BIM. Thought leaders from universities and professional practice composed essays exploring BIM's potential to improve the products and processes of architectural design including the structure and content of the tools themselves. These authors provide insights for assessing the current practice and research directions of BIM and speculate about its future. The twenty-six chapters are thematically grouped in six sections that present complementary and sometimes incompatible positions: Design Thinking and BIM BIM Analytics Comprehensive BIM Reasoning with BIM Professional BIM BIM Speculations Together, these authors provide stimulating ideas regarding new directions in building information modeling.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111876661X

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Lee's Lieutenants: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

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Lee's Lieutenants: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

Volume one of a three volume set which describes the military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War, presenting the stories and military campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia under the direction of Robert E. Lee.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684837846

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A Companion to German Pietism, 1660-1800

By: Douglas Shantz

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A Companion to German Pietism, 1660-1800

By: Douglas Shantz

A Companion to German Pietism offers an introduction to recent Pietism scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic, in German, Dutch, and English. The focus is upon early modern German Pietism, a movement that arose in the late 17th century German Empire within both Reformed and Lutheran traditions. It introduced a new paradigm to German Protestantism that included personal renewal, new birth, women-dominated conventicles, and millennialism. The “Introduction” offers a concise overview of modern research into German Pietism. The Companion is then organized according to the different worlds of Pietist existence—intellectual, devotional, literary-cultural, and social-political.

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BRILL

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9004283862

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An Introduction to German Pietism

Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

By: Douglas H. Shantz

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An Introduction to German Pietism

Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

By: Douglas H. Shantz

An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance. Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College An Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with inspiring both Evangelicalism and modern individualism. Taking into account new discoveries in the field, Douglas H. Shantz focuses on features of Pietism that made it religiously and culturally significant. He discusses the social and religious roots of Pietism in earlier German Radicalism and situates Pietist beginnings in three cities: Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Halle. Shantz also examines the cultural worlds of the Pietists, including Pietism and gender, Pietists as readers and translators of the Bible, and Pietists as missionaries to the far reaches of the world. He not only considers Pietism's role in shaping modern western religion and culture but also reflects on the relevance of the Pietist religious paradigm of today. The first survey of German Pietism in English in forty years, An Introduction to German Pietism provides a narrative interpretation of the movement as a whole. The book's accessible tone and concise portrayal of an extensive and complex subject make it ideal for courses on early modern Christianity and German history. The book includes appendices with translations of German primary sources and discussion questions.

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JHU Press

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1421408805

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9781421408804

Dorade

The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht

By: Douglas D. Adkins

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Dorade

The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht

By: Douglas D. Adkins

Tells the definitive history of the boat many people consider the greatest ocean racing yacht of the 20th century. This title begins with Roderick Stephens, Senior who invested his reputation and fortune to help his sons Olin and Rod, design and build an ocean racer to compete against the finest yachts of the day.

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Black Sparrow Books

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1567924476

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Obsession

By: John Douglas

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Obsession

By: John Douglas

OBSESSION examines the many violent interpersonal crimes committed against women and the elderly, providing extraordinary insight into what motivates the perpetrators who commit them. With profiles of many well-known cases and criminals, as well as an invalubale chapter on how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from violence, John Douglas has written a groundbreaking book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471109437

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Ion Chromatography

By: James S. Fritz,Douglas T. Gjerde

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Ion Chromatography

By: James S. Fritz,Douglas T. Gjerde

This completely revised and updated fourth edition of the best-selling classic is a thorough treatment of the subject while remaining concise and readable. New additions include capillary electrophoresis, monolithic columns, zwitterion colums, DNA/RNA analysis, fundamentals of the science of IC, and micro methods. The whole is rounded off by handy tables with details on detection or elution conditions, among others.

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3527320520

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From the Realm of a Dying Sun

IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944

By: Douglas E. Nash

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From the Realm of a Dying Sun

IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944

By: Douglas E. Nash

The first volume of the tactical and operational history of World War II Germany’s fourth SS-Panzerkorps division and its leader. During World War II, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany’s defeat in May, 1945. The histories of the first three SS corps are well known—the actions of I, II, and III (Germanic) SS-Panzerkorps have been thoroughly documented and publicized. Overlooked in this pantheon is another SS corps that never fought in the west or in Berlin but one that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war: the IV SS-Panzerkorps. Activated during the initial stages of the defense of Warsaw in late July, 1944, the corps—consisting of the 3. and 5. SS-Panzer Divisions (Totenkopf and Wiking, respectively)—was born in battle and spent the last ten months of the war in combat, figuring prominently in the battles of Warsaw, the attempted Relief of Budapest, Operation Spring Awakening, the defense of Vienna, and the withdrawal into Austria where it finally surrendered to U.S. forces in May, 1945. Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps was renowned for its tenacity, high morale, and, above all, its lethality. Often embroiled in heated disputes with its immediate Wehrmacht higher headquarters over his seemingly cavalier conduct of operations, Gille’s corps remained to the bitter end one of the Third Reich’s most reliable and formidable field formations.

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Casemate

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1612006361

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9781612006369

VPNavy! USN, USMC, USCG and NATS Patrol Aircraft Lost or Damaged During World War II Ð Listed by Bureau Number

By: Douglas E. Campbell

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VPNavy! USN, USMC, USCG and NATS Patrol Aircraft Lost or Damaged During World War II Ð Listed by Bureau Number

By: Douglas E. Campbell

Thousands of hours of research have culminated in this First Edition of U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard and Naval Air Transport Service patrol aircraft lost or damaged during World War II. Within these pages can be found more than 2,200 patrol aircraft in Bureau Number (BuNo) sequence; the majority of the aircraft complete with their stories of how they were lost or damaged or simply Struck Off Charge (SOC) and removed from the NavyÍs inventory. Of interest to the reader may be the alphabetical Index to the 7,600+ names of Officers, aircrewmen and others mentioned in the book.

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Lulu.com

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138788879X

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9781387888795

Edge of Your Seat

The 100 Greatest Movie Thrillers

By: Douglas Brode

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Edge of Your Seat

The 100 Greatest Movie Thrillers

By: Douglas Brode

The perfect guide to all cinematic thrill-seekers this title is filled with stills of the scenes from the films that have made this genre so compelling throughout the history of the silver screen. Author Brode offers descriptions, synopses and analyses of all hundred movie classics. With a foreword by Rod Lurie.

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Citadel Press

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0806523824

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Conflict on the Rio Grande

Water and the Law, 1879–1939

By: Douglas R. Littlefield

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Conflict on the Rio Grande

Water and the Law, 1879–1939

By: Douglas R. Littlefield

The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century reflects the evolution of water-resource management in the West. It was here that the earliest interstate and international water-allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico against farmers downstream in El Paso and Juarez, with the voluntary resolution of that conflict setting important precedents for national and international water law. In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early interstate and international water- apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate to the development of western water law and policy and to international relations with Mexico. Littlefield embraces environmental, legal, and social history to offer clear analyses of appropriation and riparian water rights doctrines, along with lucid accounts of court cases and laws. Examining events that led up to the 1904 settlement among U.S. and Mexican communities and the formation of the Rio Grande Compact in 1938, Littlefield describes how communities grappled over water issues as much with one another as with governmental authorities. Conflict on the Rio Grande reveals the transformation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century law, traces changing attitudes about the role of government, and examines the ways these changes affected the use and eventual protection of natural resources. Rio Grande water policy, Littlefield shows, represents federalism at work—and shows the West, in one locale at least, coming to grips with its unique problems through negotiation and compromise.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806185910

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The Casualty Gap

The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities

By: Douglas L. Kriner,Francis X. Shen

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The Casualty Gap

The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities

By: Douglas L. Kriner,Francis X. Shen

The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, including National Archives data on the hometowns of more than 400,000 American soldiers killed in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, this book is the most ambitious inquiry to date into the distribution of American wartime casualties across the nation, the forces causing such inequalities to emerge, and their consequences for politics and democratic governance.

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Oxford University Press

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019974176X

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Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism

By: James Douglas Rose

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Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism

By: James Douglas Rose

Not all workers' needs were served by the union. Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company empire and then of U.S. Steel, James D. Rose demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation usually dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests. The early New Deal set in motion two versions of workplace representation that battled for supremacy: company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) and independent trade unionism. At Duquesne, the cause of the unskilled, hourly workers, mostly eastern and southern Europeans as well as blacks, was taken up by the union -- the Fort Dukane Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. For skilled tonnage workers and skilled tradesmen, mainly U.S.-born and of northern and western European extraction, ERPs offered a better solution. Initially little more than a crude antiunion device, ERPs matured from tools of the company into semi-independent, worker-led organizations. Isolated from the union movement through the mid-1930s, ERP representatives and management nonetheless created a sophisticated bargaining structure that represented the shop-floor interests of the mill's skilled workforce. Meanwhile, the Amalgamated gave way to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a professionalized and tightly organized affiliate of John L. Lewis's CIO that expended huge resources trying to gain companywide unionization. Even when the SWOC secured a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel in 1937, however, the Union was still unable to sign up a majority of the workforce at Duquesne. A sophisticated study of the forces that shaped and responded to workers' interests, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism confirms that what people did on the shop floor was as critical to the course of steel unionism as were corporate decision making and shifts in government policy.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252026608

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Progressive Relaxation Training

A Guide for Professionals, Students, and Researchers

By: Holly Hazlett-Stevens,Douglas A. Bernstein

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Progressive Relaxation Training

A Guide for Professionals, Students, and Researchers

By: Holly Hazlett-Stevens,Douglas A. Bernstein

Offers comprehensive guidance for practitioners, students, and researchers in psychology, psychiatry, and counseling to teach relaxation to clients. Two clinical psychologists widely known for their writings on relaxation present state-of-the-art methods for teaching clients to ease muscle and mind tension to deal with stress and anxiety disorders, as well as other conditions where stress and anxiety play a role. Bernstein and Hazlett-Stevens explain who the targets for Progressive Relaxation Training (PRT) are; the rationale, basic procedures, and variations of PRT; the setting and possible problems and solutions of PRT; and how to assess a client's progress. They also address hypnosis, drugs, and PRT, as well as PRT used in a mindfulness-based clinical practice. Case studies and evaluative research in PRT are also included. Students and practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, and counseling will find this work of interest. This book may also be useful supplemental reading for behavior modification courses and practicum courses in behavior therapy.

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Learning and Teaching Early Math

The Learning Trajectories Approach

By: Douglas H. Clements,Julie Sarama

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Learning and Teaching Early Math

The Learning Trajectories Approach

By: Douglas H. Clements,Julie Sarama

In this important new book for pre- and in-service teachers, early math experts Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama show how "learning trajectories" help teachers become more effective professionals. By opening up new windows to seeing young children and the inherent delight and curiosity behind their mathematical reasoning, learning trajectories ultimately make teaching more joyous. They help teachers understand the varying level of knowledge and thinking of their classes and the individuals within them as key in serving the needs of all children. In straightforward, no-nonsense language, this book summarizes what is known about how children learn mathematics, and how to build on what they know to realize more effective teaching practice. It will help teachers understand the learning trajectories of early mathematics and become quintessential professionals.

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Routledge

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1135843791

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After Sound

Toward a Critical Music

By: G Douglas Barrett

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After Sound

Toward a Critical Music

By: G Douglas Barrett

After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships. The works discussed in After Sound thus use performance, text scores, musical automata, video, social practice, and installation while they articulate a novel aesthetic space for a radically engaged musical practice. Coining the term "critical music," this book examines a diverse collection of art projects which intervene into specific political and philosophical conflicts by exploring music's unique historical forms. Through a series of intimate studies of artworks surveyed from the visual and performing arts of the past ten years-Pussy Riot, Ultra-red, Hong-Kai Wang, Peter Ablinger, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, and others-After Sound offers a significant revision to the way we think about music. The book as a whole offers a way out of one of the most vexing deadlocks of contemporary cultural criticism: the choice between a sound art effectively divorced from the formal-historical coordinates of musical practice and the hermetic music that dominates new music circles today.

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The Dark Heart of Hollywood

Glamour, Guns and Gambling – Inside the Mafia's Global Empire

By: Douglas Thompson

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The Dark Heart of Hollywood

Glamour, Guns and Gambling – Inside the Mafia's Global Empire

By: Douglas Thompson

This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood’s hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would. In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California’s twenty-first century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing. In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel.

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Random House

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1780574576

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Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged

A Study in Command

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

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A Study in Command

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

A towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history -- now available in a one-volume abridgment. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee. Dr. Freeman describes the early rise and fall of General Beauregard, the developing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the triumphs of unlikely men at crucial times. He also describes the rise of the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South. The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as commanders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451603169

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Choosing the Leader

By: Matthew N. Green,Douglas B. Harris

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Choosing the Leader

By: Matthew N. Green,Douglas B. Harris

The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present--data including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts--to provide new insights into how the selection process truly works. Elections for congressional party leaders are conventionally seen as a function of either legislators' ideological preferences or factors too idiosyncratic to permit systematic analysis. Analyzing six decades' worth of information, Harris and Green find evidence for a new comprehensive model of vote choice in House leadership elections that incorporates both legislators' goals and their connections with leadership candidates. This study will stand for years to come as the definitive treatment of a crucial aspect of American politics.

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Yale University Press

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0300222572

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Money Wise

How to Create, Grow, and Preserve Your Wealth

By: A. Michael Lipper,Douglas R. Sease

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Money Wise

How to Create, Grow, and Preserve Your Wealth

By: A. Michael Lipper,Douglas R. Sease

A respected Wall Street investor counsels today's millionaires on how to understand and strategically invest their wealth with a mind to the needs of their futures and their descendants, in a guide that profiles investment personality types and explains how to take informed risks. 60,000 first printing.

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Macmillan

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0312373775

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The Hendersons One Family’s Legacy

Faith, Virtue, Loyalty Pioneers and Patriots

By: Pamela Douglas Brust

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The Hendersons One Family’s Legacy

Faith, Virtue, Loyalty Pioneers and Patriots

By: Pamela Douglas Brust

Pioneers and patriots, the Henderson family left behind a legacy of historical treasures in word and deed, allowing an unprecedented look into the past. Their Victorian-era plantation home, constructed in the 1800s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a living monument to those who walked its halls in an unbroken chain of five generations. Family patriarch Alexander Henderson arrived in Virginia in the 1700s, earning the title of Father of the American Chain Store, counting founding fathers George Washington and George Mason among his friends. He sent three of his sons to what was then the wilds of the Mid-Ohio Valley. The Hendersons took part in what may be the only duel recorded north of the Ohio River and played a role in thwarting the treasonous exploits of Aaron Burr. Some family members also served on both sides during the Civil War, surviving turmoil, treachery, and tragedy.

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1728300029

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The Austin-Boston Connection

Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989

By: Anthony Champagne,Douglas B. Harris,James W. Riddlesperger,Garrison Nelson

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The Austin-Boston Connection

Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989

By: Anthony Champagne,Douglas B. Harris,James W. Riddlesperger,Garrison Nelson

For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Majority Leader was from Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protégé relationships) and enmities within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603441204

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