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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.

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Duke University Press

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0822373971

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Miss You

The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor

By: Barbara Woodall Taylor,Charles E. Taylor,David C. Smith,Judy Barrett Litoff

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Miss You

The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor

By: Barbara Woodall Taylor,Charles E. Taylor,David C. Smith,Judy Barrett Litoff

During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346152

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9780820346151

Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

Practices and Techniques

By: Howard E. Taylor

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Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

Practices and Techniques

By: Howard E. Taylor

It also includes information on processing and interpreting results to obtain high-quality data.".

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0126838658

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Making Salmon

An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

By: Joseph E. Taylor III

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Making Salmon

An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

By: Joseph E. Taylor III

Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

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University of Washington Press

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0295989912

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9780295989914

The Tending Instinct

Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships

By: Shelley E. Taylor

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The Tending Instinct

Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships

By: Shelley E. Taylor

Ranging widely over biology, evolutionary psychology, physiology, and neuroscience, "The Tending Instinct" examines the biological imperative that drives women to seek each other's company and to tend to the young and the infirm, bestowing great benefits to the group but often at great cost to themselves.

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Macmillan

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0805072896

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9780805072891

Elements of Metaphysics

By: A. E Taylor

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Elements of Metaphysics

By: A. E Taylor

First published in 1903, Taylor endeavours to provide a detailed study of metaphysic as a discipline. Opening with a brief history of metaphysics, the book explores topics including the problem of the metaphysician, the metaphysical method, subdivisions of metaphysics, ontology, reality, cosmology, rational psychology, morality, ethics and religion.

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Routledge

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0429868138

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9780429868139

What Did Jesus Look Like?

By: Joan E. Taylor

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What Did Jesus Look Like?

By: Joan E. Taylor

Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes. But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality? This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men. He may even have had short hair.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567671496

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Just and Lasting Change

When Communities Own Their Futures

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor

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Just and Lasting Change

When Communities Own Their Futures

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor

This revised and updated guide presents a proven method for policy and health professionals to promote community-based progress in developing nations. Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor built their decades-long careers by partnering with key thinkers to combat inequity, environmental degradation, and globalization. Their innovative SEED-SCALE model enables people to transform their communities by analyzing their local context in relation to the global, taking appropriate actions based on their priorities and resources, and assessing what next steps may be needed for continuing progress. Just and Lasting Change describes, step by step, how the SEED-SCALE model can be effectively implemented. Drawing from a variety of personal experiences and case studies, the authors describe historical attempts to promote social development, as well as current efforts in South America, Africa, and Asia. This wide-ranging book touches on examples of community-based change from Abraham Lincoln’s leadership style to the Green Bay Packers’s ownership model. It also explores thematic global examples from the anti-smoking campaign, Green Revolution, Child Survival Revolution, and urban agriculture. This second edition is fully revised and updated with: Five completely new chapters Thirteen years of scholarship and global evidence New contributions from leading international experts in community-based development and public health

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421419483

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9781421419480

Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

This highly readable account demonstrates how a comprehensive process for social change harnesses the energy of a community and scales it up with a rising number of participants becoming invested in increasingly high-quality work.

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0199842965

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The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea

By: Joan E. Taylor

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The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea

By: Joan E. Taylor

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an Essene library was hidden ahead of the Roman advance in 68 CE, when Qumran was partly destroyed. With much doubt now expressed about aspects of this view, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea systematically reviews the surviving historical sources, and supports an understanding of the Essenes as an influential legal society, at the centre of Judaean religious life, held in much esteem by many and protected by the Herodian dynasty, thus appearing as 'Herodians' in the Gospels. Opposed to the Hasmoneans, the Essenes combined sophisticated legal expertise and autonomy with an austere regimen of practical work, including a specialisation in medicine and pharmacology. Their presence along the north-western Dead Sea is strongly indicated by two independent sources, Dio Chrysostom and Pliny the Elder, and coheres with the archaeology. The Dead Sea Scrolls represent not an isolated library, quickly hidden, but burials of manuscripts from numerous Essene collections, placed in jars in caves for long-term preservation. The historical context of the Dead Sea area itself, and its extraordinary natural resources, as well as the archaeology of Qumran, confirm the Essenes' patronage by Herod, and indicate that they harnessed the medicinal material the Dead Sea zone provides to this day.

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0191611905

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Christians and the Holy Places

The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins

By: Joan E. Taylor

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Christians and the Holy Places

The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins

By: Joan E. Taylor

This book is a detailed examination of the literature and archaeology pertaining to specific sites (in Palestine, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Memre, Nazareth, Capernaum, and elsewhere) and the region in general. Taylor contends that the origins of these holy places and the phenomenon of Christian pilgrimage can be traced to the emperor Constantine, who ruled over the eastern Empire from 324. He contends that few places were actually genuine; the most important authentic site being the cave (not Garden) of Gethsemane, where Christ was probably arrested. Extensively illustrated, this lively new look at a topic previously shrouded in obscurity should interest students in scholars in a range of disciplines.

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Oxford University Press

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0198147856

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A First Course in Stochastic Processes

By: Samuel Karlin,Howard E. Taylor

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A First Course in Stochastic Processes

By: Samuel Karlin,Howard E. Taylor

The purpose, level, and style of this new edition conform to the tenets set forth in the original preface. The authors continue with their tack of developing simultaneously theory and applications, intertwined so that they refurbish and elucidate each other. The authors have made three main kinds of changes. First, they have enlarged on the topics treated in the first edition. Second, they have added many exercises and problems at the end of each chapter. Third, and most important, they have supplied, in new chapters, broad introductory discussions of several classes of stochastic processes not dealt with in the first edition, notably martingales, renewal and fluctuation phenomena associated with random sums, stationary stochastic processes, and diffusion theory.

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0080570410

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9780080570419

Freedom to Serve

Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981

By: Jon E. Taylor

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Freedom to Serve

Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981

By: Jon E. Taylor

On the eve of America's entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman's decision to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which resulted in the integration of the armed forces, was an important event in twentieth Jon E. Taylor gives an account of the presidential order as an event which forever changed the U.S. armed forces, and set a political precedent for the burgeoning civil rights movement. Including press releases, newspaper articles, presidential speeches, and biographical sidebars, Freedom to Serve introduces students to an underexamined event while illuminating the period in a new way. Critical Moments in American History is a series of supplemental books designed specifically for undergraduate history courses, providing students with the opportunity to examine a specific event within the context of both narrative history and primary source documents.

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Routledge

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0415894492

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9780415894494

State V. Baker

Case File

By: Joseph E. Taylor

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State V. Baker

Case File

By: Joseph E. Taylor

Sarah Baker has been charged with the first-degree murder of her husband, who was a well-known news anchor. The State alleges that Baker intended to divorce her husband and cut him out of her will, and that he was going to sue her for a large portion of the estate. Baker claims she shot him to protect herself when he advanced toward her with a kitchen knife threatening to kill her. The case features the use of expert forensic pathology, criminalistics, DNA testimony, and the defense of self-defense.

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Aspen Publishing

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1601562942

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The Tending Instinct

Women, Men, and the Biology of Nurturing

By: Shelley E. Taylor

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The Tending Instinct

Women, Men, and the Biology of Nurturing

By: Shelley E. Taylor

A groundbreaking work that reveals how the instinct to "tend and befriend" is vital for human society. In times of crisis and upheaval, our responses to stress become especially important. We have long heard about the "fight or flight" response, but renowned psychologist Shelley E. Taylor points out that hardwired in females -- both humans and those of other species -- is an instinct that can transcend "fight or flight." Their "tend and befriend" response is not only demonstrable but, as Taylor deftly explains in this eye-opening work, a key ingredient in human social life. With great skill and insight, Taylor examines stress, relationships, and human society through the special lens of women's biology. She draws on genetics, evolutionary psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to show how this tending process begins virtually at the moment of conception and literally crafts the biology of offspring through genes that rely on caregiving for their expression. Taylor also examines what drives women to seek each other's company, and to tend to the young and the infirm -- acts that greatly benefit the group but often at great cost to the individual. The Tending Instinct will forever change the way we view ourselves, and will revolutionize our understanding of the role of women and nurturing in maintaining a stable society.

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Times Books

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146687175X

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9781466871755

Creating a Positive School Culture

How Principals and Teachers Can Solve Problems Together

By: Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin,Maureen Taylor

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Creating a Positive School Culture

How Principals and Teachers Can Solve Problems Together

By: Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin,Maureen Taylor

Based on more than 200 interviews, this practical guidebook provides strategies for solving staff problems, preventing conflicts, and enriching school climates.

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1483363368

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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

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Duke University Press

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0822392240

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Social Cognition

From Brains to Culture

By: Susan T. Fiske,Shelley E. Taylor

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Social Cognition

From Brains to Culture

By: Susan T. Fiske,Shelley E. Taylor

This exciting new version of the classic text,Social Cognition, describes the increasingly complete link between neuroscience and culture. Highlighting the cutting-edge research in social neuropsychology, mainstream experimental social-cognitive psychology, and cultural psychology, it retains the authors’ unique ability to be both scholarly and entertaining. Reader-friendly style and concise summaries combine with the authors’ engaging perspectives on this flourishing field. Comprehensive without being overwhelming, this new standard for the field brings with it a new organization reflecting current consensus open issues of the field, and its trajectory into the future.

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0071311491

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Waterspouts of Glory

By: Wade E. Taylor

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Waterspouts of Glory

By: Wade E. Taylor

Waterspouts of Glory At the heart of this book is the desire to p resent the anointed Word as spiritual food for those who long for spiritual satisfaction. It is as a "map" that will guide those who have a singular burining desire to go further...into His presence and end-time purposes. Our Lord is seeking God who desires quality times of intimate fellowship with us. If He finds within us even the slightest aspiration to truly know Him, He will demonstrate a singular interest toward us. This personal attention, which we receive from the Lord, is comparable to a waterspout, which is formed by a wind pattern that whips rain into a funnel of water, then directs it toward a singular point of destination. While the "rain" showers upon all, a "waterspout" aims a deluge upon one, thus," All Your waves and Your billows are gone over me." More Than A Book To Read, This is Food For Your Spirit.

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0768405068

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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all live declines dramatically. There are clear limits to what further investments at this rate can achieve. This book advances the thesis that a more effective and universal foundation for social change and environmental restoration is not money, but human energy. Using this approach Tibet recovered from being nearly deforested to having over 40% of its land area protected under conservation management. Using principles outlined in this book mothers in northeast India implemented a package of life-changing actions that halved child mortality. They parallel the way New York City has created a citywide conservation program over three-and-a-half centuries. Each of these examples is particular to its time and place, yet a shared set of principles is at work in all of them. Improving the quality of life for a community starts by strengthening successes already operating. It involves local knowledge and a relatively simple set of principles, tasks, and criteria designed to empower communities. This highly readable account demonstrates how a comprehensive process for social change harnesses the energy of a community and scales it up with a rising number of participants becoming invested in increasingly high-quality work. Richly illustrated with photographs and stories of innovative people and programs in communities ranging from Nepal to Afghanistan to the South Bronx, it provides practical, proven guidelines for creating profound and sustained social change that begins in individual communities and grows to scale.

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Oxford University Press

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0199924317

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Primitive Selves

Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945

By: E. Taylor Atkins

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Primitive Selves

Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945

By: E. Taylor Atkins

This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost--including communal living and social solidarity--which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze--folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage--became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.

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0520947681

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9780520947689

Copper Country Rail

By: George E. Anderson,Richard E. Taylor

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Copper Country Rail

By: George E. Anderson,Richard E. Taylor

From the railroads' beginnings in the early 1870s to the complex rail network of the 1900s, the advance and decline of the copper industry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula was mirrored by the railroads that served it. With the abandonment in 1976 of the Houghton tracks of the Soo Line (formerly the Mineral Range, Duluth South Shore and Atlantic), Copper Country was once again without the railroad service that built it. This book seeks to tell this rich story of Copper Country railroads through a collection of pictures from various archival sources, including the authors' personal collections, the Houghton County Historical Society, Keweenaw County Historical Society, the Rudolf Maki collection, the Chuck Pomazal collection, the Michigan Technological University Van Pelt Library Archives, and the National Park Service archives.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738550582

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Heaven's River

By: Dennis E. Taylor

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Heaven's River

By: Dennis E. Taylor

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender's fate-whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob's descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore. Some of them oppose Bob's plan; others have plans of their own. The out-of-control moots are the least of the Bobiverse's problems. Undaunted, Bob and his allies follow Bender's trail. But what they discover out in deep space is so unexpected and so complex that it could either save the universe-or pose an existential threat the likes of which the Bobiverse has never faced.

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1680682261

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Para/Inquiry

Postmodern Religion and Culture

By: Victor E. Taylor

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Para/Inquiry

Postmodern Religion and Culture

By: Victor E. Taylor

Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content. Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.

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Routledge

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113465894X

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Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria

Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered

By: Joan E. Taylor

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Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria

Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered

By: Joan E. Taylor

The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which includes a new translation of De Vita Contemplativa, focuses particularly on issues of historical method, rhetoric, women, and gender, and comes to new conclusions about the nature of the group and its relationship with the allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria. Joan E. Taylor argues that the group represents the tip of an iceberg in terms of ascetic practices and allegorical exegesis, and that the women described point to the presence of other Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria in the first century CE. Members of the group were 'extreme allegorizers' in following a distinctive calendar, not maintaining usual Jewish praxis, and concentrating their focus on attaining a trance-like state in which a vision of God's light was experienced. Their special 'feast' was configured in terms of service at a Temple, in which both men and women were priestly attendants of God.

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0191555452

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9780191555459

High Point

By: Barbara E. Taylor

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High Point

By: Barbara E. Taylor

Established in 1859, High Point was located at the highest point on the rail line between Charlotte and Goldsboro. The early growth of the city was due to it being a crossroads of the Plank Road and railroad, making it a transportation hub. Known as the furniture capital of the world, High Point has always been a manufacturing center, also specializing in textiles and tobacco. High Point is the only city in North Carolina located within four counties: Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph. Today, the world s largest furnishings market is held each spring and fall, drawing over 70,000 people. High Point showcases the rich manufacturing and community history of this North Carolina Triad city.

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0738599298

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9780738599298

First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education

Counterstories

By: Carl E. James,Leanne E. Taylor

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First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education

Counterstories

By: Carl E. James,Leanne E. Taylor

In First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories, we meet eight students who attended university through an access program, and hear their stories of deciding to enter university, navigating and negotiating the institution, and bringing their university experiences with them into adult life. Their "counterstories"—drawn from application statements, weekly group meetings, diary entries, group conversations, interviews, and media reports—challenge the stereotypes commonly applied to marginalized students in higher education. Chapters offer insights into a range of salient themes and highlight the students’ strategies, challenges, successes, and trajectories, as well as their nuanced relationships with their networks, communities, families, and significant others. With this volume, James and Taylor present a valuable resource for educators, administrators, scholars, students and community agencies interested in extending understandings of first-generation university students.

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Taylor & Francis

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100072834X

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9781000728347

Partial Differential Equations: Methods, Applications And Theories (2nd Edition)

By: Harumi Hattori

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Partial Differential Equations: Methods, Applications And Theories (2nd Edition)

By: Harumi Hattori

This is an introductory level textbook for partial differential equations (PDEs). It is suitable for a one-semester undergraduate level or two-semester graduate level course in PDEs or applied mathematics. This volume is application-oriented and rich in examples. Going through these examples, the reader is able to easily grasp the basics of PDEs.Chapters One to Five are organized to aid understanding of the basic PDEs. They include the first-order equations and the three fundamental second-order equations, i.e. the heat, wave and Laplace equations. Through these equations, we learn the types of problems, how we pose the problems, and the methods of solutions such as the separation of variables and the method of characteristics. The modeling aspects are explained as well. The methods introduced in earlier chapters are developed further in Chapters Six to Twelve. They include the Fourier series, the Fourier and the Laplace transforms, and the Green's functions. Equations in higher dimensions are also discussed in detail. In this second edition, a new chapter is added and numerous improvements have been made including the reorganization of some chapters. Extensions of nonlinear equations treated in earlier chapters are also discussed.Partial differential equations are becoming a core subject in Engineering and the Sciences. This textbook will greatly benefit those studying in these subjects by covering basic and advanced topics in PDEs based on applications.

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World Scientific

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9811202257

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Misinformation Nation

Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America

By: Jordan E. Taylor

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Misinformation Nation

Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America

By: Jordan E. Taylor

To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities"--

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JHU Press

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1421444496

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Random Fields and Geometry

By: R. J. Adler,Jonathan E. Taylor

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Random Fields and Geometry

By: R. J. Adler,Jonathan E. Taylor

This monograph is devoted to a completely new approach to geometric problems arising in the study of random fields. The groundbreaking material in Part III, for which the background is carefully prepared in Parts I and II, is of both theoretical and practical importance, and striking in the way in which problems arising in geometry and probability are beautifully intertwined. "Random Fields and Geometry" will be useful for probabilists and statisticians, and for theoretical and applied mathematicians who wish to learn about new relationships between geometry and probability. It will be helpful for graduate students in a classroom setting, or for self-study. Finally, this text will serve as a basic reference for all those interested in the companion volume of the applications of the theory.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387481168

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Introduction to Glycobiology

By: Maureen E. Taylor,Kurt Drickamer

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Introduction to Glycobiology

By: Maureen E. Taylor,Kurt Drickamer

Introduction to Glycobiology reveals the true impact of the sugars on biological systems, explaining their function at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level and their clinical relevance.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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