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Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel

World War II Through the Eyes of a Radio Man, a Novel

By: Mark Stuart Ellison,Eli Ellison

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Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel

World War II Through the Eyes of a Radio Man, a Novel

By: Mark Stuart Ellison,Eli Ellison

I enjoyed Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel so much I could hardly put it down. It ought to be widely read as an excellent way of recalling World War II." -Hans L. Trefousse Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York "Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel paints an absorbing picture of the daily life of America's greatest generation. Vets will find themselves reliving their own experiences-the boredom, the loneliness, the fear, and the role of fate in life and death. For the rest of us, Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel is social history at its best." -Dr. Stanley J. Michalak Senior Associate, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia Professor Emeritus of Government, Franklin and Marshall College "A vivid story brought to realistic life." -Midwest Book Review "Dear Mom, Dad & Ethel delicately mixes fiction and history to tell the story of an American air corpsman during World War II. His precious letters enhance a grand book deserving warm appreciation. People from my hometown will be as moved and fascinated as many Americans who will, no doubt, eagerly read it." -Jacques Wynants, Belgian Historian Author of Verviers 1940 and Verviers Libéré PLOT SUMMARY On October 7, l942, Don Quix enlists in the Air Corps. He's slated to be an aerial gunner, but his flying dreams are shattered when he's caught AWOL with buddy Ken Jackson. Don manages to become a radio truck supervisor in a fighter control squadron while Ken goes to a demolition unit. As an army engineer, Ken barely survives D-Day on Normandy's "Bloody Omaha." During a baseball game in a French forest, Don moves his head slightly, saving himself from a sniper's bullet. Arriving in Verviers, Belgium in September 1944, Don and his fellow radio men endure frequent buzz bomb attacks. Due to a miscalculation in army strategy, they find themselves on the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Don's reunion with Ken, now a tech sergeant with a bomb disposal outfit, is marred by tragedy, dampening Don's torrid love affair with beautiful seamstress Denise Vervier. Denise's husband, sent to a forced labor camp in 1940, is presumed dead. When he unexpectedly returns, Don and Denise face a heartbreaking choice.

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0595319165

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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

By: Eli Lederhendler

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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

By: Eli Lederhendler

The first book-length study of Jewish culture and ethnicity in New York City after World War II. Here is an intriguing look at the cause and effect of New York City politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s and the inner life of one of the city's largest ethnic religious groups. The New York Jewish mystique has always been tied to the , fabric and fortunes of the city, as has the community's social aspirations, political inclinations, and its very notion of "Jewishness" itself. All this, points out Eli Lederhendler, came into question as the life of the city changed. Insightfully and meticulously he explores the decline of secular Jewish ethnic culture, the growth of Jewish religious factions, and the rise of a more assertive ethnocentrism. Using memoirs, essays, news items, and data on suburbanization, religion, and race relations, the book analyzes the decline of the metropolis in the 1960s, increasing clashes between Jews and African Americans. and postwar transiency of neighborhood-based ethnic awareness.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815607113

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9780815607113

Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One

Principles to Guide Philosophical Community

By: Eli Kramer

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Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One

Principles to Guide Philosophical Community

By: Eli Kramer

Until rather recently, philosophy, when practiced as a way of life, was, for most, a communal enterprise of mutually reinforced personal cultivation. It is time, yet again, to revitalize this lost, but vital, intercultural mode of philosophy.

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BRILL

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9004468986

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Political Freud

A History

By: Eli Zaretsky

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Political Freud

A History

By: Eli Zaretsky

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism, racial violence, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last century—totalitarianism and consumerism—in a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought, particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather, Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies, the study of memory, theories of trauma, postcolonial thought, film, media and computer studies, evolutionary theory and even economics.

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Columbia University Press

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0231540140

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9780231540148

Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements

By: Luke Winslow,Eli Mangold

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Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements

By: Luke Winslow,Eli Mangold

This book examines “Rhetorical Children” as visible and vocal communicators, shaping public discourse on contentious social issues related to organized labor, civil rights, gun violence, and climate change. This book explores four key social movement case studies: the 1903 Mother Jones-led March of the Mill Children to reform child labor laws, the 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,-led Children’s Crusade to end segregation, the 2018 Parkland student-led March for Our Lives movement to end gun violence, and the ongoing struggle for climate change mitigation led by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Through these case studies, the book outlines three rhetorical strategies, namely children’s ability to activate adults’ moral obligation; to invoke threats to natality and lost childhood; and to disrupt social order. It enables readers to better understand rhetorical children and the rhetorical tools required for social movements. Assessing the powerful role children play in shaping public discourse, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Public Address, Social Movements, and Cultural Studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003859216

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9781003859215

Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries

By: Jason Griffey,Sarah Houghton-Jan,Eli Neiburger,Office for Intellectual Freedom

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Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries

By: Jason Griffey,Sarah Houghton-Jan,Eli Neiburger,Office for Intellectual Freedom

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has assembled an all-star cast of writers to explore the challenges to privacy that ongoing shifts in technology have created, and how librarians can address them.

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American Library Association

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0838991378

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Radical, Religious, and Violent

The New Economics of Terrorism

By: Eli Berman

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Radical, Religious, and Violent

The New Economics of Terrorism

By: Eli Berman

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign. How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those of their secular rivals. In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question using the economics of organizations. He first dispels some myths: radical religious terrorists are not generally motivated by the promise of rewards in the afterlife (including the infamous seventy-two virgins) or even by religious ideas in general. He argues that these terrorists (even suicide terrorists) are best understood as rational altruists seeking to help their own communities. Yet despite the vast pool of potential recruits—young altruists who feel their communities are repressed or endangered—there are less than a dozen highly lethal terrorist organizations in the world capable of sustained and coordinated violence that threatens governments and makes hundreds of millions of civilians hesitate before boarding an airplane. What's special about these organizations, and why are most of their followers religious radicals? Drawing on parallel research on radical religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Berman shows that the most lethal terrorist groups have a common characteristic: their leaders have found a way to control defection. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban, for example, built loyalty and cohesion by means of mutual aid, weeding out “free riders” and producing a cadre of members they could rely on. The secret of their deadly effectiveness lies in their resilience and cohesion when incentives to defect are strong.These insights suggest that provision of basic social services by competent governments adds a critical, nonviolent component to counterterrorism strategies. It undermines the violent potential of radical religious organizations without disturbing free religious practice, being drawn into theological debates with Jihadists, or endangering civilians.

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MIT Press

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0262516675

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9780262516679

Kinetic Theory of Nucleation

By: Eli Ruckenstein,Gersh Berim

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Kinetic Theory of Nucleation

By: Eli Ruckenstein,Gersh Berim

Explore a Kinetic Approach to the Description of Nucleation - An Alternative to the Classical Nucleation TheoryKinetic Theory of Nucleation presents an alternative to the classical theory of nucleation in gases and liquids-the kinetic nucleation theory of Ruckenstein-Narsimhan-Nowakowski (RNNT). RNNT uses the kinetic theory of fluids to calculate t

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CRC Press

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1498762840

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9781498762847

Digital Society for the IB Diploma

By: Eli Bomfim,Tammy Earle,Michael Fitzpatrick,Carol Hancox,Jonathon Levin,Barbara Stefanics

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Digital Society for the IB Diploma

By: Eli Bomfim,Tammy Earle,Michael Fitzpatrick,Carol Hancox,Jonathon Levin,Barbara Stefanics

Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate® Ensure full coverage of the new Digital Society course with this accessible coursebook written by an experienced international team of IB educators and examiners, enabling students to build skills and understand the importance and impact of digital systems and technologies in the contemporary world. - Explore digital society through the key concepts, content and contexts of the syllabus with clear, real world, internationally-minded examples for each topic. - Delve into the higher-level extension challenges and interventions in digital society using contemporary, real-world issues that allow students to formulate their own recommendations, with chapter reflections to consolidate learning throughout. - Essential tools for inquiry are integrated throughout the course, with links to ATL, TOK, and extended essay. - Specific chapters and activities are featured for conducting inquiries suitable for SL and HL students, with added extended inquiries for HL students. - Prepare for the inquiry project with step-by-step guidance, advice, practice questions and top tips on how to maximise potential in the assessment.

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Hodder Education

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1398364142

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9781398364141

Engaging Higher Education Curricula

A critical citizenship perspective

By: Elmarie Costandius,Eli Bitzer

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Engaging Higher Education Curricula

A critical citizenship perspective

By: Elmarie Costandius,Eli Bitzer

The authors aim to stimulate discussion about the nature and purposes of critical citizenship education in higher education. Rather than promoting a blueprint for change, the authors thoughtfully consider a generative research agenda for transformative higher education and focus on how this orientation in higher education plays out on the ground. This book, together with its Coda that takes the conversation beyond critical citizenship education to include responsible citizenship, provides compelling reasons and sound suggestions for a way forward.

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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

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1920689680

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The All-or-Nothing Marriage

How the Best Marriages Work

By: Eli J. Finkel

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The All-or-Nothing Marriage

How the Best Marriages Work

By: Eli J. Finkel

“After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. He presents his findings here for the first time in this lucid, inspiring guide to modern marital bliss. The All-or-Nothing Marriage reverse engineers fulfilling marriages—from the “traditional” to the utterly nontraditional—and shows how any marriage can be better. The primary function of marriage from 1620 to 1850 was food, shelter, and protection from violence; from 1850 to 1965, the purpose revolved around love and companionship. But today, a new kind of marriage has emerged, one oriented toward self-discover, self-esteem, and personal growth. Finkel combines cutting-edge scientific research with practical advice; he considers paths to better communication and responsiveness; he offers guidance on when to recalibrate our expectations; and he even introduces a set of must-try “lovehacks.” This is a book for the newlywed to the empty nester, for those thinking about getting married or remarried, and for anyone looking for illuminating advice that will make a real difference to getting the most out of marriage today.

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Penguin

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1101984341

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Unsettling

Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture

By: Eli Bromberg

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Unsettling

Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture

By: Eli Bromberg

By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978807252

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9781978807259

Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics

By: Eli Minkoff,Eli Baker

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Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics

By: Eli Minkoff,Eli Baker

Since the publication of the previous edition of this volume, there has been substantial progress in a number of areas of multiple sclerosis (MS) research. Although immunosuppressive treatments continue to be developed and refined, more targeted immunomodulatory therapies are surfacing as we learn more about how the immune system works in health an

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0203012054

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Secrets of the Soul

A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis

By: Eli Zaretsky

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Secrets of the Soul

A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis

By: Eli Zaretsky

The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, we’re no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the “romance” of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to today’s age of psychopharmacology. In Secrets of the Soul, Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved–sometimes under pressure–from sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all.

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Vintage

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1400079233

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Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

By: Eli A. Friedman

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Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

By: Eli A. Friedman

Introduction and options in therapy / Eli A. Friedman -- ch. 1. Peritoneal dialysis : past and current practices / Mary C. Mallappallil -- ch. 2. Hemodialysis / Yalemzewd Woredekal -- ch. 3. Kidney transplantation / Fasika Tedla -- ch. 4. Home hemodialysis : present and future therapies / Barbara G. Delano -- ch. 5. Hemofiltration / Halim S. Ghali -- ch. 6. Self-care in-center hemodialysis / Susan H. Bray -- ch. 7. Opting for death rather than dialysis in chronic renal failure / Anthony J. Joseph -- ch. 8. Ethical concerns in marketing kidneys / Amy L. Friedman -- ch. 9. The wearable artificial kidney : a new paradigm in the treatment of ESRD / Victor Gura -- ch. 10. Xenotransplantation / Moro O. Salifu, Syed Shah and Subodh Saggi -- ch. 11. Can the bowel serve as a kidney? / Eli A. Friedman

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World Scientific

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9814280038

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9789814280037

Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies

By: Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah

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Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies

By: Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah

A pioneering study that challenges the legal orthodoxy of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western perspective.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009354043

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The Child in the Electric Chair

The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South

By: Eli Faber

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The Child in the Electric Chair

The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South

By: Eli Faber

The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours? Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's contemporaries—men and women alive today who still carry distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of Alcolu and the entire state—Eli Faber pieces together the chain of events that led to this tragic injustice. The first book to fully explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived—the era of lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black Americans. Faber explains how a systemically racist system, paired with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. As society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice, the story of George Stinney remains one that can teach us lessons about our collective past and present. By ably placing the Stinney case into a larger context, Faber reveals how this case is not just a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but rather one that continues to resonate in our own time. A foreword is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643361953

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9781643361956

Neurology Secrets: First South Asia Edition - E-book

By: Joseph S. Kass,Eli M. Mizrahi

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Neurology Secrets: First South Asia Edition - E-book

By: Joseph S. Kass,Eli M. Mizrahi

Part of the bestselling Secrets Series, this updated edition of Neurology Secrets continues to provide an up-to-date, concise overview of the most important topics in neurology today. It serves as a comprehensive introduction for medical students, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, and is also a handy reference and refresher for residents and practitioners. Lists, tables, and clear illustrations throughout expedite review, while the engaging Secrets Series format makes the text both enjoyable and readable. New lead editors, Drs. Kass and Mizrahi, join this publication from a leading neurology program to lend a fresh perspective and expert knowledge. - Expedites reference and review with a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, and practical tips from the authors. - Covers the full range of essential topics in understanding the practice of neurology. - Features a two-color page layout and "Key Points" boxes to further enhance your reference power. - Presents "Top 100 Secrets" for an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment. - Fits comfortably in the pocket of your lab coat to allow quick access to essential information.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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8131247309

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9788131247303

Homecoming

The Story of African-American Farmers

By: Charlene Gilbert,Quinn Eli

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Homecoming

The Story of African-American Farmers

By: Charlene Gilbert,Quinn Eli

An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.

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Beacon Press

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0807009636

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Why America Needs a Left

A Historical Argument

By: Eli Zaretsky

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Why America Needs a Left

A Historical Argument

By: Eli Zaretsky

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited. In this brilliant new book, Eli Zaretsky rethinks the idea by examining three key moments in American history: the Civil War, the New Deal and the range of New Left movements in the 1960s and after including the civil rights movement, the women's movement and gay liberation.In each period, he argues, the active involvement of the left - especially its critical interaction with mainstream liberalism - proved indispensable. American liberalism, as represented by the Democratic Party, is necessarily spineless and ineffective without a left. Correspondingly, without a strong liberal center, the left becomes sectarian, authoritarian, and worse. Written in an accessible way for the general reader and the undergraduate student, this book provides a fresh perspective on American politics and political history. It has often been said that the idea of a left originated in the French Revolution and is distinctively European; Zaretsky argues, by contrast, that America has always had a vibrant and powerful left. And he shows that in those critical moments when the country returns to itself, it is on its left/liberal bases that it comes to feel most at home.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745656560

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9780745656564

The Provincials

A Personal History of Jews in the South

By: Eli N. Evans

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The Provincials

A Personal History of Jews in the South

By: Eli N. Evans

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique "Southern Jewish consciousness." First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876348

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9780807876343

Litt's Pocketbook of Drug Eruptions and Interactions

By: Jerome Z. Litt,Eli Schragenheim

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Litt's Pocketbook of Drug Eruptions and Interactions

By: Jerome Z. Litt,Eli Schragenheim

The only work of its kind, Litt's Pocketbook of Drug Eruptions and Interactions is formatted for quick reference in the doctor's office, on hospital rounds, and in consultations. New in the third edition is coverage of herbals and supplements, an expanded range of reaction patterns, and lists of potentially hazardous interactions. Covering over 200

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CRC Press

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0203480309

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9780203480304

Literacy as Conversation

Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

By: Eli Goldblatt,David A. Jolliffe

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Literacy as Conversation

Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

By: Eli Goldblatt,David A. Jolliffe

In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols. Eli Goldblatt takes us to after-school literacy programs, community arts centers, and urban farms in the city of Philadelphia, while David Jolliffe explores learning in a Latinx youth theater troupe, a performance based on the words of men on death row, and long-term cooperation with a rural health care provider in Arkansas. As different as urban and rural settings can be—and as beset as they both are with the challenges of historical racism and economic discrimination—the authors see much to encourage both geographical communities to fight for positive change.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822987651

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9780822987659

Beyond Education

Radical Studying for Another World

By: Eli Meyerhoff

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Beyond Education

Radical Studying for Another World

By: Eli Meyerhoff

A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise optimal mode of intellectual and professional development. In Beyond Education, Eli Meyerhoff instead sees this impasse as inherent to universities, as sites of intersecting political struggles over resources for studying. Meyerhoff argues that the predominant mode of study, education, is only one among many alternatives and that it must be deromanticized in order to recognize it as a colonial-capitalist institution. He traces how key elements of education—the vertical trajectory of individualized development, its role in preparing people to participate in governance through a pedagogical mode of accounting, and dichotomous figures of educational waste (the “dropout”) and value (the “graduate”)—emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Through interviews with participants in contemporary university struggles and embedded research with an anarchist free university, Beyond Education paves new avenues for achieving the aims of an “alter-university” movement to put novel modes of study into practice. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, it charts a new course for movements within, against, and beyond the university as we know it.

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1452960224

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Thermodynamics of Solutions

From Gases to Pharmaceutics to Proteins

By: Eli Ruckenstein,Ivan L. Shulgin

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Thermodynamics of Solutions

From Gases to Pharmaceutics to Proteins

By: Eli Ruckenstein,Ivan L. Shulgin

This book consists of a number of papers regarding the thermodynamics and structure of multicomponent systems that we have published during the last decade. Even though they involve different topics and different systems, they have something in common which can be considered as the “signature” of the present book. First, these papers are concerned with “difficult” or very nonideal systems, i. e. systems with very strong interactions (e. g. , hyd- gen bonding) between components or systems with large differences in the partial molar v- umes of the components (e. g. , the aqueous solutions of proteins), or systems that are far from “normal” conditions (e. g. , critical or near-critical mixtures). Second, the conventional th- modynamic methods are not sufficient for the accurate treatment of these mixtures. Last but not least, these systems are of interest for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and related ind- tries. In order to meet the thermodynamic challenges involved in these complex mixtures, we employed a variety of traditional methods but also new methods, such as the fluctuation t- ory of Kirkwood and Buff and ab initio quantum mechanical techniques. The Kirkwood-Buff (KB) theory is a rigorous formalism which is free of any of the - proximations usually used in the thermodynamic treatment of multicomponent systems. This theory appears to be very fruitful when applied to the above mentioned “difficult” systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441904409

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Teaching Academic L2 Writing

Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

By: Eli Hinkel

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Teaching Academic L2 Writing

Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

By: Eli Hinkel

The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers. Before L2 writers can begin to successfully produce academic prose, they need to understand the foundations of the language and develop the language tools that will help them build reasonable quality text. Targeting specific problem areas of students’ writing, this text offers a wealth of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and vocabulary to second-language learners. Updated with current research and recent corpus analysis findings, the second edition features a wealth of new materials, including new teaching activities; student exercises and assignments; and substantially revised appendices with supplementary word and phrase lists and sentence components. Designed for preservice ESL/ELT/TESOL courses as well as Academic Writing and Applied Linguistics courses, this book includes new, contextualized examples in a more accessible and easy-to-digest format.

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Routledge

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0429795556

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Media Ownership and Concentration in America

By: Eli Noam

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Media Ownership and Concentration in America

By: Eli Noam

People have worried for many years about the concentration of private power over the media, as evidenced by controversy over Federal Communication Commission rulings on broadcast ownership limits. The fear, it seems, is of a media mogul with a political agenda: a new William Randolph Hearst who could help start wars or run for political office using the power of the media. In the light of these concerns about freedom of speech, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive survey of media concentration in America, covering everything from the early media empire of Benjamin Franklin to the modern-day cellular phone industry.

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Oxford University Press

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0195188527

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Teaching Academic ESL Writing

Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

By: Eli Hinkel

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Teaching Academic ESL Writing

Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

By: Eli Hinkel

Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they must have the foundations of language in place--the language tools (grammar and vocabulary) they need to build a text. This text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and lexis to second-language learners that will help teachers effectively target specific problem areas of students' writing. Based on the findings of current research, including a large-scale study of close to 1,500 non-native speakers' essays, this book works with several sets of simple rules that collectively can make a noticeable and important difference in the quality of ESL students' writing. The teaching strategies and techniques are based on a highly practical principle for efficiently and successfully maximizing learners' language gains. Part I provides the background for the text and a sample of course curriculum guidelines to meet the learning needs of second-language teachers of writing and second-language writers. Parts II and III include the key elements of classroom teaching: what to teach and why, possible ways to teach the material in the classroom, common errors found in student prose and ways to teach students to avoid them, teaching activities and suggestions, and questions for discussion in a teacher-training course. Appendices to chapters provide supplementary word and phrase lists, collocations, sentence chunks, and diagrams that teachers can use as needed. The book is designed as a text for courses that prepare teachers to work with post-secondary EAP students and as a professional resource for teachers of students in EAP courses.

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Routledge

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1135646473

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The Swan Princess Reimagined

By: Veronica Scott,Eli Donovan

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The Swan Princess Reimagined

By: Veronica Scott,Eli Donovan

~Two fantasy romance tales by USA Today bestselling author Veronica Scott and Eli Donovan~ ***The Swan and Her Wolf by Veronica Scott An exciting new novella from USA Today Bestselling author Veronica Scott! Princess Mairi has been cursed by an unknown enemy, forced to turn into a swan at random times of the day and night. Desperate to be free of her affliction, she goes to the Witch Queen’s court to beg for help. An all important marriage of state is pending for Mairi, and her family is counting on the rich suitor’s bride price to fill their coffers. But the would-be groom would never marry her if he knew of the curse. Wolf Shifter Cade senses something uncanny about Mairi when they meet at Court, and he’s fascinated by the charming princess. His attempts to learn her secret and then to help Mairi with her troubles bring the two of them dangerously close together. His wolf insists she’s his fated mate, and Mairi finds him irresistible…but her duties as princess stand in the way of any true happiness. Will the curse be lifted? And will the couple be able to achieve their Happy Ever After? ***The Swan's Prince by Eli Donovan An irresistible new short novel in the beloved fairy tale world of Eli Donovan… On a remote island, the swan-shifter Odette grapples with her father's dark schemes as he forces her to use her magic for his own ends. When he steals her power to sink a ship and kill almost all hands onboard, she resolves to thwart his future plans by any means necessary. Meanwhile, Tristan, a nobleman from a neighboring country, survives the uncanny shipwreck and soon finds himself entangled in Odette's world of mystery and danger. Odette is irresistibly drawn to Tristan, but she's cursed to be a swan by day and a human only by night. How can they possibly be together if she's living only a half-life as a human? As their bond deepens, they must confront their pasts, trust each other with their secrets and, hopefully, find their way toward a future together.

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Veronica Scott

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The Hebrew Folktale

History, Genre, Meaning

By: Eli Yassif

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The Hebrew Folktale

History, Genre, Meaning

By: Eli Yassif

The most comprehensive account of its subject now available, this impressive study lives up to the encyclopedic promise of its title." -- Choice The Hebrew Folktale seeks to find and define the folk-elements of Jewish culture. Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, Yassif describes the major trends -- structural, thematic, and functional -- of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture.

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Indiana University Press

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0253002621

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