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King of the Delawares

Teedyuscung, 1700-1763

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

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King of the Delawares

Teedyuscung, 1700-1763

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

Using a psychological/anthropological approach that he largely invented, Wallace clearly demonstrates—better than anyone before or since—the tragedy of the Delawares’ existence, caught between the English, the French, and the Iroquois. Painting a rich tapestry of the history and culture of the Delawares and of the sociopolitical context of the fraudulent Walking Purchase of 1737, Wallace brings Teedyuscung to life before us. Born in 1700 on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, Teedyuscung was barely able to earn a living as a broom and basket maker along the shabby fringes of the white settlements. He was simultaneously dependent upon, and resentful of, the invaders. The strange mixture of love and hatred for Europeans made him notorious as both the enemy and friend of white settlers. King of the Delawares, with a new preface by the author, provides a fascinating portrait of Teedyuscung, from his early years when he tried to bring white customs to the Delawares, through his long and ardent efforts to regain the lands belonging to his people, and ending with his murder in 1763 by land hungry settlers.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815624980

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Neuromuscular Junction

By: R.E.M. Bowden,J. Maglagan,E. Zaimis,B. Collier,R.D. Dripps,L.W. Duchen,G.E. Hale Enderby,B.L. Ginsborg,S. Head,F. Hobbiger,D.H. Jenkinson,F.C. MacIntosh,S.E. Smith

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Neuromuscular Junction

By: R.E.M. Bowden,J. Maglagan,E. Zaimis,B. Collier,R.D. Dripps,L.W. Duchen,G.E. Hale Enderby,B.L. Ginsborg,S. Head,F. Hobbiger,D.H. Jenkinson,F.C. MacIntosh,S.E. Smith

Has the neuromuscular junction been over-exposed or is it perhaps already a closed book? I asked myself this at a recent International Congress when an American colleague complained that the Journal of Physiology had articles on nothing but the neuromuscular junction, while another colleague asked why I was editing a volume on a subject about which everything was already known. It is worrying to think that these views may be shared by other people. I hope that this volume will convince my two colleagues and other readers that the neuromuscular junction is very much alive and continues to attract the interest of many workers from a variety of fields; strange as it may seem, the synapse between a motor nerve ending and muscle fibre, with its relatively simple architecture, is one of the most inter esting sites in the body-I do hope we have done it justice. The various chapters of this volume present a cross section of knowledge as viewed by a group of 13 individuals, actively engaged in research. Multi-author volumes such as this are frequently criticised on the grounds that chapters or sec tions overlap. I believe that such criticium is only valid where the overlap is repetitious. Where it results in the reader having available discussions of material from differing stand-points, overlap becomes a valuable feature of this type of publication.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642454763

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Passed On

African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial

By: Karla FC Holloway

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Passed On

African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial

By: Karla FC Holloway

A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.

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Duke University Press

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0822332450

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Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Applications to Key Materials

By: Robin F.C. Farrow

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Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Applications to Key Materials

By: Robin F.C. Farrow

In this volume, the editor and contributors describe the use of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for a range of key materials systems that are of interest for both technological and fundamental reasons. Prior books on MBE have provided an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of MBE and emphasize growth and characterization of GaAs-based structures. The aim in this book is somewhat different; it is to demonstrate the versatility of the technique by showing how it can be utilized to prepare and explore a range of distinct and diverse materials. For each of these materials systems MBE has played a key role both in their development and application to devices.

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Elsevier

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0815518404

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The Global Environment and International Law

By: Joseph F. C. DiMento

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The Global Environment and International Law

By: Joseph F. C. DiMento

2004 — A Choice Outstanding Academic Book International law has become the key arena for protecting the global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution. Proponents of the legal approach to environmental protection have already achieved significant successes in such areas as saving endangered species, reducing pollution, and cleaning up whole regions, but skeptics point to ongoing environmental degradation to argue that international law is an ineffective tool for protecting the global environment. In this book, Joseph DiMento reviews the record of international efforts to use law to make our planet more livable. He looks at how law has been used successfully—often in highly innovative ways—to influence the environmental actions of governments, multinational corporations, and individuals. And he also assesses the failures of international law in order to make policy recommendations that could increase the effectiveness of environmental law. He concludes that a "supranational model" is not the preferred way to influence the actions of sovereign nations and that international environmental law has been and must continue to be a laboratory to test approaches to lawmaking and implementation for the global community.

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University of Texas Press

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0292782268

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History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America

By: F.C. Jewett

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History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America

By: F.C. Jewett

History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America a record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of his two emigrant sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639

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Рипол Классик

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5870847818

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Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography

By: Mark F.C. Ladd,Rex A. Palmer

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Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography

By: Mark F.C. Ladd,Rex A. Palmer

I was highly flattered when I was asked by Mark Ladd and Rex Palmer if I would write the Foreword to this Fourth Edition of their book. "Ladd & Palmer" is such a well-known and classic book on the subject of crystal structure determination, one of the standards in the field: I did feel daunted by the prospect, and wondered if I could do justice to it. The determination of crystal structures by X-ray crystallography has come a long way since the 1912 discoveries of von Laue and the Braggs. In the intervening years great advances have been made, so that today it is almost taken for granted that crystal structures can be determined in which hundreds, if not thousands, of sepa rate atomic positions can be found with apparent ease. In the early years the struc tures of relatively simple materials, such as the alkali halides, were often argued over and even disputed, whereas today we routinely see published structures of most complex molecular crystals, including the structures of viruses and proteins.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461501016

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Essays on Culture Change

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

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Essays on Culture Change

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations?from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths. Wallace also discusses mazeways?mental maps that join personalities with cultures and thereby illustrate how individuals embrace their culture, conduct everyday life, and cope with illness and other forms of severe personal or cultural stress. ø Wallace offers a set of penetrating observations and analyses of change on topics ranging from immediate responses to disasters to long-term technological adaptations and transformations in artistic style. Wallace?s theories, fieldwork, and concepts featured in this landmark volume continue to challenge scholars across disciplines, including anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and theologians.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803298366

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Legal Fictions

Constituting Race, Composing Literature

By: Karla FC Holloway

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Legal Fictions

Constituting Race, Composing Literature

By: Karla FC Holloway

In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's Passing as intimately related to contract law. Holloway engages the intentional, contradictory, and capricious constructions of race embedded in the law with the same energy that she brings to her masterful interpretations of fiction by U.S. writers. Her readings shed new light on the many ways that black U.S. authors have reframed fundamental questions about racial identity, personhood, and the law from the nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries. Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinching look at the implications of that claim.

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Duke University Press

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0822377055

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Codes of Conduct

Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character

By: Karla F. C. Holloway

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Codes of Conduct

Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character

By: Karla F. C. Holloway

A cultural criticism based on literature, public life, contemporary and historical events, aesthetic expression, and popular culture considers dynamics of race and ethnicity as determined by the powerful, and relates cultural issues to the visual power of the black and female body.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813523737

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Readers' Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries, 1870-2005

A History and Critical Analysis

By: Juris Dilevko,Candice F.C. Magowan

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Readers' Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries, 1870-2005

A History and Critical Analysis

By: Juris Dilevko,Candice F.C. Magowan

Beginning in the early 1980s, readers' advisory services were a widely discussed topic in North American public libraries. By 2005, almost every public library in the United States and Canada offered some form of readers' advisory service. The services offered have changed significantly, in ways perhaps disadvantageous to adult North American library patrons. This book provides a critical history of readers' advisory philosophy and offers a new perspective on the evolution of the service. The book analyzes the debate that shaped readers' advisory and discusses how the service has assumed its present form. The study follows readers' advisory through its three prominent stages of development, beginning with the period 1870 to 1916, when the service was still a subject of much crucial debate about its meaning and purpose. During the second phase (1917 to 1962), readers' advisory systematically committed itself to meaningful adult education through serious and purposeful reading. The book argues, however, that during the most recent phase of readers' advisory, from 1963 until the present, contemporary public libraries have turned their backs on the rich heritage of readers' advisory services by valorizing the reading of entertainment-oriented and commodified genre titles and bestsellers. Historical analysis, case studies and statistical charts augment the book's central argument.

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McFarland

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0786429259

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The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

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The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

Numerous scholars explore the moral, aesthetic, and political outcomes of the Holocuast from the perspectives of various academic backgrounds, including: art, literature, political science, education and history.

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University of Alberta

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0888643373

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9780888643377

Tuscarora

A History

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

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Tuscarora

A History

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

[This] is the ... history of the small Iroquois Indian reservation community just north of Niagara Falls in western New York. The Tuscaroras consider themselves to be a sovereign nation, independent of the United States and the State of New York. They have preserved a system of social organization and ideal public values, along with the Council Of Chiefs nominated by the clan matrons. ... Wallace follows their story of overcoming war and loss of population,migration from North Carolina in the 1700s, the emotional trauma and social disorders resulting from discrimination and abusive conditions in residential boarding schools, and successful [adaptation] to urban industrial society. ..."--Back cover.

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SUNY Press

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143844429X

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Land Use Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: Daniel P. Selmi,James A. Kushner,Edward H. Ziegler,Joseph F. C. DiMento,John Echeverria

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Land Use Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: Daniel P. Selmi,James A. Kushner,Edward H. Ziegler,Joseph F. C. DiMento,John Echeverria

Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition is a dynamic, scholarly, yet practical teaching approach that focuses on the role of the lawyer in land use regulatory matters and the factors that influence land development decisions. Offering more comprehensive changes than in any edition since the book was first published, the Fifth Edition offers a new chapter addressing emerging issues in the field, including regulation of medical marijuana and fracking, responses to problems posed by vulnerable populations such as the homeless, continuing developments in “smart growth,” and changes in redevelopment law. It also features a thorough reorganization of takings materials, combining all of them in one chapter and addressing emerging issues.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454887966

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Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease

By: P. J. Quinn,B. K. Markey,F. C. Leonard,P. Hartigan,S. Fanning,E. S. Fitzpatrick

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Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease

By: P. J. Quinn,B. K. Markey,F. C. Leonard,P. Hartigan,S. Fanning,E. S. Fitzpatrick

Microbiology is one of the core subjects for veterinary students, and since its first publication in 2002, Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease has become an essential text for students of veterinary medicine. Fully revised and expanded, this new edition updates the subject for pre-clinical and clinical veterinary students in a comprehensive manner. Individual sections deal with bacteriology, mycology and virology. Written by an academic team with many years of teaching experience, the book provides concise descriptions of groups of microorganisms and the diseases which they cause. Microbial pathogens are discussed in separate chapters which provide information on the more important features of each microorganism and its role in the pathogenesis of diseases of animals. The international and public health significance of these pathogens are reviewed comprehensively. The final section is concerned with the host and is organized according to the body system affected. Tables, boxes and flow diagrams provide information in an easily assimilated format. This edition contains new chapters on molecular diagnostics and on infectious conditions of the skin, cardiovascular system, urinary tract and musculoskeletal system. Many new colour diagrams are incorporated into this edition and each chapter has been updated. Key features of this edition: Twelve new chapters included Numerous new illustrations Each chapter has been updated Completely re-designed in full colour Fulfils the needs of veterinary students and academics in veterinary microbiology Companion website with figures from the book as Powerpoints for viewing or downloading by chapter: www.wiley.com/go/quinn/veterinarymicrobiology Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease remains indispensable for all those studying and teaching this essential component of the veterinary curriculum.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405158239

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A History of the Old Berks Hunt from 1760 to 1904 - With a Chapter on Early Foxhunting

By: F. C. Loder-Symonds

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A History of the Old Berks Hunt from 1760 to 1904 - With a Chapter on Early Foxhunting

By: F. C. Loder-Symonds

This vintage book contains information on "The Old Berks Hunt", a historical fox hunting club in Oxfordshire, England. With details of its history, notable members, and excursions, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the history of English Fox hunting, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "The Early History of Foxhunting", "The Reverend John Loder, 1760 to 1805", "The Rev. Robert Symonds, 1800 to 1807, and 1808 to 1814", "Mr. William Codrington, 1814 to 1824", "Mr. Harvey Combe, 1824 to 1826", "Lord Kintore, Master 1826 to 1830", "The Hon. Henry Moreton, 1830 to 1832", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473349931

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Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 22nd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 19-24 February, 2007

By: Alan Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

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Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 22nd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 19-24 February, 2007

By: Alan Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2008 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2008 will be held on January 4-8, 2008 at the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii. Tutorials will be offered prior to the start of the conference. PSB 2008 will bring together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. It is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders of research in biocomputing's "hot topics." In this way, the meeting provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.

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World Scientific

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9812776109

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9789812776105

BookMarks

Reading in Black and White : a Memoir

By: Karla F. C. Holloway

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Reading in Black and White : a Memoir

By: Karla F. C. Holloway

The author of "Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories" explores the public side of reading, and specifically how books and booklists form a public image of African Americans. 10 illustrations.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813539072

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9780813539072

Principles of Behavioral Genetics

By: Robert R.H. Anholt,Trudy F. C. Mackay

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Principles of Behavioral Genetics

By: Robert R.H. Anholt,Trudy F. C. Mackay

Principles of Behavioral Genetics provides an introduction to the fascinating science that aims to understand how our genes determine what makes us tick. It presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between genes, brain, and behavior. Introductory chapters give clear explanations of basic processes of the nervous system and fundamental principles of genetics of complex traits without excessive statistical jargon. Individual chapters describe the genetics of social interactions, olfaction and taste, memory and learning, circadian behavior, locomotion, sleep, and addiction, as well as the evolution of behavior. Whereas the focus is on genetics, neurobiological and ecological aspects are also included to provide intellectual breadth. The book uses examples that span the gamut from classical model organisms to non-model systems and human biology, and include both laboratory and field studies. Samples of historical information accentuate the text to provide the reader with an appreciation of the history of the field. This book will be a valuable resource for future generations of scientists who focus on the field of behavioral genetics. - Defines the emerging science of behavioral genetics - Engagingly written by two leading experts in behavioral genetics - Clear explanations of basic quantitative genetic, neurogenetic and genomic applications to the study of behavior - Numerous examples ranging from model organisms to non-model systems and humans - Concise overviews and summaries for each chapter

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Academic Press

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0080919898

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The Far East

A Concise History

By: F. C. Jones

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The Far East

A Concise History

By: F. C. Jones

The Far East: A Concise History summarizes the history of three Far East or East Asian countries — China, Japan, and Korea. This book begins with an introduction to the three Asian countries' geographical features, climatic conditions, agricultural features, racial affinities, heritage, common linguistic features, and common political features. The rest of the chapters discuss the Far East in ancient and medieval times; Far Eastern civilization at its zenith; era of Western domination; Japan as the great power of the Far East; and growth of Chinese nationalism. The greater East Asia war; triumph of communism in China; and recovery of Japan are also deliberated. A list of maps illustrated throughout this text is likewise provided. This publication is intended primarily for use in schools, colleges, and universities as an introductory textbook on East Asian countries.

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Elsevier

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148313816X

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St. Clair, a Nineteenth-century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-prone Industry

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

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St. Clair, a Nineteenth-century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-prone Industry

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

Chronicles the rise and fall of a Pennsylvanian coal town, the center of violent confrontations between labor and capital.

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Cornell University Press

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0801499003

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9780801499005

The Life of Herodotus Drawn out from his Book

By: F. C. Dahlmann,George Valentine Cox

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The Life of Herodotus Drawn out from his Book

By: F. C. Dahlmann,George Valentine Cox

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368869353

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Jefferson and the Indians

The Tragic Fate of the First Americans

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace,University Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Anthony F C Wallace

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Jefferson and the Indians

The Tragic Fate of the First Americans

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace,University Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Anthony F C Wallace

In Thomas Jefferson's time, white Americans were bedeviled by a moral dilemma unyielding to reason and sentiment: what to do about the presence of black slaves and free Indians. That Jefferson himself was caught between his own soaring rhetoric and private behavior toward blacks has long been known. But the tortured duality of his attitude toward Indians is only now being unearthed. In this landmark history, Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar--collector of Indian vocabularies, excavator of ancient burial mounds, chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples, and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal. Impelled by the necessity of expanding his agrarian republic, he became adept at putting a philosophical gloss on his policy of encroachment, threats of war, and forced land cessions--a policy that led, eventually, to cultural genocide. In this compelling narrative, we see how Jefferson's close relationships with frontier fighters and Indian agents, land speculators and intrepid explorers, European travelers, missionary scholars, and the chiefs of many Indian nations all complicated his views of the rights and claims of the first Americans. Lavishly illustrated with scenes and portraits from the period, Jefferson and the Indians adds a troubled dimension to one of the most enigmatic figures of American history, and to one of its most shameful legacies.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044800

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9780674044807

Private Bodies, Public Texts

Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

By: Karla FC Holloway

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Private Bodies, Public Texts

Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

By: Karla FC Holloway

A bioethical study of privacy violations experienced by black and female subjects within the American medical system.

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Duke University Press

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0822349175

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Merchants of Death

A Study of the International Armament Industry

By: H. C. Engelbrecht,F. C. Hanighen

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Merchants of Death

A Study of the International Armament Industry

By: H. C. Engelbrecht,F. C. Hanighen

Merchants of death was an epithet used in the USA in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded the First World War (then called the Great War). The term was popular in anti-war circles of both the left and the right and was used extensively regarding the Senate hearings in 1936 by the Nye Committee. Originally published in 1934, this book uses the term to expose the international arms industry at the time. It is a careful and subtle, but still passionate, attack on those who would use government to profit themselves at the expense of other people's lives and property. The book not only makes the case against the war machine; it provides a scintillating history of war profiteering, one authoritative enough for citation and academic study.

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Routledge

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1000258947

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James Parkinson His Life and Times

By: F.C. Rose

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James Parkinson His Life and Times

By: F.C. Rose

Dr. A. D. Morris had a long interest in, and great familiarity with, the life and times of James Parkinson (1755-1824). He was an avid collector of material related to Parkinson, some of which he communicated to medi· cal and historical groups, and which he also incorporated into publica· tions, especially his admirable work, The Hoxton Madhouses. When Dr. Morris died, in 1980, he left behind a large typescript devoted to Parkinson's life. It was single·minded in its dedication to primary texts, quoting liberally from the whole range of Parkinson's writings. This was particularly valuable since so many of Parkinson's publications were tracts, pamphlets, or occasional pieces which are now very scarce. A copy of the entire manuscript has been deposited in the Library of the Well· come Institute for the History of Medicine in London, where it may be consulted. The length of the manuscript made publication of the whole impossible, especially since it would have had to include the facsimile reproduction of Morris's The Hoxton Madhouses.

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1461598249

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Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 21st Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 17-23 February, 2006

By: A. Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

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Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 21st Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 17-23 February, 2006

By: A. Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

This proceedings volume contains the latest developments in particle physics in collider experiments. The contributions cover new results such as the production of quark-gluon plasma in the heavy-ion collider, the new techniques for precision measurement at low energies, and the status of neutrino physics at various laboratories including the new facilities that are at the planning stage. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures (1,408 KB). Contents: Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures (H J Frisch); Evidence for a QuarkOCoGluon Plasma at RHC (J Harris); Neutrino Physics: A Selective Overview (S Oser); Low-Energy Tests of the Standard Model (M Pospelov); Leptonic B Decays (M-C Chang); Cosmic Neutrinos Beyond the Standard Model (U Harbach); Proton Structure from HERA (K Nagano); New Phenomena Searches at CDF (A Soha); Electroweak Results at LEP2 (P Spagnolo); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in particle and nuclear physics.

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World Scientific

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9812772545

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The Mobility Imperative

A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration

By: Augustin Holl

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The Mobility Imperative

A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration

By: Augustin Holl

This work explores the long-term evolutionary implications of the "Mobility Imperative:" the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.

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281

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666903809

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Learning about Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

By: F.C. Stork,J.D.A. Widdowson

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Learning about Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

By: F.C. Stork,J.D.A. Widdowson

This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject. Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader outwards from the information given in the text. A list of suggested further reading and references follows each chapter so that each aspect of the subject may be followed up in greater depth if so desired. The book will be of particular use to first-year university students and to students in polytechnics, technical colleges, colleges of education and further education, and, the authors also hope, to many sixth-formers in secondary schools. It will also be of interest to the general reader who wishes to learn about linguistics.

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Routledge

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113474160X

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