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Conservation and the Genomics of Populations

By: Fred W. Allendorf,W. Chris Funk,Sally N. Aitken,Margaret Byrne,Gordon Luikart

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Conservation and the Genomics of Populations

By: Fred W. Allendorf,W. Chris Funk,Sally N. Aitken,Margaret Byrne,Gordon Luikart

The relentless loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. The third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools required to understand how genetics can be used to conserve species, reduce threat of extinction, and manage species of ecological or commercial importance. This edition is thoroughly revised to reflect the major contribution of genomics to conservation of populations and species. It includes two new chapters: "Genetic Monitoring" and a final "Conservation Genetics in Practice" chapter that addresses the role of science and policy in conservation genetics. New genomic techniques and statistical analyses are crucial tools for the conservation geneticist. This accessible and authoritative textbook provides an essential toolkit grounded in population genetics theory, coupled with basic and applied research examples from plants, animals, and microbes. The book examines genetic and phenotypic variation in natural populations, the principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, evolutionary response to anthropogenic change, and applications in conservation and management. Conservation and the Genomics of Populations helps demystify genetics and genomics for conservation practitioners and early career scientists, so that population genetic theory and new genomic data can help raise the bar in conserving biodiversity in the most critical 20 year period in the history of life on Earth. It is aimed at a global market of applied population geneticists, conservation practitioners, and natural resource managers working for wildlife and habitat management agencies. It will be of particular relevance and use to upper undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management.

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Oxford University Press

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0192598570

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Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina

A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills

By: Fred C. Fussell,Steve Kruger

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Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina

A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills

By: Fred C. Fussell,Steve Kruger

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. The book includes stories of the legendary music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, maps, and contact information for the featured sites, as well as color illustrations and profiles of prominent musicians and music traditions. Chapters are organized county by county, and sidebars include interviews with and profiles of performers, information about various performance styles, and a brief history of Blue Ridge music. The updated second edition adds three new music venues, along with updated information on the almost sixty music sites in Western North Carolina profiled in the previous edition. Also included are new full-color photos, two new artist profiles, and a CD of twenty-six classic songs from the mountains and the foothills.

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UNC Press Books

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146964147X

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The Boer War

Historiography and Annotated Bibliography

By: Fred R. van Hartesveldt

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The Boer War

Historiography and Annotated Bibliography

By: Fred R. van Hartesveldt

One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes called the South African War. The bibliography focuses on the military history, but also includes some historical accounts of the political debate. The first part of the book provides an extended historiographical essay, while part two provides an annotated bibliography of the titles discussed in part one. Historiographical questions concerning the Boer War are numerous. Discussions of military operations focus on the early use of modern weaponry and the effect of guerrilla tactics on a traditional force, while other historians debate the question of British military leadership and organization. Questions also revolve around British imperialism and the scramble for Africa. Frequently called the second war for freedom by South African authors, the war was the reason that South Africa, unlike other British colonies, gained independence without majority rule. This makes the war of continuing relevance to the turmoil in South Africa, the collapse of the minority government, and the continuing problems of the current government. This book will provide a useful tool for those wishing to research the war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031303236X

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God Does No Wrong

By: Anthony Fred Howse,Jan Wooden Howse

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God Does No Wrong

By: Anthony Fred Howse,Jan Wooden Howse

Thank you Bill for your friendship and your Wonderful endorsement it means so much to Anthony and I. And Titus, what can dad and I say. You have a flair for taking powerful pictures. Thank you for taking the one above of us on the swing for this book we will remember it always son. Over a decade ago, the author of this book sent me a short story with a number of photos to place on my Eddy Arnold website, which I have maintained since 1997. Happily, I posted it immediately as I was confident the visitors to the site would enjoy reading it as much as I did. The narrative was a beautiful true story of a young boy who loved his family, his God, his Church, and Eddy Arnold. It was a big hit on the site. It remains on the Index page of the site. And now this narrative has grown into a book with over three hundred pages. Many of these chapters were written over a period of years. I found this book to be a Mom & Apple Pie, type... full of love and happiness and American families. When reading this wonderful book you will experience romance, marriage, birth, death, happiness, sadness, health, sickness and always the love and power of the Almighty! The author is so skilled in her writing that I could visually see the events described printed page. Although you will shed, a tear or two while engaged with the real people in their sadness it will fade as the overall theme of the book will make you happy. This book is a MUST READ for Eddy Arnold fans and all who enjoy reading just a plain GOOD BOOK! Bill Comer, Webmaster for Welcome to the World of Eddy Arnold www.eddyarnold.com

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1496924088

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Tyrone Power

The Last Idol

By: Fred Lawrence Guiles

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Tyrone Power

The Last Idol

By: Fred Lawrence Guiles

Celebrity Biographer: New York Times bestselling author Fred Lawrence Guiles is considered the premier biographer of hollywood movie stars. Old Hollywood Charm: Lovers of classic movies and the golden age of cinema will rush to get their hands on the definitive biographies of these universally loved celebrities. Repackaged Glam: The coordinating modern covers breathe life into these classic figures and will be a stunning addition to any hollywood-lover’s bookshelf. Exclusive Pictures and Interviews: Each biography contain previously unpublished photographs and interviews that enhance the fascinating and nuanced lives of these famous celebrities.

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1684424704

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Conservation and the Genetics of Populations

By: Fred W. Allendorf,Gordon H. Luikart,Sally N. Aitken

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Conservation and the Genetics of Populations

By: Fred W. Allendorf,Gordon H. Luikart,Sally N. Aitken

Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. Conservation and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to conserve species threatened with extinction, and to manage species of ecological or commercial importance. New molecular techniques, statistical methods, and computer programs, genetic principles, and methods are becoming increasingly useful in the conservation of biological diversity. Using a balance of data and theory, coupled with basic and applied research examples, this book examines genetic and phenotypic variation in natural populations, the principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, the interpretation of genetic data from natural populations, and how these can be applied to conservation. The book includes examples from plants, animals, and microbes in wild and captive populations. This second edition contains new chapters on Climate Change and Exploited Populations as well as new sections on genomics, genetic monitoring, emerging diseases, metagenomics, and more. One-third of the references in this edition were published after the first edition. Each of the 22 chapters and the statistical appendix have a Guest Box written by an expert in that particular topic (including James Crow, Louis Bernatchez, Loren Rieseberg, Rick Shine, and Lisette Waits). This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of conservation genetics, natural resource management, and conservation biology, as well as professional conservation biologists working for wildlife and habitat management agencies. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118408578

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Mount McKinley

Ice Crown of North America

By: Fred Beckey

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Mount McKinley

Ice Crown of North America

By: Fred Beckey

* A classic of mountaineering literature * Beckey's name is synonymous with mountaineering in Alaska, Canada and the western US * Peppered with personal anecdotes and unique photographs This biography of Alaska's Mount McKinley presents a complete history of one of the world's great mountains. Author and famed mountaineer Fred Beckey starts with McKinley's geology and covers early human history, from native associations with Denali to the influx of Russian fur traders and American prospectors. The mountaineering history of McKinley follows, with a look at the gold seekers and surveyors who were among the first to map the region. Beckey examines the efforts of those who raced to be first on McKinley's summit and details the first complete ascent by Hudson Stuck in 1913. The chronology continues with profiles of notable summit attempts, including those of the author himself. Also included is information about the challenges and logistics of climbing Mount McKinley, with information on planning, permits, suggested routes, and what to expect. Personal anecdotes and previously unpublished photographs make this volume a must-have for historians and climbers everywhere.

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1594858306

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Slavery In South Africa

Captive Labor On The Dutch Frontier

By: Elizabeth Eldredge,Fred Morton

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Slavery In South Africa

Captive Labor On The Dutch Frontier

By: Elizabeth Eldredge,Fred Morton

South African slavery differs from slavery practiced in other frontier zones of European settlement in that the settlers enslaved indigenes as a supplement to and eventually as a replacement for imported slave labor. On the expanding frontier, Dutch-speaking farmers increasingly met their labor needs by conducting slave raids, arming African slave

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1000311554

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Delphi Collected Works of Fred M. White (Illustrated)

By: Fred M. White

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Delphi Collected Works of Fred M. White (Illustrated)

By: Fred M. White

A British pulp fiction author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Frederick M. White produced a prolific number of novels and short stories, including the cult classic 'Doom of London' science-fiction stories. Helping to shape the course of sensation and mystery story literature, White was also a pioneer of the spy story. His ingenious creativity in producing hundreds of original and thrilling narratives of crime, war, mystery, romance and science fiction was a rare and sadly neglected talent of the interwar period. This comprehensive eBook presents White’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to White’s life and works * Concise introductions to the famous novels * 84 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Love, the Foe’, ‘Robe of Lucifer’, ‘Paul the Sage’ and many more * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works, including the 'Doom of London' series, are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections available in no other collection, including ‘The Last of the Borgias’ and ‘The Sage of Tyburn’ series * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Over 250 short stories — endless hours of classic pulp fiction Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels and Novellas A Golden Argosy (1886) By Order of the League (1886) The Old Secretaire (1887) The Silver Stream (1888) Naboth’s Vineyard (1889) A Daughter of Israel (1892) In Trust (1892) The Robe of Lucifer (1896) Tregarthen’s Wife (1901) Blackmail (1903) The Cardinal Moth (1903) Craven Fortune (1904) The Weight of the Crown (1904) A Shadowed Love (1905) My Lady Bountiful (1905) The Corner House (1905) The Crimson Blind (1905) The Ends of Justice (1906) The House of the Schemers (1906) The Law of the Land (1906) The Nether Millstone (1906) The Slave of Silence (1906) The Yellow Face (1906) Behind the Mask (1907) The Edge of the Sword (1907) The Five Knots (1907) The Mystery of the Four Fingers (1907) The Lonely Bride (1907) The Lord of the Manor (1907) The Midnight Guest (1907) The Open Door (1907) A Queen of the Stage (1908) Paul Quentin (1908) The Scales of Justice (1908) The Sundial (1908) A Crime on Canvas (1909) Netta, the Story of Sin (1909) The Golden Rose (1909) A Front of Brass (1910) A Mummer’s Throne (1910) Hard Pressed (1910) Love, the Foe (1910) Paul, the Sage (1910) The White Glove (1910) The Man Called Gilray (1911) The Mystery of the Ravenspurs (1911) The Secret of the Sands (1911) Powers of Darkness (1912) A Royal Wrong (1913) A Secret Service (1913) The House of Mammon (1913) The Sentence of the Court (1913) The Day (1914) The Lady in Blue (1915) Ambition’s Slave (1916) The Seed of Empire (1916) The Case for the Crown (1918) The Salt of the Earth (1918) The Wings of Victory (1919) The Honour of His House (1920) The Leopard’s Spots (1920) The Man Who Was Two (1921) The Councillors of Falconhoe (1922) The Mystery of Room 75 (1922) The Green Bungalow (1923) The Mystery of Crocksands (1923) The Turn of the Tide (1923) The Devil’s Advocate (1924) The Golden Bat (1924) The House on the River (1925) The Price of Silence (1925) The Riddle of the Rail (1926) The Shadow of the Dead Hand (1926) The King Diamond (1927) The Grey Woman (1928) A Broken Memory (1929) The Phantom Car (1929) A Clue in Wax (1930) Found Dead (1930) On the Night Express (1930) Queen of Hearts (1930) The Man Who Knew (1932) Secret of the River (1934) The Blue Daffodil (1934) The Shorter Fiction Felix Gryde Stories The Last of the Borgias Drenton Denn Stories The Romance of the Secret Service Fund The Doom of London The Sage of Tyburn Real Drama Gipsy Stories Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1788779703

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The John Wayne Filmography

By: Fred Landesman

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The John Wayne Filmography

By: Fred Landesman

Decades after his death, annual Gallop polls reveal that Marion Morrison is still firmly implanted among the top-ten favorite motion picture celebrities and American heroes. Most of us know this box office star as John Wayne. This comprehensive volume covers his expansive film career, from 1926 to 1976. Listed in alphabetical order are entries on films such as Angel and the Badman and Noah's Ark that exemplify the more than 170 films that the actor worked on. Each entry includes the film's date, run time, cast and crew credits, reviews, and a synopsis. Also under each entry is a special section devoted to rare information and interesting details such as where the productions were shot, budgets, costs, salaries, box-office performance, alternate casting and what competition existed for the moviegoer audience. Also included in this reference work are over 650 capsule biographies of the talent that shared the screen with the actor and worked on the productions, and over 800 contemporary reviews and commentary from such diverse sources as The New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, and Life Magazine. There is a series of five helpful Appendices: Appendix A lists films by order of their release dates; Appendix B lists Wayne's fellow actors and colleagues and tells under which entry the relevant capsule biography may be located; Appendix C offers specific review information for the films; Appendix D provides facts on the biggest box office films; and Appendix E details the most popular films on television.

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McFarland

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1476609225

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The Singular Mark Twain

A Biography

By: Fred Kaplan

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The Singular Mark Twain

A Biography

By: Fred Kaplan

In this magisterial full-scale biography of America’s greatest storyteller and satirist, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etches a vibrant portrait of a singular personality who created some of the most memorable literary characters of our culture. He coined the phrase “the Gilded Age,” spoke out vigorously against racism and imperialism, and in his multifaceted singularity as writer, businessman, polemicist, investor, inventor, and self-promoter became the most widely extolled and most dominant icon of American literature. As Kaplan writes, “There has been no one like him since.”

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Anchor

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The Neurophysics of Human Behavior

Explorations at the Interface of Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information

By: Mark E. Furman,Fred P. Gallo

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The Neurophysics of Human Behavior

Explorations at the Interface of Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information

By: Mark E. Furman,Fred P. Gallo

How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of

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CRC Press

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142004043X

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Historical Dictionary of Botswana

By: Fred Morton,Jeff Ramsay,Part Themba Mgadla

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Historical Dictionary of Botswana

By: Fred Morton,Jeff Ramsay,Part Themba Mgadla

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Botswana_through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, map, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on this burgeoning African country.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810864045

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Conflict of Eagles

By: Fred Seden

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Conflict of Eagles

By: Fred Seden

Two young men from different worlds. Bill Adams, son of an Ohio farmer sees more in life than following in his father´s footsteps behind a plow or nursing his uncle´s old plane crop-dusting. He leaves for college on the brink of events that will result in World War II. Bill has his life planned unaware how the next years will change things, forever.

Kurt Klaus, son of a German aristocrat, believes in Adolf Hitler. A staunch Nazi he graduates from glider school into the newly formed Luftwaffe and goes to Spain with the Condor Legion. Decorated at the war´s end he is ready for Hitler´s next step.

Young pilots headed for the war torn skies of Europe.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146281221X

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Furry Tales

A Review of Essential Anthropomorphic Fiction

By: Fred Patten

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Furry Tales

A Review of Essential Anthropomorphic Fiction

By: Fred Patten

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aesop's Fables to Reynard the Fox to Alice in Wonderland. The genre really took off following the explosion of furry fandom in the 21st century, with talking animals featuring in everything from science fiction to fantasy to LGBTQ coming-out stories. In his lifetime, Fred Patten (1940-2018)--one of the founders of furry fandom and a scholar of anthropomorphic animal literature--authored hundreds of book reviews that comprise a comprehensive critical survey of the genre. This selected compilation provides an overview from 1784 through the 2010s, covering such popular novels as Watership Down and Redwall, along with forgotten gems like The Stray Lamb and Where the Blue Begins, and science fiction works like Sundiver and Decision at Doona.

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McFarland

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1476675988

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Mutations - Episode 1

By: Leo,Corine Jamar,Fred Simon,A12

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Mutations - Episode 1

By: Leo,Corine Jamar,Fred Simon,A12

After a global environmental disaster, mankind has rebuilt, but its demons are still there. Greed, arrogance ... Romane Pennac fights those who would abuse nature once again. Volume 1 of 2 of this sequel to Mermaid Project. Two years have passed since the event of Mermaid Project, and Romane and Brahim have paid the price of their courage and integrity. Ignored, even censored, by their superiors, they’re now reduced to taking lousy private eye jobs to earn a living. Meanwhile, though, the same cetaceans whose advanced intelligence the UN had refused to believe in are attacking fishing trawlers ... with rockets! Before long, the authorities ask our two investigators to take their old jobs back ...

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1800449674

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Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed

By: Fred Orton,Griselda Pollock

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Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed

By: Fred Orton,Griselda Pollock

By addressing key issues in visual culture and the politics of representation, this book provides a reference and an analysis of the work of Orton and Pollock, internationally acknowledged as the leading exponents of the social history of art.

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Manchester University Press

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0719043999

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The Land Grabbers

The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

By: Fred Pearce

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The Land Grabbers

The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

By: Fred Pearce

How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. The Land Grabbers is a first-of-its-kind exposé that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce’s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. Pearce’s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly “empty” land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts. Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet’s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.

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Beacon Press

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0807003255

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Ecosystem Management

Selected Readings

By: Fred B. Samson,Fritz L. Knopf

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Ecosystem Management

Selected Readings

By: Fred B. Samson,Fritz L. Knopf

Ecosystem management has emerged in the past several years as the new paradigm for managing public and private land. It combines the principles of ecosystem-level ecology with the policy requirements of resource and public land management. This collection of selected readings will serve as an introduction to the concepts of biological diversity, ecological process, biotic integrity, and ecological sustainability that underlie ecosystem management.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461240182

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Foundations of Pediatric Audiology

Identification and Assessment

By: Fred H. Bess,Judith S. Gravel

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Foundations of Pediatric Audiology

Identification and Assessment

By: Fred H. Bess,Judith S. Gravel

This book is a compilation of readings representing the basis for the practice of pediatric audiology. It contains 47 selected articles, each considered critical to understanding the fundamental principles in the field. Divided into five sections, the book covers the development of audition in infants, background information for current practice, test techniques and technology, and hearing loss in special populations. The readings in the book provide a foundation of knowledge for anyone in the field of pediatric audiology.

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Plural Publishing

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1597568112

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Accounting and Its Business Environment

By: Fred McLeary

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Accounting and Its Business Environment

By: Fred McLeary

An essential, practical reference work for anyone doing business in South Africa, this comprehensive work highlights the vital role that accounting plays in our country’s economy. This book will be of immense practical use to employees participating in in-house training programmes, managers and all business people needing a knowledge of accounting. Accounting & its Business Environment is recommended for use at all universities and business schools.

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Juta and Company Ltd

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0702151580

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A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

By: Stanley B. Greenfield,Fred C. Robinson

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A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

By: Stanley B. Greenfield,Fred C. Robinson

Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News

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1556356374

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Anglo-American Attitudes

From Revolution to Partnership

By: Fred M. Leventhal,Roland Quinault

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Anglo-American Attitudes

From Revolution to Partnership

By: Fred M. Leventhal,Roland Quinault

Anglo-American Attitudes is a pioneering study of Anglo-American connections in their widest sense. Previous studies of Anglo-American relations have focused narrowly on official government-to-government contacts rather than on other kinds of less formal links. This book redresses that imbalance by examining not only diplomatic relations, but also a wide variety of social, economic, intellectual and cultural connections. It is also the first study which examines Anglo-American relations over not just the few decades of the ’special relationship', but over the whole period since the American Revolution. The book opens up many new themes and perspectives which illuminate the evolution of bilateral relations, mutual perceptions and the comparative development of both nations. Anglo-American Attitudes will be invaluable not only for students of British and American history, but also for anyone who wants to understand the complex nature of an association which has played a key role in the evolution of the modern world.

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Routledge

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1351958364

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Archives of Times Past

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

By: Cynthia Kros,John Wright,Mbongiseni Buthelezi,Helen Ludlow,Geoffrey Blundell,Jan Boeyens,Amanda Esterhuysen,Rachel King,Lize Kriel,Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi,Grant McNulty,Hlonipha Mokoena,Fred Morton,Muchaparara Musemwa,Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu,Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu,Himal Ramji,Justine Wintjes

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Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.

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NYU Press

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1776147308

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