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Instigator Par Excellence

By: Gerald Kempa

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Fabrice plays with a butterfly knife, Dragomir explodes bombs, and Fausto is the leader of the Mafia. Ms. Psi, the Instigator Par Excellence, has a master plan to bring about their downfall. Everything is going well until two jealous Instigators decide to sabotage her plan. Chaos and the loss of innocent lives are the results of their interference. When terrorists kill Fausto's wife and son during a soccer game in Bremen, Germany, he seeks revenge. In Houston, a European drug lord beats and rapes the daughter of a former modern pentathlon champion. Jane Kari Callahan, her mother, seeks revenge. Jane hires Wolfgang von Sturm, a former GSG-9 field agent, to track down the notorious drug lord. The Instigator Par Excellence devises a new master plan. She intends to use the anger and hatred in the hearts of Fausto and Jane to complete the original plan. Will it work?

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iUniverse

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0595466060

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9780595466061

The Athletic Crusade

Sport and American Cultural Imperialism

By: Gerald R. Gems

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The Athletic Crusade

Sport and American Cultural Imperialism

By: Gerald R. Gems

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the realm of such expansion, sports provided a less harsh, less militaristic means of instilling belief in a dominant system?s values and principles than more overt methods such as war. The process of change, however, had unexpected consequences as subordinate groups adapted or even rejected American overtures. Sport became a means for nonwhites to challenge whiteness, Social Darwinism, and cultural hegemony by establishing their own physical prowess, claiming a measure of esteem, and creating a greater sense of national identity. Gems shows the direct influence of sports in Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and explores their comparatively minimal influence in countries such as China and Japan. Amid increasing globalization, The Athletic Crusade offers a welcome perspective on how the United States has attempted to spread its influence in the past and the implications for the future of indigenous and other societies.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803222165

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9780803222168

Fighting in Paradise

Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai‘i

By: Gerald Horne

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Fighting in Paradise

Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai‘i

By: Gerald Horne

Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation. Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860217

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9780824860219

Local Density Theory of Polarizability

By: Gerald D. Mahan,K.R. Subbaswamy

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Local Density Theory of Polarizability

By: Gerald D. Mahan,K.R. Subbaswamy

During the past decade the theoretical physics community has learned how to evaluate accurately polarizabilities and susceptibilities for many-electron systems such as atoms, solids, and liquids. The most accurate numerical technique employs a method often called the Time-Dependent Local Density Approximation, which is abbreviated TDLDA. The present volume is a review of recent research on the theory of po larizabilities and susceptibilities. Both authors have been doing these cal culations. However, this review surveys the entire field, summarizing the research of many contributors. The application of an external field, either ac or de, will induce a dipole moment which can be calculated and compared with experiment. For mod erately strong fields, both linear and nonlinear processes contribute to the moment. We cover topics such as polarizability, hyperpolarizability, pho toionization, phonons, and piezoelectricity. Density functional theory in the Local Density Approximation (LDA) has been shown to be a very accurate method for calculating ground state prop erties of electronic system. For static external fields, the induced moments are properties of the ground state. Then the calculation of the polarizability · is very accurate. For ac fields, the moment is not part of the ground state. However, the TDLDA methods are still very accurate.

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260

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489924868

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9781489924865

Condensed Matter in a Nutshell

By: Gerald D. Mahan

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Condensed Matter in a Nutshell

By: Gerald D. Mahan

An introduction to the area of condensed matter in a nutshell. This textbook covers the standard topics, including crystal structures, energy bands, phonons, optical properties, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, and magnetism.

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Princeton University Press

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0691140162

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Instigator Par Excellence

By: Gerald Kempa

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Instigator Par Excellence

By: Gerald Kempa

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Local Density Theory of Polarizability

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Condensed Matter in a Nutshell

Instigator Par Excellence

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