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Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity

The Norwegian Case in Comparative Perspective

By: Gregg Bucken-Knapp

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Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity

The Norwegian Case in Comparative Perspective

By: Gregg Bucken-Knapp

Why and when do linguistic cleavages within a nation become politicized? Using Norway—where language has played a particularly salient role in the nation's history—as a case study, Gregg Bucken-Knapp explores these questions and challenges the notion that the politicization of language conflict is a response to language problems. He shows that political elites often view language conflict as a political opportunity, placing it on the policy agenda as an effective mobilizing tool to serve their own nonlinguistic political ends. Although language-oriented interest groups may fight to achieve desired language policies, they are generally unsuccessful when their preferences clash with the broader objectives of political elites. This book focuses on understanding just how language policies emerge.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487202

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The Presidential Republic

Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy

By: Gary L. Gregg

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The Presidential Republic

Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy

By: Gary L. Gregg

For two centuries, American presidents have considered themselves to be representatives of the American people. In this detailed study of presidential representation, Gary Gregg explores the theory, history, and consequences of presidents acting as representatives in the American political system. Gregg explores questions such as what it means to be a representative, how the Founding Fathers understood the place of the presidency in the Republic established by the Constitution, and the effects a representational presidency has on deliberative democracy. This important examination of the presidency's place in our political system is essential reading for those interested in American political theory, constitutional studies, and American history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847683788

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9780847683789

The Confessions of an American Black Widow

A True Story of Greed, Lust and a Murderous Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

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The Confessions of an American Black Widow

A True Story of Greed, Lust and a Murderous Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

The account of Sharon Lynn Nelson, a beautiful, charming woman who seemedto be the perfect wife. But she couldn't get enough - enough sex, enoughmoney, or enough of her rugged lover, Gary Adams.

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Macmillan

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0312965036

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9780312965037

Transcription Factors and Human Disease

By: Gregg L. Semenza

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Transcription Factors and Human Disease

By: Gregg L. Semenza

Several general principles have emerged from the study of human transcription factors. First, germline mutations in genes encoding transcription factors result in malformation syndromes in which the development of multiple body structures is affected. Second, somatic mutations involving many of the same genes contribute to tumorigenesis. Third, transcriptional regulatory mechanisms demonstrate remarkable evolutionary conservation. Fourth, prenatal development and postnatal physiology are unified by the demonstration that a single transription factor can control the proliferation of progenitor cells during development and the expression within the differentiated cells of gene products that participate in specific physiologic responses. Transcription Factors and Human Disease presents the basic science of transcriptional regulation and then describes inherited human diseases attributable to mutations in DNA sequences encoding transcription factors or their cognate binding sites. The involvement of transcription factors in somatic cell genetic diseases (cancer) and epigenetic disease (teratogenesis) is briefly discussed. The effect of specific mutations on transcription factor activity and the relationship between transcriptional dysregulation, dominant or recessive inheritance patterns, and disease pathogenesis are also explored. This book thus provides a direct connection between molecular defects in transcriptional regulation and human pathophysiology.

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Oxford Monographs on Medical G

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0195112393

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Seed Conditioning, Volume 2

Technology--Parts A & B

By: Bill Gregg,Gary Billups

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Seed Conditioning, Volume 2

Technology--Parts A & B

By: Bill Gregg,Gary Billups

Seed conditioning removes undesirable material including debris and stray seeds from selected raw harvested seed, so as to create planting seed that delivers high yielding crops. This two-volume set provides a major up-date of previously published work. It describes the essential information needed to understand this process and the machi

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CRC Press

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1439845085

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World Clinics: Orthopedics: Current Controversies in Joint Replacement

By: Matthew S. Austin,Gregg R. Klein

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World Clinics: Orthopedics: Current Controversies in Joint Replacement

By: Matthew S. Austin,Gregg R. Klein

This book is the first volume in the World Clinics: Orthopedics series, providing orthopaedic surgeons with the most recent advances and controversies in joint replacement. Presented as a series of articles, each chapter provides both basic and advanced insights into hip and knee replacement surgeries. Advances in total joint arthroplasty are discussed in depth, with separate chapters dedicated to European and Asian perspectives. Each article is followed by a comment from the editors highlighting the key points of the chapter. New techniques are also covered including advances in robotic technology in the operating theatre. Edited by internationally recognised experts from the Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, and Hackensack University Medical Centre, New Jersey, this useful guide includes numerous images, figures and tables, as well as extensive referencing throughout. Key points Provides orthopaedic surgeons with latest advances and controversies in joint replacement Covers new techniques including advances in robotic technology Numerous images and illustrations and extensive referencing Internationally recognised editor and author team

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JP Medical Ltd

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935152003X

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The Aubin Academy: Revit MEP 2014

By: Paul F. Aubin,Darryl McCelland,Martin Schmid,Gregg Stanley

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The Aubin Academy: Revit MEP 2014

By: Paul F. Aubin,Darryl McCelland,Martin Schmid,Gregg Stanley

The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit(r) MEP is the ideal book to help readers successfully use Revit MEP. It is a concise manual focused squarely on the rationale and practicality of the Revit MEP Building Information Model (BIM) process. The book emphasizes the process of creating projects in MEP rather than a series of independent commands and tools. The goal of each lesson is to help the reader complete their projects successfully. Tools are introduced together in a focused process with a strong emphasis on "why" as well as "how." The text and exercises seek to give the reader a clear sense of the value of the tools, and a clear indication of each tool's potential. The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit MEP is a resource designed to shorten your learning curve, raise your comfort level, and, most importantly, give you real-life tested practical advice on the usage of the software to create mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designs, and calculations. Empowered with the information within this book, you will have insight into how to use Revit MEP to create coordinated BIM project models and documentation. Revised and updated to the latest release of the software Includes practical project focused how-to exercises where readers learn by "doing". Focused on MEP Production so readers can learn to create a coordinated BIM model and documentation set. Written by authors with over 75 years of combined real-World architectural and MEP industry experience. Provides "Power User/BIM Manager" tips throughout. Includes free online download of complete dataset of project files to follow along in the exercises.

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G3B Press

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148955808X

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Building the Nation

Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Heather Selma Gregg

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Building the Nation

Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Heather Selma Gregg

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to “nation-build” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might truly be called nation-building—the process of developing a sense of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within a state’s borders and popular support for the state and its government. According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the state that gives the population ownership of the process and its results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies could have used a population-centric approach to build viable states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg proposes a six-step program for state and nation-building in the twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much about how state-building is done as they are about specific goals or programs.

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Potomac Books

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1640120874

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The State of Nature

Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

By: Gregg Mitman

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The State of Nature

Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

By: Gregg Mitman

Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226532372

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9780226532370

To Build a Wall

American Jews and the Separation of Church and State

By: Gregg Ivers

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To Build a Wall

American Jews and the Separation of Church and State

By: Gregg Ivers

To Build a Wall represents the first extensive study of the effect of Jewish interest groups on church-state litigation. Ivers carefully traces the evolution of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the ADL from benevolent social service agencies to powerful organized interest groups active on all fronts of American politics and public affairs. He draws extensively upon original sources and archival materials from each organization, personal interviews over a five-year period, as well as the personal files and papers of Leo Pfeffer, the lead counsel or amicus curiae in nearly every establishment clause case from the late 1940s through the early eighties. Ivers concludes that organized interests can and do have critical influence in the legal process, but that organizational needs and external demands result in a more ad hoc, less planned approach to law and litigation than much previous scholarship has suggested. Ivers also argues that the ethnic, economic, and religious differences that led to the formation of competing Jewish organizations eighty years ago continue to drive a dynamic pluralism within the Jewish community, manifest in part in divergent approaches to litigation and public affairs.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813915546

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9780813915548

Religious Terrorism

By: Heather S. Gregg

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Religious Terrorism

By: Heather S. Gregg

How can the world's religions, which propagate peace and love, promote violence and the killing of innocent civilians through terrorist acts? This Element aims to provide insights into this puzzle by beginning with a brief overview of debates on terrorism, a discussion on religion and the various resources it provides groups engaging in terrorist acts, four arguments for what causes religious terrorism, brief examples of religious terrorism across faith traditions, and a synopsis of deradicalization programs. This discussion shows that, when combined with certain political and social circumstances, religions provide powerful resources for justifying and motivating terrorist acts against civilians.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108605206

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The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark

A Study in Markan Christology

By: Gregg S Morrison

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The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark

A Study in Markan Christology

By: Gregg S Morrison

Based on linguistic and thematic links in the narrative, 'The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark' argues that the twin pericopae of Peter's confession (8:27-38) and the Transfiguration (9:2-13) together function as the turning point of the Gospel and serve in a Janus- like manner enabling the reader to see the author's main focus: the identity of Jesus and the significance of that reality for his disciples. Peter's confession of Jesus as Messiah faces backward toward the Prologue (1:1-13) and functions as a mid-course conclusion. The declaration by God on the mountain faces forward and foreshadows the end-course conclusion (14:61-62; 15:39; Son of God). Jesus, in response, teaches that the Son of Man must suffer and die before being raised from the dead(8:31). Christologically, the images of Messiah, Son of Man, and Son of God converge and present Jesus, the crucified, as king, ushering in the kingdom of God in power (9:1 acting as the key swivel between the twin pericopae). When one is confronted withthis Jesus, though there remains something elusive about him and the kingdom of God in the narrative, the only wise decision (after calculating the costs, 8:34-38) is to follow.

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James Clarke & Company

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0227904117

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9780227904114

Team-Based Care for Heart Failure, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

By: Gregg C. Fonarow

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Team-Based Care for Heart Failure, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

By: Gregg C. Fonarow

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines the critical role of team-based care in the management of patients with heart failure. Articles address Team-Based Care for Prevention, Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure, Transitions of Care, Outpatients, Managing Cardiac Comorbidities, Managing Non-cardiac Conditions, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training, External Telemonitoring, Ambulatory Hemodynamic Cardiac Device Monitoring, Advanced Heart Failure, and Palliative and End-of-Life Care.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032339101X

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9780323391016

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal

What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal

What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There’s a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more “successful” (evolutionarily speaking) than other species. Our intelligence allowed us to split the atom, but we’ve harnessed that knowledge to make machines of war. We are uniquely susceptible to bullshit (though, cuttlefish may be the best liars in the animal kingdom); our bizarre obsession with lawns has contributed to the growing threat of climate change; we are sexually diverse like many species yet stand apart as homophobic; and discriminate among our own as if its natural, which it certainly is not. Is our intelligence more of a curse than a gift? As scientist Justin Gregg persuasively argues, there’s an evolutionary reason why human intelligence isn’t more prevalent in the animal kingdom. Simply put, non-human animals don’t need it to be successful. And, miraculously, their success arrives without the added baggage of destroying themselves and the planet in the process. In seven mind-bending and hilarious chapters, Gregg highlights one feature seemingly unique to humans—our use of language, our rationality, our moral systems, our so-called sophisticated consciousness—and compares it to our animal brethren. Along the way, remarkable tales of animal smarts emerge, as you’ll discover: “A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcomings.” —Adam Grant The house cat who’s better at picking winning stocks than actual fund managers Elephants who love to drink Pigeons who are better than radiologists at spotting cancerous tissue Bumblebees who are geniuses at teaching each other soccer What emerges is both demystifying and remarkable, and will change how you look at animals, humans, and the meaning of life itself. San Francisco Chronicle bestseller • BOOKRIOT Best Books of the Year • Next Big Idea Book Club Best Science Books of the Year “I love the book, and everyone should read it.” —Ryan Holiday "Undeniably entertaining." —TheNew York Times

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Little, Brown

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0316388262

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Stop Avoiding Stuff

25 Microskills to Face Your Fears and Do It Anyway

By: Matthew S. Boone,Jennifer Gregg,Lisa W. Coyne

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Stop Avoiding Stuff

25 Microskills to Face Your Fears and Do It Anyway

By: Matthew S. Boone,Jennifer Gregg,Lisa W. Coyne

Afraid? Do it anyway! The 25 microskills in this little book will help you stand up to your fears, so you can live the life you really want. To fear is to be human. But fear can also keep us stuck living lives that are stale, stagnant, or downright miserable. Fear leads us down paths that feel more safe, but that deep down we know are wrong for us. The good news is that you can stand up to your fears and change your life for the better. If you’re ready to stop avoiding stuff and say yes to opportunity, the easy-to-implement strategies in this book will help you break the avoidance habits that have been keeping you in a rut. Drawing on evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this accessible guide offers 25 microskills to help you face your fears so you can live a truly courageous and meaningful life. With this book, you’ll learn: Why you avoid stuff Tips to increase self-awareness in moments of fear Strategies for untangling from distressing thoughts How to hold the inevitable pain and discomfort of life lightly Ways to connect with your values and take action We are hardwired to avoid, control, and escape the stuff that makes us uncomfortable. But if you’re ready to stop living scared, the tips and tools in this little book will help you pivot back to what really matters to you.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1684036070

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9781684036073

Integrating Criminologies

By: Gregg Barak

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Integrating Criminologies

By: Gregg Barak

Integrating Criminologies is both a critique of disciplinary criminology and a synthesis of the emerging paradigm of interdisciplinary criminology. The author attempts to bring biology, psychology, sociology, law, economics, feminist studies, media studies, and ethnic studies into an integrated criminological whole. This book presents an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to understanding crime and social control. It integrates modernist and postmodernist sensibilities about crime and justice and then offers its own framework for conceptualizing the integration of crime and crime control.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205165575

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The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q

By: Brian Han Gregg

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The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q

By: Brian Han Gregg

Insisting that the potential historicity of Q's eschatological traditions be given due consideration, Brian Gregg's study explores the content and authenticity of the final judgment sayings in Q in light of the historical Jesus."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161487508

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Killing Kind

By: Gregg Dunnett

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Killing Kind

By: Gregg Dunnett

When a six-year-old child picks up a mysterious letter left on a park bench, she discovers a confession from a man who claims to have spent his entire life committing murder after murder after murder. It’s almost certainly the ravings of a fantasist, but DI Beth Jordan is the undervalued detective sent in to make sure. Yet when she’s able to connect the few actual details in the text to real-life cases, Jordan has the opportunity to solve crimes that have baffled her colleagues for decades. But there’s a reason why the killer is confessing now – and it’s not to give himself up. As more letters are discovered it becomes clear he is planning one last, terrible murder. Jordan is forced to dive deep into the killer’s mind to identify him before he can strike. But at the same time, the killer is studying her right back, using her to find the name of his final victim. Because – in this twisted and dark novella – the dividing line between good and evil, right and wrong, is far less clear than it might first appear. Can DI Jordan discover the real reason why he kills, before it’s too late? And just whose name is next on the killer’s list? Killing Kind is a fast moving and totally absorbing novella with a killer twist, from US and UK bestselling mystery and suspense writer Gregg Dunnett.

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1912835061

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The History of Texas

By: Robert A. Calvert,Arnoldo De Leon,Gregg Cantrell

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The History of Texas

By: Robert A. Calvert,Arnoldo De Leon,Gregg Cantrell

The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic text The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics, identity, class, ethnicity, and race shaped the state’s past and continue to influence its present. Recent knowledge on the political, social, and cultural history of Texas provides insights on the celebrated figures, unsung heroes, and ordinary people of the state’s past. The sixth edition of this classic text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship in all fields of Texas history, among them New Indian History and cultural and gender studies. The text offers fresh perspectives on Texas history, including discussions of the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war modernization, and the state’s transition during the 1960s and into the 1980s. Revised chapters provide wide-ranging coverage of Texas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including recent statewide and national elections and political debates. This textbook: Connects events in post-World War II Texas to the larger U.S. historical narrative Offers substantial coverage of events occurring from 1900 to 2018 Uses a chronological approach to divide chapters into easily identifiable eras Includes engaging illustrations, maps, and tables, an appendix, and inclusive lists of recommended readings Features online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more Effectively organized to better meet the needs of instructors, The History of Texas is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Texas history at colleges and universities across both the state and the nation.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119581435

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The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Workbook

Cope with Emotional Pain, Connect with What Matters, and Transform Your Life

By: Matthew S. Boone,Jennifer Gregg

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The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Workbook

Cope with Emotional Pain, Connect with What Matters, and Transform Your Life

By: Matthew S. Boone,Jennifer Gregg

Heal the emotional and psychological pain that stands between you and the meaningful life you deserve. Are you often confused by a whirlwind of painful emotions that feel unbearable? Do you exist in a constant state of fear and anxiety—always expecting the worst when something goes wrong? Do you find yourself behaving in ways that don’t reflect your values and beliefs? If so, you aren’t alone. In our increasingly uncertain world, many people struggle to find peace of mind. If you feel like your thoughts and feelings have turned against you, this workbook can help you take charge of your emotions—and your life. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a powerful method for healing the psychological and emotional pain standing between you and a more fulfilling life. This workbook outlines essential ACT skills—including cognitive defusion, present-moment awareness, willingness, values, committed action, and flexible perspective taking—that you can apply immediately to start feeling better now, and keep feeling better in the future. You’ll also learn strategies from positive psychology and self-compassion to help enhance feelings of connection, pleasure, and gratitude—so you can embrace life with a renewed spirit and commitment to what matters. Presented in a highly accessible, “dip in, dip out” format, this workbook allows you to jump straight to what you need, when you need it. If you’re ready to transform your life and make lasting positive change, the evidence-based skills in this workbook can help you get started on the path to healing.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1648483755

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The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit MEP 2012

By: Paul F. Aubin,Darryl McClelland,Martin Schmid,Gregg Stanley

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The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit MEP 2012

By: Paul F. Aubin,Darryl McClelland,Martin Schmid,Gregg Stanley

The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit® MEP is the ideal book to help readers successfully use Revit MEP. It is a concise manual focused squarely on the rationale and practicality of the Revit MEP Building Information Model (BIM) process. The book emphasizes the process of creating projects in MEP rather than a series of independent commands and tools. The goal of each lesson is to help the reader complete their projects successfully. Tools are introduced together in a focused process with a strong emphasis on “why” as well as “how.” The text and exercises seek to give the reader a clear sense of the value of the tools, and a clear indication of each tool's potential. The Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit MEP is a resource designed to shorten your learning curve, raise your comfort level, and, most importantly, give you real-life tested practical advice on the usage of the software to create mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designs, and calculations. Empowered with the information within this book, you will have insight into how to use Revit MEP to create coordinated BIM project models and documentation. Includes practical project focused how-to exercises where readers learn by “doing”. Focused on MEP Production so readers can learn to create a coordinated BIM model and documentation set. Written by authors with over 75 years of combined real-World architectural and MEP industry experience. Provides “Power User/BIM Manager” tips throughout. Includes free online download of complete dataset of project files to follow along in the exercises.

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1466389354

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The Georgetown Set

Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

By: Gregg Herken

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The Georgetown Set

Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

By: Gregg Herken

In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.

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Vintage

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030745634X

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Population and Society

An Introduction

By: Gregg Lee Carter

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Population and Society

An Introduction

By: Gregg Lee Carter

This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy. Five key chapters concentrate on (1) the social and individual determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration; (2) the social and individual impacts of changing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration; and (3) the impacts of overpopulation on the environment, and how changes in the environment, in turn, impact the human condition, especially regarding migration. What gives these analyses coherence is how each emphasizes the ways in which demographic forces both reflect and limit individual choices. Written in a straightforward and engaging style, and without getting bogged down in academic debates, this concise book is the ideal introduction and primer for courses in social demography and population and society.

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