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Going Public

By: Ira Wood

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The intimate thoughts of each of the three points of a modern-day love triangle--Corey, Angela, and Marla--reveal the linkage of romance and status and portray how hearts are often broken in the name of the American dream. Reprint.

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0345376285

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Water, Ice, and Steam

By: Ira Wood

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Water, Ice, and Steam

By: Ira Wood

Learn about water in our daily lives and what happens when it gets hot or cold.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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0823963535

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Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia

By: Benjamin K. Sovacool,Ira Martina Drupady

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Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia

By: Benjamin K. Sovacool,Ira Martina Drupady

This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world. Through an in-depth exploration of case studies in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka, the authors highlight the applicability of different approaches and technologies and illuminates how household and commercial innovations occur (or fail to occur) within particular energy governance regimes. It also, uniquely, explores successful case studies alongside failures or "worst practice" examples that are often just as revealing as those that met their targets. Based on these successes and failures, the book presents twelve salient lessons for policymakers and practitioners wishing to expand energy access and raise standards of living in some of the world's poorest communities. It also develops an innovative framework consisting of 42 distinct factors that explain why some energy development interventions accomplish all of their goals while others languish to achieve any.

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Routledge

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1317143744

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9781317143741

Popular Education

By: Ira Mayhew

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Popular Education

By: Ira Mayhew

Reproduction of the original: Popular Education by Ira Mayhew

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3752436964

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9783752436969

The Slaves' Economy

Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

By: Ira Berlin,Philip D. Morgan

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The Slaves' Economy

Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

By: Ira Berlin,Philip D. Morgan

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.

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Routledge

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113519033X

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Between Science and Literature

AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTOPOETICS

By: Ira Livingston

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Between Science and Literature

AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTOPOETICS

By: Ira Livingston

Between Literature and Science follows through to its emerging 21st-century future the central insight of 20th-century literary and cultural theory: that language and culture, along with their subsystems and artifacts, are self-referential systems. The book explores the workings of self-reference (and the related performativity) in linguistic utterances and assorted texts, through examples of the more open social-discursive systems of post-structuralism and cultural studies, and into the sciences, where complex systems organized by recursive self-reference are now being embraced as an emergent paradigm. This paradigmatic convergence between the humanities and sciences is autopoetics (adapting biologist Hubert Maturana’s term for “self-making” systems), and it signals a long-term epistemological shift across the nature/culture divide so definitive for modernity. If cultural theory has taught us that language, because of its self-referential nature, cannot bear simple witness to the world, the new paradigmatic status of self-referential systems in the natural sciences points toward a revived kinship of language and culture with the world: language bears “witness” to the world. The main movement of the book is through a series of model explications and analyses, operational definitions of concepts and terms, more extended case studies, vignettes and thought experiments designed to give the reader a feel for the concepts and how to use them, while working to expand the autopoetic internee by putting cultural self-reference in dialogue with the self-organizing systems of the sciences. Along the way the reader is introduced to self-reference in epistemology (Foucault), sociology (Luhmann), biology (Maturana/Varela/Kauffman), and physics and cosmology (Smolin). Livingston works through the fundamentals of cultural, literary, and science studies and makes them comprehensible to a non-specialist audience.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252091744

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9780252091742

Ira Gruber's Atlantic Salmon Flies

By: Ira D. Gruber

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Ira Gruber's Atlantic Salmon Flies

By: Ira D. Gruber

Ira W. Gruber is celebrated for the Atlantic salmon fishing techniques he developed over a lifetime of fishing on the Miramichi in New Brunswick, Canada. Ira is known for the 38 salmon fly patterns he originated and the thousands of salmon flies he tied over his lifetime, influencing such well-known contemporaries as Joe Bates, Morris Greene, Ted Niemeyer, and Leonard Wright. Ira D. Gruber, grandson of Ira W., has authored this fishing biography. A professor of history at Rice before he retired, Ira D. Gruber did the research for the book using his grandfather’s papers, annotated angling books, photographs, and notes and interviewing locals in New Brunswick and Ira W.’s native Pennsylvania. The book features stunning photographs of and the patterns for 91 flies from Ira W.’s personal collection, including most of his 38 original fly creations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811770443

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9780811770446

Slaves No More

Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

By: Ira Berlin

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Slaves No More

Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

By: Ira Berlin

Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521436923

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9780521436922

Fort Sumter

Where the Civil War Began

By: Ira Wood

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Fort Sumter

Where the Civil War Began

By: Ira Wood

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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0823963721

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9780823963720

The Kitchen Man

By: Ira Wood

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The Kitchen Man

By: Ira Wood

Gabe Rose works as a waiter in an exclusive Boston restaurant in hopes of meeting a rich backer for his play

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0895941775

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Generations of Captivity

A History of African-American Slaves

By: Ira Berlin

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Generations of Captivity

A History of African-American Slaves

By: Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding of the processes that continually transformed the lives of slaves makes Generations of Captivity essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of antebellum America. Connecting the Charter Generation to the development of Atlantic society in the seventeenth century, the Plantation Generation to the reconstruction of colonial society in the eighteenth century, the Revolutionary Generation to the Age of Revolutions, and the Migration Generation to American expansionism in the nineteenth century, Berlin integrates the history of slavery into the larger story of American life. He demonstrates how enslaved black people, by adapting to changing circumstances, prepared for the moment when they could seize liberty and declare themselves the Freedom Generation. This epic story, told by a master historian, provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.

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Harvard University Press

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0674020839

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9780674020832

Civil War Hospital Newspapers

Histories and Excerpts of Nine Union Publications

By: Ira Spar, M.D.

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Civil War Hospital Newspapers

Histories and Excerpts of Nine Union Publications

By: Ira Spar, M.D.

Nine of the 192 Union military hospitals during the Civil War circulated newspapers edited and printed by convalescents. The horrors of wound infection and amputation were reported in the words of surgeons, nurses and patients. Sermons cautioned against drink, tobacco and profanity while stressing patriotic sacrifice. Those who experienced the war wrote about it in simple narratives, and these are extensively quoted. Convalescent life was painful and terrifying. Bedridden for months with fever and festering wounds, disabled veterans wondered who would respond to their needs. Who would hire them? Who would marry them? This book covers the founding and development of nine hospital newspapers, each fully explored for such topics as patriotism, politics, religion, satire, romance and marriage, battlefield experience and treatment of prisoners of war.

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McFarland

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1476665605

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Many Thousands Gone

The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

By: Ira Berlin

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Many Thousands Gone

The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

By: Ira Berlin

Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves--who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites--gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil. As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this fresh and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.

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0674020820

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9780674020825

Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles I. Bushnell, Esq.

By: Charles Ira Bushnell

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Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles I. Bushnell, Esq.

By: Charles Ira Bushnell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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Going Public

Going Public

Water, Ice, and Steam

Water, Ice, and Steam

Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Popular Education

Popular Education

The Slaves' Economy

The Slaves' Economy

Between Science and Literature

Between Science and Literature

Ira Gruber's Atlantic Salmon Flies

Ira Gruber's Atlantic Salmon Flies

Slaves No More

Slaves No More

Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter

The Kitchen Man

The Kitchen Man

Generations of Captivity

Generations of Captivity

Civil War Hospital Newspapers

Civil War Hospital Newspapers

Many Thousands Gone

Many Thousands Gone

Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles I. Bushnell, Esq.

Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles I. Bushnell, Esq.

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