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Downwind of the Atomic State

Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society

By: James C. Rice

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Downwind of the Atomic State

Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society

By: James C. Rice

How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West In December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the Nevada Test Site, and radioactive debris dispersed across the communities just downwind and through much of the country. In this important work, James C. Rice tells the hidden story of nuclear weapons testing and the negligence of the US government in protecting public health. Downwind of the Atomic State focuses on the key decisions and events shaping the Commission’s mismanagement of radiological contamination in the region, specifically on how the risks of fallout were defined and redefined, or, importantly, not defined at all, owing to organizational mistakes and the impetus to keep atomic testing going at all costs. Rice shows that although Atomic Energy Commission officials understood open-air detonations injected radioactive debris into the atmosphere, they did not understand, or seem to care, that the radioactivity would irrevocably contaminate these communities. The history of the atomic Southwest should be a wake-up call to everyone living in a world replete with large, complex organizations managing risky technological systems. The legacy of open-air detonations in Nevada pushes us to ask about the kinds of risks we are unwittingly living under today. What risks are we being exposed to by large organizations under the guise of security and science?

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NYU Press

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1479815349

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9781479815340

Seven Crashes

The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization

By: Harold James

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Seven Crashes

The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization

By: Harold James

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart "[A] fascinating book."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2023--Economics" The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history--from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Covid-19 crisis--James shows how crashes prompted by a lack of supply, like the oil shortages of the 1970s, lead to greater globalization as markets expand and producers innovate to increase supply. By contrast, crises triggered by a lack of demand--such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008--result in less globalization as markets contract, austerity measures are imposed, and skepticism of government grows. By considering not only the times but also the observers who shaped our understanding of each crisis--from Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes to Larry Summers--James shows how the uneven course of globalization has led to new economic thinking, and how understanding this history can help us better prepare for the future.

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Yale University Press

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0300263392

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9780300263398

Jackson City Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1867 & 1868.

With a History from the First Settlement of the City, and a general Portrait of its Business at the Present Time

By: James M. Thomas

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Jackson City Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1867 & 1868.

With a History from the First Settlement of the City, and a general Portrait of its Business at the Present Time

By: James M. Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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270

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BoD – Books on Demand

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375253169X

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9783752531695

Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder

By: Howard A. Bradley,James Albert Winans

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Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder

By: Howard A. Bradley,James Albert Winans

Reprint of the sole edition. "This is the story of a famous murder...and of the trials of John Francis Knapp and of Joseph Jenkins Knapp. It is also the story of the part Daniel Webster played in those trials. His summation in one of those trials is thought by some to be the greatest ever delivered in America.": Introduction [9].

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246

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584777273

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9781584777274

The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

By: James J. Hogaboam

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The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

By: James J. Hogaboam

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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150

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3385503647

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9783385503649

Dixie Clockmakers

By: James Gibbs

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Dixie Clockmakers

By: James Gibbs

The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers and the magnificent artistry they brought to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century timepieces. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, this volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world’s finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some sixty photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. Dixie Clockmakers also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455603600

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9781455603602

Boll Weevil Blues

Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

By: James C. Giesen

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Boll Weevil Blues

Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

By: James C. Giesen

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226292851

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9780226292854

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

Studies on the Social Perspective of Paul

By: James R. Harrison

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Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

Studies on the Social Perspective of Paul

By: James R. Harrison

Paul’s letter to the Romans has a long history in Christian dogmatic battles. But how might the letter have been heard by an audience in Neronian Rome? James R. Harrison answers that question through a reader-response approach grounded in deep investigations of the material and ideological culture of the city, from Augustus to Nero. Inscriptional, archaeological, monumental, and numismatic evidence, in addition to a breadth of literary material, allows him to describe the ideological “value system” of the Julio-Claudian world, which would have shaped the perceptions and expectations of Paul’s readers. Throughout, Harrison sets prominent Pauline themes‒‒his obligation to Greeks and barbarians, newness of life and of creation against the power of death, the body of Christ, “boasting” in “glory” and God’s purpose in and for Israel‒‒in startling juxtaposition with Roman ideological themes. The result is a richer and more complex understanding of the letter’s argument and its possible significance for contemporary readers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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197870514X

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9781978705142

The Captain and "the Cannibal"

An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

By: James Fairhead

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The Captain and "the Cannibal"

An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

By: James Fairhead

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive’s perspective as from the American’s. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a “cannibal” in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific—the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako’s assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell’s ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako’s life, and the two men's infusion into American literature—Dako inspired Melville’s Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.

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Yale University Press

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0300213255

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9780300213256

The Quiet Revolution

Turbulence and Transition in Contemporary New Zealand

By: Colin James

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The Quiet Revolution

Turbulence and Transition in Contemporary New Zealand

By: Colin James

In The Quiet Revolution, leading political commentator Colin James analyses New Zealand's market-based reforms of the 1980s as they are happening. Writing a first draft of history, he examines how the 'quiet revolution' is seen alternately as a betrayal, a dangerous experiment and a liberation. Combining economic and political analysis, he describes the behind-the-scenes manoeuvring that formed the backdrop to the reforms and the effects of the reform programme itself. He also sees a groundswell of optimism that, he argues, could forge a new and very different society in New Zealand.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242772

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9781877242779

Jackson City Directory

By: M. Thomas James

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Jackson City Directory

By: M. Thomas James

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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3368132474

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Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California

Responses to Environmental Change

By: John M. Melack,Steven Sadro,James O. Sickman,Jeff Dozier

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Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California

Responses to Environmental Change

By: John M. Melack,Steven Sadro,James O. Sickman,Jeff Dozier

The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will respond.

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University of California Press

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0520278798

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9780520278790

Evelyn Brent

The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook

By: Lynn Kear,James King

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Evelyn Brent

The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook

By: Lynn Kear,James King

Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld and The Last Command. She'd also been a sensation in Paramount's first dialogue film, Interference. But by the end of that year Brent was headed for a quick, downward spiral ending in bankruptcy and occasional work as an extra. What happened is a complicated story laced with bad luck, poor decisions, and treachery detailed in this first and only full-length biography.

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McFarland

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0786454687

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9780786454686

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Downwind of the Atomic State

Downwind of the Atomic State

Seven Crashes

Seven Crashes

Jackson City Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1867 & 1868.

Jackson City Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1867 & 1868.

Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder

Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder

The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

Dixie Clockmakers

Dixie Clockmakers

Boll Weevil Blues

Boll Weevil Blues

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

The Captain and "the Cannibal"

The Captain and "the Cannibal"

The Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution

Jackson City Directory

Jackson City Directory

Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California

Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California

Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent

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