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Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

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Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

Collection of scholarly essays and primary documents exploring the significance of the 1893 World's Fair and the history of American anthropology"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803268386

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9780803268388

Videoconferencing

The Whole Picture

By: James R. Wilcox

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This text aims to help the reader understand all aspects of videoconferencing. It includes: an overview of the history and technology; a section on security for Internet-based videoconferencing as well as expanded coverage of standards.

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632

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Taylor & Francis

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1136060464

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9781136060465

Cultural Persistence

Continuity in Meaning and Moral Responsibility Among the Bearlake Athapaskans

By: Scott Rushforth,James S. Chisholm

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Cultural Persistence

Continuity in Meaning and Moral Responsibility Among the Bearlake Athapaskans

By: Scott Rushforth,James S. Chisholm

The Bearlake Athapaskan-speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories have valued industriousness, generosity, individual autonomy, and emotional restraint for many generations. They also highly esteem "control" in human thought and behavior. The latter value integrates the others in a coherent framework of moral responsibility that persists as a central feature of Bearlake culture. Rushforth here provides an ethnographic description and analysis of these beliefs and values, which considers their relationship to examples of Bearlake social behavior.

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201

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University of Arizona Press

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0816551332

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9780816551330

Relic Hunters

Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth- Century America

By: James E. Snead

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Relic Hunters

Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth- Century America

By: James E. Snead

Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, and developing their own ideas about antiquity. They experienced the new country as a "place with history" reflected in material traces that became important touch points for scientific knowledge, but for American cultural identity as well. Relic Hunters traces the encounter with American antiquities from 1812 to 1879. This encompasses the period when archaeology took root in the United States: it also spans the "deep settlement" of the Midwest and sectional strife both before and after the Civil War. At the center of the story is the first iconic find of American archaeology, known as "the Kentucky Mummy." Discovered deep in a cavern, this dessicated burial became the subject of scholarly competition, traveling exhibitions, and even poetry. The book uses the theme of the Kentucky Mummy to structure the broader story of the public and American antiquities, a tour that leads through rural museums, mound excavations, lecture tours, shady deals, and ultimately into the famous attic of the Smithsonian Institution. Ultimately, Relic Hunters is a story of the American landscape, and of the role of archaeology in shaping that place. Derived from letters, memoranda, and reports found in more than a dozen archives, this is a unique account of a critical encounter that shaped local and national identity in ways that are only now being explored.

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320

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Oxford University Press

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0191055891

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9780191055898

Malignant Cell Secretion

By: Velibor Krsmanovic,James F. Whitfield

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Malignant Cell Secretion

By: Velibor Krsmanovic,James F. Whitfield

First Published in 1990, this book offers a full, comprehensive guide into the nature of cells. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, pictures, and references this book serves as a useful reference for Students of Medicine, Microbiology, and other practitioners in their respective fields.

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454

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CRC Press

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1000012956

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9781000012958

Video Communications

The Whole Picture

By: James Wilcox,David Gibson

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Video Communications

The Whole Picture

By: James Wilcox,David Gibson

Case studies document how, in businesses all across this country, people are communicating via videoconferences with broadcast quality reception. The authors detail how the proliferation of IP networks has driven quality improvements and cost savings in

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525

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CRC Press

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1482295679

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9781482295672

Repatriation and Erasing the Past

By: Elizabeth Weiss,James W. Springer

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Repatriation and Erasing the Past

By: Elizabeth Weiss,James W. Springer

Engaging a longstanding controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research. Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.

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279

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University Press of Florida

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1683401859

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9781683401858

Videoconferencing

The Whole Picture

By: James R. Wilcox

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Videoconferencing

The Whole Picture

By: James R. Wilcox

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136060456

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Oxidoreduction at the Plasma Membranerelation to Growth and Transport

By: Frederick L. Crane,D. James Morre,Hans E. Low

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Oxidoreduction at the Plasma Membranerelation to Growth and Transport

By: Frederick L. Crane,D. James Morre,Hans E. Low

The concept of general oxidoreductase function at the plasma level is new. Oxidoreduction at the Plasma Membrane: Relation to Growth and Transport provides the first truly comprehensive coverage of the oxidoreduction reactions in plasma membranes and the role that can now be attributed to these enzymes in controlling growth and other cell functions in plants and animals. The book describes the nature and orientation of oxidoreductases in plasma membranes; the stimulation of cell growth by oxidants reacting with transplasma membrane electron transport; changes in enzymes in tumor cells; and the basis of the growth effects and oxidoreductase stimulation of membrane transport in relation to known second messenger functions, such as cellular pH changes, calcium transport, protein phosphorylation and oxidation levels of pyridine nucleotides. The book then examines the significance of these enzymes in cell culture, tumor growth, nerve transmission, ion transport, and membrane potential. The book also presents a new approach to understanding the action of antitumor drugs and herbicides. Biochemists, biologists, oncologists, cancer researchers, physiologists, and endocrinologists will find this an indispensible reference source as they conduct studies in this exciting new area.

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CRC Press

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0849369371

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9780849369377

Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

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Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline, or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that African American Studies use a well-defined common approach in examining history, politics, and the family in the same way as scholars in the disciplines of economics, sociology, and political science. Other scholars consider African American Studies multidisciplinary, a field somewhat comparable to the field of education in which scholars employ a variety of disciplinary lenses-be they anthropological, psychological, historical, etc., --to study the African world experience. In this model the boundaries between traditional disciplines are accepted, and researches in African American Studies simply conduct discipline based an analysis of particular topics. Finally, another group of scholars insists that African American Studies is interdisciplinary, an enterprise that generates distinctive analyses by combining perspectives from d

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450

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Black Classic Press

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1580730396

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9781580730396

Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen

In Pursuit of the Perfect Woman

By: Paula James

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Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen

In Pursuit of the Perfect Woman

By: Paula James

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A&C Black

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144118466X

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9781441184665

Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine 8

By: James F. Holland

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Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine 8

By: James F. Holland

Holland Frei Cancer Medicine serves as a quick reference to current information on an extensive list of cancers, including breast, lung, thyroid, colorectal, ovarian, prostate, and gastric cancer, to name but a few. Presented as an accessible pocket-sized handbook, the chapters are organized in an outline format, offering only the most essential information on the etiology, staging (including TNM staging) and treatment for each cancer type. Individual chapters are devoted to the molecular biology of cancer, cancer prevention, cancer screening, the mechanisms of chemotherapy, and diagnostic imaging in cancer. Additionally, each chapter lists all the major phase III clinical trials, and therefore, serves as an excellent reference of the major randomized controlled trials for each cancer reported to date. Specific chapters are also dedicated to the discussion of oncologic emergencies, pain and palliation, and prescription complications. At the conclusion of the book, a glossary of oncologic terms and chemotherapeutic drug programs, a table of common cancer incidences, and an overview of the mechanisms, common uses, and related toxicities of various anti-cancer agents are featured. In addition, performance status tables, mathematical formulas and a listing of common biomedical / cancer web sites are highlighted.

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PMPH-USA

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1607950146

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9781607950141

From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds

The Memoirs of a Soldier-teacher

By: James L. Morrison

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From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds

The Memoirs of a Soldier-teacher

By: James L. Morrison

Annotation "From Rat Pants to Eagle and Tweeds is James Morrison's firsthand account of experience growing up in the segregated South, his attitudes and approaches to the military as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and his years as a history teacher at York College in Pennsylvania." "Morrison attended several army service schools; served as a midshipman before and after World War II completed several overseas tours, including service is an American adviser to a Vietnamese Infantry division, 1964-65; obtained an M.A. in history from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from Columbia University; and served on the history faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point for eleven years." "Morrison shares his critique of the army, West Point, and teaching, along with his assessment of the present status of American life and his attitudes toward the quality and effectiveness of army officer education and training. He analyzes some of the pitfalls and the strengths of preparing U.S. military organizations for service now and in the future, and he furnishes the reader with insights into how history is taught at a typical American college." "It is a significant contribution to the study of American military history and will be of interest to military officers, military educators and historians, and alumni of the Virginia Military Institute and West-Point."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Kent State University Press

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0873388003

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9780873388009

Extending Russia

Competing from Advantageous Ground

By: James Dobbins,Raphael S. Cohen,Nathan Chandler,Bryan Frederick,Edward Geist,Paul DeLuca,Forrest E. Morgan,Howard J. Shatz,Brent Williams

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Extending Russia

Competing from Advantageous Ground

By: James Dobbins,Raphael S. Cohen,Nathan Chandler,Bryan Frederick,Edward Geist,Paul DeLuca,Forrest E. Morgan,Howard J. Shatz,Brent Williams

As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. It examines Russian vulnerabilities and anxieties; analyzes potential policy options to exploit them; and assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood of successful implementation.

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Rand Corporation

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1977400248

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9781977400246

The Harding Affair

Love and Espionage during the Great War

By: James David Robenalt

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The Harding Affair

Love and Espionage during the Great War

By: James David Robenalt

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding would become a Senator with the power to vote for war; Mrs. Phillips and her daughter would become German agents, spying on a U. S. training camp on Long Island in the hopes of gauging for the Germans the pace of mobilization of the U. S. Army for entry into the battlefields in France. Based on over 800 pages of correspondence discovered in the 1960s but under seal ever since in the Library of Congress, The Harding Affair will tell the unknown stories of Harding as a powerful Senator and his personal and political life, including his complicated romance with Mrs. Phillips. The book will also explore the reasons for the entry of the United States into the European conflict and explain why so many Americans at the time supported Germany, even after the U. S. became involved in the spring of 1917. James David Robenalt's comprehensive study of the letters is set in a narrative that weaves in a real-life spy story with the story of Harding's not accidental rise to the presidency.

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St. Martin's Press

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0230100937

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9780230100930

Book's by James R. Wilcox

Coming of Age in Chicago

Coming of Age in Chicago

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing

Cultural Persistence

Cultural Persistence

Relic Hunters

Relic Hunters

Malignant Cell Secretion

Malignant Cell Secretion

Video Communications

Video Communications

Repatriation and Erasing the Past

Repatriation and Erasing the Past

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing

Oxidoreduction at the Plasma Membranerelation to Growth and Transport

Oxidoreduction at the Plasma Membranerelation to Growth and Transport

Introduction to African American Studies

Introduction to African American Studies

Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen

Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen

Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine 8

Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine 8

From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds

From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds

Extending Russia

Extending Russia

The Harding Affair

The Harding Affair

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