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Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada

By: Noel Dyck,James B. Waldram

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Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada

By: Noel Dyck,James B. Waldram

The essays in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present, and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect Native peoples in Canada. The contributing authors, who include social scientists and politicians from both Native and non-Native backgrounds, use their experience to assess the theory and practice of anthropological participation in and observation of relations between aboriginal peoples and governments in Canada. They trace the strengths and weaknesses of traditional forms of anthropological fieldwork and writing, as well as offering innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting anthropologists working in this domain. In addition to Noel Dyck and James Waldram, the contributing authors are Peggy Martin Brizinski, Julie Cruikshank, Peter Douglas Elias, Julia D. Harrison, Ron Ignace, Joseph M. Kaufert, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, William W. Koolage, John O'Neil, Joe Sawchuk, Colin H. Scott, Derek G. Smith, George Speck, Renee Taylor, Peter J. Usher, and Sally M. Weaver.

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0773563717

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9780773563711

An Imperative to Cure

Principles and Practice of Qʼeqchiʼ Maya Medicine in Belize

By: James Burgess Waldram

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An Imperative to Cure

Principles and Practice of Qʼeqchiʼ Maya Medicine in Belize

By: James Burgess Waldram

James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing." Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q'eqchi' cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q'eqchi' practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways--forces with which Q'eqchi' practitioners must engage to cure their patients.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826361730

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9780826361738

Revenge of the Windigo

The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples

By: James Burgess Waldram

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Revenge of the Windigo

The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples

By: James Burgess Waldram

What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the central question of James Waldram's Revenge of the Windigo. This erudite and highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines - anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry - and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086004

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Aboriginal Health in Canada

Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives

By: James Waldram,D. Ann Herring,T. Kue Young

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Aboriginal Health in Canada

Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives

By: James Waldram,D. Ann Herring,T. Kue Young

Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. The authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of health and disease prior to and since European contact, up to the present. They discuss medical systems and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal cultures and trace the relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine popular explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the need to understand both the historical-cultural context of health issues, as well as the circumstances that give rise to variation in health problems and healing strategies in Aboriginal communities across the country. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a very general background for the non-specialist. Finally, contemporary Aboriginal healing traditions, the issue of self-determination and health care, and current trends in Aboriginal health issues are examined.

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1442690984

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Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the reign of Charles The First

First to eight year, inclusive

By: James Morrin

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Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the reign of Charles The First

First to eight year, inclusive

By: James Morrin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

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3375008422

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Foundations of Biosocial Health

Stigma and Illness Interactions

By: James Ziegler

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Foundations of Biosocial Health

Stigma and Illness Interactions

By: James Ziegler

The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic. In so doing, the authors also address how stigma translates from a social condition to various biological conditions. The authors’ contributions cover a variety of topics, including HIV, substance use, obesity, depression, homelessness, poverty,and political oppression. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and public health.

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Lexington Books

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1498552129

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Strings MM, University of Michigan

Proceedings of the 2000 International Superstrings Conference, University of Michigan : University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 10-15, 2000

By: M. J. Duff,James T. Liu,Jianxin Lu

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Strings MM, University of Michigan

Proceedings of the 2000 International Superstrings Conference, University of Michigan : University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 10-15, 2000

By: M. J. Duff,James T. Liu,Jianxin Lu

Superstring theory and its successor, M-theory, hold promises of a deeper understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics, the unification of the four fundamental forces, the quantum theory of gravity, the mysteries of quantum black holes, Big Bang cosmology and, ultimately, their complete synthesis in a final theory of physics. This volume records the proceedings of the major annual international conference on the subject, OC Strings 2000OCO, which involved 42 talks by the world''s leading experts on string theory and M-theory. It will be of interest not only to researchers in the field but also to all those who wish to keep abreast of the latest developments and breakthroughs in this exciting area of theoretical physics. Contents: Gauge Fields, Scalars, Warped Geometry, and Strings (E Silverstein); RS Braneworlds in Type IIB Supergravity (K S Stelle); Supersymmetry in Singular Spaces and Domain Walls (R Kallosh); Overview of K -theory Applied to Strings (E Witten); N =2 Gauge-Gravity Duals (J Polchinski); The Supergravity Brane-world (J T Liu); Aspects of Collapsing Cycles (B R Greene); Covariant Quantization of the Superstring (N Berkovits); Supergravity Description of Field Theories on Curved Manifolds and a No Go Theorem (J Maldacena & C Nuez); Cosmological Breaking of Supersymmetry? (T Banks); Space-Time Uncertainty and Noncommutativity in String Theory (T Yoneya); Stable Non-BPS States and Their Holographic Duals (S Mukhi & N V Suryanarayana); Representations of Superconformal Algebras in the AdS 7/4 /CFT 6/3 Correspondence (S Ferrara & E Sokatchev); and other papers. Readership: String theorists and mathematical physicists.

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World Scientific

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9812810323

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Clearing the Plains

Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

By: James William Daschuk

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Clearing the Plains

Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

By: James William Daschuk

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires

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University of Regina Press

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0889772967

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Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project

By: James F. Hornig

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Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project

By: James F. Hornig

The first mega-scale hydro project to be built in the sub-Arctic, capable of generating as much electricity as fifteen nuclear power plants, its impact includes disruption of vast areas in an extremely fragile ecosystem as well as displacement of native peoples and the introduction of dangerous levels of mercury into their food supply. The debate over these complex environmental issues has been further complicated by political issues stemming from the importance of the project to the economic development of Quebec and the sale of at least ten percent of the electricity generated the United States. The contributors examine core issues of the controversy both in relation to James Bay and to other large hydroelectric projects, such as the Aswan dam in Egypt and the Three Gorges dam in China. Providing insights from an unusual variety of disciplines, the authors offer important considerations that must be taken into account as Quebec assesses additional phases of hydroelectric development of the watershed east of Hudson Bay. Contributors include Raymond B. Coppinger (Hampshire College), Bill Dale Roebuck (Dartmouth Medical School), Will Ryan (Hampshire College), Adrian Tanner (Memorial University), Stanley L. Warner (Hampshire College), Kessler E. Woodward (University of Alaska), and Oran R. Young (Dartmouth College).

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0773567739

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States of Confinement

Policing, Detention, and Prisons

By: NA NA,Joy James

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States of Confinement

Policing, Detention, and Prisons

By: NA NA,Joy James

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. Statistics like these, and the often unsafe conditions under which people are imprisoned, make an analysis of incarceration urgent and timely. Using a broad multicultural approach, States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in our policing and punishment systems. The distinguished authors of this collection - such as Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol (the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), Julie Su (an attorney for immigrants' rights), and Judi Bari (a founder of Earthfirst!) - use their diverse experiences and expertise to discuss troubling abuses of police powers in our society. The issues they expose include racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women in prison and police custody, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the adverse conditions of HIV-positive prisoners, and the use of the Grand Jury and police to undermine political activity. These twenty-seven cogent and accessible essays will appeal to students and educators, as well as anyone concerned about the erosion of democracy and equality in this era of increasing incarceration and police powers.

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Springer

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1137109297

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Superconductivity, Superfluids and Condensates

By: James F. Annett

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Superconductivity, Superfluids and Condensates

By: James F. Annett

This textbook series has been designed for final year undergraduate and first year graduate students, providing an overview of the entire field showing how specialized topics are part of the wider whole, and including references to current areas of literature and research.

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Oxford University Press

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0198507569

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Deserfest

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004

By: Stanley Deser,James T. Liu

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Deserfest

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004

By: Stanley Deser,James T. Liu

This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest OCo a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser''s colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner of OC ADMOCO fame, contribute insighted article. Ranging from lower dimensional gravity theories all the way to supergravity in eleven dimensions and M-theory, the papers highlight the wide impact that Deser has had in the field. Contents: Some Results in M-Theory Inspired Phenomenology (R Arnowitt et al.); A Non-Geometric Approach to 11-Dimensional Supergravity (L Brink); Generalized Holonomy in M-Theory (A Batrachenko et al.); Electric-Magnetic Duality in Gravity (M Henneaux & C Teitelboim); R 4 Terms in Supergravity and M-Theory (P Howe); Marriage of 4-Dimensional Gravity to the 3-Dimensional Chern-Simons Term (R Jackiw); Some Applications of the ADM Formalism (J E Nelson); The Main Postulates and Results of Loop Quantum Gravity (L Smolin); Milne and Torus Universes Meet (A Waldron); Diquarks as Inspiration and as Objects (F Wilczek); and other papers. Readership: Researchers in the field of high energy physics, gravitation and supersymmetry.

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9812774807

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9789812774804

Understanding Tolowa Histories

Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses

By: James Collins

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Understanding Tolowa Histories

Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses

By: James Collins

Developing a multi-leveled historical inquiry of the Native Tolowa of the US, James Collins explores the linguistic and political dynamics of place-claiming and expropriation as well as the relation between otherness and subjugation.

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Routledge

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1135224129

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Reflections on Native-newcomer Relations

Selected Essays

By: James Rodger Miller

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Reflections on Native-newcomer Relations

Selected Essays

By: James Rodger Miller

The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with the evolution of historical writing on First Nations and M?tis, methodological issues in the writing of Native-newcomer history, policy matters including residential schools, and linkages between the study of Native-newcomer relations and academic governance and curricular matters. Half of the essays appear here in print for the first time, and all use archival, published, and oral history evidence to throw light on Native-Newcomer relations. Miller argues that the nature of the relationship between Native peoples and newcomers in Canada has varied over time, based on the reasons the two parties have had for interacting. The relationship deteriorates into attempts to control and coerce Natives during periods in which newcomers do not perceive them as directly useful, and it improves when the two parties have positive reasons for cooperation. Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations opens up for discussion a series of issues in Native-newcomer history. It addresses all the trends in the discipline of the past two decades and never shies from showing their contradictions, as well as those in the author's own thinking as he matured as a scholar.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086691

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The Cowley Fathers

A History of the English Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist

By: Serenhedd James

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The Cowley Fathers

A History of the English Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist

By: Serenhedd James

A definitive history of one of the most significant religious orders to emerge in the Anglican church, the Cowley Fathers - the first men’s religious order to be founded in the Church of England since the Reformation.

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Canterbury Press

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1786221853

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Imagining the Text

Ekphrasis and Envisioning Courtly Identity in Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois

By: James H. Brown

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Imagining the Text

Ekphrasis and Envisioning Courtly Identity in Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois

By: James H. Brown

In Imagining the Text, James Brown examines ekphrasis – the verbal representation of a visual representation – in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s thirteenth-century Arthurian romance Wigalois, one of the most popular and enduring stories in the Middle High German literary tradition. Through close reading of the text and examining illustrated Wigalois manuscripts, early print editions, and frescoes, Brown explores how ekphrasis structures the narrative, harmonizes potential conflicts in the text, and contributes to the construction of courtly identity. Imagining the Text demonstrates that the vibrant symbiosis of word and image is crucial to the poem’s sustained popularity for more than six hundred years, and contributes to the history of the book and to the study of medieval and modern modes of perception.

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BRILL

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9004283064

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Beckstead Site - 1977

By: James F. Pendergast

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Beckstead Site - 1977

By: James F. Pendergast

This a detailed account of excavations on the Beckstead St. Lawrence Iroquoian village site which took place in 1977 as a result of the site being threatened by a road-widening project. After quoting from the earliest references to the site by the settlers and an explanation of the excavation plan, the author describes and discusses the archaeological features.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772821179

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Offenders and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Interventions and Limitations

By: James A. Cates

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Offenders and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Interventions and Limitations

By: James A. Cates

This book synthesizes the nascent but growing body of literature and research emerging on risk management and treatment of persons who sexually offend against children. This volume demonstrates the need for change by placing current attitudes toward sexual offending in their sociocultural context and then discussing the impact of these attitudes. Rather than parse the needs of children who have been victimized from those who have offended, a model emerges that explains the interlocking dynamics of those who offend and those offended against. This book upends the convenient fiction that child sexual abuse can be reduced by locking away those who offend and then monitoring them upon release. Rather, the book addresses the need for ongoing interaction of the two populations; the reality that the two populations at times overlap; and the increasingly public question of how to manage those who acknowledge an attraction to children but deny an intent to act on that desire. Providing alternative viewpoints, research avenues, and policy options that can accommodate a more realistic effort to reduce the risk of sexual abuse, it is a must read for all policymakers or professionals working with those who have offended or acknowledge attraction to children, alongside students and researchers from forensic psychology, clinical psychology, or criminology backgrounds.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040253768

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Language and Emotion

By: James M. Wilce

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Language and Emotion

By: James M. Wilce

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139478362

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Tangrams

By: James Lyon

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Tangrams

By: James Lyon

Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Now you can stretch the visual side of your brain – whatever your age! * Over 200 puzzles for children and adults. * Have fun developing your visual–spatial skills. * Play at home or on the move.

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Parkstone International

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1639197966

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Spanish Rome, 1500-1700

By: Thomas James Dandelet

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Spanish Rome, 1500-1700

By: Thomas James Dandelet

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Rome was an aged but still vigorous power while Spain was a rising giant on track toward becoming the world’s most powerful and first truly global empire. This book tells the fascinating story of the meeting of these two great empires at a critical moment in European history. Thomas Dandelet explores for the first time the close relationship between the Spanish Empire and Papal Rome that developed in the dynamic period of the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. The author examines on the one hand the role the Spanish Empire played in shaping Roman politics, economics, culture, society, and religion and on the other the role the papacy played in Spanish imperial politics and the development of Spanish absolutism and monarchical power. Reconstructing the large Spanish community in Rome during this period, the book reveals the strategies used by the Spanish monarchs and their agents that successfully brought Rome and the papacy under their control. Spanish ambassadors, courtiers, and merchants in Rome carried out a subtle but effective conquest by means of a distinctive “informal” imperialism, which relied largely on patronage politics. As Spain’s power grew, Rome enjoyed enormous gains as well, and the close relations they developed became a powerful influence on the political, social, economic, and religious life not only of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas but also of Catholic Reformation Europe as a whole.

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Yale University Press

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0300133774

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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy

By: A. Richard Thompson,James M. Moran,George W. Swenson, Jr.

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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy

By: A. Richard Thompson,James M. Moran,George W. Swenson, Jr.

Comprehensive, authoritative coverage of interferometric techniques for radio astronomy In this Second Edition of Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, three leading figures in the development of large imaging arrays, including very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI), describe and explain the technology that provides images of the universe with an angular resolution as fine as 1/20,000 of an arcsecond. This comprehensive volume begins with a historical review followed by detailed coverage of the theory of interferometry and synthesis imaging, analysis of interferometer response, geometrical relationships, polarimetry, antennas, and arrays. Discussion of the receiving system continues with analysis of the response to signals and noise, analog design requirements, and digital signal processing. The authors detail special requirements of VLBI including atomic frequency standards, broadband recording systems, and antennas in orbit. Further major topics include: * Calibration of data and synthesis of images * Image enhancement using nonlinear algorithms * Techniques for astrometry and geodesy * Propagation in the neutral atmosphere and ionized media * Radio interference * Related techniques: intensity interferometry, moon occultations, antenna holography, and optical interferometry Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, Second Edition is comprehensive in that it provides an excellent overview of most radio astronomical instrumentation and techniques.

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352761785X

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Bounty and Benevolence

A Documentary History of Saskatchewan Treaties

By: Arthur J. Ray,James Rodger Miller,Frank Tough

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Bounty and Benevolence

A Documentary History of Saskatchewan Treaties

By: Arthur J. Ray,James Rodger Miller,Frank Tough

The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations-Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understanding, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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0773520236

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Tangrams Book

Shape Puzzles to Stretch Your Brain

By: James Lyon

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Tangrams Book

Shape Puzzles to Stretch Your Brain

By: James Lyon

Stretch your brain with shape puzzles! Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Based on the best-selling Book-in-a-Box kits, the Tangrams Book will help you stretch the visual side of your brain—whatever your age! First solve the puzzle by creating the shape shown, and then change it into the new shape with only the number of moves indicated.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626860823

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9781626860827

The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

By: James A. Brundage

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The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

By: James A. Brundage

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on those who practiced law. James Brundage’s The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession traces the history of legal practice from its genesis in ancient Rome to its rebirth in the early Middle Ages and eventual resurgence in the courts of the medieval church. By the end of the eleventh century, Brundage argues, renewed interest in Roman law combined with the rise of canon law of the Western church to trigger a series of consolidations in the profession. New legal procedures emerged, and formal training for proctors and advocates became necessary in order to practice law in the reorganized church courts. Brundage demonstrates that many features that characterize legal advocacy today were already in place by 1250, as lawyers trained in Roman and canon law became professionals in every sense of the term. A sweeping examination of the centuries-long power struggle between local courts and the Christian church, secular rule and religious edict, The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession will be a resource for the professional and the student alike.

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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens

A History of Indian-white Relations in Canada

By: James Rodger Miller

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A History of Indian-white Relations in Canada

By: James Rodger Miller

A comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802081533

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Dictionary of Latin Literature

By: James H Mantinband

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Dictionary of Latin Literature

By: James H Mantinband

Discover the essential works of Latin literary masters with this A-to-Z reference guide spanning from ancient Rome to the Renaissance. In Dictionary of Latin Literature, classics scholar and translator James H. Mantinband provides students and curious readers with an authoritative, accessible, and wide-ranging reference book. It includes detailed entries on significant works and authors as well as important terms and concepts. Covering the history of Latin literature from the early Roman Republic to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this single volume offers a treasure trove of fascinating information.

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Open Road Media

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1504082672

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