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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 5 M-R

By: Jan Young

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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 5 M-R

By: Jan Young

The result of more than twenty years' research, this seven-volume book lists over 23,000 people and 8,500 marriages, all related to each other by birth or marriage and grouped into families with the surnames Brandt, Cencia, Cressman, Dybdall, Froelich, Henry, Knutson, Kohn, Krenz, Marsh, Meilgaard, Newell, Panetti, Raub, Richardson, Serra, Tempera, Walters, Whirry, and Young. Other frequently-occurring surnames include: Greene, Bartlett, Eastman, Smith, Wright, Davis, Denison, Arnold, Brown, Johnson, Spencer, Crossmann, Colby, Knighten, Wilbur, Marsh, Parker, Olmstead, Bowman, Hawley, Curtis, Adams, Hollingsworth, Rowley, Millis, and Howell. A few records extend back as far as the tenth century in Europe. The earliest recorded arrival in the New World was in 1626 with many more arrivals in the 1630s and 1640s. Until recent decades, the family has lived entirely north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

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1387232649

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Arguments of Heart and Mind

Selected Essays 1977-2000

By: Jan Montefiore

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Arguments of Heart and Mind

Selected Essays 1977-2000

By: Jan Montefiore

Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India.Encompassing all of Ghosh's fictional and non-fictional writings to date, this book takes a thematic approach which enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the 'postcolonial' - in particular, its relation to postmodernism. Amitav Ghosh is for students and teachers of postcolonial literatures in English at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Manchester University Press

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0719053471

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s

The Dangerous Flood of History

By: Jan Montefiore

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s

The Dangerous Flood of History

By: Jan Montefiore

Jan Montefiore presents an original and challenging critique of the issues of memory and gender during the 1930s. The book looks at the part played by memory in the political literature of the era, and at the roles of women at that time.

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Psychology Press

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0415068924

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9780415068925

Coexistence

The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity

By: Jan Sapp

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Coexistence

The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity

By: Jan Sapp

This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet. Coral reefs hold 25% of the world's marine diversity, though they represent only 0.1 % of the world's surface. The increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics has remained enigmatic to naturalists for more than 200 years. How have so many species evolved in the tropics? How can so many species coexist there? At a time when rainforests and coral reefs are shrinking, when the earth is facing what has been called the sixth mass extinction, understanding the evolutionary ecology of the tropics is everyone's business. Despite the fundamental importance of the tropics to all of life on earth, tropical biology has evolved relatively slowly and with difficulties - economic, political, and environmental. This book is also about tropical science in context, situated in the complex socio-political history, and the rich rainforests and coral reefs of Panama. There are no other books on the history of tropical ecology and evolution or on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Thus situated in historical context, Jan Sapp's aim is to understand how naturalists have studied and conceptualized the great biological diversity and entangled ecology of tropics. This book has potential to be used in tropical biology classes, ecology courses, evolutionary ecology and it could also be useful in classes on the history of biology.

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Oxford University Press

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0190632445

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A Brief History of the Caribbean

From the Arawak and Carib to the Present

By: Jan Rogozinski

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A Brief History of the Caribbean

From the Arawak and Carib to the Present

By: Jan Rogozinski

This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people.

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Penguin

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0452281938

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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 4 H-L

By: Jan Young

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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 4 H-L

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1387232630

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Suspense Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Collection

Books 1 – 5

By: May McGoldrick,Jan Coffey

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Suspense Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Collection

Books 1 – 5

By: May McGoldrick,Jan Coffey

Trust Me Once - Attorney Sarah Rand returns home to discover that she’s a dead woman. It was a case of mistaken identity, and no one knows that Sarah is still alive—except the killers still hunting her. With danger closing in, Sarah must trust to Owen Dean, a Hollywood celebrity with dark secrets of his own... Twice Burned – Twenty years after tragedy claimed the lives of her parents, Lea Hardy returns to her hometown to save her brother from execution. Friendless, Lea turns to Mick Conklin, a man she is attracted to but whose allegiance she’s unsure of. The truth will blow Stonybrook wide open, and they need to find the real killer before the two of them are caught in the blaze. Triple Threat - Just weeks before Independence Day, a Betsy Ross flag goes missing, and FBI Agent Nate Murtaugh has just ten days to find it. His search takes him to Philadelphia and to Ellie Littlefield, a savvy art dealer with connections in the underworld, and the two of them must navigate a world where murder is just a way of doing business. Only Ellie and Nate have a chance to stop a disaster, but the corporate powers behind it all refuse to let anyone—even a US President—stand in their way. Fourth Victim - Two decades ago, the mass suicide of a New Mexico cult shocked the nation. But now, someone is ushering the last of the cult’s ‘chosen’ disciples into the next world. For survivor Kelly Stone, now the mother of a three-year-old, the past is closing in, and this time there is nowhere to run. Ian Campbell is a cop with personal ties to the cult tragedy, and he will risk everything to keep Kelly alive. But it all comes down to a daring game of courage to decide the fate of the fourth victim . . . Five in a Row - Computer guru Emily Doyle has become the obsession of a hacker determined to capture her attention by killing innocent people. Emily recognizes the technology being used to gain control of the victim’s vehicles, but she also realizes she’s connected to each of them. Casualties are mounting, and investigator Ben Colter joins Emily to stop the hacker. But can they do it before his twisted mind moves from virtual reality to international terrorism...and kills them both? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you enjoyed the TV series Orphan Black or Castle, you’ll want to try this exciting debut suspense novel. This heart stopping, action-packed killer thriller will enthrall fans of Barbara Freethy, Laura Griffin, Debbie Baldwin, Toni Anderson, Alexandra Ivy, Hope Anika, Heather Graham, Mary Burton, Ethan Jones, Amanda Siegrist, Megan Mitcham, Sharon Sala, Lorhainne Eckhart, Rita Herron, Katie Reus, Carla Neggers, Linda Castillo, Cheryl Bradshaw, Elle James, Blair Howard, Karen Rose, D.V. Berkom, Kristi Belcamino, Janey Crouch, Willow Rose, JD Robb, Karen Robards, Kat Martin, Michael Connelly, Susan Stoker, Ann Rule, Iris Johansen, Tanya Anne Crosby. Props to the movie Laura, Otto Preminger and Gene Tierney. Keywords – pulse-pounding romantic thrillers, off-the-charts chemistry, smart sophisticated, fast-moving romantic suspense, believable love story, satisfying and complex mystery, well-researched fast-paced gripping white-knuckle read, emotional exciting page-turner, twisty action, romance and terror, strong female heroines and intense male leads, horror-worthy secrets, domestic thriller, fierce women seeking justice, mind blowing thought provoking suspense, great summer read, Mafia contract killer romance, wounded hero, female leads, heart-pounding, fast-paced, chilling, desperation, suicide, acts of revenge, redemption and revenge, murder mystery, forced proximity, political corruption conspiracy, dangerous games series, political novels suspense, bestselling whodunit, suspense books to read, psychological co-dependent hero and heroine, books to keep you up all night, books based on true crime, mistaken identity murder, sexual intrigue, cold case murder romantic suspense, white collar crime, novels about crime families, ticking clock suspense, financial conspiracy romantic suspense, movie star hero, television actor hero, lawyer heroine romance, corrupt politicians, Newport romantic suspense.

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1960330160

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The Harvey Lectures Series 94, 1998-1999

By: Mark M. Davis,Elaine Fuchs,Tony Hunter,Lily Yeh Jan,Yuh Nung Jan,Peter G. Schultz,Paul B. Sigler,David J. Weatherall

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The Harvey Lectures Series 94, 1998-1999

By: Mark M. Davis,Elaine Fuchs,Tony Hunter,Lily Yeh Jan,Yuh Nung Jan,Peter G. Schultz,Paul B. Sigler,David J. Weatherall

The Harvey Society was founded in 1905 by thirteen New York scientists and physicians with the purpose of forging a "closer relationship between the purely practical side of medicine and the results of laboratory investigation." The Society distributes scientific knowledge in selected areas of anatomy, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, and physiological and pathological chemistry through public lectures, which are published annually. Series 94, 1998-1999 covers themes in neurogenetic studies, the role of tyrosine phosphorylation in cell growth and disease, the biology of the epidermis and its appendages, and the phenotypic diversity of monogenic disease.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471401250

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Iowa Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

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Iowa Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

Iowa Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Iowa. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

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040309304X

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Europe's Passive Virtues

Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law

By: Jan Zglinski

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Europe's Passive Virtues

Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law

By: Jan Zglinski

The European Court of Justice has been celebrated as a central force in the creation and deepening of the EU internal market. Yet, it has also been criticized for engaging in judicial activism, restricting national regulatory autonomy, and taking away the powers of Member State institutions. In recent years, the Court appears to afford greater deference to domestic actors in free movement cases. Europe's Passive Virtues explores the scope of and reasons for this phenomenon. It enquires into the decision-making latitude given to the Member States through two doctrines: the margin of appreciation and decentralized judicial review. At the heart of the book lies an original empirical study of the European Court's free movement jurisprudence from 1974 to 2013. The analysis examines how frequently and under which circumstances the Court defers to national authorities. The results suggest that free movement law has substantially changed over the past four decades. The Court is leaving a growing range of decisions in the hands of national law-makers and judges, a trend that affects the level of scrutiny applied to Member State action, the division of powers between the European and national judiciary, and ultimately the nature of the internal market. The book argues that these new-found 'passive virtues' are linked to a series of broader political, constitutional, and institutional developments that have taken place in the EU.

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Oxford University Press

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0192583263

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9780192583260

Symmetries in Atomic Nuclei

From Isospin to Supersymmetry

By: Alejandro Frank,Jan Jolie,Pieter van Isacker

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Symmetries in Atomic Nuclei

From Isospin to Supersymmetry

By: Alejandro Frank,Jan Jolie,Pieter van Isacker

Symmetries in Atomic Nuclei aims to present an overview of recent applications of symmetry to the description of atomic nuclei. Special care is given to a pedagogical introduction of symmetry concepts using simple examples. After a historical overview of the applications of symmetry in nuclear physics, progress in the field during the last decade is reviewed. Special emphasis is put on the introduction of neutron-proton and boson-fermion degrees of freedom. Their combination leads to a supersymmetric description of pairs and quartets of nuclei. Both theoretical aspects and experimental signatures of dynamical (super)symmetries are carefully discussed. Case studies show how these symmetries are displayed by real atomic nuclei which have been studied experimentally using state-of-the art spectroscopy. This book focuses on nuclear structure physics and has been written by active investigators in the field, but its scope is wider and is intended for final-year or post-graduate students and researchers interested in understanding the power and beauty of symmetry methods in physics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038787495X

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9780387874951

After the Before-Times

By: Jan Leland

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After the Before-Times

By: Jan Leland

The story takes place at a picturesque inn on Orchard Lake in southeast Michigan. It features the couple who own the inn and seven very different, interesting, flawed and sometimes funny characters who all come together to help and support each other through the pandemic. Several minor characters also round out the story and provide depth and perspective to the novel. Actual pandemic developments interwoven with the fictional story add a high degree of realism. This first novel for Leland is a carefully researched book which magnificently weaves together the events of the 2020 pandemic with gripping fictional events, dynamic believable characters, engrossing dialogue, and vividly beautiful descriptions. The novel provides a realistic but surprising answer to how life proceeds in the “After-Times.”

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1647506425

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9781647506421

Assessment Scales in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Frank C. Verhulst,Jan van der Ende

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Assessment Scales in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Frank C. Verhulst,Jan van der Ende

Mental disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, and autism have devastating consequences on the lives of children and adolescents. Early assessment of their mental health problems is essential for preventative measures and intervention. This timely, authoritative guide will be of interest to everyone involved i

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CRC Press

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0203012933

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The Ambivalence of Good

Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s

By: Jan Eckel

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The Ambivalence of Good

Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s

By: Jan Eckel

The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the moral politics of Western governments, or dissidence in Eastern Europe, the book traces how human rights profoundly, if subtly, transformed global affairs. Moving beyond monocausal explanations and narratives prioritizing one particular decade, such as the 1940s or the 1970s, The Ambivalence of Good argues that we need a complex and nuanced interpretation if we want to understand the truly global reach of human rights, and account for the hopes, conflicts, and interventions to which this idea gave rise. Thus, it portrays the story of human rights as polycentric, demonstrating how actors in various locales imbued them with widely different meanings, arguing that the political field evolved in a fitful and discontinuous process. This process was shaped by consequential shifts that emerged from the search for a new world order during the Second World War, decolonization, the desire to introduce a new political morality into world affairs during the 1970s, and the visions of a peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War. Finally, the book stresses that the projects pursued in the name of human rights nonetheless proved highly ambivalent. Self-interest was as strong a driving force as was the desire to help people in need, and while international campaigns often improved the fate of the persecuted, they were equally likely to have counterproductive effects. The Ambivalence of Good provides the first research-based synopsis of the topic and one of the first synthetic studies of a transnational political field (such as population, health, or the environment) during the twentieth century. Based on archival research in six countries, it breaks new empirical ground concerning the history of human rights in the United Nations, of human rights NGOs, of far-flung mobilizations, and of the uses of human rights in state foreign policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0191086118

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Showplace of America

Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910

By: Jan Cigliano,Jan Cigliano Hartman

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Showplace of America

Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910

By: Jan Cigliano,Jan Cigliano Hartman

In cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating account of the rise and fall of this elegant promenade, including portrayals of the eminent architects who created its opulent residences and colorful details about the lives of the wealthy people who occupied them. The families who resided within this linear, four-mile neighborhood epitomized Midwestern grandeur in the second half of the 19th century. The 1893 Baedeker's travel guide to the United States labeled it "one of the most beautiful residence-streets in America," as others hailed it "Millionaires' Row," the finest avenue in the west, and the most beautiful street in the world." Modeled after the grand boulevards of Europe, this magnificent neighborhood was distinguished for the prominence of its architects as well as the families who lived there. Local architects Jonathan Goldsmith, Charles W. Heard, Levi T. Scofield, Charles F. Schweinfurth, and Coburn & Barnum and national firms Peabody & Stearns and McKim, Mead & White created houses that were stunning monuments to Cleveland and America's growing prosperity. Ironically, the tremendous success of Cleveland's industry and commerce, which had nurtured the rise of this grand avenue, fostered its fall. Downtown commerce expanded along the avenue at the sacrifice of its leading entrepreneurs' residential have. The houses were demolished as the avenue became what is today--a neglected urban thoroughfare. Photographs and illustrations from the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society and other repositories are published here for the first time, documenting both the glory and decline of the "showplace of America.

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Kent State University Press

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0873384458

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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 6 S-Z

By: Jan Young

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Family Forest: Public Version Volume 6 S-Z

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1387232703

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Rock Guitar Virtuosos

Advances in Electric Guitar Playing, Technology, and Culture

By: Jan-Peter Herbst,Alexander Paul Vallejo

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Rock Guitar Virtuosos

Advances in Electric Guitar Playing, Technology, and Culture

By: Jan-Peter Herbst,Alexander Paul Vallejo

Virtuosos in the 21st century are exploring ways to expand standard playing techniques in a climate expecting ever-higher levels of perfection, supported by technological advances such as extended-range guitars. This Element examines the development and current state of virtuosic rock guitar in terms of playing, technology, and culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009059947

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Ludwig van Beethoven

The Piano Sonatas; History, Notation, Interpretation

By: Jan Marisse Huizing

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Ludwig van Beethoven

The Piano Sonatas; History, Notation, Interpretation

By: Jan Marisse Huizing

A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven’s piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven’s pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, “types of touch,” articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation.

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Yale University Press

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0300262744

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A Forgotten Christian Deist

Thomas Morgan

By: Jan van den Berg

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A Forgotten Christian Deist

Thomas Morgan

By: Jan van den Berg

This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.

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Routledge

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1000417859

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The Film Photonovel

A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

By: Jan Baetens

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The Film Photonovel

A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

By: Jan Baetens

Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that supported more than two dozen weekly or monthly publications. Illuminating a long-overlooked ‘lowbrow’ medium with a significant social impact, The Film Photonovel studies the history of the format as a hybrid of film novelizations, drawn novels, and nonfilm photonovels. While the field of adaptation studies has tended to focus on literary adaptations, this book explores how the juxtaposition of words and pictures functioned in this format and how page layout and photo cropping could affect reading. Finally, the book follows the film photonovel's brief history in Latin America and the United States. Adding an important dimension to the interactions between filmmakers and their audiences, this work fills a gap in the study of transnational movie culture.

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University of Texas Press

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1477318224

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Globalization

A Critical Introduction

By: Jan Aart Scholte

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Globalization

A Critical Introduction

By: Jan Aart Scholte

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its 1st edition. Now substantially revised and updated, Scholte provides students with a comprehensive introduction to globalization and questions why this phenomenon has occurred, to what extent it changes the world, and whether it is a force for good or ill. Accessibly written by a leading authority both as an academic researcher and a policy consultant, this second edition draws on the author's research in more than 20 countries over 5 continents. Split into 3 parts, the text first outlines a critical framework for understanding globalization, before exploring its impact on society, and the key debates surrounding its normative impact. Exploring questions such as what globalization is, how it has emerged and what effect it has had on society, this text is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking a thorough study of globalization. New to this Edition: - A broader perspective on all the dimensions of globalization - Makes use of the extensive new data and research findings since the first edition was released Draws more widely from other fields such as Business Studies, Law and Economics

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350311596

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Willem de Sitter

Einstein's Friend and Opponent

By: Jan Guichelaar

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Willem de Sitter

Einstein's Friend and Opponent

By: Jan Guichelaar

This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein. Authored by a physicist and skilled writer, the book gives a beautiful and accessible description of the physics debated by Einstein and de Sitter, as well as the latter's alternative cosmological model, later known as the De Sitter Universe. But this is just part of a fascinating and varied life story involving numerous contributions to astronomy, as well as many places and personalities of early 20th century physics. The book will appeal to all those interested in astronomy and physics and their history.

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3319983377

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The Art of Seeing Truth

A Splash of Art & Mystery

By: Jan Murphy

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The Art of Seeing Truth

A Splash of Art & Mystery

By: Jan Murphy

What's hidden beneath the brushstrokes in a painting? Moments after Nina, an accomplished watercolorist, receives her dream award, she glimpses a man sprawled unconscious through his open hotel room. Images of her father, found in much the same condition, spins Nina's world out of control. Soon she is a person of interest in the man's murder. Nina, driven to clear her name, teams with Jack, the only one who believes in her innocence. Unearthing clues together means diving back into her past and all she believes about her father's role in her devotion to art. The closer Nina gets to discovering the link between her father and the man in the hotel room, the less she trusts herself. The police are connecting the dots. Set in and around the area known as The Galleries, a sprawl of urban kitschy shops and lush gardens, Nina finds secrets hidden in plain sight. And seeing the truth changes everything.

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1647047803

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Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands

Minor Collections

By: Jan Schmidt

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Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands

Minor Collections

By: Jan Schmidt

The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museums in the Netherlands. This volume gives detailed descriptions of Turkish manuscripts in minor Dutch collections, found in libraries and museums in Leiden, Utrecht, Groningen and other towns.

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9004221913

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9789004221918

The Price of Smoking

By: Frank A. Sloan,Jan Ostermann,Christopher Conover,Donald H. Taylor,Gabriel Picone

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The Price of Smoking

By: Frank A. Sloan,Jan Ostermann,Christopher Conover,Donald H. Taylor,Gabriel Picone

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime—including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)—comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,000 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this way, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the arsenal of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be surprising and perhaps controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much lower than the damage awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.

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MIT Press

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026225056X

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Final Copy

By: Jan Brogan

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Final Copy

By: Jan Brogan

A venture capitalist falls to his death during a Biotechnology Conference in Boston and investigative Reporter Addy McNeil gets a chance to regain her foundering career when the only suspect in Boston's hottest murder turns out to be her old boyfriend. Can she pull herself together and score the exclusive - and is she a match for a man who needs her good will to prove his innocence? Set in Boston's cash-strapped biotechnology industry in the early 1990s, Addy finds plenty of motives for murder, but there are certain truths she may not want to uncover. Named one of the Top Ten Mysteries of 2001 by the Drood Review of Mystery.

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The Long-Term Success of Mergers and Acquisitions in the International Automotive Supply Industry

By: Jan-Peer Laabs

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The Long-Term Success of Mergers and Acquisitions in the International Automotive Supply Industry

By: Jan-Peer Laabs

Based on a sample of 230 M&A between 1981 and 2007, Jan-Peer Laabs challenges the short-term return behavior of acquirers in this industry in contrast to their long-term performance based on capital market and financial accounting information. A clearly negative yet consistent perspective on the long-term value creation potential emerges across the different empirical analyses. An additional case study on the takeover of Siemens VDO by Continental AG offers a number of valuable key success factors and insights on how to evade the negative return destiny.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834994898

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After Fascism

Muslims and the Struggle for Self-determination

By: Abid Ullah Jan

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After Fascism

Muslims and the Struggle for Self-determination

By: Abid Ullah Jan

The book explains how the much-dreaded fascism continues till this date in the form of de facto colonization and how is it depriving people in the West from reaching the truth and people in the Muslim world from excercising their right to self-detrmination.

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Lulu.com

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0973368756

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Popular Performer, Standards - The Best Selections from the Great American Songbook

Advanced Piano Collection

By: Jan Sanborn

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Popular Performer, Standards - The Best Selections from the Great American Songbook

Advanced Piano Collection

By: Jan Sanborn

Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians or any Popular Performer. Titles: *Ain't She Sweet * As Time Goes By * Bidin' My Time * Dancing in the Dark * The Days of Wine and Roses * Embraceable You * Over the Rainbow * Theme from New York, New York * When I Fall In Love * You Make Me Feel So Young

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Alfred Music

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1457424894

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Business Wargaming

Securing Corporate Value

By: Daniel F. Oriesek,Jan Oliver Schwarz

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Business Wargaming

Securing Corporate Value

By: Daniel F. Oriesek,Jan Oliver Schwarz

Industry consolidation, mergers, changes to business models, the emergence of new threats all require managers to understand highly complex situations, assess risk and opportunity and make informed decisions. How can senior managers do this effectively when so often they are wrestling with brand new scenarios? One of the emerging solutions is business wargaming. Daniel F. Oriesek and Jan Oliver Schwarz provide the first comprehensive look at wargaming as a business tool in a book that explores the anatomy and success factors of a typical wargame. The authors explain how and when wargaming can be used to test strategies, plan and prepare for crises, manage change or increase your organization's ability to anticipate and adapt for the future. Creating imaginative and credible scenarios, and testing them against smart opponents who are eager to find holes and counter your strategy, allows you to learn about a plan or a new venture in the security of the conference room rather than learning the hard way when you go live. Business wargames are sophisticated but they are also very demanding in terms of time and resources. Business Wargaming: Securing Corporate Value will enable you to assess the potential value of the technique for your own organization, to understand what you will be committing to and develop an informed business case and brief for working with the organization that will facilitate the game.

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CRC Press

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1317170415

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Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Jan Fergus

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Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Jan Fergus

Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England. This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England, not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the questions asked, and the histories told of it.

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OUP Oxford

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0191538205

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9780191538209

Good Time Girls of Colorado

A Red-Light History of the Centennial State

By: Jan MacKell Collins

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Good Time Girls of Colorado

A Red-Light History of the Centennial State

By: Jan MacKell Collins

Throughout the Gold Rush years and beyond, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of their profession. Some dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, and some became infamous and even successful, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. The Centennial State had its share of working girls and madams like Mattie Silks and Jennie Rogers who remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, but Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038060

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The Missouri Trail

By: Jan Sparkman

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The Missouri Trail

By: Jan Sparkman

An incident that happened when she was nine severed Hope from loving relatives on her mothers side of the family. The mystery of this abandonment, which sentenced her and her parents to life in a shabby Detroit neighborhood, colored her growing-up years. When a call from an all-but-forgotten aunt brings news of the death of Lily, the grandmother Hope remembers from that long-ago childhood, old memories and hurts she thought she had buried rise up again. In The Missouri Trail, Hope returns to Kentucky to attend her grandmothers funeral and to confront the mystery, but her odyssey to unravel the secrets of the past only brings up more questions. What are the aunts hiding? Do the cousins know more than they say they do? And why does her step-cousin Marty insist on talking about forgiveness? As the truth unfolds, Hope is forced to address her parents culpability and her own spiritual deficit. She draws strength from a legacy left her by Grandma Lilythe journal of Hopes great-great-grandmother Marys 1860 wagon journey to southwestern Missouri where her husband will find work in the lead mines. The journal becomes a road map that points Hope in a new direction and helps her make sense of Martys wise words.

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WestBow Press

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1512781592

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Oklahoma Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

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Oklahoma Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

Oklahoma Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Oklahoma. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

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0403098386

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