Jason Karp's Books

Running for Women

By: Jason Karp,Carolyn Smith,Carolyn S. Smith

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Running for Women

By: Jason Karp,Carolyn Smith,Carolyn S. Smith

Provides comprehensive information on training female runners based on their cardiovascular, hormonal, metabolic, muscular, and anatomical characteristics.

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Human Kinetics Publishers

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1450404677

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Work Out

The Revolutionary Method of Creating a Sound Body to Create a Sound Mind

By: Jason R. Karp PhD

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Work Out

The Revolutionary Method of Creating a Sound Body to Create a Sound Mind

By: Jason R. Karp PhD

A competitive runner since sixth grade, Dr. Jason Karp quickly learned how running molds us into better, more deeply conscious people, just as the miles and interval workouts mold us into faster, more enduring runners. This passion Jason found as a kid placed him on a yellow brick road that he still follows as a coach, exercise physiologist, bestselling author, speaker, and founder and CEO of the women’s-specialty run coaching company Kyniska Running. He is the 2011 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year and 2-time recipient of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Community Leadership award. His REVO2LUTION RUNNING™ certification has been obtained by coaches and fitness professionals in 25 countries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493060988

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9781493060986

Run Your Fat Off

Running Smarter for a Leaner and Fitter You

By: Jason R Karp

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Run Your Fat Off

Running Smarter for a Leaner and Fitter You

By: Jason R Karp

Based on the latest research, Run your fat off gives everyone--men and women, marathon runners to casual runners to non runners--the best calorie-burning runs, menus to fuel workouts and lose weight, and day by day personalized plans for beginning and advanced runners"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1621453359

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9781621453352

The Inner Runner

Running to a More Successful, Creative, and Confident You

By: Jason R. Karp

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The Inner Runner

Running to a More Successful, Creative, and Confident You

By: Jason R. Karp

Why are so many people drawn to running? Why is running the most common physical activity? What is it about running that empowers so many people? And how can runners harness that power to create a more meaningful life? The Inner Runner addresses these questions and a whole lot more. This book is not about how to get faster or run a marathon; rather, it explores how the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other helps you harness your creative powers. Learn about the psychological, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual benefits of running and introduce lifestyle changes based on the latest scientific research on running and its effects on hormones and the brain. As a nationally recognized running and fitness coach with a PhD in Exercise Physiology, Jason Karp brings his expertise in science-based coaching to runners of all levels. He believes that running gives you a chance to discover, challenge, and bring out the best in yourself by impacting your creativity, focus, imagination, confidence, and health. Let The Inner Runner help you become not only a better runner, but a more creative, productive, and imaginative person. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1634508017

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The Blueprint

LeBron James, Cleveland's Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA

By: Jason Lloyd

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The Blueprint

LeBron James, Cleveland's Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA

By: Jason Lloyd

An unputdownable, must-have sports book for every LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, and NBA fan. June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It was the triumph fans had been waiting fifty-two years for, and it wasn’t easy to get there—but thanks to LeBron James, an audacious plan to build a winning team, a couple of maverick GMs, and an incredible community of fans, it happened; and 2016 saw the birth of a new Cavaliers dynasty. But how did they get there? It was a roller-coaster ride from tragedy to triumph, one that Jason Lloyd, a longtime Northeast Ohio resident turned reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal, got to see firsthand. He was witness to the Blueprint, as he calls it, which the Cavs put together to win their star player back from Miami and build a team that could win the ultimate championship. It incorporated several losing seasons, some high-risk draft picks, and an entirely new understanding of how to build a championship team. The best part of the plan is that it worked, culminating in the most exciting Finals series in NBA history. And, most important, the end of the Cleveland Curse. Jason Lloyd, a true insider, tells the story of how the NBA really works, and how everyone—from the front office to the stars on the court to the new generation of coaches—worked together to create an unforgettable winning team.

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Penguin

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1524741906

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Lose It Forever

The Habits of Successful Weight Losers from the National Weight Control Registry

By: Jason Karp

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Lose It Forever

The Habits of Successful Weight Losers from the National Weight Control Registry

By: Jason Karp

Lose It gathers and presents pertinent data from the National Weight Control Registry, critically interprets it, and shows readers what other people in their same position have done and continue to do to lose weight and keep it lost.

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Mango

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1642503460

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9781642503463

The Head Case

By: Jason Luckasevic

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The Head Case

By: Jason Luckasevic

The National Football League was sued for hiding the dangers of brain injury from their former players from an unlikely source. A young trial lawyer from Pittsburgh, Jason Luckasevic, stood up against the NFL with the backing and faith of the former players. The result ended up in a settlement expected to pay out in the billions of dollars to many players suffering and dying from brain damage. Despite all the efforts to silence him, this story tells the truth behind the NFL lawsuit. You will learn how this case came about and how it almost never happened. With his faith, determination, and beliefs, Jason Luckasevic was able to overcome the insurmountable odds. His efforts have shaped litigation in the country for the next century.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098043626

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9781098043629

Dual Enrollment Policies, Pathways, and Perspectives

New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 169

By: Jason L. Taylor,Joshua Pretlow

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Dual Enrollment Policies, Pathways, and Perspectives

New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 169

By: Jason L. Taylor,Joshua Pretlow

Looking to develop new dual enrollment programs or adapt and revamp an existing dual enrollment programs at a community college? This volume addresses the critical issues and topics of dual enrollment practices and policies, including: state policies that regulate dual enrollment practice and the influence of state policy on local practice, the usage of dual enrollment programs as a pathway for different populations of students such as career and technical education students and students historically underrepresented in higher education, and chapters that surface student, faculty, and high school stakeholder perspectives and that examine institutional and partnership performance and quality. This is the 169th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111905429X

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9781119054290

Species at Risk

Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands

By: Jason F. Shogren

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Species at Risk

Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands

By: Jason F. Shogren

Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle—but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage private landowners to cooperate voluntarily in species conservation and to mitigate the economic burden of doing so, the government and nonprofit land trusts have created a number of incentive programs, including conservation easements, leases, habitat banking, habitat conservation planning, safe harbors, candidate conservation agreements, and the "no surprise" policy. In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property. They examine current programs to see how well they are working and also offer ideas for how these programs could be more successful. Their ultimate goal is to better understand how economic incentive schemes can be made both more cost-effective and more socially acceptable, while respecting a wide range of views regarding opportunity costs, legal standing, biological effectiveness, moral appropriateness, and social context.

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University of Texas Press

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0292705972

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9780292705975

The Mission

By: Jason Myers

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The Mission

By: Jason Myers

Kaden Norris's life is shattered when his older brother-- his best friend and hero-- is killed in Iraq. He decides to fulfill his brother's last wishes left to him in a letter, urging him to break out of his sheltered existence, to read Chuck Pahaluniak, and to go to San Francisco and visit his cousin, James Morgan. James is a popular author, and a notorious bad-boy with a major cocaine addiction. Kaden's visit to San Francisco quickly turns from an exciting adventure to a wild disaster as he experiences things he's never dreamed of and uncovers secrets about his family that alter his world forever.

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1416998675

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Arteletra

The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed

By: Jason A. Bartles

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Arteletra

The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed

By: Jason A. Bartles

ArteletrA analyzes the Sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. Though visibility can secure rights for the disenfranchised, it also risks subjecting them to the biopolitical and capitalist arrangements of space. What is at stake in this book is a series of aesthetic and ethical tools for engaging in politics—defined here as the potential to disagree—without first passing through visibility. These tools cohere around a practice Bartles calls “the politics of going unnoticed,” which he derives from an archive of three noteworthy, though under-appreciated, authors who wrote during the Sixties: Calvert Casey (1924–69), Juan Filloy (1894–2000), and Armonía Somers (1914–94). For the first time ever, Casey, Filloy, and Somers are put in dialogue with one another to further demonstrate the unique contributions of Latin American writers to contemporary debates about the crossroads of literatures and politics. What unites them is their shared investment in stories about those who go unnoticed. As a practice, going unnoticed creates space and opportunities for queer, rural, and female subjects, among others, to step back from unjust institutions. As a political discourse, going unnoticed deactivates the binary structures of biopolitics (e.g., visible/invisible, pure/filthy, friend/enemy) that divide humans from one another in the service of power and economic inequality. Though the politics of going unnoticed was ignored during the Sixties for its apparent individualism, these three writers work through alternatives to the politics of visibility that has animated political discourse on the left for the last half-century. More than a self-interested critique, going unnoticed opens new possibilities for engaging in the messy business of politics while imagining and creating better communities.

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Purdue University Press

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1612496547

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Announcing the Feast

The Entrance Song in the Mass of the Roman Rite

By: Jason McFarland

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Announcing the Feast

The Entrance Song in the Mass of the Roman Rite

By: Jason McFarland

How does the entrance song of the Mass function within the Roman Rite? What can it express theologically? What should Roman Catholics sing at the beginning of Mass? In this groundbreaking study, Jason McFarland answers these and other important questions by exploring the history and theology of the entrance song of Mass. After a careful history of the entrance song, he investigates its place in church documents. He proposes several models of the entrance song for liturgical celebration today. Finally, he offers a skillful theological analysis of the entrance song genre, focusing on the song for the Holy Thursday Evening Mass-arguably the most important entrance song of the entire liturgical year. Announcing the Feast provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Roman Rite entrance song to date. It is unique in that it bridges the disciplines of liturgical studies, musicology, and theological method.

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Liturgical Press

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0814662625

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Havens in a Storm

The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation

By: Jason Campbell Sharman

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Havens in a Storm

The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation

By: Jason Campbell Sharman

Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to impose common tax regulations on more than three dozen small states. In a fascinating book based on fieldwork and interviews in twenty-two countries in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, J. C. Sharman shows how the struggle was decided in favor of the tax havens, which eventually avoided common regulation. No other book on tax havens is based on such extensive fieldwork, and no other author has had access to so many of the key decision makers who played roles in the conflict between onshore and offshore Sharman suggests that microstates succeeded in their struggle with great powers because of their astute deployment of reputation and effective rhetorical self-positioning. In effect, they persuaded a transnational audience that the OECD was being untrue to its own values by engaging in a hypocritical, bullying exercise inimical to free competition.

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Cornell University Press

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0801445043

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9780801445040

Organizational Literacy for Educators

By: Jason Earle,Sharon D. Kruse

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Organizational Literacy for Educators

By: Jason Earle,Sharon D. Kruse

Teachers and administrators who understand the "politics" in schools can operate more successfully to facilitate change. This text teaches educators to identify and influence common social patterns that affect their work in school organizations. It combines literature from educational leadership and foundations of education to provide a comprehensive introduction to organizational theories related to schooling. A particularly notable feature is that in addition to traditional bureaucratic and political approaches, there is a substantial focus on recent critical and feminist theories. Extensive use of narrative vignettes makes the theories accessible for prospective and practicing teachers. Practice cases and exercises assist students in applying the theories to their own organization settings. Assuming little prior knowledge of theories about school organizations, this volume is intended as a text for introductory graduate courses, as well as for advanced undergraduate courses, and groups such as site-based management teams and district professional development committees.

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Routledge

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1135684685

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9781135684686

Computational Biology and Genome Informatics

By: Jason T. L. Wang,Cathy H. Wu,Paul P. Wang

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Computational Biology and Genome Informatics

By: Jason T. L. Wang,Cathy H. Wu,Paul P. Wang

This book contains articles written by experts on a wide range of topics that are associated with the analysis and management of biological information at the molecular level. It contains chapters on RNA and protein structure analysis, DNA computing, sequence mapping, genome comparison, gene expression data mining, metabolic network modeling, and phyloinformatics. The important work of some representative researchers in bioinformatics is brought together for the first time in one volume. The topic is treated in depth and is related to, where applicable, other emerging technologies such as data mining and visualization. The goal of the book is to introduce readers to the principle techniques of bioinformatics in the hope that they will build on them to make new discoveries of their own. Contents: Exploring RNA Intermediate Conformations with the Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm; Introduction to Self-Assembling DNA Nanostructures for Computation and Nanofabrication; Mapping Sequence to Rice FPC; Graph Theoretic Sequence Clustering Algorithms and their Applications to Genome Comparison; The Protein Information Resource for Functional Genomics and Proteomics; High-Grade Ore for Data Mining in 3D Structures; Protein Classification: A Geometric Hashing Approach; Interrelated Clustering: An Approach for Gene Expression Data Analysis; Creating Metabolic Network Models Using Text Mining and Expert Knowledge; Phyloinformatics and Tree Networks. Readership: Molecular biologists who rely on computers and mathematical scientists with interests in biology.

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World Scientific

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9812382577

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9789812382573

Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

Progress, Importance, and Impacts in the United States

By: Jason S. Link,Anthony R. Marshak

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Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

Progress, Importance, and Impacts in the United States

By: Jason S. Link,Anthony R. Marshak

Ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM) is rapidly becoming the default approach in global fisheries management. The clarity of what EBFM means is sharpening each year and there is now a real need to evaluate progress and assess the effectiveness and impacts. By examining a suite of over 90 indicators (including socioeconomic, governance, environmental forcing, major pressures, systems ecology, and fisheries criteria) for 9 major US fishery ecosystem jurisdictions, the authors systematically track the progress the country has made towards advancing EBFM and making it an operational reality. The assessment covers a wide range of data in both time (multiple decades) and space (from the tropics to the poles, representing over 10% of the world's ocean surface area). The authors view progress towards the implementation of EBFM as synonymous with improved management of living marine resources in general, and highlight the findings from a national perspective. Although US-centric, the lessons learned are directly applicable for all parts of the global ocean. Much work remains, but significant progress has already been made to better address many of the challenges facing the sustainable management of our living marine resources. This is an essential and accessible reference for all fisheries professionals who are currently practicing, or progressing towards, ecosystem-based fisheries management. It will also be of relevance and use to researchers, teachers, managers, and graduate students in marine ecology, fisheries biology, biological oceanography, global change biology, conservation biology, and marine resource management.

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Oxford University Press

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0192655434

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9780192655431

Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems

By: Ran Libeskind-Hadas,Nany Hasan,Jingsheng Jason Cong,Philip McKinley,C.L. Liu

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Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems

By: Ran Libeskind-Hadas,Nany Hasan,Jingsheng Jason Cong,Philip McKinley,C.L. Liu

Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems describes the authors' recent research on reconfiguration problems for fault-tolerance in VLSI and WSI Systems. The book examines solutions to a number of reconfiguration problems. Efficient algorithms are given for tractable covering problems and general techniques are given for dealing with a large number of intractable covering problems. The book begins with an investigation of algorithms for the reconfiguration of large redundant memories. Next, a number of more general covering problems are considered and the complexity of these problems is analyzed. Finally, a general and uniform approach is proposed for solving a wide class of covering problems. The results and techniques described here will be useful to researchers and students working in this area. As such, the book serves as an excellent reference and may be used as the text for an advanced course on the topic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461536146

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9781461536147

Art as Information Ecology

Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics

By: Jason A. Hoelscher

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Art as Information Ecology

Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics

By: Jason A. Hoelscher

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. These irresolvable differences, Hoelscher demonstrates, fuel the richness of aesthetic experience by which viewers glean new information and insight from each encounter with an artwork. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing. Considering the works of Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, the Drop City commune, Eva Hesse, and others, Hoelscher finds that art exists within an information ecology of complex feedback between artwork and artworld that is driven by the unfolding of difference. By charting how information in its aesthetic mode can exist beyond today's strictly quantifiable and monetizable forms, Hoelscher reconceives our understanding of how artworks work and how information operates.

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Duke University Press

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1478021683

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Building Leaders

Paving the Path for Emerging Leaders

By: Charles R. Stoner,Jason S. Stoner

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Building Leaders

Paving the Path for Emerging Leaders

By: Charles R. Stoner,Jason S. Stoner

Although the selection and development of emerging leaders is fundamental to organizational growth and success, many organizations are facing a troubling scenario - a striking gap between the leaders they need and the talent available to assume the mantle of leadership. This book, grounded in empirical investigations and philosophical insights into the study of leadership, is designed to help emerging leaders bridge the gap between 'new leader' and confident, respected difference maker. From the development of leadership skills to the practice and application of successful strategies, award-winning scholar and leader-coach Charles Stoner offers tools, ideas, and evidence-based advice to these up-and-coming leaders in an indispensable text that is direct, pragmatic, and action-oriented.

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Routledge

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0415899303

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Combating Proliferation

Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy

By: Jason D. Ellis,Geoffrey D. Kiefer

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Combating Proliferation

Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy

By: Jason D. Ellis,Geoffrey D. Kiefer

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems—and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments—illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment, defense policy specialists Jason Ellis and Geoffrey Kiefer find disturbing trends in both the collection and analysis of intelligence and in its use in the development and implementation of security policy. Analyzing a broad range of recent case studies—Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, North Korea's defiance of U.N. watchdogs, Russia's transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Iran and China's to Pakistan, the Soviet biological warfare program, weapons inspections in Iraq, and others—the authors find that intelligence collection and analysis relating to WMD proliferation are becoming more difficult, that policy toward rogue states and regional allies requires difficult tradeoffs, and that using military action to fight nuclear proliferation presents intractable operational challenges. Ellis and Kiefer reveal that decisions to use—or overlook—intelligence are often made for starkly political reasons. They document the Bush administration's policy shift from nonproliferation, which emphasizes diplomatic tools such as sanctions and demarches, to counterproliferation, which at times employs interventionist and preemptive actions. They conclude with cogent recommendations for intelligence services and policy makers.

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JHU Press

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1421402637

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9781421402635

The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition

By: Benjamin Evans,Martijn Verburg,Jason Clark

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The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition

By: Benjamin Evans,Martijn Verburg,Jason Clark

Understanding Java from the JVM up gives you a solid foundation to grow your expertise and take on advanced techniques for performance, concurrency, containerization, and more. In The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition you will learn: The new Java module system and why you should use it Bytecode for the JVM, including operations and classloading Performance tuning the JVM Working with Java’s built-in concurrency and expanded options Programming in Kotlin and Clojure on the JVM Maximizing the benefits from your build/CI tooling with Maven and Gradle Running the JVM in containers Planning for future JVM releases The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition introduces both the modern innovations and timeless fundamentals you need to know to become a Java master. Authors Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Jason Clark distill their decades of experience as Java Champions, veteran developers, and key contributors to the Java ecosystem into this clear and practical guide. You’ll discover how Java works under the hood and learn design secrets from Java’s long history. Each concept is illustrated with hands-on examples, including a fully modularized application/library and creating your own multithreaded application. Foreword by Heinz Kabutz. About the technology Java is the beating heart of enterprise software engineering. Developers who really know Java can expect easy job hunting and interesting work. Written by experts with years of boots-on-the-ground experience, this book upgrades your Java skills. It dives into powerful features like modules and concurrency models and even reveals some of Java’s deep secrets. About the book With The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition you will go beyond feature descriptions and learn how Java operates at the bytecode level. Master high-value techniques for concurrency and performance optimization, along with must-know practices for build, test, and deployment. You’ll even look at alternate JVM languages like Kotlin and Clojure. Digest this book and stand out from the pack. What's inside The new Java module system Performance tuning the JVM Maximizing CI/CD with Maven and Gradle Running the JVM in containers Planning for future JVM releases About the reader For intermediate Java developers. About the author Benjamin J. Evans is a senior principal engineer at Red Hat. Martijn Verburg is the principal SWE manager for Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group. Both Benjamin and Martijn are Java Champions. Jason Clark is a principal engineer and architect at New Relic. Table of Contents PART 1 - FROM 8 TO 11 AND BEYOND! 1 Introducing modern Java 2 Java modules 3 Java 17 PART 2 - UNDER THE HOOD 4 Class files and bytecode 5 Java concurrency fundamentals 6 JDK concurrency libraries 7 Understanding Java performance PART 3 - NON-JAVA LANGUAGES ON THE JVM 8 Alternative JVM languages 9 Kotlin 10 Clojure: A different view of programming PART 4 - BUILD AND DEPLOYMENT 11 Building with Gradle and Maven 12 Running Java in containers 13 Testing fundamentals 14 Testing beyond JUnit PART 5 - JAVA FRONTIERS 15 Advanced functional programming 16 Advanced concurrent programming 17 Modern internals 18 Future Java

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Simon and Schuster

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1638355282

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I Love Charts

The Book

By: Jason Oberholtzer,Cody Westphal

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I Love Charts

The Book

By: Jason Oberholtzer,Cody Westphal

Ever shared, laughed at, cried over, or thrown darts at a chart? Have you ever put together a report and thought, gee, I could use a chart here. Then I Love Charts: The Book is the perfect addition to your collection. Based on the highly successful humor blog, this compilation includes the best never-before-seen charts. The book ranges across many subjects from the absurd and ironic to the starkly literal, with charts dedicated to love, the minutiae of every day life, and pop culture, as well as charts about politics, technology, and social issues.

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1402267401

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The Impossible Fortress

A Novel

By: Jason Rekulak

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The Impossible Fortress

A Novel

By: Jason Rekulak

The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. For three teenage boys, Billy, Alf, and Clark, who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. So, they hatch a plan to steal it.

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1501144413

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Beneath the Darkest Sky

By: Jason Overstreet

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Beneath the Darkest Sky

By: Jason Overstreet

In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest shadows of 1930s Europe, where everything he loves is on the line . . . International consultant Prescott Sweet’s mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America’s imperialistic interventions. With his outspoken artist wife, Loretta, and their two children, he lives a life of equality and continental elegance amid Europe’s glittering capitals—beyond anything he ever dared hope for. But he is still a man in hiding, from his past with the Bureau, from British Intelligence—and from his own tempting, dangerous skill at high-level espionage. So when he has the opportunity to live in Moscow and work at the American Embassy, Prescott and his family seize the chance to take refuge and at last put down roots in what they believe is a fair society. Life in Russia, however, proves to be a beautiful lie. Reduced to bare survival, with his son gravely ill, Prescott calls on all his skills in a last-ditch effort to free his family from the grips of Stalin. But between honor and expediency, salvation and atrocity, he’ll be forced to play an ever more merciless hand and commit unimaginable acts for a future that promises nowhere to run . . .

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Democracy as Death

The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa

By: Jason Hickel

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Democracy as Death

The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa

By: Jason Hickel

The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict.Ê Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANCÕs liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of ÒfreedomÓ in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on an idealized vision of the rural home and a hierarchical social order crafted in part by the technologies of colonial governance over the past century.Ê In analyzing this conflict, Jason Hickel contributes to broad theoretical debates about liberalism and democratization in the postcolonial world. Democracy as Death interrogates the Western ideals of individual freedom and agency from the perspective of those who oppose such ideals, and questions the assumptions underpinning theories of anti-liberal movements. The book argues that both democracy and the political science that attempts to explain resistance to it presuppose a model of personhood native to Western capitalism, which may not operate cross-culturally.

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Finding your Social Science Project

The Research Sandbox

By: John Gerring,Jason Seawright

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Finding your Social Science Project

The Research Sandbox

By: John Gerring,Jason Seawright

The most important step in social science research is the first step – finding a topic. Unfortunately, little guidance on this crucial and difficult challenge is available. Methodological studies and courses tend to focus on theory testing rather than theory generation. This book aims to redress that imbalance. The first part of the book offers an overview of the book's central concerns. How do social scientists arrive at ideas for their work? What are the different ways in which a study can contribute to knowledge in a field? The second part of the book offers suggestions about how to think creatively, including general strategies for finding a topic and heuristics for discovery. The third part of the book shows how data exploration may assist in generating theories and hypotheses. The fourth part of the book offers suggestions about how to fashion disparate ideas into a theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009121073

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On Global Learning

Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance

By: Jason Ralph

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On Global Learning

Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance

By: Jason Ralph

Global security, climate and health challenges have called into question our capacity to cope with change. Criticizing mainstream norm, practice and realist theory, Jason Ralph offers a 'Pragmatic Constructivist' theory of learning, which is then used to assess international society's problem-solving capacities.

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1009385755

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Medicine in the Talmud

Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science

By: Jason Sion Mokhtarian

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Medicine in the Talmud

Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science

By: Jason Sion Mokhtarian

Medicine on the margins -- Trends and methods in the study of Talmudic medicine -- Precursors of Talmudic medicine -- Empiricism and efficacy -- Talmudic medicine in its Sasanian context.

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0520389417

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Financial Sorcery

Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth

By: Jason Miller

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Financial Sorcery

Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth

By: Jason Miller

This life-changing book goes far beyond simple “money magic.” This is a tome of true financial sorcery that will show you how to ensure success no matter what life throws at you. Financial Sorcery will give you the step-by-step instructions on how to improve your fiscal situation. You will learn how to: Stop using magic to fix emergency problems and start using it to build your dream life. Use times of economic uncertainy to create new opportunities rather than cause problems. Work joyfully with money as part of your spiritual discipline rather than as a necessary evil. Make offerings to help increase the flow of prosperity around you. Ditch old concepts and retrain your mind to make money in today’s world. Use the interplay of macro- and micro-enchantment to find jobs and get promoted. Deploy strategic sorcery to kill your debt. Create secondary income streams that will ensure continued revenue.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601635974

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The Performative Presidency

Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years

By: Jason L. Mast

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The Performative Presidency

Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years

By: Jason L. Mast

A cultural analysis of 1990s politics in the US, detailing the rise of performance oriented politics during Clinton's presidency.

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1107026180

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Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

By: Jason A. Lowe,Gary E. Friedlaender

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Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

By: Jason A. Lowe,Gary E. Friedlaender

This issue, focusing on Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures, will open with a general overview of fragility fractures, common treatments, and costs involved. The issue then focuses on a variety of different topics, like new therapies, atypical and extraordinarily complex fractures, and an update on treatment protocols. Because of the very nature of fragility fractures, much of the content is focused on the geriatric patient, though not all.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455772135

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To Master the Boundless Sea

The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire

By: Jason W. Smith

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To Master the Boundless Sea

The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire

By: Jason W. Smith

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.

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UNC Press Books

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1469640457

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The Life of the Mind

By: Jason W. Brown

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The Life of the Mind

By: Jason W. Brown

This detailed look at the development of microgenetic theory provides a comprehensive and coherent model of cognitive processing in the brain, based on patterns of breakdown in pathology. In so doing, it illustrates the clinical record that supports and documents microgenetic theory, and presents a basis for future work in the study of the brain. Coverage includes topics in language and dominance, the function of the right hemisphere, action, perception, memory, and the concept of time.

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Psychology Press

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Fostering Learning in Small Groups

A Practical Guide

By: Jane Westberg, PhD,Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD

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Fostering Learning in Small Groups

A Practical Guide

By: Jane Westberg, PhD,Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD

Drawing on years of experience, the authors address the questions that educators may have about teaching small groups in the health professions. The first half of the book focuses on practical strategies involved in planning and facilitating learning in small groups. The authors discuss the characteristics of effective groups and emphasize the importance of using a collaborative approach. The second half focuses on planning for leading small groups that have specific purposes, such as providing a forum for discussion and dialogue, teaching communication skills, and helping learners to reflect on their patient care experience, and more. The book's broad orientation and practical emphasis will be useful to all educator in health care.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826193323

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Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Joel K. Greenson,Jason L. Hornick,Teri A. Longacre,Victor E. Reuter

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Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Joel K. Greenson,Jason L. Hornick,Teri A. Longacre,Victor E. Reuter

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology is a flagship book in pathology. This classic 2-volume reference presents advanced diagnostic techniques and the latest information on all currently known diseases. The book emphasizes the practical differential diagnosis of the surgical specimen while keeping to a minimum discussion of the natural history of the disease, treatment and autopsy findings. Contributors are asked to provide their expert advice on the diagnostic evaluation of every type of specimen from every anatomic site. This approach distinguishes it and provides a style of a personal consultation.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149630828X

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La Chulla Vida

Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City

By: Jason Pribilsky

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La Chulla Vida

Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City

By: Jason Pribilsky

Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. Jason Pribilsky offers an engrossing and sensitive account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives, exploring the impact of gender, generation, and new forms of wealth in a single Andean community. Migration has been a part of the Andes for centuries, yet the effects of transnational labor on the individuals and communities remain largely undocumented. Pribilsky draws upon firsthand observations of everyday lives to explore issues of consumption, transnational marriages, and the evolving roles of men and women. Pribilsky presents a study that is both engaging and challenging, a vital contribution to the fields of Latin American studies and immigration studies.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815631197

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Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

By: Jason Phillips

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Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

By: Jason Phillips

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and class, shaped what people thought about the future and how they imagined it. Some Americans pictured the future as an open, contested era that they progressed toward and molded with their thoughts and actions. Others saw the future as a closed, predetermined world that approached them and sealed their fate. When the war began, these opposing temporalities informed how Americans grasped and waged the conflict. In this creative history, Jason Phillips explains how the expectations of a host of characters-generals, politicians, radicals, citizens, and slaves-affected how people understood the unfolding drama and acted when the future became present. He reconsiders the war's origins without looking at sources using hindsight, that is, without considering what caused the cataclysm and whether it was inevitable. As a result, Phillips dispels a popular myth that all Americans thought the Civil War would be short and glorious at the outset, a ninety-day affair full of fun and adventure. Much more than rational power games played by elites, the war was shaped by uncertainties and emotions and darkened horizons that changed over time. Looming Civil War highlights how individuals approached an ominous future with feelings, thoughts, and perspectives different from our sensibilities and unconnected to our view of their world. Civil War Americans had their own prospects to ponder and forge as they discovered who they were and where life would lead them. The Civil War changed more than America's future; it transformed how Americans imagined the future and how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

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0190868171

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