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Confrontation and Compromise

Presidential and Congressional Leadership, 2001-2006

By: Jason D. Mycoff,Joseph August Pika

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Confrontation and Compromise

Presidential and Congressional Leadership, 2001-2006

By: Jason D. Mycoff,Joseph August Pika

Classroom tested in the authors' teaching of courses on Congress and the presidency, the case studies in Confrontation and Compromise offer students an engaging and informative look at the critical role that leadership plays in achieving legislative success."--BOOK JACKET.

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074254060X

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Mixed Martial Arts and the Law

Disputes, Suits and Legal Issues

By: Jason J. Cruz

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Mixed Martial Arts and the Law

Disputes, Suits and Legal Issues

By: Jason J. Cruz

Barbaric. Savage. Violent. Words often used by critics to describe the sport of mixed martial arts. To this can be added lucrative, popular and flourishing. MMA has seen astronomical growth since the 2000s, spurred on by its biggest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC). Along the way, legal issues have plagued the sport. This book provides an overview of the most important cases and controversies arising both inside and outside of the cage--antitrust suits by fighters against promoters, fighters suing other fighters, drug testing, contractual issues, and the need for federal regulation.

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McFarland

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1476637288

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Happy Money Happy Life

A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth, and Financial Freedom

By: Jason Vitug

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Happy Money Happy Life

A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth, and Financial Freedom

By: Jason Vitug

Transform your relationship with money into one that powers true wellbeing. Money can buy happiness when you spend it on wellness. In Happy Money Happy Life: A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth, and Financial Freedom, celebrated writer, speaker, and entrepreneur Jason Vitug delivers an exciting and practical discussion at the intersection of our mental and emotional health and our money. You’ll explore the importance of physical and spiritual wellbeing, the interconnectedness of environmental comfort, meaningful work, and social connections as you learn to live a healthier, wealthier, and happier life. With insightful takeaways from happiness research, you’ll understand how money weaves itself into every aspect of your life and how you can masterfully use it to choose happiness. In the book, you’ll find: Descriptions of the 8 dimensions of wellness and a hands-on framework you can use to achieve your financial and life goals 4 key principles to living a happier life A holistic strategy for transforming your relationship with money into one that improves every aspect of your wellbeing An indispensable roadmap to mental strength, physical health, financial success, and emotional intelligence, Happy Money Happy Life is ideal for professionals, managers, workers, executives, and other business leaders ready to explore the possibility that life is about joy and happiness, not merely titles and salaries.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394171269

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Building the Green Economy

Success Stories from the Grassroots

By: Kevin Danaher,Shannon Biggs,Jason Mark

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Building the Green Economy

Success Stories from the Grassroots

By: Kevin Danaher,Shannon Biggs,Jason Mark

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices? Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories—over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines—dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement. Drawing on their extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also: Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges Provide key resources for local activists Include conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal, David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other activists and leaders.

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Routledge

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1317262921

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The Yucks

Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

By: Jason Vuic

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The Yucks

Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

By: Jason Vuic

Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476772266

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The Elements of Music

Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony

By: Jason Martineau

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The Elements of Music

Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony

By: Jason Martineau

An elegant primer on the principles and theories of music.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802716822

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The Urgency of Now

Equity and Excellence

By: Marcus M. Kolb,Samuel D. Cargile,Jason Wood,Nassim Ebrahimi,Lynn E. Priddy,Laurie Dodge

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The Urgency of Now

Equity and Excellence

By: Marcus M. Kolb,Samuel D. Cargile,Jason Wood,Nassim Ebrahimi,Lynn E. Priddy,Laurie Dodge

With the student body evolving quickly, and the looming challenge of the “completion agenda,” community colleges are facing circumstances like never before in serving all students and propelling them to fulfilling their education aspirations. The Urgency of Now suggests a way forward, with students and their learning at the center of what community colleges, and all of higher education, must do to generate graduates in possession of high quality degrees and credentials. Through considering comprehensive assessment, new roles for accreditation, faculty engagement strategies, and competency-based education, The Urgency of Now describes our current challenges and the ways we might meet those challenges for the 21st century institution.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475814526

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Zen and the Unspeakable God

Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience

By: Jason N. Blum

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Zen and the Unspeakable God

Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience

By: Jason N. Blum

Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng. Through close readings of their texts, he uncovers the mystics’ own fundamental assumptions about transcendence and harnesses these as interpretive guides to their experiences. The predominant theory-first path to interpretation has led to the misunderstanding and misrepresentation of individual mystical experiences and fostered specious conclusions about cross-cultural comparability among them. Blum’s hermeneutic invites the scholarly community to begin thinking about mystical experience in a new way—through the mystics’ eyes. Zen and the Unspeakable God offers a sampling of the provocative results of this technique and an explanation of its implications for theories of consciousness and our contemporary understanding of the nature of mystical experience.

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Penn State Press

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027107471X

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His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips

By: Jason Fury

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His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips

By: Jason Fury

In His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips, a gay murder on Fifth Avenue helps topple President Richard Nixon from the White House. What is the mystery of Kurt James? Wherever he goes, scandal and tragedy follows him. Set against the lush ambiance of the Deep South and the glittering backdrop of Fifth Avenue, Kurt flees North Carolina in 1958 after witnessing the vicious murder of his boyfriend by lawmen. In Manhattan, he nearly drowns in a drug and booze drenched lifestyle as the city's most dazzling callboy. Desperate for stability, he lands a job as tutor/secretary in New York City's most fabulous mansion: Darling Place. He falls in love with both father and son, the ravishing David Darling, powerful Wall Street and confidante to President Richard Nixon, and the swarthy, betroubled Claude. Kurt also battles the psychopathic Mrs. Darling, a would-be feminist whose jealousy borders on insanity. Her violent attempts to physically abuse her adorable little son, Tuffy, are thwarted when Kurt becomes his protector. David is forced to stay in Washington to comfort the President who is embroiled in the Watergate Scandal. Suddenly, the nation is shocked by a grotesque murder in Darling Place and the sensational trial and scandal that follows. It is this astounding scandal—of perverted love gone awry—which helps topple President Nixon from the White House—and brings tragedy to those left in Darling Place.

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iUniverse

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0595121683

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9780595121687

Crapitalism

Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars

By: Jason Mattera

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Crapitalism

Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars

By: Jason Mattera

New York Times bestselling author and ambush journalist Jason Mattera sets his sights on his next big target: crony liberals, including Al Gore, Carlos Slim, Harry Reid, and Jay Z, whose riches come at taxpayer expense. From billionaire business tycoons like George Soros and Warren Buffett to movie industry moguls like Jeffrey Katzenberg and Stephen Spielberg, American liberals are using government breaks and shortcuts to pervert the free market. These “rich bastards” leverage crony connections to bag millions for phony “green companies” that go bust, vacuum public coffers to build glitzy stadiums, utilize little-known tax loopholes to loot $1.5 billion for Hollywood movies, and more. They use government to rig the game in their favor and leave taxpayers holding the bill. And when government gets in the business of picking winners and losers through bailouts and tax breaks, free market competition begins to atrophy. That’s what big government leftists—and corporate Republicans-in-name-only—want to happen. In this explosive, funny-as-hell investigative exposé, Mattera reveals the infuriating schemes that result when the filthy rich combine cronyism and capitalism. Crapitalism pulls back the curtain on a cast of cronyites who make millions taking advantage of taxpayers—and still brag about how they’re looking out for the little guy.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476750432

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A Class by Themselves?

The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond

By: Jason Ellis

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A Class by Themselves?

The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond

By: Jason Ellis

In A Class by Themselves?, Jason Ellis provides an erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Ellis situates the evolution of this educational innovation in its proper historical context to explore the rise of intelligence testing, the decline of child labour and rise of vocational guidance, emerging trends in mental hygiene and child psychology, and the implementation of a new progressive curriculum. At the core of this study are the students. This book is the first to draw deeply on rich archival sources, including 1000 pupil records of young people with learning difficulties, who attended public schools between 1918 and 1945. Ellis uses these records to retell individual stories that illuminate how disability filtered down through the school system’s many nooks and crannies to mark disabled students as different from (and often inferior to) other school children. A Class by Themselves? sheds new light on these and other issues by bringing special education’s curious past to bear on its constantly contested present.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442624612

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God-Fearing and Free

A Spiritual History of America's Cold War

By: Jason W. Stevens

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God-Fearing and Free

A Spiritual History of America's Cold War

By: Jason W. Stevens

Religion has been on the rise in America for decades—which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americans have always conducted their cultural life through religious symbols, never more so than during the Cold War. In God-Fearing and Free, Stevens discloses how the nation, on top of the world and torn between grandiose self-congratulation and doubt about the future, opened the way for a new master narrative. The book shows how the American public, powered by a national religious revival, was purposefully disillusioned regarding the country’s mythical innocence and fortified for an epochal struggle with totalitarianism. Stevens reveals how the Augustinian doctrine of original sin was refurbished and then mobilized in a variety of cultural discourses that aimed to shore up democratic society against threats preying on the nation’s internal weaknesses. Suddenly, innocence no longer meant a clear conscience. Instead it became synonymous with totalitarian ideologies of the fascist right or the communist left, whose notions of perfectability were dangerously close to millenarian ideals at the heart of American Protestant tradition. As America became riddled with self-doubt, ruminations on the meaning of power and the future of the globe during the “American Century” renewed the impetus to religion. Covering a wide selection of narrative and cultural forms, Stevens shows how writers, artists, and intellectuals, the devout as well as the nonreligious, disseminated the terms of this cultural dialogue, disputing, refining, and challenging it—effectively making the conservative case against modernity as liberals floundered.

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Harvard University Press

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0674058844

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My Reality Check Bounced!

The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

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My Reality Check Bounced!

The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms. In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you (“Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,”), and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you are running hard but going nowhere. Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world—that you don’t realize how much control you have over your life until you use it. In My Reality Check Bounced! Jason shows you how to: Find the courage to climb out of your real-world rut Create a Future Picture that gets you off your “buts” Uncover opportunity and build a tag team to make the most of it Live like you mean it, and finally cash your reality check.

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Harmony

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0767924983

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9780767924986

Disney's Most Notorious Film

Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

By: Jason Sperb

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Disney's Most Notorious Film

Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

By: Jason Sperb

Looks at the racial issues surrounding Disney's Song of the South, as well as how the public's reception of the film has changed over the years, and why, while not releasing the film in its entirety in nearly two decades, Disney has chosen to continue to repackage and repurpose bits and pieces of the film.

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University of Texas Press

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0292739745

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The Network

By: Jason Elliot

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The Network

By: Jason Elliot

The world is about to change... In the months leading up to 9/11 the intelligence community is on high alert for terrorist threats. Former army officer Anthony Taverner is recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service for an apparently straightforward mission: to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles in Taliban-held Afghanistan. But in the kaleidoscopic world of spying, nothing is what it seems. And as the struggle to avert a catastrophe begins, Taverner's allegiance is to an authority he must keep secret from even his closest allies...

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408809907

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Eat Your Mind

The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

By: Jason McBride

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Eat Your Mind

The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

By: Jason McBride

The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature. Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and controversial artists of her era. The author of visionary, transgressive novels like Blood and Guts in High School; Empire of the Senses; and Pussy, King of Pirates, Acker wrote obsessively about the treachery of love, the limitations of language, and the possibility of revolution. She was notorious for her methods-collaging together texts stolen from other writers with her own diaries, sexual fantasies, and blunt political critiques-as well as her appearance. With her punkish hairstyles, tattoos, and couture outfits she looked like no other writer before or after. Her work was exceptionally prescient, taking up complicated conversations about gender, sex, capitalism, and colonialism that continue today. Acker's life was as unruly and radical as her writing. Raised in a privileged but oppressive Upper East Side Jewish family, she turned her back on that world as soon as she could, seeking a life of romantic and intellectual adventure that led her to, and through, many of the most thrilling avant-garde and countercultural moments in America: the births of conceptual art and experimental music; the poetry wars of the 60s and 70s; the mainstreaming of hardcore porn; No Wave cinema and New Narrative writing; Riot grrls, biker chicks, cyberpunks. As this definitive biography shows, Acker was not just a singular writer, she was also a titanic cultural force who tied together disparate movements in literature, art, music, theatre, and film. A feat of literary biography, Eat Your Mind is the first full-scale, authorized life of Acker. Drawing on exclusive interviews with hundreds of Acker's intimates as well as her private journals, correspondence, and early drafts of her work, acclaimed journalist and critic Jason McBride offers a thrilling account and a long overdue reassessment of a misunderstood genius and revolutionary artist"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1982117036

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Trade Dress and Design Law

By: Graeme B. Dinwoodie,Mark D. Janis,Jason Du Mont

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Trade Dress and Design Law

By: Graeme B. Dinwoodie,Mark D. Janis,Jason Du Mont

A student-friendly text offering an integrated treatment of the different forms of intellectual property protection available for trade dress and designs. Featuring succinct yet in-depth exploration of the protection of trade dress and designs under the laws of trademark and unfair competition, design patent, copyright, and sui generis protection regimes. This book can be used as the main text in an advanced course devoted to trade dress and designs, or may be used as a supplemental text for a variety of intellectual property courses. A substantial chapter on European design laws is also included. New to the 2nd Edition: Substantially updated and rewritten chapters on design patent law reflecting major recent developments Trade dress chapters that reflect recent doctrinal refinements and the application of core Supreme Court decisions such as Wal-Mart and TraFix Revised treatment of copyright protection for designs of useful articles in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Star Athletica decision Enhanced coverage of European design protection Professors and students will benefit from: Analysis and comparison of the protection of trade dress and designs under numerous intellectual property regimes. A detailed exploration of the protection of trade dress and designs under trademark and unfair competition laws. Thorough treatment of design patent law, an area that is neglected in most student texts on intellectual property. Exploration of the application of copyright protection to pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, architectural works, and works of visual art, among others. Coverage of sui generis design protection regimes.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543846599

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9781543846591

Giralon

By: Jason Mindler

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Giralon

By: Jason Mindler

Giralon is the name of a small, inhabited moon orbiting a dead planet. Few know of the mysterious origins of Giralon, but the people all know that they are in the midst of a fantastic and exciting world where the legends leap from lore to reality. The wondrous and sometimes scary events of Giralon are recorded spanning the first few hundred years of Giralon's inhabitation, a dramatic and trying time that will enchant readers and draw them into the colorful world that is Giralon.

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iUniverse

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0595285813

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The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani

Part III: Pages 343-442 (Chapters 321-347)

By: Iain Gardner,Jason D. Beduhn,Paul Dilley

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The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani

Part III: Pages 343-442 (Chapters 321-347)

By: Iain Gardner,Jason D. Beduhn,Paul Dilley

The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani, a Coptic papyrus codex preserved at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, describes Mani’s mission, teachings and debates with sages in the courts of the Sasanian empire during the reign of Shapur I; with an extended account of his last days and death under Bahram I. The text offers an unprecedented new source for the history of religions in Late Antiquity, including interactions of Manichaean, Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist traditions in Iran, remarkably transmitted into the Mediterranean world as part of Manichaean missionary literature. This is the first of four fascicles constituting the editio princeps, based on enhanced digital and multispectral imaging and extended autoptic study of the manuscript.

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BRILL

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9004363408

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9789004363403

Spike Lee

Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue

By: Jason P. Vest

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Spike Lee

Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue

By: Jason P. Vest

Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have inspired. This insightful study probes the iconic filmmaker's career as a director and shaper of American culture. It not only sheds light on the ways in which Lee's background, influences, and outlook affect his films but also discusses how he participates in, transforms, and transcends the tradition of black American filmmaking. Each chapter offers a critical assessment of at least one, and sometimes multiple, Lee films, examining their production history; their place in Lee's filmography; and their aesthetic, cultural, and historical significance. Readers will come away from this first scholarly assessment of Lee's career and work with a better understanding of his penchant for stirring up controversy about significant social, political, and artistic issues as well as his role as an American artist who provokes his audiences as much as he pacifies them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313392277

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9780313392276

Reunion

By: Jason Pytel

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Reunion

By: Jason Pytel

When Michael Robinson receives an invitation to his high school Reunion, he's certain that it's really a personal message from an otherworldly creature he encountered as a boy, one that killed his father and his best friend. Believing that this mysterious monster has finally tracked him down, Michael knows he must return to his birthplace in Templeton to face the being or it will never let him have peace. This same entity has been quietly killing off locals for years. Deputy Chief of Police Andrew Scott knows something strange is happening, but no one other than himself can see the glowing trails of slime left by the monster. It isn't until he arrests a boyhood friend named Jack for murder that Andrew begins to realize he hasn't been imagining things. Jack claims a monster killed his parents, and then reveals that someone else knows all about it: Michael Robinson. With the Reunion fast approaching, Andrew knows he must reconnect with his old friend, Michael, and find out more about the creature. Andrew isn't the only one waiting for Michael's return. Jenny Cranston is a physically deformed woman who lives in a dream world dominated by her talking cat. The feline has convinced her that Michael is the man of her dreams, so she too anxiously awaits his return. However, Jenny may prove to be the least of Michael's worries. Shades of Stephen King! About the Author: Jason Pytel's preferred reading is dark fiction. He lives in Hillsdale, Michigan. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/Reunion.html

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1609768957

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Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

By: Jason Colavito

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Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

By: Jason Colavito

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece--a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.

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McFarland

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1476615667

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Bayesian Nonparametrics for Causal Inference and Missing Data

By: Michael J. Daniels,Antonio Linero,Jason Roy

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Bayesian Nonparametrics for Causal Inference and Missing Data

By: Michael J. Daniels,Antonio Linero,Jason Roy

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Causal Inference and Missing Data provides an overview of flexible Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) methods for modeling joint or conditional distributions and functional relationships, and their interplay with causal inference and missing data. This book emphasizes the importance of making untestable assumptions to identify estimands of interest, such as missing at random assumption for missing data and unconfoundedness for causal inference in observational studies. Unlike parametric methods, the BNP approach can account for possible violations of assumptions and minimize concerns about model misspecification. The overall strategy is to first specify BNP models for observed data and then to specify additional uncheckable assumptions to identify estimands of interest. The book is divided into three parts. Part I develops the key concepts in causal inference and missing data and reviews relevant concepts in Bayesian inference. Part II introduces the fundamental BNP tools required to address causal inference and missing data problems. Part III shows how the BNP approach can be applied in a variety of case studies. The datasets in the case studies come from electronic health records data, survey data, cohort studies, and randomized clinical trials. Features • Thorough discussion of both BNP and its interplay with causal inference and missing data • How to use BNP and g-computation for causal inference and non-ignorable missingness • How to derive and calibrate sensitivity parameters to assess sensitivity to deviations from uncheckable causal and/or missingness assumptions • Detailed case studies illustrating the application of BNP methods to causal inference and missing data • R code and/or packages to implement BNP in causal inference and missing data problems The book is primarily aimed at researchers and graduate students from statistics and biostatistics. It will also serve as a useful practical reference for mathematically sophisticated epidemiologists and medical researchers.

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CRC Press

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1000927717

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9781000927719

Guide to Registering Trademarks

By: Steven H. Bazerman,Jason M. Drangel

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Guide to Registering Trademarks

By: Steven H. Bazerman,Jason M. Drangel

Minimize research time and prepare federal trademark registrations in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with more than 200 practice-tested ready-to-use forms available in both hard copy and electronically. Step-by-step instructions guide you through client forms, searches and other pre-filing activities, applications for registration, responses to office actions, renewals and more. By Steven H. Bazerman, Jason M. Drangel You can minimize your research time and prepare trademark forms with confidence when you use the Guide to Registering Trademarks as your on-the-spot guide. This carefully constructed loose-leaf offers more than 200 practice-tested ready-to-use forms available in both hard copy and on CD-ROM. Step-by-step instructions guide you through the process, addressing both basic and unusual situations you may encounter along the way. The forms are organized by category: Client forms Searches and other pre-filing activities Applications for Registration Responses to office actions Section 8 and 15 affidavits Renewals and interparty proceedings. The Guide to Registering Trademarks answers questions running from which form to use in recording an assignment to how to start a concurrent use proceeding. Keep it close at hand to make your trademark application process as painless as possible.

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Wolters Kluwer

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The Secret Life of Movies

Schizophrenic and Shamanic Journeys in American Cinema

By: Jason Horsley

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The Secret Life of Movies

Schizophrenic and Shamanic Journeys in American Cinema

By: Jason Horsley

Film blurs the line between myth and reality better than any other artistic medium, one could argue. Using movies to explore the unconscious realms of society in order to reach a better understanding of what drives it, this book examines filmmakers and films that center on schizophrenic themes of alienation, paranoia, breakdown, fantasy, dreams, dementia and violence, and that address--as entertainment--the schizophrenic experience. The loss of individual identity as reflected in the films is investigated, as well as the shamanic potential inherent in the broader theme.

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McFarland

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0786454628

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Network Programmability and Automation

Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer

By: Jason Edelman,Scott S. Lowe,Matt Oswalt

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Network Programmability and Automation

Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer

By: Jason Edelman,Scott S. Lowe,Matt Oswalt

This practical guide shows network engineers how to use a range of technologies and tools--including Linux, Python, JSON, and XML--to automate their systems through code. [This book] will help you simplify tasks involved in configuring, managing, and operating network equipment, topologies, services, and connectivity."--Page 4 of cover

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1491931329

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Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity

By: Jason Dittmer,Daniel Bos

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Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity

By: Jason Dittmer,Daniel Bos

Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this innovative and engaging text surveys the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Jason Dittmer and Daniel Bos connect global issues with the questions of identity and subjectivity that we feel as individuals, arguing that who we think we are influences how we understand the world. Building on the strengths of the first edition, each chapter focuses on a specific theme—such as representation, audience, and affect—by explaining the concept and then outlining some of the emerging debates that have revolved around it. New and updated case studies—including heritage and social media—help illustrate the significance of the concepts and capture the ways popular culture shapes our understandings of geopolitics within everyday life. Students will enjoy the text's accessibility and colorful examples, and instructors will appreciate the way the book brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary literature and makes it understandable and relevant.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538116731

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Disorders of Magnitude

A Survey of Dark Fantasy

By: Jason V Brock

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Disorders of Magnitude

A Survey of Dark Fantasy

By: Jason V Brock

Over the past century or more, the genres of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction have increasingly expanded beyond literature and into an array of media—film, television, comic books, and art. Many of the leading figures in the field engage in multimedia enterprises that allow their work to reach a much wider public than the mere readers of books. In Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy, Jason V Brock analyzes the intersection of literature, media, and genre fiction in essays, reviews, and pioneering interviews. Beginning with the pulp magazines of the 1920s, Brock studies such dynamic figures as H. P. Lovecraft, Forrest J Ackerman, Harlan Ellison, and the Southern California writers known collectively as “The Group”—Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, and William F. Nolan. This collection also includes filmmakers Roger Corman, George Romero, and Dan O’Bannon, and such fantasy artists as H. R. Giger. Graced with dozens of photographs from the author’s personal collection, this wide-ranging study offers a kaleidoscopic look at the multifarious ways in which fantasy, horror, and the supernatural have permeated our culture. Brock—himself a fiction writer, critic, and filmmaker—concludes the book with touching eulogies to the recently deceased Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen. Highlighting so many figures essential to the understanding of fantasy and horror, Disorders of Magnitude will appeal to fans of these fiction genres around the world.

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The Life of a Movement Lawyer

Lewis Pitts and the Struggle for Democracy, Equality, and Justice

By: Jason Langberg

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The Life of a Movement Lawyer

Lewis Pitts and the Struggle for Democracy, Equality, and Justice

By: Jason Langberg

Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for democracy, equality, and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Lewis Pitts grew up oblivious to the civil rights revolution underway across the country. A directionless white college student in 1968, Pitts committed to military service and was destined for Vietnam. Five years later—after a formative period in which he underwent an intellectual and moral awakening, was discharged as a conscientious objector, and graduated from law school—he embarked on an unlikely forty-year career as a crusading social justice attorney. The Life of a Movement Lawyer: Lewis Pitts and the Struggle for Democracy, Equality, and Justice chronicles how Pitts positively affected thousands of lives and communities, while working in various social movements and then for legal aid. These grassroots efforts included fights to end nuclear proliferation; seeking justice for victims and survivors of the Greensboro Massacre; restarting the local government in Keysville, Georgia; preserving Gullah culture on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina; and ending corruption in Robeson County, North Carolina. Beyond documenting a life well-lived and shedding light on lesser-known activists and movements, Langberg, in this thoroughly researched biography, explores problems that continue to afflict the United States today: poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, racism, police misconduct, voter suppression, child maltreatment, and corporate power. The Life of a Movement Lawyer will energize, inspire, and compel action by those who seek to continue the pursuit of justice for all.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643364820

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Filmmaking

Direct Your Movie from Script to Screen Using Proven Hollywood Techniques

By: Jason J. Tomaric

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Filmmaking

Direct Your Movie from Script to Screen Using Proven Hollywood Techniques

By: Jason J. Tomaric

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0240817001

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Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema

By: Jason Borge

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Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema

By: Jason Borge

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers, examining the ways in which these writers seized the opportunity to reassert their relevance in the rapidly modernizing public sphere by actively – and often subversively – mediating encounters between Hollywood and local audiences.

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Routledge

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1135891680

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Federal Courts

Context, Cases, and Problems

By: Michael Finch,Caprice L. Roberts,Jason Roberts,Michael P. Allen

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Federal Courts

Context, Cases, and Problems

By: Michael Finch,Caprice L. Roberts,Jason Roberts,Michael P. Allen

Federal Courts: Context, Cases, and Problems, Third Edition by Michael Finch, Caprice L. Roberts and Michael P. Allen is an innovative, highly accessible casebook that features problems, cases connected by narrative text, charts, and graphs, all presented in a manner suited to multiple teaching approaches. New to the Third Edition: Updates to each chapter with key cases, text additions, and doctrinal developments, e.g. Markazi, Patchak, diversity jurisdiction via removal, and Ziglar v. Abbasi. New incorporation of thoughtful revisions to streamline comprehension and eliminates unnecessary explorations based on adopter feedback while maintaining all seminal cases. Updated charts, graphs, and problems based on new data, statistics, and cases such as Facebook, Spokeo, Sprint v. Jacobs, and McDonough v. Smith. Sharpened case excerpts to enhance reading assignments and deepen discussions. Professors and students will benefit from: Application opportunities with the included Reference Problems, questions, and additional problems. Clarity of textual material that includes doctrinal highlights, decision trees, diagrams, charts, and other dynamic visual aids. Crisp, insightful case excerpts with helpful connecting explanatory text. Teaching materials include: Teacher’s Manual Sample syllabi

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Aspen Publishing

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1543809030

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Progressive Country

How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture

By: Jason Mellard

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Progressive Country

How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture

By: Jason Mellard

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.

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University of Texas Press

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0292753004

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The Art & Craft of Coffee Cocktails

By: Jason Clark

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The Art & Craft of Coffee Cocktails

By: Jason Clark

Enjoy two of life's greatest pleasures – coffee and alcohol – with this comprehensive guide to mixing perfect coffee cocktails. World-class mixologist Jason Clark will inspire, excite and educate you by taking you behind the bar for a masterclass in creating coffee-based cocktails. First take a journey into the history and craft of coffee, the world's most popular beverage, from crop to cup. Next follow his expert mixing tips aimed at everyone from keen beginners to bartenders working in the world's best bars. More than 75 recipes follow, covering all styles of cocktails from stirred and shaken through to blended and blazed. Learn how to perfect simple classics such as Espresso Martini and Irish coffee or try your hand at technical modern marvels Cinnamon Toast Crunch White Russian and Whiskey Pour Over. With The Art and Craft of Coffee Cocktails in hand your daily grind will never be the same!

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Ryland Peters & Small

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1788794850

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Jump-Starting a Career in Radiology

By: Jason Porterfield

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Jump-Starting a Career in Radiology

By: Jason Porterfield

Physicians rely on radiology technicians to provide the high-quality images produced by X-rays and other forms of imaging technology that are used to diagnose injuries and illnesses. This volume looks at the training it takes to earn certification as a radiology technician within two years and the imaging machines these in-demand professionals use on a daily basis. Working radiology technicians and related professionals offer suggestions on launching a career, education options in the field, and the job-hunting process. This book also examines such topics as networking in radiology, interview tips, building on job skills, and advancing in the field.

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