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OtherLife

By: Jason Segel,Kirsten Miller

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Return to the series BuzzFeed compared to Ready Player One with the third book in the fast-paced trilogy from New York Times bestselling authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller that's perfect for fans of HBO's Westworld. Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis are on the run with the tech super-villains at the Company hot on their heels. The new VR gaming experience the Company created, OtherEarth, will change how the world experiences gaming. Paired with the hardware the Company developed, it has the potential to alter our reality forever. The Company is on its way to becoming the world's newest superpower. And Simon is determined to shut them down forever. But to do that, he'll have to survive OtherLife--the next phase of gaming, and a complete reality reboot. Praise for the Last Reality series: A New York Times Bestseller A CBC Teen Choice Book Award Nominee "Full of high stakes, thrillers, and fantastic twists and turns, fans of Ready Player One are sure to love this addictive read." --BuzzFeed "A potent commentary on how much we're willing to give up to the lure of technology." --EW.com "An engaging VR cautionary tale." --The A.V. Club "A fantastic journey from start to finish." --Hypable.com "Delightful twists.... Otherworld comes alive."--SLJ

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Delacorte Press

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1101939427

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Macho Ethics

Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative

By: Jason Cortés

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Macho Ethics

Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative

By: Jason Cortés

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative, Jason Cortés seeks to reveal the inner workings of masculinity in the narrative prose of four major Caribbean authors: the Cuban Severo Sarduy; the Dominican American Junot Díaz; and the Puerto Ricans Luis Rafael Sánchez and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. By exploring the relationship between ethics and authority, the legacies of colonial violence, the figure of the dictator, the macho, and the dandy, the logic of the Archive, the presence of Oscar Wilde, and notions of trauma and mourning, Macho Ethics fills a gap surrounding issues of power and masculinity within the Caribbean context, and draws attention to what frequently remains invisible and unspoken.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611486386

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Political Consultants and Campaigns

One Day to Sell

By: Jason Johnson

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Political Consultants and Campaigns

One Day to Sell

By: Jason Johnson

Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell examines the differences between how political science theory suggests campaigns should be run and how political consultants actually run campaigns. In the wake of consultants who effortlessly move from campaigners to policymakers, the dearth of knowledge about the attitudes, beliefs, and strategies of the consultants themselves is still a glaring absence in the analysis of American politics. How can we purport to know what is happening in American political campaigns if we don't know what is on the minds of the men and women who run them? This book provides a clearer understanding of modern-day political campaigns by revealing what is on the minds of the people who run them. With original data from consultants, campaign managers, and professional campaign schools, author Jason Johnson examines consultant behavior on message formation, policy positioning, candidate recruitment, Internet strategy, and negative advertising and compares these practices to existing political science theory. This groundbreaking research makes Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell a must-have resource for all students of American politics, campaign managers, or anyone interested in how political campaigns in America are run.

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Routledge

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0429977840

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Health Analytics

Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care

By: Jason Burke

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Health Analytics

Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care

By: Jason Burke

A hands-on, analytics road map for health industry leaders The industry-wide transformation taking place across the health and life sciences ecosystem is mandating that organizations adopt new decision-making capabilities, based on science and real-world information. Analytics will be a required competency for the modern health enterprise; this book is about how to "cross the chasm." The ultimate analytics guide for the health industry leader, this essential book equips business leaders with little-to-no experience in analytics to understand how to incorporate analytics as a cornerstone of their 21st century competitive business strategy. Paints the picture for a new health enterprise, one focused on the patient Explores the financial components of this new operating model, using analytics to optimize the tradeoffs between cost and value Deals with the rising role of the consumer, using analytics to create a completely new health engagement model with individual recipients of care Looks at how analytics can drive innovations in care practice, patient-experienced medical outcomes, and analytically driven novel therapies optimized for the individual patient Presents a variety of text, tables, and graphics illustrating the various concepts being described Within each section and chapter, Health Analytics assesses the current landscape, proposing a new model/concept, sharing real-world stories of how the old and new world come together, and framing a "how-to" for the reader in terms of growing that particular set of capabilities in their own enterprises.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118733959

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The Lights of Home

A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris

By: Jason Weiss

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The Lights of Home

A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris

By: Jason Weiss

Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often ended in Paris, long a city of writes in exile. This is more than solely a group biography of these writers or an explication of material they wrote about Paris; it is also a luminous account of the work they wrote while in Paris, often based in their homelands. It explores how Paris reacted to this wave of Latin American writers and how these writers absorbed Parisian influences and welded them to their own traditions setting the stage for immense success and power of works coming from Central and South America over the last half of the twentieth century.

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Routledge

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1317971442

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Climate Change

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

By: Jason Smerdon

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Climate Change

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

By: Jason Smerdon

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet. Mathez and Smerdon describe the roles that the atmosphere and ocean play in our climate, introduce the concept of radiation balance, and explain climate changes that occurred in the past. They also detail the human activities that influence the climate, such as greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions and deforestation, as well as the effects of natural phenomena. Climate Change concludes with a look toward the future, discussing climate model projections, exploring the economic and technological realities of energy production, and presenting a view of the global warming challenge through the lens of risk. Each chapter features profiles of scientists who advanced our understanding of the material discussed. This new edition expands on the first edition’s presentation of scientific concepts, making it ideal for classroom use for a wide swath of undergraduate and masters students with both science and nonscience backgrounds.

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Columbia University Press

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0231547870

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9780231547871

Beyond Refuge

A Framework for the Emancipatory Education of Forcibly-Displaced Youth

By: Jason R. Swisher

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Beyond Refuge

A Framework for the Emancipatory Education of Forcibly-Displaced Youth

By: Jason R. Swisher

Beyond Refuge explores abstractions, practicalities, impediments, and assets proffered by research participants to illustrate what an educational transformation should and could look like via a theoretical framework for emancipatory education of forcibly-displaced youth.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1803822694

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Trout Sense

A Fly Fisher's Guide to What Trout See, Hear, & Smell

By: Jason Randall

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Trout Sense

A Fly Fisher's Guide to What Trout See, Hear, & Smell

By: Jason Randall

The more you know about trout, the more fish you'll catch. This third and final book in Jason Randall's series explains the trout's world for fly fishers who want to know more about their quarry. • An in-depth look into the trout's world to help anglers better understand the fish • Detailed explanations of what trout see, hear, smell, and taste • Contains 100 photos and illustrations to demonstrate aspects of trout biology

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Stackpole Books

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0811713318

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Trade Dress and Design Law

[Connected EBook]

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

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Trade Dress and Design Law

[Connected EBook]

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

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. 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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1543806775

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Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

A Return to a Sartrean View

By: Jason Kido Lopez

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Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

A Return to a Sartrean View

By: Jason Kido Lopez

The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s work on bad faith—lying to oneself. As time has progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and further away from Sartre’s conception of bad faith. In Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on ourselves. Since literally tricking ourselves cannot work—we will always see through our own self-deception, after all—self-deception merely consists of the attempt to trick ourselves in this way. Other scholars have rejected this notion of self-deception historically, dismissing it as paradoxical. Lopez argues first that it isn’t paradoxical, and he further suggests that moving away from this notion of self-deception has caused the contemporary literature on the topic to be littered with disparate and conflicting theories. Indeed, there are a great many ways to avoid the allegedly paradoxical Sartrean notion of self-deception, and the resulting plethora of accounts lead to a fragmented picture of self-deception. If, however, the Sartrean view isn’t paradoxical, then there was no need for the host of contradictory theories and most researchers on self-deception have missed what was originally so intriguing about self-deception: that it, like bad faith, is the process of literally trying to trick oneself into believing what is false or unwarranted. Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes will be of great interest to students and scholars of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, and continental philosophy, and to anyone else interested in the problems of self-deception.

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Lexington Books

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0739179918

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Fortunate Fallibility

Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin

By: Jason A. Mahn

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Fortunate Fallibility

Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin

By: Jason A. Mahn

Jason Mahn traces the concept of the fortunate Fall through the later writings of Soren Kierkegaard, examining Kierkegaard's blunt critique of Idealism's justification of evil, as well as his playful deconstruction of romantic celebrations of sin.

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OUP USA

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0199790663

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The Conspiracy of Life

Meditations on Schelling and His Time

By: Jason M. Wirth

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The Conspiracy of Life

Meditations on Schelling and His Time

By: Jason M. Wirth

The Conspiracy of Life offers a series of meditations on the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854), a great—and greatly neglected—philosopher of life. Rather than construing him as a loopy mystic, or as an antiquated theologian, Jason M. Wirth attempts to locate Schelling as the belated contemporary of thinkers like Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Irigaray, Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and many others. As such, Schelling is already at the central nerve of current discussions concerning the crisis of truth; the primacy of the Good; the ecstatic nature of time; the nature of art; deep ecology; the world as an aesthetic phenomenon; comparative philosophy; the possibility of non-dialectical philosophy; radical evil; the haunting of philosophy; and the possibility of a philosophical religion.

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State University of New York Press

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0791486605

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9780791486603

Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism and Paul

A Comparative Study

By: Jason Maston

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Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism and Paul

A Comparative Study

By: Jason Maston

Jason Maston reassesses the understanding of divine and human action in second temple Judaism. Sirach and the Hodayot are used to establish the diversity of opinions. The Apostle Paul is situated into this Jewish debate through an analysis of Rom 7–8.

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1532642555

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The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism

A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity

By: Jason A. Staples

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The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism

A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity

By: Jason A. Staples

In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impacted Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about Israelite identity in antiquity, his argument is based on a close analysis of a vast corpus of biblical and other early Jewish literature and material evidence. Staples demonstrates that continued aspirations for Israel's restoration in the context of diaspora and imperial domination remained central to Jewish conceptions of Israelite identity throughout the final centuries before Christianity and even into the early part of the Common Era. He also shows that Israelite identity was more diverse in antiquity than is typically appreciated in modern scholarship. His book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the so-called 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity and how earliest Christianity itself grew out of hopes for Israel's restoration.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108915485

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Praying to a French God

The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste

By: Kenneth Jason Wardley

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Praying to a French God

The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste

By: Kenneth Jason Wardley

As a phenomenologist Lacoste is concerned with investigating the human aptitude for experience; as a theologian Lacoste is interested in humanity’s potential for a relationship with the divine, what he terms the ’liturgical relationship’. Beginning from the proposition that prayer is a theme that occurs throughout Lacoste’s writing, and using this proposition as a heuristic through which to view, interpret and critique his thought, this book examines Lacoste’s place amid both the recent ’theological turn’ in French thought and the post-war emergence of la nouvelle théologie. Drawing upon unpublished and out of print material previously only available in French, Romanian or German, the book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, phenomenology and theology.

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1317076397

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Simpson's Forensic Medicine, 13th Edition

Irish Version

By: Jason Payne-James,Cliona McGovern,Richard Jones,Steven Karch,John Manlove

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Simpson's Forensic Medicine, 13th Edition

Irish Version

By: Jason Payne-James,Cliona McGovern,Richard Jones,Steven Karch,John Manlove

For nearly 70 years, Simpson’s Forensic Medicine has been a world-renowned introductory textbook for students in the field of forensic medicine. This first regionalised edition, fully adapted for an Irish audience by Dr Cliona McGovern, presents all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between medicine and the law, including forensic toxicology, forensic science, forensic odontology, forensic anthropology and both the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of those involved in the forensic setting. ■ Presents clear, concise text, illustrated with colour photographs of the highest quality to help you find key information at a glance ■ Concentrates on key principles relevant to your legal system ■ Includes the input of new authors who bring you a fresh, modern perspective ■ Provides expanded coverage of forensic toxicology and forensic science along with many important subspecialties of forensic medicine Simpson’s has a long and respected history. Read by many of today's leading forensic practitioners at the start of the careers, it remains the most indispensable guide to the practice of forensic medicine worldwide.

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CRC Press

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148222612X

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Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands

By: Jason B. Johnson

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Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands

By: Jason B. Johnson

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.

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1351811045

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Death of the Leaping Horseman

The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad

By: Jason D. Mark

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Death of the Leaping Horseman

The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad

By: Jason D. Mark

Revised edition of a rare account of a German armored division in combat at the epic Battle of Stalingrad. • Day-by-day story of the 24th Panzer Division's savage fighting in the streets of Stalingrad in 1942 • Eyewitness accounts from participants reveal the brutality of this battle • Photos from official archives, private collections, and veterans--most of them never seen before • Used copies of the out-of-print earlier edition sell for more than $900 • A treasure trove for historians, buffs, modelers, and wargamers

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Stackpole Books

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0811714047

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9780811714044

Jacques Derrida

A Biography

By: Jason Powell

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Jacques Derrida

A Biography

By: Jason Powell

At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. Deconstruction, the movement that he founded, has received as much criticism as admiration and provoked one of the most contentious philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Jacques Derrida: A Biography offers for the first time a complete biographical overview of this important philosopher, drawing on Derrida's own accounts of his life as well as the narratives of friends and colleagues. Powell explores Derrida's early life in Algeria, his higher education in Paris and his development as a thinker. Jacques Derrida: A Biography provides an essential and engaging account of this major philosopher's remarkable life and work.

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A&C Black

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0826490026

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Insiders' Guide® to Twin Cities

By: Jason Gabler

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Insiders' Guide® to Twin Cities

By: Jason Gabler

Insiders' Guide to Twin Cities is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities and the surrounding environs.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762766514

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The Future of Music

Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything

By: Guerino Mazzola,Jason Noer,Yan Pang,Shuhui Yao,Jay Afrisando,Christopher Rochester,William Neace

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The Future of Music

Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything

By: Guerino Mazzola,Jason Noer,Yan Pang,Shuhui Yao,Jay Afrisando,Christopher Rochester,William Neace

The idea of this monograph is to present an overview of decisive theoretical, computational, technological, aesthetical, artistic, economical, and sociological directions to create future music. It features a unique insight into dominant scientific and artistic new directions, which are guaranteed by the authors' prominent publications in books, software, musical, and dance productions. Applying recent research results from mathematical and computational music theory and software as well as new ideas of embodiment approaches and non-Western music cultures, this book presents new composition methods and technologies. Mathematical, computational, and semiotic models of artistic presence (imaginary time, gestural creativity) as well as strategies are also covered. This book will be of interest to composers, music technicians, and organizers in the internet-based music industry, who are offered concrete conceptual architectures and tools for their future strategies in musical creativity and production.

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Springer Nature

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3030397092

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Render Unto Rome

The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church

By: Jason Berry

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Render Unto Rome

The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church

By: Jason Berry

AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.

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0385531346

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What Pets Do While You're at Work

By: Jason Bergund,Bev West,Beverly West

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What Pets Do While You're at Work

By: Jason Bergund,Bev West,Beverly West

The unauthorized album of caught-in-the-act photos your beloved furry ones never meant you to see, WHAT PETS DO WHILE YOU'RE AT WORK reveals for the first time what your pets are really up to while you're away. And it's not all good clean fun!" -- page 4 of cover.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416547568

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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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149630828X

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9781496308283

Patina

By: Jason Reynolds

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Patina

By: Jason Reynolds

A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this New York Times bestselling follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons—to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. She runs from the reason WHY she’s not able to live with her “real” mom anymore: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom’s legs will one day take her away forever. And so Patty’s also running for her mom, who can’t. But can you ever really run away from any of this? As the stress builds, it’s building up a pretty bad attitude as well. Coach won’t tolerate bad attitude. No day, no way. And now he wants Patty to run relay…where you have to depend on other people? How’s she going to do THAT?

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1481450204

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Strangers and Misfits

Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany

By: Jason Coy

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Strangers and Misfits

Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany

By: Jason Coy

Banishment was crucial to law enforcement in early modern Europe, as magistrates used expulsion to punish and control thousands of offenders convicted of crimes ranging from adultery to theft. While early modern social control has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, banishment has been largely neglected. This book examines the role of banishment in sixteenth-century Ulm, an important south German city-state, using the town’s experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society. This investigation sheds new light on the application of authority, the intersection between official disciplinary efforts and customary behavioral norms, and the function of public expulsion in displaying and defending social hierarchies, issues central to our historical understanding of the period.

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BRILL

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9047442792

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Toxicology Handbook

By: Jason Armstrong,Ovidiu Pascu

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Toxicology Handbook

By: Jason Armstrong,Ovidiu Pascu

- Expanded information on agents that are seen with increasing frequency in poisoned patients, including lamotrigine and pregabalin - Updated detail on the management of agents including direct oral anticoagulants, digoxin, desvenlafaxine and corrosives - Updated and standardised treatment recommendations for dysrhythmias, particularly resulting from drug-induced conduction abnormalities (QRS and QT prolongation) - Simplified and standardised approaches to management (particularly cardiovascular toxicity from a variety of agents)

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729589315

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Riots Of Passage

By: Jason McGathey

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Riots Of Passage

By: Jason McGathey

In this highly anticipated follow-up to his memoir "One Hundred Virgins," the author continues to document in riotous fashion life on a major college campus, in a major U.S. city. Though specifically Ohio State University and Columbus, Ohio, in a sense the particulars don't matter because such experiences, though often outrageous, are universal ones. Joined by his familiar cast of fellow reprobates, along with a healthy crop of fresh recruits, this crew closes out their final year exploring campus. If the first six months were centered around discovery, then this epoch finds them operating under the banner of refinement and expansion. As always, the journey is nothing if not wildly unpredictable, and a continual reminder that it's often best to just start running, with no end goal in sight. "If I had to describe how any of us, and certainly yours truly, ever manages to accomplish anything," McGathey observes in these passages, "I would say it runs something like this: we start down a hallway toward the object of our desire at the other end, but a rug is pulled out from under us, just about on a daily basis, before we get anywhere near it. Yet every so often, after landing on the floor, you happen to spot this secret passage in the wall that you never would have noticed otherwise. Certainly not by remaining back on the starting block. And this passage commonly leads to something as good as or even better than what you originally mapped.

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Exquisite Noise Publishing

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167371787X

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Fun City Cinema

New York City and the Movies that Made It

By: Jason Bailey

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Fun City Cinema

New York City and the Movies that Made It

By: Jason Bailey

A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and resurrection of New York City was captured and chronicled in ten iconic Gotham films across ten decades: The Jazz Singer (1927), King Kong (1933), The Naked City (1948), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Taxi Driver (1976), Wall Street (1987), Kids (1995), 25th Hour (2002), and Frances Ha (2012). A visual history of a great American city in flux, Fun City Cinema reveals how these classic films and legendary filmmakers took their inspiration from New York City’s grittiness and splendor, creating what we can now view as “accidental documentaries” of the city’s modes and moods. In addition to the extensively researched and reported text, the book includes both historical photographs and production materials, as well as still-frames, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, and original interviews with Noah Baumbach, Larry Clark, Greta Gerwig, Walter Hill, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Westfeldt. Extensive "Now Playing" sidebars spotlight a handful of each decade’s additional films of note.

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Abrams

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1647004691

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Weapons

Designing the Tools of War

By: Jason Richie

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Weapons

Designing the Tools of War

By: Jason Richie

Traces the development of weapons through the lives of such inventors and their inventions as David Bushnell and the submarine, Samuel Colt and the revolver, John Ericsson and the battleship, Hiram Maxim and the machine gun, and Ernest Swinton and the tank.

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Oliver PressInc

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1881508609

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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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Infection Control, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

By: Jason Stull

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Infection Control, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

By: Jason Stull

Drs. Stull and Weese have assembled an expert panel of authors on the topic of Infection Control. Articles include: Hospital-associated infections, Surgical site infections, Surveillance for Hospital-associated infections, Hand hygiene and contact precautions, Patient management, Environmental cleaning and disinfection, Equipment cleaning and disinfection, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Worker safety, Zoonotic disease and infection control and Legal implications of zoonotic disease transmission for veterinary practices.

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0323356923

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9780323356923

Randy Orton

By: Jason D. Nemeth

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Randy Orton

By: Jason D. Nemeth

Randy Orton was born into one of the greatest professional wrestling families of all time. With a father, grandfather, and uncle who had all wrestled, it seemed natural that Randy Orton would follow in their footsteps. Learn how he claimed his destiny as the future of pro wrestling.

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1429633484

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Creativity and Theory in Musicianship

By: Guerino Mazzola,Yan Pang,Jason "J-Sun" Noer,Jordon Goebel

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Creativity and Theory in Musicianship

By: Guerino Mazzola,Yan Pang,Jason "J-Sun" Noer,Jordon Goebel

This book fills a gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. This frequently observed gap fixes theory as a rigidified level of thought, where creativity is excluded from a canonized corpus of ideas. Creativity, on the other hand, is preconceived as a theory-less, wild activity that blossoms while performing pre-composed musical structures. This book provides a discussion of the creative drive in theory and theory-inspired thoughts while understanding how these ideas shape performance. The future of music is only as limited as one’s imagination, and, to this end, the text illuminates examples of creative musicianship.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527501574

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Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law

By: Jason Mazzone

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Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law

By: Jason Mazzone

Intellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformed—but not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching by publishers, producers, artists, and others who abuse intellectual property law by claiming stronger rights than the law actually gives them. From copyfraud—like phony copyright notices attached to the U.S. Constitution—to lawsuits designed to prevent people from poking fun at Barbie, from controversies over digital sampling in hip-hop to Major League Baseball's ubiquitous restriction on sharing any "accounts and descriptions of this game," overreaching claims of intellectual property rights are everywhere. Overreaching interferes with legitimate uses and reproduction of a wide variety of works, imposes enormous social and economic costs, and ultimately undermines creative endeavors. As this book reveals, the solution is not to change the scope or content of intellectual property rights, but to create mechanisms to prevent people asserting rights beyond those they legitimately possess. While there are many other books on intellectual property, this is the first to examine overreaching as a distinct problem and to show how to solve it. Jason Mazzone makes a series of timely proposals by which government, organizations, and ordinary people can stand up to creators and content providers when they seek to grab more than the law gives them.

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Stanford University Press

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0804779155

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Executive's Guide to Solvency II

By: David Buckham,Jason Wahl,Stuart Rose

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Executive's Guide to Solvency II

By: David Buckham,Jason Wahl,Stuart Rose

A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive′s Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insurers can meet their risk–based liabilities over a one–year period to a 99.5% certainty. Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series, this book will guide you through Solvency II, especially if you need to understand the subtleties of Solvency II and risk–based capital in basic business language. Among the topics covered in this essential book are: Background to Solvency II Learning from the Basel Approach The Economic Balance Sheet Internal Models People, Process, and Technology Business Benefits of Solvency II Executive′s Guide to Solvency II has as its aim an explanation for executives, practitioners, consultants, and others interested in the Solvency II process and the implications thereof, to understand how and why the directive originated, what its goals are, and what some of the complexities are. There is an emphasis on what in practice should be leveraged upon to achieve implementation, specifically data, processes, and systems, as well as recognition of the close alignment demanded between actuaries, the risk department, IT, and the business itself.

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0470925701

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9780470925706

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