Jeffrey Olen's Books

Big Dark Hole

and Other Stories

By: Jeffrey Ford

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World Fantasy Award finalist It sounds innocuous. The routine world of college teaching. Quiet evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it’s an unexpected light in a dark and uninhabited house, maybe it’s a drainage tunnel that some poor kid is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there’s a monkey in the woods or an angel that you’ll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's stunning new collection Big Dark Hole is about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while and maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.

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Small Beer Press

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1618731858

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9781618731852

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

By: Jeffrey T. Richelson

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Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

By: Jeffrey T. Richelson

Spying on the Bomb is an "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions. A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more than sixty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952 the nuclear club has grown to at least nine nations, while others are making serious attempts to join. Each chapter of Spying on the Bomb chronologically focuses on the nuclear activities of one or more countries, intermingling what the United States believed was happening with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's laboratories, test sites, and decision-making councils. Jeffrey T. Richelson weaves recently declassified documents into his interviews with the scientists and spies involved in the nuclear espionage. Spying on the Bomb reveals new information about U.S. intelligence work on the Soviet/Russian, French, Chinese, Indian, Israeli, and South African nuclear programs; on the attempts to solve the mysterious Vela Incident; and on current efforts to uncover the nuclear secrets of Iran and North Korea. The book also includes spy satellite photographs never before extracted from the national archives.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393244024

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9780393244021

Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Jeffrey W. Hunter

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Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Jeffrey W. Hunter

Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

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Contemporary Literary Criticis

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0787646318

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9780787646318

Care and Commitment

Taking the Personal Point of View

By: Jeffrey Blustein

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Care and Commitment

Taking the Personal Point of View

By: Jeffrey Blustein

In this book, Blustein presents the first study of an ethics of care, offering a detailed exploration of human "care" in its various guises: concern for and commitment to individuals, ideals, and causes. Blustein focuses on the nature and value of personal integrity and intimacy, and on the questions they raise for traditional moral theory. Among the topics considered are: what is the nature of caring as such? what do we (and should we) care about? what is implied by the claim that caring supports a sense of the meaningfulness of our lives? how does caring benefit the one who cares and what is the good of care? how do we care about caring? Clearly and accessibly written, this book takes a fresh look at the issues surrounding personal values and relationships.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195067991

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9780195067996

West's Encyclopedia of American Law

By: Jeffrey Lehman,Shirelle Phelps

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West's Encyclopedia of American Law

By: Jeffrey Lehman,Shirelle Phelps

Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

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Gale Cengage

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0787663670

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9780787663674

Sparing Nature

The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity

By: Jeffrey K. McKee

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Sparing Nature

The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity

By: Jeffrey K. McKee

Are humans too good at adapting to the earth's natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet--that's 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth's plant and animal communities? Jeffrey K. McKee contends yes. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people. The author probes the past to find that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture. Today entire ecosystems are in peril due to the relentless growth of the human population. McKee gives a guided tour of the interconnections within the living world to reveal the meaning and value of biodiversity, making the maze of technical research and scientific debates accessible to the general reader. Because it is clear that conservation cannot be left to the whims of changing human priorities, McKee takes the unabashedly neo-Malthusian position that the most effective measure to save earth's biodiversity is to slow the growth of human populations. By conscientiously becoming more responsible about our reproductive habits and our impact on other living beings, we can ensure that nature's services will make our lives not only supportable, but also sustainable for this century and beyond.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813535581

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9780813535586

The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

By: Craig ZumBrunnen,Jeffrey Osleeb

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The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

By: Craig ZumBrunnen,Jeffrey Osleeb

In this empirically based study, ZumBrunnen and Osleeb present a current, comprehensive, and in-depth view of Soviet heavy industry capacity and suggest that significant changes in production locations and manufacturing efficiency levels are warranted. Using a mathematical model to analyze the optimal locations for Soviet iron and steel production, they predict probable shifts in industry locations, output, and processes at both existing locations and future centers up to the year 1990.

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Government Institutes

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0865981582

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9780865981584

Gun Control

Restricting Rights Or Protecting People?

By: Jeffrey Ferro

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Gun Control

Restricting Rights Or Protecting People?

By: Jeffrey Ferro

An up-to-date examination of guns and gun control emphasizing laws, regulations, and ordinances, court rulings, and public attitudes with a focus on the pros and cons of gun control.

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0787653942

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9780787653941

Nonparametric Econometrics

Theory and Practice

By: Qi Li,Jeffrey Scott Racine

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Nonparametric Econometrics

Theory and Practice

By: Qi Li,Jeffrey Scott Racine

This is a graduate textbook for econometricians and statisticians containing developments in the field. It emphasises nonparametric methods for real world problems containing the mix of discrete and continuous data found in many applications.

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Princeton University Press

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0691121613

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9780691121611

Applying Ethics

a textbook with readings

By: Jeffrey Olen,Vincent E. Barry,Julie Van Camp

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Applying Ethics

a textbook with readings

By: Jeffrey Olen,Vincent E. Barry,Julie Van Camp

A perennial bestseller, APPLYING ETHICS: A TEXT WITH READINGS introduces students to ethics via a well-proven formula of engaging commentary, seminal readings, and thought-provoking cases drawn from a wide range of contemporary social debates. Providing readers with a basic overview of the most important ethical theories in the first chapter, each subsequent chapter takes a contemporary ethical issue as its focus. Guided by the authors' extensive introductions-with readings exhibiting divergent positions and particularly timely cases-APPLYING ETHICS provides students with a model for considering critically many of the ethical dilemmas that abound in contemporary life.

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0495103438

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9780495103431

Edgar Allan Poe's Petersburg

The Untold Story of the Raven in the Cockade City

By: Jeffrey Abugel

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Edgar Allan Poe's Petersburg

The Untold Story of the Raven in the Cockade City

By: Jeffrey Abugel

Visit the Virginia city where the great author brought his thirteen-year-old bride for a honeymoon. Antebellum Petersburg was a melting pot of French, Haitian, Scotch-Irish, and free black populations. It was in this eclectic city that the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, chose to take his new wife, thirteen-year-old first cousin Virginia Clemm, on their honeymoon in 1836. This book traces the steps of the controversial couple through imaginative scenes of historic Petersburg. From Poe’s own mother performing in the local venues to the poet’s lasting friendship with Petersburg native and publisher Hiram Haines, it reveals an overlooked moment in the young life of this literary giant. Includes photos

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614238588

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Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

By: Robert Wyllie,Jeffrey S. Hyams,Marsha Kay

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Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

By: Robert Wyllie,Jeffrey S. Hyams,Marsha Kay

Now with full-color illustrations throughout, dozens of new review questions, and state-of-the-art coverage of this fast-changing area, Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 6th Edition, remains the leading text in the field. You'll find definitive guidance on diagnosis and treatment from experienced editors Drs. Robert Wyllie, Jeffrey S. Hyams, and Marsha Kay, as well as globally renowned contributors who share their knowledge and expertise on complex issues. - Features an enhanced art program with full-color anatomical figures, clinical photos, and other illustrations throughout the text. - Includes a new chapter on fecal transplantation (FCT), covering donor and recipient screening, preparation, delivery, follow-up, and safety considerations, as well as investigative uses for FCT for disorders such as IBD, IBS, and D-lactic acidosis. - Prepares you for certification and recertification with more than 400 board review-style questions, answers, and rationales – 30% new to this edition. - Includes detailed diagrams that accurately illustrate complex concepts and provide at-a-glance recognition of disease processes. - Contains numerous algorithms that provide quick and easy retrieval of diagnostic, screening, and treatment information. - Provides up-to-date information on indigenous flora and the gut microbiome and clinical correlations to treatment, as well as advancements in liver transplantation including split liver transplantation (SLT) and living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). - Details key procedures such as esophagogastroduodenoscopy and related techniques; colonoscopy and polypectomy; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; capsule endoscopy and small bowel enteroscopy; gastrointestinal pathology; and more.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323672949

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9780323672948

Partial Differential Equations

By: Jeffrey Rauch

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Partial Differential Equations

By: Jeffrey Rauch

This book is based on a course I have given five times at the University of Michigan, beginning in 1973. The aim is to present an introduction to a sampling of ideas, phenomena, and methods from the subject of partial differential equations that can be presented in one semester and requires no previous knowledge of differential equations. The problems, with hints and discussion, form an important and integral part of the course. In our department, students with a variety of specialties-notably differenƯ tial geometry, numerical analysis, mathematical physics, complex analysis, physics, and partial differential equations-have a need for such a course. The goal of a one-term course forces the omission of many topics. Everyone, including me, can find fault with the selections that I have made. One of the things that makes partial differential equations difficult to learn is that it uses a wide variety of tools. In a short course, there is no time for the leisurely development of background material. Consequently, I suppose that the reader is trained in advanced calculus, real analysis, the rudiments of complex analysis, and the language offunctional analysis. Such a background is not unusual for the students mentioned above. Students missing one of the "essentials" can usually catch up simultaneously. A more difficult problem is what to do about the Theory of Distributions

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387974725

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9780387974729

The Vampire Film

Undead Cinema

By: Jeffrey Weinstock

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The Vampire Film

Undead Cinema

By: Jeffrey Weinstock

This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organised by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is invariably about sex and the vexed human relationship with technology, and that the vampire is always an overdetermined body condensing what a culture considers other. This volume includes in-depth studies of films including Powell's A Fool There Was, Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, Cronenberg's Rabid, Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, and Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.

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0231850034

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9780231850032

Marginal Models in Analysis of Correlated Binary Data with Time Dependent Covariates

By: Jeffrey R. Wilson,Elsa Vazquez-Arreola,(Din) Ding-Geng Chen

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Marginal Models in Analysis of Correlated Binary Data with Time Dependent Covariates

By: Jeffrey R. Wilson,Elsa Vazquez-Arreola,(Din) Ding-Geng Chen

This monograph provides a concise point of research topics and reference for modeling correlated response data with time-dependent covariates, and longitudinal data for the analysis of population-averaged models, highlighting methods by a variety of pioneering scholars. While the models presented in the volume are applied to health and health-related data, they can be used to analyze any kind of data that contain covariates that change over time. The included data are analyzed with the use of both R and SAS, and the data and computing programs are provided to readers so that they can replicate and implement covered methods. It is an excellent resource for scholars of both computational and methodological statistics and biostatistics, particularly in the applied areas of health.

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3030489043

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Moral Freedom

By: Jeffrey Olen

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Moral Freedom

By: Jeffrey Olen

Moral Freedom reconciles three apparently inconsistent truisms about morality: first, moral rules are society's rules; second, morality is a matter of individual choice: and third, some things are wrong regardless of what any society or individual has to say. In developing a moral theory that accommodates all three truisms, Jeffrey Olen offers a view of morality that allows individuals a generous degree of moral freedom.The author explores various answers to the question, "Does anybody or anything have any moral authority over how I live my life?" His answer is "No." In a lively, conversational style, Olen leads the reader through the arguments, examples, and exceptions that contribute to this conclusion. Along the way, he contends that what most philosophers call the moral point of view, but what he refers to as the impersonal moral point of view, is but one of two moral points of view. The other is the personal moral point of view, which Olen defends against the allegedly overriding demands of impersonal morality.Moral Freedom considers the work of philosophers as diverse as Kant, Nietzsche, Kurt Baier, Bernard Williams, and Daniel Dennett. Admitting that this is a personal discussion of the nature of morality, Olen claims the "freedom" to engage these intellectual issues in a personal style to illustrate the personal moral point of view that he champions. Author note: Jeffrey Olen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

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Big Dark Hole

Big Dark Hole

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Care and Commitment

Care and Commitment

West's Encyclopedia of American Law

West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Sparing Nature

Sparing Nature

The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

Gun Control

Gun Control

Nonparametric Econometrics

Nonparametric Econometrics

Applying Ethics

Applying Ethics

Edgar Allan Poe's Petersburg

Edgar Allan Poe's Petersburg

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

Partial Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations

The Vampire Film

The Vampire Film

Marginal Models in Analysis of Correlated Binary Data with Time Dependent Covariates

Marginal Models in Analysis of Correlated Binary Data with Time Dependent Covariates

Moral Freedom

Moral Freedom

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