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The Roswell Legacy

The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

By: Jesse Marcel,Linda Marcel

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The Roswell Legacy

The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

By: Jesse Marcel,Linda Marcel

Enhanced with photos and illustrations, this account tells what intellegence officer Major Jesse Marcel witnessed at Roswell prior to and after the crash of the most controversial UFO in U.S. history, including the physical characteristics of the craft and the items found at the debris field.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601630263

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9781601630261

Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

By: Jesse Matz

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Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

By: Jesse Matz

This 2001 study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied modernist writers such as James, Conrad and Woolf.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521803527

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The Roswell Legacy

The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

By: Jesse Marcel,Linda Marcel

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The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

By: Jesse Marcel,Linda Marcel

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Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century

By: Jesse Schotter

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Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century

By: Jesse Schotter

Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474424791

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Lasting Impressions

The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture

By: Jesse Matz

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Lasting Impressions

The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture

By: Jesse Matz

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely "impressionistic" about culture today. Jesse Matz considers these two legacies—the positive and the negative—to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.

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Columbia University Press

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0231543050

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9780231543057

New York

By: Jesse Zuba,Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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New York

By: Jesse Zuba,Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Discusses New York City as a source of inspiration as well as a home to writers throughout history.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438115563

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9781438115566

Gut Reactions

A Perceptual Theory of Emotion

By: Jesse J. Prinz

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Gut Reactions

A Perceptual Theory of Emotion

By: Jesse J. Prinz

Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of concern. This proposal, which Prinz calls the embodied appraisal theory, reconciles the long standing debate between those who say emotions are cognitive and those who say they are noncognitive. The basic idea behind embodied appraisals is captured in the familiar notion of a "gut reaction," which has been overlooked by much emotion research. Prinz also addresses emotional valence, emotional consciousness, and the debate between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists.

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Oxford University Press

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0199882258

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9780199882250

The Blue Period

Black Writing in the Early Cold War

By: Jesse McCarthy

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The Blue Period

Black Writing in the Early Cold War

By: Jesse McCarthy

To be a Black writer in the early years of the Cold War was to face a stark predicament. On the one hand, revolutionary Communism promised egalitarianism and lit the sparks of anticolonial struggle, but was hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand, the great force opposing the Soviets at midcentury was itself the very fountainhead of racial prejudice, represented in the United States by Jim Crow. Jesse McCarthy argues that Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right and channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both US racial liberalism and Soviet Communism. Ranging from the end of World War II to the rise of Black Power in the 1960s, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Gwendolyn Brooks and Paule Marshall and others, Jesse McCarthy shows how Black writers defined a distinctive moment in American literary culture that McCarthy calls "the Blue Period.""--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832171

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9780226832173

Modernist Time Ecology

By: Jesse Matz

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Modernist Time Ecology

By: Jesse Matz

Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421426994

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9781421426990

PULCHRISM: Championing Beauty as The Purpose of Art

By: Jesse Waugh

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PULCHRISM: Championing Beauty as The Purpose of Art

By: Jesse Waugh

Pulchrism is an art movement founded by Jesse Waugh which champions Beauty as the purpose of art. "Pulchrism: Championing Beauty as The Purpose of Art" illustrates - with images and words - the core meaning and value of the Pulchrist movement. Pulchrism realizes the highest, ultimate, and most absolute Truth - that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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JESSE WAUGH

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1943730040

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9781943730049

Line Color Form

The Language of Art and Design

By: Jesse Day

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Line Color Form

The Language of Art and Design

By: Jesse Day

Design students today are more visually literate than ever before, and their learning style naturally favors the visual over the textual. So why should they learn art and design theory from a traditional textbook? The only guide of its kind, Line Color Form offers a thorough introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. With hundreds of illustrations and minimal text, this primer was created with visual learners in mind, making it ideal for art students as well as those for whom English is a second language. Each chapter focuses on a single aspect of visual composition, such as line, color, or material. After an illustrated discussion of fundamental vocabulary, the chapters move on to applications of the concepts covered. These applications are again demonstrated through images, including photographs, color wheels, significant works of art, and other visual aids. Each image is accompanied by a descriptive paragraph offering an example of how the vocabulary can be applied in visual analysis. The book culminates with a section on formal analysis, aimed at teaching readers how to express their observations in formal writing and critical discourse. With its emphasis on the visual, this unique guide is a highly effective learning tool, allowing readers to gain an ownership and mastery of terms that will benefit them academically and professionally. Whether you are a design educator, student, or professional, native or non-native English speaker, this bright and concise reference is a must.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621532801

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9781621532804

The Experimental Group

Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

By: Matthew Jesse Jackson

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The Experimental Group

Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

By: Matthew Jesse Jackson

Matthew Jesse Jackson's writing and quality of mind put him in the forefront of the next wave in modern art studies." Thomas E. Crow, Institute of Fine Arts --

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University of Chicago Press

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0226389413

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9780226389417

Pay Without Performance

The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

By: Lucian A. Bebchuk,Jesse M. Fried

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Pay Without Performance

The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

By: Lucian A. Bebchuk,Jesse M. Fried

The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives. This book identifies basic problems with our current reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do. Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity and improving corporate performance.

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Harvard University Press

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0674020634

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9780674020634

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.

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Princeton University Press

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1400821665

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9781400821662

Cry for Health, Volume 1, Health

The Casualty of Modern Times

By: Jesse Sleeman

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Cry for Health, Volume 1, Health

The Casualty of Modern Times

By: Jesse Sleeman

Since the 1950s the prevalence of the so-called 'diseases of civilisation' has continued to skyrocket in Western countries. Today, as the same story is beginning to be repeated in newly industrialised nations, modern diseases are reaching pandemic proportions. Why has this happened? The medical profession's spin is that the culprit is the aging of the population. But, as Cry for Health (Vol 1) reveals, there is overwhelming evidence for why our populations are ailing, evidence health authorities and governments have chosen to ignore, or have refused to acknowledge, or have kept hidden from the public to keep them clueless to the real culprits: many modern technologies and our modern lifestyles.

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Lulu.com

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0646552163

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9780646552163

The Era of Interactive Media

By: Jesse S. Jin,Changsheng Xu,Min Xu

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The Era of Interactive Media

By: Jesse S. Jin,Changsheng Xu,Min Xu

Interactive Media is a new research field and a landmark in multimedia development. The Era of Interactive Media is an edited volume contributed from world experts working in academia, research institutions and industry. The Era of Interactive Media focuses mainly on Interactive Media and its various applications. This book also covers multimedia analysis and retrieval; multimedia security rights and management; multimedia compression and optimization; multimedia communication and networking; and multimedia systems and applications. The Era of Interactive Media is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers working in the field of multimedia. Advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering will also find this book useful as a secondary text or reference.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461435013

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9781461435013

Art History For Dummies

By: Jesse Bryant Wilder

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Art History For Dummies

By: Jesse Bryant Wilder

Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let’s (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history’s greatest painters, sculptors, and architects. In Art History For Dummies, we’ll take you on a journey through fine art from all eras, from Cave Art to the Colosseum, and from Michelangelo to Picasso and the modern masters. Along the way, you’ll learn about how history has influenced art, and vice versa. This updated edition includes: Brand new material on a wider array of renowned female artists Explorations of the Harlem Renaissance, American Impressionism, and the Precisionists Discussions of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and today’s eclectic art scene Is there an exhibition in your town you want to see? Prep before going with Art History For Dummies and show your friends what an Art Smartie you are. An unbeatable reference for anyone looking to build a foundational understanding of art in a historical context, Art History For Dummies is your personal companion that makes fine art even finer!

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John Wiley & Sons

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111986867X

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9781119868675

Meetings of Stockholders

By: R. Franklin Balotti,Jesse A. Finkelstein,Gregory P. Williams

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Meetings of Stockholders

By: R. Franklin Balotti,Jesse A. Finkelstein,Gregory P. Williams

Annotation In one comprehensive volume, you get all the information & guidance necessary to advise, plan, & run corporate shareholder meetings efficiently & effectively including up-to-date coverage of the latest SEC rules & regulations, recent DOL interpretations concerning institutional investors, case law developments, & emerging trends in shareholder actions. Comprehensive, authoritative, & practical, MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS covers every key topic relating to stockholder meetings, from the laws & regulations to the mechanics of running the meeting, including: Selection of the meeting location Preparation of the chair & officers Creating an agenda Meeting notice requirements The right to inspect the shareholder list Statutory criteria for eligibility Preparing proxy materials Proxy eligible securities Disclosure requirements Institutional investor issues Handling shareholder proposals Personal claims & grievances Exceptions to Rule 14a-8, rules governing meeting conduct Dealing with the disorderly stockholder Voting rights of shares & stockholders Quorum, counting & reporting the vote Tabulation of proxies Action by written consent Defensive strategies to defeat shareholder consent solicitations Director removal problems And more.

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Wolters Kluwer

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1567062768

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Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations

By: Jesse Dillon Savage

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Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations

By: Jesse Dillon Savage

Why do political actors willingly give up sovereignty to another state, or choose to resist, sometimes to the point of violence? Jesse Dillon Savage demonstrates the role that domestic politics plays in the formation of international hierarchies, and shows that when there are high levels of rent-seeking and political competition within the subordinate state, elites within this state become more prepared to accept hierarchy. In such an environment, members of society at large are also more likely to support the surrender of sovereignty. Empirically rich, the book adopts a comparative historical approach with an emphasis on Russian attempts to establish hierarchy in post-Soviet space, particularly in Georgia and Ukraine. This emphasis on post-Soviet hierarchy is complemented by a cross-national statistical study of hierarchy in the post WWII era, and three historical case studies examining European informal empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108786677

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Unknown New York

An Artist Uncovers the City's Hidden Treasures

By: Jesse Richards

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Unknown New York

An Artist Uncovers the City's Hidden Treasures

By: Jesse Richards

An intrepid and gifted artist uncovers and illustrates more than 100 surprising, enchanting, and sometimes downright bizarre nooks and crannies that make New York such a compelling city. It’s no surprise that New York City is the most visited destination in the U.S., and has proved itself to be an endlessly fascinating exploration ground to visitors and natives alike. Unknown New York walks readers through the vibrant, hidden, and forgotten worlds churning beneath the surface of the city. From the oldest bridge -- a footbridge described as a “red sidewalk through the sky” -- to a quirky and little-known Superhero Supply Store in Brooklyn to the original and abandoned Hall of Fame in the Bronx, the author takes us on a magical mystery tour through the city many people think they know. Each entry presents a brief and compelling description of a hidden park, historical site, niche shop, etc and is accompanied by a charming four-color illustration by the author. Divided into chapters titled Hidden History, Humble Parks, On the Street, Shopping Spree, Quiet Realms, Central Park, and Excusions, Jesse Richards reveals to us such extraordinary sites as the first Hall of Fame, a church where an attempted assassination took place in the 1800’s, a part of the Bronx that resembles Capri, the many pocket parks hidden in plain sight, the less frequented corners of Central Park, unusual shops conveying surprising items for all ages, a waterfall tunnel in midtown, and so much more. Also included are curated walks to lead you to several sites in an afternoon. There’s a Downtown River Walk, Neighborhood Parks Walk, Midtown Book-Lover’s Walk, and a Hidden Central Park Walk.

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Workman Publishing Company

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1523524138

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The Tactics of Toleration

A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars

By: Jesse Spohnholz

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The Tactics of Toleration

A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars

By: Jesse Spohnholz

The Tactics of Toleration examines the preconditions and limits of toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along religious lines. During the Age of Religious Wars, refugee communities in borderland towns like the Rhineland city of Wesel were remarkably religiously diverse and culturally heterogeneous places. Examining religious life from the perspective of Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Catholics, this book examines how residents dealt with pluralism during an age of deep religious conflict and intolerance. Based on sources that range from theological treatises to financial records and from marriage registries to testimonies before secular and ecclesiastical courts, this project offers new insights into the strategies that ordinary people developed for managing religious pluralism during the Age of Religious Wars. Historians have tended to emphasize the ways in which people of different faiths created and reinforced religious differences in the generations after the Reformation’s break-up of Christianity, usually in terms of long-term historical narratives associated with modernization, including state building, confessionalization, and the subsequent rise of religious toleration after a century of religious wars. In contrast, Jesse Spohnholz demonstrates that although this was a time when Christians were engaged in a series of brutal religious wars against one another, many were also learning more immediate and short-term strategies to live alongside one another. This book considers these “tactics for toleration” from the vantage point of religious immigrants and their hosts, who learned to coexist despite differences in language, culture, and religion. It demands that scholars reconsider toleration, not only as an intellectual construct that emerged out of the Enlightenment, but also as a dynamic set of short-term and often informal negotiations between ordinary people, regulating the limits of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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1644531526

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Try Not to Suck

The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon

By: Bill Chastain,Jesse Rogers,Ben Zobrist

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Try Not to Suck

The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon

By: Bill Chastain,Jesse Rogers,Ben Zobrist

With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissecting that mystique which makes Maddon so popular with players and analysts alike. Packed with insight, anecdotes, and little-known facts, this is the definitive account of the curse-breaker and trailblazer at the helm of the Cubs' new era.

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Triumph Books

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163319857X

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The Art of Game Design

A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

By: Jesse Schell

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The Art of Game Design

A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

By: Jesse Schell

Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner: Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.

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CRC Press

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1466598670

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9781466598676

Rings, Modules, and Closure Operations

By: Jesse Elliott

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Rings, Modules, and Closure Operations

By: Jesse Elliott

This book presents a systematic exposition of the various applications of closure operations in commutative and noncommutative algebra. In addition to further advancing multiplicative ideal theory, the book opens doors to the various uses of closure operations in the study of rings and modules, with emphasis on commutative rings and ideals. Several examples, counterexamples, and exercises further enrich the discussion and lend additional flexibility to the way in which the book is used, i.e., monograph or textbook for advanced topics courses.

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Springer Nature

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3030244016

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9783030244019

The Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

By: Jesse Oak Taylor

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The Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

By: Jesse Oak Taylor

The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau "smog" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry. Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism

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University of Virginia Press

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0813937949

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9780813937946

Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar Ghanaian rhythms. Living the Hiplife is an ethnographic account of hiplife in Ghana and its diaspora, based on extensive research among artists and audiences in Accra, Ghana's capital city; New York; and London. Jesse Weaver Shipley examines the production, consumption, and circulation of hiplife music, culture, and fashion in relation to broader cultural and political shifts in neoliberalizing Ghana. Shipley shows how young hiplife musicians produce and transform different kinds of value—aesthetic, moral, linguistic, economic—using music to gain social status and wealth, and to become respectable public figures. In this entrepreneurial age, youth use celebrity as a form of currency, aligning music-making with self-making and aesthetic pleasure with business success. Registering both the globalization of electronic, digital media and the changing nature of African diasporic relations to Africa, hiplife links collective Pan-Africanist visions with individualist aspiration, highlighting the potential and limits of social mobility for African youth. The author has also directed a film entitled Living the Hiplife and with two DJs produced mixtapes that feature the music in the book available for free download.

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Duke University Press

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0822395908

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My Life as a Silent Movie

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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My Life as a Silent Movie

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

After a tragic loss, an American woman investigates her birth family in Paris: “The novel’s twists and turns are wonderfully unexpected” (Emma Straub, author of Modern Lovers). In her early forties, Emma has recently lost her husband and daughter to a tragic auto accident. When her elderly aunt visits her Indiana home to provide comfort, and instead blurts out the news that Emma was adopted, a new kind of shock sets in. Soon, a still-mourning Emma finds herself flying to Paris, where she will discover the twin brother whose existence she never knew about, and the identity of her birth parents—a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the relationship between art and life, My Life as a Silent Movie is “a beautiful, evocative novel [that] melds the magic of old movies with the redemptive power of family” (Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise). “In this sharply drawn chronicle of grief, a woman reassembles her identity through her father’s art and her brother’s tenuous offer of a new life . . . Kercheval delves deeply into the rawest of emotions and the most wrenching of choices, richly detailing each twist and turn with grace.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Indiana University Press

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025301025X

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9780253010254

The Catherwood Project

Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters

By: Leandro Katz,Jesse Lerner

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The Catherwood Project

Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters

By: Leandro Katz,Jesse Lerner

The work of Argentine photographer Leandro Katz is presented here in dialogue with the nineteenth-century artist Frederick Catherwood, whose images of Maya ruins have fascinated viewers for more than a century. Catherwood’s daguerreotypes and sketches, originally published to illustrate the travel narratives of John Lloyd Stephens, are among the most accurate depictions of important Maya sites before the advent of modern archaeology. Katz’s photos of the same sites, most of which are previously unpublished, are presented alongside Jesse Lerner’s essay, which explores their connections to the history of archaeology, their resonance in contemporary art, and the evolution of an artist who seamlessly integrates form and content.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826358500

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9780826358509

Skeletal Trauma E-Book

Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction. 2 Vol Set

By: Bruce D. Browner,Jesse Jupiter,Christian Krettek,Paul A Anderson

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Skeletal Trauma E-Book

Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction. 2 Vol Set

By: Bruce D. Browner,Jesse Jupiter,Christian Krettek,Paul A Anderson

Offering expert, comprehensive guidance on the basic science, diagnosis, and treatment of acute musculoskeletal injuries and post-traumatic reconstructive problems, Skeletal Trauma, 6th Edition, brings you fully up to date with current approaches in this challenging specialty. This revised edition is designed to meet the needs of orthopaedic surgeons, residents, fellows, and traumatologists, as well as emergency physicians who treat patients with musculoskeletal trauma. International thought leaders incorporate the latest peer-reviewed literature, technological advances, and practical advice with the goal of optimizing patient outcomes for the full range of traumatic musculoskeletal injuries. - Offers complete coverage of relevant anatomy and biomechanics, mechanisms of injury, diagnostic approaches, treatment options, and associated complications. - Includes eight new chapters dedicated to advances in technology and addressing key problems and procedures, such as Initial Evaluation of the Spine in Trauma Patients, Management of Perioperative Pain Associated with Trauma and Surgery, Chronic Pain Management (fully addressing the opioid epidemic), Understanding and Treating Chronic Osteomyelitis, and more. - Features a complimentary one-year subscription to OrthoEvidence, a global online platform that provides high-quality, peer-reviewed and timely orthopaedic evidence-based summaries of the latest and most relevant literature. Contains unique, critical information on mass casualty incidents and war injuries, with contributions from active duty military surgeons and physicians in collaboration with civilian authors to address injuries caused by road traffic, armed conflict, civil wars, and insurgencies throughout the world. - Features important call out boxes summarizing key points, pearls and pitfalls, and outcomes. - Provides access to nearly 130 instructional videos that demonstrate principles of care and outline detailed surgical procedures. - Contains a wealth of high-quality illustrations, full-color photographs, and diagnostic images. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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