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The Hollywood Story

By: Joel Waldo Finler

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This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.

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Wallflower Press

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1903364663

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The Movie Directors Story

By: Joel Waldo Finler

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The Movie Directors Story

By: Joel Waldo Finler

An account of 140 careers, ranging from studio work-horse to genius, illustrated with photographs of the directors themselves as well as scenes from their most characteristic movies.

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Crescent

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0517480794

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Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

By: J. Christopher Soper,Joel S. Fetzer

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Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

By: J. Christopher Soper,Joel S. Fetzer

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107189438

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From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

By: Joel S. Franks

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From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

By: Joel S. Franks

Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawaiʻi barnstormed the American mainland from 1912 to 1916. During their journeys and after, team leader and star Buck Lai and his teammates encountered racism and colonialism while asserting their humanity in a variety of ways.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978829256

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From Ruby to Golang

A Ruby Programmer’s Guide to Learning Go

By: Joel Bryan Juliano

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From Ruby to Golang

A Ruby Programmer’s Guide to Learning Go

By: Joel Bryan Juliano

Imagine that you like to learn a new programming language, and you start by leveraging what you already know and bridge the gap in learning specific parts of the new language. This book was created on that idea, it starts with using my existing language knowledge and experience to breakdown Go into familiar Ruby concepts and implementations. The first thing I did to learn Go professionally is to relate to what I know in Ruby. I’ve been a professional Ruby programmer since 2009 and in over a decade of professional experience working as a software engineer, I have worked on multiple programming languages. And proven personally that it’s easier to learn a programming concept from something familiar to me. This helps me to learn the new language faster, which also means being productive much faster as well. This book was created on my first-hand experience of learning Go from my existing knowledge and experience in Ruby. The book was carefully thought from ground-up, collecting familiar patterns, abstracts, and analogs in Ruby, and relate it with a proper implementation in Go. By teaching familiar implementations found in Ruby, you will see the correlation between the two languages, establishing familiar concepts to give you enough knowledge to be comfortable with Go and to start programming with it. Go is an easy language to work with, it’s modern, flexible, powerful and fast. It compiles to binary which gives it an ability for a binary distribution that runs on different platforms, and Go has almost in par performance with C, with package support, memory safety, automatic garbage collection and concurrency built-in. And you get all the nice features from a statically typed language, which IDEs can make use of, and so also improving your development workflow. Notable open-source projects are built using Go (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Etherium and Terraform to name a few), this gives you an advantage because those platforms have APIs and SDKs readily available in Go natively for you to use. And many global companies have been using Go in production (i.e. Google, Netflix, Dropbox, Heroku and Uber to name a few), proving that it has been battle-tested and powerful mature language to based your work into. Go is created by an interesting mixed of people. Google is the company that funded Go’s development, and the authors of Go who designed the language are mainly Robert Griese- mer (worked on V8 Javascript Engine, Java HotSpot VM, and the Strongtalk system), Rob Pike (known for Plan 9 and UTF-8), and Ken Thompson (known for Unix, C programming language, Plan 9, UTF-8 and Inferno to name a few). This book will definitely help you get started with Go from your existing Ruby knowledge, and start to hit the ground fast, running!

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Joel Bryan Juliano

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1080944001

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Defined by Moments

Leadership Lessons from Gideon the Biblical Judge

By: Joel E. Medley

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Defined by Moments

Leadership Lessons from Gideon the Biblical Judge

By: Joel E. Medley

Defined by Moments breaks down the life of Gideon into 13 critical decisions that either advanced or diminished his leadership. Defining moments are not the grand successes or failures for which we are remembered but are the moments, hardly noticed by others, that create those public milestones. Gideon’s story is compelling in that he offers a balanced picture of leadership’s highs and lows. This book will challenge the interpretive notion that Gideon was a coward by arguing that he was an ordinary, faith-challenged leader whose defining moments shaped him. Every decision matters, and you will learn strategies to help recognize and act upon your defining moments.

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WestBow Press

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1973694549

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

By: Joel McIver

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

By: Joel McIver

Joel McIver's acclaimed Black Sabbath biography, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, concluded in 2011 that its subjects were at a crossroads. Could Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill manage after over 40 years in business to get back together one more time? After all, the veteran heavy metal musicians were grieving for their fallen comrade Ronnie James Dio and about to face a devastating medical diagnosis for one of their own. McIver's brand-new, updated volume brings the story up to date with the tale of Sabbath's near-miraculous return to form with the Rick Rubin-produced 13 album, which topped charts worldwide on its release in 2013. In true Sabbath style, however, nothing went entirely to plan, with internal arguments, last-minute band-member replacements -- and a genuine fear that this may be Sabbath's very last shot at glory.

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Omnibus Press

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1783231270

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Drawing France

French Comics and the Republic

By: Joel E. Vessels

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Drawing France

French Comics and the Republic

By: Joel E. Vessels

In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips—called bande dessinee or “BD” in French—have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among French-speaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and critical study decades before the academy and the press in the United States embraced comics. The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has traveled. In Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, author Joel E. Vessels examines the trek of BD from it being considered a fomenter of rebellion, to a medium suitable only for semi-literates, to an impediment to education, and most recently to an art capable of addressing social concerns in mainstream culture. In the mid-1800s, alarmists feared political caricatures might incite the ire of an illiterate working class. To counter this notion, proponents yoked the art to a particular articulation of “Frenchness” based on literacy and reason. With the post-World War II economic upswing, French consumers saw BD as a way to navigate the changes brought by modernization. After bande dessinee came to be understood as a compass for the masses, the government, especially Francois Mitterand’s administration, brought comics increasingly into “official” culture. Vessels argues that BD are central to the formation of France’s self-image and a self-awareness of what it means to be French.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628468378

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Dark Persuasion

A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

By: Joel E. Dimsdale

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Dark Persuasion

A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

By: Joel E. Dimsdale

A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century’s major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story—one that hasn’t yet ended.

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Yale University Press

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0300262469

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Shipping Go

Develop, Deliver, Discuss, Design, and Go Again

By: Joel Holmes

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Shipping Go

Develop, Deliver, Discuss, Design, and Go Again

By: Joel Holmes

Build and upgrade an automated software delivery pipeline that supports containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, automated deployment, and more. In Shipping Go you will learn how to: Develop better software based on feedback from customers Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features Reduce bugs with pipeline automation that validates code before it is deployed Establish continuous testing for exceptional code quality Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way Deliver a culture of continuous improvement Shipping Go is a hands-on guide to shipping Go-based software. Author Joel Holmes shows you the easy way to set up development pipelines, fully illustrated with practical examples in the powerful Go language. You’ll put continuous delivery and continuous integration into action, and discover instantly useful guidance on automating your team’s build and reacting with agility to customer demands. Your new pipelines will ferry your projects through production and deployment, and also improve your testing, code quality, and production applications. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology An effective software delivery pipeline automates all stages, from initial design, through development, deployment, and ultimately the usage experience that feeds back into new features and releases. Go embraces the best practices of Continuous Delivery, and adds a few language-specific tools and twists of its own. About the Book Shipping Go shows you how to build Go-specific software development pipelines. You’ll have a basic CI/CD process up and running by the time you finish Chapter 3, along with an iterative process for designing, releasing, and revising your applications. Then, you’ll systematically upgrade your pipeline to support containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, and automated deployment. A set of handy appendices help you translate these valuable practices to Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript applications. What’s Inside Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features Automatically validate code before it is deployed Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way About the Reader For Go developers. About the Author Joel Holmes builds cloud native applications, helping to architect, design, and develop them. A Golang tech lead, Aliénor Latour was the technical editor for this book. Table of Contents PART 1 - STARTUP 1 Delivering value 2 Introducing continuous integration 3 Introducing continuous testing 4 Introducing continuous deployment PART 2 - SCALING 5 Code quality enforcement 6 Testing frameworks, mocking, and dependencies 7 Containerized deployment PART 3 - GOING PUBLIC 8 Configuration management and stable releases 9 Integration testing 10 Advanced deployment 11 The loop

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Simon and Schuster

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1617299502

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Facilities Management

Managing Maintenance for Buildings and Facilities

By: Joel D. Levitt

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Facilities Management

Managing Maintenance for Buildings and Facilities

By: Joel D. Levitt

This book will cover the essential role and responsibilities of the facilities manager as it pertains to building maintenance. Facilities management is a broad-based discipline that calls into play architectural, construction, engineering, and management and human skills, particularly for running and maintaining commercial, institutional, academic, and industrial buildings. If you're a newcomer to facilities management you will find this book an excellent introduction to managing maintenance. Already an established professional? You'll be able to brush up on the latest technological and regulatory trends affecting how complex facilities should be successfully maintained by way of risk assessment. The book contains ample, ready-to-use assessment forms and resources for extended practical information. Highlights include: Coverage of key components of facilities maintenance management including risk management, building safety, operations and purchasing, staffing, and more. Guidance on new trends including 'lean building maintenance' and Green Building specs (Green Spec) like LEED as well as guidance on legal contracts, safety regulations, energy efficiency, and more. The author also details specific management guidance by building type including apartments, office buildings, hotels and resorts, government buildings, schools, transport facilities, and many others.

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Momentum Press

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160650326X

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Love Affairs

The Therapeutic Guide to Sound Thinking and Smart Moves after Infidelity

By: Joel Block Ph.D.

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Love Affairs

The Therapeutic Guide to Sound Thinking and Smart Moves after Infidelity

By: Joel Block Ph.D.

A psychologist specializing in couples therapy provides an honest and compassionate guide to dealing with a spouse's or partner's love affair, from the one-night stand to the grand amour. As a result of innovative technologies and a globalized world, temptation and opportunity often intersect, allowing infidelity to increasingly create problems between spouses, partners, and other couplings in which at least one person expects exclusive intimacy. In this timely work, noted couples therapist Joel Block examines the challenges of affairs, including types of affairs; their motivations and effects; and how to repair and improve a relationship, or part ways, after an affair. Questions addressed include: "What is the motivation?", "Is it a result of deep dissatisfaction? Or not a reflection of the relationship at all?", and "Can relationships be affair-proofed?" Providing vignettes from the author's therapy sessions to illustrate points, the book also explains how to respond to discovery; minimize disruption in the lives of children; and when separation or divorce is the chosen solution, understand new modes of "conscious de-coupling" that keep post-breakup life stable as well as satisfying. A lifeline for recovering from crisis, this text will interest general readers looking for advice to react to, cope with, or avoid infidelity, as well as students and professionals in the fields of psychology, counseling, and social work.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440861552

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DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

By: Walter R. Frontera,Joel A. DeLisa,Bruce M. Gans,Lawrence R. Robinson

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DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

By: Walter R. Frontera,Joel A. DeLisa,Bruce M. Gans,Lawrence R. Robinson

DeLisa’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Principles and Practice presents the most comprehensive review of the state of the art, evidence-based clinical recommendations for physiatric management of disorders affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496374983

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Asian American Basketball

A Century of Sport, Community and Culture

By: Joel S. Franks

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Asian American Basketball

A Century of Sport, Community and Culture

By: Joel S. Franks

When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans actually play basketball. Indeed, long before Lin shook up the NBA, Asian Americans played the game with passion and skill, and many excelled at high school, college and professional hoops. This comprehensive history of Asian American basketball discusses how these players first found a sense of community in the game, and competed despite an atmosphere of anti-Asian bigotry in historical and contemporary America.

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McFarland

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1476620490

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The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits

By: Joel Whitburn

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The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits

By: Joel Whitburn

All the information since the earliest Billboard charts were originally compiled in 1942 is gathered into this one essential reference on country music that has been updated and expanded to capture today's top recording artists and their biggest songs. Original.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0823082911

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Making Harriet

By: Arthur Joel Katz

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Making Harriet

By: Arthur Joel Katz

Jonathan Bendel has shot himself in the foot in Hollywood terms by producing and directing the greatest bomb in motion picture history. Reduced to hustling paddle tennis games on Venice Beach, Jonathan somehow manages to get to write, produce and direct Popcorn and Harriet. This is the story of how he did it, including the bodies he had to step over, the ladies he had to romance, and the lies he had to tell along the way.

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iUniverse

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0595242367

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The Sociology of Consumption

A Global Approach

By: Joel Stillerman

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The Sociology of Consumption

A Global Approach

By: Joel Stillerman

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book’s global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others’ research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745696910

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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

By: Joel Dinerstein

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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

By: Joel Dinerstein

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through eye-opening portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the "white Negro" and black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Out of this mix, Dinerstein sketches nuanced definitions of cool that unite concepts from African-American and Euro-American culture: the stylish stoicism of the ethical rebel loner; the relaxed intensity of the improvising jazz musician; the effortless, physical grace of the Method actor. To be cool is not to be hip and to be hot is definitely not to be cool. This is the first work to trace the history of cool during the Cold War by exploring the intersections of film noir, jazz, existential literature, Method acting, blues, and rock and roll. Dinerstein reveals that they came together to create something completely new—and that something is cool.

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University of Chicago Press

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022659906X

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Australia and Taiwan

Bilateral Relations, China, the United States, and the South Pacific

By: Joel Atkinson

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Australia and Taiwan

Bilateral Relations, China, the United States, and the South Pacific

By: Joel Atkinson

In Australia and Taiwan, Joel Atkinson examines the intriguing and important Australia-Taiwan relationship. He covers its history, the role of Taiwan in Australia’s relations with China and the US, and bilateral issues such as ministerial visits and the South Pacific.

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BRILL

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9004223460

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Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

A History

By: Joel S. Franks

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Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

A History

By: Joel S. Franks

With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end. As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond, with teams like the Hawaiian Travelers barnstorming the States, winning more than they lost against college, semi-pro, and even professional nines. For those who moved to the mainland, baseball eased the transition, helping Asian Pacific Americans create a sense of community and purpose, cross cultural borders, and--for a few--achieve fame.

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McFarland

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0786432918

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Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

By: Joel Bernstein

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Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

By: Joel Bernstein

Polymorphism in chemistry is the existence of multiple crystal structures for one substance. The properties of a substance are determined by its composition and by its structure. This book summarizes and brings up to date the current knowledge and understading of polymorphism of molecular crystals.

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0199655448

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The Unwanted Child

The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

By: Joel F. Harrington

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The Unwanted Child

The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

By: Joel F. Harrington

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society. The Unwanted Child skillfully recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned, neglected, abused, or delinquent children in this critical period. Joel F. Harrington tackles this question by focusing on the stories of five individuals. In vivid and poignant detail, he recounts the experiences of an unmarried mother-to-be, a roaming mercenary who drifts in and out of his children’s lives, a civic leader handling the government’s response to problems arising from unwanted children, a homeless teenager turned prolific thief, and orphaned twins who enter state care at the age of nine. Braiding together these compelling portraits, Harrington uncovers and analyzes the key elements that link them, including the impact of war and the vital importance of informal networks among women. From the harrowing to the inspiring, The Unwanted Child paints a gripping picture of life on the streets five centuries ago.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226317293

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SOA Policy, Service Gateway, and SLA Management

By: Robert Barron,Joel Gauci,Jayanthi Krishnamurthy,Robert Laird,David Shute,Stephen Willoughby,Peter Xu,IBM Redbooks

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SOA Policy, Service Gateway, and SLA Management

By: Robert Barron,Joel Gauci,Jayanthi Krishnamurthy,Robert Laird,David Shute,Stephen Willoughby,Peter Xu,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication teaches you how to automate your runtime policy by using a centralized policy management system. The SOA Policy Solution provides a centralized policy administration, enforcement, and monitoring for runtime policies that enable traffic management for service level agreement enforcement, service mediation, and other customized policies. Policies can be defined once and reused among multiple services, thus enabling a standardized, consistent approach to a runtime policy that saves time and money for implementation and maintenance of non-functional requirements for the enterprise and assists with faster time to market. Business users can use the SOA Policy Solution to help create the service level agreements for their business services to deliver on promises for business performance. IT Architects can use the SOA Policy Solution to architect the policy solution patterns that standardize the runtime policy usage at their organization. Developers select specific policy patterns to implement the non-functional requirements that are associated with their projects. Operations groups provide information about operation needs and create standardized monitoring policy for operational action at run time.

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0738437824

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Enemies and Allies

An Unforgettable Journey inside the Fast-Moving & Immensely Turbulent Modern Middle East

By: Joel C. Rosenberg

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Enemies and Allies

An Unforgettable Journey inside the Fast-Moving & Immensely Turbulent Modern Middle East

By: Joel C. Rosenberg

USA Today bestseller! Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its military forces in the Mideast and focusing on matters closer to home. Wheres it all heading? New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg, based in Jerusalem, skillfully and clearly explains the sometimes-encouraging, sometimes-violent, yet rapidly shifting landscape in Israel and the Arab/Muslim world. Enemies and Allies will take readers behind closed doors in the Middle East and introduce them to the very kings and crown princes, presidents and prime ministers who are leading the change. Includes exclusive, never-before-published quotes, insights, and analysis from the authors conversations with some of the most complex and controversial leaders in the world: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) Egypts President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Jordans King Abdullah II United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli president Reuven Rivlin

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496453840

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Approaches to Specific Problems

Handbook of Behavior Therapy with Sexual Problems

By: Joel Fischer,Harvey L. Gochros

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Approaches to Specific Problems

Handbook of Behavior Therapy with Sexual Problems

By: Joel Fischer,Harvey L. Gochros

Handbook of Behavior Therapy with Sexual Problems, Volume II: Approaches to Specific Problems compiles case studies illustrating the use of techniques as they are applied to specific sexual problems. This publication is divided into two parts. Part I discusses approaches to the problems often encountered by men and women in heterosexual intercourse. For men, the two major areas included are problems with achieving or maintaining erections during sexual activities and problems associated with ejaculation. The problem areas covered for women are problems in orgasmic functioning and problems of painful or difficult intercourse. Part 2 elaborates sexual problems associated with undesired sexual object choices. The homosexual, fetishistic, cross-dressing, exhibitionistic, pedophiliac, sadomasochistic, voyeuristic and miscellaneous behaviors are also covered. This publication is a good reference for behaviorally-oriented clinicians and practitioners who are attempting to alleviate the suffering associated with their clients’ sexual problems.

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1483187802

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