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The Plausibility of Life

Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

By: Marc W. Kirschner,John C. Gerhart

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The Plausibility of Life

Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

By: Marc W. Kirschner,John C. Gerhart

Two biologists tackle the unresolved question in the field of evolution: how have living organisms on Earth developed with such variety and complexity? In the 150 years since Darwin, the field of evolutionary biology has left a glaring gap in understanding how animals developed their astounding variety and complexity. The standard answer has been that small genetic mutations accumulate over time to produce wondrous innovations such as eyes and wings. Drawing on cutting-edge research across the spectrum of modern biology, Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart demonstrate how this stock answer is woefully inadequate. Rather they offer an original solution to the longstanding puzzle of how small random genetic change can be converted into complex, useful innovations. In a new theory they call “facilitated variation,” Kirschner and Gerhart elevate the individual organism from a passive target of natural selection to a central player in the 3-billion-year history of evolution. In clear, accessible language, the authors invite every reader to contemplate daring new ideas about evolution. By closing the major gap in Darwin’s theory Kirschner and Gerhart also provide a timely scientific rebuttal to modern critics of evolution who champion “intelligent design.” “Makes for informative and enjoyable reading, and the issues the authors raise are worthy of attention.”—American Scientist “Thought-provoking and lucidly written…The Plausibility of Life will help readers understand not just the plausibility of evolution, but its remarkable, inventive powers.”—Sean Carroll, author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

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0300128673

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The Oxford Guide to the United States Government

By: John J. Patrick,Richard M. Pious,Donald A. Ritchie

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The Oxford Guide to the United States Government

By: John J. Patrick,Richard M. Pious,Donald A. Ritchie

The Oxford Guide to the United States Government is the ultimate resource for authoritative information on the U.S. Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court. Compiled by three top scholars, its pages brim with the key figures, events, and structures that have animated U.S. government for more than 200 years. In addition to coverage of the 2000 Presidential race and election, this Guide features biographies of all the Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Supreme Court Justices, as well as notable members of Congress, including current leadership; historical commentary on past elections, major Presidential decisions, international and domestic programs, and the key advisors and agencies of the executive branch; in-depth analysis of Congressional leadership and committees, agencies and staff, and historic legislation; and detailed discussions of 100 landmark Supreme Court cases and the major issues facing the Court today. In addition to entries that define legal terms and phrases and others that elaborate on the wide array of government traditions, this invaluable book includes extensive back matter, including tables of Presidential election results; lists of Presidents, Vice Presidents, Congresses, and Supreme Court Justices with dates of service; lists of Presidential museums, libraries, and historic sites; relevant websites; and information on visiting the White House, the Capitol, and Supreme Court buildings. A one-stop, comprehensive guide that will assist students, educators, and anyone curious about the inner workings of government, The Oxford Guide to the United States Government will be a valued addition to any home library.

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0199770840

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Genealogisches Verzeichniss der Familie Kölliker Von Herrliberg Bezirk Meilen, Kanton Zurich, in der Schweitz, Abgefast in Sommer 1849

By: John Jacob Hess,Rudolph Frederick Kelker

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Genealogisches Verzeichniss der Familie Kölliker Von Herrliberg Bezirk Meilen, Kanton Zurich, in der Schweitz, Abgefast in Sommer 1849

By: John Jacob Hess,Rudolph Frederick Kelker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385346045

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Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace

By: John M. Thompson

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Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace

By: John M. Thompson

This book describes disagreements among the diplomats in Paris over the Russian problem, and it analyzes Allied policy toward Russia as it developed at the conference and led into a halfhearted intervention in Russia in 1919. It covers the period from the Armistice until January 1920. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400878888

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Killer Quotes Knock 'Em Dead Win Your Point

By: Dr. John Laurie

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Killer Quotes Knock 'Em Dead Win Your Point

By: Dr. John Laurie

This book may be used to simply entertain, support or reject positions or claims made by you in your defense of a position or to attack the credibility of someone that you wish to challenge. The author sincerely believes that a good quotation, timely and to the point, can do a great deal to influence a situation or position that might otherwise go unnoticed or not supported. This is a strong statement but the author believes that it happens all the time at all levels of meetings and conversations. WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK: It will broaden your thoughts about what you BELIEVE and don’t believe! It will strengthen your SUPPORT or REJECTION on the thoughts of others! It will ease you into developing your OWN PERSONAL philosophy about life and other things! If you use an APPROPRIATE quotation in the RIGHT PLACE at the RIGHT TIME, people will think you are probably a little smarter than you actually are! WHO SHOULD PURCHASE THIS BOOK: Anyone who loves to read quotations for fun. Business persons who are often requested to defend their position or attack someone else with a powerful quotation. Professional business leaders working to improve their acceptance of points of his/her speech, letters or memos. High school/college students searching for persuasive material, especially in forensics and debate. Business executives looking for a great gift for his/her team. Subordinates looking to give a gift to impress their boss! (J)

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1634175891

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Natural Treatments for Genital Herpes, Cold Sores and Shingles

By: John W. Hill

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Natural Treatments for Genital Herpes, Cold Sores and Shingles

By: John W. Hill

This book discusses the major Natural and Alternative treatments for the Herpes Family viruses that have been documented in the Scientific and Medical Literature. It discusses several nutritional supplements and inexpensive over-the-counter medications that boost the immune system. It also discusses several foods, supplements and herbs that have anti-viral properties. The emphasis is on correlating potential natural and alternative therapies with relevant published research. Some have substantial supporting research and others very little. Get the documented facts, not unfounded claims.

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Clear Springs Press, LLC

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188497905X

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Harry, Tom, and Father Rice

Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War

By: John Hoerr

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Harry, Tom, and Father Rice

Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War

By: John Hoerr

Centered around mostly ordinary people, Harry, Tom, and Father Rice relates the story of the author’s uncle Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice to the great conflict between anti-Communist and Communist forces in the American labor movement.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822959666

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The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Profiles of Leading American Judges

By: G. Edward White John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History University of Virginia

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The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Profiles of Leading American Judges

By: G. Edward White John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History University of Virginia

Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729182

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Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

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Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

The leading reference in the field of geriatric care, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th Edition, provides a contemporary, global perspective on topics of importance to today's gerontologists, internal medicine physicians, and family doctors. An increased focus on frailty, along with coverage of key issues in gerontology, disease-specific geriatrics, and complex syndromes specific to the elderly, makes this 8th Edition the reference you'll turn to in order to meet the unique challenges posed by this growing patient population. - Consistent discussions of clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and more make reference quick and easy. - More than 250 figures, including algorithms, photographs, and tables, complement the text and help you find what you need on a given condition. - Clinical relevance of the latest scientific findings helps you easily apply the material to everyday practice. - A new chapter on frailty, plus an emphasis on frailty throughout the book, addresses the complex medical and social issues that affect care, and the specific knowledge and skills essential for meeting your patients' complex needs. - New content brings you up to date with information on gerontechnology, emergency and pre-hospital care, HIV and aging, intensive treatment of older adults, telemedicine, the built environment, and transcultural geriatrics. - New editor Professor John Young brings a fresh perspective and unique expertise to this edition.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702063444

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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court

The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge

By: John M. Ferren

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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court

The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge

By: John M. Ferren

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation. Drawing on more than 160 interviews, John M. Ferren provides a valuable analysis of Rutledge's life and judicial decisionmaking and offers the most comprehensive explanation to date for the Supreme Court nominations of Rutledge, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. Rutledge was known for his compassion and fairness. He opposed discrimination based on gender and poverty and pressed for expanded rights to counsel, due process, and federal review of state criminal convictions. During his brief tenure on the Court (he died following a stroke at age fifty-five), he contributed significantly to enhancing civil liberties and the rights of naturalized citizens and criminal defendants, became the Court's most coherent expositor of the commerce clause, and dissented powerfully from military commission convictions of Japanese generals after World War II. Through an examination of Rutledge's life, Ferren highlights the development of American common law and legal education, the growth of the legal profession and related institutions, and the evolution of the American court system, including the politics of judicial selection.

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0807876615

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Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two

Synchronicity and Science

By: John Ryan Haule

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Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two

Synchronicity and Science

By: John Ryan Haule

This second volume explores Jung’s understanding of synchronicity and argues that it offers an important contribution to contemporary science. Whilst the scientific world has often ignored Jung’s theories as being too much like mysticism, Haule argues that what the human psyche knows beyond sensory perception is extremely valuable. Divided into two parts, areas of discussion include: shamanism and mastery border zones of exact science meditation, parapsychology and psychokinesis Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two: Synchronicity and Science will, like the first volume, be an invaluable resource for all those in the field of analytical psychology, including students of Jung, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists with an interest in the meeting of Jung and science.

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Routledge

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1136844481

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Evolution Impossible

12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth

By: John Ashton

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Evolution Impossible

12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth

By: John Ashton

There is scientific evidence proving evolution cannot be responsible for life on Earth. It is time to question what biology text books and nature documentaries claim about our origins. Even Darwin admitted, “I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.” Dr. John Ashton has dedicated 40+ years to teaching and researching science, and exposing the lack of proven evidence for Darwin’s theories. In Evolution Impossible, he uses discoveries in genetics, biochemistry, geology, radiometric dating, and other scientific disciplines to explain why the theory of evolution is a myth. Discover for yourself: Why the fossil record is evidence of extinction, not evolution How erosion and sedimentation dates conflict with radiometric dating How the lack of transitional fossils undermines evolutionary notions Why living cells and new organisms do not rise by chance or random mutations Regardless of your level of scientific education, you will finish this book able to cite 12 reasons why evolution cannot explain the origin of life.

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New Leaf Publishing Group

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1614582572

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

A dynamic framework for studying social emergence The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors. This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis—the chemical definition of life—and then extend this autocatalytic reasoning to social processes of production and communication. Padgett and Powell, along with other colleagues, analyze a very wide range of cases of emergence. They look at the emergence of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation; they examine the transformation of communism; and they analyze with detailed network data contemporary science-based capitalism: the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open source community.

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Princeton University Press

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1400845556

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People, Power and Politics

An Introduction to Political Science

By: John C. Donovan

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People, Power and Politics

An Introduction to Political Science

By: John C. Donovan

First-rate . . .The text has a little for everyone and could suit the political ideas people, the humanists, and the behavioralists. And there is enough of a nuts and bolts approach to this book to satisfy those who want students to come away from the course as 'master mechanics' of political dilemmas.'-David W. Dent, Towson State University

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0822630257

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The Lustre of Our Country

The American Experience of Religious Freedom

By: John T. Noonan Jr.

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The Lustre of Our Country

The American Experience of Religious Freedom

By: John T. Noonan Jr.

A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge John T. Noonan asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth. The Lustre of Our Country demonstrates how the idea of religious liberty is central to the American experience and to American influence around the world. Noonan's original book is a history of the idea of religious liberty and its relationship with the law. He begins with an intellectual autobiography, describing his own religious and legal training. After setting the stage with autobiography, Noonan turns to history, with each chapter written in a new voice. One chapter takes the form of a catechism (questions and answers), presenting the history of the idea of religious freedom in Christianity and the American colonies. Another chapter on James Madison argues that Madison's support of religious freedom was not purely secular but rather the outcome of his own religious beliefs. A fictional sister of Alexis de Toqueville writes, contrary to her brother's work, that the U.S. government is very closely tied to religion. Other chapters offer straightforward considerations of constitutional law. Throughout the book, Noonan shows how the free exercise of religion led to profound changes in American law—he discusses abolition, temperance, and civil rights—and how the legal notion of religious liberty influenced revolutionary France, Japan, and Russia, as well as the Catholic Church during Vatican II. The Lustre of Our Country is a celebration of religious freedom—a personal and profound statement on what the author considers America's greatest moral contribution to the world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520925521

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The Plausibility of Life

Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

By: Marc W. Kirschner,John C. Gerhart

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The Plausibility of Life

Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

By: Marc W. Kirschner,John C. Gerhart

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The Plausibility of Life

The Plausibility of Life

The Oxford Guide to the United States Government

The Oxford Guide to the United States Government

Genealogisches Verzeichniss der Familie Kölliker Von Herrliberg Bezirk Meilen, Kanton Zurich, in der Schweitz, Abgefast in Sommer 1849

Genealogisches Verzeichniss der Familie Kölliker Von Herrliberg Bezirk Meilen, Kanton Zurich, in der Schweitz, Abgefast in Sommer 1849

Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace

Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace

Killer Quotes Knock 'Em Dead Win Your Point

Killer Quotes Knock 'Em Dead Win Your Point

Natural Treatments for Genital Herpes, Cold Sores and Shingles

Natural Treatments for Genital Herpes, Cold Sores and Shingles

Harry, Tom, and Father Rice

Harry, Tom, and Father Rice

The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court

Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court

Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two

Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two

Evolution Impossible

Evolution Impossible

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

People, Power and Politics

People, Power and Politics

The Lustre of Our Country

The Lustre of Our Country

The Plausibility of Life

The Plausibility of Life

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