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At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

By: John N. Gray

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At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

By: John N. Gray

To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history, sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding, selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.

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Berghahn Books

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1571817395

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9781571817396

Survey of English Dialects

By: Michael V. Barry

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Survey of English Dialects

By: Michael V. Barry

First Published in 1994. The Survey of English Dialects (SED) is the only detailed nation-wide dialect survey which has ever been conducted in England. The SED is a unique repository of data on the traditional dialects of England in the mid-twentieth century. This remarkable record is a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of British English dialectology, sociolinguistics, and English historical linguistics. The SED fieldwork was undertaken in predominantly rural communities in England in the middle of the twentieth century, at a time when social, domestic and working life was undergoing very significant changes. The SED is thus a record of speech which reflects a society different in many ways from today, and as such affords the possibility of comparison which is instructive to those engaged in all types of study of linguistics today.

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528

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Routledge

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1136100202

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9781136100208

Journals and Debating Speeches

Volumes XXVI-XXVII

By: John Stuart Mill

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Journals and Debating Speeches

Volumes XXVI-XXVII

By: John Stuart Mill

One of the constant fascinations Mill holds for the general public as well as scholars derives from the early flowering of his genius. This development is seen in detail in the journal and notebook he kept in France during his fifteenth year, and in the debating speeches and walking-tour journals dating from his eighteenth to twenty-fourth years. This was the period when he first adopted Benthamism as 'a religion,' worked intensively as a propagandist for the faith, and then began the painful reassessment that led to his independent mature thought and action. Some of the results of that reassessment are seen in the diary entries from 1854, written for his wife, which reveal in personal form many of their most passionately held ideas. These materials have never before been gathered, and almost all appear here for the first time in scholarly form. They throw light on contemporary social interests and behavior, and will encourage new assessments of Mill’s life and thought. The texts, the great majority drawn from manuscripts, are presented in critical form, collated, with explanatory and textual notes. The Introduction gives the personal and historical context, with an analysis of content and rhetoric; the Textual Introduction supplies information about the nature and history of the documents, while Appendices provide ancillary materials. Both bibliographic and analytic indexes are included.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442638699

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Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms

Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution

By: John A. Stewart

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Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms

Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution

By: John A. Stewart

The book provides an excellent historical summary of the debates over continental drift theory in this century." —Contemporary Sociology "This is a useful discussion of the way that science works. The book will be of value to philosophers of science . . . " —Choice " . . . will find an important place in university and department libraries, and will interest afficionados of the factual and intellectual history of the earth sciences." —Terra Nova " . . . an excellent core analysis . . . " —The Times Higher Education Supplement " . . . an ambitious and important contribution to the new sociology of science." —American Journal of Sociology " . . . Stewart's book is a noble effort, an interesting and readable discussion, and another higher notch on the scoreboard of critical scholarship that deserves wide examination and close attention." —Geophysics This fascinating book describes the rise and fall and rebirth of continental drift theory in this century. It uses the recent revolution in geoscientinsts' beliefs about the earth to examine questions such as, How does scientific knowledge develop and change? The book also explores how well different perspectives help us to understand revolutionary change in science.

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310

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Indiana University Press

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0253354056

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9780253354051

The Power of Maps

By: Denis Wood,John Fels

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The Power of Maps

By: Denis Wood,John Fels

This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.

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260

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Guilford Press

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0898624932

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9780898624939

Strange But True, Colorado

Weird Tales of the Wild West

By: John Hafnor

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Strange But True, Colorado

Weird Tales of the Wild West

By: John Hafnor

Find out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.

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John Hafnor

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0964817535

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9780964817531

Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Coastal and Inland Maine: From the Burnt Meadow Mountains to Maine's Bold Coast (Fourth Edition)

By: John Gibson

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Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Coastal and Inland Maine: From the Burnt Meadow Mountains to Maine's Bold Coast (Fourth Edition)

By: John Gibson

A best-selling hiking guide to Maine's most widely traveled region, completely revised and with six new hikes. This longstanding guide in the Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes series describes the best hikes in the Western Mountains, the Oxford Hills, Evans Notch Range, the Mahoosuc Range, the Camden Hills, Monhegan Island, and Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. Locals and visitors will find miles of satisfying hiking, with outings that range from short walks for families to all-day excursions for serious hikers. Each hike description includes a topographic map, information on difficulty, mileage, and elevation, and a detailed description of the route. An overview chart at the beginning of the book describes the 50 hikes at a glance for easy trip planning.

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240

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The Countryman Press

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0881507962

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9780881507966

Oregon Wine Country

By: John Doerper

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Oregon Wine Country

By: John Doerper

Covering cities, states, and regions of the United States, these richly illustrated handbooks capture the character and culture of important American destinations, along with topical essays, color maps, and capsule reviews of restaurants and hotels.

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Compass America Guides

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1400007402

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9781400007400

World Economic Plants

A Standard Reference, Second Edition

By: John H. Wiersema,Blanca León

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World Economic Plants

A Standard Reference, Second Edition

By: John H. Wiersema,Blanca León

Given the frequent movement of commercial plants outside their native location, the consistent and standard use of plant names for proper identification and communication has become increasingly important. This second edition of World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference is a key tool in the maintenance of standards for the basic science underlyin

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CRC Press

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1466576812

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9781466576810

Great White Fathers

The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore

By: John Taliaferro

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Great White Fathers

The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore

By: John Taliaferro

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, hoped that ten thousand years from now, when archaeologists came upon the four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they would have a clear and graphic understanding of American civilization. Borglum, the child of Mormon polygamists, had an almost Ahab-like obsession with Colossalism--a scale that matched his ego and the era. He learned how to be a celebrity from Auguste Rodin; how to be a political bully from Teddy Roosevelt. He ran with the Ku Klux Klan and mingled with the rich and famous from Wall Street to Washington. Mount Rushmore was to be his crowning achievement, the newest wonder of the world, the greatest piece of public art since Phidias carved the Parthenon. But like so many episodes in the saga of the American West, what began as a personal dream had to be bailed out by the federal government, a compromise that nearly drove Borglum mad. Nor in the end could he control how his masterpiece would be received. Nor its devastating impact on the Lakota Sioux and the remote Black Hills of South Dakota. Great White Fathers is at once the biography of a man and the biography of a place, told through travelogue, interviews, and investigation of the unusual records that one odd American visionary left behind. It proves that the best American stories are not simple; they are complex and contradictory, at times humorous, at other times tragic.

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Public Affairs

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158648611X

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9781586486112

Cases in Health Care Marketing

By: John L. Fortenberry

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Cases in Health Care Marketing

By: John L. Fortenberry

Cases in Health Care Marketingfeatures over 30 case studies that explore real-world scenarios faced by healthcare marketing executives. Divided into seven sections, the book covers issues in product development and portfolio analysis; branding and identity management; target marketing; consumer behavior and product promotions; environmental analysis and competitive assessment; marketing management; and marketing strategy and planning.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763764485

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9780763764487

Beginning Logic

By: Edward John Lemmon

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Beginning Logic

By: Edward John Lemmon

One of the most careful and intensive among the introductory texts that can be used with a wide range of students. It builds remarkably sophisticated technical skills, a good sense of the nature of a formal system, and a solid and extensive background for more advanced work in logic. . . . The emphasis throughout is on natural deduction derivations, and the text's deductive systems are its greatest strength. Lemmon's unusual procedure of presenting derivations before truth tables is very effective." --Sarah Stebbins, The Journal of Symbolic Logic

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Hackett Publishing

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0915144506

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9780915144501

Borderland

Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939

By: John R. Stilgoe

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Borderland

Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939

By: John R. Stilgoe

This text portrays the American suburbs from their beginnings in the mid-1800s to the onset of World War II and focuses on their appearance, people's reaction to them and their importance to society.

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Yale University Press

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0300048661

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9780300048667

Book's by John HIlls

At Home in the Hills

At Home in the Hills

Survey of English Dialects

Survey of English Dialects

Journals and Debating Speeches

Journals and Debating Speeches

Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms

Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms

The Power of Maps

The Power of Maps

Strange But True, Colorado

Strange But True, Colorado

Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Coastal and Inland Maine: From the Burnt Meadow Mountains to Maine's Bold Coast (Fourth Edition)

Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Coastal and Inland Maine: From the Burnt Meadow Mountains to Maine's Bold Coast (Fourth Edition)

Oregon Wine Country

Oregon Wine Country

World Economic Plants

World Economic Plants

Great White Fathers

Great White Fathers

Cases in Health Care Marketing

Cases in Health Care Marketing

Beginning Logic

Beginning Logic

Borderland

Borderland

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