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The City & the Crown

Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600-1740

By: John Philip Spielman

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The City & the Crown

Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600-1740

By: John Philip Spielman

Spielman presents the role of the Habsburg court in the rise of Vienna the early modem period. His study clearly shows the extraordinarily complex web of interrelationships and interdependencies between the court, its servants, and the city as each strove to protect its privileges. The author's innovative approach consists in identifying the specific role that the court quartering system played in the expansion of the government's involvement in the development of the city. in so doing, Spielman ties in the two approaches traditionally used in histories of early modem Germany and Austria: the growth of the modem bureaucracy and the development of the Baroque.

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Purdue University Press

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1557530211

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9781557530219

The Cold War

By: John Lamberton Harper

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The Cold War

By: John Lamberton Harper

A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research. It includes a discussion of Cold War historiography and in the introductory section frames the main account by examining some of the subject's primary documents.

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348

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Oxford University Press

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019923700X

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9780199237005

Functional Brain Imaging

By: William W. Orrison,Jeffrey Lewine,John Sanders,Michael F. Hartshorne

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Functional Brain Imaging

By: William W. Orrison,Jeffrey Lewine,John Sanders,Michael F. Hartshorne

Functional Brain Imaging

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496

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1483284441

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9781483284446

A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

Search for a Reasonable World

By: Lisa Rosner,John Theibault

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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

Search for a Reasonable World

By: Lisa Rosner,John Theibault

A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work.

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438

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Routledge

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131747791X

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9781317477914

Health Care in America

A History

By: John C. Burnham

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Health Care in America

A History

By: John C. Burnham

This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.

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611

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JHU Press

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1421416085

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9781421416083

Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

By: John Huxtable Elliott

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Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

By: John Huxtable Elliott

When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500?1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, ?For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has continued to explore the history of Spain and the Hispanic world with originality and insight, producing some of the most influential work in the field. In this new volume he gathers writings that reflect his recent research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800.The volume includes fourteen essays, lectures, and articles of remarkable breadth and freshness, written with Elliott's characteristic brio. It includes an unpublished lecture in honor of the late Hugh Trevor-Roper. Organized around three themes?early modern Europe, European overseas expansion, and the works and historical context of El Greco, Velzquez, Rubens, and Van Dyck?the book offers a rich survey of the themes at the heart of Elliott's interests throughout a career distinguished by excellence and innovation.

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343

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Yale University Press

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0300160011

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9780300160017

The Legendary Detective

The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

By: John Walton

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The Legendary Detective

The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

By: John Walton

Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were a multi-million dollar industry, hired out by many if not most American corporations, who needed services of surveillance, strike breaking, and labor espionage. Not only is John Walton's account the first sustained history of this industry, it is also the first book to trace the ways in which the private detective came to occupy a cherished place in popular imagination. Walton paints lively portraits of these mythical figures from Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant eccentric, to Sam Spade, the hard-boiled hero of Dashiell Hammett's best-selling tales. There's a great question lurking in here: how did pulp magazine editors shape the image of the hard-boiled private eye, and what sorts of interplay obtained between the actual records (agency files, memoirs) of these motley individuals in real life and the legend of the private detective in mass-market fiction? This history of the private eyes and this account of how the detective industry and the culture industry played off of each other is a first. Walton show us, in clean clear outline, the figure of the classical private eye, and he shows us further how the memory of this iconic figure was sustained in fiction, radio, film, literary societies, product promotions, adolescent entertainments, and a subculture of detective enthusiasts.

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University of Chicago Press

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022630826X

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9780226308265

Novel Superfluids

Volume 1

By: Karl-Heinz Bennemann,John B. Ketterson

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Novel Superfluids

Volume 1

By: Karl-Heinz Bennemann,John B. Ketterson

This book reports on the latest developments in the field of Superfluidity. The phenomenon has had a tremendous impact on the fundamental sciences as well as a host of technologies. It began with the discovery of superconductivity in mercury in 1911, which was ultimately described theoretically by the theory of Bardeen Cooper and Schriever (BCS) in 1957. The analogous phenomena, superfluidity, was discovered in helium in 1938 and tentatively explained shortly thereafter as arising from a Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) by London. But the importance of superfluidity, and the range of systems in which it occurs, has grown enormously. In addition to metals and the helium liquids the phenomena has now been observed for photons in cavities, excitons in semiconductors, magnons in certain materials, and cold gasses trapped in high vacuum. It very likely exist for neutrons in a neutron star and, possibly, in a conjectured quark state at their center. Even the Universe itself can be regarded as being in a kind of superfluid state. All these topics are discussed by experts in the respective subfields.

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641

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OUP Oxford

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0191650196

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9780191650192

Endothelins in Biology and Medicine

By: John P. Huggins,John T. Pelton

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Endothelins in Biology and Medicine

By: John P. Huggins,John T. Pelton

Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a peptide discovered in 1988, is one of the most potent contractors of vascular smooth muscle. Since their discovery, ETs have generated enormous interest in the scientific and pharmaceutical communities, prompting extensive research. This book addresses the latest findings regarding ETs-how they function, their effects, and characteristics. Divided into five sections, the book covers: endothelin receptors, endothelin synthesis and degradation, endothelin pathophysiology, ligand structure and activity relationships, and clinical studies. Pharmacologists, toxicologists, and pharmaceutical researchers will all benefit from this thorough review of current findings and future directions in ET research.

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406

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CRC Press

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0849369754

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9780849369759

Brain Mapping: The Methods

By: Arthur W. Toga,John C. Mazziotta

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Brain Mapping: The Methods

By: Arthur W. Toga,John C. Mazziotta

Investigation of the functional architecture of the human brain using modern noninvasive imaging techniques is a rapidly expanding area of research. A proper knowledge of methodology is needed to appreciate the burgeoning literature in the field. This timely publication provides an excellent catalogue of the main techniques. The authors offer an invaluable analysis of mapping strategies and techniques, providing everything from the foundations to the major pitfalls and practical applications of the modern techniques used in neuroimaging. Contains over 1000 full color pages with more than 200 color figures. Spanning the methodological gamut from the molecular level to the whole brain while discussing anatomy, physiology, and pathology, as well as their integration, Brain Mapping: The Methods, Second Edition, brings the reader a comprehensive, well-illustrated and entirely readable description of the methods for brain mapping. Drs. Toga and Mazziotta provide everything from the foundations to the major pitfalls and practical applications of the technique by assembling an impressive group of experts, all widely known in their field, who contribute an outstanding set of chapters.

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900

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Academic Press

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0080528287

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9780080528281

Food Security and Global Environmental Change

By: John Ingram,Polly Ericksen,Diana Liverman

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Food Security and Global Environmental Change

By: John Ingram,Polly Ericksen,Diana Liverman

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. As this book shows, at the same time, agriculture and related activities also contribute to GEC by, for example, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. Responses aimed at adapting to GEC may have negative consequences for food security, just as measures taken to increase food security may exacerbate GEC. The authors show that this complex and dynamic relationship between GEC and food security is also influenced by additional factors; food systems are heavily influenced by socioeconomic conditions, which in turn are affected by multiple processes such as macro-level economic policies, political conflicts and other important drivers. The book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. Most other books addressing the subject concentrate on the links between climate change and agricultural production, and do not extend to an analysis of the wider food system which underpins food security; this book addresses the broader issues, based on a novel food system concept and stressing the need for actions at a regional, rather than just an international or local, level. It reviews new thinking which has emerged over the last decade, analyses research methods for stakeholder engagement and for undertaking studies at the regional level, and looks forward by reviewing a number of emerging 'hot topics' in the food security-GEC debate which help set new agendas for the research community at large. Published with Earth System Science Partnership, GECAFS and SCOPE

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386

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Routledge

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1136530886

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9781136530883

The New Chicago

A Social and Cultural Analysis

By: John Patrick Koval

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The New Chicago

A Social and Cultural Analysis

By: John Patrick Koval

For generations, visitors, journalists, and social scientists alike have asserted that Chicago is the quintessentially American city. Indeed, the introduction to "The New Chicago" reminds us that to know America, you must know Chicago. The contributors boldly announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this wide-ranging book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American urbanization which are reshaping this storied metropolis. The twenty-six essays included here analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and race relations in a multicultural era. In elaborating on the effects of these broad forces, contributors detail the role of eight significant racial, ethnic, and immigrant communities in shaping the character of the new Chicago and present ten case studies of innovative governmental, grassroots, and civic action. Multifaceted and authoritative, "The New Chicago" offers an important and unique portrait of an emergent and new Windy City.

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392

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Temple University Press

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1592137725

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9781592137725

Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides As Regulators of Cellular Function

By: John W. Phillis

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Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides As Regulators of Cellular Function

By: John W. Phillis

This book provides valuable information for investigators interested in the signaling and regulatory functions of adenosine and the adenine nucleotides. Topics covered in this comprehensive volume include the historical development of research on adenosine and adenosine triphosphate; various aspects of the formation, metabolism, release, transport, and receptors for endogenous adenosine and the adenosine triphosphate; functions of purines at the cellular level; the role of adenosine in the regulation of flow in different vascular beds; and angiogenesis. The book also addresses the purinergic regulation of the cardiac, renal, gastro-intestinal, and central nervous system, as well as potential therapeutic avenues for purine use. The book will be valuable to physiologists, pharmacologists, and other basic and clinical scientists interested in updating their knowledge of the expanding biological roles of these substances.

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460

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CRC Press

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0849369282

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9780849369285

Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

By: Michael A. Liberman,John S. De Groot,Arthur Toor,Rick B. Spielman

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Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

By: Michael A. Liberman,John S. De Groot,Arthur Toor,Rick B. Spielman

A "z pinch" is a deceptively simple plasma configuration in which a longitudinal current produces a magnetic field that confines the plasma. Z-pinch research is currently one of the fastest growing areas of plasma physics, with revived interest in z-pinch controlled fusion reactors along with investigations of new z-pinch applications, such as very high power x-ray sources, high-energy neutrons sources, and ultra-high magnetic fields generators. This book provides a comprehensive review of the physics of dense z pinches and includes many recent experimental results.

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285

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461214246

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9781461214243

Inequality in the United States

A Reader

By: John Brueggemann

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Inequality in the United States

A Reader

By: John Brueggemann

For courses in Inequality, Social Stratification, and Social Problems. A thoughtful compilation of readings on inequality in the United States. The main objective of this text is to introduce students to the subject of social stratification as it has developed in sociology. The central focus is on domestic inequality in the United States with some attention to the broader international context. The primary goal of the text is to offer an understanding of the history and context of debates about inequality, and a secondary goal is to give some indication as to what issues are likely to arise in the future.

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Routledge

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1000153126

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Book's by John Philip Spielman

The City & the Crown

The City & the Crown

The Cold War

The Cold War

Functional Brain Imaging

Functional Brain Imaging

A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

Health Care in America

Health Care in America

Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

The Legendary Detective

The Legendary Detective

Novel Superfluids

Novel Superfluids

Endothelins in Biology and Medicine

Endothelins in Biology and Medicine

Brain Mapping: The Methods

Brain Mapping: The Methods

Food Security and Global Environmental Change

Food Security and Global Environmental Change

The New Chicago

The New Chicago

Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides As Regulators of Cellular Function

Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides As Regulators of Cellular Function

Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

Inequality in the United States

Inequality in the United States

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