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Toward "thorough, Accurate, and Reliable"

A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series

By: William B. McAllister,Joshua Botts,Peter Cozzens,Aaron W. Marrs

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Toward "thorough, Accurate, and Reliable"

A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series

By: William B. McAllister,Joshua Botts,Peter Cozzens,Aaron W. Marrs

Toward "Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable" explores the evolution of the Foreign Relations of the United States documentary history series from its antecedents in the early republic through the early 21st century implementation of its current mandate, the 1991 Foreign Relations statute. This book traces how policymakers and an expanding array of stakeholders translated values like "security," "legitimacy," and "transparency" into practice as they debated how to balance the government's obligation to protect sensitive information with its commitment to openness. Determining the "people's right to know" has fueled lively discussion for over two centuries, and this work provides important, historically informed perspectives valuable to policymakers and engaged citizens as that conversation continues. Policymakers, citizens, especially political science researchers, political scientists, academic, high school, public librarians and students performing research for foreign policy issues will be most interested in this volume. Other related products: Available print volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/foreign-relations-united-states-series-frus

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0160932122

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Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film

Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

By: Joshua Malitsky

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Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film

Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

By: Joshua Malitsky

A study of how the state has used documentary films to create historical and political narratives in the Soviet Union and Cuba. In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society as a whole. Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film not only presents a critical historical view of the politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics shaping post-revolution Soviet and Cuban culture but also provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film. “A splendid and highly readable book which imbues a suggestive comparison of cinema in the early years of the Soviet and Cuban revolutions with fresh insights.” —Michael Chanan, author of Cuban Cinema “Joshua Malitsky here mines a rich seam. By closely comparing Vertov and Alvarez he uncovers “post-revolutionary nonfiction film” as a discernible entity with commonalities shared across time and cultures. The extensive—indeed vast—archive of newsreels from both filmmakers is well worth the thorough attention he gives it, suggesting a context for their better-known documentaries. And his situating of Esfir Shub’s compilations as not so much an alternative to Vertov but rather a wholesale replacement approach to agitprop is also compelling. All in all, Malitsky offers a crucial corrective to much received thinking on 20th century radical film.” —Brian Winston, University of Lincoln, UK

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Indiana University Press

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0253007704

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9780253007704

The House of the Black Ring

A Romance of the Seven Mountains

By: Fred Lewis Pattee,Julia Kasdorf,Joshua Brown

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The House of the Black Ring

A Romance of the Seven Mountains

By: Fred Lewis Pattee,Julia Kasdorf,Joshua Brown

A reprint of a 1904 novel by Pennsylvania State College (now University) professor of English Fred Lewis Pattee, set in the 1890s in central Pennsylvania. Includes a preface by poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf and endnotes by Joshua R. Brown" --Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271054204

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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas

Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence

By: Joshua E. Kastenberg

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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas

Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence

By: Joshua E. Kastenberg

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives’ claims of liberalism’s dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E. Kastenberg in this book, the first in-depth account of a campaign to impeach Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas nearly fifty years ago. On April 15, 1970, at President Richard Nixon’s behest, Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford brazenly called for the impeachment of Douglas, the nation’s leading liberal judge—and the House Judiciary Committee responded with a six-month investigation, while the Senate awaited a potential trial that never occurred. Ford’s actions against Douglas mirrored the anger that millions of Americans, then as now, harbored toward changing social, economic, and moral norms, and a federal government seemingly unconcerned with the lives of everyday working white Americans. Those actions also reflected, as this book reveals, what came to be known as the Republicans’ “southern strategy,” a cynical attempt to exploit the hostility of white southern voters toward the civil rights movement. Kastenberg describes the political actors, ambitions, alliances, and maneuvers behind the move to impeach Douglas—including the Nixon administration’s vain hope of deflecting attention from a surprisingly unpopular invasion of Cambodia—and follows the ill-advised effort to its ignominious conclusion, with consequences that resonate to this day. Marking a turning point in American politics, The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas is a sobering, cautionary tale, a critical chapter in the history of constitutional malfeasance, and a reminder of the importance of judicial independence in a politically polarized age.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700628487

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Pictures of the Heart

The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image

By: Joshua S. Mostow

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Pictures of the Heart

The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image

By: Joshua S. Mostow

The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry from the seventh century down to Teika's own day. The anthology is, without doubt, the most popular and widely known collection of poetry in Japan - a distinction it has maintained for hundreds of years. In this study, Joshua Mostow challenges the idea of a final or authoritative reading of the Hyakunin Isshu and presents a refreshing, persuasive case for a reception history of this seminal work. In addition to providing a new translation of this classic text and biographical information on each poet, Mostow examines issues relating to text and image that are central to the Japanese arts from the Heian into the early modern period. By using Edo-period woodblock illustrations as pictorializations of the poems - as "pictures of the heart," or meaning, of the poems - text and image are pieced together in a holistic approach that will stand as a model for further research in the interrelationship between Japanese visual and verbal art.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824817052

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Between Ports Alberni and Renfrew

Notes on West Coast peoples

By: E. Y. Arima,Denis St. Claire,Louis Clamhouse,Joshua Edgar

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Between Ports Alberni and Renfrew

Notes on West Coast peoples

By: E. Y. Arima,Denis St. Claire,Louis Clamhouse,Joshua Edgar

Two studies in salvage ethnology are detailed, one focusing on Barkley Sound peoples and their territories, the other on peoples to the southeast of Barkley Sound.

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University of Ottawa Press

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177282285X

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Hyakunin’shu

Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan

By: Joshua S. Mostow

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Hyakunin’shu

Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan

By: Joshua S. Mostow

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the “popular literary literacy” of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a well-known annotated and illustrated Ansei-era (1854–1859) edition of the Hyakunin isshu—for hundreds of years the most basic and best-known waka primer in the entire Japanese literary canon—Joshua Mostow reveals how commoners of the time made sense of the collection. Thanks to the popularization of the poems in the early modern period and the advent of commercial publishing, the Hyakunin’shu (as it was commonly called) was no longer the exclusive intellectual property of the upper classes but part of a poetic heritage shared by all literate Japanese. Mostow traces the Hyakunin’shu’s history from the first published collections in the early sixteenth century and printed commentaries of formerly esoteric and secret exegesis to later editions that include imagined portraits of the poets and, ultimately, pictures of the “heart”—pictorializations of the meaning of the poems themselves. His study illuminates the importance of “variant One Hundred Poets,” such as the Warrior One Hundred Poets, in popularizing the collection and the work’s strong association with feminine education from the early eighteenth century onward. The National Learning (Kokugaku) movement pursued a philological analysis of the poems, leading to translations of the Hyakunin’shu into contemporary, vernacular, spoken Japanese. The poems eventually served as the basis of a card game that became a staple of New Year festivities. This volume presents some innovations in translating premodern Japanese poetry: in the Introduction, Mostow considers the Hyakunin’shu’s reception during the Edo, when male homoerotic relationships were taken for granted, and makes the case for his translating the love poems in a non-heteronormative way. In addition, the translated poems are lineated to give readers a sense of the original edition’s chirashi-gaki, or “scattered writing,” allowing them to see how each poem’s sematic elements are distributed on the page.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082489779X

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Bayesian Econometric Methods

By: Joshua Chan,Gary Koop,Dale J. Poirier,Justin L. Tobias

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Bayesian Econometric Methods

By: Joshua Chan,Gary Koop,Dale J. Poirier,Justin L. Tobias

Illustrates Bayesian theory and application through a series of exercises in question and answer format.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108423388

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Statistical Modeling and Computation

By: Dirk P. Kroese,Joshua C.C. Chan

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Statistical Modeling and Computation

By: Dirk P. Kroese,Joshua C.C. Chan

This textbook on statistical modeling and statistical inference will assist advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Statistical Modeling and Computation provides a unique introduction to modern Statistics from both classical and Bayesian perspectives. It also offers an integrated treatment of Mathematical Statistics and modern statistical computation, emphasizing statistical modeling, computational techniques, and applications. Each of the three parts will cover topics essential to university courses. Part I covers the fundamentals of probability theory. In Part II, the authors introduce a wide variety of classical models that include, among others, linear regression and ANOVA models. In Part III, the authors address the statistical analysis and computation of various advanced models, such as generalized linear, state-space and Gaussian models. Particular attention is paid to fast Monte Carlo techniques for Bayesian inference on these models. Throughout the book the authors include a large number of illustrative examples and solved problems. The book also features a section with solutions, an appendix that serves as a MATLAB primer, and a mathematical supplement.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461487757

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Atlas Obscura

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By: Joshua Foer,Dylan Thuras,Ella Morton

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Atlas Obscura

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By: Joshua Foer,Dylan Thuras,Ella Morton

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

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Workman Publishing

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076118967X

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Beginning Urdu

A Complete Course

By: Joshua H. Pien

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Beginning Urdu

A Complete Course

By: Joshua H. Pien

eTextbooks are now available through VitalSource.com!Beginning Urdu is a complete first-year textbook designed to help learners acquire the language by actively using it in realistic situations. The book and its accompanying audio files on CD contain all that is needed to complete one full year of study, including clear explanations of language structures; useful, fun, and engaging activities; and an organizational format that makes it easy to chart student progress. FEATURES• Develops all four skills—listening, speaking, reading, writing—through a wide range of tasks and activities, including role plays, games, and short conversations • Beautifully illustrated with full-color, authentic images and written in an accessible style • Introduces the sound system and script of Urdu • Organized around functional themes such as home and family, everyday life, the marketplace, personal responsibilities, and travel • Features straightforward grammatical explanations and topically organized vocabulary lists for each of the 34 chapters • Integrates cultural information within the thematic units and also presents culture through aphorisms, poetry, and photographs • Provides an activity set for each unit along with review activities, including tips for increasing fluency and sets of questions to help personalize learning • Contains Urdu–English and English–Urdu glossaries • Includes three appendices—Urdu numbers, additional grammatical structures for moving to advanced levels of proficiency, and a suggested syllabus Beginning Urdu covers approximately 150 contact hours and is designed to bring learners to the ACTFL proficiency level of mid- to high-intermediate in all four skills. The book also serves as a valuable resource for independent learners.

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Georgetown University Press

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1647120691

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Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By: Joshua Foer,Ella Morton,Dylan Thuras,Atlas Obscura

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Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By: Joshua Foer,Ella Morton,Dylan Thuras,Atlas Obscura

Discover wonder. “A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”— New York Times Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is. This second edition takes readers to even more curious and unusual destinations, with more than 100 new places, dozens and dozens of new photographs, and two very special features: twelve city guides, covering Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Plus a foldout map with a dream itinerary for the ultimate around-the-world road trip. More a cabinet of curiosities than traditional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels in the unexpected, the overlooked, the bizarre, and the mysterious. Here are natural wonders, like the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can sit and drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M. C. Escher–like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain—and no, it’s not the babies doing the jumping, but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants. Every page gets to the very core of why humans want to travel in the first place: to be delighted and disoriented, uprooted from the familiar and amazed by the new. With its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, and new city guides, it is a book you can open anywhere and be transported. But proceed with caution: It’s almost impossible not to turn to the next entry, and the next, and the next.

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Workman Publishing Company

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1523506482

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Chanting the Hebrew Bible

The Art of Cantillation

By: Joshua R. Jacobson

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Chanting the Hebrew Bible

The Art of Cantillation

By: Joshua R. Jacobson

In this encyclopedic text, completely revised and updated in this second edition, Joshua R. Jacobson presents the history of the ancient Jewish tradition of chanting the Bible and a comprehensive explanation of cantillation practice with its grammatical rules and regional variations. His unique step-by-step system of analysis shows how chanting dramatizes and interprets the meaning of the biblical text. Jacobson also provides complete notation for performing all six musical systems, an extensive guide to pronouncing biblical Hebrew, and pedagogical tips for cantillation teachers. Chanting the Hebrew Bible, Second Edition, will be invaluable to anyone interested in chanting, from beginners to advanced readers—from haftarah readers who want to chant from the Torah, to Bible students seeking greater insight into Masoretic texts, to Torah chanters who wish to fine-tune their skills, fill gaps in their knowledge, and understand the system they have known only intuitively until now. This second edition features a week-by-week guide to Torah, haftarah, and megillot readings for Shabbat and holidays; useful new examples and exercises; a new comprehensive general subject index; a new, easy-to-read, clear Hebrew font; and a link to a new website with audio recordings and video lessons. Chanting the Hebrew Bible will continue to be the definitive work on Torah chanting—the most authoritative guide and reference on the subject. For more information on Chanting the Hebrew Bible visit chantingthehebrewbible.com.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0827613326

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9780827613324

Sound Healing for Beginners

Using Vibration to Harmonize your Health and Wellness

By: Joshua Goldman,Alec W. Sims

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Sound Healing for Beginners

Using Vibration to Harmonize your Health and Wellness

By: Joshua Goldman,Alec W. Sims

Learn how to energize and enhance your well-being on every level—physical, emotional, and spiritual—through hands-on exercises and guided meditations that provide direct experience with sound. As a therapeutic and transformative branch of energy medicine, sound healing offers powerful tools to tune up your health and wellness. Presenting a clear and solid foundation of core concepts, Sound Healing for Beginners shows how to apply innovative sound techniques to your daily life in order to balance your energy and manifest personal improvement. With chapters covering focused listening, the energetics of breathwork, activating your unique resonances and energy centers through vocal toning, using sound as a creative force for manifestation, and more, this accessible guide will help you harmonize your life with the remarkable benefits of sound healing.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738745731

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9780738745732

Introduction to Homeland Security: Policy, Organization, and Administration

Policy, Organization, and Administration

By: Willard M. Oliver,Nancy E. Marion,Joshua B. Hill

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Introduction to Homeland Security: Policy, Organization, and Administration

Policy, Organization, and Administration

By: Willard M. Oliver,Nancy E. Marion,Joshua B. Hill

Suitable for undergraduate students entering the field of Homeland Security, and for Criminal Justice students studying their role in a post-9/11 world, Introduction to Homeland Security is a comprehensive but accessible text designed for students seeking a thorough overview of the policies, administrations, and organizations that fall under Homeland Security. It grounds students in the basic issues of homeland security, the history and context of the field, and what the future of the field might hold. Students will come away with a solid understanding of the central issues surrounding Homeland Security, including policy concepts as well as political and legal responses to Homeland Security.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284205207

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9781284205206

Beginning Hindi

A Complete Course

By: Joshua H. Pien,Fauzia Farooqui

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Beginning Hindi

A Complete Course

By: Joshua H. Pien,Fauzia Farooqui

eTextbooks are now available through VitalSource.com!Beginning Hindi is a complete first-year language textbook designed to help learners acquire the language by actively using it in realistic situations. The book and its accompanying audio files on CD contain all that is needed to complete one full year of study, including clear explanations of language structures; useful, fun, and engaging activities; and an organizational format that makes it easy to chart student progress. Beginning Hindi parallels the authors’ textbook Beginning Urdu and can be used side-by-side with it in classrooms that teach both languages in the same course. This is a fun, engaging, and well-tested approach to learning Hindi. FEATURES· Develops all four skills—listening, speaking, reading, writing—through a wide range of tasks and activities, including role-plays, games, and short conversations.· Alongside Beginning Urdu, can support parallel instruction of both Hindi and Urdu in a single classroom. · Includes 41 chapters in eight units, organized around functional themes such as home and family, everyday life, the marketplace, personal responsibilities, and travel.· Can be used as a first-year, class-based textbook or a tool for independent study.· Provides a review for each unit that includes review activities, tips for increasing fluency, and sets of questions to help personalize learning.· Introduces grammar in a straightforward and practical way that is integrated with practical uses.· Includes an English-Hindi and Hindi-English glossary· Contains an appendix of advanced grammar. · Includes common idiomatic expressions and proverbs in each unit. A list of Bollywood film songs to go with each unit is also included.

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Georgetown University Press

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1647120683

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Ai Ssu-ch'i's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism

By: Joshua A. Fogel

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Ai Ssu-ch'i's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism

By: Joshua A. Fogel

Before the Cultural Revolution, Ai Ssu-ch’i (1910–1966) was one of Communist China’s foremost Marxist philosophers, second only to Chairman Mao himself. Ai was attracted to Marxism-Leninism as a young student in China and Japan,and wrote numerous books and articles seeking to explain the complexities of the philosophy in language everyone could understand. His writings were enormously popular during the 1930s and 1940s, and went through many printings despite continuous harassment from Kuomintang censors.This volume is the first full-length study of Ai Ssu-ch’i. In spite of his popularity, Ai has largely been ignored in recent histories of the Chinese Communist movement, because his importance lies in his function as a popularizer rather than as an original thinker. However, it can be shown that Mao and other leaders of the movement were influenced by him, and his writings and translations certainly helped to attract many young Chinese intellectuals to the Communist cause.The recent flood of reminiscence literature in China has reserved a special place of prominence for Ai Ssu-ch’i. This is not only because he was so admired by Mao, but also because he devoted his life so enthusiastically and wholeheartedly to the Party. Joshua Fogel traces the pattern of this devotion via Ai’s crucial role in spreading Marxist-Leninist thought among Chinese intellectuals.

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BRILL

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1684171105

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9781684171101

Heavenly Torah

As Refracted Through the Generations

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Heavenly Torah

As Refracted Through the Generations

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English.

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A&C Black

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0826408028

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9780826408020

Captain Midnight Archives Volume 2: Captain Midnight Saves the World

By: Joshua Williamson

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Captain Midnight Archives Volume 2: Captain Midnight Saves the World

By: Joshua Williamson

When Captain Midnight discovers his innovative technology has been corrupted in his seventy-year absence, he rockets into action, setting a collision course with a high-flying, overzealous patriot without a conscience and a rogue black-ops organization eager to exterminate anyone who knows their secrets! Midnight is confronted by a brave new world he's determined to make better... or die trying! Collects Captain Midnight #4–#7 and the four-page story from the CBLDF's Liberty Comics.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1621159213

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Hawk Dancer

By: Joshua Seidl

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Hawk Dancer

By: Joshua Seidl

Two freinds establish a Native American Franciscan Friary during World War II in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Adventures carry through the 1960s and into 2009. A story of three cultures: Native, Euro-American and Metis. Modern Historical fiction.

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Hawk Dancer

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1257155075

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance

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Turner Publishing Company

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1118098110

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A Great Place to Have a War

America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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A Great Place to Have a War

America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

1960. President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. In January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. Kurlantzick shows how the brutal war lasted nearly two decades, killed one-tenth of Laos's total population, and changed the nature of the CIA forever.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451667868

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9781451667868

Between China and Japan

The Writings of Joshua Fogel

By: Joshua A. Fogel

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Between China and Japan

The Writings of Joshua Fogel

By: Joshua A. Fogel

Over the past thirty-five years, Joshua Fogel has pioneered the study of Sino-Japanese cultural and political relations—understood as the intersections of the histories of these two countries. This volume brings together many of his essays and reviews in this new field. For a variety of reasons discussed within, scholars have been reluctant to look at these two nation’s historical connections, either through comparative analysis or actual interactions. Fogel’s work has focused squarely here. Among the issues addressed are Japanese scholarly views of modern China and Chinese history, Chinese considerations of the Japanese language in the Ming and Qing periods, the Japanese immigration to the East Asian Mainland (especially to Shanghai and Harbin), and more.

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900428530X

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9789004285309

To Raise and Discipline an Army

Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I

By: Joshua Kastenberg

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To Raise and Discipline an Army

Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I

By: Joshua Kastenberg

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.

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Northern Illinois University Press

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1501758047

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9781501758041

Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology

Perception, Attention, Imagery

By: Joshua Powell

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Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology

Perception, Attention, Imagery

By: Joshua Powell

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel Beckett and Psychology is an innovative study of the author's engagement with key concepts in early experimental psychology and rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, attention and mental imagery. Through innovative new readings of Beckett's later dramatic and prose works, the book reveals the links between his aesthetic method and the methodologies of experimental psychology through the 20th century. Covering important later works including Happy Days, Not I and Footfalls, Samuel Beckett and Psychology sheds important new light on Beckett's depictions of the workings of the embodied mind.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135009174X

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9781350091740

Perspectives On A Changing China

Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

By: Joshua Fogel,William T. Rowe

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Perspectives On A Changing China

Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

By: Joshua Fogel,William T. Rowe

This collection of essays represents current research in modern (post-1800) Chinese history. All contributors are former students of Professor C. Martin Wilbur, one of the great names in the China field over the past forty years, who recently retired from a long tenure as modern Chinese historian at Columbia University. While diverse in their subje

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Routledge

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1000301036

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A Race So Different

Performance and Law in Asian America

By: Joshua Chambers-Letson

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A Race So Different

Performance and Law in Asian America

By: Joshua Chambers-Letson

Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic. Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.

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NYU Press

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0814738397

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