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Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

By: Joshua Glick

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Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

By: Joshua Glick

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.

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Univ of California Press

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0520293711

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9780520293717

Beginning R

An Introduction to Statistical Programming

By: Larry Pace,Joshua Wiley

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Beginning R

An Introduction to Statistical Programming

By: Larry Pace,Joshua Wiley

Beginning R, Second Edition is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, read in data files, and write custom statistical functions as well as use built in functions. This book shows the use of R in specific cases such as one-way ANOVA analysis, linear and logistic regression, data visualization, parallel processing, bootstrapping, and more. It takes a hands-on, example-based approach incorporating best practices with clear explanations of the statistics being done. It has been completely re-written since the first edition to make use of the latest packages and features in R version 3. R is a powerful open-source language and programming environment for statistics and has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics. R is both an object-oriented language and a functional language that is easy to learn, easy to use, and completely free. A large community of dedicated R users and programmers provides an excellent source of R code, functions, and data sets, with a constantly evolving ecosystem of packages providing new functionality for data analysis. R has also become popular in commercial use at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Your investment in learning R is sure to pay off in the long term as R continues to grow into the go to language for data analysis and research. What You Will Learn: How to acquire and install R Hot to import and export data and scripts How to analyze data and generate graphics How to program in R to write custom functions Hot to use R for interactive statistical explorations How to conduct bootstrapping and other advanced techniques

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Apress

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1484203739

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9781484203736

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs

By: Joshua Plunkett,Jeanne K. Hanson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs

By: Joshua Plunkett,Jeanne K. Hanson

Give this book a green thumb's up. Includes CD-ROM. This guide provides the home landscaper with all the information necessary to plan, plant, and nurture trees and shrubs. Arborist professional Josh Plunkett provides the kind of practical, hands-on guidance necessary to transform yards into beautiful havens. Includes a dynamic, interactive CD-ROM featuring hundreds of full-colour photos of trees and shrubs in every season and a checklist of the most important factors necessary in choosing the right tree or shrub More than 200 different trees and shrubs featured Insider advice on how to select the healthiest plants from local and online nurseries Dozens of illustrated, step-by-step instructions for planting, feeding, and pruning

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Penguin

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1592576982

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Homegrown Marijuana

Create a Hydroponic Growing System in Your Own Home

By: Joshua Sheets

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Homegrown Marijuana

Create a Hydroponic Growing System in Your Own Home

By: Joshua Sheets

A gardener’s guide to growing marijuana plants. If growing Cannabis is permitted where you live, a hydroponic system is your homegrown solution. With marijuana laws changing rapidly, millions of gardeners with an interest in growing Cannabis can finally step out of their curtained basements and raise this unique and ancient plant without worry and in plain view. As with any other plant we grow, you’ll find a wide range of strategies for growing marijuana. The variables between approaches are many, including success rates, security, and cost. Indoor, water-based hydroponic systems are the best option for just about any homeowner: they are clean, reliable, highly productive, and can be built for minimal cost. In Homegrown Marijuana, you’ll find all the information you need to create and operate a hydroponic growing system in your own home. This book is intended for people who live in areas that have legalized growing marijuana, for medical use or otherwise, and who wish to produce it for their own consumption. Using step-by-step instructions and photos, hydroponics and marijuana-growing expert Joshua Sheets explains how to create, build, maintain, and harvest a marijuana garden. He also includes plenty of background information you’ll want to know on subjects such as nutrient solutions, propagating plants, selecting varieties, troubleshooting problems, and much more. You’ll see that a hydroponic marijuana garden is not so different from other gardens you’ve grown—except, of course, that in this garden, the weed is encouraged.

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Quarto Publishing Group USA

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1627886516

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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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9781523506484

Semitic Noun Patterns

By: Joshua Fox

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Semitic Noun Patterns

By: Joshua Fox

This is the first complete study of Semitic internal noun patterns since that of Jacob Barth, over a century ago. Drawing on the earlier work of Semitists and linguists, this work presents a comprehensive new synthesis. This diachronic-comparative study presents the internal patterns individually and organizes them systematically. This study investigates the special role of noun patterns in isolated nouns and gives a complete list of reconstructible isolated nouns. This diachronic-comparative study presents the internal patterns individually and organizes them systematically. The roles of the patterns in the derivation of nouns from roots, and in nominal inflection, are shown as part of a reconstructed system. This study investigates the special role of noun patterns in isolated nouns, and gives a complete list of reconstructible isolated nouns. The heart of the book is devoted to studies of all individual reconstructible internal patterns with their Semitic reflexes, including mono- and bisyllabics and patterns with ungeminated or geminated second or third consonants. The book reaches conclusions on the structure of the Proto-Semitic pattern system, including categories of reconstructible and non-reconstructible patterns, semantic groups of patterns, and relationships between different patterns. Further, patterns merge and split diachronically, appearing in different roles in the attested languages, where new pattern systems are formed.

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BRILL

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9004369864

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9789004369863

Bible Versus Science

Which Is More Authentic?

By: Tiebet Joshua

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Bible Versus Science

Which Is More Authentic?

By: Tiebet Joshua

The Bible is generally believed to be the very word of Godthat is, words that were spoken by God at different ages through different people and mediums for the benefit of man. For this reason, its contents are taken to be sacred, true, and enduring forever. Hence, the thought of doing intensive academic works on the various positions of the Bible is hardly done. This is perhaps to avoid questioning the words of God. You either believe the Bible to be true or question it and be looked upon as an unbeliever. On the other hand, and unlike religion where one has to believe before seeing (because God has said it even when you are not sure that it is God that had said it), science is seeing before believing. Science is a fact that has been tested and proven to be true with the ways and methods of carrying out the tests or experiments clearly written down for anyone who cares to try the process.

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1491896418

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9781491896419

Spirituality of Gratitude

The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness

By: Joshua Choonmin Kang

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Spirituality of Gratitude

The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness

By: Joshua Choonmin Kang

God invites us to enter into a world of thankfulness at every moment in our lives, even in the hard times—perhaps especially then. Come and discover a spirituality of gratitude with pastor and bestselling Korean author Joshua Choonmin Kang in these fifty-two short chapters that can be read in weekly sabbath reflection or daily devotional use.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830846034

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9780830846030

Jarai Clauses and Noun Phrases

Syntactic Structures in an Austronesian Language

By: Joshua Jensen

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Jarai Clauses and Noun Phrases

Syntactic Structures in an Austronesian Language

By: Joshua Jensen

The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial verb constructions. Phenomena are carefully described, then analyzed within the Minimalist framework.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501510061

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9781501510069

Joe’s Collectanea

By: Joshua Omeke

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Joe’s Collectanea

By: Joshua Omeke

Joe’s Collectanea by the renowned author Joshua Omeke is an anthology of poems. The pattern of writing expounds interwoven addiction between personal experiences, imaginations, and use of language. Composed of thirty-one poems, the author proposed numerous topics. At an attempt to overview the societal norms, Joshua incorporates reality and figures of speech in a standard practice in several of the poems such as “Anarchiste Diplomatique,” “Ramshackle Emote,” and “Emotions and Idioms” that were a stanza based. Evaluating the critical expectations of his reader, the author also teases through widely accepted experiences that a third of every reader can relate to either personally or by widely heard occurrences in “A Coloured Dream” which evaluates the typical expectations of youths of now from the african community fleeing to western grounds for greener pastures. Because of the sudden drift in storytelling in this masterpiece (Joe’s Collectanea), it is encouraged that every reader evaluate the table of contents before dissecting into the context of Joe’s Collectanea to properly digest according to their present momentum. Further more, Joshua evaluates the symmetrical mechanism that is accustomed to the taxonomy of homo sapiens in the narrative sestina “Life” which provokes its reader through intimidation to think sharply. Another work distinct from the norm is the ode “portrait of her lifestyle” that revamped the respect a typical feminist commands. In addition, works such as “Undies Evolution,” “Problem,” “The Jinn of sahara,” “Tommy, my watch,” and “The Stupor” individually tells a story which sets them as the solid narrative approach the writer confirms his work to be regardless of the poetic theme involved in the spatial formulation. However, each poem were finely drafted, and only exception is the inability for any theatre to convert these words of excellence to a play as it does not reflect a single story nor proposes characters and scenes. Hence, the anthology is a paper mache of ponderous adventures, delving into uncertainty that spooks measure which weighs the mind of each reader as the pages are flipped, and stories are assimilated. Such as “My Body, My Mind” that brings about faith speaking for those who are religious and I enjoy the writer was flexible enough to not associate the poem with a particular religion, rather Joshua was able to tell the story as it is being a believer and philosophers widely accept that every religion believes in God. I confirm the author is a radical, because the previous poem evaluated personal experiences and societal approach in the work “A Friend of Mine” which touches the cores of diversity—switching from talking about diversity into faith, followed by “Ramshackle emote” an exposition of distinct emotions in one topic, ooze’s discombobulations of how far and fast the mind can travel whilst multitasking in thoughts and ideas. Acts like this are encouraged in the literal hemisphere as it outweighs having a particular concept one is known for, which shall soon make their works unintelligible and classed as universal. Compared to Joshua’s style in drafting literature as a work of art, and in an attempt to photograph his abilities as visual art, he would fly as a Basquiat because of his unpredictability. The Collectanea discusses pronounced controversial topics such as Love in the work “Romance in Poetry,” “Long lost love.” Another concern is Labourers affairs in “Danilo the farmboy”, Religion in “A Surrendered Man,” Philosophy with “Composure,” “Flies of wilderness” and “Epiphany of life”, Global Warming with “Roots are before the log pt 2”, COVID-19 with “The Plague in our waves”, travel writing by depicting “Joe’s Collectanea from Ghana side.” There are other works that can be versed as a must read when flipping pages before settling to read all these are “Ache of waters” centered at evaluating struggles and being accustomed to them. In other references the writer tells a story of colonialism in Africa and its neo-colonial practices that stenches the effort of its settlers in the poem “Anarchiste Diplomatique”. With a mild interjection “Grass of our time” centers on cravings by collectors of nicotiana and how they are so attached to the strands regardless of the health risk associated with their perpetual practices. The few titles reviewed in this article are not conjunctional to the table of content, they appeared according to my preference in reviewing Joe’s Collectanea. The author, Joshua Omeke, has shown talent in literature and displayed years of expertise. If permitted, I will propose he continuously releases much more of his archives. Joshua Omeke is a youth of mystical fingers that composes works of poetry as Igor Stravinsky since he has composed masterpieces in almost every topic he had written. He hails from Edo, Nigeria but was a Lagos born individual. And confirms he has been writing for many years, though literal bytes are slightly penetrating the international scenes but remain a gem to the Nigerian hemisphere. He has technical skills in coding, and confirms writing is a passion and will continue to do so even in his old age. Aside writing, he is also a paint artist who draws inspiration from cubism and surrealism.

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Harmony Publishers Ltd

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The Urban Farm Handbook

City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat

By: Annette Cottrell,Joshua McNichols

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The Urban Farm Handbook

City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat

By: Annette Cottrell,Joshua McNichols

* More than 150 sustainable resources for the Pacific Northwest * More than 90 basic home-production recipes * 75 black-and-white and 35 full color photographs * Up-to-date information on Seattle-area urban farming permits and policy Is that . . . a goat in your garage?! It might be if you've been reading The Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat. In this comprehensive guide for city-dwellers on how to wean themselves from commercial supermarkets, the authors map a plan for how to manage a busy, urban family life with home-grown foods, shared community efforts, and easy yet healthful practices. More than just a few ideas about gardening and raising chickens, The Urban Farm Handbook uses stories, charts, grocery lists, recipes, and calendars to inform and instruct. As busy urbanites who have learned how to do everything from making cheese and curing meat to collaborating with neighbors on a food bartering system, the authors share their own food journeys along with those of local producers and consumers who are changing the food systems in the Pacific Northwest. Organized seasonally, this handbook instructs on: And so much more!

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Skipstone

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1594856389

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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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Management of Spastic Conditions of the Upper Extremity, An Issue of Hand Clinics

By: Joshua M Adkinson

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Management of Spastic Conditions of the Upper Extremity, An Issue of Hand Clinics

By: Joshua M Adkinson

This issue of Hand Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Joshua Adkinson, will cover several import aspects of the Management of Spastic Conditions of the Upper Extremity. At the invitation of consulting editor Dr. Kevin Chung, Dr. Adkinson put together a comprehensive issue, which covers: Etiologies; Assessment measures and motion analysis; Non-surgical treatment options; Surgical management of spasticity of the thumb and fingers, wrist and forearm, elbow, and shoulder; Management of spastic upper extremity joint contractures; Technical pearls of tendon transfers; Selective neurotomy; Neurosurgical management; Outcomes after surgical treatment; The future of upper extremity spasticity management; and Management of spinal cord injury-induced upper limb spasticity, among others.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323641520

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9780323641524

Your Ascension Mission

Embracing Your Puzzle Piece

By: Joshua David Stone,Janna Shelley Parker

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Your Ascension Mission

Embracing Your Puzzle Piece

By: Joshua David Stone,Janna Shelley Parker

We are all as unique as individual snowflakes, intricately designed so that no two are alike, yet when observed as a whole, we form the blended essence of lightworkers, merging into vaster and fuller aspects of God, the one great whole. Each of us holds a very specialized piece of the divine puzzle of God, or the whole. The more attuned we become to God, the more we are called to find and fulfill that specialized piece of the puzzle belonging to ourselves alone. When we find this puzzle piece and embrace it, we are then able to fulfill our divine mission on this Earth.

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Light Technology Publishing

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1891824090

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9781891824098

The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats

By: Joan O. Joshua

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The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats

By: Joan O. Joshua

The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats describes certain cat diseases as it occurs in the British Isles. This book is composed of 23 chapters that specifically examine conditions which occur, their relative frequency, detail symptomatology, and methods of diagnosis and treatment available in the average practice. The first chapters deal with the relationship of cat with man, its restraint, sedation, anesthesia, health, and clinical examination. Considerable chapters are devoted to numerous diseases in cat's head, eye, mouth, ear, alimentary tract, internal organs, peritoneal cavity, reproductive, nervous, and skeletal system, and skin. The remaining chapters describe diseases due to infective agents and sepsis. These chapters also discuss issues on quarantine, veterinary cat examinations, and cat shows. This book will prove useful to veterinarians, clinicians, and cat handlers and owners.

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148322600X

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Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew

An Introduction

By: Joshua Blau

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Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew

An Introduction

By: Joshua Blau

More than 80 years have passed since Bauer and Leander’s historical grammar of Biblical Hebrew was published, and many advances in comparative historical grammar have been made during the interim. Joshua Blau, who has for much of his life been associated with the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, has during the past half century studied, collected data, and written frequently on various aspects of the Hebrew language. Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew had its origins in an introduction to Biblical Hebrew first written some 40 years ago; it has now been translated from Modern Hebrew, thoroughly revised and updated, and it distills a lifetime of knowledge of the topic. The book begins with a 60-page introduction that locates Biblical Hebrew in the Semitic family of languages. It then discusses various approaches to categorization and classification, introduces and discusses various linguistic approaches and features that are necessary to the discussion, and provides a background to the way that linguists approach a language such as Biblical Hebrew—all of which will be useful to students who have taken first-year Hebrew as well those who have studied Biblical Hebrew extensively but have not been introduced to linguistic study of the topic. After a brief discussion of phonetics, the main portion of the book is devoted to phonology and to morphology. In the section on phonology, Blau provides complete coverage of the consonant and vowel systems of Biblical Hebrew and of the factors that have affected both systems. In the section on morphology, he discusses the parts of speech (pronouns, verbs, nouns, numerals) and includes brief comments on the prepositions and waw. The historical processes affecting each feature are explained as Blau progresses through the various sections. The book concludes with a complete set of paradigms and extensive indexes. Blau’s recognized preeminence as a Hebraist and Arabist as well as his understanding of language change have converged in the production of this volume to provide an invaluable tool for the comparative and historical study of Biblical Hebrew phonology and morphology.

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Penn State Press

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1575066017

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The Benedict Proposal

Church as Creative Minority in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI

By: Joshua Brumfield

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The Benedict Proposal

Church as Creative Minority in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI

By: Joshua Brumfield

How ought the church respond to the rise of a post-Christian secular age? Should it retreat? What is the mission of the church in this context? Joseph Ratzinger's eucharistic ecclesiology provides a model for living the relation between communion and mission, a model that provides a sound image for conceiving of and imagining the church's engagement with modernity and the embodiment of missionary communion. Ratzinger's vision, deeply influenced by St. Benedict's and St. Augustine's responses to the problems of their day, offers a theologically and liturgically grounded vision of missionary communion that transcends politics. In light of our creation by, from, and for the triune God, authentic responses to the present dis-integration of reason and community require the witness and invitation of the church as a community for the world. Ratzinger argues that right worship can and does habituate Christians and equip churches to respond to the existential questions confronting modern persons, many of whom seem partially paralyzed by the anxieties of life without truth and communion. Might the witness of communion for mission lived by the new ecclesial movements, especially the Focolare, offer an example of how Ratzinger's creative minorities can successfully evangelize this secular age?

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1532673159

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China's Homeless Generation

Voices from the veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s

By: Joshua Fan

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China's Homeless Generation

Voices from the veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s

By: Joshua Fan

China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948 and continued for more than a decade. The displacement officially lasted until November 1987, when they were legally allowed to return for the first time in nearly forty years. Collectively, referred to as the ‘Homeless Generation’, this unique study makes extensive use of these survivors’ own voices to formulate a truly fascinating story of a generation of Chinese who found themselves outsiders not just in Taiwan, but in the places they called home. Joshua Fan provides a detailed picture of the exodus, the struggle to find a new home in Taiwan, both physically and psychologically, and ultimately the experiences and effects of returning to the mainland decades later. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, the Chinese civil war, Chinese Diasporas, and China Studies in general.

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Routledge

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1136879625

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9781136879623

The Philosophical Stage

Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens

By: Joshua Billings

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The Philosophical Stage

Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens

By: Joshua Billings

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens. In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today’s most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought.

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0691211116

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