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Opening Repertoire The Sicilian Najdorf

By: John Doknjas,Joshua Doknjas

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Opening Repertoire The Sicilian Najdorf

By: John Doknjas,Joshua Doknjas

The Najdorf Sicilian is one of Black’s most respected and popular responses to 1 e4. It was favoured by those two titans of the game, Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov and in the modern game it features in the repertoire of many elite players. This rich opening creates a wealth of opportunities for vigorous attacks, causing most games to be tense and engaging. The Najdorf is that very rare thing – an opening for Black that is highly aggressive but is also recognised as being objectively sound. In this book, FIDE Master John Doknjas and National Master Joshua Doknjas navigate through the main lines of the Najdorf and provide the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable lessons on how to play the opening, and contains instructive commentary on typical middle-game plans. With thorough variations and explanations on pawn structures and piece placement, this book provides insight to both strong masters and less experienced players alike. The format is ideal for the chessplayer keen to improve their game. While reading you are continually challenged to answer probing questions – a method that greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of chess knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study chess while providing the best possible chance to retain what has been learnt.

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1781944849

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The Urantia Book 2

By: Donovan Joshua Neal

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The Urantia Book 2

By: Donovan Joshua Neal

THE URANTIA BOOK IS A DIVINE RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE THAT REVEALS NEVER BEFORE REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH. SELF WAS THE BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED WITH THE SAME TITLE. SELF WAS EDGAR CAYCE THEN. SELF CHANNELED THE INFORMATION AS EDGAR CAYCE. AS EDGAR CAYCE, SELF WAS A SLEEPING PROPHET THAT PROPHESIED WHAT WAS TO COME. SELF WAS BORN AGAIN ON 6/3/1990. John 16:13 New International Version (NIV) '13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come."" THIS BOOK HAS AN ENTIRE CHAPTER CALLED PROPHECY AND IN THAT CHAPTER SELF IS STILL TELLING YOU WHAT IS TO COME. SELF CHANNELS WHAT SELF HEARS. SELF SPEAKS WHAT SELF HEARS. URANTIA MEANS EARTH. SELF IS AN ANGEL OF THE LORD AND SELF IS THE LORD GODHEAD JESUS CHRIST. WE AND MANY OTHERS CALL URANTIA OUR HEAVENLY KINGDOM AND IT HAS COME. OUR WILL BE DONE. HEAVEN IS ON URANTIA AND EARTH ALREADY. HEAVEN IS ALL ENCOMPASSING. NOT ALL PERCEIVE IT FOR WHAT IT TRULY IS. NOT ALL SEE AND HEAR IT. Jeremiah 5:21 New International Version (NIV) '21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

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Xlibris Corporation

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179607814X

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Acute Ischemic Stroke

Imaging and Intervention

By: R. Gilberto González,Joshua A. Hirsch,Michael H. Lev,Pamela W. Schaefer,Lee H. Schwamm

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Acute Ischemic Stroke

Imaging and Intervention

By: R. Gilberto González,Joshua A. Hirsch,Michael H. Lev,Pamela W. Schaefer,Lee H. Schwamm

Up-to-date, detailed practical guide for neuroimaging of the acute ischemic stroke patients Experienced authors in the field of neuro imaging

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540308105

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Opening Repertoire: The Ruy Lopez

By: Joshua Doknjas

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Opening Repertoire: The Ruy Lopez

By: Joshua Doknjas

The Ruy Lopez is perhaps the most classical of all chess openings. It dates back to the 16th century and has featured in the opening repertoire of every modern world champion. It is a highly flexible variation: Bobby Fischer used it to create numerous powerful strategic masterpieces. In the hands of Anatoly Karpov it led to many of his trademark positional squeezes, whereas Garry Kasparov often used it as a springboard for his typically powerful attacks. Opening Repertoire: The Ruy Lopez is a modern examination of this perennial favourite. Joshua Doknjas has put together a repertoire for White based firmly around contemporary trends in the Lopez. He examines all aspects of this highly complex opening and provides the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable lessons on how to play the opening and contains instructive commentary on typical middlegame plans. * A complete repertoire for White in the Ruy Lopez. * A question and answer approach provides an excellent study method.

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Everyman Chess

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178194542X

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Ripples Of Hope

Great American Civil Rights Speeches

By: Joshua Gottheimer

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Ripples Of Hope

Great American Civil Rights Speeches

By: Joshua Gottheimer

Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans, and women, Ripples of Hope includes voices as diverse as Sister Souljah, Spark Matsui, and Harvey Milk, which, taken as a whole, constitute a unique chronicle of the modern civil rights movement. Featuring a foreword by President Bill Clinton and an afterword by Mary Frances Berry, this collection represents not just a historical first but also an indispensable resource for readers searching for an alternative history of American rhetoric. Edited and with an introduction by former Clinton speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, the stirring speeches that make up this volume provide an important perspective on our nation's development, and will inform the future debate on civil rights.

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Civitas Books

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078674765X

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Because, Seriously America, Seriously!

By: Joshua Grant

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Because, Seriously America, Seriously!

By: Joshua Grant

Do you think there is something else going on behind the scenes? Do the government's actions seem to be focused on the American people or others that they shouldn't? Just what is going on right now in America? Well, if you are like Mr. Grant, you might be wondering what is seriously going on in America right now. We have a country that seems to be on the brink of another Civil War all due to the actions of the individuals in charge. "Because, Seriously America, seriously", was created to give you a different perspective than the one being pushed by the media and on social media platforms. In today's new concerning world, what was once normal is not normal anymore. Normalcy now seems to be whatever these individuals in charge make up in their head and push out onto the American people. With this book, Grant gives you his perspective as a straight white catholic American male, trying to survive in a new America where white Americans like himself are now the enemy and most white Americans are being labeled racist or offensive for nothing other than their skin color being white. Mr. Grant talks about the interesting things that have led to us as a nation being so separated and divided and the narrative these people pushed to get us there. Life can change very quickly, and Mr. Grant has experienced a life-changing event himself. As a man now living with a mechanical heart valve that keeps ticking to keep him alive, Mr. Grant gives you a different perspective and way to think about the claims that these individuals are making and why their claims along with their statements, could mean the death of America if we don't stop these individuals from achieving their goals. “History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. In addition, if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us.” -- unknown

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1736659413

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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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1592576982

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Racism in the United States, Third Edition

Implications for the Helping Professions

By: Ann Marie Garran, PhD, MSW,Joshua L. Miller, PhD, MSW,Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD, MA, MSW,Hye-Kyung Kang, PhD, MA, MSW

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Racism in the United States, Third Edition

Implications for the Helping Professions

By: Ann Marie Garran, PhD, MSW,Joshua L. Miller, PhD, MSW,Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD, MA, MSW,Hye-Kyung Kang, PhD, MA, MSW

The only comprehensive book on racism for human service students and professionals; this book addresses all forms of racism from an historical, theoretical, institutional, interpersonal and professional perspective. This text discusses how racism can be dealt with in clinical, communal and organizational contexts. The third edition encompasses a wealth of vital new scholarship on the perpetually changing contours of racism and strategies to confront it. Fulfilling NASW and CSWE cultural competency requirements, this book teaches socially-just practices to helping professionals from any discipline. Using coloniality and other critical theories as a conceptual framework, the text analyzes all levels of racism: structural, personal, interpersonal, professional, and cultural. It features the contributions of a new team of authors and scholars; new conceptual and theoretical material; a new chapter on immigration racism and updated content to reflect how racism and white supremacy are manifested today; and new content on the impact of racism on economics, technology, and environmental degradation; expanded sections on slavery; current political manifestations of racism and much more. The new edition provides in-depth multilevel complex exploration and includes varied perspectives that will be meaningful for anyone involved in human services. Readers appreciate the book's sensitive, complex and multidimensional approach to this difficult topic. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers. New to the Third Edition: Integrates the perspectives and insights of two new expert authors. Includes a new chapter on the root causes for the increased flow of migrants, displaced people, and refugees and the impact of racism on their lives; and discusses the rise of fascism and white supremacy along with the confluence of racism and COVID-19. Includes a new model of dialogue, “Critical Conversations,” which offers a roadmap for facilitating productive conversations on race and racism. Presents updated coverage of the killings of young people of color by law enforcement. Offers a detailed examination of the Trump era and the impact of Obama presidency on the dynamics of racism. Provides practical applications which include exercises that explore social group and intersectional identities, stereotypes, microaggressions, organizational audits, and structural oppression. Key Features: Addresses how racism is part of the DNA of human services organizations and provides strategies for facilitating change Explains how professionals can resist racism and serve as anti-racism activists Provides practical applications and exercises in each chapter Includes instructor’s manual, links to relevant podcasts and additional resources, and PowerPoint outlines for each chapter

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0826185576

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"Wake Up, Mr. West"

Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black Celebrity

By: Joshua K. Wright

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"Wake Up, Mr. West"

Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black Celebrity

By: Joshua K. Wright

Black celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success--and between being "not black enough" for the black community or "too black" to appeal to a broader audience. Few know this tightrope walk better than Kanye West, who transformed hip-hop, pop and gospel music, redefined fashion, married the world's biggest reality TV star and ran for president, all while becoming one of only a handful of black billionaires worldwide. Despite these accomplishments, his polarizing behavior, controversial alliances and bouts with mental illness have made him a caricature in the media and a disappointment among much of his fanbase. This book examines West's story and what it reveals about black celebrity and identity and the American dream.

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McFarland

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1476644403

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Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

By: Joshua C. Taylor

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Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

By: Joshua C. Taylor

This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise.

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0520048881

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The Forsaken Son

Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction

By: Joshua Pederson

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The Forsaken Son

Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction

By: Joshua Pederson

The Forsaken Son engages the provocative coincidence of the vocabularies of infanticide and Christianity, specifically atonement theology, in six modern American novels: Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, the first two installments of John Updike’s Rabbit tetralogy, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love, and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark. Christian atonement theology explains why God lets His son be crucified. Yet in recent years, as an increasing number of scholars have come to reject that explanation, the cross reverts from saving grace to trauma—or even crime. More bluntly, without atonement, the cross may be a filicide, in which God forces his son to die for no apparent reason. Pederson argues that the novels about child murder mentioned above likewise give voice to modern skepticism about traditional atonement theology.

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Northwestern University Press

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081013229X

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Grains of Truth

Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

By: Joshua A. Fogel

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Grains of Truth

Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

By: Joshua A. Fogel

This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761863028

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9780761863021

Dybbuk Americana

By: Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

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Dybbuk Americana

By: Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

How can I teach a prayer / I only know how to recite?" "America, whose death / didn't you come from?" These are some of the questions that poet Joshua Gottlieb-Miller wrestles with in his beautiful, gripping new collection. By turns experimental and documentary, Dybbuk Americana draws out the questions around Jewish identity in the United States, and what it means to pass on Jewish identity to one's child. This hybrid text draws on art, mysticism, and history, taking the dybbuk, a figure from Jewish folklore, as its central metaphor. A dybbuk is a restless spirit who inhabits another's body, and as a possessing spirit the dybbuk is often treated as a demonic force, but it can be read as merely trying to climb the ladder of the afterlife. In other words, a kind of striver. Enacting the idea of competing selves in one body, Dybbuk Americana plays with form via a series of text boxes that create a multi-channel effect on the page. The body of the poem can be read with surrounding and intercutting text boxes to generate multiple interpretations. This innovative poetic technique maintains a dialogue with Jewish literary lineages: Talmudic commentary and interpretation of the oral law, as well as the fragmented nature of geniza, a place where Jews store sacred documents when they fall out of use. Dybbuk Americana weaves together the father-son arc within a larger socio-political commentary and historical narrative. Poems move deftly between the ironic and the mystic, from aphoristic questioning and inventive narratives, to interview, oral history, and archival materials. In these lines, "the angels./ They get as close as they can." Witty, curious, warm, and searching, Dybbuk Americana signals a fresh voice in Jewish-American poetry. [sample text] CHAIN MIGRATION It took ten men to make a minyan, but only one name of G-d for us to share, so we settled on America, one by one, we settled on America, man and woman. My grandfather earned his way over shoveling coal in the hold of a boat. Grandmother sewed gold into her coat. In secret they sewed, they sold, they glowed. I dream of gold. G-d's name in gold milked and honeyed in the dust beneath our boots— our dust. And when they made a minyan and didn't realize it? And when they married in and didn't realize it? No matter: they sewed, they sold, they glowed. Yes, they sold their solid gold, sold gold into gold, sewed gold together into dust. When I was born they gave me a dead man's name. But that's true for everyone.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819501174

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American Awakening

Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time

By: Joshua Mitchell

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American Awakening

Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time

By: Joshua Mitchell

America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning politics into a religious venue of sacrificial offering. For now, the sacrificial scapegoat is the white, heterosexual, man. After he is humiliated and purged, who will be the object of cathartic rage? White women? Black men? Identity politics is the anti-egalitarian spiritual eugenics of our age. It demands that pure and innocent groups ascend, and the stained transgressor groups be purged. The second affliction is that citizens oscillate back and forth, in bipolar fashion, at one moment feeling invincible on their social media platforms and, the next, feeling impotent to face the everyday problems of life without the guidance of experts and global managers. Third, Americans are afflicted by a disease that cannot quite be named, characterized by an addictive hope that they can find cheap shortcuts that bypass the difficult labors of everyday life. Instead of real friendship, we seek social media “friends.” Instead of meals at home, we order “fast food.” Instead of real shopping, we “shop” online. Instead of counting on our families and neighbors to address our problems, we look to the state to take care of us. In its many forms, this disease promises release from our labors, yet impoverishes us all. American Awakening chronicles all of these problems, yet gives us hope for the future.

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Encounter Books

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1641772832

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Black Against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin

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Black Against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin

15 Rupture -- 16 The Limits of Heroism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Figures

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0520293282

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Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana

The 1934 Lomax Recordings

By: Joshua Clegg Caffery

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Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana

The 1934 Lomax Recordings

By: Joshua Clegg Caffery

Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, took an eighteen-year-old Alan and a 300-pound aluminum disk recorder into the rice fields of Jennings, along the waterways of New Iberia, and behind the gates of Angola State Penitentiary to collect vestiges of African American and Acadian musical tradition. These recordings now serve as the foundational document of indigenous Louisiana music. Although widely recognized by scholars as a key artifact in the understanding of American vernacular music, most of the recordings by John and Alan Lomax during their expedition across the central-southern fringe of Louisiana were never transcribed or translated, much less studied in depth. This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the 1934 corpus and unveils a multifaceted story of traditional song in one of the country's most culturally dynamic regions. Through his textual and comparative study of the songs contained in the Lomax collection, Joshua Clegg Caffery provides a musical history of Louisiana that extends beyond Cajun music and zydeco to the rural blues, Irish and English folk songs, play-party songs, slave spirituals, and traditional French folk songs that thrived at the time of these recordings. Intimate in its presentation of Louisiana folklife and broad in its historical scope, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana honors the legacy of John and Alan Lomax by retrieving these musical relics from obscurity and ensuring their understanding and appreciation for generations to come. Includes: Complete transcriptions of the 1934 Lomax field recordings in southwestern Louisiana Side-by-side translations from French to English Photographs from the 1934 field trip and biographical details about the performers

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LSU Press

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080715203X

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Framing Monsters

Fantasy Film and Social Alienation

By: Joshua David Bellin

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Framing Monsters

Fantasy Film and Social Alienation

By: Joshua David Bellin

Beginning with celebrated classics, the author locates King Kong (1933) within the era of lynching to evince how the film protects whiteness against supposed aggressions of a black predator and reviews The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a product of the Depression's economic anxieties. From there, the study moves to the cult classic animated Sinbad Trilogy (1958-1977) of Ray Harryhausen, films rampant with xenophobic fears of the Middle East as relevant today as when the series was originally produced. Advancing to more recent subjects, the author focuses on the image of the monstrous woman and the threat of reproductive freedom found in Aliens (1986), Jurassic Park (1993), and Species (1995) and on depictions of the mentally ill as dangerous deviants in 12 Monkeys (1996) and The Cell (2000). An investigation into physical freakishness guides his approach to Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).

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0809326248

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The Ubiquitous Presidency

Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times

By: Joshua M. Scacco,Kevin Coe

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The Ubiquitous Presidency

Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times

By: Joshua M. Scacco,Kevin Coe

American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and standards of executive leadership. Research on the presidency, although abundant, has been slow to adjust to changing realities associated with digital technologies, diverse audiences, and new political practices. Meanwhile, journalists and the public continue to encounter and shape emerging presidential efforts in deeply consequential ways. This book offers a comprehensive framework for understanding contemporary presidential communication: the ubiquitous presidency. Presidents harness new opportunities in the media environment to create a nearly constant and highly visible presence in political and nonpolitical arenas. They do this by trying to achieve longstanding presidential goals, namely visibility, adaptation, and control. However, in an environment where accessibility, personalization, and pluralism are omnipresent considerations, the strategies presidents use to achieve their goals are very different from what we once knew. Using this novel framework, the book undertakes one of the most expansive analyses of presidential communication to date. A wide variety of approaches-ranging from surveys and survey-experiments, to large-scale automated content and network analyses, to qualitative textual analysis-uncover new aspects of the intricate relationship between the president, news media, and the public. Focusing on the presidency since Ronald Reagan, and devoting particular attention to the cases of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the book uncovers remarkable shifts in communication that test the institution of the presidency and, consequently, democratic governance itself"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197520634

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Super "T"

The Complete Guide to Creating an Effective, Safe and Natural Testosterone Enhancement Program for Men and Women

By: Greg Ptacek,Joshua Shackman,Karlis Ullis

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Super "T"

The Complete Guide to Creating an Effective, Safe and Natural Testosterone Enhancement Program for Men and Women

By: Greg Ptacek,Joshua Shackman,Karlis Ullis

A must-read guide to the latest nonprescription supplements for peak sexual and athletic performance and optimal health. Testosterone is “the super hormone”; no other natural substance comes close to its power to energize, rejuvenate, and sexually arouse both men and women. Under new federal regulations, consumers have access to a whole new group of supplements that boost the body's natural testosterone levels. Available without a prescription, these “T boosters,” including androstenedione, promise to revolutionize health, fitness, and weight management regimens for men and women. In many instances, they offer an economical and viable alternative to Viagra. In Super “T,” Dr. Karlis Ullis shows you how to create a personalized program of over-the-counter T boosters based on your age, gender, and specific needs, with essential information on the different supplements that can be found in vitamin and health food stores. He explains how to use these potent substances safely, effectively, and responsibly, with appropriate doses and schedules, with careful attention to the questions and concerns you may have. With detailed information on supplement combinations and nutritional support, and a list of supplement suppliers, Super “T” is an indispensable reference for those who want to perform at the top of their form.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684824523

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9780684824529

Primitive Colors

A Case Study in Neo-pragmatist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Perception

By: Joshua Gert

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Primitive Colors

A Case Study in Neo-pragmatist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Perception

By: Joshua Gert

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical strategy - neo-pragmatism - which challenges an assumption made by virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the standard representationalist strategy for solving "placement problems" in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are primitive properties of objects, irreducible to physical or dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers, and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors are also - contrary to current dogma - insufficiently determinate in their nature to allow them to be associated with precise points in standard color spaces. A given color can present different veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard color spaces. In explaining the distinction between objective color and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object, and the various ways in which that shape appears from various perspectives. Primitive Colors also offers an account of color constancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of experience.

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0191088994

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What Is Race?

Four Philosophical Views

By: Joshua Glasgow,Sally Haslanger,Chike Jeffers,Quayshawn Spencer

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What Is Race?

Four Philosophical Views

By: Joshua Glasgow,Sally Haslanger,Chike Jeffers,Quayshawn Spencer

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial progress. It is fair to say that questions about race have vexed our social life. But for all we speak about race, do we know what race is? Is it a social construct or a biological object? Is it a bankrupt holdover from a time before sophisticated scientific understanding and genetics, or can it still hold up in biological, genetic, and other types of research? Most fundamentally, is race real? In this book, four prominent philosophers and race theorists debate how best to answer these difficult questions, applying philosophical tools and the principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each presents a distinct view of race: Sally Haslanger argues that race is a socio-political reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only political but also, importantly, cultural. Quayshawn Spencer pursues the idea that race is biologically real. And Joshua Glasgow argues that either race is not real, or if it is, it must be real in a way that is neither social nor biological. Each offers an argument for their own view and then replies to the others. Woven together, the result is a lively debate that opens up numerous ways of understanding race. Above all, it is call for sophisticated and principled discussion of something that significantly permeates our lives.

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A Theory of Race

By: Joshua Glasgow

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A Theory of Race

By: Joshua Glasgow

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options. Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon.

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Fast Forward Your Etiquette

10 Steps to Conduct Yourself with Poise at Work & at Play

By: Joshua Luke

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10 Steps to Conduct Yourself with Poise at Work & at Play

By: Joshua Luke

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ATTENTION

Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

By: Joshua Cohen

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ATTENTION

Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

By: Joshua Cohen

“Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly “Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Throughout ATTENTION, Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. In each piece, he projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, profound, and distinct as any in American letters. At this crucial juncture in history, ATTENTION is a guide for the perplexed—a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future. Praise for ATTENTION “Dazzling in its scope . . . If curiosity is a writer’s greatest innate gift, Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post “Cause for celebration and close study . . . [Cohen] will hunt after neglected shards of the past, minor histories, and charge them with an immediacy in the present. . . . He is experimenting with the essay form much more, and more cleverly, than any major American writer today.”—The Wall Street Journal “In Attention, Joshua Cohen makes an eclectic argument for how to improve our lives. . . . [He] tackles a surprising range of subjects to underline distraction’s role in our fraught predicament and to argue that paying attention could help us get out of it. . . . When it comes to making sense of our times with verve and imagination, few authors are more rewarding.”—Financial Times

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