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Refugee Economies

Forced Displacement and Development

By: Alexander Betts,Louise Bloom,Josiah David Kaplan,Naohiko Omata

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Refugee Economies

Forced Displacement and Development

By: Alexander Betts,Louise Bloom,Josiah David Kaplan,Naohiko Omata

This book explores the economic lives of refugees. It looks at what shapes the production, consumption, finance, and exchange activities of refugees, to explain variation in economic outcomes for refugees themselves.

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Oxford University Press

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0198795688

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9780198795681

Accessible Connecticut

A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families

By: Nora Ellen Groce,Lawrence C. Kaplan,Josiah David Kaplan

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Accessible Connecticut

A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families

By: Nora Ellen Groce,Lawrence C. Kaplan,Josiah David Kaplan

This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and reasonably priced and that require little or no prior planning. The entries are arranged by type of activity. They include places to see animals (zoos, aquariums, hatcheries, farms); children’s museums; museums of nature, history, science, fine arts, and special interest; places of historic interest; playgrounds; nature centers and walks; theaters and performing arts; and weekend excursions for the family. Each place or activity lists location, directions, phone numbers, web information, hours, admission fees, brief descriptions, and assessment of accessibility by type of disability. The guide is an invaluable resource, helping children with disabilities (or, for that matter, parents with disabilities) share with their families the experiences and playtime activities that are part of all happy childhood memories.

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Yale University Press

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0300130775

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9780300130775

Black Lives Matter and the Image of God

A Theo-Anthropological Study

By: Josiah U. Young

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Black Lives Matter and the Image of God

A Theo-Anthropological Study

By: Josiah U. Young

In Black Lives Matter and The Image of God: A Theo-Anthropological Study, the author argues that "God’s” future is inseparable from humane values that eschew white supremacy and other modes of self-deification in favor of ethics that cultivate life for all human beings.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793619239

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9781793619235

Runner's High

How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports

By: Josiah Hesse

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Runner's High

How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports

By: Josiah Hesse

Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind meets Christopher McDougall's Born to Run in this immersive, investigative look at the hidden culture of cannabis use among elite athletes (as well as weekend warriors)--and the surprising emerging science behind the elusive, exhilarating "runner's high" they all seek. Pot makes exercise fun. The link between performance enhancement and cannabis has been an open secret for many years, so much so that with the wide-sweeping national legalization of cannabis, combining weed and working out has become the hottest new wellness trend. Why, then, is there still a skewed perception around this leafy substance that it only produces the lazy, red-eyed stoner laid out on a couch somewhere, munching on junk food? In fact, scientists have conducted extensive research that uncovers the power of the "runner's high"--the true holy grail of aerobic activity that was long believed to be caused by endorphins. In an extraordinary reversal, scientists believe marijuana may actually be the key to getting more Americans off their phones and on to their feet. In Runner's High, seasoned investigative journalist Josiah Hesse takes readers on a journey through the secret world of stoned athletes, describing astounding, cannabis-inspired physical and mental transformations, just like he experienced. From the economics of the $20 billion CBD market to the inherent inequalities in the enforcement of marijuana prohibition; from the mind-body connection behind the "runner's high" to the best way to make your own cannabis-infused power bars; Runner's High takes this groundbreaking science out of the lab and onto the trail, court, field, and pitch, fundamentally changing the way we think about exercise, recovery, and cannabis.

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Penguin

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059319117X

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9780593191170

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule

By: Josiah Ober

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Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule

By: Josiah Ober

How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals tended to assume that ordinary men were incapable of ruling themselves, the longevity and resilience of Athenian popular rule presented a problem: how to explain the apparent success of a regime "irrationally" based on the inherent wisdom and practical efficacy of decisions made by non-elite citizens? The problem became acute after two oligarchic coups d' tat in the late fifth century B.C. The generosity and statesmanship that democrats showed after regaining political power contrasted starkly with the oligarchs' violence and corruption. Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality. Ober offers fresh readings of the political works of Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, by placing them in the context of a competitive community of dissident writers. These thinkers struggled against both democratic ideology and intellectual rivals to articulate the best and most influential criticism of popular rule. The competitive Athenian environment stimulated a century of brilliant literary and conceptual innovation. Through Ober's re-creation of an ancient intellectual milieu, early Western political thought emerges not just as a "footnote to Plato," but as a dissident commentary on the first Western democracy.

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Princeton University Press

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1400822718

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9781400822713

The Collapse of Rhodesia

Population Demographics and the Politics of Race

By: Josiah Brownell

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The Collapse of Rhodesia

Population Demographics and the Politics of Race

By: Josiah Brownell

In the years leading up to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, its small and transient white population was balanced precariously atop a large and fast-growing African population. This unstable political demography was set against the backdrop of continent-wide decolonisation and a parallel rise in African nationalism within Rhodesia. "The Collapse of Rhodesia" provides a controversial reexamination of the final decades of white minority rule. Josiah Brownell argues that racial population demographics and the pressures they produced were a pervasive, but hidden, force behind many of Rhodesia's most dramatic political events, including UDI. He concludes that the UDI rebellion eventually failed because the state was unable to successfully redress white Rhodesia's fundamental demographic weaknesses. By addressing this vital demographic component of the multifaceted conflict, this book is an important contribution to the historiography of the last years of white rule in Rhodesia.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857718894

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9780857718891

The Philosophy of Chrysippus

Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World's Fair

By: Josiah B. Gould

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The Philosophy of Chrysippus

Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World's Fair

By: Josiah B. Gould

The Philosophy of Chrysippus is a reconstruction of the philosophy of an eminent Stoic philosopher, based upon the fragmentary remains of his voluminous writings. Chrysippus of Cilicia, who lived in a period that covers roughly the last three-quarters of the third century B.C., studied philosophy in Athens and upon Cleanthes' death became the third head of the Stoa, one of the four great schools of philosophy of the Hellenistic period. Chrysippus wrote a number of treatises in each of the major departments of philosophy, logic, physics, and ethics. Much of his fame derived from his acuteness as a logician, but his importance for Stoic philosophy generally was acknowledged in antiquity in the saying, "Had there been no Chrysippus, there would be no Stoa." Previous accounts of Chrysippus' philosophy, including Émile Bréhier's study, the only work in this century which had sought to deal with Chrysippus' philosophy alone, blurred the distinctive contributions of Chrysippus to Stoic philosophy and failed to bring to light the peculiar features in his thought. The vagueness in these accounts resulted in large measure from the assumption that if an ancient author ascribed a doctrine to "the Stoics" or "Stoicism", one could infer that the doctrine belonged to Chrysippus. Professor Gould works from the more circumspect methodological principle that unless an ancient author explicitly ascribes a doctrine to Chrysippus, his testimony cannot be used in reconstructing Chrysippus' philosophy. Working with those of the fragments in Hans von Arnim's collection, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta, which are explicitly Chrysippean in the sense suggested, Mr. Gould has worked out an account of Chrysippus' views in the fields of logic, natural philosophy, and ethics. In order that Chrysippus' thought might be viewed in context Mr. Gould provides a background picture by describing the third century milieu in which the Stoic philosopher worked. This follows an account of Chrysippus' life and reputation in antiquity and a description of modern assessments of Chrysippus' position in the Stoa. In his account of Chrysippus' philosophy Mr. Gould frequently introduces comparisons and contrasts with Plato and Aristotle to help emphasize the continuity between Hellenic and early Hellenistic philosophy. Finally, in a concluding chapter, the author shows that the dominant themes in Chrysippus' philosophy, while not exhibiting a thoroughly well-knit system, nevertheless are woven together into a remarkably comprehensive whole, which must have been extraordinarily impressive in antiquity.

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SUNY Press

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087395064X

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9780873950640

Struggles for Self-Determination

The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa

By: Josiah Brownell

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Struggles for Self-Determination

The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa

By: Josiah Brownell

A unique comparative study between four secessionist states in postcolonial Africa, and their struggles to obtain sovereign recognition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108832644

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Cher

Strong Enough

By: Josiah Howard

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Cher

Strong Enough

By: Josiah Howard

Throughout her astonishing fifty-year career - which has encompassed TV triumphs, a string of international hits, an Oscar statuette and a Las Vegas residency - Cher's personal life has continually made front-page news. In the shadow of her success, Cher has married twice, battled depression, defied the censors, and dealt with the tragedy of Sonny Bono's early death. Including exclusive interviews with Cher and those she has worked with on and off stage, Strong Enough documents the ins, outs, ups and downs of a one-name American icon at her outrageous best - by the writer behind Cher's Vegas tour programmes.

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Plexus Publishing

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085965897X

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9780859658973

Lectures on Modern Idealism

By: Josiah Royce,John E. Smith

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Lectures on Modern Idealism

By: Josiah Royce,John E. Smith

A classic study of the origins and foundations of post-Kantian idealism. "Royce has . . . gone straight for the toughest kernel of that period of thought, Kant's Deduction of the Categories, and has actually succeeded in making clear what Kant was about, and what Fichte and Hegel and Schopenhauer accomplished in developing this theme." -- William Ernest Hocking

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Yale University Press

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0300094663

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9780300094664

Accessible Connecticut

A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families

By: Nora Ellen Groce,Lawrence C. Kaplan,Josiah David Kaplan

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A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families

By: Nora Ellen Groce,Lawrence C. Kaplan,Josiah David Kaplan

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Book's by Josiah Kaplan

Refugee Economies

Refugee Economies

Accessible Connecticut

Accessible Connecticut

Black Lives Matter and the Image of God

Black Lives Matter and the Image of God

Runner's High

Runner's High

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

The Collapse of Rhodesia

The Collapse of Rhodesia

The Philosophy of Chrysippus

The Philosophy of Chrysippus

Struggles for Self-Determination

Struggles for Self-Determination

Cher

Cher

Lectures on Modern Idealism

Lectures on Modern Idealism

Accessible Connecticut

Accessible Connecticut

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