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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

By: Marci Pliskin,Shari L. Just

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

By: Marci Pliskin,Shari L. Just

Explains how to remember dreams, interpret recurring dreams, recognize messages from the inner psyche, and resolve painful incidents while dreaming, with new sections on lucid dreaming spirit interpretation, and creating an environment conducive to sleep and dreaming. Original.

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1592571468

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Letters from Emily

A Christian Woman’S Journey from Abuse to Freedom with Hope—Joy—Blessing

By: Emily Just

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Letters from Emily

A Christian Woman’S Journey from Abuse to Freedom with Hope—Joy—Blessing

By: Emily Just

The reality of abuse came as a big surprise to author Emily Just. She thought it was something that happened to others, but she painfully learned otherwise. In Letters from Emily, she shares her own story of abuseand escapeand how she relied on God to help her with feelings of doubt and guilt as she forged a new way forward free from the ravages of abuse. This guide shares letters Emily writes to Angela who is struggling with an abusive marriage. Written from a Christian womans viewpoint, the correspondence shares her experience escaping abuse and gives insights from that spiritual journey. Emily tells how her faith, family, and friends were her companions, how hope energized her, and how grace made it all possible. She addresses how she asked herself a host of questions: Why do you hurt me so much? Are we still married? What is a covenant promise? What are my options? Will the abuse never end? Designed to uplift and empower, Letters from Emily offers a refreshing look at one womans escape from the darkness of abuse to the hope and sunrise of newly found peace, joy, and blessing.

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WestBow Press

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151278544X

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An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

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An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon, a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption. Even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within." In rural Quarterday, on the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Teddy Ravan -- gruff, unapproachable, secure in his knowledge of the world -- is confronting a strike and even death threats from union members who work at his printing business. Wilson, in the summer before college, finds himself straddling three worlds when he takes a job at a newspaper: the newsroom where working-class reporters find class struggle at the heart of every issue, the glittering North Shore debutante parties where he spends his nights, and the growing cold war between his parents at home. These worlds collide when he falls in love with the headstrong daughter of a renowned psychiatrist with a frightful past in World War II. Tragedy strikes her family, and the revelation of secrets calls into question everything Wilson once believed. From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and the political world, An Unfinished Season is a brilliant exploration of culture, politics, and the individual conscience.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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061856828X

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Visualization

Effective Techniques to Focus Your Goals, Sharpen Your Skills, and Realize Your

By: Carolyn Flynn,Shari L. Just Ph.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Visualization

Effective Techniques to Focus Your Goals, Sharpen Your Skills, and Realize Your

By: Carolyn Flynn,Shari L. Just Ph.D.

If you can envision it, you can make it happen. Creative visualization is the technique of using the imagination to identify goals and then making them a reality. It’s more powerful than sheer drive because it works in harmony with the positive energy of the universe. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Creative Visualization helps readers visualize—and then actualize—their best and brightest lives. - Filled with techniques and exercises that reveal the power of visualization. - Offers suggestions, guidance, and tips to inspire the imagination. - Follows the path of the book that launched the creative visualization movement nearly 30 years ago and adds such New Age elements as meditations and affirmations. - Creative visualization offers something for those interested in the New Age movement, spirituality, and self-improvement.

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Penguin

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144069656X

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Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France

The Politics of Disengagement

By: Daniel Just

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Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France

The Politics of Disengagement

By: Daniel Just

Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Marguerite Duras show, seemingly disengaged literary principles - such as blankness, minimalism, silence, and indeterminateness - can be deployed to a number of potent political and ethical ends. At the time the main focus of this activism was the escalation of violence in colonial Algeria. The poetics formulated by these writers suggests that blankness, weakness, and withdrawal from action are not symptoms of impotence and political escapism in the face of historical events, but deliberate literary strategies aimed to neutralize the drive to dominate others that characterized the colonial project.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316241122

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Covid-19 Unmasked: The News, The Science, And Common Sense

By: Winfried Just

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Covid-19 Unmasked: The News, The Science, And Common Sense

By: Winfried Just

How can we keep up with the deluge of information about COVID-19 and tell which parts are most important and trustworthy?We read: 'Scientists recommend', 'Experts warn', 'A new model predicts'. How do scientific experts come up with their recommendations? What do their predictions really mean for us, for our friends, and our families?How can we make rational decisions? And how can we have sensible conversations about the pandemic when we disagree?These are the questions that this book is trying to address.It is written in the form of dialogues. Alice, a student of epidemiology, explains the science to three of her fellow students who have a lot of questions for her. The students have the same concerns that we all share to varying degrees: What the pandemic is doing to our health, our economy, and our cherished freedoms. In their conversations, they discover how the science relates to these questions.The book focuses on epidemiology, the science of how infections spread and how the spread can be mitigated. The science of how many infections can be prevented by certain kinds of actions. This is what we need to understand if we want to act wisely, as individuals and as a society.The author's goal is to help the reader think about the COVID-19 pandemic like an epidemiologist. About the various preventive measures, what they are trying to accomplish, what the obstacles are. About what is likely to be most effective in the long run at moderate economic and personal cost. About the likely consequences of personal decisions. About how to best protect oneself and others while allowing all of us to lead lives that are as close as possible to normal.While some chapters present slightly more advanced material than others, no scientific background is needed to follow the conversations. The technical concepts are explained in small steps and the occasional calculations in the book require only high-school mathematics.Related Link(s)

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World Scientific

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9811233616

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Love in a Changing Greek Climate, and Other Essays

By: Roger Just

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Love in a Changing Greek Climate, and Other Essays

By: Roger Just

This book comprises eight essays concerned with the ethnography of Greece, and in particular of the village of Spartokhori on the small Ionian island of Meganisi, Lefkadha, where, between 1977 and 1980, the author conducted anthropological fieldwork. For the most part, the essays focus on aspects of family, kinship and gender as they were to be found in what was, in the 1970s, a remote, rural community. Greek society has, of course, undergone profound changes over the last forty years, and these essays thus serve to document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Importantly, however, they also deal with the transformation of rural Greek society as it was occurring at the time. The book will appeal to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of Modern Greece, and to anyone interested in rural Mediterranean society.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527526550

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Common Knowledge

News and the Construction of Political Meaning

By: W. Russell Neuman,Marion R. Just,Ann N. Crigler

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Common Knowledge

News and the Construction of Political Meaning

By: W. Russell Neuman,Marion R. Just,Ann N. Crigler

Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.

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University of Chicago Press

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022616117X

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9780226161174

Jack Gance

By: Ward S. Just,Ward Just

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Jack Gance

By: Ward S. Just,Ward Just

Jack Gance is a man on the rise in American politics who takes the reader right inside the political arena, from the wards of Chicago to the Executive Office Building in Washington.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395856027

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The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert

21 Stories and Novellas

By: Ward S. Just

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The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert

21 Stories and Novellas

By: Ward S. Just

This masterly volume comprises the best of the shorter fiction written by Just over the past 25 years--"masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order" ("Chicago Tribune").

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0395901375

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9780395901373

Sustainable Business Processes in Global Companies

Current Perspectives and Future Trends in Regard to Efficiency and Risk Management

By: Vanessa Just

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Sustainable Business Processes in Global Companies

Current Perspectives and Future Trends in Regard to Efficiency and Risk Management

By: Vanessa Just

In this thesis Vanessa Just casts an innovative light upon the current perspectives and the future trends related to sustainable business processes in global companies. Developing sustainable business processes in the present changing and challenging environment represents an up-to-date issue of high importance for both the academic and business environment. The thesis raises awareness among entrepreneurs and managers not only about developing sustainable business processes, but also about continuously improving them.

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Springer Nature

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3658281960

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Transformative Fictions

World Literature and Personal Change

By: Daniel Just

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Transformative Fictions

World Literature and Personal Change

By: Daniel Just

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism in how we relate to texts from around the globe. The author, Daniel Just, argues for a supranational but sub-global perspective of regions that emphasizes practical reasons for reading and focuses on the potential of literary texts to stimulate personal transformation in readers. One of the recurring dilemmas in these debates is the issue of delimitation of world literature. The trouble with the world as a frame of reference is that no single researcher is bound to have the in-depth knowledge and linguistic skills to discuss works from all countries. In response, this book revives literary theory and recasts it for the purposes of world literature, by making a case for the continuing relevance of literature in the age of new media. With the examples of fictional and nonfictional writings by Milan Kundera, Witold Gombrowicz and Bohumil Hrabal, Just shows that regional literatures offer differing methods of activating readers and thereby prompting personal change. This book would be of general interest to anyone who wants to explore personal change through literature but is particularly indispensable for literary professionals, researchers, and postgraduate and graduate students.

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Taylor & Francis

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100060800X

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9781000608007

The Eastern Shore

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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The Eastern Shore

A Novel

By: Ward Just

A novel about journalism and one man’s moral choices, “evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction . . . A quietly affecting, mournful achievement” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president’s daughter and the father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs—Ned offers no resistance to his publisher’s argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career—until eventually, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations.

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HMH

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0544836618

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The Welfare Economics of Public Policy

A Practical Approach to Project and Policy Evaluation

By: Richard E. Just,Darrell L. Hueth,Andrew Schmitz

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The Welfare Economics of Public Policy

A Practical Approach to Project and Policy Evaluation

By: Richard E. Just,Darrell L. Hueth,Andrew Schmitz

The Welfare Economics of Public Policy is a great book that should be of interest to all economists interested in applied welfare analysis. It is a good reference book for economists studying the effects of public policy. Finally, it should be a useful textbook for students studying economic policy and applied welfare economics. Jean-Paul Chavas, American Journal of Agricultural Economics . . . a very comprehensive overview of the state of the art in welfare economics. It can be used as a teaching book for advanced students as well as a reference volume for researchers. This duality of possible uses is supported by the fact that very complex issues are presented in an easily readable manner. More technical aspects are then outlined in the appendices of the relevant chapters, offering colleagues the option to study formal considerations in more detail. . . a welcome addition to and expression of the knowledge base of agricultural economics. Stefan Mann, Journal of Agricultural Economics I am absolutely delighted that the authors have revised and republished this text. I have used the previous version for years in my graduate environmental economics course; usually I had to share the one copy I have with students and I felt it was a shame that these students did not have the opportunity to purchase the book since every serious environmental economist should have this volume on their shelf. It has been a continuous reference volume for me over the years and I am sure this is true of many others in the discipline. In the field of applied welfare analysis (spanning environmental economics, international trade, agricultural policy, etc.) there is no need for further elaboration when Just, Hueth and Schmitz is referenced. Everyone knows the book that is being referred to: the bible of applied welfare economics. Catherine Kling, Iowa State University, US For the record, I am one of the people who requested that the authors revise and re-issue their textbook. It is an extremely valuable book for applied economists; as with the previous edition, I will use it extensively in two of my courses and consult it frequently in my own research endeavors. Richard Adams, Oregon State University, US The original book is very well known in our profession and is still used in many classes. It will be wonderful to have a revised edition of this classic book. Colin Carter, University of California, Davis, US This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. The authors illustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy analysis from both theory and estimation in a variety of areas including: international trade, the economics of technological change, agricultural economics, the economics of information, environmental economics, and the economics of extractive and renewable natural resources. Building on willingness-to-pay (WTP) measures as the foundation for applied welfare economics, the authors develop measures for firms and households where households are viewed as both consumers and owner/sellers of resources. Possibilities are presented for (1) approximating WTP with consumer surplus, (2) measuring WTP exactly subject to errors in existing econometric work, and (3) using duality theory to specify econometric equations consistent with theory. Later chapters cover specific areas of welfare measurement under imperfect competition, uncertainty, incomplete information, externalities, and dynamic considerations. Applications are considered explicitly for policy issues related to information, international trade, the environment, agriculture, and other natural resource issues. The Welfare Economics of Public Policy is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses in applied welfare economics, public policy, agricultural policy, and environmental economi

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1845421574

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9781845421571

Holy Joe!

Prophet, Seer, and Revelator

By: Just Judy

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Holy Joe!

Prophet, Seer, and Revelator

By: Just Judy

It is 1822 in Upstate, New York where Mason Chase hires a crew of local farm hands to dig a well on his property. At the bottom of the well a stone is found and we quickly find young Joseph Smith using this stone to find treasures said to be hidden below the earth. His new found fame as a necromancer leads to a legal trial where he is charged with deceiving people through the use of the stone. As maturity sets in, visions of treasure are set aside for visions of heavenly messengers, and a new religion is born. Shortly after the publication of the Book of Mormon, elders are sent out to spread the word and the kingdom experiences rapid growth. From his early days as a money-digger to his final days as a martyred prophet, the life of Joseph Smith is a mixture of adoration and apostasy from his people, blended with the ever present friction brought on by suspicion and mistrust from those he called gentiles—non-believers. Joseph Smith was a colorful and dramatic person, charismatic and easy to love, but like a double edged sword or a two-sided coin, the story also tells of a man with a talent for getting on other peoples’ nerves. It was those others’ who called him Holy Joe, but everyone who read the newspapers of the day, and those with him in the midst of the action, knew the prophet had this other name. Today, this other name grabs attention and speaks of a multifaceted personality: ‘prophet, seer and revelator, yes; but he was also known as Holy Joe.

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Abbott Press

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1458207056

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9781458207050

Witness in His Own Cause

The Fifties in the German Democratic Republic

By: Gustav Just

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Witness in His Own Cause

The Fifties in the German Democratic Republic

By: Gustav Just

In this unique and enlightening work, Oliver Lu translates into English the memoirs of the East German political and cultural figure Gustav Just. Lu gives readers of the English language the opportunity to experience the history of a country hidden from the West. They will learn how Mr. Just was wrongly accused of plotting against the German government and how his trial served as a stereotypical communist 'show-trial.' By absorbing this commentary on Just's first-hand experience, readers will understand the prison conditions that he endured and the political platform to which he and his associates had aspired. Thoroughly researched and impeccably translated, this book should become an important primary source for all students, scholars, and laypeople in the up-and-coming field of interest in the former Soviet bloc.

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University Press of America

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0761801073

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9780761801078

The Translator

By: Ward S. Just

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The Translator

By: Ward S. Just

When Sydney left Germany and moved to Paris in 1956, he was happy to escape from his horror-filled boyhood memories of World War II. But Sydney suddenly finds h.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395957664

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9780395957660

In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

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In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

A brilliant, ambitious, and subtle novel about Vietnam." -- David Bradley, Philadelphia Inquirer Ward Just captures the best and the brightest amid the turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later through the lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's love, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393307220

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9780393307221

Quantum Computing Compact

Spooky Action at a Distance and Teleportation Easy to Understand

By: Bettina Just

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Quantum Computing Compact

Spooky Action at a Distance and Teleportation Easy to Understand

By: Bettina Just

What is the phenomenon of quantum entanglement? If you read popular science literature, there is talk of socks that are red and blue at the same time, but monochromatic - how is that supposed to work? If you read scientific literature, you have to have knowledge of functional analysis. This book vividly builds the bridge between the experiments that led to quantum entanglement and the algorithm for teleportation, assuming only an elementary knowledge of mathematics.

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Springer Nature

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3662650088

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

By: John Monaghan,Peter Just

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

By: John Monaghan,Peter Just

If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. They then examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture, drawing on examples from their own fieldwork. The book ends with an assessment of anthropologys present position, and a look forward to its likely future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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OUP Oxford

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0191578290

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