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Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants

The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

By: Kent G. Lightfoot

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Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants

The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

By: Kent G. Lightfoot

Lightfoot examines the interactions between Native American communities in California & the earliest colonial settlements, those of Russian pioneers & Franciscan missionaries. He compares the history of the different ventures & their legacies that still help define the political status of native people.

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Univ of California Press

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0520249984

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9780520249981

Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise

By: Michael Kent

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Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise

By: Michael Kent

This second edition of Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise provides more than 1,800 entries on all matters relating to diet and exercise. Subject areas covered include diet methods, food supplements, exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility, stamina, weight control, training methods and principles, calorie requirements of different activities, and other related topics. For this update all entries have been reviewed and updated where necessary, and 20,000 new and revised words have been added, alongside web links to relevant online resources and images. Focus areas include computer and satellite technology, DNA technology, food and drink labelling, and the psychological aspects of dieting and exercising, and new entries cover topics such as accelerometry, drink labelling, exercise tracking, mindfulness, national diet and nutrition survey, and spontaneous activity expenditure. A good diet and regular exercise are the key components of a healthy lifestyle. Food & Fitness gives the reader a wealth of information which will help them to evaluate claims made about different diets and types of exercise, and to select the combination most suited to their needs.

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Oxford University Press

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0191061271

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Living Marine Resources of Kuwait, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

By: Kent E. Carpenter,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Living Marine Resources of Kuwait, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

By: Kent E. Carpenter,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Covers the major resource groups likely to be encountered in the fisheries of the Persian Gulf. These include seaweeds, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, sharks, batoid fishes, bony fishes, turtles, sea snakes, seabirds and marine mammals.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251037418

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9789251037416

No State Shall Abridge

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

By: Michael Kent Curtis

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No State Shall Abridge

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

By: Michael Kent Curtis

“The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance—what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states.”—Journal of American History “Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholars, . . . he rebuts their argument with vigor and effectiveness, conclusively demonstrating the legitimacy of the incorporation thesis. . . . A bold, forcefully argued, important study.”—Library Journal

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Duke University Press

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0822397404

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Bad Form

Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

By: Kent Puckett

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Bad Form

Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

By: Kent Puckett

What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? In Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Kent Puckett argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake-the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel. While offering significant new readings of Thackeray, Flaubert, Eliot, James, and others, Puckett shows how the classic realist novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and make. While uncovering the nineteenth-century novel's persistent social and structural reliance on the non-catastrophic mistake-eating peas with your knife, saying the wrong thing, overdressing-Bad Form argues that the novel's once considerable cultural authority depends on what we might otherwise think of as that authority's opposite: a jittery, anxious, obsessive attention to the mistakes of others that is its own kind of bad form. Drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and the period's large literature on etiquette, Puckett demonstrates that the nineteenth-century novel relies for its form on the paradoxical force of the social mistake.

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Oxford University Press

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0190450312

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9780190450311

Commentaries on American Law

Vol. 2

By: James Kent

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Commentaries on American Law

Vol. 2

By: James Kent

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368742027

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Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege

Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History

By: Michael Kent Curtis

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Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege

Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History

By: Michael Kent Curtis

Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, men and women, black and white, demanded and fought for freedom of speech during the period from 1791—when the Bill of Rights and its First Amendment bound only the federal government to protect free expression—to 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment sought to extend this mandate to the states. A review chapter is also included to bring the story up to date. Curtis analyzes three crucial political struggles: the controversy that surrounded the 1798 Sedition Act, which raised the question of whether criticism of elected officials would be protected speech; the battle against slavery, which raised the question of whether Americans would be free to criticize a great moral, social, and political evil; and the controversy over anti-war speech during the Civil War. Many speech issues raised by these controversies were ultimately decided outside the judicial arena—in Congress, in state legislatures, and, perhaps most importantly, in public discussion and debate. Curtis maintains that modern proposals for changing free speech doctrine can usefully be examined in the light of this often ignored history. This broader history shows the crucial effect that politicians, activists, ordinary citizens—and later the courts—have had on the American understanding of free speech. Filling a gap in legal history, this enlightening, richly researched historical investigation will be valuable for students and scholars of law, U.S. history, and political science, as well as for general readers interested in civil liberties and free speech.

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Duke University Press

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0822381060

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9780822381068

Interpreting the Constitution

By: Kent Greenawalt

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Interpreting the Constitution

By: Kent Greenawalt

This third volume about legal interpretation focuses on the interpretation of a constitution, most specifically that of the United States of America. In what may be unique, it combines a generalized account of various claims and possibilities with an examination of major domains of American constitutional law. This demonstrates convincingly that the book's major themes not only can be supported by individual examples, but are undeniably in accord with the continuing practice of the United States Supreme Court over time, and cannot be dismissed as misguided. The book's central thesis is that strategies of constitutional interpretation cannot be simple, that judges must take account of multiple factors not systematically reducible to any clear ordering. For any constitution that lasts over centuries and is hard to amend, original understanding cannot be completely determinative. To discern what that is, both how informed readers grasped a provision and what were the enactors' aims matter. Indeed, distinguishing these is usually extremely difficult, and often neither is really discernible. As time passes what modern citizens understand becomes important, diminishing the significance of original understanding. Simple versions of textualist originalism neither reflect what has taken place nor is really supportable. The focus on specific provisions shows, among other things, the obstacles to discerning original understanding, and why the original sense of proper interpretation should itself carry importance. For applying the Bill of Rights to states, conceptions conceived when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted should take priority over those in 1791. But practically, for courts, to interpret provisions differently for the federal and state governments would be highly unwise. The scope of various provisions, such as those regarding free speech and cruel and unusual punishment, have expanded hugely since both 1791 and 1865. And questions such as how much deference judges should accord the political branches depend greatly on what provisions and issues are involved. Even with respect to single provisions, such as the Free Speech Clause, interpretive approaches have sensibly varied, greatly depending on the more particular subjects involved. How much deference judges should accord political actors also depends critically on the kind of issue involved.

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Oxford University Press

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0190606479

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

By: Allen Kent

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

By: Allen Kent

This volume comprises indexes to Volumes 48-72, a contributing author index, a reference author index and a subject index.

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CRC Press

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0824720768

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James (ESV Edition)

Faith That Works

By: R. Kent Hughes

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James (ESV Edition)

Faith That Works

By: R. Kent Hughes

The epistle of James is one of the most practical books in the New Testament. Focused on what the Christian life looks like in practice, this short letter highlights a crucial truth about genuine faith: it always leads to good works. In this redesigned volume in the popular Preaching the Word commentary series, Kent Hughes walks readers through James's important teaching about what it means to follow Jesus, exploring the call to persevere through suffering, the relationship between faith and works, and the importance of taming the tongue. Accessible yet robust, this commentary will help pastors, Bible teachers, and small group leaders understand and communicate the message of the book of James with insight and clarity. Part of the Preaching the Word series.

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Crossway

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1433538490

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Row and Column Access Support in IBM DB2 for i

By: Mike Cain,Jim Bainbridge,Hernando Bedoya,Rob Bestgen,Dan Cruikshank,Jim Denton,Doug Mack,Tom McKinley,Kent Milligan,IBM Redbooks

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Row and Column Access Support in IBM DB2 for i

By: Mike Cain,Jim Bainbridge,Hernando Bedoya,Rob Bestgen,Dan Cruikshank,Jim Denton,Doug Mack,Tom McKinley,Kent Milligan,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication provides information about the IBM i 7.2 feature of IBM DB2® for i Row and Column Access Control (RCAC). It offers a broad description of the function and advantages of controlling access to data in a comprehensive and transparent way. This publication helps you understand the capabilities of RCAC and provides examples of defining, creating, and implementing the row permissions and column masks in a relational database environment. This paper is intended for database engineers, data-centric application developers, and security officers who want to design and implement RCAC as a part of their data control and governance policy. A solid background in IBM i object level security, DB2 for i relational database concepts, and SQL is assumed.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738453943

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9780738453941

Children in the International Political Economy

By: G. Kent

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Children in the International Political Economy

By: G. Kent

The first line of responsibility for children lies with their parents, but what if the parents fail to look after their children? Who else is involved, and what should they do? Children in the International Political Economy examines the moral responsibilities of different individuals and agencies towards children and argues that some responsibilities should be codified as concrete legal duties. If all else fails, children must look to the international community for help. Thus international agencies should recognize specific obligations to look after the well-being of children around the world.

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Springer

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0230375537

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9780230375536

A Certain Style

Beatrice Davis, a literary life, 2nd Edition

By: Jacqueline Kent

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A Certain Style

Beatrice Davis, a literary life, 2nd Edition

By: Jacqueline Kent

Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal Porter becoming a literary tastemaker in the process. A central figure in Australian literature – ‘respected, feared, courted and berated.’ Originally published to great acclaim in 2001, A Certain Style introduced this stylish and formidable woman to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue has a new introduction and updates throughout as the author presents a compelling account of a contradictory woman and her times.

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NewSouth

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1742244300

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9781742244303

Flawed Precedent

The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title

By: Kent McNeil

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Flawed Precedent

The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title

By: Kent McNeil

In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in St. Catherine’s Milling and Lumber Company v. The Queen, a case involving the Saulteaux people’s land rights in Ontario. This precedent-setting case would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years, despite the racist assumptions about Indigenous peoples at the heart of the case. In Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil provides a compelling account of this contentious case. He begins by delving into the historical and ideological context of the 1880s. He then examines the trial in detail, demonstrating how prejudicial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples influenced the decision. He further discusses the effects that St. Catherine’s had on law and policy until the 1970s when its authority was finally questioned in Calder, then in Delgamuukw, Marshall/Bernard, Tsilhqot’in, and other key rulings. He also provides an informative analysis of the current judicial understanding of Aboriginal title in Canada, now driven by evidence of Indigenous law and land use rather than by the discarded prejudicial assumptions of a bygone era.

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UBC Press

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0774861088

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9780774861083

Avoiding Tax Malpractice

By: Robert Feinschreiber,Margaret Kent

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Avoiding Tax Malpractice

By: Robert Feinschreiber,Margaret Kent

CCH's new Avoiding Tax Malpractice is not only a very important issue spotter and prevention guide for tax professionals, but is also very interesting reading. This insightful resource not only tells the reader how to avoid and limit tax malpractice problems, but it also educates the reader on a wide range of actual situations that have led to problems in the past. As noted authors Robert Feinschreiber and Margaret Kent reveal, knowing how to avoid tax malpractice is not necessarily an intuitive exercise on the part of practitioners, and some of the true causes for malpractice litigation will surprise many readers.

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CCH

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0808005332

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9780808005339

Handbook on Children's Speech

Development, Disorders, and Variations

By: Raymond D. Kent

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Handbook on Children's Speech

Development, Disorders, and Variations

By: Raymond D. Kent

Written by renowned basic and clinical scientist, Raymond D. Kent, the Handbook on Children’s Speech: Development, Disorders, and Variations provides comprehensive and systematic coverage of the topic of how speech develops and how it can be disordered or otherwise, a departure from typical patterns of a mainstream dialect. The book emphasizes relevant biology and psychology of speech development; contemporary models of spoken language; typical speech development; bilingualism and dialect; motor learning and motor control; clinical assessments of articulation, phonology, voice, prosody, and intelligibility; populations in which speech disorders and differences often occur; and methods and strategies for prevention and treatment. The Handbook covers both speech development and pediatric speech disorders focusing on the ages of birth to puberty. Because speech disorders in children occur against a complex developmental background, the understanding of these disorders requires knowledge about how speech develops and how it is affected in children with disorders or with exposure to languages other than American English. A major theme of the book is that speech development is a constructive, goal-directed phenomenon that weaves together several different processes having their own individual trajectories that generally reach maturity only in puberty or adolescence. For clinicians, researchers, and students, this book will serve as a valuable compendium of the many different tools and methods that have been developed to study speech development in diverse populations and to assess and treat speech disorders and variations.

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Plural Publishing

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1635504597

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9781635504590

Wendell Fertig and His Guerrilla Forces in the Philippines

Fighting the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945

By: Kent Holmes

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Wendell Fertig and His Guerrilla Forces in the Philippines

Fighting the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945

By: Kent Holmes

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges. Unlike the other islands in the archipelago, Mindanao had a large Moslem (Moro) population. Using Moro and American leadership he brought the Moro people into the movement. Fertig lacked good communication with MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. With ingenuity and talented technical personnel he solved this problem, and increased the logistical support for the guerrillas by submarine from Australia. As the force expanded, Fertig was fortunate to recruit leadership from 187 Americans--military and civilian--who had not surrendered to the Japanese. The resulting force, with its intelligence from coastal watch stations, added six guerrilla divisions to U.S. military strength for the 1945 liberation of Mindanao, a contribution unique in the history of unconventional warfare.

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McFarland

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1476621187

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9781476621180

Legal Interpretation

Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

By: Kent Greenawalt

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Legal Interpretation

Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

By: Kent Greenawalt

In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take in each case? Whose interpretations should be prioritized? Why would one be drawn to one strategy over another? And should legal interpretation seek to satisfy specific aims or general objectives? In order to provide the answers to these questions, Greenawalt explores the ways in which interpretive strategies from other disciplines--the philosophy of language, literary and musical interpretation, religious interpretation, and general interpretive theory--can augment and enrich methods of legal interpretation. Over the course of the book, he suggests how such forms of interpretation are analogous to legal interpretation--and points to those cases in which interpretation must rest on the distinctive aspects of legal theory, such as is the case with private documents. Furthermore, Greenawalt's meditation suggests that interpretive strategies from other disciplines can shed light on the essential nature of legal interpretation and provide roads by which to account for dissonance between various methods of interpretation. Legal Interpretation is a thought-provoking reflection on the ways that insights from a range of intellectual traditions can deepen our understanding of law, particularly with regard to constitutional law.

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Oxford University Press

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0190207965

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9780190207960

Measuring the Burden of Disease and the Cost-effectiveness of Health Interventions

A Case Study in Guinea

By: Prabhat Jha,Kent Ranson,José Luis Bobadilla

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Measuring the Burden of Disease and the Cost-effectiveness of Health Interventions

A Case Study in Guinea

By: Prabhat Jha,Kent Ranson,José Luis Bobadilla

World Bank Technical Paper No. 333.Draws on the methodology of QUOTEWorld Development Report 1993: Investing in HealthQUOTE to analyze the burden of disease and the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. The analysis presents a framework for the activities of the government of Guinea in prioritizing health care services.

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