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Devils and Rebels

The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics

By: Larry J. Reynolds

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Devils and Rebels

The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics

By: Larry J. Reynolds

Well-written, scrupulously researched, and simultaneously sympathetic and critical toward its subject, Reynolds's book is important not only for its historically responsive account of Hawthorne's widely misunderstood politics but also its invigorating portrait of a perceptive author who struggled to resist the political extremism that swept the Northern states before and after the bombardment of Fort Sumter." ---New England Quarterly "This beautifully written, thoroughly researched study faces criticism of Hawthorne, both in his day and the present, for his stance on slavery and the Civil War. . . . Reynolds shows Hawthorne to have rejected the extremism of the abolitionists, been a pacifist who hoped war could be avoided . . . and hated slavery even more than war---but at the same to have been deeply prejudiced, to have feared amalgamation (or miscegenation), and never to have acknowledged the real horrors of slavery." ---Choice Widely condemned even in his own time, Nathaniel Hawthorne's views on abolitionism and slavery are today frequently characterized by scholars as morally reprehensible. Devils and Rebels explores the historical and biographical record to reveal striking evidence of the author's true political values---values grounded in pacifism and resistant to the kind of binary thinking that could lead to violence and war. With fresh readings of Hawthorne's four major romances and his less familiar works, Devils and Rebels illuminates the difficulties faced by public intellectuals during times of political strife---an issue as relevant today as it was some 150 years ago. Larry J. Reynolds is Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472034332

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The Adventures of Harry Stone

By: Larry Horowitz

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The Adventures of Harry Stone

By: Larry Horowitz

Harry Stone is just an average kid, doing the best he can to keep out of trouble and do well in school. But life has other plans for him. He cannot sit idly by when others are being bullied or hurt in any way. With Rachel’s help, Harry must overcome a terrible childhood tragedy that eventually lands him in a Juvenile Detention Center for five years. It is there that he first starts seeing the cursed seven mysterious letters—in his dreams, in the clouds, even in his cereal. Eventually he finishes his time in JD and hooks up with Rachel again, who introduces him to her new friend, Sherman, the smartest teenager in the world, who just happens to go to her high school. The three of them work together to solve the mysterious jumbled letters, but fall short of realizing the true meaning. Their common interest in Astronomy bands them together, and, with Sherman leading the way, they all get jobs at NASA and embark on a space mission that changes the course of mankind. Harry’s wit and courage are stretched to the limit when they leave their galaxy and land on the evil planet of Glarb, ruled by values of deceit, torture, and technology. There, they are enslaved for life, which is usually not very long for slaves. Fortunately, they find an ally in one of the animals on Glarb, the gifted Snurdles. But will it be enough to escape before they are all killed?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796015091

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Slavery in Florida

Territorial Days to Emancipation

By: Larry Eugene Rivers

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Slavery in Florida

Territorial Days to Emancipation

By: Larry Eugene Rivers

This important illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bond servants in Florida from 1821 to 1865, offering new insights from the perspective of both slave and master. Starting with an overview of the institution as it evolved during the Spanish and English periods, Larry E. Rivers looks in detail and in depth at the slave experience, noting the characteristics of slavery in the Middle Florida plantation belt (the more traditional slave-based, cotton-growing economy and society) as distinct from East and West Florida (which maintained some attitudes and traditions of Spain). He examines the slave family, religion, resistance activity, slaves’ participation in the Civil War, and their social interactions with whites, Indians, other slaves, and masters. Rivers also provides a dramatic account of the hundreds of armed free blacks and runaways among the Seminole, Creek, and Mikasuki Indians on the peninsula, whose presence created tensions leading to the great slave rebellion, the Second Seminole War (1835-42). Slavery in Florida is built upon painstaking research into virtually every source available on the subject--a wealth of historic documents, personal papers, slave testimonies, and census and newspaper reports. This serious critical work strikes a balance between the factual and the interpretive. It will be significant to all readers interested in slavery, the Civil War, the African American experience, and Florida and southern U.S. history, and it could serve as a comprehensive resource for secondary school teachers and students.

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University Press of Florida

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0813059267

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Marsh's California Corporation Law

By: Harold Marsh,R. Roy Finkle,Larry W. Sonsini

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Marsh's California Corporation Law

By: Harold Marsh,R. Roy Finkle,Larry W. Sonsini

This authoritative research tool covers all aspects of California corporate law and practice, providing clear, reliable guidance to the laws, legislative history, and major case law holdings, as well as the authors' well-known expertise and advice on approaching and understanding key corporate transactions. There is no better source on how to handle all key corporate transactions, from corporate formation and governance to takeovers and bankruptcies. Completely current, there is full coverage and insightful, expert analysis of all the critical new issues affecting California corporate law practice, including: What are the various business entities available in California?What are the methods and issues involved in forming those entities?What are the particular benefits of, and restrictions on, using a Limited Liability Company in California?What are the issues involved in financing a California corporation?What are the fiduciary duties imposed upon directors, officers, and controlling shareholders of California corporations?How do you provide notice and hold meetings of directors and shareholders of California corporations?What are the restrictions imposed upon officers and directors in the operation of California corporations?Under what circumstances can a California corporation pay a dividend or make a distribution of property to its shareholders?What are the issues involved in acquiring California corporations, whether by merger, purchase of stock, or purchase of assets?How and under what circumstances can a California corporation be dissolved?What are the issues and requirements faced by a foreign corporation conducting business in California?

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735504210

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9780735504219

God's Forever Family

The Jesus People Movement in America

By: Larry Eskridge

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God's Forever Family

The Jesus People Movement in America

By: Larry Eskridge

Winner of the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the Year First Place Winner of the Religion Newswriters Association's Non-fiction Religion Book of the Year The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth, who enthusiastically adopted the Jesus People persona as their own. Within a few years, however, the movement disappeared and was largely forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks. God's Forever Family argues that the Jesus People movement was one of the most important American religious movements of the second half of the 20th-century. Not only do such new and burgeoning evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard trace back to the Jesus People, but the movement paved the way for the huge Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, it revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular culture. Larry Eskridge makes the case that the Jesus People movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but must be considered one of the formative powers that shaped American youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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Oxford University Press

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0199315221

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9780199315222

Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design

How School Districts are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core

By: Larry Ainsworth

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Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design

How School Districts are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core

By: Larry Ainsworth

School districts are now successfully implementing the Rigorous Curriculum Design process to redesign their curricula to fulfill the promise of the Common Core and prepare students for success on the coming national assessments. Each chapter of Getting Started With Rigorous Curriculum Design will provide educators with "collective wisdom" -- insights and ideas to enrich and expand understandings they may not have yet come to on their own.

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Lead + Learn Press

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1935588400

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Count Down to Eternity

By: Larry G. Patten

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Count Down to Eternity

By: Larry G. Patten

Dr. George Leffingwell has spent time with the Guardian, and has been given the answers to why this world exists. Now, he must make a decision that affects the fate of the world, but is what he learned real or is the whole story an alien plot to take control of our world?

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1434320375

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Ecosystem Management

Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation

By: Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn

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Ecosystem Management

Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation

By: Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn

Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one component in a multifaceted world of decision making. And while the demands of resource management have changed greatly, natural resource education and textbooks have not. Until now. Ecosystem Management represents a different kind of textbook for a different kind of course. It offers a new and exciting approach that engages students in active problem solving by using detailed landscape scenarios that reflect the complex issues and conflicting interests that face today's resource managers and scientists. Focusing on the application of the sciences of ecology and conservation biology to real-world concerns, it emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions, and illustrates how to be more effective in that challenging arena. Each chapter is rich with exercises to help facilitate problem-based learning. The main text is supplemented by boxes and figures that provide examples, perspectives, definitions, summaries, and learning tools, along with a variety of essays written by practitioners with on-the-ground experience in applying the principles of ecosystem management. Accompanying the textbook is an instructor's manual that provides a detailed overview of the book and specific guidance on designing a course around it. Download the manual here. Ecosystem Management grew out of a training course developed and presented by the authors for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at its National Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 20 offerings to more than 600 natural resource professionals, the authors learned a great deal about what is needed to function successfully as a professional resource manager. The book offers important insights and a unique perspective dervied from that invaluable experience.

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Island Press

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1597267899

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Cradle to Grave : Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

By: Larry Lankton Associate Professor of History Michigan Technological University

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Cradle to Grave : Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

By: Larry Lankton Associate Professor of History Michigan Technological University

Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199762619

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Alaska Bear Tales

By: Larry Kaniut

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Alaska Bear Tales

By: Larry Kaniut

Describes both humorous and deadly contacts between humans and bears in Alaska and reviews the precautions for avoiding a bear attack

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Criminal Law

Core Concepts

By: G. Larry Mays,Jeremy Ball,Laura Fidelie

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Criminal Law

Core Concepts

By: G. Larry Mays,Jeremy Ball,Laura Fidelie

This author team had students in mind when they wrote the book on Criminal Law. Criminal Law: Core Concepts uses examples and case excerpts that are interesting and informative, along with logically organized, plain-English discussion of the Model Penal Code. This is the basis for developing a solid understanding of criminal law concepts. One look inside this book and you ll notice that every page promises unobstructed learning. You ll see an uncluttered page design, uncluttered coverage, writing uncluttered by legalese, and case excerpts uncluttered by extraneous detail Everything in this book serves a purpose. Criminal Law: Core Concepts features: A commitment to clarity, reflected in the writing style, organization, pedagogy, and design Shrewd case editing that hones in on salient themes and principles Engaging and informative examples throughout the text Plain English discussion of the Model Penal Code Timely coverage of contemporary topics, such as street crime

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Aspen Publishing

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1454846674

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Cradle to Grave

Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

By: Larry Lankton

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Cradle to Grave

Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

By: Larry Lankton

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019028207X

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Larry Larsen's Guide to South Florida Bass Waters Book 3

By: Larry Larsen

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Larry Larsen's Guide to South Florida Bass Waters Book 3

By: Larry Larsen

This book should be a reference source for all anglers who fish or wish to fish in the future, the waters of South Florida, This region has three of the state's five largest lakes. Each chapter focuses on the name lakes and rivers in the region that almost always produce good bass fishing and on many overlooked waters that quietly produce good bass fishing as well.

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Derrydale Press

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0936513853

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Societal Stress and Law

By: Larry D. Barnett

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Societal Stress and Law

By: Larry D. Barnett

Societal Stress and Law draws attention to the social side effects of law by developing the sociological concept of society-level stress, a corollary of the concept of individual-level stress in the biological sciences. To encourage interest in societal stress, the book looks at (1) instances of law adopted by American states that the U.S. Supreme Court held unconstitutional and (2) actions by American states with regard to a proposal to amend the federal Constitution. The Court rulings and the proposed constitutional amendment were capable of producing societal stress because they were seen by a sizeable segment of the U.S. public as being incompatible with significant American traditions. In original studies that apply logistic regression to state-level statistical data, the book identifies sociological variables that predict state differences in the adoption of this law and state differences in actions on the proposed constitutional amendment. Because these variables represent societal agents that affected whether a state experienced social stress from the rulings and proposal, the book blends theory with empirical research and illustrates how each can support the other in law-focused scholarship.

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Springer Nature

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3031308751

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A Step from Death

A Memoir

By: Larry Woiwode

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A Step from Death

A Memoir

By: Larry Woiwode

Critically acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist Larry Woiwode returns to the fertile territory of his life in this stirring memoir. In this deeply afflicting memoir, Larry Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. A man of be...

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1458772551

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You Can Bet On It

By: Larry Grossman

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You Can Bet On It

By: Larry Grossman

In this completely revised edition, Larry Grossman brings together the best advice from the top professionals in sports betting, the men who actually set the betting lines. Players will learn how to bet and win at the major sports: football, baseball, basketball and prize fight betting. This easy-to-read and fact-filled book contains a wealth of information about how to read the lines, how the lines are made, the odds faced at the different sports, handicapping, common mistakes, and other essentials, and it features winning advice from the greatest pros in sports betting today.

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Cardoza Publishing

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1580424538

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Anna Sokolow

The Rebellious Spirit

By: Larry Warren

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Anna Sokolow

The Rebellious Spirit

By: Larry Warren

Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Larry Warren has created a fascinating account and assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, whose nomadic career was divided between New York, Mexico, and Israel.

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Psychology Press

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9057021846

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The Fate of the Corps

What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

By: Larry E. Morris

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The Fate of the Corps

What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

By: Larry E. Morris

The first book to trace the fascinating histories of the remarkable men-and one woman-who were members of the Lewis and Clark expedition

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Yale University Press

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0300109725

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Hollowed Ground

Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s

By: Larry D. Lankton

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Hollowed Ground

Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s

By: Larry D. Lankton

Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and their mines, mills, and smelters, Hollowed Ground is also a community study. It examines the region's population and ethnic mix, which was a direct result of the mining industry, and the companies' paternalistic involvement in community building. While this book covers the history of the entire Lake Superior mining industry, it particularly focuses on the three biggest, most important, and longest-lived companies: Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy. Lankton shows the extent of the companies' influence over their mining locations, as they constructed the houses and neighborhoods of their company towns, set the course of local schools, saw that churches got land to build on, encouraged the growth of commercial villages on the margin of a mine, and even provided pasturage for workers' milk cows and space for vegetable gardens. Lankton also traces the interconnected fortunes of the mining communities and their companies through times of bustling economic growth and periods of decline and closure. Hollowed Ground presents a wealth of images from Upper Michigan's mining towns, reflecting a century and a half of unique community and industrial history. Local historians, industrial historians, and anyone interested in the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula will appreciate this informative volume.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814334903

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X-Men Legends Vol. 2

Mutant Mayhem

By: Larry Hama

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X-Men Legends Vol. 2

Mutant Mayhem

By: Larry Hama

Collects X-Men Legends (2021) #7-12. Continue your mutant-filled mystery tour through X-Men history! First, Larry Hama returns to the dream team of Wolverine and Jubilee in an all-new adventure that pits the duo against a host of their deadliest foes! When two young mutants disappear, our heroes set off for Japan to track them down. But Lady Deathstrike and the Hand have their own designs on Logan and Jubilation, and it'll take no small measure of blood, sweat and adamantium to change their minds! Then, Fabian Nicieza pulls the strings as Mister Sinister assembles some of the world's greatest experts on mutantkind to discuss the evolution of Homo superior - but to what devious end?! And Louise and Walter Simonson present the never-before-seen link between the New Mutants and Apocalypse! Then Chris Claremont teams with Scot Eaton to revisit the days when the world believed the X-Men were dead, as Nightcrawler and Shadowcat must save a friend from a deadly plot in a prelude to Excalibur!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302941895

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Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections

By: Larry Sabato,Howard R. Ernst

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Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections

By: Larry Sabato,Howard R. Ernst

Presents a complete reference guide to American political parties and elections, including an A-Z listing of presidential elections with terms, people and events involved in the process.

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1438109946

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Your Best Medicine

From Conventional and Complementary Medicine--Expert-Endorsed Therapeutic Solutions to Relieve Symptoms and Speed Healing

By: Mark A. Goldstein,Myrna Chandler Goldstein,Larry P. Credit

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Your Best Medicine

From Conventional and Complementary Medicine--Expert-Endorsed Therapeutic Solutions to Relieve Symptoms and Speed Healing

By: Mark A. Goldstein,Myrna Chandler Goldstein,Larry P. Credit

Integrative medicine—the practice of combining remedies from various therapeutic disciplines to optimize relief and speed healing—is transforming both how health professionals treat disease and how patients manage their own care. Your Best Medicine introduces the reader to this new world of healing options for everyday ailments like dry skin, fatigue, and indigestion as well as more serious conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. All of the treatments and techniques in Your Best Medicine have been handpicked by two practitioners—one a conventionally trained MD, the other a specialist in complementary therapies—based on established therapeutic protocols, research evidence, and clinical experience. Conventional and complementary remedies appear side by side so readers can evaluate at a glance the remedies' relative effectiveness, safety, and ease of use. Every entry in Your Best Medicine also provides important information on risk factors, symptoms, and diagnostic techniques, as well as preventive measures. Armed with this knowledge, readers can make decisions wisely and confidently at every stage of their care.

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1605296562

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Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

By: Christopher H. Achen,Larry M. Bartels

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Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

By: Christopher H. Achen,Larry M. Bartels

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.

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Princeton University Press

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1400888743

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Danger Stalks the Land

Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival

By: Larry Kaniut

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Danger Stalks the Land

Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival

By: Larry Kaniut

Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. Danger Stalks the Land relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineering amid Alaska's fantastic peaks. Through exhaustive research and interviews, author Larry Kaniut has captured in one volume, the terror and beauty of man's attempt to explore a vast and unforgiving land.

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1466824891

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Black Barons of Birmingham

The South's Greatest Negro League Team and Its Players

By: Larry Powell

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Black Barons of Birmingham

The South's Greatest Negro League Team and Its Players

By: Larry Powell

A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier). The second half is devoted to the Black Barons of subsequent decades, the former Barons invited to tryout camps, others who were signed with minor league clubs, and the fortunate few who got their long-awaited chance in the majors.

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McFarland

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0786454806

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Technology, Curriculum, and Professional Development

Adapting Schools to Meet the Needs of Students With Disabilities

By: John Woodward,Larry Cuban

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Technology, Curriculum, and Professional Development

Adapting Schools to Meet the Needs of Students With Disabilities

By: John Woodward,Larry Cuban

The 11 papers in this collection address various aspects of the adoption and implementation of technology in the education of students with disabilities. An introduction by David B. Malouf of the Office of Special Education Programs introduces the collection. The following papers are included: (1) "No Easy Answer: The Instructional Effectiveness of Technology for Students with Disabilities" (John Woodward, Deborah Gallagher, and Herbert Rieth); (2) "It Can't Hurt: Implementing AAC Technology in the Classroom for Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities" (Bonnie Todis); (3) "Preparing Future Citizens: Technology-Supported, Project-Based Learning in the Social Studies" (Cynthia M. Okolo and Ralph P. Ferretti); (4) "ClassWide Peer Tutoring Program: A Learning Management System" (Charles R. Greenwood, Liang-Shye Hou, Joseph Delquadri, Barbara J. Terry, and Carmen Arreaga-Mayer); (5) "Sustaining a Curriculum Innovation: Cases of Make It Happen!" (Judith M. Zorfass); (6) "Technology Implementation in Special Education: Understanding Teachers' Beliefs, Plans, and Decisions" (Charles A. MacArthur); (7) "Why Are Most Teachers Infrequent and Restrained Users of Computers in Their Classroom?" (Larry Cuban); (8) "Designing Technology Professional Development Programs" (A. Edward Blackhurst); (9) "The Construction of Knowledge in a Collaborative Community: Reflections on Three Projects" (Carol Sue Englert and Yong Zhao); (10) "The Rise and Fall of the Community Transition Team Model" (Andrew S. Halpern and Michael R. Benz); and (11) "How Does Technology Support a Special Education Agenda? Using What We Have Learned To Inform the Future" (Marleen C. Pugach and Cynthia L. Warger). (Individual papers contain references.) (DB)

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0761977430

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Beyond the Boundaries

Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875

By: Larry Lankton

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Beyond the Boundaries

Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875

By: Larry Lankton

Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.

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Oxford University Press

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0199761159

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A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change

Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in Under-Served Neighborhoods

By: Larry M. Gant,Leslie Hollingsworth,Patricia L. Miller

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A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change

Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in Under-Served Neighborhoods

By: Larry M. Gant,Leslie Hollingsworth,Patricia L. Miller

Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in one such declining urban center, Detroit, back to positions of strength and national leadership. A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change introduces readers to the basis for the Foundation's solicitation of social work expertise and the social context within which the work of technical assistance began. Building on research, the authors introduce the theory and practice knowledge of earlier scholars, including the conduct of needs assessments at multiple levels, engagement of community members in identifying problem-solving strategies, assistance in developing community goals, and implementation of social work field instruction opportunities. Lessons learned and challenges are described as they played out in the process of creating partnerships for the Foundation with community leaders, engaging and maintaining youth involvement, managing roles and relationships with multiple partners recruited by the Foundation for their specialized expertise, and ultimately conducting the work of technical assistance within a context of increasing influence of the city's surrounding systems (political, economic, educational, and social). Readers will especially note the role of technical assistance in an evolving theory of change.

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0190463325

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Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric E-Book

By: J. Larry Jameson,Leslie J. De Groot

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Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric E-Book

By: J. Larry Jameson,Leslie J. De Groot

Considered the definitive source in its field for over 35 years, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, has been thoroughly updated to reflect today's recent advances in adult and pediatric endocrinology. Unique perspectives from a team of trusted, world-renowned experts ensure this medical reference book remains the most highly-regarded text in the field. Make the best clinical decisions with an enhanced emphasis on evidence-based practice and expert opinions on treatment strategies. Zero in on the most relevant and useful references with the aid of a more focused, concise bibliography. Locate information quickly, while still getting the complete coverage you expect. Now in full color, with special design treatment for at-a-glance pediatric content, helping to distinguish the pediatric content. Expanded coverage for key topics such as pediatric endocrinology and obesity mechanisms and treatment, in addition to today's hot topics in endocrinology, including endocrine disruptors, bariatric surgery, androgen deficiency, genetic causes of obesity, endocrine rhythms, and the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in thyroid cancer. New content addressing the latest advances in testosterone and estrogen replacement, as well as the new causes of calcium and phosphate disorders, new molecular causes of endocrine cancers, new genetic causes of reproductive disorders, and more. Updated clinical guidelines for diabetes, lipid disorders, obesity management, osteoporosis, and more, as well as essential treatment updates for the medical management of acromegaly, Cushing's Disease, hypercalcemia, and diabetes mellitus. New Key Points provide snapshots of what to expect in each chapter, or serve as a refresher of what you just read. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices.

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032332195X

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