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Sonny's Mother

By: Ronald Maier

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A baffling message scrawled in lipstick on a mutitated prostitute frustrates Detective Pete Swisher. Complicating matters Chief of Detectives, Tom Hardesty, keeps a roll of bills found in the victim's clothes. Both have been skimming drug money, but Swisher balks at robbing stiffs. Matters come to a head when the same message is found on another mutilated prostitute and CIA officer, Bill Williams gets concerned when his daughter, Judith, is innocently involved with her brilliant math professor. Treading forbidden civilian territory Bill unravels the truth about her teacher but is turned aside as just another kook. An angry father plans his own revenge and refuses to help. Swisher turns to Williams despite Hardesty's warning to stay away from the CIA rat. Then they discover Judith is in imminent danger.

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Timeshift

By: Ron Maier

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Timeshift

By: Ron Maier

A deluge of rain and a strange hitchhiker combine to transport martial arts champion Noah King on a bizarre course to an alternate world. Days whiz by in a fraction of a second when he enters a mysterious fog. His passenger, Sylv, is not what she seems. She admits to being a Tabizi, the instigator of his fog-encased journey to World 5. She has chosen him to intervene in the anarchy of a split world two hundred years in the future. Time reversal fails, and Sylv is stranded with Noah. She deserts him in the forest, and becomes known as Dark Seeress. Noah discovers he must fight the anarchist leader in blood sport to survive. After he defeats his opponent, an influential dwarf proclaims him the new king. Captive women flee to the forest, where Sylv declares all women are under her protection. Noah learns this world was split by quakes and volcanic action that left a 100 meter high Great Wall circling the globe. Cannibals roam the Wasteland on one side, preying on refugees. War is imperative to keep the savages out of Noah's lush green kingdom, but Sylv refuses to ally herself and the other women with his forces.

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Apocalypse Recalled

The Book of Revelation After Christendom

By: Harry O. Maier

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Apocalypse Recalled

The Book of Revelation After Christendom

By: Harry O. Maier

In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fortress Press

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1451409524

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Rainy Tuesday

By: Ron Maier

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Rainy Tuesday

By: Ron Maier

At the height of a freak storm a 911 caller reports a murder at the Ambrough Arms, NYC's new high-rise sliver. Chief of Detectives Darrel Randsome, aware that his estranged daughter resides in the Ambrough Arms, hurries to reach the scene. His progress is hampered by streets awash with filthy water, the result of a month-long sanitation workers' strike, that has plugged storm sewer drains with garbage. Randsome and four Crime Scene Unit detectives find more suspects than they bargained for in the high-rise sliver. The investigation gets complicated when Randsome discovers the Ambrough is owned by mobsters, and the DA is keeping twenty-four hour surveillance on the mob boss in 7A. Criminals abound as Randsome sifts though evidence. He struggles to do his job, but worries about his daughter's safety .

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Greenfield's Surgery

Scientific Principles & Practice

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Keith D. Lillemoe,Gerard M. Doherty,Ronald V. Maier,Diane M. Simeone,Gilbert R. Upchurch

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Greenfield's Surgery

Scientific Principles & Practice

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Keith D. Lillemoe,Gerard M. Doherty,Ronald V. Maier,Diane M. Simeone,Gilbert R. Upchurch

The Fifth Edition of Greenfield's Surgery has been thoroughly revised, updated, and refocused to conform to changes in surgical education and practice. Reflecting the increasingly clinical emphasis of residency programs, this edition features expanded coverage of clinical material and increased use of clinical algorithms. Key Points open each chapter, and icons in the text indicate where Key Points are fully discussed. Many of the black-and-white images from the previous edition have been replaced by full-color images. This edition has new chapters on quality assessment, surgical education, and surgical processes in the hospital. Coverage of surgical subspecialty areas is more sharply focused on topics that are encountered by general surgeons and included in the current general surgery curriculum and ABSITE exam. The vascular section has been further consolidated. A new editor, Diane M. Simeone, MD, PhD, has joined the editorial team. This edition is available either in one hardbound volume or in a four-volume softbound set. The lightweight four-volume option offers easy portability and quick access. Each volume is organized by organ system so you can find the facts you need within seconds. The companion website presents the fully searchable text, an instant-feedback test bank featuring over 800 questions and answers, and a comprehensive image bank. Unique to this new edition's website are 100 "Morbidity and Mortality" case discussions. Each case reviews a specific surgical complication, how the complication was addressed, and reviews the literature on approaches and outcomes.

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The Enemy Inside

By: Ron Maier

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The Enemy Inside

By: Ron Maier

Former Israeli Chief of Station Bill Williams is released from illegal depravation as a suspected Israeli mole. What the Agency really wants is his knowledge of Yah-Ala, a dangerous MidEast terroist coalition. As he does his make do work of ferreting out a hacker laundering money through the CIA's covert account he wonders who lied to have him disgraced? Murder and intrigue descend when Williams suspects Yah-Ala and money laundering are somehow connected. A cryptic message on his computer tells him he is next on the killer's list.

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Inspire!

By: Maier,Simon Maier

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Inspire!

By: Maier,Simon Maier

Inspire! showcases 100 of the most brilliant speeches ever delivered from the worlds of film and theatre. From the plays of Shakespeare to contemporary cinema hits, people over the years have been inspired and moved by superb actors delivering powerful lines. Yet only a select few can be called truly "essential" to the betterment of the human spirit and condition, and these are the speeches which form this book. Some speeches have stood the test of time. Others are classics and are known by everyone. Why do we quote from them for pleasure and politics? Why have some been used for propaganda? Why do they make us cry and laugh? Are there insights that can benefit anyone who needs to deliver a rousing, powerful speech or presentation? Simon Maier selects the 100 from stage and screen and offers insights and analyses as to why they have inspired so many.

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Marshall Cavendish

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9814351768

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9789814351768

Participatory Community Inquiry in the Opioid Epidemic

A New Approach for Communities in Crisis

By: Craig T. Maier

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Participatory Community Inquiry in the Opioid Epidemic

A New Approach for Communities in Crisis

By: Craig T. Maier

This book explores a research project focused on finding a community-level response to the opioid epidemic. Grounded in communication ethics, appreciative inquiry, and action research, this book contends that the opioid epidemic in the United States is as much a social disease as it is a pharmaceutical one, arising from a lack of social connection and the “communal literacy” Americans need to deal with the challenges they face together. Asking how Americans can rediscover their social connection to rebuild vibrant, sustainable communities, the author proposes and tests an approach called Participatory Community Inquiry (PCI), which helps groups acknowledge the social goods that unite them, design practices that protect and promote those goods, and undertake actions that can support their common lives. Shaping the conversation on how Americans may rediscover and rebuild the community they have lost, this book will be a key resource for researchers, practitioners, and students in communication studies, sociology, and action research interested in social ethics and community development and organizing.

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Communicating Catholicism

Rhetoric, Ecclesial Leadership, and the Future of the American Roman Catholic Diocese

By: Craig T. Maier

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Communicating Catholicism

Rhetoric, Ecclesial Leadership, and the Future of the American Roman Catholic Diocese

By: Craig T. Maier

Fr. Thomas Reese has observed that American Catholic dioceses are simultaneously mysterious and essential to the institutional health and vitality of American Catholicism. In recent years, as American Catholicism increasingly finds itself embroiled in scandal and conflict, this mysteriousness has given way to feelings of suspicion, frustration, and even contempt. How can American dioceses navigate this complex and often hostile social, cultural, and political environment? Several decades ago, J. Michael Sproule invited rhetorical and communication scholars to focus on institutions to increase our understanding of the profound role complex organizations play in contemporary life, assess the purpose and significance of communication in pursuit of their missions, and “give a human face to the otherwise institutional voice of corporate suasion.” Following Sproule, this book defines a new field called diocesan institutional rhetoric that strives to transform dioceses from structures characterized by closure and adversity into sites of hope-full, response-able, Spirit-led opportunity. Today, rhetorical and communication issues emerge everywhere in American Catholicism. Drawing together relevant literature in Catholic theology, philosophy of communication, and corporate communication scholarship—as well as over twelve years’ experience working as a communication professional in a diocesan chancery—this book helps diocesan leaders, scholars, and observers to think differently and more fruitfully about the future of American Catholic ecclesial leadership.

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Celts

A History From Earliest Times to the Present

By: Maier Bernhard Maier

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Celts

A History From Earliest Times to the Present

By: Maier Bernhard Maier

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive history of the Celts draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence to provide a comprehensive and colourful overview from origins to the present. Divided into three parts, the first covers the continental Celts in prehistory and antiquity, complete with accounts of the Celts in Germany, France, Italy, Iberia and Asia Minor. Part Two follows the Celts from the departure of the Romans to the late Middle Ages, including the migrations to and settlements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. This section also includes discussions of the Celtic kingdoms and the significance of Christianisation. Part Three brings the history of the Celts up to the present, covering the assimilation of the Celts within the national cultures of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Included in this consideration are the suppression of Gaelic, the declines, revivals and survivals of languages and literatures, and the histories of Celtic culture. The book concludes with a discussion of the recent history of the meaning of 'Celtic' and an examination of the cultural legacy of the Celts in the modern era.

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The 100

Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speakers and speeches ever delivered

By: Simon Maier,Jeremy Kourdi

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The 100

Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speakers and speeches ever delivered

By: Simon Maier,Jeremy Kourdi

What are the greatest speeches of all time? Who are the greatest communicators and orators and what made them so successful? And, significantly, what lessons can you learn from the world’s greatest influencers and communicators? This book individually profiles 100 powerful speakers and analyses the success factors behind their greatest ever speeches. Bill Clinton, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Benazir Bhutto, Rudy Giuliani, Jack Welch, Lee Kuan Yew, JF Kennedy, Steve Jobs, Barack Obama – these are some of the great communicators featured in this fascinating book. Even in today’s high-tech world, words are as powerful as they have always been, and the way they are used and the results that they achieve remain vital for progress and success at all levels. This book provides unique insights into becoming a skilled orator for today’s age.But first Eddie has to survive the jagged netherworld of modern-day Thailand – a corkscrewed realm where big-time drug dealers tango with small-time hustlers, criminals on the 1 am mingle with bureaucrats on the take, and the merely raffish jostle with the downright scary for centre stage in the big leagues of weird. If Eddie can weather all that, maybe he really can find out what happened back in Saigon so long ago, and where those ten tons of money are.

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Mafia Spies

The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro

By: Thomas Maier

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Mafia Spies

The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro

By: Thomas Maier

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of MASTERS OF SEX, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. Mafia Spies revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro’s own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration’s “Get Castro” obsession in Washington. Thomas Maier is among the first to take full advantage of the National Archives’ 2017–18 release of the long-suppressed JFK files, many of which deal with the CIA’s top secret anti-Castro operation in Florida and Cuba. With several new investigative findings, Mafia Spies is a spy exposé, murder mystery, and shocking true story that recounts America’s first foray into the assassination business, a tale with profound impact for today’s Trump era. Who killed Johnny and Sam—and why wasn’t Castro assassinated despite the CIA’s many clandestine efforts?

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Newhouse

All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's Richest Media Empire & the Secretive Man Behind it

By: Thomas Maier

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Newhouse

All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's Richest Media Empire & the Secretive Man Behind it

By: Thomas Maier

Newhouse is the first full-scale biography of the turbulent life and business career of Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., who could arguably be described as the most powerful private citizen in America. Controlling a fortune estimated to be in excess of thirteen billion dollars, Si and his brother Donald are richer than the Queen of England, or Bill Gates, or Ross Perot, or any of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or Hearsts. But Newhouse is not primarily about the accumulation of money by a family that two generations ago was literally impoverished. Rather, it is a book about power.

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Ratification

The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

By: Pauline Maier

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Ratification

The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

By: Pauline Maier

The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years.

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The Kennedys

America's Emerald Kings

By: Thomas Maier

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The Kennedys

America's Emerald Kings

By: Thomas Maier

A meticulously researched chronicle of five generations of the Kennedy dynasty explains how their Irish-Catholic roots informed their lives and political beliefs and reveals how the immigrant experience shaped both their remarkable success and many tragedies. 100,000 first printing.

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All That Glitters

Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the Rivalry Inside America's Richest Media Empire

By: Thomas Maier

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All That Glitters

Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the Rivalry Inside America's Richest Media Empire

By: Thomas Maier

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story ofthe Intrigue and Infighting of Condé Nast, Anna Wintour, S. I. Newhouse Jr., and Tina Brown, and Optioned by Sony Television Productions Inside the Condé Nast magazine world run by billionaire S. I. Newhouse Jr., Anna Wintour and Tina Brown were bold and talented British women who fought their way to the top of this male-dominated American industry driven by greed and betrayal. Wintour became an icon of fashion and New York’s high society, while Brown helped define the intersection of literary culture and Hollywood celebrity. They jockeyed for power in the hypercompetitive “off with their heads” atmosphere set up by Newhouse and his longtime creative guru Alex Liberman, two men who for years controlled the glossy Condé Nast magazines that dictated how women should look, dress, and feel. In turning this world upside down, Wintour and Brown challenged the old rules and made Newhouse’s company internationally famous. Ultimately, one of them won in their fascinating struggle for fame and fortune during the height of New York’s gilded age of print—a time before the internet, before 9/11, when the Reagans ruled the White House and Donald Trump was a mere local developer featured on the cover of Newhouse’s publications. This book traces the careers of Wintour and Brown and shows how they and the Condé Nast media empire were major media enablers in the rise of Donald Trump and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. At its heart, All That Glitters is a parable about the changes in America’s media, where corruption and easy compromises are sprinkled with glitter, power, and glory. Originally titled Newhouse, this revised and updated edition, with a new introduction and afterword, won the 1994 Frank Luther Mott Award for best researched media book of the year.

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The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings

A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Family

By: Thomas Maier

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The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings

A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Family

By: Thomas Maier

Meticulously researched both here and abroad, The Kennedys examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the often spectacular Kennedy story, and the ways in which their immigrant background shaped their values-and in turn twentieth-century America-for over five generations. As the first and only Roman Catholic ever elected to high national office in this country, JFK's pioneering campaign for president rested on a tradition of navigating a cultural divide that began when Joseph Kennedy shed the brogues of the old country in order to get ahead on Wall Street. Whether studied exercise in cultural self-denial or sheer pragmatism, their movements mirror that of countless of other, albeit less storied, American families. But as much as the Kennedys distanced themselves from their religion and ethnic heritage on the public stage, Maier shows how Irish Catholicism informed many of their most well-known political decisions and stances. From their support of civil rights, to Joe Kennedy's tight relationship with Pope Pius XII and FDR, the impact of their personal family history on the national scene is without question-and makes for an immensely compelling narrative. Bringing together extensive new research in both Ireland and the United States, several exclusive interviews, as well as his own perspective as an Irish-American, Maier's original approach to the Kennedy era brilliantly illustrates the defining role of the immigrant experience for the country's foremost political dynasty.

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Basic Books

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The Data Game

Controversies in Social Science Statistics

By: Mark Maier,Jennifer Imazeki

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The Data Game

Controversies in Social Science Statistics

By: Mark Maier,Jennifer Imazeki

Now updated for web-based research, the third edition of The Data Game introduces students to the collection, use, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the national economy, wealth, income and poverty, labor, business, government, and public opinion polling. The concluding chapter is devoted to the common problem of ambiguity in social science statistics.

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1315501910

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William Robertson Smith

His Life, His Work and His Times

By: Bernhard Maier

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William Robertson Smith

His Life, His Work and His Times

By: Bernhard Maier

William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such scholars as Albrecht Ritschl, Paul de Lagarde, Julius Wellhausen, Abraham Kuenen and Theodor Noldeke. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the biography locates and defines the place of this remarkable polymath within the context of Free Church Calvinism, the Scottish Enlightenment and 19th century German Protestant theology. It highlights Smith's interest in physics and philosophy, his friendship with contemporary artists, his Oriental travels, and his involvement in the social life of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In recent years, the image of Smith as a comparative religionist has come to dominate all other perspectives and indeed tends now to overshadow his fame as an Old Testament scholar. This book seeks to redress the balance, aiming to discover the theological drive behind Smith's manifold activities.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161499956

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Once Within Borders

Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

By: Charles S. Maier

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Once Within Borders

Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

By: Charles S. Maier

Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674973917

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The Data Game

Controversies in Social Science Statistics

By: Mark H. Maier,Jennifer Imazeki

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The Data Game

Controversies in Social Science Statistics

By: Mark H. Maier,Jennifer Imazeki

This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes multiple case studies illustrating the controversies, overview of data sources including web sites, chapter summary and a set of case study questions designed to stimulate further thought.

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0765629801

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The Project-State and Its Rivals

A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

By: Charles S. Maier

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The Project-State and Its Rivals

A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

By: Charles S. Maier

A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era’s darker impulses—ethnic nationalism, racist violence, and populist authoritarianism—revived? The Project-State and Its Rivals offers a radical alternative interpretation that takes us from the transforming challenges of the world wars to our own time. Instead of the traditional narrative of domestic politics and international relations, Charles S. Maier looks to the political and economic impulses that propelled societies through a century when territorial states and transnational forces both claimed power, engaging sometimes as rivals and sometimes as allies. Maier focuses on recurring institutional constellations: project-states including both democracies and dictatorships that sought not just to retain power but to transform their societies; new forms of imperial domination; global networks of finance; and the international associations, foundations, and NGOs that tried to shape public life through allegedly apolitical appeals to science and ethics. In this account, which draws on the author’s studies over half a century, Maier invites a rethinking of the long twentieth century. His history of state entanglements with capital, the decline of public projects, and the fragility of governance explains the fraying of our own civic culture—but also allows hope for its recovery.

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American Scripture

Making the Declaration of Independence

By: Pauline Maier

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American Scripture

Making the Declaration of Independence

By: Pauline Maier

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.

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Among Empires

American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

By: Charles S. Maier

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Among Empires

American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

By: Charles S. Maier

Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Eschewing the standard focus on current U.S. foreign policy and the recent spate of pro- and anti-empire polemics, Charles S. Maier uses comparative history to test the relevance of a concept often invoked but not always understood. Marshaling a remarkable array of evidence—from Roman, Ottoman, Moghul, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and British experience—Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history. He then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, carefully analyzing its economic and strategic sources and the nation’s relationship to predecessors and rivals. To inquire about empire is to ask what the United States has become as a result of its wealth, inventiveness, and ambitions. It is to confront lofty national aspirations with the realities of the violence that often attends imperial politics and thus to question both the costs and the opportunities of the current U.S. global ascendancy. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power. It confirms that the issue of empire must be a concern of every citizen.

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Harvard University Press

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0674040457

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Leviathan 2.0

Inventing Modern Statehood

By: Charles S. Maier

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Leviathan 2.0

Inventing Modern Statehood

By: Charles S. Maier

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through state-building reforms. A global wave of revolution at the turn of the century pushed the modernization process further in China, Russia, Iran, and Ottoman Turkey. By the late 1930s, with the rise of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the momentum of history seemed to shift toward war-glorifying totalitarian states. But several variants of the modern state survived World War II: the welfare states of Western democracies; single-party socialist governments; and governments dominated by the military, especially prevalent in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Toward the end of the twentieth century, all of these forms stood in growing tension with the transformative influences of globalized capitalism. Modern statehood recreated itself in many ways, Charles S. Maier concludes, but finally had to adopt a precarious equilibrium with ever more powerful economic forces.

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0674281322

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In Any Event

Top Tips on Managing any Corporate Event

By: Simon Maier

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In Any Event

Top Tips on Managing any Corporate Event

By: Simon Maier

What are the greatest events of all time? Why do some events move, entertain or sell to us, while others just don't? Answering these questions and more In Any Event is an essential guide to all aspects of event management. Whether you are planning a crucial meeting, product launch, a road show or VIP conference, this book showcases the most important elements that go towards making any event a success, explaining how things can be made to go not just right but brilliantly. Written by an event management expert, Simon Maier, and featuring advice, international case studies and interviews with people in the know, it will become a must-have for anyone who wants to wow their audience.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408174502

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Picturing Paul in Empire

Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles

By: Harry O. Maier

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Picturing Paul in Empire

Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles

By: Harry O. Maier

Pauline Christianity sprang to life in a world of imperial imagery. In the streets and at the thoroughfares, in the market places and on its public buildings and monuments, and especially on its coins the Roman Empire's imperial iconographers displayed imagery that aimed to persuade the Empire's diverse and mostly illiterate inhabitants that Rome had a divinely appointed right to rule the world and to be honoured and celebrated for its dominion. Harry O. Maier places the later, often contested, letters and theology associated with Paul in the social and political context of the Roman Empire's visual culture of politics and persuasion to show how followers of the apostle visualized the reign of Christ in ways consistent with central themes of imperial iconography. They drew on the Empire's picture language to celebrate the dominion and victory of the divine Son, Jesus, to persuade their audiences to honour his dominion with praise and thanksgiving. Key to this imperial embrace were Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles. Yet these letters remain neglected territory in consideration of engagement with and reflection of imperial political ideals and goals amongst Paul and his followers. This book fills a gap in scholarly work on Paul and Empire by taking up each contested letter in turn to investigate how several of its main themes reflect motifs found in imperial images.

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A&C Black

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0567431452

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9780567431455

Exit South

By: Rick Maier

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Exit South

By: Rick Maier

Left for dead behind a gas station along the Interstate near Macon, Georgia, the northeastern businessman goes on the lam to recover from his ordeal and save his child from possible death.

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Indigo Custom Publishing

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0976287587

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Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures

By: Ronald Maier,Thomas Hädrich,René Peinl

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Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures

By: Ronald Maier,Thomas Hädrich,René Peinl

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to design and implement such an environment. It develops the vision of a modular, yet highly integrated enterprise knowledge infrastructure and presents an idealized architecture replete with current technologies and systems. The most important streams of technological development that are covered in the book are communication, collaboration, document and content management, e-learning, enterprise portals, business process management, information life cycle management, information retrieval and visualization, knowledge management, mobile computing, application and network infrastructure, Semantic Web and social software. It includes learning goals, exercises and case examples that help the reader to easily understand and practice the concepts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540897682

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The Official Price Guide to Antiques and Collectibles

By: Eric Alberta,House of Collectibles,Art Maier

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The Official Price Guide to Antiques and Collectibles

By: Eric Alberta,House of Collectibles,Art Maier

THE ONE-STOP SOURCEBOOK WITH MORE THAN 60,000 PRICES LISTED! [ ] COMPLETELY REVISED AND EXPANDED. The Official Price Guide to Antiques and Collectibles contains the most up-to-date information on thousands upon thousands of the most sought-after antiques and collectibles. Whether your passion is traditional antiques, such as furniture, china, and silver, or you are looking for the latest hot pop culture collectible from TV or film, rock 'n' roll, Barbie, and G.I. Joe, this is the guide that provides comprehensive coverage. [ ] UNIQUE FOCUS ON BABY-BOOMER COLLECTIBLES. Today's hottest collectible category is postwar collectibles and memorabilia, from the late 40s through the baby-boom years. The Official Price Guide gives you the latest prices for thousands of items in this ever-growing category--that's more values than any other major price guide. [ ] WRITTEN BY EXPERTS. Eric Alberta has headed the Collectibles department at both Christies and Phillips auction houses. With more than twenty-five years of experience, he now runs an appraisal and consulting firm. Art Maier teaches appraising at New York University. He is a consultant for international auction houses and their clients. [ ] PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. In addition to Alberta and Maier, more than thirty-five other experts, and more than twenty-five auction houses and galleries nationwide, contribute invaluable information in their individual areas so that you can get the best deal. [ ] SPECIAL FEATURES. Tips on where and what to collect, regional preferences, and how to spot fakes and reproductions. [ ] FULLY ILLUSTRATED. More than 500 black-and-white photos throughout the volume helpidentify the precise items you are looking for. HOUSE OF COLLECTIBLES Serving collectors for more than thirty-five years

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0876379609

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9780876379608

Dr. Spock

An American Life

By: Thomas Maier

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Dr. Spock

An American Life

By: Thomas Maier

Benjamin Spock may have had a greater effect on the everyday lives of more people than any other living American. His personal life, however, was shaken by failure and tragedy. Thomas Maier's extensive interviews with Spock, his family, and others who knew him provide the first complete picture of this complicated man. Two photo inserts.

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0151002037

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