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The Right Moment

Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics

By: Matthew Dallek

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The Right Moment

Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics

By: Matthew Dallek

Ronald Reagan's first great victory in the 1966 California governor's race is one of the pivotal stories of American political history, a victory that seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just four years earlier Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown was celebrated as the "Giant Killer" for his 1962 victory over Richard Nixon, and his liberal agenda reigned supreme. Yet in 1966 political neophyte Reagan trounced Brown by almost one million votes, marking not only the coming-of-age of Reagan's new conservatism but also the first serious blow to modern liberalism. Drawing on scores of oral histories, thousands of archival documents, and personal interviews with participants, Dallek offers a gripping new portrait of the 1960s that is far more complicated than our collective memory of that decade.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195174070

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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel

By: Matthew C. Salyer

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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel

By: Matthew C. Salyer

Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century “romance” hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that popular Romantic novels such as Scott’s Waverley and Cooper’s The Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the modern nation state.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498562914

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The Kaiser and the Colonies

Monarchy in the Age of Empire

By: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

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The Kaiser and the Colonies

Monarchy in the Age of Empire

By: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other crowned heads of Europe. Rather than an expression of Wilhelm II's personal rule, Germany's global empire and its Weltpolitik had their origins in the political and economic changes undergone by the nation as German commerce and industry strained to globalise alongside other European nations. More central to Germany's imperial processes than an emperor who reigned but did not rule were the numerous monarchs around the world with whom the German Empire came into contact. In Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, kings, sultans and other paramount leaders both resisted and accommodated Germany's ambitions as they charted their own course through the era of European imperialism. The result was often violent suppression, but also complex diplomatic negotiation, attempts at manipulation, and even mutual cooperation. In vivid detail drawn from archival holdings, The Kaiser and the Colonies examines the surprisingly muted role played by Wilhelm II in the German Empire and contrasts it to the lively, varied, and innovative responses to German imperialism from monarchs around the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192651218

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Reading America

Text as a Cultural Force

By: Matthew Guillen

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Reading America

Text as a Cultural Force

By: Matthew Guillen

Is there a unique visual infrastructure that keeps and defines a culture? Professor Guillen discusses a culture built entirely on the visual modality and, most significantly, on that province of the visual we negotiate through the written word. Although this work analyzes features critical to the American legal tradition from its origins in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence to recent Supreme Court decisions---substantially exploring Judge Scalia's "originalist" movement and Posner's law and economics theories---the presiding agency remains the power of the written language to provide scaffolding to American culture. Writing, it is argued, contours: our worldview, our laws, morality, science, social problems, and affects film, media, broadcasting, comics and literary criticism. The effects of our national formation and the literature that sprung up to discuss the new nation and define its people have directly led to the evolution of our idiosyncratic legal and philosophical perspectives. The title of this work purposely carries a double meaning since it proposes to deal with a "reading of" American culture through its legal and cultural legacy as well as concluding with questions revolving around a well informed American "readership" essential for the preservation of the culture as well as the continued existence of a national collective conscience.

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Academica Press,LLC

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193314629X

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Revolt

An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico

By: Matthew Liebmann

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Revolt

An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico

By: Matthew Liebmann

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the Spaniards' reconquest in 1692—completely skipping over the years of indigenous independence that occurred in between. Revolt boldly breaks out of this mold and examines the aftermath of the uprising in colonial New Mexico, focusing on the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society. In addition to being the first book-length history of the revolt that incorporates archaeological evidence as a primary source of data, this volume is one of a kind in its attempt to put these events into the larger context of Native American cultural revitalization. Despite the fact that the only surviving records of the revolt were written by Spanish witnesses and contain certain biases, author Matthew Liebmann finds unique ways to bring a fresh perspective to Revolt. Most notably, he uses his hands-on experience at Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites—four Pueblo villages constructed between 1680 and 1696 in the Jemez province of New Mexico—to provide an understanding of this period that other treatments have yet to accomplish. By analyzing ceramics, architecture, and rock art of the Pueblo Revolt era, he sheds new light on a period often portrayed as one of unvarying degradation and dissention among Pueblos. A compelling read, Revolt's "blood-and-thunder" story successfully ties together archaeology, history, and ethnohistory to add a new dimension to this uprising and its aftermath.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816599653

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Germany, 1914-1933

Politics, Society and Culture

By: Matthew Stibbe

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Germany, 1914-1933

Politics, Society and Culture

By: Matthew Stibbe

Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic. Combining traditional political narrative with new insights provided by social and cultural history, the book reconsiders such key questions as: How widespread was support for the war in Germany between 1914 and 1918? How was the war viewed both ‘from above’, by leading generals, admirals and statesmen, and ‘from below’, by ordinary soldiers and civilians? What were the chief political, social, economic and cultural consequences of the war? In particular, did it result in a brutalisation of German society after 1918? How modern were German attitudes towards work, family, sex and leisure during the 1920s? What accounts for the extraordinary richness and experimentalism of this period? The book also provides a thorough and comprehensive discussion of the difficulties faced by the Weimar Republic in capturing the hearts and minds of the German people in the 1920s, and of the causes of its final demise in the early 1930s.

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Routledge

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1317866533

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A Diplomatic Revolution

Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era

By: Matthew Connelly

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A Diplomatic Revolution

Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era

By: Matthew Connelly

Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria's fight for independence has rarely been viewed as an international conflict. Even forty years later, it is remembered as the scene of a national drama that culminated with Charles de Gaulle's decision to "grant" Algerians their independence despite assassination attempts, mutinies, and settler insurrection. Yet, as Matthew Connelly demonstrates, the war the Algerians fought occupied a world stage, one in which the U.S. and the USSR, Israel and Egypt, Great Britain, Germany, and China all played key roles. Recognizing the futility of confronting France in a purely military struggle, the Front de Libération Nationale instead sought to exploit the Cold War competition and regional rivalries, the spread of mass communications and emigrant communities, and the proliferation of international and non-governmental organizations. By harnessing the forces of nascent globalization they divided France internally and isolated it from the world community. And, by winning rights and recognition as Algeria's legitimate rulers without actually liberating the national territory, they rewrote the rules of international relations. Based on research spanning three continents and including, for the first time, the rebels' own archives, this study offers a landmark reevaluation of one of the great anti-colonial struggles as well as a model of the new international history. It will appeal to historians of post-colonial studies, twentieth-century diplomacy, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. A Diplomatic Revolution was winner of the 2003 Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award, The Foundation for Pacific Quest.

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Oxford University Press

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0199881804

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Liberal Imperialism in Germany

Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884

By: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

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Liberal Imperialism in Germany

Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884

By: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany’s colonial empire in 1884.

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Berghahn Books

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0857450522

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Industrial Ecology And Sustainability

By: Thomas E Graedel,Matthew J Eckelman

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Industrial Ecology And Sustainability

By: Thomas E Graedel,Matthew J Eckelman

Technology today is undergoing a rapid, unprecedented, and accelerating period of transformation. The implications of climate change, underpinned by geopolitics, for scientists and engineers are profound, as they and their societies attempt to harness these new technologies to address critical global environmental challenges, often without a full understanding of the long-term consequences. This textbook is designed to fill the gaps at a time of rapid changes in technology and the global environmental to develop sustainability situations.Written by world-renowned experts, this book comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics in sustainability science — industrial ecology, economic geology, environmental change, recycling and reuse, and sustainability — and brings readers up to date on the state-of-the-art. A feature of the book is the inclusion of worked examples in the text. Industrial ecology utilizes life cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), matrix analytics, in-use stock derivation, and other mathematical and analytic tools; appropriate chapters include worked examples to illustrate their use, to develop reader-familiarity with the tools.

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World Scientific

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9811277621

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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

By: Matthew Pratt Guterl

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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

By: Matthew Pratt Guterl

Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker transformed her French chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her 12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674047559

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Personalization Techniques and Recommender Systems

By: Matthew Y. Ma,Gulden Uchyigit

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Personalization Techniques and Recommender Systems

By: Matthew Y. Ma,Gulden Uchyigit

The phenomenal growth of the Internet has resulted in huge amounts of online information, a situation that is overwhelming to the end users. To overcome this problem, personalization technologies have been extensively employed. The book is the first of its kind, representing research efforts in the diversity of personalization and recommendation techniques. These include user modeling, content, collaborative, hybrid and knowledge-based recommender systems. It presents theoretic research in the context of various applications from mobile information access, marketing and sales and web services, to library and personalized TV recommendation systems. This volume will serve as a basis to researchers who wish to learn more in the field of recommender systems, and also to those intending to deploy advanced personalization techniques in their systems. Sample Chapter(s). Personalization-Privacy Tradeoffs in Adaptive Information Access (865 KB). Contents: User Modeling and Profiling: Personalization-Privacy Tradeoffs in Adaptive Information Access (B Smyth); A Deep Evaluation of Two Cognitive User Models for Personalized Search (F Gasparetti & A Micarelli); Unobtrusive User Modeling for Adaptive Hypermedia (H J Holz et al.); User Modelling Sharing for Adaptive e-Learning and Intelligent Help (K Kabassi et al.); Collaborative Filtering: Experimental Analysis of Multiattribute Utility Collaborative Filtering on a Synthetic Data Set (N Manouselis & C Costopoulou); Efficient Collaborative Filtering in Content-Addressable Spaces (S Berkovsky et al.); Identifying and Analyzing User Model Information from Collaborative Filtering Datasets (J Griffith et al.); Content-Based Systems, Hybrid Systems and Machine Learning Methods: Personalization Strategies and Semantic Reasoning: Working in Tandem in Advanced Recommender Systems (Y Blanco-Fernindez et al.); Content Classification and Recommendation Techniques for Viewing Electronic Programming Guide on a Portable Device (J Zhu et al.); User Acceptance of Knowledge-Based Recommenders (A Felfernig et al.); Using Restricted Random Walks for Library Recommendations and Knowledge Space Exploration (M Franke & A Geyer-Schulz); An Experimental Study of Feature Selection Methods for Text Classification (G Uchyigit & K Clark). Readership: Researchers and graduate students in machine learning and databases/information science.

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World Scientific

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9812797025

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Directors and Officers Liability

Prevention, Insurance, and Indemnification

By: John H. Mathias,David M. Kroeger,Matthew M. Neumeier,Jerry J. Burgdoerfer

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Directors and Officers Liability

Prevention, Insurance, and Indemnification

By: John H. Mathias,David M. Kroeger,Matthew M. Neumeier,Jerry J. Burgdoerfer

This book examines such topics as: the risks officers and directors face, derivative and class actions, and when a corporation is required--or allowed-- to provide indemnification.

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Law Journal Press

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1588520951

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Environmental Policymaking in an Era of Climate Change

By: Matthew C. Nowlin

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Environmental Policymaking in an Era of Climate Change

By: Matthew C. Nowlin

As the world considers how to deal with the impacts of a changing climate, it’s vital that we understand the ways in which the United States’ policymaking process addresses environmental issues. A mix of existing theory and original analysis, Environmental Policymaking in an Era of Climate Change applies recent policy scholarship to questions of environmental governance, with a particular focus on climate change. The book examines how competing political actors influence policies within and across institutions, focusing on both a macro-level, where formal bodies set the agenda, and a meso-level, where issues are contained within policy subsystems. Divided into two sections, the book incorporates insights from political science and public policy to provide the reader with a better understanding of how environmental policy decisions are made. Part I offers a framework for understanding environmental policymaking, exploring the history of environmental policy, and discussing the importance of values in environmental policy. Part II applies the framework to the issue of climate change, focusing on agenda-setting and the role of formal institutions in the policymaking process, covering topics that include Congress, the Executive and Judicial branches, and how climate change cuts across policy subsystem boundaries. By placing specific climate change case studies in a broader context, Environmental Policymaking in an Era of Climate Change will help students enrolled in political science, public administration, public policy, and environmental studies courses – as well as all those interested in the impacts of policy on climate change – to understand what is, and will likely continue to be, one of the most pressing policy issues of our time.

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1315441713

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Symonds & O'Toole on Delaware Limited Liability Companies

By: Robert L. Symonds,Robert L. Symonds, Jr.,Matthew J. O'Toole

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Symonds & O'Toole on Delaware Limited Liability Companies

By: Robert L. Symonds,Robert L. Symonds, Jr.,Matthew J. O'Toole

Symonds & O'Toole on Delaware Limited Liability Companies byrenowned experts Robert L Symonds, Jr. and Matthew J. O'Toole combinespractice-based Delaware LLC insights, completely current coverage, andup-to-date forms presented in logical order, allowing you to confidentlyrepresent your clients from start to finish. Everything you need to know aboutDelaware Limited Liability Companies is included in this one easy-to-usereference, complete with Bonus Delaware LLC Forms CD-ROM.Since the 1988 IRS ruling permitting the advantages of pass-through taxreporting, the number of Delaware Limited Liability Companies formedannually has increased at an explosive rate. Symonds & O'Toole onDelaware Limited Liability Companies provides practical evaluation ofthe Delaware Limited Liability Company, expertly analyzing the mostcurrent Delaware LLC law, as well as the underlying principles andreasoning, allowing you to master the specific issues facing Delaware LLCpractitioners today, and to find workable approaches to potentiallyproblematic Delaware LLC situations.Symonds & O'Toole on Delaware Limited Liability Companies isthe first resource to include complete coverage of all 2006 statutory changesregarding:Filings of Delaware LLC Documents with the Secretary of StateDelaware Limited Liability Company managementFundamental Transactions, including Delaware LLC mergers, conversionand consolidation of other entities into the Delaware LLC (andDelaware LLC into other entities)Everything you need to know about a Delaware Limited Liability Company isfound in this one easy-to-use reference:Expert "how to" guidance on drafting Delaware Limited LiabilityCompany agreementsExtensive Tables covering changes to the Delaware limited Liability CompanyAct and Delaware LLC case lawDelaware LLC Forms for practitioners drafted by experiencedpractitionersReliable In-Depth, Expert Coverage of all 2006 Delaware LLC statutoryamendmentsAbout Authors Robert L. Symonds Jr. and Matthew J. O'Toole:Robert L. Symonds Jr. and Matthew J. O'Toole are shareholders and directors inthe Delaware office of Stevens & LeeP.C. Both have broad experience with the structuring and use ofDelaware business entities. Mr. Symonds is one of the original drafters of theDelaware Limited Liability Company Act, and is a member of the Delaware StateBar Association's committee charged with reviewing and proposing amendments tothe Delaware Statutory Trust Act. Mr. O'Toole is a member of the Council ofthe Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. Mr. Symondsand Mr. O'Toole both serve on the Delaware State Bar Association's committeethat reviews and proposes amendments to Delaware's Limited Liability Companyand Partnership Statutes, and Mr. Symonds is immediate past Chair of thatcommittee.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735555982

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A Cross- Disciplinary Primer on the Meaning of Principles of Innovation

By: Matthew M. Mars

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A Cross- Disciplinary Primer on the Meaning of Principles of Innovation

By: Matthew M. Mars

Innovation is a central mechanism in the progression of society and often captures the imagination and enthusiasm of corporate leaders, public policy makers, and so on. In this volume, a novel approach to an understanding innovation in contexts that range from the socio-cultural to the technological is presented.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1780529929

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Making Policy in a Complex World

By: Paul Cairney,Tanya Heikkila,Matthew Wood

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Making Policy in a Complex World

By: Paul Cairney,Tanya Heikkila,Matthew Wood

This provocative Element is on the 'state of the art' of theories that highlight policymaking complexity. It explains complexity in a way that is simple enough to understand and use. The primary audience is policy scholars seeking a single authoritative guide to studies of 'multi-centric policymaking'. It synthesises this literature to build a research agenda on the following questions: 1. How can we best explain the ways in which many policymaking 'centres' interact to produce policy? 2. How should we research multi-centric policymaking? 3. How can we hold policymakers to account in a multi-centric system? 4. How can people engage effectively to influence policy in a multi-centric system? However, by focusing on simple exposition and limiting jargon, Paul Cairney, Tanya Heikkila, Matthew Wood also speak to a far wider audience of practitioners, students, and new researchers seeking a straightforward introduction to policy theory and its practical lessons.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108645577

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Cocaine

Pharamacology, Physiology, and Clinical Strategies

By: Matthew P. Galloway,Francis J. White

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Cocaine

Pharamacology, Physiology, and Clinical Strategies

By: Matthew P. Galloway,Francis J. White

This book brings together for the first time state-of-the-art research from both the basic sciences and the clinical fields to present an in-depth discussion of the numerous effects of cocaine. The issues discussed include metabolism and distribution of cocaine, behavioral and electrophysiological actions of cocaine, clinical aspects of cocaine associated with addiction and abuse on cardiovascular function, and exposure of infants to cocaine during gestation. The unique, multidisciplinary perspective of this book regarding on-going research on cocaine and drug abuse will be useful to researchers, clinicians, health care practitioners, and graduate students who need to stay abreast of the most current information available on this drug.

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CRC Press

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0849388139

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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject

Beyond Behaviour Change

By: Matthew Adams

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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject

Beyond Behaviour Change

By: Matthew Adams

This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'. Only by addressing the psychological and social structures maintaining unsustainable societies might we glimpse the possibility of genuinely sustainable future. The challenges posed by the reality of human-caused 'environmental problems' are unprecedented. Understanding how we respond to knowledge of these problems is vital if we are to have a hope of meeting this challenge. Psychology and the social sciences have been drafted in to further this understanding, and inform interventions encouraging sustainable behaviour. However, to date, much of psychology has appeared happy to tinker with individual behaviour change, or encourage minor modifications in the social environment aimed at 'nudging' individual behaviour. As the ecological crisis deepens, it is increasingly recognised that mainstream understandings and interventions are inadequate to the collective threat posed by climate change and related ecological crises.

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Springer

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1137351608

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Vines & Vision

The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County

By: Matthew Kettmann

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Vines & Vision

The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County

By: Matthew Kettmann

Vines & Vision: The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County is a first-of-its-kind exploration of the people, places, history, trends, and soul of Santa Barbara County wine country. Featuring nearly 1,000 photographs by renowned visual anthropologist Macduff Everton and about 100 chapters written by the region's leading food & wine journalist Matt Kettmann, Vines & Vision is a one-stop shop for learning about the past, present, and future of Santa Barbara wine culture.

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Tixcacalcupul Press

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0938531077

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Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook

By: Dominick V Rosato,Donald V Rosato,Matthew v Rosato

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Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook

By: Dominick V Rosato,Donald V Rosato,Matthew v Rosato

This book is for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes. The information and data in this book are provided as a comparative guide to help in understanding the performance of plastics and in making the decisions that must be made when developing a logical approach to fabricating plastic products to meet performance requirements at the lowest costs. It is formatted to allow for easy reader access and this care has been translated into the individual chapter constructions and index. This book makes very clear the behaviour of the 35,000 different plastics with the different behaviours of the hundreds of processes. Products reviewed range from toys to medical devices, to cars, to boats, to underwater devices, containers, springs, pipes, aircraft and spacecraft. The reader's product to be designed and/or fabricated can be directly or indirectly related to plastic materials, fabricating processes and/or product design reviews in this book.*Essential for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes *Will help readers understand the performance of plastics *Helps readers to make decisions which meet performance requirements and to keep costs low

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0080514057

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Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

Historical and Theological Reflections

By: Matthew Levering

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Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

Historical and Theological Reflections

By: Matthew Levering

The Resurrection of Jesus is at the very root of Christian faith; without belief in Jesus Christianity dies. In this thought-provoking work, Matthew Levering defends the credibility of the claim that Jesus rose from the dead. Drawing on the work of N. T. Wright, Levering shows that the historical evidence vindicates this assumption, and reveals that the Gospels were backed by eyewitnesses who were living and telling their stories even during the time of the writing of the Gospels. The author also emphasises the importance of evaluating the Old Testament to validate Jesus' Resurrection. By highlighting the desire—both in the ancient world and now—to make the Resurrection more comprehensible by spiritualizing it, Levering argues that the fact that the disciples themselves did not do this provides a further clue to reliability. Finally, the author addresses the question of why Jesus does not continue to show himself in his glorified flesh after his resurrection, which is often seen as a strong case for scepticism. However, he shows that Jesus' entire mission is predicated upon helping us to avoid cleaving to the present world over God. He is leading us to where he is—the kingdom of God, the beginning of the new creation at the Father's right hand. By developing these arguments for the historical reality of Jesus' Resurrection, this ground-breaking study expertly draws together historical and theological reasons for believing that Jesus' Resurrection happened.

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Oxford University Press

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0192575600

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The Komedie Stamboel

Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903

By: Matthew Isaac Cohen

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The Komedie Stamboel

Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903

By: Matthew Isaac Cohen

Originating in 1891 in the Port City of Surabaya, the Komedie Stamboel, or Istanbul-style theater, toured colonial Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia by rail and steamship.

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Ohio University Press

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0896802469

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Gladstone 1809-1898

By: H. C. G. Matthew

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Gladstone 1809-1898

By: H. C. G. Matthew

William Ewart Gladstone was both the most charismatic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times prime minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. His private life was a most curious blend of happiness and temptation. His Christian faith held the extremes of his character in sufficient harmony to avoid disintegration and to produce one of the most powerful political personalities in British history. H. C. G. Matthew's writings on Gladstone are generally acknowledged to have transformed understanding of the `Grand Old Man' of British Politics, and indeed his whole age. Appearing first as Introductions to his definitive edition of The Gladstone Diaries, they have been revised and made available in this volume, collected together in paperback for the first time. Gladstone 1809-1874: 'It deserves to become a classic of the genre' Illustrated London News 'For any aficionado of the high politics - and low life - of the nineteenth century, this book is a must' Observer 'the most sensitive and informed insight to date' English Historical Review Gladstone 1875-1898 (winner of the Wolfson History Prize 1995): 'Rarely can a single scholar have re-mapped a whole historical territory so grandly as H. C. G. Matthew has done in the case of Gladstone in particular and of Victorian politics and culture in general' English Historical Review

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How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing

Through Public Policy and Social Change

By: Matthew Fisher

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How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing

Through Public Policy and Social Change

By: Matthew Fisher

Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed ‘experts’ all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why? Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new perspective on psychological wellbeing informed by evidence on human stress responses. He shows how our mental health is shaped by the social and cultural conditions in which we all live. Developing arguments and strategies for a society truly committed to wellbeing, this book offers new ways to understand the problems facing modern societies and ways to respond through political and social change.

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Measuring Gene Expression

By: Matthew Avison

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Measuring Gene Expression

By: Matthew Avison

In the post-genomic age, much biomedical research looks at when, where, and at what level genes are expressed. Measuring Gene Expression is an all-in-one introduction to the main methods of measuring gene expression, including RT-PCR, differential display, RNA interference, reporter genes, microarrays, and proteomics, as well as a section on RNA isolation and analysis. There is an overview of each method: its pros and cons, sample preparation, sources of error, and data interpretation.

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Harold Wilson, Denmark and the making of Labour European policy

By: Matthew Broad

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Harold Wilson, Denmark and the making of Labour European policy

By: Matthew Broad

Explores how the European policies of the British Labour Party and Danish Social Democrats evolved between 1958 and enlargement of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973, comparing how they each responded to the integration process at key moments and, more innovatively, highlights the impact of informal contacts between them.

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Sleep Medicine (Oxford Case Histories)

By: Himender Makker,Matthew Walker,Hugh Selsick,Bhik Kotecha,Ama Johal

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Sleep Medicine (Oxford Case Histories)

By: Himender Makker,Matthew Walker,Hugh Selsick,Bhik Kotecha,Ama Johal

This book provides a case-based illustrative approach to the understanding and management of common and important sleep disorders, including snoring and sleep disordered breathing, insomnia and circadian-rhythm disorders, as well as primary neurological sleep disorders. Case histories are written by well-established experts from University College London Hospitals who have long-standing experience of providing a multi-disciplinary approach to the management of sleep disorders. Cases focus on the recognition of presenting features of sleep disorders and their clinical importance, using real life patients from sleep clinic. Each case report provides a detailed clinical description followed by a clear explanation of the salient points. The text is supported by photographs, diagrams and line drawing and concludes with a list of key learning points. Each case history reads as stand-alone, although a common theme of presenting features, clinical features, investigation and treatment is adhered to. Cases are written in an easy-flowing prose style in an attempt to simulate the experience of seeing and discussing a real life patient case in clinical practice. The book is of interest to all clinicians who are likely to come across patients with sleep disorders in their clinical practice and wish to improve their understanding and knowledge of sleep disorders.

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0191506850

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Kill for Peace

American Artists Against the Vietnam War

By: Matthew Israel

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Kill for Peace

American Artists Against the Vietnam War

By: Matthew Israel

“The book addresses chronologically the most striking reactions of the art world to the rise of military engagement in Vietnam then in Cambodia.” —Guillaume LeBot, Critique d’art The Vietnam War (1964–1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art world, individual artists and art collectives played a significant role in antiwar protest and inspired subsequent generations of artists. This significant story of engagement, which has never been covered in a book-length survey before, is the subject of Kill for Peace. Writing for both general and academic audiences, Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artists’ individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub, Edward Kienholz, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Nancy Spero, and Robert Morris; artists’ groups including the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) and the Artists Protest Committee (APC); and iconic works of collective protest art such as AWC’s Q. And Babies? A. And Babies and APC’s The Artists Tower of Protest. Israel also formulates a typology of antiwar engagement, identifying and naming artists’ approaches to protest. These approaches range from extra-aesthetic actions—advertisements, strikes, walk-outs, and petitions without a visual aspect—to advance memorials, which were war memorials purposefully created before the war’s end that criticized both the war and the form and content of traditional war memorials. “Accessible and informative.” —Art Libraries Society of North America

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University of Texas Press

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0292745435

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A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

By: Gregory S. Parks,Matthew W. Hughey

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A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

By: Gregory S. Parks,Matthew W. Hughey

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO), Alpha Phi Alpha. Since their founding, BGLOs have not only served to solidify bonds among many African American college students, they have also imbued them with a sense of purpose and a commitment to racial uplift—the endeavor to help Black Americans reach socio-economic equality. A Pledge with Purpose explores the arc of these unique, important, and relevant social institutions. Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey uncover how BGLOs were shaped by, and labored to transform, the changing social, political, and cultural landscape of Black America from the era of the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement. Alpha Phi Alpha boasts such members as Thurgood Marshall, civil rights lawyer and US Supreme Court Justice, and Dr. Charles Wesley, noted historian and college president. Delta Sigma Theta members include Bethune-Cookman College founder Mary McLeod Bethune and women’s rights activist Dorothy Height. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who left an indelible mark on the civil rights movement, was a member of Phi Beta Sigma, while Dr. Mae Jemison, a celebrated engineer and astronaut, belonged to Alpha Kappa Alpha. Through such individuals, Parks and Hughey demonstrate the ways that BGLO members have long been at the forefront of innovation, activism, and scholarship. In its examination of the history of these important organizations, A Pledge with Purpose serves as a critical reflection of both the collective African American racial struggle and the various strategies of Black Americans in their great—and unfinished—march toward freedom and equality.

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1479827215

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Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique

By: Matthew Liebmann

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Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique

By: Matthew Liebmann

In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized—to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors to Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique present critical syntheses of archaeological and postcolonial studies by examining both Old and New World case studies, and they ask what the ultimate effect of postcolonial theorizing will be on the practice of archaeology in the twenty-first century.

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0759112355

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The Sounds of Furious Living

Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS

By: Matthew Kelly

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The Sounds of Furious Living

Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS

By: Matthew Kelly

Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.

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1978835094

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In Truth

A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America

By: Matthew Fraser

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In Truth

A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America

By: Matthew Fraser

From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How have those with power and influence sought to control the narrative? Are we living in a post-truth era, or is that notion simply the latest attempt to control the narrative? The relationship between truth and power is the key theme. Moving through major historical periods, the author focuses on notable people and events, from well-known leaders like Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler to lesser-known individuals like Procopius and Savonarola. He notes distinct parallels in history to current events. Julius Caesar's publication of his Gallic Wars and Civil Wars was an early exercise in political spin not unlike what we see today. During the English Civil War and the Enlightenment, pamphleteering coupled with the new power of the printing press challenged the status quo, as online and social media does in our time. And "fake news" was already being used by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in nineteenth-century Europe and by the "yellow journalism" of American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer near the turn of the twentieth century. The author concludes optimistically, noting that we are debating and discussing truth more fiercely today than in any previous era. The determination to arrive at the truth, despite the manipulations of the powerful, bodes well for the future of democracy.

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1633886255

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The Language of Mineralogy

John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

By: Matthew D. Eddy

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The Language of Mineralogy

John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

By: Matthew D. Eddy

Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.

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