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Origins of the Modern Mind

Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

By: Merlin Donald

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Origins of the Modern Mind

Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

By: Merlin Donald

This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

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Harvard University Press

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0674253701

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Origins of the Modern Mind

Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

By: Merlin Donald

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Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

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Nevada Test Site

By: Peter W. Merlin

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Nevada Test Site

By: Peter W. Merlin

Since Pres. Harry Truman established the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in December 1950, it has played a vital role in the security of the United States. For four decades, the test site's primary purpose was developmental testing of nuclear explosives. Atmospheric tests conducted over Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat between 1951 and 1962 involved thousands of Army troops and Marines simulating nuclear battlefield conditions. Civil defense planners studied blast and radiation effects and evaluated bomb shelter designs. Testing moved underground in 1963 to eliminate radioactive fallout. Other projects at the NTS included nuclear rocket engine development for space travel, training for NASA's Apollo astronauts, excavation experiments, radioactive waste storage studies, and aircraft testing. Since the last underground nuclear test in 1992, this geographically diverse testing and training complex north of Las Vegas--known since 2010 as the Nevada National Security Site--has been used to support nuclear stockpile stewardship and as a unique outdoor laboratory for government and industry research and development efforts."--Page 4 of cover.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467117447

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9781467117449

Breaking the Mishap Chain

Human Factors Lessons Learned From Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development

By: Peter W. Merlin,Gregg A. Bendrick,National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Breaking the Mishap Chain

Human Factors Lessons Learned From Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development

By: Peter W. Merlin,Gregg A. Bendrick,National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This volume contains a collection of case studies of mishaps involving experimental aircraft, aerospace vehicles, and spacecraft in which human factors played a significant role. In all cases the engineers involved, the leaders and managers, and the operators (i.e., pilots and astronauts) were supremely qualified and by all accounts superior performers. Such accidents and incidents rarely resulted from a single cause but were the outcome of a chain of events in which altering at least one element might have prevented disaster. As such, this work is most certainly not an anthology of blame. It is offered as a learning tool so that future organizations, programs, and projects may not be destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. These lessons were learned at high material and personal costs and should not be lost to the pages of history.

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248

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Government Printing Office

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0160915635

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9780160915635

American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality

By: Merlin Chowkwanyun,Randa Serhan

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American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality

By: Merlin Chowkwanyun,Randa Serhan

This collection assembles some of the country s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations of metropolitan transformation, recent education policy, the (in)justice of disaster relief, the politics of aesthetics and design, immigration, the mass media, social movements, and the practice of social science itself, among others. Whatever their subjects, the writers investigate the promise and constraints of democratic practice in a time of disturbing growth in inequality and political disempowerment. Although they at times differ from one another, more often, they challenge popular received wisdom on a number of these topics. Cumulatively, the volume amounts to a critical sociological excavation of the United States from its leading social critics that will prove useful to specialists and general readers alike.

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451

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Routledge

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1317263871

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9781317263876

The Secret Lives of Bats

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle

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The Secret Lives of Bats

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle

Stories and science surrounding the beloved bat, from an ecologist who has dedicated his life to the curious creature. Few people realize how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. Merlin Tuttle knows, and he has stopped at nothing to find and protect them on every continent they inhabit. Sharing highlights from a lifetime of adventure and discovery, Tuttle takes us to the frontiers of bat research to show that frog-eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that some bats have social sophistication similar to that of higher primates, and that bats have remarkable memories. Bats also provide enormous benefits by eating crop pests, pollinating plants, and carrying seeds needed for reforestation. They save farmers billions of dollars annually and are essential to a healthy planet. Tuttle’s account forever changes the way we see these poorly understood yet fascinating creatures. “Grips and doesn't let go.”—Wall Street Journal “It’s a terrific read.”—Huffington Post “A whirlwind adventure story and a top-shelf natural history page-turner.”—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus “One of the best, most interesting books I’ve ever read.”—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544390431

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9780544390430

Auditioning

An Actor-Friendly Guide

By: Joanna Merlin

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Auditioning

An Actor-Friendly Guide

By: Joanna Merlin

Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself. In this highly informative and accessible book, Merlin provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty–from the most basic practical tips to an in-depth framework for preparing a part. Filled with advice from the most esteemed people in the business, such as James Lapine, Nora Ephron, and Stephen Sondheim, and charged with tremendous wisdom and compassion, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.

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240

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Vintage

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0375725377

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9780375725371

Rescue and Reuse

Communities, Heritage and Architecture

By: Ian Morrison,Merlin Waterson

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Rescue and Reuse

Communities, Heritage and Architecture

By: Ian Morrison,Merlin Waterson

Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK, their cultural identity and the economy. They can inspire creativity and enterprise, bring communities together, and make people happier about where they live. This book explores how historic buildings across the UK have been brought back to life through the technical and enabling skills, creativity and sensitivity of architects. Exemplar projects explored through richly illustrated case studies demonstrate the value to society of re-using historic buildings and will inspire a new generation of architects to get involved with community heritage projects at a time of great opportunity. Drawing on interviews with architects and their community clients, this book explores the challenges that they face, how they are overcome, and the benefits that follow.

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310

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Routledge

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1000726673

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9781000726671

South

By: Merlin Coverley

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South

By: Merlin Coverley

How has the idea of the South come to exert such a powerful hold over our imagination? From the beaches of Southern Europe to the Great White South of the Antarctic; from South America to the South Pacific, South explores this most diverse and captivating of regions. The South has long since cast its spell on writers and artists, from Goethe and Poe, to Gauguin, Lawrence and Kerouac; while landscapes of ice and snow, sand and sea, have lured explorers southwards for centuries, often with fatal consequences. This book will follow in the footsteps of Cook, Scott, John Muir and others as they recount their journeys.

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239

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Oldacastle Books

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1843447266

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9781843447269

Shakespeare & Company

When Action is Eloquence

By: Bella Merlin,Tina Packer

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Shakespeare & Company

When Action is Eloquence

By: Bella Merlin,Tina Packer

Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare’s language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What’s his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company’s aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material – including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries – and the Company’s newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details: Shakespeare Company’s founding and early history, Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre’s principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship, Vocational components of its Training, Intensives, Practical pedagogy of its Educatio programs, Insights into its unique approaches to Performance, Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years.

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Routledge

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100004727X

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9781000047271

Area 51

By: Peter W. Merlin

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Area 51

By: Peter W. Merlin

The author believes Area 51 to be exactly what it claims to be: a place where aeronautical military research takes place.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738576204

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9780738576206

All Health Politics Is Local

Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health

By: Merlin Chowkwanyun

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All Health Politics Is Local

Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health

By: Merlin Chowkwanyun

Health is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments—all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In All Health Politics Is Local, Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places—New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Central Appalachia—to experience a national story through a regional lens. He shows how racial uprisings in the 1960s catalyzed the creation of new medical infrastructure for those long denied it, what local authorities did to curb air pollution so toxic that it made residents choke and cry, how community health activists and bureaucrats fought over who'd control facilities long run by insular elites, and what a national coal boom did to community ecology and health. All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a single national health agenda. Health is and has always been political, shaped both by formal policy at the highest levels and by grassroots community battles far below.

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349

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UNC Press Books

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1469667681

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9781469667683

The Book of Answers.

Solutions to problems and dilemmas.

By: Merlin Turtle

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The Book of Answers.

Solutions to problems and dilemmas.

By: Merlin Turtle

In the final book of the Nod trilogy, Merlin Turtle answers all of Nod’s unanswered questions. The narrative like the previous books is a collection of short topics for consideration. Nod deals with transitioning off his antidepressants and comes to terms with his PTSD. There are, however, more than a few distractions to deal with. Within these distractions Merlin crosses the fourth wall and provides insights into his own mental health.

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 13

9798369493397

America's Neighborhood Bats

Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them

By: Merlin D. Tuttle

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America's Neighborhood Bats

Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them

By: Merlin D. Tuttle

Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.

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University of Texas Press

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0292712804

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9780292712805

From Mobility to Accessibility

Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning

By: Jonathan Levine,Joe Grengs,Louis A. Merlin

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From Mobility to Accessibility

Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning

By: Jonathan Levine,Joe Grengs,Louis A. Merlin

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also represents a major step toward transforming accessibility from a vaguely defined aspiration into concrete measures that can guide planning decisions. ― Journal of the American Planning Association In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. The book argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.

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285

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Cornell University Press

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1501716093

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9781501716096

Followers

By: Merlin Cullinan

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Followers

By: Merlin Cullinan

Today, it is too easy to amass a fortune at others' expense, and there are no comebacks. In a world where people serve ideas and causes because they care, the very same people are exploited for their apparent weakness, a gross lack of respect. Values of honour and rights have been lost or tarnished, voices drowned by the noise of money. Somewhere, it has been decided that the world has lost its moral compass, and the time has come to provide the stimulus to create a new direction, and a fresh level of responsibility to others. Watch out .... You don't know us. But we know you..... We harness global communications systems to watch closely when values of honour and rights have been lost or tarnished, voices drowned by the noise of money. And we use the cyberpower at our fingertips to take swift and slick action. With or without your approval. Take care. We have the resources to implement a new religion of Respect. Piece by piece the puzzle builds up to an uncomfortable awakening. Someone out there is taking steps to dispense with the people exploiting others and showing lack of respect for the society they live in. If you are on the List, be prepared to listen to the Message, or take the consequences. This work speaks of a new and different age, drawing on the power of science and technology to prompt ethical change. Where those don't address their own moral shortfalls, there are other people whose role it is to step in with a message, and the results can be terminal...

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New Generation Publishing

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1910394351

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9781910394359

The Biomass Spectrum

A Predator-prey Theory of Aquatic Production

By: S. R. Kerr,Lloyd Merlin Dickie

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The Biomass Spectrum

A Predator-prey Theory of Aquatic Production

By: S. R. Kerr,Lloyd Merlin Dickie

Kerr and Dickie propose the development of a new ecological theory, one that can lead to a more effective remedy for the drastic effects of heavy fishing on natural communities of organisms in both marine and freshwater environments. By plotting the densities of the biomass of all organisms in a given community by body-size classes, the authors provide empirical evidence of what they term "the biomass body-size spectrum" in the world's oceans. After examining this evidence, they propose an underlying theory of predator-prey energy transfer: larger species eat smaller species, providing energy exchange across all species within an ecosystem. Providing the first comprehensive synthesis of the energy flow within the biomass spectrum, this book demonstrates not only a new understanding of the self-organizing properties of ecological production systems but also the potential of the biomass spectrum methodology for offering practical remedies when these natural systems are exploited by humans.

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344

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Columbia University Press

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0231084587

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9780231084581

Cannabis

Evolution and Ethnobotany

By: Robert Clarke,Mark Merlin

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Cannabis

Evolution and Ethnobotany

By: Robert Clarke,Mark Merlin

Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks, its edible and oil-rich seeds, and the psychoactive and medicinal compounds produced by its female flowers. The culturally valuable and often irreplaceable goods derived from cannabis deeply influenced the commercial, medical, ritual, and religious practices of cultures throughout the ages, and human desire for these commodities directed the evolution of the plant toward its contemporary varieties. As interest in cannabis grows and public debate over its many uses rises, this book will help us understand why humanity continues to rely on this plant and adapts it to suit our needs.

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Univ of California Press

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0520292480

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9780520292482

Educator's Activity Book about Bats

By: Merlin D. Tuttle,Bat Conservation International

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Educator's Activity Book about Bats

By: Merlin D. Tuttle,Bat Conservation International

Primarily for ages 4-10, this book includes 18 games, craft projects, and many more fun activities that enable children to learn the facts about bats before negative stereotypes become established. Background information for teachers is included.

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University of Texas Press

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0292708335

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