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Psychogeography

By: Merlin Coverley

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The term "psychogeography" is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism—where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of urban space. The relationship between a city and its inhabitants is measured firstly through an imaginative and literary response, secondly on foot through walking the city. This creates a tradition of the writer as walker and has both a literary and a political component. This guide examines the origins of psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flâneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller. This guide offers both an explanation and definition of the terms involved, an analysis of the key figures and their work, and practical information on psychogeographical groups and organizations.

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Oldacastle Books

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1842438700

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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

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

By: Merlin Thomas

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

By: Merlin Thomas

This book is neither an apology nor a defense, it's a critical biography of the late French novelist.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811207544

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9780811207546

Customer Relationship Marketing

Get to Know Your Customers and Win Their Loyalty

By: Merlin Stone,Neil Woodcock,Liz Machtynger

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Customer Relationship Marketing

Get to Know Your Customers and Win Their Loyalty

By: Merlin Stone,Neil Woodcock,Liz Machtynger

Relationship marketing is considered by most major corporations to be one of the keys to unlocking the full power of e-commerce in the 21st century. In order that customers and consumers can be targeted effectively, a lasting relationship with each and every one is required. For this to be effectively achieved, there is a need for long-term strategy and technological investment. But where do businesses start? This practical guide is designed to set any organization on the path to planning CRM strategy and offers advice to ensure long-term success. This second edition is revised to take account of research since the first edition, and contains examples.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749427000

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9780749427009

Adventist Pioneer Places

New York and New England

By: Merlin D. Burt

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Adventist Pioneer Places

New York and New England

By: Merlin D. Burt

Visit the historical sites where it all began: the pioneers' homes and churches, the sites of births and deaths, the special places where visions descended and revival arose. For each landmark Adventist Pioneer Places includes maps, GPS coordinates, and captivating stories that will sweep you back in time.

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Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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0828025681

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9780828025683

Designing High-Fidelity Valve Preamps

By: Merlin Blencowe

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Designing High-Fidelity Valve Preamps

By: Merlin Blencowe

Designing High-Fidelity Tube Preamps is a comprehensive guide to the design of small-signal, tube-based amplifiers. This book examines in unprecidented detail the inner workings and practical design of small signal stages, volume and tone controls, RIAA equalisation, power supplies and more. Aimed at intermediate to advanced-level hobbyists and professionals it teaches the principles of low-noise, low-distortion tube design, through easy-to-read explanations and minimal math. With over 400 diagrams and figures, and hundreds of real measurements of real circuits, it asserts itself as an essential handbook for any tube amp enthusiast.

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Lulu.com

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0956154530

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9780956154538

Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

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Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. “Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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052551032X

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9780525510321

Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court

Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality

By: Cedric Merlin Powell

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Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court

Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality

By: Cedric Merlin Powell

Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court: Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality provides the first comprehensive Critical Race Theory critique of the United States Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts. Since being named to the Court in 2005, Chief Justice Roberts has maintained a position of neutrality in his opinions on race. By dissecting neutrality and how it functions as a unifying feature in all the Court's race jurisprudence, this book illustrates the consequences of this ostensible impartiality. By examining the Court's racial jurisprudence dating back to the Reconstruction, the book shows how the Court has actively rationalized systemic oppression through neutral rhetoric and the elevation of process-based decisional values, which are rooted in democratic myths of inclusivity and openness. Timely and trenchant, the book illustrates the permanence of racism and how neutrality must be rejected to achieve true empowerment and substantive equality.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108879683

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9781108879682

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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Cornell University Press

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1501716093

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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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Oldacastle Books

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1843447266

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When God Was A Woman

By: Merlin Stone

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When God Was A Woman

By: Merlin Stone

Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.

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Doubleday

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0307816850

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9780307816856

Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion

Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action

By: Merlin Schaeffer

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Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion

Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action

By: Merlin Schaeffer

Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare provision and the erosion of public trust and civic engagement in Europe. It moves away from the question of whether there is in fact a universal correlation between ethnic diversity and social cohesion in order to focus on the reasons for which people's reciprocity and trust might be reduced in more ethnically diverse areas. Drawing attention to the importance of peoples' perceptions of diversity in explaining levels of social cohesion, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion shows how specific types of perceived diversity can help explain the reasons for which ethnic diversity is associated with declines in social cohesion, and the contexts and conditions in which this occurs. The book also outlines potential courses of action, revealing the important roles of residential segregation, children and interethnic partners in overcoming barriers of language, values and cognitive bias. A rigorous, timely study of ethnic diversity and its relation to liberal democracy as a form of deliberative conflict that requires certain levels of trust, shared values and engagement, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion will be of interest to policy makers, sociologists and political scientists working in the fields of race and migration, ethnic diversity and community cohesion.

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Routledge

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131714094X

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9781317140948

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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Routledge

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1317263871

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Conversations with Wilde

A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

By: Merlin Holland

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Conversations with Wilde

A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

By: Merlin Holland

Imagined by Oscar Wilde's own grandson, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of the poet, playwright and gay martyr. Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a "devil's dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring brilliance of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's life resembles his early short story, "The Remarkable Rocket", which, rising from nowhere in a shower of sparks, explodes and falls to earth, exclaiming as it goes out, "I knew I should create a great sensation." Merlin Holland expertly traces the arc of his illustrious ancestor's life, from his birth in Dublin in 1854 as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, to a brilliant career at Oxford University where his reputation for dandyish wit was first honed, through to his conquest of the drawing rooms and theatres of fashionable London, culminating in disgrace and imprisonment at the hands of the Marquess of Queensberry in the most notorious libel trial in English history. Wilde died in penury and obscurity in 1900, yet his reputation today has never been greater. This engaging and innovative short book features a concise biographical essay on Wilde's meteoric career, followed by a Q&A interview based on Wilde's own words and Merlin Holland's unrivalled knowledge of his grandfather's life, work and puckish observations. This sparkling biography does full justice to Oscar Wilde's writerly genius and irrepressible humanity. It offers readers a renewed appreciation for a man who at times scadalised his era as much as he delights our own.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1786782383

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Out of the Desert

A Personal History

By: Merlin Tryon

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Out of the Desert

A Personal History

By: Merlin Tryon

Merlin Oscar Tryon was born in Bryce, Arizona on August 21, 1910, the oldest of 12 children in a Mormon family of Arizona pioneers. He graduated from Thatcher Union High School, served a two-year mission in Mississippi, and attended Arizona State University where he received a degree in business administration. While at Arizona State he joined the Arizona National Guard. He taught business subjects at the high school level for two years, when his National Guard unit was activated at the start of World WarII. His saw action under General Patton in North Africa, Sicily and finally in Italy at Anzio Beachhead, where he was severely wounded. During his rehabilitation he decided to pursue a career in the Army. In 1965 he retired at the rank of full Colonel after a distinguished career of 32 years, during which he attended many of the most prestigious Army schools, and served overseas in China, Japan, Germany and Korea. In retirement he owned a hardware store, played golf and enjoyed his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His death on July 29, 1999 was mourned by his many family and friends.

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iUniverse

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0595097618

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9780595097616

Kava: The Pacific Elixir

The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry

By: Vincent Lebot,Mark Merlin,Lamont Lindstrom

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Kava: The Pacific Elixir

The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry

By: Vincent Lebot,Mark Merlin,Lamont Lindstrom

This complete guide to kava describes its centuries-long use in the religious, political, and economic life of the Pacific islands and summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered a comparable or superior alternative to anti-stress prescription drugs.

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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0892817267

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9780892817269

Successful Customer Relationship Marketing

New Thinking, New Strategies, New Tools for Getting Closer to Your Customers

By: Bryan Foss,Merlin Stone

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Successful Customer Relationship Marketing

New Thinking, New Strategies, New Tools for Getting Closer to Your Customers

By: Bryan Foss,Merlin Stone

A handbook on customer relationship marketing. Successful Customer Relationship Marketing explores what companies all over the world are doing and shows what tools and techniques are actually bringing results. It is divided into four parts: Customer Knowledge; Strategy and Technology; Implementation; and Sector Studies.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749435798

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9780749435790

John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier

By: Merlin Stonehouse

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John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier

By: Merlin Stonehouse

John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in American history than the generalization that carpetbaggers were evil opportunists peculiar to the southward movement after the Civil War. North's aims, ambitions, and ideas were typical of many carpetbaggers whose common aspiration was the evangelical humanism that flourished in all of the English-speaking world at that time except in the slave-holding South. Born in upstate New York in 1815, North migrated westward. For the rest of his life he pursued business and political interests with equal zest and championed many social causes. He went to Minnesota, Nevada, and California without enough money to live on, yet contributed significantly to their early history. He was a founder of Minneapolis, proprietor of Fairbault and Northfield, a founder of the University of Minnesota and of the Republican party in Minnesota, and a leader in the state's constitutional convention. In Nevada he helped shape land policy and mining law and found its cities and was president of the 1863 constitutional convention. He helped develop Southern California, where he established Oleander and Riverside. These three states welcomed him as a penniless dreamer, and he added much to the development of each. But in Tennessee, where he arrived with a fortune, eager to help rebuild the war-torn state, his best efforts resulted only in recrimination and his financial ruin. Thus North's life illustrates the sorry truth of General Sherman's comment that the carpetbaggers built the West but were not permitted to build the South.

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145291060X

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