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Molluscs in Archaeology

Methods, Approaches and Applications

By: Michael J. Allen

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Molluscs in Archaeology

Methods, Approaches and Applications

By: Michael J. Allen

The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and land-use, isotopes and mollusks as artifacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information mollusks can provide. It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and to 'review' the 'heavier' science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.

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1785706098

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1939

The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II

By: Michael Jabara Carley

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1939

The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II

By: Michael Jabara Carley

At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler’s aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Germany. Michael Carley’s gripping account of these negotiations is not a pretty story. It is about the failures of appeasement and collective security in Europe. It is about moral depravity and blindness, about villains and cowards, and about heroes who stood against the intellectual and popular tides of their time. Some died for their beliefs, others labored in obscurity and have been nearly forgotten. In 1939 they sought to make the Grand Alliance that never was between France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. This story of their efforts is background to the wartime alliance created in 1941 without France but with the United States in order to defeat a demonic enemy. 1939 is based upon Mr. Carley’s longtime research on the period, including work in French, British, and newly opened Soviet archives. He challenges prevailing interpretations of the origins of World War II by situating 1939 at the end of the early cold war between the Soviet Union, France, and Britain, and by showing how anti-communism was the major cause of the failure to form an alliance against Hitler. 1939 was published on September 1, the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of the war.

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Ivan R. Dee

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146169938X

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Regression Modeling

Methods, Theory, and Computation with SAS

By: Michael Panik

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Regression Modeling

Methods, Theory, and Computation with SAS

By: Michael Panik

Regression Modeling: Methods, Theory, and Computation with SAS provides an introduction to a diverse assortment of regression techniques using SAS to solve a wide variety of regression problems. The author fully documents the SAS programs and thoroughly explains the output produced by the programs.The text presents the popular ordinary least square

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CRC Press

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1420091980

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Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases, 1934-1970

By: Michael Newton

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Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases, 1934-1970

By: Michael Newton

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 called for review and reinvestigation of "violations of criminal civil rights statutes that occurred not later than December 31, 1969, and resulted in a death." The U.S. Attorney General's review observed that date, while examining cases from 1936 (a date not specified in the Till Act) onward. In selecting violations for review, certain "headline" cases were included while others meeting the same criteria were not considered. This first full-length survey of American civil rights "cold cases" examines unsolved racially motivated murders over nearly four decades, beginning in 1934. The author covers all cases reviewed by the federal government to date, as well as a larger number of cases that were ignored without official explanation.

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McFarland

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1476623627

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The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research

Dangers For Social Policy

By: Jonathan Michael Kaplan

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The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research

Dangers For Social Policy

By: Jonathan Michael Kaplan

In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.

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Routledge

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Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

By: Michael J. Casimir

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Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

By: Michael J. Casimir

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, the author deals with the socioeconomic strategies of the communities whose livelihoods are embedded here and analyses the ecological condition of the Dal, and the reasons for its progressive degradation.

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Berghahn Books

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1800730306

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Seeking Spirits

The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society

By: Jason Hawes,Grant Wilson,Michael Jan Friedman

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Seeking Spirits

The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society

By: Jason Hawes,Grant Wilson,Michael Jan Friedman

TV's popular Ghost Hunters reveal all-new, never-before-told stories from their spooky early investigations! For the first time ever, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S.), share their most memorable and spine-tingling early cases -- none of which has ever appeared on television. Beginning with the previously untold experiences that sparked their passion for ghost hunting, Jason and Grant's bone-chilling investigations uncover: • A Connecticut woman who seems to exist in two places at once • A little girl whose invisible playmate retaliates against her father's punishments • A man overcome by an evil entity as Jason and Grant survey his home • A distraught woman who dreams of paranormal events before she experiences them...and much more! Jason and Grant didn't always have the fancy scientific equipment and experienced team that fans now watch on their smash-hit television show. As they share their hair-raising first experiences, they offer essential tips for budding paranormal investigators -- including how to use an electromagnetic field (EMF) meter and an infrared camera, determine if a supernatural phenomenon is good or evil, and deal with spirits. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, these fascinating and frightening true stories will keep you up at night!

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Simon and Schuster

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1439155399

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Of Stiletto and Soul

The Memoirs of Gangster Mike the Last West Philadelphia Corner Boy

By: Michael King

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Of Stiletto and Soul

The Memoirs of Gangster Mike the Last West Philadelphia Corner Boy

By: Michael King

The entire purpose of being a Corner Boy was rooted in the concept of the ultra-masculine male The highest honor a Corner Boy could aspire was becoming a martyr for the gang The second highest honor was to carry a wound from battle that could be observed without the removal of ones attireThe third highest honor was going to jail and doing time In my young mind, Corner Boys came to represent the highest level of manhood and the epitome of moral virtue. says the author. But what was the truth? Of Stiletto and Soul: The Memoirs of Gangster Mike The Last West Philadelphia Corner Boyis a comprehensive and smooth recollection of the authors childhood experiences, family, youthful exploits, and his life with Philadelphias legendary Corner Boys. Honest, hopeful, challenging and absolutely inspiring, this book is about a unique life spent in a tough setting. In this book, King recollects his memories and deals with the most serious realitieslife, family, relationships, and the exigent world of his youth. This memoir is inspired by several factors, all of them pertinent to todays climate where some of the experiences of the author could serve as helpmates to those who may find themselves in similar situations. Here, he shares how both positive and negative influences in his life helped him developed a social consciousness. The book also relates certain historical events and personalities and packed with personal commentaries, insights, and psychosocial outlooks that readers may find relevant and favorable.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469168030

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Stalin’s Failed Alliance

The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939

By: Michael Jabara Carley

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Stalin’s Failed Alliance

The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939

By: Michael Jabara Carley

In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin’s Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin’s Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939. This narrative history examines the great crises of the pre-war period – the Spanish Civil War, Anschluss, and Munich accords – as well as both the last Soviet efforts to organize an anti-Nazi alliance in the spring–summer of 1939 and Moscow’s shocking volte-face, the signing of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact. Carley’s history traces the lead-up to the outbreak of war in Europe on 1 September 1939 and sheds light on the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War. The author argues for the sincerity of Soviet overtures to the western European powers and that the non-aggression pact was a last-ditch response to the refusal of other states, especially Britain and France, to conclude an alliance with the USSR against Nazi Germany. Drawing on extensive archival research in Soviet and Western archival papers, Stalin’s Failed Alliance aims to see the European crisis of the 1930s through Soviet eyes.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487553471

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Development in Infancy

An Introduction

By: Marc H. Bornstein,Michael E. Lamb

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Development in Infancy

An Introduction

By: Marc H. Bornstein,Michael E. Lamb

This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade.

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Psychology Press

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1135658994

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One Foot in Eden

A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice

By: Michael Bloor,Neil McKeganey,Dick Fonkert

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One Foot in Eden

A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice

By: Michael Bloor,Neil McKeganey,Dick Fonkert

A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published in 1988, was the first study in this area to compare observational material from such a large number of settings. The communities chosen represent the wide variety of therapeutic community practice at the time: a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children; two contrasting residential psychiatric units; a community for the treatment of addiction; a communally organised community for mentally handicapped and disturbed young people; a psychiatric day hospital; and two contrasting halfway houses for disturbed adolescents. All these places are recognised therapeutic communities seeking to mobilise the social life of the community as an instrument of therapy, yet, as this study shows, they follow different (and sometimes antithetical) treatment practices. The book also directs new light on other areas, of particular concern to sociologists, such as the general properties of therapeutic work and the socialisation process as it is experienced by new community residents. It will be of special interest to therapeutic community staff, to sociologists of medicine and occupations, and to others involved in the care of disturbed and handicapped people.

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0429851146

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Hip Figures

A Literary History of the Democratic Party

By: Michael Szalay

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Hip Figures

A Literary History of the Democratic Party

By: Michael Szalay

Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.

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Stanford University Press

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080478261X

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Land and People

Papers in Memory of John G. Evans

By: Michael J. Allen,Niall Sharples,Terry O'Connor

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Land and People

Papers in Memory of John G. Evans

By: Michael J. Allen,Niall Sharples,Terry O'Connor

This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo themes of importance in British prehistory. They include papers on aspects of environmental archaeology, experiments and philosophy; new research on the nature of woodland on the chalklands of southern England; coasts and islands; people, process and social order, and snails and shells - a strong part of John Evans' career. This volume presents a range of papers examining people's interaction with the landscape in all its forms. The papers provide a diverse but cohesive picture of how archaeological landscapes are viewed within current research frameworks and approaches, while also paying tribute to the innovative and inspirational work of one of the leading protagonists of environmental archaeology and the holistic approach to landscape interpretation.

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Oxbow Books

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1782973583

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Madison Avenue in Asia

Politics and Transnational Advertising

By: Michael H. Anderson

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Madison Avenue in Asia

Politics and Transnational Advertising

By: Michael H. Anderson

Dependency theory is used to analyze the significance of the rapidly expanding transnational advertising agencies as they operate in Singapore, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The American hegemony over international advertising is discussed, as is the general question of the effectiveness of foreign-influenced advertising.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838631010

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Turn Knowledge to Profit

The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors

By: Michael McCauley,Johnell McCauley

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Turn Knowledge to Profit

The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors

By: Michael McCauley,Johnell McCauley

Turn Knowledge to Profit: The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors brings together the insights of more than 30 successful entrepreneurs, providing the reader with knowledge and ideas they can immediately apply to their business. The publishing authors produce and host a weekly podcast, Turn Knowledge to Profit, available on the eWN Podcast Network. Through their podcast, they have interviewed more than 100 entrepreneurs who have created success in their business and personal lives. While each podcast guest has a unique perspective on what it takes to be successful, there are six insights, or “secrets,” that the authors heard far more than any others. This book presents these six secrets, providing examples, quotes and graphics to fully describe and discuss each one. But this book goes further. For each insight, the perspectives of 4-5 successful entrepreneurs extend the discussions by providing their experiences discovering and applying each insight to create their own business and personal success.

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Hybrid Global Publishing

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1948181037

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Mastering Alliance Strategy

A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization

By: James D. Bamford,Benjamin Gomes-Casseres,Michael S. Robinson

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Mastering Alliance Strategy

A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization

By: James D. Bamford,Benjamin Gomes-Casseres,Michael S. Robinson

Erfolgreiche Unternehmensallianzen sind heute für viele Unternehmen absolut wichtig, wenn es darum geht, sich einen Wettbewerbsvorteil zu sichern. "Mastering Alliance Strategy" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zum Thema Allianzstrategie. Er entwirrt die haarigsten Themen rund um das Allianzmanagement und erläutert die aktuellsten Gedanken, Ideen und Praktiken für eine effektive Nutzung von Partnerschaften. Ob absoluter Anfänger oder erfahrener Allianzexperte, ob Fachmann im Bereich Unternehmensentwicklung, Linienmanager oder Führungskraft - hier lernen Sie, Allianzen besser zu verstehen und auszunutzen. Die Autoren zeigen, dass das Erfolgsgeheimnis nicht nur in den Feinheiten einer Vereinbarung liegt, sondern auch in der Strategie und Organisation hinter dieser Vereinbarung. Aus ihrer langjährigen Forschungsarbeit und Berichterstattung präsentieren sie hier Ideen und Tools zu den vier Kernelementen einer effektiven Allianzstrategie: Planen der Allianz und Entwerfen der Vereinbarung, Managen der Allianz, sobald sie gegründet ist, Vorteile ziehen aus einer Konstellation von Allianzen, Aufbau einer internen Allianzfähigkeit Verständlich geschrieben. Mit anschaulichem Beispielmaterial. "Mastering Alliance Strategy" - die ultimative Pflichtlektüre für alle Unternehmensstrategen und Führungskräfte.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787965111

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Schizophrenia and Parenting

By: Michael Ferriter

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Schizophrenia and Parenting

By: Michael Ferriter

First published in 1999, this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting. Michael Ferriter draws out the themes of the rival claims of organic and non-organic explanations of disorder, therapeutic optimism and therapeutic pessimism and rivalry between the medical professions and the non-medical for supremacy in the treatment of the mentally disordered. Ferriter further explores the issues of blame and guilt, the quality of interaction between mental health professionals and parents and the relevance of attribution theory as an explanation of why parents might still experience self-blame, even when they have nothing to blame themselves for.

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Routledge

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042979178X

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Children and Adolescents in Trauma

Creative Therapeutic Approaches

By: Chris Nicholson,Michael Irwin,Kedar Nath Dwivedi

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Children and Adolescents in Trauma

Creative Therapeutic Approaches

By: Chris Nicholson,Michael Irwin,Kedar Nath Dwivedi

Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools, and provides useful insights and a fresh perspective for anyone working with traumatised children and adolescents.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843104377

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Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco

By: Michael Kettle *Probate*,Michael Kettle

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Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco

By: Michael Kettle *Probate*,Michael Kettle

This third volume in Michael Kettle's series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups sympathetic to allied aid. Written on a panoramic basis which includes detailed documents from both sides, Kettle reveals what each side's leadership had to face as the Russian kaleidoscope constantly changed. Kettle argues that British intervention was doomed to failure and that the White Russians became expendable British pawns in a temporary forward holding position, designed to contain the Bolshevik inferno within Russia. The strategic and military miscalculations of British medium intervention thus prolonged the Russian civil war, and caused a further 14 million Russian deaths. Using Churchill's previously unpublished, last papers and recently available French documents, Kettle provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the `Archangel Fiasco'.

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113489001X

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Storms from the Sun

The Emerging Science of Space Weather

By: Michael J. Carlowicz,Ramon E. Lopez

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Storms from the Sun

The Emerging Science of Space Weather

By: Michael J. Carlowicz,Ramon E. Lopez

Space weather is all around us. And although there are no nightly news reports on the latest front moving through the heavens, we're rapidly developing the tools necessary to measure and observe trends in cosmic meteorology. But why does space weather matter to us? It doesn't affect whether we bring an umbrella to work or require us to monitor early school closings. It's far, far away and of little concern to us...right? March 13, 1989. The Department of Defense tracking system that keeps tabs on 8,000 objects orbiting Earth briefly loses track of 1,300 of them. In New Jersey a surge of extra current in the power lines fries a $10 million transformer. Shocks to a power station in Quebec leave 6 million people without electricity for nine hours. Residents of Florida, Mexico, and the Grand Cayman Islands see glowing curtains of light in the sky. All these bizarre and seemingly random events were caused by a series of solar explosions that launched bolts of electrified gas at the Earth. Trillions of watts of electricity had poured into the atmosphere--double the power-generating capacity of the entire United States. "Storms from the Sun explores the emerging science of space weather and traces its increasing impact on a society that has become dependent on space-based technologies. Authors Carlowicz and Lopez explain what space weather really means to us down here--and what it may mean for future explorations and colonization of distant worlds. By translating the latest findings of NASA and other top scientists into fascinating and accessible descriptions of the latest discoveries, we are privy to some of the most closely held secrets that the solar-terrestrial system has to offer.

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Joseph Henry Press

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0309089409

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Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust

By: Michael Fleming

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Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust

By: Michael Fleming

An important contribution to the ongoing debate about what the Allies knew about the concentration camps during the Second World War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107062799

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Producing Predators

Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies

By: Michael D. Wise

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Producing Predators

Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies

By: Michael D. Wise

In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies. By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter, representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, Salish-Kootenai, and other indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related ritual practices. Despite these colonial pressures, Native communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their dispossession by representing their own patterns of work, food, and livelihood as productive. By exploring predation and production as fluid cultural logics for valuing labor, rather than just a set of biological processes, Producing Predators offers a new perspective on the history of the American West and the modern history of colonialism more broadly.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803290489

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Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist

By: Micah Altman,Jeff Gill,Michael P. McDonald

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Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist

By: Micah Altman,Jeff Gill,Michael P. McDonald

At last—a social scientist's guide through the pitfalls of modern statistical computing Addressing the current deficiency in the literature on statistical methods as they apply to the social and behavioral sciences, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist seeks to provide readers with a unique practical guidebook to the numerical methods underlying computerized statistical calculations specific to these fields. The authors demonstrate that knowledge of these numerical methods and how they are used in statistical packages is essential for making accurate inferences. With the aid of key contributors from both the social and behavioral sciences, the authors have assembled a rich set of interrelated chapters designed to guide empirical social scientists through the potential minefield of modern statistical computing. Uniquely accessible and abounding in modern-day tools, tricks, and advice, the text successfully bridges the gap between the current level of social science methodology and the more sophisticated technical coverage usually associated with the statistical field. Highlights include: A focus on problems occurring in maximum likelihood estimation Integrated examples of statistical computing (using software packages such as the SAS, Gauss, Splus, R, Stata, LIMDEP, SPSS, WinBUGS, and MATLAB®) A guide to choosing accurate statistical packages Discussions of a multitude of computationally intensive statistical approaches such as ecological inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and spatial regression analysis Emphasis on specific numerical problems, statistical procedures, and their applications in the field Replications and re-analysis of published social science research, using innovative numerical methods Key numerical estimation issues along with the means of avoiding common pitfalls A related Web site includes test data for use in demonstrating numerical problems, code for applying the original methods described in the book, and an online bibliography of Web resources for the statistical computation Designed as an independent research tool, a professional reference, or a classroom supplement, the book presents a well-thought-out treatment of a complex and multifaceted field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471475742

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Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A Comprehensive Textbook

By: Andrés Martin,Fred R. Volkmar,Michael H. Bloch

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Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A Comprehensive Textbook

By: Andrés Martin,Fred R. Volkmar,Michael H. Bloch

For 25 years, Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has been the cornerstone of every child and adolescent psychiatrist’s library. Now, three colleagues of Dr. Lewis at the world-renowned Yale Child Study Center, have substantially updated and revised this foundational textbook for its long-awaited fifth edition, the first in ten years. Encyclopedic in scope, it continues to serve as a broad reference, deftly encompassing and integrating scientific principles, research methodologies, and everyday clinical care.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496367685

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Catatonia

A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Max Fink,Michael Alan Taylor

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Catatonia

A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Max Fink,Michael Alan Taylor

Teaches the reader how to identify and treat catatonia successfully, and describes its neurobiology.

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0521032369

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Haunted Pubs of the South West

By: Ian Michael Addicoat

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Haunted Pubs of the South West

By: Ian Michael Addicoat

Haunted Pubs of the South West offers a fascinating insight into the stories behind some of Britain's most haunted pubs.

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1445628600

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Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging

By: John Kucharczyk,A. James Barkovich,Michael Moseley

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Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging

By: John Kucharczyk,A. James Barkovich,Michael Moseley

Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging is a comprehensive volume that focuses on the newest fields of MRI from functional and metabolic mapping to the latest applications of neuro-interventional techniques. Each chapter offers critical discussions regarding available methods and the most recent advances in neuroimaging, including such topics as the use of diffusion and perfusion MRI in the early detection of stroke, the revolutionary advent of high-speed MRI for non-invasively mapping cortical responses to task activation paradigms, and the principles and applications of contrast agents. The chapters also discuss how these new advances are applied to problems in patients ranging in age from the newborn to the elderly, as well as disease states ranging from metabolic encephalopathy to cardiovascular disorders and stroke. Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging will be a valuable text/reference for residents, research fellows, and clinicians in radiology, neuroradiology, and magnetic resonance imaging.

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CRC Press

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084934719X

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Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest

By: Michael P. McCauley,B. Lee Artz,DeeDee Halleck,Paul E Peterson

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Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest

By: Michael P. McCauley,B. Lee Artz,DeeDee Halleck,Paul E Peterson

As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis facing public broadcasting today by analyzing the institution's development, its presentday operations, and its prospects for the future. Covering everything from globalization and the rise of the Internet, to key issues such as race and class, to specific subjects such as advertising, public access, and grassroots radio, Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest provides a fresh and original look at a vital component of our mass media.

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Routledge

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1315290677

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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Michael J. Klarman

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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Michael J. Klarman

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to racial change than for encouraging direct-action protest. Brown unquestioningly had a significant impact--it brought race issues to public attention and it mobilized supporters of the ruling. It also, however, energized the opposition. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the richest and most thorough discussion to date, how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.

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0199880921

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Federal Telecommunications Law

By: Peter William Huber,Peter W. Huber,Michael K. Kellogg,John Thorne

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Federal Telecommunications Law

By: Peter William Huber,Peter W. Huber,Michael K. Kellogg,John Thorne

This definitive legal guide to the new world of telecommunications provides you with thorough, authoritative analysis you need to understand and comply with the complex regulatory landscape in the industry. You'll find timely review of key legislation, FCC rules, regulations and orders, and court decisions with extensive citations and cross-references for such essential topics as the economics of interconnection and detailed discussions of pricing methodologies of offering services for resale; interconnection rules for wire line networks, including the specific rules imposed on incumbent LECs; antitrust litigation in the wake of the 1996 Act, with comprehensive analysis of the cases brought against incumbent local telephone companies; significant changes to universal services requirements; regulations and policies involving horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions; the FCC's rule-making and other powers; rights and duties arising from the laws of privacy, intellectual property and free speech; and much more. Federal Telecommunications Law, Second Edition provides all the laws and rules -- including those for price regulation, common carriage, universal service, regulations and court decisions -- are analyzed in detail to provide you with a thorough understanding of the environment within which you must work. Trends in competition, industry structures and technology are explored -- offering you a total picture of the telecommunications industry, in areas such as telecommunications equipment; long distance services; wireless services; the Internet and data services; information services; video services; and more.

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0735506477

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Custerology

The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer

By: Michael A. Elliott

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Custerology

The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer

By: Michael A. Elliott

On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer’s direct command was killed. It’s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with Custerology, Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary commemorations that range from battle reenactments to the unfinished Crazy Horse memorial, Elliott reveals a Custer and a West whose legacies are still vigorously contested. He takes readers to each of the important places of Custer’s life, from his Civil War home in Michigan to the site of his famous demise, and introduces us to Native American activists, Park Service rangers, and devoted history buffs along the way. Elliott shows how Custer and the Indian Wars continue to be both a powerful symbol of America’s bloody past and a crucial key to understanding the nation’s multicultural present. “[Elliott] is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians . . . to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10 . . . to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush."—Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution “By ‘Custerology,’ Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes.”—Library Journal “Michael Elliott’s Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it.”—Larry McMurtry

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University of Chicago Press

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0226201481

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Introduction to Regression Analysis

By: Michael A. Golberg,Hokwon A. Cho

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Introduction to Regression Analysis

By: Michael A. Golberg,Hokwon A. Cho

In order to apply regression analysis effectively, it is necessary to understand both the underlying theory and its practical application. This book explores conventional topics as well as recent practical developments, linking theory with application. Intended to continue from where most basic statistics texts end, it is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in various fields of engineering, chemical and physical sciences, mathematical sciences and statistics.

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WIT Press

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1853126241

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Bones

The Life and Times of Harrison Dillard

By: Harrison Dillard,Michael McIntosh

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Bones

The Life and Times of Harrison Dillard

By: Harrison Dillard,Michael McIntosh

William Harrison Dillard was born July 8, 1923, in Cleveland, Ohio, and was given the nickname "Bones" for his slender build while in grade school. He would later go on to become one of the nation's most notable track-and-field athletes. Now, in this biography, he shares his life story. The eventual winner of four Olympic medals, he attended the same high school as his friend and hometown hero, Jesse Owens. He was a successful athlete in college and served in the Ninety-Second Infantry (the Buffalo Soldiers) during World War II, where he distinguished himself in the service of his country. After the war, Bones continued his athletic career, winning eighty-two consecutive races over a span of eleven months, during 1947 and 1948. He then qualified to represent his country at the 1948 Olympics in London and again in 1952 in Helsinki, matching and setting records at both. Following his historic Olympic career, he met and married Joy Clemetson, a prominent member of the Jamaican National Softball Team; together, they built a family. Bones went on to careers in public relations, sportscasting, and education. Considered to be one of the greatest male sprinters and hurdlers in history, he was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974 and received numerous other honors. Even so, he was and still is a gracious, courteous, humble, generous, and courageous athlete—a genuine American hero. "Harrison Dillard is an amazing man. He is admirable not only for his athletic accomplishments, but also for his character, showing a unique awareness of how the choices we make define ourselves. He has faced crucial and challenging decisions and issues throughout this life and never turned away, not one time." —Bill Cosby

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