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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

By: Oliver Rathkolb

This title explores paradoxical perceptions about Austria in regard to its approach to immigration, the EU and historical events.

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Berghahn Books

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1782383964

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9781782383963

Beyond the Creative Species

Making Machines That Make Art and Music

By: Oliver Bown

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Beyond the Creative Species

Making Machines That Make Art and Music

By: Oliver Bown

A multidisciplinary introduction to the field of computational creativity, analyzing the impact of advanced generative technologies on art and music. As algorithms get smarter, what role will computers play in the creation of music, art, and other cultural artifacts? Will they be able to create such things from the ground up, and will such creations be meaningful? In Beyond the Creative Species, Oliver Bown offers a multidisciplinary examination of computational creativity, analyzing the impact of advanced generative technologies on art and music. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, design, social theory, the psychology of creativity, and creative practice research, Bown argues that to understand computational creativity, we must not only consider what computationally creative algorithms actually do, but also examine creative artistic activity itself.

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MIT Press

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026204501X

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9780262045018

Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks

German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945

By: Dennis Oliver

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Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks

German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945

By: Dennis Oliver

By the first weeks of 1945, the Eastern Front had been pushed back to the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula River in the center, while in the north, the German army was fighting in East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armored and mobile formations were now employed exclusively as fire brigades, rushed from one crisis to the next as the Red Army pushed inexorably westward. Critical to the German defense were the army's heavy Panzer battalions whose Tiger tanks, with their 8.8 cm guns, were almost invincible on the open plains of central Europe. In his latest book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and units of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer battalions that struggled to resist the onslaught of Soviet armor during the last days of the conflict which culminated in the battle for Berlin. A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic tanks.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526791234

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9781526791238

Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning

Toward A Process Theory of Teaching and Learning

By: Donald W. Oliver,Kathleen Waldron Gershman

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Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning

Toward A Process Theory of Teaching and Learning

By: Donald W. Oliver,Kathleen Waldron Gershman

An indictment of the ideology of modernity, which has resulted in our leading incoherent and fragmented lives, Oliver and Gershmans book explores the profound paradigmatic differences that exist among the worlds people and describes a rich theory of knowing and being, commonly called process philosophy. The promise of process philosophy is in its potential to allow us to participate more fully in the flow of all of time and nature. But what does it mean for a teacher and student in the learning situation to have a process point of view? The authors also discuss many of the various implications in regard to language, space, power relationships, and time as they place process philosophy in the educational context.

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SUNY Press

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0887069428

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9780887069420

The Sales Advantage

How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever

By: J. Oliver Crom,Michael A. Crom,Dale Carnegie & Associates

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The Sales Advantage

How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever

By: J. Oliver Crom,Michael A. Crom,Dale Carnegie & Associates

The two questions most often asked by salespeople are: 'how can I close more sales?' and 'what can I do to reduce objections?' The answer to both questions is the same: you learn to sell from a buyer's point of view. Global markets, increased technology, information overload, corporate mergers and complex products and services have combined to make the buying/selling process more complicated then ever. Salespeople must understand and balance these factors to survive amidst a broad spectrum of competition. THE SALES ADVANTAGE will enable any salesperson to develop long-term customer relationships and help make those customers more successful, a key competitive advantage. The book includes specific advice for each of the eleven-stage selling process, set out in clear easy-to-understand prose with numerous case studies. THE SALES ADVANTAGE is a proven, logical, step-by-step guide that will create mutually beneficial results for salespeople and customers alike.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743215915

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9780743215916

MOVE

Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements

By: Michael Schumacher,Oliver Schaeffer,Michael-Marcus Vogt

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MOVE

Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements

By: Michael Schumacher,Oliver Schaeffer,Michael-Marcus Vogt

Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because of their visual effect. If architects and engineers are engaging more and more with the issue of movement – whether in the form of sun-tracking solar cells, lowerable walls, or intelligently programmed elevators – it’s because they are busy exploring responses to three challenges: How can we control and reduce the energy requirement of buildings? How can we expand the range of possible uses? And how can we represent, illustrate, accommodate, and control dynamic movements in buildings? Designers and builders who seek to use kinetic components face technical and design challenges that aren’t covered by traditional structural theory. For these users, this book presents the technical tools and constructional solutions that will allow them to implement these movements concretely and deploy them functionally within the domains of of "Energy," "Change of Use," and "Interaction." First it lays out the fundamentals and design principles of kinetics in architecture, technology, art, and nature in a structured manner. In a third section, forty movable elements are shown in action, each on a double page – with specially prepared phase drawings and organized by type of movement, including rotation, sliding, folding, and transformation. The international examples from noted architects range from window mechanisms to solar protection and light redirection systems, movable walls and roofs, and movable civil engineering structures.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3034608543

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9783034608541

BE STRONG (International English Edition)

When we are weak, we find real strength

By: Oliver Meidl

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BE STRONG (International English Edition)

When we are weak, we find real strength

By: Oliver Meidl

There are times when crises shake our lives and get to the heart of things! Fate sometimes has harsh realities in store for us...and to top it off, then came the Covid pandemic. Through biblical texts and contexts, Oliver Meidl unravels answers to questions of survival in an accelerated world that keeps pushing on and often leaves religion behind. From the content: • Sticking Together While Maintaining Distance • Christians Don’t Have to Be Wimps • Moses Heading for a Burnout • Jesus Had a Good Sense of Humor • »Lessons Learned« in Crisis Management An entertaining »thought goulash« from Vienna-Inzersdorf with encouraging messages and sermon morsels about the strengthening power of faith in times of crisis.

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Buchschmiede

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3991394294

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9783991394297

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

By: S. Oliver

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Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

By: S. Oliver

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.

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Springer

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0230555004

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9780230555006

Literary Conclusions

The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist

By: Oliver Simons

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Literary Conclusions

The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist

By: Oliver Simons

Endings are not just singular moments in time but the outcomes of a process. And whatever a book’s conclusion, its form has a history. Literary Conclusions presents a new theory of textual endings in eighteenth-century literature and thought. Analyzing essential works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts. Simons examines the interrelations of Lessing’s literary endings with modes of logical conclusion; he highlights how Goethe’s narrative closures are forestalled by an uncontrollable vital force that was discussed in the sciences of the time; and he reveals that Kleist conceived of literary genres themselves as forms of reasoning. Kleist’s endings, Simons demonstrates, mark the beginning of modernism. Through close readings of these authors and supplemental analyses of works by Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he crafts an elegant theory of conclusions that revises established histories of literary genres and forms.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810144816

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9780810144811

Artificer Perks

By: Oliver

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Artificer Perks

By: Oliver

After graduating from the Artificers' Academy that he has studied at since he was a child, Miles Nummer dreams of using his knowledge to help people. Instead a chance encounter with a church archon leaves him hopelessly entangled with a plot to destroy the heart of the society he lives in. Miles Nummer is an artificer, born with the ability to blend science and magic. After ten years of study in the artificer's academy he is ready to make his mark on the world. But after being saved from a mob by a beautiful young archon named Sophia Meisters, a soldier blessed with divine powers in the service of the church, the two of them soon find their paths interconnected as the murder of an angel leads to the discovery of a conspiracy to destroy both the church and the government that it supports. Now they must race against time to unravel a plot involving demons, homunculi, and illegal technology that could destroy the world in the wrong hands, and all the while every clue seems to point to Miles' own mentor being the one behind it all.

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MyInkBooks

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0988028689

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9780988028685

Citation and Precedent

Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature

By: Thomas Oliver Beebee

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Citation and Precedent

Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature

By: Thomas Oliver Beebee

Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. Yet this list only hints at the complex interactions between German law and literature. It can be supplemented, for example, with the unique interventions of the legal system into literature, ranging from attempts to save literature from the tidal wave of Schund (pulp fiction) in the early twentieth century to audiences suing theaters over the improper production of classics in the twenty-first. The long list of instances where German literature cites law, or where German law serves literature as a precedent, signal the dream of German culture of a unity of interests and objectives between spheres of activity. Yet the very vitality of this dream stems from real historical and social processes that increasingly autonomize and separate these domains from each other. Beebee examines the history of this dialectical tension through close readings of numerous cases in the modern era, ranging from Grimm to Schmitt.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441169377

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9781441169372

Stug III & Stug IV

German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe: Western Front, 1944–1945

By: Dennis Oliver

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Stug III & Stug IV

German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe: Western Front, 1944–1945

By: Dennis Oliver

A guide that blends the history behind this German World War II tank with resources for military vehicle modeling enthusiasts. In the last years of the Second World War the Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) and Sturmgeschütz IV (StuG IV) played a vital role as assault guns during the German army’s struggle to block the Allied advance on the Western Front. As the Wehrmacht’s tank forces declined, these armored vehicles were thrown into every defensive operation. They are not as well-known as the Tigers and Panthers, but German resistance would have been much weaker without them. They were also among the most frequently encountered German armored vehicles on the battlefields, which is why they are such a fascinating subject for Dennis Oliver in this volume in the TankCraft series He uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the StuG III and StuG IV deployed by the German army and the Waffen-SS during these doomed campaigns. A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic armored vehicles.

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Pen and Sword

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1526755874

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9781526755872

Gods at War

Understanding Three Millennia of Religious Conflict

By: Oliver Thomson

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Gods at War

Understanding Three Millennia of Religious Conflict

By: Oliver Thomson

The use and abuse of religious belief in the age-old history of conflict. Gods at War examines the role played by religions.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445694727

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9781445694726

Death Ride of the Panzers

German Armor and the Retreat in the West, 1944-45

By: Dennis Oliver

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Death Ride of the Panzers

German Armor and the Retreat in the West, 1944-45

By: Dennis Oliver

Death Ride of the Panzers is a unique guide to the Nazi tanks, vehicles, and crews of World War II. It features never-before-seen photographs from the US National Archives and the author's personal collection, annotated artist renderings, and detailed explanations and historical context for each collection of images. Readers will also be able to trace the combat histories of these subjects through orders of battle, maps and organizational diagrams, vehicle allocation charts, and unit biographies. The forensic approach for which Dennis Oliver is known creates a broad, comprehensive record of German soldiers and hardware from early 1944 to the end of the conflict in 1945. Death Ride of the Panzers provides the context and chronology necessary for the general reader and the primary sources and hardware specifics that appeal to the expert, making this book perfect for the readers with historical interest, modelers, and WWII alike.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510720960

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9781510720961

Geomorphology and Natural Hazards

Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation

By: Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards

Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation

By: Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials. Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction. Volume highlights include: Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters Impact of different natural hazards on Earth surface processes Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation Models for predicting natural hazards How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118648617

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9781118648612

Pakwagen SDKFZ 234/3 and 234/4 Heavy Armoured Cars

German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units—Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944–1945

By: Dennis Oliver

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Pakwagen SDKFZ 234/3 and 234/4 Heavy Armoured Cars

German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units—Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944–1945

By: Dennis Oliver

...squeezes a lot of useful information into a modest 64 pages and is a useful addition to any library of German armored cars." — War Wheels Experience in the Polish and French campaigns had convinced the German high command of the value of fast-moving, armed reconnaissance vehicles. But it was realised that many of the early designs were too lightly-armed and development of a heavy eight-wheeled prototype resulted in the Sdkfz 234 series of armored cars, the first of which entered service in late 1943. Built by the firm of Büssing-NAG, these sturdy and reliable vehicles were gradually up-armed and served in the infantry support role and eventually as tank killers, largely as the result of Hitler's desperation to arm as many vehicles as possible with anti-tank weapons. Drawing on official documentation and unit histories Dennis investigates the formations that operated these vehicles and uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the markings, camouflage and technical aspects of the Sdkfz 234/2, 234/3 and 234/4 armored cars that served on the Western and Eastern Fronts in the last months of the war. A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined, providing everything the modeller needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic vehicles.

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Pen and Sword Military

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139906505X

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9781399065054

Through by Daylight: The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad

By: Oliver Optic

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Through by Daylight: The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad

By: Oliver Optic

Mr. Waddie Wimpleton, an elegant young gentleman of fifteen, by all odds the nicest young man in Centreport, was firing at a mark with a revolver. It was a very beautiful revolver, too, silver-mounted, richly chased, and highly polished in all its parts, discharging six shots at each revolution, not often at the target, in the unskilful hands of Mr. Waddie, but sometimes near enough to indicate what the marksman was shooting at. Even the target was quite an elaborate affair; and though Mr. Waddie had been shooting at it for a week, it was hardly damaged by the trial to which it had been subjected. It was two feet in diameter, having in its centre a tolerably correct resemblance of one of the optics of a bovine masculine; and this enigma, being literally interpreted, meant the bull’s eye, which Mr. Waddie was expected to hit, or at least to try to hit. Around it were several circles in black, red, yellow, green, and blue, each indicating a certain distance from the objective point of the shooter. There were a few holes in the target within these circles, but the central eye was not put out, and still glared defiance at the ambitious marksman. Mr. Waddie Wimpleton had everything he wanted, and therefore never wanted anything he had. There was no end to the ponies, sail-boats, row-boats, guns, pistols, fishing-rods, and other sporting gear, which came into his possession, and of which he soon became weary. His father was as rich as an East-Indian prince, and Mr. Waddie being an only son, though there were two daughters who partially “put his nose out of joint,” his paternal parent had labored industriously to spoil the child from babyhood. I am forced to acknowledge that he succeeded even better than he intended. Mr. Waddie was always waiting and watching for a new sensation. A magnificent kite, of party-colored silk, had evidently occupied his attention during the earlier hours of the morning, and it now lay neglected on the ground, the line stretched off in the direction of the lake. The young gentleman had become tired of the plaything, and when I approached him he was blazing away at the target with the revolver, at the rate of six shots in three seconds. I halted at a respectful distance from the marksman. He was not shooting at me, but I regarded this as the very reason why he would be likely to hit me. If he had been aiming at me, I should have approached him with more confidence. Keeping well in the rear of the young gentleman, I came within hailing distance of him. I did not belong to the “upper-ten” of Centreport, and I could not be said to be familiarly acquainted with him. My father was the engineer in his father’s steam-flouring mills, and a person of my humble connections was of no account in his estimation. But I am forced to confess that I had not that awe and respect for Mr. Waddie which wealth and a lofty social position demand of the humble classes. I had the audacity to approach the young scion of an influential house; and it was audacious, considered in reference to his pistol, if not to his social position.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465583114

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9781465583116

Fat Politics

The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

By: J. Eric Oliver

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Fat Politics

The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

By: J. Eric Oliver

It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof that obesity causes so much disease and death or that losing weight is what makes people healthier. Our concern with obesity, he writes, is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Misinformation pushes millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs, while we ignore other, more real health problems. Oliver goes on to examine why it is that Americans despise fatness and explores why, despite this revulsion, we continue to gain weight. Fat Politics will topple your most basic assumptions about obesity and health. It is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the nation's--or their own--good health.

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Oxford University Press

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0195347021

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9780195347029

War Stories III

The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler

By: Oliver L. North

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War Stories III

The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler

By: Oliver L. North

War Stories III," with free DVD included, brings to life the massive battles that finally defeated Nazi Germany--and the incredibly heroic American servicemen who saved the world from Nazi tyranny.

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1596980249

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