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Secrets of the Kingdom Economy

How You Can Flourish In God's Economy

By: Paul Cuny

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Secrets of the Kingdom Economy

How You Can Flourish In God's Economy

By: Paul Cuny

Secrets of the Kingdom Economy will give you a clear understanding of the economic times in which we live. It will also provide you with practical, Kingdom solutions for everyday life. The practical solutions offered in this compelling book will give you a roadmap that will enable you to flourish in the days ahead by finding God's wisdom and insight.

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Passing the Torch

Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?

By: Paul Attewell,David Lavin,Thurston Domina,Tania Levey

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Passing the Torch

Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?

By: Paul Attewell,David Lavin,Thurston Domina,Tania Levey

The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been heralded as a major step toward reducing chronic economic disparities. But many of the policies that broadened access to higher education—including affirmative action, open admissions, and need-based financial aid—have come under attack in recent years by critics alleging that schools are admitting unqualified students who are unlikely to benefit from a college education. In Passing the Torch, Paul Attewell, David Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tania Levey follow students admitted under the City University of New York’s “open admissions” policy, tracking its effects on them and their children, to find out whether widening college access can accelerate social mobility across generations. Unlike previous research into the benefits of higher education, Passing the Torch follows the educational achievements of three generations over thirty years. The book focuses on a cohort of women who entered CUNY between 1970 and 1972, when the university began accepting all graduates of New York City high schools and increasing its representation of poor and minority students. The authors survey these women in order to identify how the opportunity to pursue higher education affected not only their long-term educational attainments and family well-being, but also how it affected their children’s educational achievements. Comparing the record of the CUNY alumnae to peers nationwide, the authors find that when women from underprivileged backgrounds go to college, their children are more likely to succeed in school and earn college degrees themselves. Mothers with a college degree are more likely to expect their children to go to college, to have extensive discussions with their children, and to be involved in their children’s schools. All of these parenting behaviors appear to foster higher test scores and college enrollment rates among their children. In addition, college-educated women are more likely to raise their children in stable two-parent households and to earn higher incomes; both factors have been demonstrated to increase children’s educational success. The evidence marshaled in this important book reaffirms the American ideal of upward mobility through education. As the first study to indicate that increasing access to college among today’s disadvantaged students can reduce educational gaps in the next generation, Passing the Torch makes a powerful argument in favor of college for all.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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Exploring Composition Studies

Sites, Issues, Perspectives

By: Kelly Ritter,Paul Kei Matsuda

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Exploring Composition Studies

Sites, Issues, Perspectives

By: Kelly Ritter,Paul Kei Matsuda

Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing. Within this territory, the authors draw the boundaries broadly, to include allied sites of research such as professional and technical writing, writing across the curriculum programs, writing centers, and writing program administration. Importantly, they represent composition as a dynamic, eclectic field, influenced by factors both within the academy and without. The editors and their sixteen seasoned contributors have created a comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of composition studies as it stands in the early twenty-first century. Given the rapid growth of this field and the evolution of it research and pedagogical agendas over even the last ten years, this multi-vocal introduction is long overdue.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457184559

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Higher Superstition

The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

By: Paul R. Gross,Norman Levitt

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Higher Superstition

The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

By: Paul R. Gross,Norman Levitt

The widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science, with a new afterword. With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left." This edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.

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JHU Press

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1421404877

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The Other College Guide

A Roadmap to the Right School for You

By: Paul Glastris,Jane Sweetland,Staff Washington Monthly

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The Other College Guide

A Roadmap to the Right School for You

By: Paul Glastris,Jane Sweetland,Staff Washington Monthly

A college degree has never been more important—or more expensive. If you're not made of money, where can you get an amazing liberal arts education without your parents having to remortgage the house or cash in their retirement fund? Which degrees will allow you to fulfill your dreams and earn a decent paycheck? What do you really need to know if you're the first in your family to go to college? How do you find good schools that offer a well-rounded campus life for black or Latino students? From the staff of Washington Monthly comes a new kind of college guide, inspired by and including the magazine's signature alternative college rankings. The Other College Guide features smartly designed, engaging chapters on finding the best-fit schools and the real deal about money, loans, and preparing for the world of work. This essential higher ed handbook also highlights information on what to look for (and watch out for) in online programs and for-profit colleges and concludes with fifty profiles of remarkable but frequently overlooked schools. All things being unequal, The Other College Guide will provide American students—and their families and school counselors—with the honest and practical information they need to make sense of the college process and carve a path to the future they imagine.

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162097035X

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Generation at the Crossroads

Apathy and Action on the American Campus

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

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Generation at the Crossroads

Apathy and Action on the American Campus

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

Challenging prevailing media stereotypes, Generation at the Crossroads explores the beliefs and choices of the students who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s. For seven years, at over a hundred campuses in thirty states, Paul Loeb asked students about the values they held. He examines their concepts of responsibility, the links they draw between present and future, and how they view themselves in relation to the larger human community in which they live. He brings us a range of voices, from "I'm not that kind of person," to "I had to take a stand." Loeb looks at how the rest of us can serve young people as better role models, and give them courage and vision to help build a better world. This insightful book explores the culture of withdrawal that dominated American campuses through most of the eighties. He locates its roots in historical ignorance, relentless individualism, mistrust of social movements, and a general isolation from urgent realities. He examines why a steadily increasing minority has begun to take on critical public issues, whether environmental activism, apartheid, hunger and homelessness, affordable education, or racial and sexual equity. Loeb looks at individuals who have overcome precisely the barriers he has described, and how their journeys can become models. The generational choices he explores will shape our common future.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813522560

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Analytic and Elementary Number Theory

A Tribute to Mathematical Legend Paul Erdos

By: Paul Erdős

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Analytic and Elementary Number Theory

A Tribute to Mathematical Legend Paul Erdos

By: Paul Erdős

This volume contains a collection of papers in Analytic and Elementary Number Theory in memory of Professor Paul Erdös, one of the greatest mathematicians of this century. Written by many leading researchers, the papers deal with the most recent advances in a wide variety of topics, including arithmetical functions, prime numbers, the Riemann zeta function, probabilistic number theory, properties of integer sequences, modular forms, partitions, and q-series. Audience: Researchers and students of number theory, analysis, combinatorics and modular forms will find this volume to be stimulating.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0792382730

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Nehemiah People - EBook

By: Paul Cuny

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Nehemiah People - EBook

By: Paul Cuny

Nehemiah People defines the sacred calling to bring God's divine order to all the spheres of culture outside the walls of the church house. In Nehemiah People, you will discover your purpose and destiny in society is on a much higher scale than you ever imagined. Through the life of Nehemiah of the Bible, this compelling book describes God’s positioning and development process for 21st Century men and women. You will begin to understand the challenges men and women with a Nehemiah type calling will most certainly face in our generation and practical solutions to those challenges.

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1946466034

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Old Forts of the Northwest

By: Herbert M. Hart,Paul J. Hartle

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Old Forts of the Northwest

By: Herbert M. Hart,Paul J. Hartle

Beyond the wide Missouri lay the prairie—“the biggest clearing on the Almighty’s footstool.” And every few hundred miles, holding to the rivers and wooded bottoms, were the outposts of the white civilization—the military forts of the U.S. Army. Father, mother and comforter to the settlers, trading points for the trappers and buffalo hunters, rallying points for the scouts. Awaiting the reader of this sentimental journey into the days of “Boots and Saddles,” are the graphic stories of battles against Indians and boredom. A military man, author Hart has the feel of these men who did the fighting and their places of conflict and refuge. He recounts the Bloody Bozeman outrage, Red Cloud’s War of 1866-68, and the pre-Civil War fights that seasoned lieutenants for the stars of Union and Confederate generals. It is a thrilling experience to read of the forts that opened the West for the stages, river boats and wagon trains...of those that protected the white man from the Indians and others that protected Indians from the whites...of those “hog and hominy” forts that gave solace to settlers who waited for the Indian attacks that never came...of the places called “Hog Ranches” that provided soldiers with entertainment lacking at Army posts...and of those forts George Armstrong Custer called home. With all this there are portraits, in both word and photograph, of the many famous generals who rode this frontier of history: Sherman, Sheridan, Crook, Custer, Harney, Sully, Connor, Mackenzie, Howard, Miles, Terry, Carrington, de Trobriand, Gibbon and Canby.

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1789127793

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FORWARD to Professorship in STEM

Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work

By: Rachelle S. Heller,Catherine Mavriplis,Paul S Sabila

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FORWARD to Professorship in STEM

Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work

By: Rachelle S. Heller,Catherine Mavriplis,Paul S Sabila

FORWARD to Professorship in STEM: Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff in their career development. The book addresses fundamental skills and strategies to excel in academia, with a focus on assisting women and other underrepresented groups to succeed in obtaining tenure-track faculty positions, and in acquiring tenure. Contributors from wide geographical, disciplinary, and career backgrounds offer their insights on challenges in academia, lessons learned, successes, and outcomes, with chapters devoted to tenure and beyond, collaborations and funding, impact on, and of, the deaf culture, and engaging differences. - Offers insights from a variety of institutions, STEM disciplines, and backgrounds - Contains valuable information on diversity, leadership, minorities, work-life satisfaction, and professional career development - Provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff in their career development - Covers topics such as tenure and beyond, collaborations and funding, impact on, and of, the deaf culture, and engaging differences - Provides specific avenues and processes for implementing inclusive professional development workshops - Includes appendices on budgeting and programming examples

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Academic Press

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0128011289

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The Predatory Society

By: Paul Blumberg

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The Predatory Society

By: Paul Blumberg

Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public. Employed in a wide variety of business enterprises--supermarkets, restaurants, fish markets, department stores, gas stations, drug stores, pet stores, and many more--these workers pull back the curtain and reveal the hidden recesses of the American marketplace. Blumberg documents these deceptions in numerous vivid stories, providing readers with a trenchant handbook on survival in America. He tells of stores that routinely mark prices up before a sale; gas stations that sell regular gas as high test; auto mechanics who spray-paint customers' old car parts and then charge them for new parts (in one gas stations, the workers claimed that the mechanic's best tool was his paint can); and pharmacists who sell generic drugs and charge name-brand prices. But equally important, he provides an insightful analysis of why deception pervades the American marketplace. Though at times amusing, The Predatory Society is also frequently disturbing for what it says about private capitalism: how dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and how this dishonesty has potentially disastrous effects on trust and community in our society.

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Oxford University Press

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0195362047

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Environmental Hazards and Disasters

Contexts, Perspectives and Management

By: Bimal Kanti Paul

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Environmental Hazards and Disasters

Contexts, Perspectives and Management

By: Bimal Kanti Paul

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehensive context of diverse natural hazards and disasters. In addition to scientific explanations of disastrous occurrences, people and governments of hazard-prone countries often have their own interpretations for why natural disasters occur. In such interpretations they often either blame others, in order to conceal their inability to protect themselves, or they blame themselves, attributing the events to either real or imagined misdeeds. The book contains a chapter devoted to the neglected topic of such reactions and explanations. Includes chapters on key topics such as the application of GIS in hazard studies; resiliency; disasters and poverty; climate change and sustainability and development. This book is designed as a primary text for an interdisciplinary course on hazards for upper-level undergraduate and Graduate students. Although not targeted for an introductory hazards course, students in such a course may find it very useful as well. Additionally, emergency managers, planners, and both public and private organizations involved in disaster response, and mitigation could benefit from this book along with hazard researchers. It not only includes traditional and popular hazard topics (e.g., disaster cycles, disaster relief, and risk and vulnerability), it also includes neglected topics, such as the positive impacts of disasters, disaster myths and different accounts of disasters, and disasters and gender.

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111995102X

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Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili

Towards a Critical Contemporaneity

By: Paul Gladston

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Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili

Towards a Critical Contemporaneity

By: Paul Gladston

In recent decades the previously assumed dominance within the international art world of western(ized) conceptions of aesthetic modernity has been challenged by a critically becalming diversification of cultural outlooks widely referred to as 'contemporaneity'. Contributing to that diversification are assertions within mainland China of essential differences between Chinese and western art. In response to the critical impasse posed by contemporaneity, Paul Gladston charts a historical relay of mutually formative interactions between the artworlds of China and the West as part of a new transcultural theory of artistic criticality. Informed by deconstructivism as well as syncretic Confucianism, Gladston extends this theory to a reading of the work of the artist Zhang Peili and his involvement with the Hangzhou-based art group, the Pond Association (Chi she). Revealed is a critical aesthetic productively resistant to any single interpretative viewpoint, including those of Chinese exceptionalism and the supposed immanence of deconstructivist uncertainty. Addressing art in and from the People's Republic of China as a significant aspect of post-West contemporaneity, Gladston provides a new critical understanding of what it means to be 'contemporary' and the profound changes taking place in the art world today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350041998

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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

Activism, Culture, and American Studies

By: Paul Lauter

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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

Activism, Culture, and American Studies

By: Paul Lauter

Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as a wholly subsidiary academic program that loosely combined the study of American history, literature, and art, From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park reveals the evolution of an independent, highly interdisciplinary program with distinctive subjects, methods, and goals that are much different than the traditional academic departments that nurtured it. With anecdote peppered discussions ranging from specific literary texts and movies to the future of higher education and the efficacy of unions, From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park entertains even as it offers a twenty-first century account of how and why Americanists at home and abroad now do what they do. Drawing on his forty-five years of teaching and research as well as his experience as a political activist and a cultural radical, Lauter shows how a multifaceted increase in the United States’ global dominion has infused a particular political urgency into American Studies. With its military and economic influence, its cultural and linguistic reach, the United States is—for better or for worse—too formidable and potent not to be understood clearly and critically.

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Duke University Press

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0822380471

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Quiet Moments in a War

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

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Quiet Moments in a War

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

In the companion volume to the acclaimed Witness of my Life, Jean-Paul Sartre reveals his life as a soldier, a German prisoner, and a man of Resistance through letters between himself and his “beloved Beaver,” Simone de Beauvoir. Quiet Moments in a War tells the story of Jean-Paul Sartre at the peak of his powers and renown through the exchanging of ideas and intimacies with Simone de Beauvoir from 1940 to 1963. In the pages of this book, readers will find details on Sartre’s war and his path to fame with the publication of his major works. From September 1939 to June 1940, Sartre wrote Beauvoir almost daily as he waited from the frontlines for a German attack. While it was a time of fear and uncertainty, it doubled as a time of great productivity for Sartre as he completed the novel The Age of Reason and sketched out Being and Nothingness. This collection of the letters between Sartre and Beauvoir completes the extraordinary correspondence of one of modern history’s most celebrated couples while documenting the emergence of a great intellectual figure.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743244079

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Evaluating College Writing Programs

By: Stephen Paul Witte,Lester Faigley

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Evaluating College Writing Programs

By: Stephen Paul Witte,Lester Faigley

Noting that present evaluation systems are so limited that they are neither reliable nor valid, this monograph critically reviews studies designed to evaluate composition programs at four major universities. The book offers theoretical and practical guidance through discussion of generalities from the four studies and pertinent questions and guidance to evaluators of composition programs. The first chapter looks at the state of the art of evaluating writing programs, discussing the need for such evaluation, and at two dominant approaches to writing program evaluation. The second chapter discusses a quantitative model of writing program evaluation in terms of four university studies, giving an overview of the dominant quantitative approach. Chapter 3 discusses a framework for evaluating college writing programs, including five components of writing program evaluation, and the final chapter discusses accommodating context and change in writing program evaluation. (HTH)

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SIU Press

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0809311240

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Y Tu Mamá También

By: Paul Julian Smith

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Y Tu Mamá También

By: Paul Julian Smith

Y Tu Mamá También (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema. Yet on its release the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and 'Penthouse fantasy' of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that Y Tu Mamá También not only addresses with playful seriousness such major issues as gender, race, class, and space, which are yet more urgent now than they were on its release; but that the film's apparently casual aesthetic masks a sophisticated audiovisual style, one which brings together popular genre film and auteurist experiment. Smith suggests Y Tu Mamá También remains an example for world cinema of how a very local film can connect with a global audience that is ignorant of such niceties. Combining production and distribution history, based on unexplored material held in Mexico City archives, with close textual analysis, Smith makes an argument for Cuarón's film as an enduring masterpiece that hides in plain sight as an ephemeral teen movie.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839025220

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Financial Accounting

Tools for Business Decision Making

By: Paul D. Kimmel,Jerry J. Weygandt,Jill E. Mitchell

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Financial Accounting

Tools for Business Decision Making

By: Paul D. Kimmel,Jerry J. Weygandt,Jill E. Mitchell

Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making by Paul Kimmel, Jerry Weygandt, and Jill Mitchell provides a practical introduction to financial accounting with a focus on how to use accounting information to make business decisions. Through significant course updates, the 10th Edition presents an active, hands-on approach to spark efficient and effective learning and develops the necessary skills to inspire and prepare students to be the accounting and business professionals of tomorrow. To ensure maximum understanding, students work through integrated assessment at different levels of difficulty right at the point of learning. The course's varied assessment also presents homework and assessment within real-world contexts to help students understand the why and the how of accounting information and business application. Throughout the course, students also work through various hands-on activities including Cookie Creations Cases, Expand Your Critical Thinking Questions, Excel Templates, and Analytics in Action problems, all within the accounting context. These applications all map to chapter material, making it easier for instructors to determine where and how to incorporate key skill development in their syllabus. With Financial Accounting, students will understand the foundations of financial accounting and develop the necessary tools for business decision-making, no matter what path they take.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119791081

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Inclusive Leadership

The Essential Leader-follower Relationship

By: Edwin Paul Hollander

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Inclusive Leadership

The Essential Leader-follower Relationship

By: Edwin Paul Hollander

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0805864393

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Soul of a Citizen

Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

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Soul of a Citizen

Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life--powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style, Paul Loeb tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise and powerful lessons, we are compelled to move from passivity to participation. The reward of our action, we learn, is nothing less than a sense of connection and purpose not found in a purely personal life. Soul of a Citizen has become the handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change—big or small—in the world around them. At this critical historical time , Paul Loeb's completely revised edition—and inspiring message—is more urgently important than ever.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429934077

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Forged in the Fires

How Providence, Purpose, and Perseverance Shaped America

By: E. Paul Yarbro

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Forged in the Fires

How Providence, Purpose, and Perseverance Shaped America

By: E. Paul Yarbro

Individuals are not born to greatness, but through failure and defeat, they are prepared for it. Our struggles seem to define us more than our triumphs, and our character determines which path we choose. What road would General George Washington take when offered absolute power? Would Captain John Smith accept his common birth as a limitation of his own achievements? Would Abraham Lincoln demand vengeance on the South after his victory in the Civil War? What beliefs would guide their decisions, and what life experiences shaped their character? Nations as well are not born to greatness and must earn their places in history. Their trials can destroy them or make them even stronger. America was conceived in adversity and achieved greatness through the actions of its people in its darkest moments. Six stories chronicle the lives of the people who guided a nation to greatness by relying on the Christian principles of providence, divine purpose, and perseverance. God would direct their paths to victory over the dark times. From the first settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth to the Civil War, we discover that greatness rarely comes from success, but often rises out of defeat. In our weakness, we are made strong. Through the fires of struggle, individuals forged a nation into "a shining city on a hill." These fires would light the way through the dark for future generations of Americans across the world to see.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098025334

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Global Struggles and Social Change

From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Paul Almeida

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Global Struggles and Social Change

From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Paul Almeida

Deftly demonstrates how the rise and fall of social movements throughout history is closely linked to economic and political developments. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible and catastrophic damage threatens the habitability of the planet. On another front, since the 1980s, multiple waves of resistance have occurred around the world against the uneven transition from state-led development to the neoliberal globalization project. Both Climate Justice and Anti-Austerity movements represent the urgency of understanding how global change affects the ability of citizens around the world to mobilize and protect themselves from planetary warming and the loss of social protections granted in earlier eras. In Global Struggles and Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida explore how global change stimulates the formation and shape of such movements. Contending that large-scale economic shifts condition the pattern of social movement mobilizations around the world, the authors trace these trends back to premodern societies, revealing how severe disruptions of indigenous communities led to innovative collective actions throughout history. Drawing on historical case studies, world system and protest event analysis, and social networks, they also examine the influence of global change processes on local, national, and transnational social movements and explain how in turn these movements shape institutional shifts. Touching on hot-button topics, including global warming, immigrant rights protests, the rise of right-wing populism, and the 2008 financial crisis, the book also explores a broad range of premodern social movements from indigenous people in the Americas, Mesopotamia, and China. The authors pay special attention to periods of disruption and external threats, as well as the role of elites, emotions, charisma, and religion or spirituality in shaping protest movements. Providing sweeping coverage, Global Struggles and Social Change is perfect for students and anyone interested in globalization, international and comparative politics, political sociology, and communication studies.

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1421438631

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After Custer

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

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After Custer

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders. As Hedren explains, U.S. military control of the northern plains following the Great Sioux War permitted the Northern Pacific Railroad to extend westward from the Missouri River. The new transcontinental line brought hide hunters who targeted the great northern buffalo herds and ultimately destroyed them. A de-buffaloed prairie lured cattlemen, who in turn spawned their own culture. Through forced surrender of their lands and lifeways, Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes now experienced even more stress and calamity than they had endured during the war itself. The victors, meanwhile, faced a different set of challenges, among them providing security for the railroad crews, hide hunters, and cattlemen. Hedren is the first scholar to examine the events of 1876–77 and their aftermath as a whole, taking into account relationships among military leaders, the building of forts, and the army’s efforts to memorialize the war and its victims. Woven into his narrative are the voices of those who witnessed such events as the burial of Custer, the laying of railroad track, or the sudden surround of a buffalo herd. Their personal testimonies lend both vibrancy and pathos to this story of irreversible change in Sioux Country.

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On Becoming Bilingual

Children’s Experiences Across Homes, Schools, and Communities

By: Patricia Baquedano-López,Paul B. Garrett

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On Becoming Bilingual

Children’s Experiences Across Homes, Schools, and Communities

By: Patricia Baquedano-López,Paul B. Garrett

On Becoming Bilingual: Children’s Experiences across Homes, Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological introduction to research on children’s participation in and across a multiplicity of activities where they display complex linguistic and sociocultural knowledge. From a perspective that engages intersections of language, race, and class, the book reviews foundational and recent studies highlighting innovations, trends, and future directions for research. The book offers a helpful set of resources, including guiding questions at the start of each chapter, links to online and bibliographic sources, discussion questions and activities, and a glossary of key terms. This book is intended for scholars and students in language-oriented fields of study who are interested in learning about how bilingual children engage with, negotiate, and transform their social worlds.

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Taylor & Francis

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Slavery and Silence

Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate

By: Paul D. Naish

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Slavery and Silence

Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate

By: Paul D. Naish

In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, as it became increasingly difficult for those outside the world of politics to have frank and open discussions about slavery, Paul D. Naish argues that many Americans displaced their most provocative criticisms and darkest fears about the institution onto Latin America.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812249453

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The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

By: Paul Simpson

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The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

By: Paul Simpson

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies offers a blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. Whether you're a paid-up member of The Big Lebowski fan club or just looking for a night in with an interesting DVD, The Rough Guide to Cult Movies is the ultimate guide to the world's most memorable films. The Rough Guide to Cult Movies selects cinema's most compelling triumphs: films that are brilliant, intriguing or just plain bizarre; from action flicks to zombie films, by way of nuns, yakuza, musicals and mutations. You'll find expert, pithy reviews of over 1500 movies, with forgotten legends like Charlie Chan and the Opera or contemporary classics like There Will Be Blood, plus filmmakers' picks of their favorite cult movies, in their own words. There are good movies and there are bad movies and then there are cult movies.

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Social Work and Social Theory

Making Connections

By: Paul Michael Garrett

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Social Work and Social Theory

Making Connections

By: Paul Michael Garrett

Drawing on a range of theorists and competing perspectives, this substantially updated and expanded second edition places social theory at the heart of social work pedagogy. This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features, such as Reflection and Talk Boxes, to encourage classroom and workplace discussions. This new edition includes: · An extensive additional chapter on Foucault · Reworked and expanded versions of the chapters featured in the highly-praised first edition · Revised Reflection and Talk Boxes · New and updated references to stimulate further reading and research

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Policy Press

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1447341902

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A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide

Portraits of Evil and Good

By: Paul R. Bartrop

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A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide

Portraits of Evil and Good

By: Paul R. Bartrop

This book documents the devastating effects of genocide in the world's most destructive human environments since the end of World War II and explores why such events still occur. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good is a unique study of humanity's most reprehensible actions. It documents genocides that have occurred after World War II—a period that was supposed to be the fulfillment of the promise "never again"—by providing biographies rather than extensive historical narratives. The entries describe the personal backgrounds; careers; and relationship to genocidal events, humanitarian actions, or international initiatives relevant to each person in the book. Beyond examining the genocidaires who played key roles in mass murder, individuals who contributed to efforts to stop genocide are also profiled. By adopting a biographical approach to post-World War II genocide, the author sheds light on why people behave the way they do toward their fellow human beings and provides vital insights into the extremes of human positivity and negativity that have characterized this period of history. Serving as a vital tool for scholars and students of genocide as well as compelling reading for general audiences, the book highlights individual human behaviors, motivations, backgrounds, and intentions that can form a platform from which to raise and discuss issues of morality and ethics in the modern world.

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Close Reading with Computers

Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

By: Martin Paul Eve

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Close Reading with Computers

Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

By: Martin Paul Eve

Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a sustained fashion, it focuses on the award-winning and genre-bending Cloud Atlas (2004). Published in two very different versions worldwide without anyone taking much notice, David Mitchell's novel is ideal fodder for a textual-genetic publishing history, reflections on micro-tectonic shifts in language by authors who move between genres, and explorations of how we imagine people wrote in bygone eras. Though Close Reading with Computers focuses on but one novel, it has a crucial exemplary function: author Martin Paul Eve demonstrates a set of methods and provides open-source software tools that others can use in their own literary-critical practices. In this way, the project serves as a bridge between users of digital methods and those engaged in more traditional literary-critical endeavors.

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Stanford University Press

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1503609375

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Essentials of Economics

By: Paul Krugman,Paul R. Krugman,Robin Wells,Kathryn Graddy

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Essentials of Economics

By: Paul Krugman,Paul R. Krugman,Robin Wells,Kathryn Graddy

Check out preview content for Essentials of Economics here. Essentials of Economics brings the same captivating writing and innovative features of Krugman/Wells to the one-term economics course. Adapted by Kathryn Graddy, it is the ideal text for teaching basic economic principles, with enough real-world applications to help students see the applicability, but not so much detail as to overwhelm them. Watch a video interview of Paul Krugman here.

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Macmillan

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1429218290

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Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the U.S. Army in its campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War focuses on a crucial year in the history of the fort, 1876. That was the year of General George Crook’s Big Horn; the Black Hills gold rush; and chaos at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agencies. Paul Hedren draws upon official army records, diaries, and journals to illuminate a fort-based history of the Great Sioux War, and for this edition he also provides a new preface.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806130490

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The Politics of Crisis Management

By: Arjen Boin,Paul 't Hart,Eric Stern,Bengt Sundelius

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The Politics of Crisis Management

By: Arjen Boin,Paul 't Hart,Eric Stern,Bengt Sundelius

A newly updated edition of a concise and evidence-based approach to strategic crisis leadership.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107118468

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Solaris Rising 1.5

An Exclusive ebook of New Science Fiction

By: Adam Roberts,Paul Cornell

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Solaris Rising 1.5

An Exclusive ebook of New Science Fiction

By: Adam Roberts,Paul Cornell

Solaris Rising 1.5 continues the exciting new series of SF anthologies from Solaris and editor Ian Whates, with an exclusive ebook! An anthology of nine short stories from some of the most exciting names in science fiction today. From both sides of the Atlantic – and further afield – these nine great writers offer you everything from a mystery about the nature of the universe to an inexplicable transmission to everyone on Earth, and from engineered giant spiders to Venetian palaces in space. So settle in, and enjoy yet more proof of the extraordinary breadth and depth of contemporary SF. Featuring Adam Roberts, Aliette de Bodard, Gareth L. Powell, Mike Resnick, Sarah Lotz, Phillip Vine, Tanith Lee, Paul Cornell, Paul di Filippo.

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184997442X

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Homeland Calling

Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars

By: Paul Hockenos

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Homeland Calling

Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars

By: Paul Hockenos

Over the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart. But in all these attempts to make sense of the wars and ethnic violence, one crucial factor has been overlooked—the fundamental roles played by exile groups and émigré communities in fanning the flames of nationalism and territorial ambition. Based in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and South America, some groups helped provide the ideologies, the leadership, the money, and in many cases, the military hardware that fueled the violent conflicts. Atypical were the dissenting voices who drew upon their experiences in western democracies to stem the tide of war. In spite of the diasporas' power and influence, their story has never before been told, partly because it is so difficult, even dangerous to unravel. Paul Hockenos, a Berlin-based American journalist and political analyst, has traveled through several continents and interviewed scores of key figures, many of whom had never previously talked about their activities. In Homeland Calling, Hockenos investigates the borderless international networks that diaspora organizations rely on to export political agendas back to their native homelands—agendas that at times blatantly undermined the foreign policy objectives of their adopted countries.Hockenos tells an extraordinary story, with elements of farce as well as tragedy, a story of single-minded obsession and double-dealing, of high aspirations and low cunning. The figures he profiles include individuals as disparate as a Canadian pizza baker and an Albanian urologist who played instrumental roles in the conflicts, as well as other men and women who rose boldly to the occasion when their homelands called out for help.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725653

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Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

By: John O. Spengler,Paul M. Anderson,Daniel P. Connaughton,Thomas A. Baker

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Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

By: John O. Spengler,Paul M. Anderson,Daniel P. Connaughton,Thomas A. Baker

This book aims to help students learn the common legal concepts taught in sport management curricula without the use of unnecessary legalese. Information and examples in the text challenge students to think about sport law concepts and apply them to the practical world of sport management"--

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Human Kinetics

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1492597775

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Archaeology at Shiloh Indian Mounds, 1899-1999

By: Paul D. Welch

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Archaeology at Shiloh Indian Mounds, 1899-1999

By: Paul D. Welch

One hundred years of archaeological excavations at an important American landmark, the Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark The Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark, is a late prehistoric community within the boundaries of the Shiloh National Military Park on the banks of the Tennessee River, where one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought in April 1862. Dating between AD 1000 and 1450, the archaeological site includes at least eight mounds and more than 100 houses. It is unique in that the land has never been plowed, so visitors can walk around the area and find the collapsed remains of 800-year-old houses and the 900-meter-long palisade with bastions that protected the village in prehistoric times. Although its location within a National Park boundary has protected the area from the recent ravages of man, riverbank erosion began to undermine the site in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, Paul Welch began a four-year investigation culminating in a comprehensive report to the National Park Service on the Shiloh Indian Mounds. These published findings confirm that the Shiloh site was one of at least fourteen Mississippian mound sites located within a 50 km area and that Shiloh was abandoned in approximately AD 1450. It also establishes other parameters for the Shiloh archaeological phase. This current volume is intended to make information about the first 100 years of excavations at the Shiloh site available to the archaeological community.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817352538

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Secrets of the Kingdom Economy

How You Can Flourish In God's Economy

By: Paul Cuny

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Secrets of the Kingdom Economy

How You Can Flourish In God's Economy

By: Paul Cuny

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CertaPublishing.com

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0998181579

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The Internet Navigator

By: Paul Gilster

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The Internet Navigator

By: Paul Gilster

A thorough revision of its highly successful predecessor. All addresses and instructions in the first edition have been carefully checked and updated. All significant new services affecting the dial-up user are described. Includes detailed coverage regarding the expansion of Internet access by large commercial online services as well as the ``no frills'' approach of using ``mail only'' access to the net. Features an extensive list of local service providers—small companies offering low-cost access to individuals.

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Wiley

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0471052604

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