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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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Travel and Adventure Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Paul S. Pottinger,Christopher A. Sanford

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Travel and Adventure Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Paul S. Pottinger,Christopher A. Sanford

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Paul S. Pottinger and Christopher A. Sanford, is devoted to Travel and Adventure Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Immunizations; Malaria; Personal Protection Measures; Traveler's Diarrhea; Urban Medicine and Trauma; Care of the Healthcare Provider; Evaluation of the Ill Returned Traveler; The Ethics of Medical Volunteerism; High-Altitude Medicine; Dive Medicine; Wilderness Medicine, Including First Aid & Hypo/Hyperthermia; The Medical Kit; Adventure Sports: Spelunking, water exposures; and Resources for the Provider and Opportunities in Further Training in Travel and Adventure Medicine.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323416519

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The Trade and Climate Change Nexus

The Urgency and Opportunities for Developing Countries

By: Paul Brenton,Vicky Chemutai

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The Trade and Climate Change Nexus

The Urgency and Opportunities for Developing Countries

By: Paul Brenton,Vicky Chemutai

While trade exacerbates climate change, it is also a central part of the solution because it has the potential to enhance mitigation and adaptation. This timely report explores the different ways in which trade and climate change intersect. Trade contributes to the emissions that cause global warming and is itself also affected by climate change through changing comparative advantages. The report also confronts several myths concerning trade and climate change. The Trade and Climate Change Nexus: The Urgency and Opportunities for Developing Countries focuses on the impacts of, and adjustments to, climate change in developing countries and on how future trade opportunities will be affected by both the changing climate and the policy responses to address it. The report discusses how trade can provide the goods and services that drive mitigation and adaptation. It also addresses how climate change creates immense challenges for developing countries, but also new opportunities to promote trade diversification in the transition to a low-carbon world. Suitable trade and environmental policies can offer effective economic incentives to attain both sustainable growth and poverty reduction.

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World Bank Publications

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1464817731

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The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

By: Paul D. Mandel

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The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

By: Paul D. Mandel

In The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, Paul Mandel presents a comprehensive study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until the early rabbinic periods (3rd century CE). In contrast to current understandings in which the words are identified with modes of analysis of the biblical text, Mandel claims that they refer to instruction in law and not to an interpretation of text. Mandel traces the use of these words as they are associated with the scribe (sofer), the doresh ha-torah in the Dead Sea scrolls, the “exegetes of the laws” in the writings of Josephus and the rabbinic “sage” (ḥakham), showing the development of the uses of midrash as a form of instruction throughout these periods.

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BRILL

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9004336885

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Peace Psychology

A Comprehensive Introduction

By: Herbert H. Blumberg,A. Paul Hare,Anna Costin

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Peace Psychology

A Comprehensive Introduction

By: Herbert H. Blumberg,A. Paul Hare,Anna Costin

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to peace psychology covering interdisciplinary practice, primary psychological topics, core peace studies topics and terrorism.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521547857

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Tales from the Cult Film Trenches

Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema

By: Louis Paul

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Tales from the Cult Film Trenches

Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema

By: Louis Paul

From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex symbols (Valerie Leon), surfers who became movie stars (Don Stroud), and action heroes (Fred Williamson), among many others. Each interview is accompanied by a biography and filmography.

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McFarland

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0786484020

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Explorations in Ecocriticism

Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design

By: Paul Lindholdt

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Explorations in Ecocriticism

Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design

By: Paul Lindholdt

A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize its big dam projects. Previously, no one has written about the large art collection that toured the nation under the auspices of the Smithsonian in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Reclamation was under fire and new environmental regulations were becoming law. Another chapter, “An Iconography of Sabotage,” previously published in France as part of a Paris symposium, looks at the pictorial dimension of saboteurs throughout American history, with a special emphasis on the IWW and Earth First! The book draws extensively on the social sciences. Ecology and environment are treated too often as technical topics that go over the heads of lay readers. Many Americans care about air and water quality, the extinction of species, and the unfortunate politicization of science. But they also find the discourse daunting, the details exceedingly complex. By leavening such heavy subjects with current events, Explorations in Ecocriticism makes environmental issues accessible to lay readers and offers routes to sustainability in the United States today.

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Lexington Books

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0739194992

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Afterlife

A Novel

By: Paul Monette

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Afterlife

A Novel

By: Paul Monette

A powerful exploration of the way AIDS reshapes relationships and lives Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book Award winner Paul Monette depicts three men of various economic and social backgrounds, all with one thing in common: They are widowers, in a way, and all of their lovers died of AIDS in an LA hospital within a week of one another. Steven, Sonny, and Dell meet weekly to discuss how to go on with their lives despite the hanging sword of being HIV positive. One tries to find a semblance of normalcy; one rebels openly against the disease, choosing to treat his body as a temple that he can consecrate and desecrate at will; and one throws himself into fierce political activism. No matter what path each one takes, they are all searching for one thing: a way to live and love again. Afterlife finds Paul Monette at his most autobiographical, portraying men in a situation that he himself experienced, and one that he described to critical acclaim in the award-winning Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

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Open Road Media

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1480473839

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The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties

A - F, Index

By: Paul Finkelman

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The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties

A - F, Index

By: Paul Finkelman

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Taylor & Francis

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0415943426

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Rock And Roll

A Social History

By: Paul Friedlander

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Rock And Roll

A Social History

By: Paul Friedlander

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey, Friedlander offers the melodious strains and hard-edged riffs of Elvis, the Beatles, The Who, Dylan, Clapton, Hendrix, Motown, the San Francisco Beat, Punk, New Wave, rap, metal, 90s grunge, plus file sharing, and much more. The book is written in a refreshing, captivating style that pulls the reader in, offering no less than a complete social and cultural history of rock and roll for students and general audiences alike. Friedlander writes, 'This book chronicles the first forty years of rock/pop music history. Picture the various musical styles as locations on a giant unfolding road map. As you open the map, you travel from place to place, stopping at each chapter to sample the artistry. Don't forget to dress your imagination appropriately for this trip, because each genre is affected by the societal topography and climate that surround it. Enjoy your trip. We promise it will be a good one!

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Routledge

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0429974337

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Supranationalism in the New World Order

Global Processes Reviewed

By: Paul Close,Emiko Ohki-Close

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Supranationalism in the New World Order

Global Processes Reviewed

By: Paul Close,Emiko Ohki-Close

Supranationalism in the New World Order argues that in the post-Cold War distribution of global power and configuration of global players, the European Union is just one among a growing number of regional regimes that are acquiring prominent roles in the process of global governance, to some extent through the operation of differentiated zones of geo-political management.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461734002

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Fresh Dialogue One

By: Nicholas Blechman,Christoph Niemann,Paul Sahre

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Fresh Dialogue One

By: Nicholas Blechman,Christoph Niemann,Paul Sahre

Program sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Chapter and held annually since 1984.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568982232

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Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting

A User-Oriented Approach

By: Paul Rosenfield

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Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting

A User-Oriented Approach

By: Paul Rosenfield

With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue. In this revealing book, author Paul Rosenfield involves the reader in exploring contemporary financial reporting and skilfully highlights the deficiencies in current methods. In doing so it provides a user-oriented guide to the salient issues which affect all aspects of financial accounting. Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting challenges the reader to critically think through the issues and arguments involved in the practice of financial reporting. It goes to the heart of the most difficult and controversial problems, investigating the major issues and commenting upon the solutions offered in financial reporting literature. The grave defects in current accepted accounting principles are demonstrated and exposed, and alternative solutions are offered. Written by a former Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Committee, practitioners and accounting scholars alike will find this volume to be an essential addition to their libraries.

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Routledge

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1135990107

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Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners

By: Paul R. Peluso,Gerald J. Mozdzierz,Joseph Lisiecki

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Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners

By: Paul R. Peluso,Gerald J. Mozdzierz,Joseph Lisiecki

Research has shown that the most effective way to prepare students for practice with real clients is to learn to think in a new way rather than simply learning and using a set of steps. While there is much to be learned from what master practitioners do in their sessions, there is even more knowledge to gain from learning how they think. The second edition of Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy offers students and practitioners a way to understand the processes behind effective outcomes with a wide variety of clients. The second edition is infused with real-world clinical case examples and opportunities for readers to apply the material to the cases being presented. New "thought-exercise" sections are specifically designed to engage the reader’s natural non-linear thinking, and transcript material both from cases and from master therapists themselves are interwoven in the text. Accompanying videos, available through Alexander Street Press, bring the text to life, and instructors will find testbanks, transition notes, and narrated PowerPoints available for free download from the book’s website at www.routledgementalhealth.com

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Routledge

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1134496605

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Peacebuilding, Constitutionalism and the Global South

The Case for Cognitive Justice Plurinationalism

By: Kajit Bagu (John Paul)

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Peacebuilding, Constitutionalism and the Global South

The Case for Cognitive Justice Plurinationalism

By: Kajit Bagu (John Paul)

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict. The work demonstrates the failure of liberal constitutionalism in guaranteeing peace in the postcolonial global South. It develops an alternative, more compelling constitutionalism for peacebuilding in conflicted regions. This is based on constitutionalism that recognises plurality as a major feature in the global South. Drawing on events in Nigeria, it develops a constitutional model, based on Cognitive Justice, which could deliver peace by addressing historic, conceptual, legal, institutional and structural issues that have created social inequality and injustice. The study also incorporates insights from the development of plurinational constitutions in South America. The book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers with an interest in constitutional legal theory, peacebuilding and postcolonial studies

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Routledge

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0429536097

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That's What They Want You to Think

Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid

By: Paul Simpson

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That's What They Want You to Think

Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid

By: Paul Simpson

Challenging perceptions that most conspiracy theories are based in paranoia and cynicism, a volume by an editor of Star Trek Magazine profiles famous theories pertaining to such subjects as Pearl Harbor, JFK's assassination and Roswell. Original.

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Zenith Imprint

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0760341249

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9780760341247

Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics

By: Paul A. Djupe,Laura R. Olson

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Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics

By: Paul A. Djupe,Laura R. Olson

Presents an encyclopedia of religion and politics in America including short biographies of important political and religious figures like Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, and synopses of religious entities like the Branch Davidians and the Episcopal church as well as important court cases of relevancy like Epperson et al. v. Arkansas having to do with evolution.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438130201

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Introduction to Boolean Algebras

By: Steven Givant,Paul Halmos

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Introduction to Boolean Algebras

By: Steven Givant,Paul Halmos

This book is an informal though systematic series of lectures on Boolean algebras. It contains background chapters on topology and continuous functions and includes hundreds of exercises as well as a solutions manual.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387402934

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Wood Made Flesh

The Twelfth Imam

By: Paul M. Perkins

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Wood Made Flesh

The Twelfth Imam

By: Paul M. Perkins

P A U L M . P E R K I N S was born in San Diego, California in 1948 and moved to Hawaii in that same year. His father, a submarine sonarman, was stations between Pearl Harbor and San Diego for twenty years. The novel (Wood Made Flesh) was a result of Pauls hard work studying at Long Ridge Writers Group, where he was enrolled in Writing Courses, Novel Writing, Short Stories and Magazine Articles. The novel is fiction, however, is inclusive of facts about Pauls life growing up and his interest in the three monotheistic religions of the world. Paul, now 62, has seen prophecies unveiled. He has read and studied hundreds of books and articles about religious prophecies and has concluded that The Third Secret is a forewarning of what will take place in our times. Just look around and see what was right 100 years ago is now wrong and what was wrong 100 years ago is now acceptable by our deeply sinful world. This novel, although fictional, is eighty percent factual.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456895745

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Twilight of the Titans

Great Power Decline and Retrenchment

By: Paul K. MacDonald,Joseph M. Parent

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Twilight of the Titans

Great Power Decline and Retrenchment

By: Paul K. MacDonald,Joseph M. Parent

In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to moderate their behavior when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. Challenging the conventional wisdom that such transitions push declining great powers to extreme measures, this book argues that intimidation, provocation, and preventive war are not the only alternatives to the loss of relative power and prestige. Using numerous case studies, MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, the policy options they have, how rising states respond to those in decline, and what conditions reward particular strategic choices.

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Cornell University Press

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1501717103

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The Neighbors of Casas Grandes

Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico

By: Michael E. Whalen,Paul E. Minnis

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The Neighbors of Casas Grandes

Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico

By: Michael E. Whalen,Paul E. Minnis

Casas Grandes, or PaquimŽ, in northwestern Mexico was of one of the few socially complex prehistoric civilizations in North America. Now, based on more than a decade of surveys, excavations, and field work, Michael Whalen and Paul Minnis provide a comprehensive new look at Casas Grandes and its surrounding communities in The Neighbors of Casas Grandes. This volume provides a fascinating and detailed look into the culture of the Casas Grandes area, involving not just the research of the architecture and artifacts left behind but also the ecology of the area. The authorsÕ research reveals the complex relationship Casas Grandes had with its neighbors, varying from very direct contact with some communities to more indirect links with others. Important internal influences on the areaÕs development come to light and population sizes throughout the period demonstrate the absorption of the surrounding populations into Casas Grandes as it reached the peak of its power in the region. New discoveries suggest the need to revise the previously held beliefs about the age of Casas Grandes and the dates of its rise to power. This ancient civilization may have developed as early as 1180 AD. Such breakthroughs provide fresh insight about not only Casas Grandes but the nearby settlements as well. The Neighbors of Casas Grandes is an important and vital piece of primary field research for all those interested in the SouthwestÕs archaelogy and history. Its contribution to the knowledge of the Casas Grandes region is monumental in helping us better understand the society that once flourished there. Ê

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University of Arizona Press

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0816527601

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Single-stranded RNA phages

From molecular biology to nanotechnology

By: Paul Pumpens

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Single-stranded RNA phages

From molecular biology to nanotechnology

By: Paul Pumpens

This is a comprehensive guide to single-stranded RNA phages (family Leviviridae), first discovered in 1961. These phages played a unique role in early studies of molecular biology, the genetic code, translation, replication, suppression of mutations. Special attention is devoted to modern applications of the RNA phages and their products in nanotechnology, vaccinology, gene discovery, evolutionary and environmental studies. Included is an overview of the generation of novel vaccines, gene therapy vectors, drug delivery, and diagnostic tools exploring the role of RNA phage-derived products in the revolutionary progress of the protein tethering and bioimaging protocols. Key Features Presents the first full guide to single-stranded RNA phages Reviews the history of molecular biology summarizing the role RNA phages in the development of the life sciences Demonstrates how RNA phage-derived products have resulted in nanotechnological applications Presents an up-to-date account of the role played by RNA phages in evolutionary and environmental studies

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CRC Press

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042967290X

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9780429672903

Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns

Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games, 2d ed.

By: Paul Green

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Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns

Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games, 2d ed.

By: Paul Green

From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre. In its second edition, this encyclopedia of the Weird Western includes many new entries covering film, television, animation, novels, pulp fiction, short stories, comic books, graphic novels and video and role-playing games. Categories include Weird, Weird Menace, Science Fiction, Space, Steampunk and Romance Westerns.

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1476662576

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Building Up and Tearing Down

Reflections on the Age of Architecture

By: Paul Goldberger

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Building Up and Tearing Down

Reflections on the Age of Architecture

By: Paul Goldberger

PAUL GOLDBERGER ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger’s tenure atThe New Yorkerhas documented a captivating era in the world of architecture, one in which larger-than-life buildings, urban schemes, historic preservation battles, and personalities have commanded an international stage. Goldberger’s keen observations and sharp wit make him one of the most insightful and passionate architectural voices of our time. In this collection of fifty-seven essays, the critic Tracy Kidder called “America’s foremost interpreter of public architecture” ranges from Havana to Beijing, from Chicago to Las Vegas, dissecting everything from skyscrapers by Norman Foster and museums by Tadao Ando to airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses. This is a comprehensive account of the best—and the worst—of the “age of architecture.” On Norman Foster: Norman Foster is the Mozart of modernism. He is nimble and prolific, and his buildings are marked by lightness and grace. He works very hard, but his designs don’t show the effort. He brings an air of unnerving aplomb to everything he creates—from skyscrapers to airports, research laboratories to art galleries, chairs to doorknobs. His ability to produce surprising work that doesn’t feel labored must drive his competitors crazy. On the Westin Hotel: The forty-five-story Westin is the most garish tall building that has gone up in New York in as long as I can remember. It is fascinating, if only because it makes Times Square vulgar in a whole new way, extending up into the sky. It is not easy, these days, to go beyond the bounds of taste. If the architects, the Miami-based firm Arquitectonica, had been trying to allude to bad taste, one could perhaps respect what they came up with. But they simply wanted, like most architects today, to entertain us. On Mies van der Rohe: Mies’s buildings look like the simplest things you could imagine, yet they are among the richest works of architecture ever created. Modern architecture was supposed to remake the world, and Mies was at the center of the revolution, but he was also a counterrevolutionary who designed beautiful things. His spare, minimalist objects are exquisite. He is the only modernist who created a language that ranks with the architectural languages of the past, and while this has sometimes been troubling for his reputation . . . his architectural forms become more astonishing as time goes on.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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1580932649

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The Rule of Law in the Real World

By: Paul Gowder

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The Rule of Law in the Real World

By: Paul Gowder

In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves seamlessly from theory to reality, using examples ranging from Ancient Greece through the present, Gowder sheds light on how societies have achieved the rule of law, how they have sustained it in the face of political upheaval, and how it may be measured and developed in the future. The Rule of Law in the Real World is an essential work for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone else who believes the rule of law is critical to the proper functioning of society.

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Cambridge University Press

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131649554X

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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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0805864393

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Confidentiality and Its Discontents

Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy

By: Paul W. Mosher,Jeffrey Berman

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Confidentiality and Its Discontents

Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy

By: Paul W. Mosher,Jeffrey Berman

Freud promised his patients absolute confidentiality, regardless of what they revealed, but privacy in psychotherapy began to erode a half-century ago. Psychotherapists now seem to serve as “double agents” with a dual and often conflicting allegiance to patient and society. Some therapists even go so far as to issue Miranda-type warnings, advising patients that what they say in therapy may be used against them. Confidentiality and Its Discontents explores the human stories arising from this loss of confidentiality in psychotherapy. Addressing different types of psychotherapy breaches, Mosher and Berman begin with the the story of novelist Philip Roth, who was horrified when he learned that his psychoanalyst had written a thinly veiled case study about him. Other breaches of privacy occur when the so-called duty to protect compels a therapist to break confidentiality by contacting the police. Every psychotherapist has heard about “Tarasoff,” but few know the details of this story of fatal attraction. Nor are most readers familiar with the Jaffee case, which established psychotherapist-patient privilege in the federal courts. Similiarly, the story of Robert Bierenbaum, a New York surgeon who was brought to justice fifteen years after he brutally murdered his wife, reveals how privileged communication became established in a state court. Meanwhile, the story of New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, convicted of harassing a former lover and her daughter, shows how the fear of the loss of confidentiality may prevent a person from seeking treatment, with potentially disastrous results. While affirming the importance of the psychotherapist-patient privilege, Confidentiality and Its Discontents focuses on both the inner and outer stories of the characters involved in noteworthy psychotherapy breaches and the ways in which psychiatry and the law can complement but sometimes clash with each other.

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0823265110

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Success While Others Fail

Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace

By: Paul Johnston

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Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace

By: Paul Johnston

Case studies of how some companies (including Xerox, General Electric, Goodyear, and Manpower, Inc.) are designing and implementing training practices to make their organizations more competitive. Thin bibliography. Johnston (sociology, Yale U.) compares and analyzes the experiences of several different public and private sector workforces engaged in new social movement unionism in recent decades, and examines the consequences of employment in political bureaucracy for the demands and the resources of public worker's movement. Discusses the public worker's movement in history, the mobilization of women, and the nurses' strike for comparable worth. Focuses on San Francisco and its suburban areas. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Cornell University Press

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0875463355

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9780875463353

Singing the Body of God

The Hymns of Vedantadesika in Their South Indian Tradition

By: Steven Paul Hopkins

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Singing the Body of God

The Hymns of Vedantadesika in Their South Indian Tradition

By: Steven Paul Hopkins

This is the first full-length study of the devotional poetry and poetics of the fourteenth-century poet-philosopher Vedantadesika, one of the most outstanding and influential figures in the Hindu tradition of Sri-Vaishnavism (the cult of Lord Vishnu). Despite their intrinsic beauty and theological importance, the poetry and philosophy of Vedantadesika have received very little scholarly attention. But for the millions who belong to the Vaishnava tradition, those poems are not just classical literature; they are committed to memory, recited, sung, and enacted in ritual both in India and throughout the Hindu diaspora. Steven Hopkins here offers a comparative study of the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Tamil poems composed by Vedantadesika in praise of important Vaishnava shrines and their icons--poems that are considered to be the apogee of South Indian devotional literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0198029306

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9780198029304

Tech-Noir

The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir

By: Paul Meehan

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Tech-Noir

The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir

By: Paul Meehan

This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk movement, the book examines more than 100 films in which the common noir elements of crime, mystery, surrealism, and human perversity intersect with the high technology of science fiction. The author also details the hybrid subgenre's considerable influences on contemporary music, fashion, and culture.

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McFarland

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147660973X

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9781476609737

Speculative Time

American Literature in an Age of Crisis

By: Paul Crosthwaite

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Speculative Time

American Literature in an Age of Crisis

By: Paul Crosthwaite

Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, as well as on important aspects of visual representation. The conceptions of time-and especially futurity-arising from the theory and practice of speculation provided crucial models for writers' and other artists' aesthetic, intellectual, and political concerns and strategies. The attractions and dangers of speculation were most spectacularly apparent in the period's pivotal economic event: the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book offers an innovative account of how the speculative boom and bust of the "Roaring Twenties" affected literary and cultural production in the United States. It situates the stock market gyrations of the 1920s and 1930s within a wider culture of speculation that was profoundly shaped by, but extended well beyond, the brokerages and trading floors of Wall Street. The early to mid-twentieth century was a “speculative time,” an age characterized by leaps of economic, political, intellectual, and literary speculation; and the notion of speculative time provides a means of understanding the period's characteristic temporal modes and textures, as evident in work by figures including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Nathan Asch, William Faulkner, Federico García Lorca, James N. Rosenberg, Margaret Bourke-White, Archibald MacLeish, Christina Stead, Claude McKay, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison.

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Oxford University Press

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0198891814

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9780198891819

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