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The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 3: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

By: Lydia Parziale,Berthold Gunreben,Filipe Miranda,Paul W Novak,Ken Werner,IBM Redbooks

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The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 3: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

By: Lydia Parziale,Berthold Gunreben,Filipe Miranda,Paul W Novak,Ken Werner,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is Volume 3 of a series of three books called The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems. The other two volumes are called: The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 1: IBM z/VM 6.3, SG24-8147 The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Servers, SG24-8303 It is suggested that you start with Volume 1 of this series, because IBM z/VM® is the base "layer" when installing Linux on IBM z SystemsTM. Volume 1 starts with an introduction, describes planning, and then describes z/VM installation into a two-node, single system image (SSI) cluster, configuration, hardening, automation, and servicing. It adopts a cookbook format that provides a concise, repeatable set of procedures for installing and configuring z/VM using the SSI clustering feature. Volumes 2 and 3 describe how to roll your own Linux virtual servers on z Systems hardware under z/VM. The cookbook format continues with installing and customizing Linux. Volume 3 focuses on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. It describes how to install and configure SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 onto the Linux administration system, which does the cloning and other tasks. It also explains how to use AutoYaST2, which enables you to automatically install Linux using a configuration file, and explains how to create and use appliances and bootable images from configuration files. In addition, it provides information about common tasks and tools available to service SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738440981

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Partners in Pleasure

Sharing Success, Creating Joy, Fulfilling Dreams - Together

By: Paul Pearsall

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Partners in Pleasure

Sharing Success, Creating Joy, Fulfilling Dreams - Together

By: Paul Pearsall

This sequel to Pearsall's bestselling "The Pleasure Prescription" shows couples the way to true happiness. Drawing on 2,000-year-old Polynesian wisdom, "Partners in Pleasure" shows how to go beyond self-fulfillment to selfless, shared pleasure. The Foreword features rare written wisdom from a well-respected kapuna (Hawaiian elder).

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Hunter House

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0897933230

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Media, Culture and Society

An Introduction

By: Paul Hodkinson

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Media, Culture and Society

An Introduction

By: Paul Hodkinson

As digital media come to saturate more and more of our societies, what benefits and challenges do they bring? Who holds power in contemporary media industries, and do they have our best interests at heart? What role do media play in our cultural identities and the relations between communities? How much control do media users have over the role of platforms, algorithms and data in their lives? Media increasingly dominate our social and cultural worlds, affecting issues of power, politics, knowledge, identity, and everyday life. But what are the implications of the mediatisation of contemporary life, and how should we make sense of it? In this fully updated and revised edition of his bestselling textbook, Paul Hodkinson explores the social and cultural significance of media in the age of digital platforms. Encompassing media technologies, industries, texts and users, and combining coverage of classic theories with extensive new material on platforms, social media, datafication and more, this book will equip you to navigate the fast-moving field of media and communication studies. Media, Culture and Society provides an essential overview for students studying introductory media modules, as well as depth for those further into their media degree.

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SAGE Publications Limited

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1529679796

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Harbingers

A Repairman Jack Novel

By: F. Paul Wilson

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Harbingers

A Repairman Jack Novel

By: F. Paul Wilson

A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilson's trademark breakneck pace, Harbingers It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he'll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life. As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitos. Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. That's when things begin to blow up and people begin to die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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1429915374

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Descartes' Baby

How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

By: Paul Bloom

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Descartes' Baby

How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

By: Paul Bloom

All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles of physics, and they’re startled when things disappear or defy gravity. Yet they can also read emotions and respond with anger, sympathy, and joy.In Descartes’ Baby, Bloom draws on a wealth of scientific discoveries to show how these two ways of knowing give rise to such uniquely human traits as humor, disgust, religion, art, and morality. How our dualist perspective, developed throughout our lives, profoundly influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions is the subject of this richly rewarding book.

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0786738995

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Czech Drama Since World War II

By: Paul I. Trensky

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Czech Drama Since World War II

By: Paul I. Trensky

During the years between 1956 and 1970 Czech literature and theatre passed through a profoundly creative period, a renaissance or spiritual rebirth following an era of sterility that was the result of the forced imposition of the Stalinist dogma of socialist realism. This study is a first attempt, to define for us the character and originality of this era. This title was first published in 1978.

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Routledge

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135169622X

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Think of an Elephant

Combining Science and Spirituality for a Better Life

By: Paul Bailey

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Think of an Elephant

Combining Science and Spirituality for a Better Life

By: Paul Bailey

Combining science and spirituality to reveal the true nature of the universe - this book will change perceptions, inspire mind-shifts and alter the way we see the world, forever.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1780283490

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The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

By: Paul Griffiths

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The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

By: Paul Griffiths

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.

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0141909765

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Gun Trader's Guide

By: Paul Wahl

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Gun Trader's Guide

By: Paul Wahl

First published 40 years ago, this guide is the leading authority in firearm values. Covers guns manufactured since the turn of the century and includes handguns, rifles, and shotguns. The standard reference for collectors, curators, dealers, shooters, and gun enthusiasts for 40 years. Over 2,000 illustrations.

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0883171694

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Legend

From Electric Fences to Global Success: The Sir William Gallagher Story

By: Paul Goldsmith

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Legend

From Electric Fences to Global Success: The Sir William Gallagher Story

By: Paul Goldsmith

The story of New Zealand's most successful exporter and its head, Bill Gallagher, who built on the invention of an electric fence to make the company a world leader in its field. New Zealanders are always being exhorted to take a clever idea and go global. Easier said than done. But one iconic company has been doing just that for over 75 years. Gallagher Industries began in a Hamilton shed in the late 1930s, when a self-taught engineer, Bill Gallagher, came up with a design for an electric fence that transformed New Zealand farming. His sons Bill junior and John took over the business in the 1970s and applied their engineering genius and driving ambition to turn it into one of this country's most successful companies. Today it employs 600 staff in New Zealand and has distributes its animal containment and security products worldwide. Even Buckingham Palace is protected by a Gallagher security system! Based on a ceaseless quest for efficiency and world-beating new technology, Gallagher products are peerless, and the company's achievements the stuff of envy. And along the way Bill Gallagher, now Sir William, has managed to have plenty of adventure -- including diving for sunken treasure with Wade Doak and the late Kelly Tarlton. This fascinating book tells how Kiwi can-do can be transformed into global success — and for the long haul. It hasn't been easy: more than once Gallagher has had to pull his business back from the brink, but his inspired leadership got it through. Other companies may fall to overseas owners or lose their way but under Sir William Gallagher, Gallagher Industries — resourceful, nimble and generous in its philanthropy — is a proud New Zealand business that's here to stay.

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Liberation Theology at the Crossroads

Democracy or Revolution?

By: Paul E. Sigmund

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Liberation Theology at the Crossroads

Democracy or Revolution?

By: Paul E. Sigmund

Liberation theology originated in Catholic Latin America at the end of the 1960s in response to prevalent conditions of poverty and oppression. Its basic tenet was that it is the primary duty of the church to seek to promote social and economic justice. Since that time it has grown in influence, spreading to other areas of the Third World, along with bitter controversy about its ties to Marxist ideology and violent revolution. Drawing on both English and Spanish sources, this critical study examines the history, method, and doctrines of liberation theology. Sigmund considers the movement's origins in political circumstances in Latin America and provides case studies of its role in such events as the revolution and counter-revolution in Chile, and in the revolutionary movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Examining the thought of major liberation theologians, as well as the critical responses of the Vatican, Sigmund shows that liberation theology is a complex phenomenon, comprising a variety of kinds and degrees of radicalism. He discerns a general trend away from the Marxist rhetoric that has often characterized the movement in the past and towards the kind of grassroots populist reform typified by the Basic Christian Communities Movement.

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Oxford University Press

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0195344936

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Machiavelli's Shadow

The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove

By: Paul Alexander

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Machiavelli's Shadow

The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove

By: Paul Alexander

A no-holds-barred portrait of the Bush administration architect evaluates his role in influencing a wide range of issues, from the war in Iraq and Social Security to the environment and energy, in a profile that also documents the controversial judicial matters that contributed to his downfall.

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Rodale

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1594868255

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Roy Huggins

Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files

By: Paul Green

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Roy Huggins

Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files

By: Paul Green

Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life, aided by exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors and writers who worked with him. The author was granted exclusive access to Huggins' personal memoirs to provide an intimate, firsthand account, including his early career at Columbia, RKO, Warner Bros. and 20th Century-Fox. Huggins' political activism at UCLA and the subsequent House Un-American Activities hearing in 1952 is covered in depth. The book includes an extensive filmography and previously unpublished photographs provided by family members.

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McFarland

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0786476710

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The Crib

By: Paul Kent

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The Crib

By: Paul Kent

Twenty-nine infants spanning two generations of one family have died a crib death. Dr. Stuart Rice knows there must be a link. The search for the answer becomes his obsession . . . and a lesson in terror.

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Bantam

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0553266500

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The Analemma Waltz

A Year of Solar and Personal Reflections

By: Paul Vincent

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The Analemma Waltz

A Year of Solar and Personal Reflections

By: Paul Vincent

When author Paul Vincent moved into his new home in Bristol, Rhode Island, he was struck by how generously its interior gathered sunlight and decided to keep a record of the annual solar itinerary across its walls, floors and furniture. The result is The Analemma Waltz, a celebration of the sun’s slow-motion dance through his house, facilitated, in part, by its surfeit of windows, but much more so by the analemma—the narrow figure-eight pattern the sun describes in the sky in the course of a year in the Earth’s orbital journey. Vincent’s habit of noting and minuting the changing positions of sunlight, day by day and week by week, was the catalyst for meditations on matters of universal concern, as suggested by the times and the seasons of the year and approached, not from the perspective of a scholar or academic, but from that of an interested layperson. Such matters, addressed in the monthly chapters, include the study of history, the virtue of tolerance, the conflict between science and religion and the morality of war. Despite the varied nature of the essay topics in The Analemma Waltz, certain themes appear and reappear throughout the book, namely the author’s convictions that existential particularity is the occasion of both joy and sadness; that the world’s people, though the beneficiaries of seemingly endless breakthroughs in technology, are, and will remain, metaphysically vulnerable; and that appreciation prompting gratitude is the highest vocation of the human person.

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1663212198

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EBOOK: Teaching and Learning Primary Science with ICT

By: Paul Warwick,Elaine Wilson,Mark Winterbottom

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EBOOK: Teaching and Learning Primary Science with ICT

By: Paul Warwick,Elaine Wilson,Mark Winterbottom

This book provides a range of insights into pupils’ learning relevant to the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in primary science. The contributors, who are all experts in their field, draw on practical and theoretical perspectives and: Provide specific examples of software and hardware use in the classroom Consider innovative and creative uses of technology for pupils engaged in science activity in the primary and early years Indicate future possibilities for the use of computer-based technologies Key themes running through the book include: setting the use of ICT in primary science within theoretical perspectives on learning and on pedagogy; the importance of using ICT in developing talking and listening opportunities in the science classroom; and the potential of learning through ICT enhanced science investigations. Contemporary issues such as inclusion, creativity and collaborative learning are also examined, making Teaching and Learning Primary Science with ICT essential reading for students in science education, and for teachers who want to use new technology to improve learning in their science classrooms.

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0335230369

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Doing God's Business

Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace

By: R. Paul Stevens

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Doing God's Business

Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace

By: R. Paul Stevens

Stevens explores the potential of business as both a location for practicing everyday spiritual disciplines and a source of creativity and deeper relationship with God. This volume should encourage and challenge businesspersons in all segments of the marketplace to more faithfully integrate their faith and work lives.

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0802833985

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T

By: Paul Finkelman

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T

By: Paul Finkelman

Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.

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0195167791

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Crash Course

The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond

By: Paul Ingrassia

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Crash Course

The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond

By: Paul Ingrassia

“A definitive account . . . It’s hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to ‘ride shotgun’ on a journey through the sometimes triumphant, often turbulent, history of U.S. automaking. . . . [A] wealth of amusing, astonishing and enlightening nuggets.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry—the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration’s stake in Detroit’s recovery—Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America? With an updated Afterword by the author Praise for Crash Course “In order to understand just how much of a mess it was—not to mention how it got that way and how, if at all, it can be cleaned up—you really need to read Crash Course.”—The Washinton Post “Ingrassia tells Detroit’s story with economy, vigour and restrained fury.”—The Economist “A delightful mix of history and first-person reporting . . . Employing superb storytelling skills, Ingrassia explains in head-shaking detail the elements of a wholly avoidable collision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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0812980751

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Take It Back

Our Party, Our Country, Our Future

By: James Carville,Paul Begala

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Take It Back

Our Party, Our Country, Our Future

By: James Carville,Paul Begala

By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok. Republicans today control everything: the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the federal bureaucracy, the military, and the corporate special interests and their lobbyists. They operate powerful right-wing organizations, right-wing think tanks, and a conservative media that serves as an attack dog against Democrats. Republicans have used their absolute power to corrupt our democracy, degrade our military, weaken our health care system, diminish our stature in the world, damage our environment, reward the rich, hammer the poor, squeeze the middle class, bankrupt our Treasury, and indenture our children to foreign debt holders. In this important book, James Carville and Paul Begala show Democrats how they can take it back. They offer a clear-eyed critique of their party's failures and make specific, concrete recommendations on how Democrats can avoid losing elections on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, gay rights, and moral values and start winning them on health care, political reform, energy, the environment, tax reform, and more. Carville and Begala say that liberal Democrats are right that too many establishment Democrats kowtow to corporate interests and shamefully supported George W. Bush's rush to war. And moderate Democrats are right to complain that too many Democrats are out of step with middle-class values, too removed from people of faith, too enthralled with intellectual and cultural elites. But the problem with the Democrats, Carville and Begala argue, is not ideological. It's anatomical. They lack a backbone. Take It Back is a spinal transplant for Democrats and an audacious battle plan for victory.

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0743292952

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Marketing

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaste

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Marketing

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaste

Are you about to undertake a one semester or short course in marketing? If so, 'Marketing: The One Semester Introduction' is the book for you! Written by two of the most experienced and respected authors of the subject in the UK, it is specifically designed for those wanting a rapid and thorough introduction to marketing. This book: · is based on vast teaching experience and classroom testing to ensure that it precisely meets the needs of the business studies or modular marketing student · provides authoritative coverage of the subject, yet avoids becoming entangled in a mass of extra theory that may prove unhelpful for preliminary study · has an international viewpoint that guides the reader to the very heart of contemporary global marketing issues 'Marketing: The One Semester Introduction' provides exactly the right amount of theory and information to ensure rapid and high quality learning. With its succinct and clear style, the book represents an indispensable starting point for students of business studies and marketing.

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Taylor & Francis

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We Are All Human Beings

An Adoptee Ponders

By: Paul Kimball

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We Are All Human Beings

An Adoptee Ponders

By: Paul Kimball

Paul Kimball, an adoptee and musician, explores his feelings of abandonment as he reunites with his birth parents. After a brief reunion, he is rejected by his birth mother, a concert cellist. In despair, he finds his Armenian birth father whose first words to him were "Son, I love you." Adoptees have unanswered questions and unfulfilled wishes. With whom do we belong? Can we find a sense of acceptance when our first experiences were of rejection and separation? Is there room for happiness?

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1977238483

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Jeffrey Hunter

The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances

By: Paul Green

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Jeffrey Hunter

The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances

By: Paul Green

Jeffrey Hunter is best remembered today for his roles as half-breed Martin Pawley in John Ford's classic western The Searchers (1956), as Jesus Christ in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings (1961) and as Christopher Pike, the first captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in the original Star Trek pilot. This work chronicles Hunter's entire film and television career from his beginnings as a 20th Century-Fox contract player to his untimely death in 1969 at the age of 42. Fellow 20th Century-Fox contract player Robert Wagner provides the Foreword and contributes his memories of working with Hunter. Former vice president and head of Desilu Studios Herbert F. Solow discusses Hunter's role in the original Star Trek pilot and Lloyd J. Schwartz shares his memories of being present at Hunter's audition for the role of Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch (1969). Hunter's "lost" film Strange Portrait (1966) is also discussed in detail and his radio and theatre career highlighted.

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0786478683

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Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy

Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform

By: Paul R. Pillar

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Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy

Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform

By: Paul R. Pillar

A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially measures enacted since 9/11, can be deeply misguided. They often miss the sources that underwrite failed policy and misperceive our ability to read outside influences. They also misconceive the intelligence-policy relationship and promote changes that weaken intelligence-gathering operations. In this book, Pillar confronts the intelligence myths Americans have come to rely on to explain national tragedies, including the belief that intelligence drives major national security decisions and can be fixed to avoid future failures. Pillar believes these assumptions waste critical resources and create harmful policies, diverting attention away from smarter reform, and they keep Americans from recognizing the limits of obtainable knowledge. Pillar revisits U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War and highlights the small role intelligence played in those decisions, and he demonstrates the negligible effect that America's most notorious intelligence failures had on U.S. policy and interests. He then reviews in detail the events of 9/11 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, condemning the 9/11 commission and the George W. Bush administration for their portrayals of the role of intelligence. Pillar offers an original approach to better informing U.S. policy, which involves insulating intelligence management from politicization and reducing the politically appointed layer in the executive branch to combat slanted perceptions of foreign threats. Pillar concludes with principles for adapting foreign policy to inevitable uncertainties.

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Columbia University Press

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0231527802

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The Illustrated Wavelet Transform Handbook

Introductory Theory and Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Finance

By: Paul S Addison

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The Illustrated Wavelet Transform Handbook

Introductory Theory and Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Finance

By: Paul S Addison

The Illustrated Wavelet Transform Handbook: Introductory Theory and Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Finance provides an overview of the theory and practical applications of wavelet transform methods. The author uses several hundred illustrations, some in color, to convey mathematical concepts and the results of applications. The first chapter presents a brief overview of the wavelet transform, including a short history. The remainder of the book is split into two parts: the first part discusses the mathematics of both discrete and continuous wavelet transforms while the second part deals with applications in a variety of subject areas, such as geophysics, medicine, fluid turbulence, engineering testing, speech and sound analysis, image analysis, and data compression. These application chapters make the reader aware of the similarities that exist in the use of wavelet transform analysis across disciplines. A comprehensive list of more than 700 references provides a valuable resource for further study. The book is designed specifically for the applied reader in science, engineering, medicine, finance, or any other of the growing number of application areas. Newcomers to the subject will find an accessible and clear account of the theory of continuous and discrete wavelet transforms, providing a large number of examples of their use across a wide range of disciplines. Readers already acquainted with wavelets can use the book to broaden their perspective.

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1420033395

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Religion of a Different Color

Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

By: W. Paul Reeve

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Religion of a Different Color

Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

By: W. Paul Reeve

Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W. Paul Reeve explores the ways in which nineteenth century Protestant white America made outsiders out of an inside religious group. Much of what has been written on Mormon otherness centers upon economic, cultural, doctrinal, marital, and political differences that set Mormons apart from mainstream America. Reeve instead looks at how Protestants racialized Mormons, using physical differences in order to define Mormons as non-White to help justify their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He analyzes and contextualizes the rhetoric on Mormons as a race with period discussions of the Native American, African American, Oriental, Turk/Islam, and European immigrant races. He also examines how Mormon male, female, and child bodies were characterized in these racialized debates. For instance, while Mormons argued that polygamy was ordained by God, and so created angelic, celestial, and elevated offspring, their opponents suggested that the children were degenerate and deformed. The Protestant white majority was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely religious-departure from the mainstream and spent considerable effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white brought access to political, social, and economic power, all aspects of citizenship in which outsiders sought to limit or prevent Mormon participation. At least a part of those efforts came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body, ways in which outsiders suggested that Mormons were physically different, racially more similar to marginalized groups than they were white. Medical doctors went so far as to suggest that Mormon polygamy was spawning a new race. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back and forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant, but not unscathed. Mormon leaders moved away from universalistic ideals toward segregated priesthood and temples, policies firmly in place by the early twentieth century. So successful were Mormons at claiming whiteness for themselves that by the time Mormon Mitt Romney sought the White House in 2012, he was labeled "the whitest white man to run for office in recent memory." Ending with reflections on ongoing views of the Mormon body, this groundbreaking book brings together literatures on religion, whiteness studies, and nineteenth century racial history with the history of politics and migration.

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The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette

By: Paul J. Salamoff

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The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette

By: Paul J. Salamoff

How to behave like a pro on a Hollywood soundstage. When it comes to Hollywood etiquette on the movie set, nobody gave better advice than Spencer Tracy, “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” This is the first codified collection of Hollywood’s movie set rules, there is no other resource book like it. • endorsed by the industry and film unions • the hidden rules they don’t teach you in film schools • each chapter covers a different department (talent, grip, costume, electric, etc.) • practical advice from over 80 top industry professionals • witty, humorous and packed with anecdotes

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