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Ove Arup

Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century

By: Peter H. Jones,Peter Jones,Peter Jones, PH D,Ove Nyquist Arup

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Ove Arup

Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century

By: Peter H. Jones,Peter Jones,Peter Jones, PH D,Ove Nyquist Arup

Biografie van de Deense ingenieur (1895-1988).

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Yale University Press

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Managing Organisations in Africa

By: Peter Blunt,Merrick L. Jones

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Managing Organisations in Africa

By: Peter Blunt,Merrick L. Jones

Managing Organisations in Africa de Gruyter Studies in Organization.

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Walter de Gruyter

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Design for Care

Innovating Healthcare Experience

By: Peter Jones

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Design for Care

Innovating Healthcare Experience

By: Peter Jones

The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.

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Rosenfeld Media

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1933820136

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Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation

By: Neil D. Jones,Carsten K. Gomard,Peter Sestoft

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Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation

By: Neil D. Jones,Carsten K. Gomard,Peter Sestoft

Partial evaluation reconciles generality with efficiency by providing automatic specialization and optimization of programs. This book covers the entire field of partial evaluation; provides simple and complete algorithms; and demonstrates that specialization can increase efficiency.

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Peter Sestoft

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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

The Great Book of Alternatives to Psychiatry Around the World (New edition)

By: Peter Stastny (ed.),Peter Lehmann (ed.)

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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

The Great Book of Alternatives to Psychiatry Around the World (New edition)

By: Peter Stastny (ed.),Peter Lehmann (ed.)

The book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry, current possibilities for self-help for individuals experiencing madness or depression, and strategies toward implementing humane treatment. Sixty-one authors (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives from all five continents report about their alternative work, their objectives and successes, and their individual and collective experiences. +++ These are the main questions addressed by the 61 authors from all five continents: What helps me if I go mad or depressive? / How can I find trustworthy help for a relative or a friend in need? / How can I protect myself from coercive treatment? / As a family member or friend, how can I help? / What should I do if I can no longer bear to work in the mental health field? / What are the alternatives to psychiatry? / How can I get involved in creating alternatives? / Assuming psychiatry would be abolished: what do you propose. instead of psychiatry?

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The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

By: Andrew Burbidge,Peter Harrison,John Woinarski

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The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

By: Andrew Burbidge,Peter Harrison,John Woinarski

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia. This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals, including those of external territories and territorial seas. For all the mammal taxa (about 300 species and subspecies) considered Extinct, Threatened, Near Threatened or Data Deficient, the size and trend of their population is presented along with information on geographic range and trend, and relevant biological and ecological data. The book also presents the current conservation status of each taxon under Australian legislation, what additional information is needed for managers, and the required management actions. Recovery plans, where they exist, are evaluated. The voluntary participation of more than 200 mammal experts has ensured that the conservation status and information are as accurate as possible, and allowed considerable unpublished data to be included. All accounts include maps based on the latest data from Australian state and territory agencies, from published scientific literature and other sources. The Action Plan concludes that 29 Australian mammal species have become extinct and 63 species are threatened and require urgent conservation action. However, it also shows that, where guided by sound knowledge, management capability and resourcing, and longer-term commitment, there have been some notable conservation success stories, and the conservation status of some species has greatly improved over the past few decades. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 makes a major contribution to the conservation of a wonderful legacy that is a significant part of Australia’s heritage. For such a legacy to endure, our society must be more aware of and empathetic with our distinctively Australian environment, and particularly its marvellous mammal fauna; relevant information must be readily accessible; environmental policy and law must be based on sound evidence; those with responsibility for environmental management must be aware of what priority actions they should take; the urgency for action (and consequences of inaction) must be clear; and the opportunity for hope and success must be recognised. It is in this spirit that this account is offered.

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Multimedia Information Retrieval

Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases

By: Peter Schäuble

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Multimedia Information Retrieval

Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases

By: Peter Schäuble

Multimedia Information Retrieval: Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases addresses the future need for sophisticated search techniques that will be required to find relevant information in large digital data repositories, such as digital libraries and other multimedia databases. Because of the dramatically increasing amount of multimedia data available, there is a growing need for new search techniques that provide not only fewer bits, but also the most relevant bits, to those searching for multimedia digital data. This book serves to bridge the gap between classic ranking of text documents and modern information retrieval where composite multimedia documents are searched for relevant information. Multimedia Information Retrieval: Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases begins to pave the way for speech retrieval; only recently has the search for information in speech recordings become feasible. This book provides the necessary introduction to speech recognition while discussing probabilistic retrieval and text retrieval, key topics in classic information retrieval. The book then discusses speech retrieval, which is even more challenging than retrieving text documents because word boundaries are difficult to detect, and recognition errors affect the retrieval effectiveness. This book also addresses the problem of integrating information retrieval and database functions, since there is an increasing need for retrieving information from frequently changing data collections which are organized and managed by a database system. Multimedia Information Retrieval: Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461561639

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Archaeology of Ancient Australia

By: Peter Hiscock

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Archaeology of Ancient Australia

By: Peter Hiscock

Peter Hiscock presents an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the 18th century AD.

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Routledge

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Kitcheners Army

The Raising of the New Armies 1914 1916

By: Peter Simkins

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Kitcheners Army

The Raising of the New Armies 1914 1916

By: Peter Simkins

Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.

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Pen and Sword

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Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

By: Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass

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Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

By: Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521786630

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Electronic Transport in Hydrogenated Amorphous Semiconductors

By: Harald Overhof,Peter Thomas

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Electronic Transport in Hydrogenated Amorphous Semiconductors

By: Harald Overhof,Peter Thomas

Currently this is the book providing a thorough introduction and a unified theoretical basis for the interpretation of equilibrium transport processes in amorphous hydrogenated tetrahydrally coordinated semiconductors - a topic of great interest to physicists and material scientists (first devices for practical applications are already being manufactured). Most of the relevant literature is reviewed with particular emphasis on the approach developed by the authors. It explains most of the experimental data and allows the extraction of information about microscopic transport processes and parameters from equilibrium transport data. This work treats electronic transport in the mentioned type of semiconductors and in particular in a-Si:H and a-Ge:H. From elementary concepts the theory is developed towards higher degrees of completeness and sophistication. Further refinements for coping with the complexity of real systems are given. The comparison of theory with experiment is an important part of the book.

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The Shadow of a Dream

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Peter A. Coclanis

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The Shadow of a Dream

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Peter A. Coclanis

Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195072677

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From VPI to State University

President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974

By: Warren H. Strother,Peter Wallenstein

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From VPI to State University

President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974

By: Warren H. Strother,Peter Wallenstein

T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., became president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1962. By the time he left twelve years later, the school had become auniversity. No longer a small military school that emphasized agriculture and engineering for white male undergraduates, Virginia Technical Institute and State University had become a multiracial, coeducational research university with a thriving college of arts and sciences as well as burgeoning graduate programs.Bringing together the biography of a man and the history of an institution through a dozen years of transformation, Strother and Wellenstein discuss the school's tremendous growth in sheer numbers of faculty and students, the increased enrollment of female and non-white students, and the increased emphasis on intercollegiate athletics. From VPI to State University is the story of the transformation of public higher education in the United States -- especially in the South -- in the 1960s. Much of the book relies on the recollections of the people who -- as faculty, administrators, or other leaders -- experienced, even brought about, the changes chronicled in these pages.Warren H. Strother worked with Marshall Hahn for ten years while Hahn transformed VPI into a university. A South Carolina native, Strother grew up in Virginia and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Journalism from Northwest University. After twelve years as a journalist he worked at Virginia Tech from 1964 to 1990.

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Mercer University Press

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0865547874

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Biochemical Adaptation

Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution

By: Peter William Hochachka,George N. Somero

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Biochemical Adaptation

Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution

By: Peter William Hochachka,George N. Somero

Suitable for graduates and undergraduates in environmental biology, comparative physiology, and marine biology, this text lays out the principles of mechanistic comparative physiology in an ecological and evolutionary context. This text lays out the principles of mechanistic comparative physiology in an ecological and evolutionary context. The subject of evolutionary physiology has been advancing considerably and this book will bring readers up to date on a number of new techniques, ideas and data. Topics include NMR spectroscopy and molecular biology, evolution and adaptation, phylogenetically-based analytical techniques and more.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195117034

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Knots and Links

By: Peter R. Cromwell

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Knots and Links

By: Peter R. Cromwell

A richly illustrated 2004 textbook on knot theory; minimal prerequisites but modern in style and content.

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Cambridge University Press

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The God of Sex

How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality

By: Peter Jones

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The God of Sex

How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality

By: Peter Jones

A placard carried in the San Diego Gay Parade said it all: "He's your God. They're your rules. You go to Hell." Clearly, there is no longer any commonly held ultimate authority. So merely quoting Bible verses at gays and other "sexual sinners" to prove they are immoral is equally unsuccessful, if not destructive. For the sake of our young people, for the sake of our churches, for the sake of society and our world, Christians must understand the connection of spirituality and sexuality if we are to communicate relevantly to our postmodern culture. Jones gives an objective, honest appraisal of contemporary sexual trends and puts them up against God's clear (and beautiful) design for sex as a spiritual expression. Features and Benefits Helps Christians break out of typical parameters to help them understand and relevantly engage the culture. Nonbelievers will find this book objective and non-offensive, fairly representing postmodern worldviews. Thorough index and bibliography makes this book a powerful resource tool.

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David C Cook

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0781443725

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Law and People in Colonial America

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

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Law and People in Colonial America

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law. How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? And why did the early Americans develop a passion for litigation that continues to this day? In Law and People in Colonial America, Peter Charles Hoffer tells the story of early American law from its beginnings on the British mainland to its maturation during the crisis of the American Revolution. For the men and women of colonial America, Hoffer explains, law was a pervasive influence in everyday life. Because it was their law, the colonists continually adapted it to fit changing circumstances. They also developed a sense of legalism that influenced virtually all social, economic, and political relationships. This sense of intimacy with the law, Hoffer argues, assumed a transforming power in times of crisis. In the midst of a war for independence, American revolutionaries used their intimacy with the law to explain how their rebellion could be lawful, while legislators wrote republican constitutions that would endure for centuries. Today the role of law in American life is more pervasive than ever. And because our system of law involves a continuing dialogue between past and present, interpreting the meaning of precedent and of past legislation, the study of legal history is a vital part of every citizen's basic education. Taking advantage of rich new scholarship that goes beyond traditional approaches to view slavery as a fundamental cultural and social institution as well as an economic one, this second edition includes an extensive, entirely new chapter on colonial and revolutionary-era slave law. Law and People in Colonial America is a lively introduction to early American law. It makes for essential reading.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421434598

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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II

The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert

By: A. Peter Brown

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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II

The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert

By: A. Peter Brown

More than 170 symphonies from this repertoire are described and analyzed in The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, the first volume of the series to appear.

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Indiana University Press

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025333487X

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The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures

By: Robert L Burt,Peter P Rotar,J. L. Walker,M. W. Silvey

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The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures

By: Robert L Burt,Peter P Rotar,J. L. Walker,M. W. Silvey

This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. Leading agronomists review the magnitude of the need for pasture improvement; tropical and subtropical soil and climate environments; reports of the successful use of legumes in pasture development in a wet and a dry tropical environment; and the scope of the problem in terms of area to be developed and development logistics required. Three legume genera, Centrosema, Desmodium, and Stylosanthes, are discussed in detail--information is presented on taxonomy, adaptation, distribution, productivity, and usefulness--and considerable emphasis is placed on Rhizobium germplasm resources for these genera. A concluding section of technical essays addresses special considerations in using tropical legumes in pasture development and presents a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to legume exploration and evaluation.

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CRC Press

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1000305287

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Pneumatic Conveying

Basics, Design and Operation of Plants

By: Peter Hilgraf

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Pneumatic Conveying

Basics, Design and Operation of Plants

By: Peter Hilgraf

Bulk materials are processed and refined in many industrial plants. They are transported back and forth between the various process steps. If bulk materials are dust-fine to coarse-grained, they can be transported pneumatically through pipelines with flowing gas - over distances of several metres to several kilometres. This book introduces the basics of pneumatic conveying, the construction of plants and their operation. The first three chapters deal with the physical properties of the bulk material and the conveying gas as well as their behaviour in gas-solid systems. The following chapter describes the application of these basics in pneumatic conveying: starting with different flow forms, via processes at the plug, up to pressure loss in pneumatic conveying lines. The following sections are devoted, among other things, to calculation approaches for the transfer of test models to large-scale systems, as well as to modern dense-phase conveying methods in which material to be conveyed moves at low speed in the form of threads, plugs or flowing. Separate chapters deal with the design of pneumatic conveying systems and various forms and causes of their wear. The book offers calculation examples for many topics and is state of the art. It is aimed at engineers, plant constructors and operators of product lines with pneumatic conveying. They benefit from the author's decades of experience in the development and design of plants with new conveying processes.

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Springer Nature

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3662672235

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Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

By: Dr. Peter Marshall

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Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

By: Dr. Peter Marshall

A posthumous collection of sermons and prayers of pastor Peter Marshall of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. In Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, Peter Marshall is addressing you. His practical sermons and heart-felt prayers will give insight, courage, and inspiration as you encounter the difficulties of everyday life. These are words to read, re-read, and treasure in your heart. They contain practical guidelines for Christian living.-Print ed.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786258897

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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

By: Peter W. M. Blayney

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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

By: Peter W. M. Blayney

This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the Stationers' Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1557. Having exhaustively re-examined original sources and scoured numerous archives unexplored by others in the field, Blayney radically revises accepted beliefs about such matters as the scale of native production versus importation, privileges and patents, and the regulation of printing by the Church, Crown and City. His persistent focus on individuals - most notably the families, rivals and successors of Richard Pynson, John Rastell and Robert Redman - keeps this study firmly grounded in the vivid lives and careers of early Tudor Londoners.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107512409

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Atomic Spaces

Living on the Manhattan Project

By: Peter Bacon Hales

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Atomic Spaces

Living on the Manhattan Project

By: Peter Bacon Hales

Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story of the project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068319

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Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000‒1500)

Archaeological, Historical and Climatological Perspectives Within a Wider European Context

By: Peter J. Brown

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Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000‒1500)

Archaeological, Historical and Climatological Perspectives Within a Wider European Context

By: Peter J. Brown

When high-magnitude meteorological hazards impact vulnerable human populations, disasters are the inevitable consequence. Through archaeological and historical evidence, this book investigates how these sudden and unpredictable events affected British medieval populations (AD 1000-1500). Medieval society understood disasters in a practical sense and took steps to minimise risk by constructing flood defences and reinforcing structures damaged by storms. At the same time, natural hazards were widely interpreted through a framework of religious and superstitious beliefs and a wide variety of measures were followed to secure protection against the dangers of the natural world. Disasters, therefore, were interpreted through a duality of understanding in which their occurrence could be the result of spiritual or superstitious triggers but practical solutions were a key component in mitigating their tangible impacts. In evaluating this duality, this book focuses on specific case studies and considers both their diverse historical contexts as well as their consequences for society against the backdrop of significant demographic and climatic change--as a result of the Black Death and the transition to the Little Ice Age.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110719622

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Unfree Labor

By: Peter KOLCHIN

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Unfree Labor

By: Peter KOLCHIN

Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039718

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The Last Banner

The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA's Greatest Team of All Time

By: Peter May

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The Last Banner

The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA's Greatest Team of All Time

By: Peter May

Of the 16 NBA championships won by the Boston Celtics, the most memorable is that of the 1985-1986 season--the Celtics' last championship to date. Powered by the Hall of Fame skills of the legendary Larry Bird, Robert Parrish, and Kevin McHale, the team was virtually unstoppable. "The Last Banner" offers a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at this remarkable team.

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Simon and Schuster

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141655212X

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Principles of Cell Adhesion (1995)

By: Peter D. Richardson,Manfred Steiner

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Principles of Cell Adhesion (1995)

By: Peter D. Richardson,Manfred Steiner

Intended for cell biologists, biophysicists, biochemists, molecular biologists, physiologists, researchers in hemostatsis and thrombosis and pathologists, this book provides an insight into cell adhesion from three interdisciplinary perspectives: fundamental facts of adhesion; molecular biochemistry of adhesion and physiological aspects. It summarizes the basic aspects of surfaces in general and describes the theoretical and experimental tools necessary to investigate cell adhesion, including the basic biochemistry and molecular biology of adhesion. The book offers concise treatment of individual topics, features current material, and provides key references as a guide to further study.

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CRC Press

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1351358987

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God on Trial

Landmark Cases from America's Religious Battlefields

By: Peter Irons

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God on Trial

Landmark Cases from America's Religious Battlefields

By: Peter Irons

An insightful and dramatic account of religious conflicts that keep America divided, from the acclaimed author of A People's History of the Supreme Court As the United States has become increasingly conservative, both politically and socially, in recent years, the fight between the religious right and those advocating for the separation of church and state has only intensified. As he did in A People's History of the Supreme Court, award-winning author and legal expert Peter Irons combines an approachable, journalistic narrative style with intimate first-person accounts from both sides of the conflict. Set against the backdrop of American history, politics, and law, God on Trial relates the stories of six recent cases in communities that have become battlefields in America's growing religious wars.

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ISBN 10

1101202408

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9781101202401

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