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California

America's High-Stakes Experiment

By: Peter Schrag

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America's High-Stakes Experiment

By: Peter Schrag

I recommend California for anybody interested in understanding the great challenges facing our state."—Senator Dianne Feinstein

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Univ of California Press

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0520254058

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Test of Loyalty

By: Peter Schrag

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Test of Loyalty

By: Peter Schrag

Contains primary source material.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671220217

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Paradise Lost

California's Experience, America's Future

By: Peter Schrag

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California's Experience, America's Future

By: Peter Schrag

Argues that since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, the quality of life in California has steadily gone down hill

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1565843576

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California Fights Back

The Golden State in the Age of Trump

By: Peter Schrag

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California Fights Back

The Golden State in the Age of Trump

By: Peter Schrag

Veteran journalist Peter Schrag argues that California's role in the era of Donald Trump is twofold: to act as a leader in the resistance to the current administration, and to be held up as an alternative to the course being pursued in Washington. Given the Democratic Party's stronghold on all statewide elected offices and legislature, it isn't surprising that California has become a beacon of progressivism. But this is hardly an inevitability. California was almost where much of the GOP wants to take the nation today, leading the country in tax revolt, passage of the Three Strikes criminal sentencing law, and virtual prohibition of bilingual education in public schools. Schrag points to the state's shifting demographics and the erosion of the Republican Party in the wake of Proposition 187 as two major reasons behind California's shift to the left. It is particularly pertinent, then, that a state that formerly espoused these values now negotiates with other nations on climate control, asks its agents not to sweep courthouses in search of people to deport, and has approved major tax increases. California Fights Back gives proof that things can be better, and raises the possibility of this becoming the story of other states.

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Heyday Broadsides

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1597144479

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When Europe Was a Prison Camp

Father and Son Memoirs, 1940–1941

By: Otto Schrag,Peter Schrag

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When Europe Was a Prison Camp

Father and Son Memoirs, 1940–1941

By: Otto Schrag,Peter Schrag

In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and his mother, supplemented by historical research. The result is both personal and provocative, involving as it does issues of history and memory, fiction and "truth," courage and resignation. This is not a "Holocaust memoir." The Schrags were Jews, and Otto was interned, under execrable conditions, in southern France. But Otto, with the help of a heroic wife, escaped the camp before the start of massive transfers of prisoners "to the East," and Peter and his mother escaped from Belgium before the Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Yet, the danger and suffering, the comradeship and betrayal, the naïve hopes and cynical despair of those in prison and those in peril are everywhere in evidence.

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Indiana University Press

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0253017858

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9780253017857

Paradise Lost

California's Experience, America's Future : Updated with a New Preface

By: Peter Schrag

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California's Experience, America's Future : Updated with a New Preface

By: Peter Schrag

Paradise Lost demonstrates the consequences to education, public services and political institutions in California of the increasing resort to the hyper-democracy of the ballot initiative process. WITH A NEW PREFACE.

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Univ of California Press

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0520243870

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9780520243873

Final Test

The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

By: Peter Schrag

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Final Test

The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

By: Peter Schrag

An in-depth look at "the brave new world of school finance" (Education Week) and the latest struggle for equality in public education. Final Test describes a powerful new movement that has emerged across America in recent years to bridge the wide gap still separating the achievement of African American and Latino students from their white and Asian counterparts more than half a century after Brown v. Board. In the past fifteen years, scholars, judges, and advocates for poor children have begun to develop a progressive approach to education in which public policies and funding are based on calculations of "adequacy"what it actually takes in teachers, books, facilities, and other resources to educate each child. While Schrag explains the legal and legislative battles for reform with great insight and clarity, he also never loses sight of the human side of the story, "describing in poignant detail the impact of funding inequities on individual students and why 'money matters' in rectifying educational inadequacies" (Advocacy Center for Children's Educational Success with Standards). As the California Journal raved, "few writers can translate complex ideas into compelling nonfiction like Peter Schrag.

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1595580263

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Not Fit for Our Society

Nativism and Immigration

By: Peter Schrag

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Not Fit for Our Society

Nativism and Immigration

By: Peter Schrag

Peter Schrag is the model for all political writers. He is committed, passionate, and eloquent, but always stays harnessed to the facts and rooted in the realities of politics and human nature. He reports out everything, and he writes like a dream. We can be grateful that in Not Fit for Our Society he has turned his gifts to the seemingly intractable problem of immigration. We will have to settle this issue again, as we always manage to do despite enormous commotion and anxiety. Schrag will force everyone to think more clearly and to approach immigration with both compassion and good sense."_EJ Dionne, Jr., author of Souled Out "Just who is fit to be part of the society that became a nation in 1776 and who decides, and on what basis? In Not Fit for Our Society, Peter Schrag offers an invigorating, well-informed, carefully reasoned investigation into today's immigration debates."_David Hollinger, President of the Organization of American Historians, 2010-2011 "Peter Schrag has a unique view of the immigration debate and policies that have shaped our country since it's founding. His very timely writing of Not Fit for our Society helps us to better understand how the immigration debate and politics have gotten us to where we are today. His insights and intellect on the subject give all of us much to think about as we move forward on this very important issue."_Doris O. Matsui, Member of Congress "Peter Schrag has done it again. A sweeping review that puts the ferocity of our current immigration debate in historical context, Not Fit for Our Society is a must-read for those hoping to get past talk-show rhetoric and cherry-picked facts. Uncovering the dark impulses that have long undergirded nativist thought, he argues that we have seen this before_and that America will be better if we see through it again."_Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California "Peter Schrag offers a lively and thoughtful reinterpretation of America's ambivalence about immigration and immigrants' place in the nation's life. Drawing on his reading of primary sources and the latest scholarship, he tells a story rich in irony, detail, and nuance, tracing the history of nativism from the earliest days of the Republic to the current debates over immigration reform. The book is particularly striking for the way that it connects the arguments and organizations of the current anti-immigration movement to their roots in the eugenics movement and pseudo-scientific racism of the early 20th century."_Mark Paul, New America Foundation "[Schrag] delivers a story rich in irony, detail, and nuance, often told with passion and frequently challenging orthodoxies of both the political right and left. It is the right book at the right time."-Mark Paul, New America Foundation "History's lessons come through loud and clear as Peter Schrag vividly recounts the characters and the ideas behind that side of America that rejects immigration. Illuminating both in its sweep and its detail this 300-year narrative makes an important contribution to our understanding of today's policy debates."_Roberto Suro, author of Strangers Among US: Latino Lives in a Changing America "In an intemperate time, Peter Schrag's voice is lucid and truly American."_Richard Rodriguez

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Univ of California Press

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Paradise Lost

California's Experience, America's Future : Updated with a New Preface

By: Peter Schrag

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California's Experience, America's Future : Updated with a New Preface

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When Europe Was a Prison Camp

Father and Son Memoirs, 1940–1941

By: Otto Schrag,Peter Schrag

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Father and Son Memoirs, 1940–1941

By: Otto Schrag,Peter Schrag

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Indiana University Press

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Critical Theory, Politics and Society

An Introduction

By: Peter M.R. Stirk

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Critical Theory, Politics and Society

An Introduction

By: Peter M.R. Stirk

From the launch of the Journal of Social Research in 1932 to the recent work of Jurgen Habermas on law and democracy, the Frankfurt School has produced some of the most ambitious and influential theories of the past century. This new introduction to the critical theory of the School provides a thorough, concise and up-to-date assessment of thinkers including Pollock, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, Neumann, Lowenthal, Fromm, Kirchheimer and Habermas. Peter Stirk's lively account places the formative work of the School within the context of the Weimar Republic and of Nazi Germany. He contrasts this environment with the very different background of 1950s Germany in which Habermas embarked on his academic career. Stirk goes on to discuss the enduring relevance of political theory to the contemporary political agenda. In particular, he illustrates the continuing validity of the Frankfurt School's criticism of positivist, metaphysical and more recently postmodernist views, and its members' attempts to incorporate psychological perspectives into broader theories of social dynamics. He assesses their contribution to key areas of contemporary debate, including morality, interest, individual and collective identity and the analysis of authoritarian and democratic states. Specifically focused on the interests and needs of social scientists, philosophers and historians of ideas, Critical Theory, Politics and Society is an essential book both for students and for all those who wish to grasp the contours of critical theory and to understand its enduring relevance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441117784

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40 Years of Evolution

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

By: Peter R. Grant,B. Rosemary Grant

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40 Years of Evolution

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

By: Peter R. Grant,B. Rosemary Grant

A new, revised edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's synthesis of their decades of research on Daphne Island"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691263221

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Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

By: Sabine Maasen,Peter Weingart

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Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

By: Sabine Maasen,Peter Weingart

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.

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1134620306

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Plastic Surgery E-Book

Volume 4: Trunk and Lower Extremity

By: David H Song,Joon Pio Hong,Peter C. Neligan

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Plastic Surgery E-Book

Volume 4: Trunk and Lower Extremity

By: David H Song,Joon Pio Hong,Peter C. Neligan

Comprehensive and fully up to date, the six-volume Plastic Surgery remains the gold standard text in this complex area of surgery. Completely revised to meet the demands of both the trainee and experienced surgeon, Trunk and Lower Extremity, Volume 4 of Plastic Surgery, 5th Edition, features new, full-color clinical photos, procedural videos, lectures, and authoritative coverage of hot topics in the field. Editor-narrated video presentations offer a step-by-step audio-visual walkthrough of techniques and procedures. - New chapters cover diabetes and foot reconstruction; expands and updates coverage of lymphedema and gender affirmation surgery; and coverage throughout includes new, pioneering translational work shaping the future of trunk and lower extremity surgery. - New digital video preface by Dr. Peter C. Neligan addresses the changes across all six volumes. - New treatment and decision-making algorithms added to chapters where applicable. - New video lectures and editor-narrated slide presentations offer a step-by-step audiovisual walkthrough of techniques and procedures. - Evidence-based advice from an expanded roster of international experts allows you to apply the very latest advances in trunk and lower extremity surgery and ensure optimal outcomes. - Purchase this volume individually or own the entire set, with the ability to search across all six volumes online!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323873804

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9780323873802

How to Succeed at Interprofessional Education

By: Peter Donnelly

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How to Succeed at Interprofessional Education

By: Peter Donnelly

How to Succeed at Interprofessional Education offers an introduction to the principles and practice of interprofessional education (IPE). By examining the rationale behind IPE, its application, and the frameworks for using it effectively, the author demonstrates that when healthcare professionals learn together and collaborate as a team, they are able to improve decision-making, provide patients with a higher quality of service, and ultimately improve outcomes. How to Succeed at Interprofessional Education includes key terms and definitions, explains how to integrate IPE into curricula, highlights the challenges and constraints to the widespread introduction of IPE at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and outlines an effective design model of IPE. This important book: Contains a review of the history of interprofessional education in various professions Outlines the proven principles and practices of IPE Includes information for integrating IPE in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula Offers illustrative examples of successful IPE in a range of related fields Written for students and teachers in medicine as well as healthcare professionals, How to Succeed at Interprofessional Education addresses the need for health-related learning and teaching in multi- and interprofessional settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118558804

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National Security Law

By: Stephen Dycus,William C. Banks,Emily Berman,Peter Raven-Hansen,Stephen I. Vladeck

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National Security Law

By: Stephen Dycus,William C. Banks,Emily Berman,Peter Raven-Hansen,Stephen I. Vladeck

For more than 30 years, National Security Law has helped create and shape an entire new field of law. It has been adopted for classroom use at most American law schools, all of the military academies, and many non-law graduate programs. The Eighth Edition of this leading casebook provides an up-to-date, user-friendly survey of this extremely dynamic field. Relying heavily on original materials and provocative notes and questions, this book encourages students to play the roles of national security professionals, politicians, judges, and ordinary citizens. And, by showing the development of doctrine in historical context, it urges them to see their responsibility as lawyers to help keep this country safe and free. Like earlier editions, the new book deals with basic separation-of-powers principles, the interaction of U.S. and international law, the use of military force, intelligence, detention, criminal prosecution, homeland security, and national security information — more than enough to provide teachers with a rich menu of readings for classes. The Eighth Edition also addresses dramatic new security threats from without and within. New to the Eighth Edition: The COVID pandemic and its national security implications; Efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including the criminal liability of participants, and the possible criminal liability, immunity, and disqualification of former President Trump; Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine; Espionage Act prosecution of former President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; The October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas fighters based in the Gaza Strip; Climate change and its growing threat to world security.

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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

By: Peter R. Grant

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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

By: Peter R. Grant

This text looks at how much has been learnt about the Darwin's Finch since Darwin's initial observations. It shows how interspecific competition and natural selection produce observable and measurable evolutionary change.

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Princeton University Press

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0691048665

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Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Northern Indian Margin

By: David Ware,Hugo Bucher,Thomas Brühwiler,Elke Scheebeli-Hermann,Peter A. Hochuli,Leopold Krystyn,Ghazala Roohi,Khalil Ur-Rehman,Amir Yaseen

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Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Northern Indian Margin

By: David Ware,Hugo Bucher,Thomas Brühwiler,Elke Scheebeli-Hermann,Peter A. Hochuli,Leopold Krystyn,Ghazala Roohi,Khalil Ur-Rehman,Amir Yaseen

Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, owned by, and published on behalf of, The Lethaia Foundation in cooperation between the Scandinavian countries. Fossils and Strata forms part of the same structured publishing programme as the international journal Lethaia and provides a complementary outlet for more comprehensive systematic and regional monographs, including taxonomic descriptions. Fossils and Strata also offers the publication of thematic special issues comprising a series of shorter contributions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119522889

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Rosenzweig and Heidegger

Between Judaism and German Philosophy

By: Peter Eli Gordon

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Rosenzweig and Heidegger

Between Judaism and German Philosophy

By: Peter Eli Gordon

With brilliance and considerable daring, Peter Gordon's Rosenzweig and Heidegger broaches the possibility of a shared horizon and a promising dialogue between these two seminal figures—these antipodes—of twentieth-century thought. It will be the bench mark for future work in the field."—Thomas Sheehan, author of Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker "In this brilliant book, Peter Gordon sheds light on Rosenzweig's most important philosophical book, The Star of Redemption, by means of an unexpected (and sure to be controversial) comparison—with the philosophy of Heidegger's Being and Time. The result is a "must read" for anyone with a serious interest in either thinker."—Hilary Putnam, author of The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays "A major work. Gordon persuasively argues that the true originality of Rosenzweig's achievement, heretofore associated with a distinctively "Jewish" break with his German philosophical milieu, only becomes intelligible from within that very milieu. Focusing on resemblances between Rosenzweig's and Heidegger's projects, Gordon discerns the contours of a post-Nietzschean religious sensibility condensed into the paradox of a "redemption-in-the-world." This book will be valued by readers of both Heidegger and Rosenzweig, and by anyone interested in the intersections of philosophy and religion."—Eric L. Santner, author of On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig "A comparative reading of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption and Heidegger's Being and Time. Peter Eli Gordon has written a work of exemplary erudition, analytical nuance, philosophical acumen and expository grace."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of German Jews: A Dual Identity

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Univ of California Press

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0520246365

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Mainstream and Margins Revisited

Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America

By: Peter Isaac Rose

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Mainstream and Margins Revisited

Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America

By: Peter Isaac Rose

When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews, blacks, and other minorities in the United States. Now, a third of a century later, he revisits the topic, with sixteen new chapters, in addition to seven from the original edition. Newer content covers immigration and American refugee policy; reexamines the term "model minority," first used to describe Jews, but now applied to Asian Americans; and the resurgence of nativism both in regard to new migrants from Latin America and to the growth of Islamophobia since the 9/11 attacks. Rose also reassesses what is still one of the most controversial documents about race and class ever written, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." Rose writes about other authors who have addressed many of the principal concerns of this book, ranging from novelists Tom Wolfe and Harper Lee to sociologists David Riesman, Robin M. Williams, Jr., and William Julius Wilson. Historical tensions between Jews and African Americans and debates about "liberal" vs. "corporate" pluralism seen from the perspective of both whites and non-whites are also discussed in this seminal volume by a master on the subject.

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Routledge

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1351507753

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Prefaces to the Diaphora

Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

By: Peter Carravetta

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Prefaces to the Diaphora

Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

By: Peter Carravetta

The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger.

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Purdue University Press

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1557530041

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Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis, and BPH

By: Peter T. Scardino,Judith Kelman

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Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis, and BPH

By: Peter T. Scardino,Judith Kelman

In this updated guide, now in paperback, a pioneering doctor reveals how to beat the top three prostate problems.

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Penguin

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1583332545

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Mynster's "Rationalism, Supernaturalism" and the Debate about Mediation

By: Jakob Peter Mynster

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Mynster's "Rationalism, Supernaturalism" and the Debate about Mediation

By: Jakob Peter Mynster

G.W.F. Hegel's so-called speculative logic was revolutionary since it attacked the basic laws of Aristotelian logic - the laws of contradiction and excluded middle - which stood as the foundation for the field for well over a millennium. Hegel replaced these laws with the principle of mediation, which he used to redefine all the key terms of the discipline. In the 1830s, this highly controversial theory was attacked by a number of philosophers in Germany and Prussia. These debates spilled over into Denmark in the late 1830s and early 1840s and represent one of the signal episodes in the Danish Hegel reception. The present volume includes the main texts in this controversy. The debate proper was initiated by the article Rationalism, Supernaturalism by the theologian Jakob Peter Mynster, who attacked Hegel's criticism of the law of excluded middle. The poet Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and the young theologian Hans Lassen Martensen, then came to Hegel's defense with articles which responded to

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8763530961

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Histopathology of Preclinical Toxicity Studies

Interpretation and Relevance in Drug Safety Evaluation

By: Peter Greaves

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Histopathology of Preclinical Toxicity Studies

Interpretation and Relevance in Drug Safety Evaluation

By: Peter Greaves

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Integumentary System -- -- Skin and subcutaneous tissue -- Chapter 3: Mammary Gland -- Chapter 4: Haemopoietic and Lymphatic Systems -- -- Blood/bone marrow -- -- Lymphoid system -- -- Lymph nodes -- -- Spleen -- -- Thymus -- -- Lymphoreticular neoplasms -- Chapter 5: Musculoskeletal System -- -- Bone -- -- Joints -- -- Skeletal muscle -- Chapter 6: Respiratory Tract -- -- Nose, nasal sinuses, nasopharynx and pharynx -- -- Larynx and trachea -- -- Bronchi and lungs -- Chapter 7: Cardiovascular System -- -- Heart and pericardium -- -- Systemic blood vessels -- -- Pulmonary blood vessels -- Chapter 8: Gastrointestinal tract -- -- Forestomach -- -- Stomach (glandular) -- -- Small intestine -- -- Large intestine -- Chapter 9: Liver and Pancreas -- -- Liver -- -- Bile ducts, biliary system -- -- Pancreas -- Chapter 10: Urinary System -- -- Kidney -- -- Urinary bladder -- Chapter 11: Male Genital Tract -- -- Prostate gland -- -- Epididymis -- -- Testis -- Chapter 12: Female Genital Tract -- -- Vagina -- -- Cervix -- -- Uterus -- -- Ovary -- Chapter 13: Endocrine System -- -- Pituitary gland -- -- Adrenal gland -- -- Thyroid gland -- -- Parathyroid gland -- Chapter 14: Nervous System and Special Sense Organs -- -- Brain -- -- Spinal cord, spinal nerve roots, peripheral nerves -- -- Eye -- -- Ear -- Subject index

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Academic Press

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0444538569

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Law’s Detour

Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration

By: Peter Margulies

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Law’s Detour

Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration

By: Peter Margulies

From the Justice Department’s memos defending coerced interrogation to Alberto Gonzales’ firing of U.S. Attorneys who did not fit the Bush Administration’s political needs, Law’s Detour paints an alarming picture of the many detours that George W. Bush and his allies created to thwart transparency and undermine the rule of law after September 11, 2001. Pursuing those detours, Bush officials set up a law-free zone at Guantánamo, ordered massive immigration raids that separated families, and screened candidates for civil service jobs to ensure the hiring of “real Americans.” While government needs flexibility to address genuine risks to national security—which certainly exist in the post-9/11 world—the Bush Administration’s use of detours distracted the government from urgent priorities, tarnished America’s reputation, and threatened voting and civil rights. In this comprehensive analysis of Bush officials’ efforts to stretch and strain the justice system, Peter Margulies canvasses the costs of the Administration’s many detours, from resisting accountability in the war on terrorism to thwarting economic and environmental regulation. Concise and full of compelling anecdotes, Law’s Detour maps these aberrations, surveys the damage done, and reaffirms the virtues of transparency and dialog that the Bush administration dismissed.

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NYU Press

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0814796230

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Personal Versus Private

Presidential Records in a Legislative Context : a Bibliographic Exploration

By: Peter H. Sezzi

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Presidential Records in a Legislative Context : a Bibliographic Exploration

By: Peter H. Sezzi

Personal vs. Private is the first comprehensive bibliography of works written about the records, documents and papers of our nation's chief executive.

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Real Estate Law

Fundamentals for The Development Process

By: Peter E. Smirniotopoulos

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Real Estate Law

Fundamentals for The Development Process

By: Peter E. Smirniotopoulos

Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes. This book not only addresses the nature of specific legal issues directly relating to real estate transactions but also how those issues may best be identified and addressed in advance. This book breaks down the myriad of laws influencing the selection, acquisition, development, financing, ownership, and management of real estate, and presents them in context. Readers of Real Estate Law will gain a practical understanding, from the perspective of a real property developer or real estate executive, investor, or lender, of: how to identify potential legal issues before they arise; when to involve a real estate attorney; how to select an attorney with the appropriate, relevant experience; and how to efficiently and economically engage and manage legal counsel in addressing real estate issues. Written as a graduate-level text book, Real Estate Law comes with numerous useful features including a glossary of terms, chapter summaries, discussion questions, further reading, and a companion website with instructor resources. It is a resource of great value to real estate and finance professionals, both with and without law degrees, engaged in one aspect or another of real estate development and finance, who want to become more conversant in the legal issues impacting these transactions.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317650166

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Talking Back To Ritalin

What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD

By: Peter Breggin

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Talking Back To Ritalin

What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD

By: Peter Breggin

Millions of children take Ritalin for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The drug's manufacturer, Novartis, claims that Ritalin is the "solution" to this widespread problem. But hidden behind the well-oiled public-relations machine is a potentially devastating reality: children are being given a drug that can cause the same bad effects as amphetamine and cocaine, including behavioral disorders, growth suppression, neurological tics, agitation, addiction, and psychosis. Talking Back to Ritalin uncovers these and other startling facts and translates the research findings for parents and doctors alike. An advocate for education not medication, Dr. Breggin empowers parents to channel distracted, disenchanted, and energetic children into powerful, confident, and brilliant members of the family and society.

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Da Capo Press

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0738212105

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The Community of the Weak

Social Postmodernism in Theological Reflections on Power and Powerlessness in North America

By: Hans-Peter Geiser

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The Community of the Weak

Social Postmodernism in Theological Reflections on Power and Powerlessness in North America

By: Hans-Peter Geiser

Social postmodernism and systematic theology can be considered the new pair in some of the most creative discussions on the future of theological method on a global scale. Both in the academy and in the public square, as well as in the manifold local and pastoral moments of ministry and community social activism, the social, the postmodern, and the theological intermingle in engaging and border-crossing ways. The Community of the Weak presents a new kind of jazzy fundamental theology with a postmodern touch, using jazz as a metaphor, writing ethnographically messy texts out of the personal windows of lived experiences, combining fragments of autobiography with theological reconstruction. A comparative perspective on North American and European developments in contemporary systematic theology serves as a hermeneutical horizon to juxtapose two continents in their very different contexts. The author proposes a systematic and fundamental theology that is more jazzy, global, and narrative, deeply embedded in pastoral ministry to tell its postmodern story.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610976347

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Talk and Taxonomy

A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology with Reference to Terms for Canadian Doctors

By: Peter Eglin

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Talk and Taxonomy

A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology with Reference to Terms for Canadian Doctors

By: Peter Eglin

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027225109

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Applied Geochemistry

Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques

By: Athanas S. Macheyeki,Dalaly Peter Kafumu,Xiaohui Li,Feng Yuan

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Applied Geochemistry

Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques

By: Athanas S. Macheyeki,Dalaly Peter Kafumu,Xiaohui Li,Feng Yuan

Applied Geochemistry: Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques is a book targeting all levels of exploration geologists, geology students and geoscientists working in the mining industry. This reference book covers mineral exploration techniques from multiple dimensions, including the application of statistics – both principal component analysis and factor analysis - to multifractal modeling. The book explains these approaches step-by-step and gives their limitations. In addition to techniques and applications in mineral exploration, Applied Geochemistry describes mineral deposits and the theories underpinning their formation through worldwide case studies. - Includes both conventional and nonconventional techniques for mineral exploration, including lithogeochemical methods - Highlights the importance and applications of multifractal models, 3D - mineral prospectivity modeling - Features case studies from mines and mineral exploration ventures around the world

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Elsevier

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012821208X

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Descent of Socrates

Self-Knowledge and Cryptic Nature in the Platonic Dialogues

By: Peter Warnek

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Descent of Socrates

Self-Knowledge and Cryptic Nature in the Platonic Dialogues

By: Peter Warnek

Since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful interpretation of the work hinges upon a clear understanding of what thoughts and ideas can be attributed to him. In Descent of Socrates, Peter Warnek offers a new interpretation of Plato by considering the appearance of Socrates within Plato's work as a philosophical question. Warnek reads the Dialogues as an inquiry into the nature of Socrates and in doing so opens up the relationship between humankind and the natural world. Here, Socrates appears as a demonic and tragic figure whose obsession with the task of self-knowledge transforms the history of philosophy. In this uncompromising work, Warnek reveals the importance of the concept of nature in the Platonic Dialogues in light of Socratic practice and the Ancient ideas that inspire contemporary philosophy.

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Indiana University Press

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025311151X

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The Right Price

A Value-based Prescription for Drug Costs

By: Peter J. Neumann,Joshua T. Cohen,Daniel A. Ollendorf

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The Right Price

A Value-based Prescription for Drug Costs

By: Peter J. Neumann,Joshua T. Cohen,Daniel A. Ollendorf

The prescription drug market -- Proposed solutions for rising drug prices -- Measuring the value of prescription drugs -- Measuring drug value : whose job is it anyway? -- Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) -- Other US value assessment frameworks -- Do drugs for special populations warrant higher prices? -- Improving value measurement -- Aligning prices with value -- The path forward.

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Oxford University Press

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0197512887

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Subjectivity and Identity

Between Modernity and Postmodernity

By: Peter V. Zima

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Subjectivity and Identity

Between Modernity and Postmodernity

By: Peter V. Zima

Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on subjectivity and the subject. Starting from a history of the concept of the subject from modernity to postmodernity - from Descartes and Kant to Adorno and Lyotard - Peter V. Zima distinguishes between individual, collective, mythical and other subjects. Most texts on subjectivity and the subject present the topic from the point of view of a single discipline: philosophy, sociology, psychology or theory of literature. In Subjectivity and Identity Zima links philosophical approaches to those of sociology, psychology and literary criticism. The link between philosophy and sociology is social philosophy (e.g. Althusser, Marcuse, Habermas), the link between philosophy and literary criticism is aesthetics (e.g. Adorno, Lyotard, Vattimo). Philosophy and psychology can be related thanks to the psychological implications of several philosophical concepts of subjectivity (Hobbes, Stirner, Sartre).

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1780937326

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