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Los Alamos Valley

By: R. Lawson Gamble

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Los Alamos is a small town on its way to big things. It is a growing tourist destination yet retains its pastoral charm. The history of the Los Alamos Valley can be viewed as a microcosm of the history of California, for it contains within its span Chumash Indians, mission neophytes and horse herds, Spanish land grants, cattle ranches, vaqueros, bandits, oil bonanzas, a narrow-gauge railroad, fertile soil for bountiful crops, vast vineyards, tourism, and even an element of Hollywood. Its location on the Central Coast of California means sunny skies, cool evenings, and cool, damp breezes. The character and resilience of the Los Alamos Valley inhabitants, however, is the real story. Theirs is a history of intermingling cultures and races, a steadfast preservation of traditions, and a pioneer streak of stubborn perseverance in the face of natural and economic adversity. The images in this book were gathered as the result of a community effort.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439652554

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9781439652558

Pursuing Science, Finding Faith

By: R. Lawson Bryan

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Pursuing Science, Finding Faith

By: R. Lawson Bryan

Dr. R. Lawson Bryan never lost his passion for science, even after he answered a calling to the ministry-a calling he discovered through his experience in a cancer research lab. For as long as he can remember he has been a person of both faith and science, and he finds a profound and beautiful complementarity in these two fields that we so often view as contradictory. In Pursuing Science, Finding Faith, Dr. Bryan shows us how faith and science can enable us to see the world with two eyes and gives us resources to continue developing our own understanding of their complementarity.

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First United Methodist Church Montgomery

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0984942602

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9780984942602

Stereology and Stochastic Geometry

By: John E. Hilliard,Lawrence Lawson

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Stereology and Stochastic Geometry

By: John E. Hilliard,Lawrence Lawson

Somebody had to do it. The Chinese speak of deep water wells called "grandfather wells" because they take three generations of diggers to complete. Imagine the thought of such a well being abandoned incomplete by the third generation. What a loss! This book is like a grandfather well except that it has taken only two generations, John Hilliard's and mine, to finish. When I saw his manuscript lying in a heap, I decided that I must spend the time to put it and his notes into a publishable form. Now, it is done. This book is mostly about performing spatial measurements through the statistical sampling of images; it is a text on classical stereology as John Hilliard saw it. His vision of the subject was broad. Consequently, its title is broad too. It presents this subject and some of its modem extensions from the classical perspective of the one of the founders of the field, and my first advisor at Northwestern University, John Hilliard. There is nothing new in this book but much that may have been lost over time. It rediscovers many useful discussions about such subjects as the variances of stereo logical measurements, anisotropy etc. It recovers some of the dialogues between John Hilliard and his students on such topics as fractals and Monte Carlo simulations. It recaptures a little of John Hilliard's unique and subtle wit.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402016875

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9781402016875

Communicating in Global Business Negotiations

A Geocentric Approach

By: Jill E. Rudd,Diana R. Lawson

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Communicating in Global Business Negotiations

A Geocentric Approach

By: Jill E. Rudd,Diana R. Lawson

Communication in Global Business Negotiations: A Geocentric Approach presents college-level business and communications majors with a new approach for studying communication and negotiation in international business, using a geocentric cross-disciplinary framework. Chapters cover intercultural communication, provide students with a view of the world and how to negotiate with others from different cultures, and uses practitioners′ perspectives to inject real-world case studies and scenarios into the picture. College-level business collections will find this an essential acquisition." —THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "Authors Jill E. Rudd and Diana R. Lawson uniquely integrate communication and international business perspectives to help readers develop a strong understanding of the elements for negotiating an international setting, as well as the skills needed to adapt to the changing environment." —BUSINESS INDIA Presenting a new method for the study of communication and negotiation in international business, this text provides students with the knowledge to conduct negotiations from a geocentric framework. Authors Jill E. Rudd and Diana R. Lawson integrate communication and international business perspectives to help readers develop a strong understanding of the elements necessary for negotiating in a global setting, as well as the skills needed to adapt to the changing environment. This geocentric orientation is an evolution of global learning resulting in effective worldwide negotiation. Key Features: Offers a cross-disciplinary approach: The fields of communication and business are integrated to provide a macro-orientation to global business negotiation. Devotes a chapter to intercultural communication competency: Scales are included to help students assess their potential to become a successful global business negotiators. Provides students with a view of the world in negotiating with others from different cultures: Up-to-date information about current international business contexts gives insight into the challenges experienced by global business negotiators. Discusses alternative dispute resolution: Because of differences in culture and in political structure from one country to another, a chapter is devoted to this growing area of global business negotiation. Presents practitioners′ perspectives: These perspectives illustrate the "real world" of global business negotiation and reinforce the importance of understanding cultural differences. Intended Audience: This is an ideal core text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Negotiation & Conflict Resolution and International Business & Management in the departments of Communication and Business & Management.

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SAGE Publications

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1544349963

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9781544349961

The American Promise

A History of the United States

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Alan (R.) Lawson,Susan M. Hartmann

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The American Promise

A History of the United States

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Alan (R.) Lawson,Susan M. Hartmann

The American Promise: A Compact History "offers a unique mid-sized alternative to brief and full-sized texts alike. Designed to draw students into the book and spark their historical imagination, abundant artifacts in the visual program make history tangible and introduces students to material culture, while numerous voices of individuals in the narrative connect students to the people who embraced and contested America's promise. The narrative is condensed by the authors to provide just the right amount of text but not too much to preclude additional readings, and it is enhanced by an abundance of full-color visuals, special features, and study tools — usually paired only with full-length narratives — to engage and support students in every facet of their learning. The unique combination of narrative, visuals, features and study tools in this mid-sized book is offered at a price thirty percent lower than that of its full-length parent text, making the compact edition just the right choice for many courses.

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Bedford/st Martins

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0312406878

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9780312406875

Jesus Circles

A Way to Heal Our Wounds, Subvert the Domination System, and Build an Abundant Future

By: Peter R. Lawson

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Jesus Circles

A Way to Heal Our Wounds, Subvert the Domination System, and Build an Abundant Future

By: Peter R. Lawson

In Jesus Circles....... ..........Peter Lawson says it is possible to imagine and create a new social order in which the abundance of the earth is justly shared and the domination system with its inherent reliance on violence is no longer sanctioned . The new social order is based on the movement Jesus started among marginalized peasants in Galilee; a movement that undermined the Roman/ Judean system of domination and violence. His program incarnated an alternative community in which oppressed common folk experienced healing, wholeness and abundance even in the midst of a system of extreme violence. Many of us have moved away from the notions of God that prevailed in the ancient world. Many of us have found that even those concepts of God that survived the enlightenment no longer fit the demands of 21st century thought and culture. We long for a progressive religious expression that recognizes many religious paths to the life of abundance we all desire and that concepts of spirituality are culturally conditioned. Those of us who come out of a Christian heritage find we can no longer say the creeds in a meaningful way. We cant accept or ascribe to beliefs about a blood sacrifice that appeases an angry God. We are offended by the human violence and the violence of God that pervades the Bible. We no longer take the Holy Scriptures as definitive historical documents and rightly treat them as fictionalized accounts of (sometime barely discernible) events. Yet out of what we reject, the powerful figure of a Galilean sage has emerged and seized our imaginations. Many of us find ourselves liberated by the recent Third Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Biblical scholarship which follows the same strategies.. Through sophisticated developments in archeology and cultural anthropology in the last half of the 20th century, we know more about the politics, economics and cultural life of the Mediterranean basin in the 1st century CE than its inhabitants could know. We now have, for example, spectacular new awareness of the sociological structure of agrarian societies It appears that most of the literature of the New Testament is the interpretive works of upper class men (sic) trying to fit the radical Jesus into their Greco-Roman cultural frame. Listen to these words In the half-century before the creation of the first narrative gospel - the Gospel of Mark ... (Jesus) a visionary sage was transformed from an iconoclast to an icon and his radical vision of Gods domain dissipated in debates about divinity. With all of this scholarship we can now look behind the editorial embellishments of early Christian literature. We can peer deeply into Jesus message and mission in the context of his own social reality. We know, better than ever, how his radical stance so mightily offended the ruling powers of Galilee and Judea that they sought his assassination. We know how his healing and teaching enthused and energized marginalized Jewish peasants in Galilee. If we are to have any worthwhile life in our own world, dominated as it is by violence, we must begin to explore ways to embody today the nonviolent message and program of Jesus. Our first task is to get as many of the interpretive notions of those upper class literate Gospel writers out of the way so we can see Jesus as he himself spoke and acted, knowing our vision will still be a bit blurry. Because the differences between the first-century culture of the Mediterranean world and ours of the twenty-first century are radical, our second task is to look at and listen to the specific things Jesus said and did in the context of his culture. That will enable us to unpack the impact

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462809219

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9781462809219

Hotels, Motels and Condominiums

Design, Planning and Maintenance

By: Fred Lawson,Fred R. Lawson

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Hotels, Motels and Condominiums

Design, Planning and Maintenance

By: Fred Lawson,Fred R. Lawson

It has been written for newcomers as well as for experienced practitioners who are interested in improving processes in everyday business operations. The focus is on the implementation of the Six Sigma methodology rather than on the statistical tools and techniques. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with some practical and useful guidelines for Six Sigma deployment and its application to transactional and service processes."--Jacket.

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085139292X

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9780851392929

Research and Statistics for Social Workers

By: Tom Lawson,Anna Faul,A.N. Verbist

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Research and Statistics for Social Workers

By: Tom Lawson,Anna Faul,A.N. Verbist

Using real social work examples written specifically to ally student fears Research and Statistics for Social Workers brings research and statistics together bridging the gap to practice. This book covers - conceptualization, ethics, cultural competence, design, qualitative research, individual and program evaluation as well as nonparametric and parametric statistical tests. The tests are explained narratively, mathematically as well as with a comprehensive step-by-step, fully illustrated SPSS computer analysis of social work data.

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Routledge

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1317277171

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9781317277170

Model Answers in the Structure of Commerce

The Commonwealth and International Library: Commonwealth Library of Model Answers

By: T. W. Cox,R. Lawson

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Model Answers in the Structure of Commerce

The Commonwealth and International Library: Commonwealth Library of Model Answers

By: T. W. Cox,R. Lawson

Model Answers in the Structure of Commerce aims to do the following: (a) to be a guide to students as to how to tackle questions in this particular subject; (b) to give some indication as to the length of answers and content an examiner would expect; and (c) to help students to appreciate the scope of the syllabus and also the type of questions likely to be set in examinations. The book begins with a discussion of how to answer examination questions on the Structure of Commerce. Subsequent chapters present questions relating to industry and commerce, types of business organizations, distribution methods, import and export procedure, foreign trade, the capital market, the banking system and methods of payments, transport, location of industry, insurance, consumer protection. Also provided are a selection of questions requiring brief treatment on a variety of subjects and questions relating to trade calculations. This book does not attempt to replace good textbooks on the subject of Commerce although much benefit will be derived from studying carefully the answers to the questions.

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Elsevier

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1483138097

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9781483138091

Restaurants, Clubs & Bars

Planning, Design and Investment for Food Service Facilities

By: Fred R. Lawson

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Restaurants, Clubs & Bars

Planning, Design and Investment for Food Service Facilities

By: Fred R. Lawson

Looks at aspects of planning, design and investment in commercial restaurants

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Architectural Press

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0750620765

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9780750620765

Short Sales & Loan Modifications

A Practical Guide for Real Estate Agents and Investors

By: Kenneth R. Lawson

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Short Sales & Loan Modifications

A Practical Guide for Real Estate Agents and Investors

By: Kenneth R. Lawson

A detailed guide for building a successful short sale and loan modification business, with everything you need to know from finding clients to drafting proposals and negotiating with lenders

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Booksurge Publishing

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1439237379

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9781439237373

American Expressions

By: Billy R. Lawson

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American Expressions

By: Billy R. Lawson

A compilation that reveals an amalgam of contrasting use of the English language, serving to reveal a face of American culture unique to each divergent section of the nation. A source of enjoyment for the older generations and a revelation for the younger ones, but it can be used as a tool of adaptation for those immigrants wishing to be quickly integrated to their newfound communities.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1434914941

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9781434914941

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Los Alamos Valley

Los Alamos Valley

Pursuing Science, Finding Faith

Pursuing Science, Finding Faith

Stereology and Stochastic Geometry

Stereology and Stochastic Geometry

Communicating in Global Business Negotiations

Communicating in Global Business Negotiations

The American Promise

The American Promise

Jesus Circles

Jesus Circles

Hotels, Motels and Condominiums

Hotels, Motels and Condominiums

Research and Statistics for Social Workers

Research and Statistics for Social Workers

Model Answers in the Structure of Commerce

Model Answers in the Structure of Commerce

Restaurants, Clubs & Bars

Restaurants, Clubs & Bars

Short Sales & Loan Modifications

Short Sales & Loan Modifications

American Expressions

American Expressions

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