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Integrity Counts

By: Brad Raffensperger

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In Integrity Counts, lifelong Republican and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks out against the former president’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and hopes to restore confidence and trust in our country’s elections. “Brad Raffensperger put public service above party service, and for that he is a true democracy action hero, and he is also my hero. His book serves as a reminder that American democracy is bigger than any individual candidate or election.” —THE HON. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, former governor of California Integrity stands as the cornerstone of American democracy. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, defended American democracy by refusing to bend to demands that he change the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election in his state. Raffensperger’s defense of democracy made him a target of President Donald Trump for months following the election, culminating in an hour-long phone call in which the president told him, “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” the exact number he needed to win Georgia’s sixteen Electoral College votes. Once again, Raffensperger refused. Georgia voters had spoken. A lifelong conservative Republican who had financially supported President Trump’s reelection campaign and voted for Trump, Raffensperger called for a hand recount of every vote to confirm the results and affirm the integrity of Georgia’s election. Still President Trump persisted in his personal attacks. One of the most troubling questions in the wake of the 2020 election, Raffensperger says, is whether America will see every candidate who loses a major election refuse to accept the results and, instead, set out to raise money and build support on unfounded claims of fraud and corruption. To avoid that prospect, Americans must come to terms with the scope of the problem, but doing so won’t be comfortable for either party. Either party because the 2020 crisis was not unprecedented in Georgia. By November 2020, Raffensperger had been challenging the claims of a “stolen election” for nearly two years. In the fall of 2018, after Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the race for governor of Georgia, she told a crowd of supporters, “So, to be clear, this is not a speech of concession. Concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede.” The similarities don’t end there, and when considered with some care, they paint a troubling picture of an all-too-bipartisan willingness to undermine the integrity of our democracy, and the public’s confidence in it, for the sake of personal and partisan gain. Integrity Counts tells Raffensperger’s inspiring story of commitment to the integrity of American democracy.

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Simon and Schuster

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1637630344

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9781637630341

Children's Surgery

A Worldwide History

By: John G. Raffensperger, M.D.

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Children's Surgery

A Worldwide History

By: John G. Raffensperger, M.D.

The history of medicine and surgery is well documented, but this volume offers the first specific exploration of the treatment of and attitudes towards children with injuries and birth defects through the ages. Popular thought holds that children in ancient times with birth defects faced a short life of abandonment or neglect. Examination of written records from ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Islam, however, shows that physicians and surgeons have attempted to find remedies to cure ailing youths from the beginning of recorded medical history. These essays document the origins of children's surgery, chronicle the history of children's surgery into modern times, and explore the treatment of the most common visceral birth defects. With contributing authors offering perspectives from a variety of cultures, this extraordinary collection will interest not only medical professionals, but also historians and others in the child care field.

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McFarland

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0786490489

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9780786490486

Elements of Physical Hydrology

By: George M. Hornberger,Patricia L. Wiberg,Jeffrey P. Raffensperger,Paolo D'Odorico

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Elements of Physical Hydrology

By: George M. Hornberger,Patricia L. Wiberg,Jeffrey P. Raffensperger,Paolo D'Odorico

The most cogent textbook ever produced on the topic, this revised and expanded edition will be welcomed by students and professionals alike. Among the many diverse aspects of environmental science, none is more critical to the future of society and nature than water. Understanding the role of water on Earth and making good decisions regarding water conservation and hydrological hazards depends on learning the fundamentals of physical hydrology. This textbook, now in an expanded second edition, provides the clearest opportunity for students to absorb those fundamentals. Written at an introductory level, Elements of Physical Hydrology covers virtually every aspect of this subject, including: • The hydrological cycle • Water budgets at catchment to global scales • Spatial and temporal aspects of precipitation • Evapotranspiration • Fluid dynamics and the Bernoulli equation • Laminar and turbulent flows • Open channel flow • Flood movement through reservoirs and channels • Flood frequency analysis • Groundwater flow • Aquifer characterization • Land subsidence • Soil moisture dynamics • Flow in the unsaturated zone • Hydrologic controls on vegetation • Biotic controls on hydrological processes • Runoff generation from surface and subsurface sources • Catchment models • The water-food-energy nexus • The globalization of water • Impacts of changing climate Layering one topic upon the next, Elements of Physical Hydrology succeeds in moving from simple, easy-to-grasp explanations through equations and models in a manner that will leave students new to the topic eager to apply their knowledge. Professionals in related disciplines will also find this book ideal for self-study. Thoughtfully illustrated, carefully written, and covering a broad spectrum of topics, this classic text clarifies a subject that is often misunderstood and oversimplified.

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JHU Press

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1421413965

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9781421413969

Red Tide

By: John Raffensperger, MD

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Red Tide

By: John Raffensperger, MD

Red Tide is the story of Peter, a shy, dreamy city boy, who learns the beauty of nature and copes with his mothers illness while living with his grandfather on an island off the coast of Florida. His grandfather, a retired doctor, and Andrea, a girl with mischievous eyes, teach him about the animals that live on the island. He overcomes bullying by his new schoolmates and fear of the out-of-doors with a series of adventures. His grandfather teaches him to fish and how to sail a boat. With his newly gained confidence, he helps save a patch of wetland from developers and becomes an activist to protect the environment. He and Andrea discover dead fish and birds on the beach that were poisoned by red tide. When he learns that red tide, a microorganism in the water that is deadly to marine life, is stimulated by agricultural fertilizers, he writes a letter to the governor and encloses a dead fish. The dead fish gets him in trouble with the police but he becomes a hero to his classmates.

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168235525X

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Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen

By: Christian Raffensperger

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Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen

By: Christian Raffensperger

Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies. Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal women such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Castile and gathers material from sources throughout Europe. It engages with modern queenship studies literature to create a collective biography of a Rusian queen through the various cycles of her life from the marriage of eight-year-old Verkhuslava to the death of the ruler of Minsk whose generosity is recorded, but not her name. For medievalists interested in women and queens, Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen provides an entry point to an area of Europe rarely studied in that literature. For Slavists, it presents a way of looking at medieval Rusian women that has not yet appeared in this scholarly tradition. Ultimately, this biography integrates Rus, and eastern Europe, into the medieval world and acts as an important reminder that women are essential to our history and thus to our overall understanding of the past. This book is of great use to students and scholars interested in the history of women, queenship, and medieval Europe.

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1040030149

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9781040030141

Reconstruction

Heal or Kill

By: John Raffensperger, MD

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Reconstruction

Heal or Kill

By: John Raffensperger, MD

Reconstruction: Heal or Kill takes place in a small Illinois town in 1871, portraying life in rural America. The novel reveals the prejudices against freed slaves during the post-Civil War era, when the KKK was terrorizing freed slaves. Tom, a teenage boy, had planned on a life fighting Indians, until a new doctor, trained in Edinburgh, arrives on a steamboat and convinces him that healing is better than killing. The doctor, an ex-Union soldier, is an expert pistol shot, drinks whisky, and plays cards. The townspeople reject him until he saves a friend of President Grant. Tom now aspires to be a doctor, but his plans are thwarted when his father dies and he is sent to an orphanage. He escapes and nearly freezes to death. A family of freed slaves nurse him back to health. The Klan and the local sheriff have been terrorizing the family to get their land. Tom becomes the doctor’s assistant, studying medicine by digging up a skeleton to learn anatomy. He is also there to protect a freed slave from lynching. Bullets fly when the doctor takes on the leader of the Klan. Tom and his friend break up a Klan meeting, but in the melee, the Klan murders a Negro boy. In the end, Tom and the doctor operate on the Klan leader for a gunshot wound, showing that a doctor must first be a healer

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1682355195

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Reimagining Europe

By: Christian Raffensperger

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Reimagining Europe

By: Christian Raffensperger

Main description: An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.

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Harvard University Press

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0674065468

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Missing in Action

The Apache Campaign, 1885-1886

By: John Raffensperger, MD

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Missing in Action

The Apache Campaign, 1885-1886

By: John Raffensperger, MD

Missing in Action is the sequence to Reconstruction: Heal or Kill. By 1885, the army had subdued the Plains Indians, but Geronimo’s Apaches were on the loose. They raided, looted, and murdered along the border between Arizona and Mexico and disappeared as if by magic. The army could not find the Apaches, let alone defeat them. Tom Slocum, a doctor’s apprentice in Reconstruction: Heal or Kill, has become a skilled surgeon. When his wife dies and his best friend is reported missing in action, Tom sets off, with Zeke, his teenage sidekick, to find his friend. During their journey down the Mississippi, Tom encounters crooked card sharks and an exploding steamboat. Zeke finds the girl who wears nothing but red bloomers, but gets drunk and loses his money. When they arrive at Fort Bowie in the Arizona territory, Tom becomes a contract surgeon. He operates on soldiers and Indians, doesn’t believe in killing, but uses his pistol when necessary. Indian myths and rumors lead him deep into Mexico to find his friend. When captured by a Mexican colonel, he, along with some Indian friends, fights to escape. He is there when Geronimo surrenders, Tom’s friend says, “This is the end of the wild west.”

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1682355217

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Reimagining Europe

Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146

By: Christian Raffensperger

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Reimagining Europe

Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146

By: Christian Raffensperger

An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Russian monastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.

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0674068548

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A Surgeon's Lessons, Learned and Lost

By: John Raffensperger, MD

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A Surgeon's Lessons, Learned and Lost

By: John Raffensperger, MD

John Raffensperger, MD, describes how doctors in the mid-20th century learned medicine in the autopsy room, the laboratory, and at bedside, training to become well-rounded general physicians. Since then, many doctors have specialized during medical school, depending on X-rays and blood tests, rather than listening and “laying on of hands.” Medicine became a de-personalized business, subject to greedy insurance executives and hospital administrators. “A compelling and candid account of how surgeons learn and refine their skills. John Raffensperger shares successes and failures, advances in medicine and surgery, the faults in today’s system, what we might learn from health care systems in other countries, and the pitfalls of hospital politics.” – Di Saggau, Island Sun newspaper, Santiva/Captiva Florida “A candid narrative of more than forty years in practice and teaching of a pioneering pediatric surgeon, infused with historical perspective of medical education and medical practice … Dr. Raffensperger has done it all over those years, developing new procedures, teaching medical students and residents at the bedside, serving as surgeon-in-chief at a leading center for pediatric surgery, the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and authoring books … His concern for patients’ welfare shines through the book as he calls for fundamental reforms based on a single payer national health insurance.” – John Geyman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle “In the field of contemporary health care, it is generally acknowledged that Dr. John Raffensperger is one of the most eminent pediatric surgeons of our day… We are now lucky to see him produce a memoir … the portrayal of a life devoted to the care of sick children.” – F. Gonzalez-Crussi, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago

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1949483800

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Orthopedic Interventions for the Physical Therapist Assistant

By: Maureen Raffensperg

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Orthopedic Interventions for the Physical Therapist Assistant

By: Maureen Raffensperg

First laying the foundation of the role of the PTA within the orthopedic plan of care, this text offers students the fundamental knowledge needed to best understand how the PT evaluates a patient. From principles of tissue healing to detailed descriptions of the most common pathologies, tests and interventions for each body region, this text prepares the PTA for best patient education and care.

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F.A. Davis

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0803658958

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9780803658950

The Ruling Families of Rus

Clan, Family and Kingdom

By: Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski

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The Ruling Families of Rus

Clan, Family and Kingdom

By: Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski

A new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe. Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of peoples, including Lithuanians, Polish, and Ottomans. The Ruling Families of Rus explores the region’s history through local families, revealing how the concept of family rule developed over the centuries into what we understand as dynasties today. Examining a broad range of archival sources, the authors examine the development of Rus, Lithuania, Muscovy, and Tver and their relationships with the Mongols, Byzantines, and others. The Ruling Families of Rus will appeal to scholars interested in the medieval history of eastern Europe.

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Reaktion Books

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178914745X

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Smart Markets for Water Resources

A Manual for Implementation

By: John F. Raffensperger,Mark W. Milke

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Smart Markets for Water Resources

A Manual for Implementation

By: John F. Raffensperger,Mark W. Milke

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with optimization. A smart market can reduce the transaction costs of water trading, while improving the environmental outcomes. The authors show why a smart market for water is needed, how it would work, and how to implement it. The smart market described here uses a hydrology simulation of the water resource, user bids via the internet, and mathematical optimization, to maximize the economic value of water while meeting all environmental constraints. The book provides the background to understand the smart market for water, and the detail to help the reader start working on its application. The book explores topics such as: Why water should be more expensive near sensitive environmental locations, Ways to set initial allocations of water rights, The role of regulatory oversight, The prerequisites of a water market, and How to counter objections to water markets. The culmination of a decade of investigation, this book combines explanation, examples, and detail to inform policymakers, large water users, environmental organizations, researchers, and a thirsty public.

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Springer

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331955008X

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9783319550084

Adventures in America, 1883

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

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Adventures in America, 1883

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

Here is the third of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1883 while he was a young doctor starting out in his career. This rollicking story of high adventure tells of how Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell - who became the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to America on a secret forensic mission to stop a series of murders and what could escalate into a world war. Peopled with Doyle's real-life literary contemporaries - including Herman Melville and Oscar Wilde, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humor sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787051587

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9781787051584

The Deadly Blue Diamond

By: John Raffensperger, MD

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The Deadly Blue Diamond

By: John Raffensperger, MD

The Deadly Blue Diamond, a fast-paced thriller, pits a young surgeon against vicious mobsters, crooked cops, and Chicago politicians. Little Louie, who killed his first man at age fifteen, organized a robbery to steal the Blue Diamond, a power symbol, that belonged to Al Capone. The heist goes bad. Rooky cops shoot Louie’s punch-drunk accomplice after he swallowed the diamond. A young surgeon, who lost his confidence in the Korean War, operates for the gunshot, but doesn’t find the diamond. The patient dies. The cops and a big-time politician claim the surgeon stole the diamond. The surgeon and a sexy reporter steal the body from the morgue to retrieve the diamond, but the hit man shoots a cop and kidnaps the reporter, the surgeon, and the corpse. The surgeon does an autopsy with a switchblade, finds the diamond, and stabs the mobster. The chase is on, through the streets of Chicago into Bubbly Creek and onto storm-tossed Lake Michigan. The reporter uses her charms to lay hands on the diamond.

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1682355233

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9781682355237

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

By: Christian Raffensperger

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Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

By: Christian Raffensperger

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one’s position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networks—relationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe’s integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.

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Lexington Books

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149856853X

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9781498568531

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

By: Christian Raffensperger

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Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

By: Christian Raffensperger

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate to the reader that the way in which medieval Europe has been constructed in both the popular and scholarly imaginations is incorrect. Instead of a king we have multiple rulers, male and female, ruling concurrently. Instead of an independent church or a church striving for supremacy under the Gregorian Reform, we have a pope and ecclesiastical leaders making deals with secular rulers and an in-depth interconnection between the two. Finally, instead of a strong centralizing polity growing into statehood we see weak rulers working hand in glove with weak subordinates to make the polity as a whole function. Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Slavists typically operate in isolation from one another. They do not read each other’s books, or engage with each other’s work. This book requires engagement from all of them to point out that the medieval Europe that they work in is one and the same and demands collaboration to best understand it.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000921670

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Adventures in The Wild West, 1878

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

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Adventures in The Wild West, 1878

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

Here is the first of the “lost” diaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1878 while he was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. This rollicking story of high adventure begins with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the clerk for the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell-who became the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to America on a secret forensic mission to solve a string of grisly and mysterious murders. Peopled with Doyle's real-life contemporaries-including JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, both of whom attended the University of Edinburgh with Doyle, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humor sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787051528

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9781787051522

Adventures in Russia, 1881

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Richard Krevolin

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Adventures in Russia, 1881

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Richard Krevolin

Here is the second of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1881 while he was a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In this rollicking story of high adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell - who became the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to Russia on a secret forensic mission to save Europe from war. Peopled with Doyle's real-life contemporaries - including Dostoyesky and Rasputin, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humour sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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1787051544

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The Mystery of the Scarlet Homes of Sherlock

By: Prof Richard Krevolin,Dr John Raffensperger

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The Mystery of the Scarlet Homes of Sherlock

By: Prof Richard Krevolin,Dr John Raffensperger

Finally, after a century of waiting and doubts over its very existence, the first of the three “lost” diaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been discovered and published. This first journal was written in 1878 by Conan Doyle when he was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. It contains stories of high adventure beginning with Conan Doyle's clerkship under the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell, the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. Join a young Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Bell, and others on their journey to America for a secret forensic mission to solve a string of grisly and mysterious murders. Along the way, meet Conan Doyle’s real-life contemporaries — such as fellow University of Edinburgh student, Robert Louis Stevenson. The Mystery of the Scarlet Homes of Sherlock is an exciting mix of murder, mayhem, literary history, humanity, and humor that is sure to please both new and long-time Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780929692

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9781780929699

GEO-X

How 10 Big Firms Can Lead Us to End Global Warming

By: John F. Raffensperger

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GEO-X

How 10 Big Firms Can Lead Us to End Global Warming

By: John F. Raffensperger

This book is for executives who genuinely want to help end global warming and who believe in the power of markets. Executives understand the difficulties in ending global warming. Policymakers haven’t been able to make the necessary global deal for 50 years, because making the deal is too hard. Carbon pricing mechanisms are weak and partial. The market for carbon removal is fragmented, complex, and rife with moral hazard. Executives with sustainability objectives must use annoying internal carbon accounting or pricing as poor substitutes for economy-wide carbon pricing. Suppliers are subject to different regulations, complicating supply chain sustainability goals. Executives spend time and money to buy carbon offsets in good faith, only to discover – sometimes in the headlines − that their offsets are fraudulent. This book proposes a brave roadmap for a coalition of companies to solve these problems. The coalition can start a new institution, the Global Emissions and Offset Exchange (GEO-X). GEO-X would operate a unified two-sided market for emissions permits and carbon offsets. GEO-X would enforce those offsets with contracts and a standing cadre of scientists and lawyers. It has powerful incentives for participation. And it would use the most efficient cap-and-trade mechanism ever designed, with the ability to put a deadline on global warming. The book draws on classic economic principles, market design, game theory, and supply chain management. If you want to help end global warming and if you believe in the power of markets, get this book for your next plane flight.

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Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion

Rab and His Friends and A Doctor of the Old School

By: John Brown, M. D.,Ian MacLaren,Raffensperger

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Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion

Rab and His Friends and A Doctor of the Old School

By: John Brown, M. D.,Ian MacLaren,Raffensperger

Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion is a collection of two beloved short stories, "Rab and his Friends" and "A Doctor of the Old School," and a brand new history of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, all of which emphasize the importance of compassion and humanity in the medical field. "Rab and his Friends" is the story of a young apprentice who watches a grueling surgery and is struck by the kindness of the attending physician. "A Doctor of the Old School" is about a Highland country doctor who devotes his life to caring for others. Both reflect the type of doctor that was trained at the Edinburgh School and the ideals taught there. The commentary by Dr. Raffensperger, "A Brief History of the Edinburgh School of Medicine," not only gives perspective for the stories and a background of the authors and characters, but also emphasizes how the Edinburgh principles of compassion furthered the science of medicine. These stories and the lessons they teach are valuable tools for any modern physician to rely on. JOHN BROWN, M.D. (1810-1882) was a well-known Scottish doctor and writer from Edinburgh. He attended the medical school at the University of Edinburgh before becoming apprentice to James Syme at the Minto House Hospital. His experiences at the hospital influenced his writing, including "Rab and his Friends," the short stories in his book Horae Subsecivae, and others. IAN MACLAREN (1850-1907) was the pen name of Highland-born John Watson. Watson studied for the ministry at the University of Edinburgh and at Tubingen in Germany. In addition to serving at the Parish of Logielmond in Perthshire and the Sefton Park Church in Liverpool, he was well known as a writer and speaker, culminating in several speaking tours in the United States. His works include "A Doctor of the Old School," Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush, and The Days of Auld Lang Syne. JOHN RAFFENSPERGER, M.D. was a surgeon-in-chief at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and a professor of surgery at Northwestern University. He has authored surgical textbooks, a history of the Cook County Hospital, a collection of short stories, and a "surgical thriller." He currently lives in Sanibel Island, Florida.

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1616405449

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The Death of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Raffensperger

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The Death of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Raffensperger

The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy, surgery, observation and deduction. These skills and his ability to solve crimes led to his recruitment by the British secret service. In this the last of three diaries, Doyle recounts a series of murders and the pursuit of a sinister Russian assassin from Edinburgh to the Yosemite Valley in California. When the case, involving a California millionaire and Chinese tongs becomes desperate, the British secret service sent Sherlock Holmes. The case ended in his death but the great detective lives on in the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787059804

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Sherlock Holmes and the Plot to Assassinate the Tsar

By: Richard Krevolin,John Raffensperger

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Sherlock Holmes and the Plot to Assassinate the Tsar

By: Richard Krevolin,John Raffensperger

The recently discovered diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle contain the startling adventures of Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edinburgh surgeon, Joseph Bell in Russia during 1881. At the time, Holmes, a medical school dropout, had become a skilled anatomist, diagnostician and surgeon. Even his most devoted admirers are unaware that Holmes was an undercover agent for Her Majesty’s Secret Service before he became a private detective. Holmes and Doyle accompany Dr. Bell when he travels to St. Petersburg to lecture on antiseptic surgery. Doyle’s diary of their adventures reveal the origin of Sherlock Holmes’s addiction to cocaine as well as the plots by Prussians and Americans to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. The British are particularly concerned about an ex-officer, driven mad by torture during the Afghan-British war, who is determined to assassinate the Tsar. Holmes, with his uncanny ability, solves a series of murders by observing seemingly insignificant clews, such as the position of chess pieces, a cigar band and a sick dog. Doyle’s attraction to a radical young woman leads to his involvement with students who manufacture bombs. He is thrown in prison and when he visits a bawdy gentlemen’s club, a sword-wielding Cossack challenges him to a duel. Doyle meets famous Russians such as Dostoyevsky and Rasputin. This latest diary will enlighten and enchant all lovers of the Great Detective.

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1787059243

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9781787059245

Sherlock Holmes and the Plot to Assassinate the Tsar

By: John Raffensperger,Richard Krevolin

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Sherlock Holmes and the Plot to Assassinate the Tsar

By: John Raffensperger,Richard Krevolin

The recently discovered diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle contain the startling adventures of Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edinburgh surgeon, Joseph Bell in Russia during 1881. At the time, Holmes, a medical school dropout, had become a skilled anatomist, diagnostician and surgeon. Even his most devoted admirers are unaware that Holmes was an undercover agent for Her Majesty's Secret Service before he became a private detective. Holmes and Doyle accompany Dr. Bell when he travels to St. Petersburg to lecture on antiseptic surgery. Doyle's diary of their adventures reveal the origin of Sherlock Holmes’s addiction to cocaine as well as the plots by Prussians and Americans to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. The British are particularly concerned about an ex-officer, driven mad by torture during the Afghan-British war, who is determined to assassinate the Tsar. Holmes, with his uncanny ability, solves a series of murders by observing seemingly insignificant clews, such as the position of chess pieces, a cigar band and a sick dog. Doyle’s attraction to a radical young woman leads to his involvement with students who manufacture bombs. He is thrown in prison and when he visits a bawdy gentlemen’s club, a sword-wielding Cossack challenges him to a duel. Doyle meets famous Russians such as Dostoyevsky and Rasputin. This latest diary will enlighten and enchant all lovers of the Great Detective.

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1787059235

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9781787059238

Changes in Streamflow and Water Quality in Selected Nontidal Basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004

By: Michael J. Langland,Dr Jeff P Raffensperger,Douglas L Moyer,Jurate M Landwehr,Gregory E Schwarz

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Changes in Streamflow and Water Quality in Selected Nontidal Basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004

By: Michael J. Langland,Dr Jeff P Raffensperger,Douglas L Moyer,Jurate M Landwehr,Gregory E Schwarz

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT. Significantly reduced price. Overstock List Price Provides an analysis of water quality and streamflow data in nontidal parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. CD-ROM included. Related products: Water Management resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/water-management

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0160778522

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Capone's Diamond

By: Raffensperger

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Capone's Diamond

By: Raffensperger

Tom Davis wanted to be a surgeon more than anything else in the world. After losing a patient while he served in Korea, Davis knew his only chance was to regain confidence in his surgical abilities. Back in Chicago post-service, he picked up his career where he'd left off. But the demons visited him again and again and threatened to cut short his surgical career. Then things got worse. He operated on a fat guy with a bullet in his belly. Not unusual in 1950s Chicago. What made this case special was that the guy had just stolen a fortune in diamonds. Crooked cops and politicians on the take accused Davis of stealing them. Mobbed-up bad guys made his life hell. A beautiful Chicago Tribune reporter joined him to solve the mystery of the missing diamonds, but whose side was she on? He couldn't trust the cops, he certainly couldn't rely on promises that mobsters just wanted the diamonds and would let him live once he turned them over. Could he depend on the comely journalist, or did she want to off him too? Where were the diamonds, anyway? Aha! Still inside the fat guy, now iced down in the morgue. Things quickly became interesting...and deadly.

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0989633810

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