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Change Education to Educating

By: Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick

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Change Education to Educating

By: Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick

Work dedicated to educating each child appropriately and identifying at-risk youngsters by Grade Two and salvaging them by Grade Eight.

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iUniverse

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059512819X

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9780595128198

North Korea through the Looking Glass

By: Kongdan Oh,Ralph C. Hassig

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North Korea through the Looking Glass

By: Kongdan Oh,Ralph C. Hassig

Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country and its culture seem to be dominated exclusively by the official ideology of Juche, which emphasizes national self-reliance, independence, and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong Il. Yet this socialist utopian ideal is pursued with the calculations of international power politics. Kim has transformed North Korea into a militarized state, whose nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and continued threat to South Korea have raised alarm worldwide. This paradoxical combination of cultural isolation and military-first policy has left the North Korean people woefully deprived of the opportunity to advance socially and politically. The socialist economy, guided by political principles and bereft of international support, has collapsed. Thousands, perhaps millions, have died of starvation. Foreign trade has declined and the country's gross domestic product has recorded negative growth every year for a decade. Yet rather than initiate the sort of market reforms that were implemented by other communist governments, North Korean leaders have reverted to the economic policies of the 1950s: mass mobilization, concentration on heavy industry, and increased ideological indoctrination. Although members of the political elite in Pyongyang are acutely aware of their nation's domestic and foreign problems, they are plagued by fear and policy paralysis. North Korea Through the Looking Glass sheds new light on this remote and peculiar country. Drawing on more than ten years of research—including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who made the painful decision to defect from their homeland—Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig explore what the leadership and the masses believe about their current predicament. Through dual themes of persistence and illusion, they explore North Korea's stubborn adherence to policies that have

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815798202

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9780815798200

The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Ralph Morris Goldman

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The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Ralph Morris Goldman

This study traces the history of the national committee chairmenships of the two major political parties in America. It emphasizes the national conventions and presidential campaigns, examining candidate and ideological factionalism.

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678

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873326369

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9780873326360

Old Santa Fe

Facsimile of Number 281 of the Original 1925 Edition

By: Ralph Emerson Twitchell

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Old Santa Fe

Facsimile of Number 281 of the Original 1925 Edition

By: Ralph Emerson Twitchell

This remarkable book unfolds a detailed and thoughtful history beginning in 1598 and continuing through 1924. Chapters are devoted to events preceding the founding of the city; the Pueblo Revolution; the reconquest of the city by General Diego de Vargas; its 25 years as a Mexican provincial capital; the city during the military occupation period; and stories about Billy the Kid, Gov. Samuel B. Axtell, and the Santa Fe Ring.

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585

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Sunstone Press

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0865345740

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9780865345744

Thermal Physics

By: Ralph Baierlein

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Thermal Physics

By: Ralph Baierlein

Clear and reader-friendly, this is an ideal textbook for students seeking an introduction to thermal physics. Written by an experienced teacher and extensively class-tested, Thermal Physics provides a comprehensive grounding in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and kinetic theory. A key feature of this text is its readily accessible introductory chapters, which begin with a review of fundamental ideas. Entropy, conceived microscopically and statistically, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics are introduced early in the book. Throughout, topics are built on a conceptual foundation of four linked elements: entropy and the Second Law, the canonical probability distribution, the partition function, and the chemical potential. As well as providing a solid preparation in the basics of the subject, the text goes on to explain exciting recent developments such as Bose-Einstein condensation and critical phenomena. Key equations are highlighted throughout, and each chapter contains a summary of essential ideas and an extensive set of problems of varying degrees of difficulty. A free solutions manual is available for instructors (ISBN 0521 658608). Thermal Physics is suitable for both undergraduates and graduates in physics and astronomy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139643347

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9781139643344

The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

By: Ralph Davis

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The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

By: Ralph Davis

This volume is a reprint of Ralph Davis' seminal 1962 book, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The aim was to examine the economic reasons for the growth of British shipping before the arrival of modern technology, with a particular attention on overseas trade. The study can roughly be divided into two halves. The first is an in-depth exploration the roles within the shipping industry, from shipbuilders and shipowners to seamen and masters, from an economic perspective. The second is a chapter-by-chapter review of British overseas trade with Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, East India, and America and the West Indies. The final two chapters diverge from the main sections, and focus on the interplay between government, war, and shipping. Davis attaches no extra significance to any particular nation or role, and offers an even-handed approach to maritime history still considered rare in the present day. Costs, profits, voyage estimates, ship-prices, and earnings all come under close and equal scrutiny as Davis seeks to understand the trades and developments in shipping during the period. To conclude, he places the study into a broader historical context and discovers that shipping played a measured but crucial role in the development of industrialisation and English economic development. This edition includes an introduction by the series editor; Davis' introduction and preface; seventeen analytical chapters; a concluding chapter; two appendices concerning shipping statistics and sources; and a comprehensive index.

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Oxford University Press

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098649738X

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9780986497384

Them That Believe

The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition

By: Ralph Hood,W. Paul Williamson

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Them That Believe

The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition

By: Ralph Hood,W. Paul Williamson

Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice—and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, comprehensive study of serpent handling to date. Them That Believe not only explores facets of this religious practice—including handling, preaching, and the near-death experiences of individuals who were bitten but survived—but also provides a rich analysis of this phenomenon from historical, social, religious, and psychological perspectives.

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Univ of California Press

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052094271X

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9780520942714

How Israel Became a People

By: Dr. Ralph K. Hawkins

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How Israel Became a People

By: Dr. Ralph K. Hawkins

How did Israel become a people? Is the biblical story accurate? In what sense, if any, is the biblical story true? Are the origins of these ancient people lost in myth or is there hope to discovering who they were and how they lived? These questions divide students and scholars alike. While many believe the "Conquest" is only a fable, this book will present a different view. Using biblical materials and the new archaeological data, this title tells how the ancient Israelites settled in Canaan and became the people of Israel. The stakes for understanding the history of ancient Israel are high. The Old Testament tells us that Yahweh led the Hebrews into the land of Canaan and commanded them to drive its indigenous inhabitants out and settle in their place. This account has often served as justification for the possession of the land by the modern state of Israel. Archaeology is a "weapon" in the debate, used by both Israelis and Palestinians trying to write each other out of the historical narrative. This book provides needed background for the issues and will be of interest to those concerned with the complexity of Arab-Israeli relations.

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501

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Abingdon Press

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1426755430

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9781426755439

The Making of the Tudor Dynasty

By: Ralph A. Griffiths,Roger S. Thomas

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The Making of the Tudor Dynasty

By: Ralph A. Griffiths,Roger S. Thomas

Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries before the Battle of Bosworth have, however, received far less attention. ?Based on original sources from Britain and France, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty sets the record straight by providing the only authoritative account of the ancestors of the Tudor family in North Wales at the start of the thirteenth century; their royal English and French connections in the fifteenth century; their unique role in the Wars of the Roses; and Henry Tudor’s victory at Bosworth Field in 1485.

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The History Press

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0752473123

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9780752473123

Ethics and Professional Persuasion

A Special Double Issue of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics

By: Ralph D. Barney

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Ethics and Professional Persuasion

A Special Double Issue of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics

By: Ralph D. Barney

Examining the applied media ethics question of professional persuasion, this special double issue resulted from a colloquium and conference on allowable ethical limits of deception in professional persuasion. Participants were invited to reason their way toward a threshold that would define acceptable deception for a professional persuader in pursuit of favorable market and public opinion conditions for a client. As a whole, this issue covers a broad range of views and expressions of opinion that often come close to defining the threshold between morally acceptable and morally outrageous persuasion.

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Routledge

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1135586624

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9781135586621

The Earth on Show

Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

By: Ralph O'Connor

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The Earth on Show

Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

By: Ralph O'Connor

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226616703

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9780226616704

Chemistry in the Garden

By: James Ralph Hanson

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Chemistry in the Garden

By: James Ralph Hanson

The aim of this book is to describe some aspects of the chemistry and chemical ecology which are found inthe garden. In the garden there are numerous interactions between plants, the soil and with other organisms in whichchemistry plays a central mediating role. The discussion concerns several of the chemically and ecologicallyinteresting compounds that are produced by common ornamental garden plants and vegetables and by thepredators that attack them. Many chemists are amateur gardeners and this book is directed at them as well as those with a general interest in the scientific processes involved in the garden.

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158

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0854048979

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9780854048977

Small Town USA

By: Ralph E. Robinson

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Small Town USA

By: Ralph E. Robinson

A humerous and provocative account of rural and urban attitude differences

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0595165672

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9780595165674

Book's by Ralph E. Robinson

Save Our Schools

Save Our Schools

North Korea through the Looking Glass

North Korea through the Looking Glass

The National Party Chairmen and Committees

The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Old Santa Fe

Old Santa Fe

Thermal Physics

Thermal Physics

The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Them That Believe

Them That Believe

How Israel Became a People

How Israel Became a People

The Making of the Tudor Dynasty

The Making of the Tudor Dynasty

Ethics and Professional Persuasion

Ethics and Professional Persuasion

The Earth on Show

The Earth on Show

Chemistry in the Garden

Chemistry in the Garden

Small Town USA

Small Town USA

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