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Virginia Commonwealth University

By: Ray Bonis,Jodi Koste,Curtis Lyons

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Virginia Commonwealth University

By: Ray Bonis,Jodi Koste,Curtis Lyons

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is Virginia's largest urban university with an enrollment of nearly 30,000 students on two campuses in Richmond and partnerships in Northern Virginia and Doha, Qatar. The university's history is rooted in two institutions: the Medical College of Virginia, founded in 1838, and the Richmond Professional Institute, which began in 1917. As told in this book, MCV and RPI each have an intricate and detailed history, and each has undergone several incarnations since it began. The two schools merged in 1968 to form Virginia Commonwealth University, setting off a period of unprecedented growth and change. VCU continues to expand its programs and facilities to meet the demands of the city of Richmond and the Commonwealth of Virginia under the leadership of Pres. Eugene P. Trani.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738542261

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9780738542263

Travels Through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France

Vol. I

By: John Ray

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Travels Through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France

Vol. I

By: John Ray

Reprint of the original, first published in 1738.

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558

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368514636

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9783368514631

Immortality and the Law

The Rising Power of the American Dead

By: Ray D. Madoff

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Immortality and the Law

The Rising Power of the American Dead

By: Ray D. Madoff

This book takes a riveting look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. While American law provides virtually no protections for the interests we hold most dear—our bodies and our reputations—when it comes to property interests, the American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. From grave robbery to Elvis impersonators, Madoff shows how the law of the dead has a direct impact on how we live. Madoff examines how the rising power of the American dead enables the deceased to exert control over their wealth forever through grandiose schemes like "dynasty trusts" and perpetual private charitable foundations and to control their creative works and identities well into the unforeseeable future. Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence, extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real costs imposed on the living.

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208

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Yale University Press

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0300163274

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9780300163278

Daughters of Alchemy

Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Meredith K. Ray

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Daughters of Alchemy

Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Meredith K. Ray

The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for their intellectual equality to men. Meredith Ray restores the work of these women to our understanding of early modern scientific culture. Her study begins with Caterina Sforza’s alchemical recipes; examines the sixteenth-century vogue for “books of secrets”; and looks at narratives of science in works by Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella. It concludes with Camilla Erculiani’s letters on natural philosophy and, finally, Margherita Sarrocchi’s defense of Galileo’s “Medicean” stars. Combining literary and cultural analysis, Daughters of Alchemy contributes to the emerging scholarship on the variegated nature of scientific practice in the early modern era. Drawing on a range of under-studied material including new analyses of the Sarrocchi–Galileo correspondence and a previously unavailable manuscript of Sforza’s Experimenti, Ray’s book rethinks early modern science, properly reintroducing the integral and essential work of women.

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Harvard University Press

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0674425898

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9780674425897

Wetlands Ecology

Eco-biological uniqueness of a Ramsar site (East Kolkata Wetlands, India)

By: Susanta Kumar Chakraborty,Poulomi Sanyal,Ratnadeep Ray

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Wetlands Ecology

Eco-biological uniqueness of a Ramsar site (East Kolkata Wetlands, India)

By: Susanta Kumar Chakraborty,Poulomi Sanyal,Ratnadeep Ray

This book discusses current knowledge and challenges with the ecological management and conservation of wetlands, with a focus on the East Kolkata Wetlands of India. This area is referred to as a Ramsar Site, a designation given to areas with special protection statuses, since it is the largest natural waste recycling system in the world. The site faces many threats to its biodiversity and ecosystem functioning due to anthropogenic activity in the region, and therefore an assessment of the ecosystem services, bio-ecological uniqueness, and issues stemming from climate change and human impacts is needed to develop protection strategies for the future ecological functioning and sustainability of the wetlands. The authors use GIS and remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor harmful industrial and environmental impacts on the wetlands, and to inform mitigation and conservation strategies in the face of ongoing threats such as pollution, habitat destruction and bioinvasion. The book also highlights various social and economic aspects tied to the functioning and management of the wetlands, along with ecological, biological, and physio-chemical considerations. The study will be of use to students and researchers in aquatic ecology, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability and conservation, as well as to environmental planners, engineers, and policymakers.

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Springer Nature

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3031092538

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9783031092534

Conversion to Modernism

The Early Work of Man Ray

By: Francis M. Naumann,Man Ray

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Conversion to Modernism

The Early Work of Man Ray

By: Francis M. Naumann,Man Ray

Man Ray (1890-1976) has long been considered one of the most versatile and innovative artists of the twentieth century. As a painter, writer, sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker, he is best known for his intimate association with the French Surrealist group in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly for his highly inventive and unconventional photographic images. These remarkable accomplishments, however, have tended to overshadow the importance of his earlier work--significant not only for comprehending Man Ray's future artistic development, but also for fleshing out our understanding of the visual arts in America during one of the most important and crucial phases of the evolution of modernism. The book, and the exhibition for which this work will serve as the catalog, concentrate on Man Ray's production from 1907 to 1917. Conversion to Modernism will be the first comprehensive, fully illustrated work to examine this artist's seminal years. The show and the catalog begin with Man Ray's high school years in Brooklyn, his studies at the Art Students League and the American Academy in New York, and the time he spent in life drawing classes at the more progressive Ferrer Center From 1913 to 1915, Man Ray lived in a small artists' colony in Grantwood, New Jersey. It was here, studying with Samuel Halpert (a former student of Matisse), that Man Ray began to become the artist we know today. The last section of the show and of the book include recently discovered photographs and other works that are influenced by a knowledge of the emergent Dada movement. Here is Man Ray in recognizable form just before he leaves the country for France in 1921. This exhibit will first be on display at the Montclair Art Museum from January 26 through March 2003. It will then travel to museums in Athens, Georgia, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813531489

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9780813531489

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

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Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

In agriculture, microbial biotechnology covers a wide array of subjects ranging from biofertilizers to biological control of pests and diseases; from biological N 2 -fixation to lignocellulose degradation; from production of biomass and biofuels to genetically engineered plants. Similarly, microbial biotechnology in aquaculture touches several aspe

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CRC Press

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1482280302

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9781482280302

Book's by Ray Bonis

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Travels Through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France

Travels Through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France

Immortality and the Law

Immortality and the Law

Daughters of Alchemy

Daughters of Alchemy

Wetlands Ecology

Wetlands Ecology

Conversion to Modernism

Conversion to Modernism

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

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