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The Films of Robert Wise

By: Richard C. Keenan

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From his early days as a film editor at RKO studios, where he helped Orson Welles shape Citizen Kane, to his success as a director and producer of musical blockbusters of the 1960s, Robert Wise had a long and illustrious film career. Unlike contemporaries such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford or Howard Hawks, however, Wise's films lack any clearly discernible characteristics to signify his work. There are few striking camera angles or visual flourishes that might distract from the primary obligation to present the story. And like Hawks, Wise never specialized in one or two genres, but brought his directing skills to all manner of films. His work as a director resists auteur categorization, and that is a chief reason why some critics have been unduly negative in their consideration of his work. In The Films of Robert Wise, Richard Keenan examines the nearly forty features that represent the director's career—from Curse of the Cat People in 1944 to A Storm in Summer (2001), the only television production Wise ever directed. Keenan offers a reappraisal of Wise's films so that the true quality of his work can be better appreciated. Keenan argues that if there was a flaw in Robert Wise as a director, it was that he lacked the ego and temperament of the artist, which was not necessarily a flaw at all. Indeed, Wise was a conscientious craftsman who saw his work not primarily as a vehicle for his own ideas and visual style, but as an opportunity to present narrative that—quite simply—engages, informs, and entertains. It was this perspective that helped produce a number of memorable films over the years, including the gritty noir Born to Kill, the one-two punch of The Set-Up and Somebody Up There Likes Me, the sci-fi prophecy The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the gripping indictment of capital punishment, I Want to Live!—classics all. Wise also won a pair of Oscars for two of the most memorable—not to mention successful—musicals of all time: West Side Story and The Sound of Music. Drawing on more than 30 hours of interviews with Wise—as well as additional interviews with a number of his collaborators—Keenan offers a welcome reassessment of the director's work. In his analysis of each film, Keenan reveals both Wise the craftsman and the artist. In doing so, The Films of Robert Wise finally confers upon this underappreciated director the recognition he deserves.

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0810866633

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The Developing Person Through the Life Span Study Guide

By: Richard O. Straub

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The Developing Person Through the Life Span Study Guide

By: Richard O. Straub

This study guide is designed for use with The Developing Person Through the Life Span, Sixth Edition, by Katleen Stassen Berger. It is intended to help students evaluate their understanding of that material, and to review any problem areas. [Sections such as] 'How to Manage Your Time Efficiently,' 'Study more effectively", and "Thing Critically' provide detailed instructions on how to use the textbook. Each chapter ... includes a Chapter Overview, a set of Guided Study questions, a Chapter Review section, and three review tests." --Preface.

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420

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Macmillan

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0716703157

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9780716703150

The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence Study Guide

By: Richard O. Straub

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The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence Study Guide

By: Richard O. Straub

Each chapter includes a review of key concepts, guided study questions, and section reviews that encourage students' active participation in the learning process; two practice tests and a challenge test help them assess their mastery of the material. Applications and observational activities are also included.

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Macmillan

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0716768062

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9780716768067

Study Guide for The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence 6e

By: Richard O. Straub,Kathleen Stassen Berger

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Study Guide for The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence 6e

By: Richard O. Straub,Kathleen Stassen Berger

This title is the study guide which accompanies The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence 6th edition, (ISBN 0716752573).

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Macmillan

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0716752824

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9780716752820

Divided Brains

The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew

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Divided Brains

The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew

Discusses brain asymmetry from four perspectives - function, evolution, development and causation - covering a wide range of species, including humans.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107005353

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9781107005358

Stellar Spectral Classification

By: Richard O. Gray,Christopher J. Corbally

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Stellar Spectral Classification

By: Richard O. Gray,Christopher J. Corbally

Written by leading experts in the field, Stellar Spectral Classification is the only book to comprehensively discuss both the foundations and most up-to-date techniques of MK and other spectral classification systems. Definitive and encyclopedic, the book introduces the astrophysics of spectroscopy, reviews the entire field of stellar astronomy, and shows how the well-tested methods of spectral classification are a powerful discovery tool for graduate students and researchers working in astronomy and astrophysics. The book begins with a historical survey, followed by chapters discussing the entire range of stellar phenomena, from brown dwarfs to supernovae. The authors account for advances in the field, including the addition of the L and T dwarf classes; the revision of the carbon star, Wolf-Rayet, and white dwarf classification schemes; and the application of neural nets to spectral classification. Copious figures illustrate the morphology of stellar spectra, and the book incorporates recent discoveries from earth-based and satellite data. Many examples of spectra are given in the red, ultraviolet, and infrared regions, as well as in the traditional blue-violet optical region, all of which are useful for researchers identifying stellar and galactic spectra. This essential reference includes a glossary, handy appendixes and tables, an index, and a Web-based resource of spectra. In addition to the authors, the contributors are Adam J. Burgasser, Margaret M. Hanson, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, and Nolan R. Walborn.

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Princeton University Press

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1400833361

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9781400833368

Operative Techniques in Joint Reconstruction Surgery

By: Javad Parvizi,Richard H. Rothman

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Operative Techniques in Joint Reconstruction Surgery

By: Javad Parvizi,Richard H. Rothman

Derived from Sam W. Wiesel’s four-volume Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery, this single-volume resource contains the user-friendly, step-by-step information you need to confidently perform the full range of joint reconstruction surgical procedures. In one convenient place, you’ll find relevant chapters from the Sports Medicine, Pediatrics, and Trauma sections of Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery. Superb full-color illustrations and step-by-step explanations help you master surgical techniques, select the best procedure, avoid complications, and anticipate outcomes. Written by global experts from leading institutions, Operative Techniques in Joint Reconstruction Surgery, 2nd Edition, provides authoritative, easy-to-follow guidance to both the novice trainee or experienced surgeon.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496344820

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9781496344823

Handbook of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

By: Stephen J. Bickston,Richard S. Bloomfeld

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Handbook of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

By: Stephen J. Bickston,Richard S. Bloomfeld

Geared to a wide readership of practicing clinicians and trainees in primary care medicine and gastroenterology, this handbook offers practical information on Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Coverage begins with the patient's first visit and proceeds through the diagnostic workup: endoscopy, radiologic testing, and instruments for rating and classifying inflammatory bowel disease. Discussions of therapy include conventional therapies, immunomodulators, biologic therapies, surgical approaches, and intestinal stomas. Chapters discuss extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease and the liver, infections, and pouchitis. Additional chapters focus on nursing considerations, nutrition, women's health issues, and inflammatory bowel disease and the workplace.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451148003

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9781451148008

Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System

By: Richard M. Levich,Giovanni Majnoni,Carmen Reinhart

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Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System

By: Richard M. Levich,Giovanni Majnoni,Carmen Reinhart

Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System brings together the research of economists at New York University and the University of Maryland, along with those from the private sector, government bodies, and other universities. The first section of the volume focuses on the historical origins of the credit rating business and its present day industrial organization structure. The second section presents several empirical studies crafted largely around individual firm-level or bank-level data. These studies examine (a) the relationship between ratings and the default and recovery experience of corporate borrowers, (b) the comparability of credit ratings made by domestic and foreign rating agencies, and (c) the usefulness of financial market indicators for rating banks, among other topics. In the third section, the record of sovereign credit ratings in predicting financial crises and the reaction of financial markets to changes in credit ratings is examined. The final section of the volume emphasizes policy issues now facing regulators and credit rating agencies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461509998

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9781461509998

John Henry Newman

By: Richard J. Harding

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John Henry Newman

By: Richard J. Harding

The far-reaching influence of the greatest writer of non-fictional prose of the English language on numerous writers and poets of the twentieth century.

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iUniverse

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0595149987

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9780595149988

Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

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Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

This text uses a chronological organization to teach principles of development through childhood and encourages readers to reflect on their own personal experience of development. A brief paperback version of Exploring Child Development, the authors' goal was to address the need for a book that actually showed the child in the context of human relationships. Children do not develop in a vacuum, as the process of development is shaped by the continuous interplay between individuals and their ever-changing environments. To illustrate the uniqueness of these individuals and environments, the authors have integrated examples of diversity throughout the text, in the domains of physical, psychological and cultural differences, gender, race, ethnicity, and social and economic status.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205342124

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9780205342129

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The Films of Robert Wise

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Operative Techniques in Joint Reconstruction Surgery

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Handbook of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Handbook of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System

Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System

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John Henry Newman

Exploring Development Through Childhood

Exploring Development Through Childhood

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