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The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality, and Development in Rural Egypt

By: Richard H. Adams

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The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality, and Development in Rural Egypt

By: Richard H. Adams

Study based on a household survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) between September 1986 and May 1987 in three villages in the Minya governate.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896290891

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Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 1 Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina

By: Piet Kaas,Richard van Belle

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Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 1 Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina

By: Piet Kaas,Richard van Belle

Chitons form a peculiar and highly interesting class of molluscs, known with certainty to exist since the Ordovician, and widespread in all world seas to depths from 0 to over 7,000 m. In recent years taxonomists all over the world have much contributed to our knowledge of the chitons and their synonymy, so that the number of living species now amounts to some 800. The authors propose to not only compile all actual knowledge about the living chitons, but, where possible, a after a careful study of the type material, to systematically describe and illustrate every known -- or hitherto unknown -- species. In most cases the detailed figures are new and drawn by the senior author, P. Kaas. The Monograph of Living Chitons is planned to appear in ten volumes.

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9004431675

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Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 6 Family Schizochitonidae

By: Piet Kaas,Richard A. Van Belle,Herman L. Strack

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Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 6 Family Schizochitonidae

By: Piet Kaas,Richard A. Van Belle,Herman L. Strack

Since H.A. Pilsbry’s classic work on the chitons (Polyplacophora), published between 1892 and 1894 in the Manual of Conchology, there has been no comprehensive taxonomic review of this group. Piet Kaas and Richard van Belle changed this when they started the book series Monograph of Living Chitons, which aimed, after a careful study of the type material, to systematically describe and illustrate every known - or hitherto unknown - species. The first five volumes were published between 1985 and 1994. The sudden death of seniour author Piet Kaas in 1996 postponed the publication of Volume 6. The unfinished manuscript was taken up by a new author, Hermann Strack, who in collaboration with van Belle managed to finish it. In Volume 6 no less than 167 species are treated and depicted, of which 3 are described as new. Two important families are covered: the Schizochitonidae and the Chitonidae. Especially the coverage of the Chitonidae, with well know and species-rich genera and subgenera as Chiton, Rhyssoplax, Acanthopleura, Tonicia, Lucilina and Onithochiton is long awaited and will prove very useful to researchers, students and collectors alike.

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9047418379

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Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard

A History

By: Thomas Dresser,Richard Lewis Taylor

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Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard

A History

By: Thomas Dresser,Richard Lewis Taylor

Martha's Vineyard has always been a unique island and vacation destination, made even more diverse with the arrival of Black homeowners in the 19th century. Early landowners included the formerly enslaved Charles Shearer, who along with his wife Henrietta, founded Shearer Cottage. However, the fall of the first Black community on the island came in the 1890s when forty Black and Indigenous people were required to remove their cottages from the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association. Despite this painful blow, other families, including the Wests, Jones and Huberts bought island homes, challenging restrictive and racist covenants that encumbered the properties. They then passed their homes on to subsequent generations, leading to a legacy of Black homeownership that thrives to this day. Authors Thomas Dresser and Richard Taylor explore the challenges, triumphs and the sense of community that has endured.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540262391

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Remittances and Poverty in Ghana

By: Richard H. Adams

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Remittances and Poverty in Ghana

By: Richard H. Adams

The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. But the size of the poverty reduction depends on how poverty is being measured. The author finds that poverty is reduced more when international, as opposed to internal, remittances are included in household income, and when poverty is measured by the more sensitive poverty measures-poverty gap and squared poverty gap. For example, the squared poverty gap measure shows that including international remittances in household expenditure (income) reduces the severity of poverty by 34.8 percent, while including internal remittances in such income reduces the severity of poverty by only 4.1 percent. International remittances reduce the severity of poverty more than internal remittances because of the differential impact of these two types of remittances on poor households. Households in the poorest decile group receive 22.7 percent of their total household expenditure (income) from international remittances, as opposed to only 13.8 percent of such income from internal remittances. When these "poorest of the poor" households receive international remittances, their income status changes dramatically and this in turn has a large effect on any poverty measure-like the squared poverty gap-that considers both the number and distance of poor households beneath the poverty line.

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World Bank Publications

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0060131160

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Facing West

The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building

By: Richard Drinnon

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Facing West

The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building

By: Richard Drinnon

American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080612928X

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9780806129280

The Republic for Which It Stands

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

By: Richard White

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The Republic for Which It Stands

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

By: Richard White

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.

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0190619074

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What Would the Founders Do?

Our Questions, Their Answers

By: Richard Brookhiser

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What Would the Founders Do?

Our Questions, Their Answers

By: Richard Brookhiser

What would George Washington do about weapons of mass destruction? How would Benjamin Franklin feel about unwed mothers? What would Alexander Hamilton think about minorities in the military? Examining a host of issues from terrorism to women's rights, acclaimed historian Richard Brookhiser reveals why we still turn to the Founders in moments of struggle, farce, or disaster. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams and all the rest have an unshakable hold on our collective imagination. We trust them more than today's politicians because they built our country, they wrote our user's manuals-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution-and they ran the nation while it was still under warranty and could be returned to the manufacturer. If anyone knows how the U.S.A. should work, it must be the Founders. Brookhiser uses his vast knowledge to apply their views to today's issues. He also explores why what the Founders would think still matters. Written with Brookhiser's trademark eloquence and wit, while drawing on his deep understanding of American history, What Would the Founders Do? sheds new light on the disagreements and debates that have shaped our country from the beginning. Now, more than ever, we need the Founders-inspiring, argumentative, amusing know-it-alls-to help us work through the issues that divide us.

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Basic Books

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0465008747

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America's First Dynasty

The Adamses, 1735-1918

By: Richard Brookhiser

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America's First Dynasty

The Adamses, 1735-1918

By: Richard Brookhiser

They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to John Quincy, the child prodigy who followed his father to the White House and fought slavery in Congress; to Charles Francis, the Civil War diplomat; to Henry, the brilliant scholar and journalist. Indeed, the history of the Adams family can be read as the history of America itself. For when the Adamses "looked at their past, they saw the nation's," writes author Richard Brookhiser. "When they looked at the nation's past, they saw themselves." America's First Dynasty charts the family's travels through American history along with an impressive cast of characters, among them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Theodore Roosevelt. Brookhiser also details the darker side of the Adams experience, from the specters of alcoholism and suicide to the crushing burden of performance passed on from father to son. Yet by putting a human face on this legendary family, Brookhiser succeeds in creating an impassioned, heroic family portrait that the American public is not likely to forget.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743242092

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Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Susan Ayers,Richard de Visser

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Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Susan Ayers,Richard de Visser

As our understanding of what constitutes ‘good health’ grows, so does our need to understand the psychological aspects of medicine and health, as well as the psychological interventions available in healthcare. This new edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, application and current practices in the field, covering topics from epigenetics to social determinants of health and transdiagnostic approaches to mental health and everything in between. An essential read for all medicine and healthcare students, this text is now accompanied by a suite of online resources for all your learning needs.

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SAGE

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1529760526

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9781529760521

Anxiety Management Training

A Behavior Therapy

By: Richard M. Suinn

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Anxiety Management Training

A Behavior Therapy

By: Richard M. Suinn

This book owes its existence to an ideal, a burning frustration, and a trusted believer. The ideal was the sense that governed my feelings about systematic desensitization during my early introduction to its benefits. It is hard to put into words the initial doubts that pervaded me during my first attempt with desensitization with a seriously phobic client, as I re ligiously worked my way through the procedure: "Will this client really become relaxed? And then what-will the visualization actually occur? And then what-will the fear really vanish, just like that?" And oh, the feeling of discovery, and validation, when indeed the process worked, and worked well. Desensitization was everything it was claimed to be: systematic, clean, theoretically grounded, empirically tested, applicable as a behavioral technology regardless of one's own theoretical bias. And there were testable outcomes; concrete evidence for change. So I became invested and aimed at doing more with desensitization. My students and I raised some theoretical questions in order to open the doors for revising the desensitization to improve on its applications. We tested the rapidity with which desensitization could be accomplished, shortening the time by shortening the anxiety hierarchy. Along with others, we studied the question of group delivery, and reducing the total number of sessions, as well as examining the use of audiotaped delivery of services.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306435454

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9780306435454

Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

By: Richard P. Irwin

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Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

By: Richard P. Irwin

Organometallic chemistry is based on the reactions and use of a class of compounds (R-M) that contain a covalent bond between carbon and metal. They are prepared either by direct reaction of the metal with an organic compound or by replacement of a metal from another organometallic substance. This book presents research in this field.

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Nova Publishers

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160021780X

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States at War, Volume 6

The Confederate States Chronology and a Reference Guide for South Carolina in the Civil War

By: Richard F. Miller

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States at War, Volume 6

The Confederate States Chronology and a Reference Guide for South Carolina in the Civil War

By: Richard F. Miller

A valuable reference guide to South Carolina during the Civil War that includes a detailed Confederate States chronology

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Brandeis University Press

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1512601071

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Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

By: Richard F. Selcer

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Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

By: Richard F. Selcer

Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438107978

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Sources of Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural Pakistan

By: Richard H. Adams,Jane J. He

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Sources of Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural Pakistan

By: Richard H. Adams,Jane J. He

Research issues methodology and study design; Data set, income sources and decomposition of overall income inequality; Sources of nonfarm income inequality; Source of agricultural income inequality; Sources of transfer income inequality; Sources of rental income inequality; Poverty; Conclusions and policy recommendations.

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The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality, and Development in Rural Egypt

The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality, and Development in Rural Egypt

Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 1 Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina

Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 1 Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina

Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 6 Family Schizochitonidae

Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 6 Family Schizochitonidae

Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard

Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard

Remittances and Poverty in Ghana

Remittances and Poverty in Ghana

Facing West

Facing West

The Republic for Which It Stands

The Republic for Which It Stands

What Would the Founders Do?

What Would the Founders Do?

America's First Dynasty

America's First Dynasty

Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare

Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare

Anxiety Management Training

Anxiety Management Training

Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

States at War, Volume 6

States at War, Volume 6

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

Sources of Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural Pakistan

Sources of Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural Pakistan

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