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Strong Medicine Level 3

By: Richard MacAndrew

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Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Dr Mark Latto travels to California USA to learn about an alternative medical treatment from Deborah Spencer. But on arrival he finds that Deborah has died and the book she was writing about the treatment has vanished. The police don't suspect murder but Mark does.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521693934

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9780521693936

Home Scenes During the Rebellion

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Maggie Roberts

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Home Scenes During the Rebellion

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Maggie Roberts

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385366356

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Sun River

By: Richard S. Wheeler

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Sun River

By: Richard S. Wheeler

When Skye agrees to act as a guide leading missionaries to the Blackfeet nation, their trail crosses through warring Crow and Cheyenne territories, and their sojourn is one of nearly impossible odds."--Jacket.

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Macmillan

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0812510739

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Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature

Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film

By: Richard Leppert

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Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature

Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film

By: Richard Leppert

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumasÑcultural, social, and personalÑassociated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back.

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Univ of California Press

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0520287371

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9780520287372

Blue Blood. Or, White May and Black June

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Leon Dande

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Blue Blood. Or, White May and Black June

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Leon Dande

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385535468

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9783385535466

Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America

By: Richard L. Jackson

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Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America

By: Richard L. Jackson

In Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America, Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupiñán Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement--the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America--to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization that over the years they had become not only defenders of threatened cultures but also symbolic guardians of humanity. This humanist tradition had enabled writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella to write of a Latin America "from below" the slave-ship deck and "from inside" the mind of Africa. Though many writers have adopted black literary models in their quest for a "poetry of sources, of fundamental human values," Jackson demonstrates that literature about blacks by blacks themselves is clearly separate from, yet instrumental to, these other works. Relating the vision of Latin American blacks not only to other Latin American writers but also to North American literary critics such as Eugene Goodheart and John Gardner, Jackson stresses the universal power of resisting oppression and injustice through the language of humanism.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333123

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9780820333120

Suburban Homes for Business Men

By: Richard Nelson

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Suburban Homes for Business Men

By: Richard Nelson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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3368853406

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9783368853402

Simon Bolivar's Quest for Glory

By: Richard W. Slatta,Jane Lucas De Grummond

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Simon Bolivar's Quest for Glory

By: Richard W. Slatta,Jane Lucas De Grummond

Chronicles the life of Simon Bolivar, one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in Latin American history, focusing on his extensive military career.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603447296

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The Time of Our Singing

A Novel

By: Richard Powers

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The Time of Our Singing

A Novel

By: Richard Powers

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374706417

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9780374706418

Confronting Modernity

Art and Society in Louisiana

By: Richard Megraw

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Confronting Modernity

Art and Society in Louisiana

By: Richard Megraw

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana examines how the conflicts and benefits of modernity's nationalizing influences were reflected and resisted by the state's artists in the first half of the twentieth century. In Louisiana, such change not only produced the turbulent politics of the Huey Long era but also provoked debate over new ideas on art and social roles for artists. By using two of Louisiana's most prominent cultural figures of the era as lenses, Megraw reveals the state's complex relationship with modernity. Artist Ellsworth Woodward and writer Lyle Saxon battled to retain artistic control over what they considered the exceptional character of Louisiana. Woodward defended localized assumptions through art in the world-renowned pottery program he established in 1892 and directed for more than forty years at Sophie Newcomb College. Saxon, on the other hand, fought against modernity's encroachment from within, serving as director of the Federal Writers Project in Louisiana. He used his position to promote literature and culture that preserved local place and historic structure from the transformations wrought by industrialism, consumerism, and the mass media. Confronting Modernity vividly explores how Louisiana's struggles with America's rush to modernize mirrored battles for autonomy happening between artists and governments across the country. Richard Megraw is associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His work has been published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578064171

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9781578064175

Blacks Who Stole Themselves

Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-179

By: Billy G. Smith,Richard Wojtowicz

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Blacks Who Stole Themselves

Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-179

By: Billy G. Smith,Richard Wojtowicz

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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151280830X

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Maia

By: Richard Adams

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Maia

By: Richard Adams

Sold into slavery to the dealer Lalloc by her mother when her stepfather seduces her, the beautiful 15-year-old Maia is almost raped by Genshed, one of Lalloc's employees but is saved by Occula, a black slave girl. With no-one but Occula at her side, Maia must summon all her courage, strength and intelligence as she navigates the seedy side of the Beklan empire.

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178301556X

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Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

By: Richard Graham

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Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

By: Richard Graham

Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.

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Stanford University Press

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0804723362

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9780804723367

Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

Selective Advantage, Connectivity, and Neural Operations

By: Richard Passingham

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Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

Selective Advantage, Connectivity, and Neural Operations

By: Richard Passingham

This chapter explains why this book is organized as it is. Each neocortical area has a unique pattern of inputs and outputs. This means that the challenge is to understand the transformation that each of the prefrontal areas performs from input to output. Functional brain imaging allows us to visualize the human brain at work, but it does not have the spatial resolution to identify the mechanisms that support the transformations that the brain performs. It is neurophysiological recordings from cells that tell us how these are achieved. Chapters 3-8 are therefore mainly devoted to studies that have been carried out on the prefrontal cortex of macaque monkeys because the methods are necessarily invasive. Apart from recording, the methods include making selective lesions in an area; it is these that identify the contribution that is unique to that area. The book ends by reviewing the evolution of the human prefrontal cortex; and the final two chapters discuss the ways in which the human prefrontal cortex is specialized in terms of function. In doing so, they attempt to account for the intellectual gap between humans and other primates"--

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Oxford University Press

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0198844573

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9780198844570

The MGH Textbook of Anesthetic Equipment E-Book

By: Warren Sandberg,Richard Urman,Jesse Ehrenfeld

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The MGH Textbook of Anesthetic Equipment E-Book

By: Warren Sandberg,Richard Urman,Jesse Ehrenfeld

The MGH Textbook of Anesthetic Equipment by Warren Sandberg, MD, Richard Urman, MD, and Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, provides expert coverage on the latest and best anesthetic equipment. Technology-driven changes, together with the high risks associated with anesthesia delivery, require that you understand everything from physics fundamentals to special situations to troubleshooting so you can safely and effectively use all the equipment and instrumentation in today’s operating rooms. This one-stop, full-color reference, edited by an expert team from Massachusetts General Hospital, skillfully brings you up to speed. Ensure your patients receive the best care possible with excellent coverage of all monitoring techniques including transesophageal echocardiography. Improve patient safety with information on temperature monitoring and control. Update your knowledge of emergency room airway equipment to ensure the best results. Decide which equipment is best suited for anesthesia delivery both inside and outside the hospital.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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143771465X

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9781437714654

The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

By: Richard E. Passingham,Steven P. Wise

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The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

By: Richard E. Passingham,Steven P. Wise

The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. Written by two leading brain scientists, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the evolution and functioning of the human brain.

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Oxford University Press

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0199552916

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9780199552917

Irwin & Rippe's Procedures, Techniques and Minimally Invasive Monitoring in Intensive Care Medicine

By: Richard S. Irwin,James M. Rippe,Alan Lisbon,Stephen O. Heard

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Irwin & Rippe's Procedures, Techniques and Minimally Invasive Monitoring in Intensive Care Medicine

By: Richard S. Irwin,James M. Rippe,Alan Lisbon,Stephen O. Heard

This softcover manual covers all procedures and techniques necessary for certification in critical care from the internal medicine, anesthesiology, and surgical critical care certification exam. Each procedure or monitoring technique discusses indications/contraindications, equipment, anatomy, techniques, postprocedure care, and complications. Specific nursing indications are indicated where appropriate.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451180233

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9781451180237

The Frontal Lobes and Voluntary Action

By: Richard E. Passingham

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The Frontal Lobes and Voluntary Action

By: Richard E. Passingham

This book presents an argument rather than a review: that the frontal lobes as a whole are specialized for voluntary action. For each area within the frontal lobes, a specific role in the execution of voluntary action is proposed. Topics covered include the control of movement in the motor cortex and premotor areas, decision-making in the pre-frontal cortex, response learning in the basal ganglia, and the mental trial and error that forms the basis of future responses. This analysis is based on the author's own work using the most up-to-date imaging techniques. Controversial and thought-provoking, it will serve as the basis for future work and debate on the subject.

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OUP Oxford

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0191545686

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9780191545689

Feeding the City

From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

By: Richard Graham

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Feeding the City

From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

By: Richard Graham

On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay decisively influenced the outcome of the war for Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided into two groups—the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or enslaved—Salvador had a population that included a great many who lived in between and moved up and down. The day-to-day behavior of those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic liberalization and those who resist it.

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University of Texas Press

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0292723261

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9780292723269

Disaster Policy and Politics

Emergency Management and Homeland Security

By: Richard T. Sylves

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Disaster Policy and Politics

Emergency Management and Homeland Security

By: Richard T. Sylves

Disaster Policy and Politics combines evidence-based research with mini-case studies of recent events to demonstrate the fundamental principles of emergency management and to explore the impact that disasters have had on U.S. policy. Paying special attention to the role of key actors—decision makers at the federal, state, and local levels; scientists; engineers; civil and military personnel; and first responders—author Richard Sylves explores how researchers contribute to and engage in disaster policy development and management. The highly anticipated Third Edition explores the radical change in policy and politics after the occurrence of recent disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria; Hawaii’s false nuclear attack warning; and responses to U.S. wildfires. This book’s comprehensive “all-hazards” approach introduces students to the important public policy, organizational management, and leadership issues they may need as future practitioners and leaders in the field.

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CQ Press

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1506368719

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