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Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae

By: David M. Bates,Richard W. Robinson

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Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae

By: David M. Bates,Richard W. Robinson

The cucurbits (Cucurbitaceae, or gourd family), which include squash, pumpkin, melon, cucumber, and watermelon, have long been of economic significance. As sources of vegetables, fruit, and seeds rich in oils and protein, they have the potential of making an even larger contribution toward meeting the needs of humankind. This book, consisting of 37 papers by 50 cucurbit specialists, emphasizes the practical importance of cucurbit investigation, and also provides a broad overview of the family.

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Cornell University Press

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1501745441

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9781501745447

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection

By: Richard L. Edmonds

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Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection

By: Richard L. Edmonds

Combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to analyse the increasing problems of environmental degradation in China brought on by a century of rapid demographic and economic growth in dire need of control.

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Psychology Press

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0415104785

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9780415104784

Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1

Collected Works, 1939-1951

By: Richard L. Saunders,Dale Lowell Morgan

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Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1

Collected Works, 1939-1951

By: Richard L. Saunders,Dale Lowell Morgan

The first volume includes key extracts from Morgan's contribution to the WPA guide to Utah (1941), which remains an excellent introduction to the complex history of the Beehive State. It further provides a new historiographic introduction to his seminal work "The State of Deseret "and presents important previously unpublished works on the Kingdom of God, the Deseret Alphabet, and the origins of the infamous Danite society.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806188111

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9780806188119

Surprise Attack

Lessons for Defense Planning

By: Richard K. Betts

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Surprise Attack

Lessons for Defense Planning

By: Richard K. Betts

Long before Germany's blitzkrieg swept the West, European leaders had received many signals of its imminence. Stalin, too, had abundant warning of German designs on Russia but believed that by avoiding "provocative" defensive measures he could avert the attack that finally came in June 1941. And the stories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, and three Arab-Israeli conflicts are replete with missed opportunities to react to unmistakable warnings. Richad K. Betts analyzes surprise attacks during the mid-twentieth century to illustrate his thesis: surprise attacks occur, not because intelligence services fail to warn, but because of the disbelief of political leaders. "Although the probability is low that the United States will fail to deter direct attack by the Soviet Union," Betts says, "the intensity of the threat warrants painstaking analysis of how to cope with it." His own investigation of the historical, psychological, political, diplomatic, and military aspects of his subject heightens understanding of why surprise attacks succeed and why victim nations fail to respond to warnings. In discussing current policy he focuses on the defense of Western Europe and applies the lessons of history to U.S. defense planning, offering detailed recommendations for changes in strategy. Obviously some of the potential dangers of military surprise cannot be prevented. The important thing, he emphasizes, is that "without forces that exceed requirements (the solution Moscow appears to have chosen), it is vital to ensure that what forces exist can be brought to bear when needed.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815719477

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9780815719472

The Liberal Defence of Murder

By: Richard Seymour

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The Liberal Defence of Murder

By: Richard Seymour

A war that has killed more than a million Iraqis was a "humanitarian intervention", the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam. These are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, including such notable names as Christopher Hitchens, Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Berman, and Bernard-Henri Lvy. In this critical intervention, Richard Seymour unearths the history of liberal justifications for empire, showing how savage policies of conquest-including genocide and slavery-have been retailed as charitable missions. From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Seymour argues that colonialist notions of "civilization" and "progress" still shape liberal pro-war discourse, concealing the same bloody realities. In a new afterword, Seymour revisits the debates on liberal imperialism in the era of Obama and in the light of the Afghan and Iraqi debacles.

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Verso Books

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1781689628

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Deliver Me

Spiritual Resources for Avoiding Temptation and It's Consequences

By: Richard Exley

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Deliver Me

Spiritual Resources for Avoiding Temptation and It's Consequences

By: Richard Exley

When sincere believers succumb to temptation it is seldom a sudden thing," writes Richard Exley. "Rather it is the culmination of a series of seemingly innocent compromises that ultimately result in a tragic fall." Exley refers to seven stages of temptation that are common in almost every sinful failure. Maybe you will recognize them, or maybe you are struggling at one of them right now. No matter what stage you are in, don't be discouraged, Deliver Me is ultimately a book of encouragement. It is a guide to enhance your Christian walk by allowing scriptural principles to become part of your spiritual disciplines.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418558672

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9781418558673

Special Ops Liberators

223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, 100 Group, and the Electronic War

By: Steve Bond,Richard Forder

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Special Ops Liberators

223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, 100 Group, and the Electronic War

By: Steve Bond,Richard Forder

This WWII Royal Air Force history reveals the activities of special ops squadrons and the electronic warfare and countermeasures they deployed. Established within the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, No. 100 Group was dedicated to the complex business of electronic warfare. Though its role was vital, it remains one of the least understood aspects of RAF operations during the Second World War. In this meticulously researched volume, aviation historian Steve Bond and Squadron Leader Richard Forder RAF (Ret’d) shed important light on the work of No. 100 Group by analyzing one of its Bomber Support Squadrons, No. 223. Equipped with former USAAF Liberators, No. 223 Squadron operated from August of 1944 to the end of the European war. Its primary role was protecting Bomber Command Main Force ops through the use of experimental radio and radar countermeasures against German defenses. With unique access to original documents and firsthand accounts from both sides of the conflict, Forder and Bond present a detailed and comprehensive picture of the secret activities of these special operatives and their effect on German defenses.

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Grub Street

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1909166553

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9781909166554

Can Nations Agree?

Issues in International Economic Cooperation

By: Richard N. Cooper,Barry Eichengreen,Gerald Holtham

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Can Nations Agree?

Issues in International Economic Cooperation

By: Richard N. Cooper,Barry Eichengreen,Gerald Holtham

In the age of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, a new international trade in industrial and human waste, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the greenhouse effect, the importance of international cooperation is supremely evident. In the economic arena, such problems include speculative instability in financial and primary commodities markets, competition in tax regimes, and the greatly enhanced scope for tax evasion. Can Nations Agree? examines the crucial issues surrounding international cooperation-- conditions that foster cooperation toward common goals; ways to handle the friction arising from conflicting goals; and the structures that best promote cooperation. Although nations recognize the value of cooperation in an independent world, a variety of conditions inhibit the process. In recent decades the number of independent nations has risen rapidly, and so has the variety of decisionmakers and national interests to be reconciled. At the same time, the economic power of the United States has declined in relation to other successful capitalist countries. In the chapters on the 1978 Bonn economic summit, German macroeconomic policy, international cooperation on public health issues, and hegemony and stability, the scholars contributing to this volume analyze the history and process of international cooperation to offer fresh insight for future efforts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815723423

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9780815723424

Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture

By: Richard H. Solomon

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Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture

By: Richard H. Solomon

Political science analysis of the impact of mao's political leadership on politics, cultural change and social change in China - gives a historical perspective of maoist political doctrine developed in context with traditional values, examines the motivational mechanisms for securing political participation, and covers social conflict, political opposition, the political system, the dynamics of political education, etc. Selected bibliography pp. 575 to 588.

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Univ of California Press

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0520022505

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9780520022508

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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9781600217807

Joseph Smith

Rough Stone Rolling

By: Richard Lyman Bushman

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Joseph Smith

Rough Stone Rolling

By: Richard Lyman Bushman

Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.

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Vintage

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0307426483

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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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The Revolution Is Now Begun

The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776

By: Richard Alan Ryerson

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The Revolution Is Now Begun

The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776

By: Richard Alan Ryerson

The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revolutionary action. This book offers the first detailed profile of the several hundred obscure committeemen and propagandists who took up the new revolutionary ideology and carried it that one last step: out of the realm of rhetoric and into the domain of concrete change. And participatory democracy as a principle of American government owes its realization largely to these second-rank politicians and ordinary citizens, who provided the basic muscle of Revolutionary politics. In the 1760s and early 1770s Pennsylvania lacked nearly every ingredient for revolution found elsewhere in the colonies: a strong dissenting tradition, widely felt economic grievances, or a legislature intimately acquainted with royal government. Only the painstaking enlistment of a strong leadership core, the construction of new political institutions, and the rapid mobilization of the majority of the community could overcome these deficiencies. In Pennsylvania British authority succumbed to the activity of a few hundred men who were drawn into public life by a handful of veteran politicians within just two years. To these men and to their committees Pennsylvania owes its revolution. In his book Richard Alan Ryerson focuses on the daily business of politics in the Revolutionary period—the art of motivation for radical political purposes—and its economic and social dimensions in the most prominent American city of the time. How were the colonists mobilized for resistance? What was the political process? Who were the disaffected people who became the radical leaders of the Philadelphia community? To answer these questions, Ryerson compares campaigning styles, nomination and election procedures, and local political organizations in the colonial era with their counterparts during the Revolution. He also examines the age, economic status, religious faith, and national origins of the men who formed the radical committees of Philadelphia between 1765 and 1776.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206835

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9780812206838

The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

By: Richard B. Silverman

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The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

By: Richard B. Silverman

Drug discovery, design and development. Receptors. Enzymes. Enzyme inhibition and inactivation. DNA-interactive agents. Drug metabolism. Prodrugs and drug delivery systems.

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Academic Press

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0126437327

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9780126437324

At the Heart of Texas

One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997

By: Richard B. McCaslin

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At the Heart of Texas

One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997

By: Richard B. McCaslin

History like that of Texas is rare. . . . Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of material for the history of the State to the great endowed Northern libraries? . . . Let Texas arouse herself for very shame, and begin at once the discharge of her filial duty." So wrote George Pierce Garrison in the first issue of the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, published in July 1897, just months after the establishment of the organization on March 2. The state of Texas was just half a century old; the city of Austin, going back to the days of the Republic, was a little older—a few years past its half-century; and the University of Texas, where Garrison was "the history professor," was not yet fourteen. Earlier attempts to organize historical societies in Texas, traced in the opening chapter, illuminate the factors that came ultimately to be decisive in the success of the Association: the wisdom in linking the organization with the University of Texas, the inclusion of lay historians, and the continued insistence on high academic standards. And, from the beginning, the Association has established a tradition for publishing in the Quarterly, in addition to the Anglo story, the stories of the Indians, the Spanish, and the French. According to author Richard B. McCaslin, "It may be that the Association survived where its predecessors had not because Garrison, who was as much a Progressive historian as any of his contemporaries, understood the value of inclusiveness." The text is organized in chronological chapters by the tenures of the seven directors, George Garrison to Ron Tyler, all of whom were professors in the UT history department. Within the larger framework of the directors, the programs, and the publications, McCaslin gives shape to the unique interaction of forces—university, political, and the academic/lay membership—that has accorded the Association a character and suppleness that continues to ensure its long endurance. The book is profusely illustrated, and sidebars culled from past issues of the Quarterly complement the text. Winner of the Award of Merit from the Philosophical Socierty of Texas

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0876112645

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Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae

Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1

Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1

Surprise Attack

Surprise Attack

The Liberal Defence of Murder

The Liberal Defence of Murder

Deliver Me

Deliver Me

Special Ops Liberators

Special Ops Liberators

Can Nations Agree?

Can Nations Agree?

Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture

Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture

Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

Organometallic Chemistry Research Perspectives

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Joseph Smith

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

The Revolution Is Now Begun

The Revolution Is Now Begun

The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

At the Heart of Texas

At the Heart of Texas

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