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The Spectacle of Skill

Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

By: Robert Hughes

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The Spectacle of Skill

Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

By: Robert Hughes

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of Skill brings together some of his most unforgettable pieces, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books, alongside never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. Showcasing Hughes’s enormous range, this indispensable anthology offers a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man.

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Vintage

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030738599X

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China’s Foreign Places

The Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840–1943

By: Robert Nield

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China’s Foreign Places

The Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840–1943

By: Robert Nield

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them—the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China’s century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943—a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China’s Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China’s Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China’s treaty port world.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139282

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9789888139286

Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers

By: Robert V. Brulle

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Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers

By: Robert V. Brulle

Few people have experienced as much aerospace history as Bob Brulle (Lt. Col. Robert V. Brulle, USAF, Ret.), and fewer still possess his meticulous recall and research skills. The P-47 fighter pilot turned engineer, inventor, educator, and author found himself immersed in the Cold War race to the moon, developing cutting-edge technology, instructing future astronauts in aerodynamics and orbital mechanics, perfecting high-performance fighter aircraft to meet the Soviet challenge, overseeing the procurement of new weapon systems, and exploring alternative energy sources. In this book, he shares his unique personal insights into the triumphs and tragedies of one of the most exciting eras in American history.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437912796

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9781437912791

Hidden History of Milwaukee

By: Robert Tanzilo

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Hidden History of Milwaukee

By: Robert Tanzilo

Join a local history expert for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Milwaukee’s incredible past. Sail out to the Breakwater Lighthouse, scramble up the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and dig up the city’s roots on the corner of Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Seize the chance to do a little urban spelunking and explore basilicas, burial grounds, and breweries. Ring the bell in the city hall tower, and take a turn around the secret indoor track at a Montessori school. No space is off limits in these untold stories of the Cream City's most familiar places and celebrated landmarks, from Bobby Tanzilo of the popular OnMilwaukee website. Includes photos!

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625849893

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9781625849892

Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar

Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter

By: Robert Holley P

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Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar

Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter

By: Robert Holley P

Leading figures pay tribute to an expert in the field Honoring the work of Ruth C. Carter upon her retirement as editor of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar is a unique collection that features 21 articles from experts in the field. Celebrating Dr. Carter’s dedication to technical services, cataloging, history, and management, these essays recall all the important aspects of her life and career. The important compendium also includes an interview with Dr. Carter and a review of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (CCQ) during her 20 years at its helm. In four parts, this wide-ranging collection includes articles that not only span the length and breadth of Dr. Carter’s professional career, but also present new contributions to the field. The first section of Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar considers Dr. Carter’s personal history and direct influence on CCQ as well as what she sees as key issues in cataloging at the beginning of the 21st century. The studies in part two take an international look at cataloging and bibliographic history while new research in the field is presented in part three. Finally, part four offers papers that consider current trends as well as possible directions for the emerging digital future. Chapters in Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar include: a commemorative biographical sketch of Ruth Carter an interview where she discusses her career as a librarian, archivist, historian, and long-time editor a comprehensive review of the contents of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly from 1990-2006 an analysis of the availability of books and reading materials in Monroe County, Indiana, through 1850 annotation as a lost art in cataloging early twentieth-century British libraries twenty-five years of bibliographic control research at the University of Bradford the Italian cataloging tradition and its relationships with the international tradition technical services and tenure impediments and strategies the “works” phenomenon and best selling books measuring typographical errors’ impact on retrieval in bibliographic databases meeting the needs of special format catalogers copy cataloging for print and video monographs in academic libraries balancing principles, practice, and pragmatics in a changing digital environment the development of knowledge structures on the Internet and may more! A unique compilation of the many issues that appeared in CCQ during Dr. Carter’s 20-year tenure, Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar is an informative resource for librarians, LTS professionals, catalogers, students, educators, and researchers.

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Routledge

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1136798781

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9781136798788

The Space Within

Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture

By: Robert McCarter

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The Space Within

Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture

By: Robert McCarter

Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn’t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for design, and the quality of that experience is the only appropriate means of evaluating a work after it has been built. McCarter reveals that we can’t really know a piece of architecture without inhabiting its spaces, and we need to counter our contemporary obsession with exterior views and forms with a renewed appreciation for interiors. He explores how interior space has been integral to the development of modern architecture from the late 1800s to today, and he examines how architects have engaged interior space and its experiences in their design processes, fundamentally transforming traditional approaches to composition. Eloquently placing us within a host of interior spaces, he opens up new ways of thinking about architecture and what its goals are and should be.

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Reaktion Books

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1780237073

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9781780237077

Extravasation of Cytotoxic Agents

Compendium for Prevention and Management

By: Ines Mader,Patrizia R. Fürst-Weger,Robert M. Mader,Elisabeth Nogler-Semenitz,Sabine Wassertheurer

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Extravasation of Cytotoxic Agents

Compendium for Prevention and Management

By: Ines Mader,Patrizia R. Fürst-Weger,Robert M. Mader,Elisabeth Nogler-Semenitz,Sabine Wassertheurer

The extravasation of cytotoxic agents can result in severe local tissue damage and medical emergencies during tumour therapy. This revised compendium is intended to help clinicians assess any situation speedily and with certainty. The general section of the book includes topics such as predisposition, prevention, type of harm, general measures in handling extravasated drugs, specific antidotes, and documentation. In the 2nd edition, the scientific information contained in the general section and relating to the actual substances has been updated. The substance specific part of the book includes detailed instructions on handling more than 50 cytotoxic drugs, to initiate targeted measures. Templates for an extravasation set, overview tables, documentation sheets, and patient information, as we as a CD-ROM are included to support clinical practice. The book is the outcome of a consensus of an interdisciplinary working group that has collected and systematically reviewed all published literature on the topic.

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401

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3211888934

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9783211888933

Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

By: Scott John Hammond,Robert North Roberts,Valerie A. Sulfaro

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Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

By: Scott John Hammond,Robert North Roberts,Valerie A. Sulfaro

What does it take to get elected president of the United States—"leader of the free world"? This book gives readers insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. The race for the presidency encapsulates the broader changes in American democratic culture. This book provides insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. Readers will be able to see and understand how presidential campaigns have evolved over time, and how and why the current state of campaigning for president came into being.

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992

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440850798

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9781440850790

Texas Search and Seizure - Sixth Edition

By: Judge Robert R. Barton

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Texas Search and Seizure - Sixth Edition

By: Judge Robert R. Barton

Texas Search and Seizure provides an integrated, comprehensive treatise on the Texas law of arrest and search. It offers both quick answers and in-depth analysis. A convenient and authoritative research tool for preparation of motions to suppress, as well as trial and appellate briefs, Texas Search and Seizure serves as a courtroom reference for trial attorneys as well as a bench book for judges. Readers can rely on the expertise of Judge Barton for practical solutions to complicated issues. Judge Barton integrates federal, state, and constitutional case law in an understandable and intuitive way that attorneys and judges throughout Texas have come to depend on. Texas Search and Seizure is organized in a precise, coherent format with a table of contents, a synopsis of each major section and a subject index. Major sections contain suggested forms for motions to suppress evidence, objections, and the trial court’s charge, as well as cross-references to related sections.

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Juris Publishing, Inc.

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1578233496

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9781578233496

QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 6, MCQ Companion to Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

By: Colin Pinnock,Robert Jones

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QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 6, MCQ Companion to Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

By: Colin Pinnock,Robert Jones

This volume has been written by the editors of Fundamentals of Anaesthesia: 2nd Edition and The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book, two best-selling GMM titles for trainee anaesthetists. As well as the usual QBase features that allow candidates to practice, mark, resit and infinitely customise MCQ examinations using the free QBase CD-ROM, this volume has the added value of being cross-referenced throughout to 'Fundamentals of Anaesthesia: 2nd Edition'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1841100986

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9781841100982

Cracking the Freemasons Code

The Truth About Solomon's Key and the Brotherhood

By: Robert L.D. Cooper

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Cracking the Freemasons Code

The Truth About Solomon's Key and the Brotherhood

By: Robert L.D. Cooper

Respected historian and Scottish Freemason Cooper offers a rare, inside look at the secret brotherhood of the Freemasons. Readers will discover the true role the order has played throughout history, its purposes, symbolism and beliefs, and more.

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260

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Simon and Schuster

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1416546820

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9781416546825

Medical Laboratory Science Review

By: Robert R Harr

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Medical Laboratory Science Review

By: Robert R Harr

Use this comprehensive resource to gain the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to be prepared for classroom tests and certification and licensure examinations.

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F.A. Davis

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0803637969

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9780803637962

What Did the Cross Accomplish?

A Conversation about the Atonement

By: Simon Gathercole,Robert B. Stewart,N.T. Wright

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What Did the Cross Accomplish?

A Conversation about the Atonement

By: Simon Gathercole,Robert B. Stewart,N.T. Wright

In this book, readers will enjoy a fascinating and cordial discussion between N. T. Wright and Simon Gathercole on the meaning and nature of the doctrine of atonement. These two highly respected scholars discuss in clear and understandable language the meanings of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Their discussion explores various theories of atonement and looks closely at the Old Testament to discover Paul's meaning of his words that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures." Wright presents his case first, then Gathercole responds with a contrary point of view. Their discussion confronts questions including: What exactly is this “scandal of the cross”? What role does the notion of sacrifice, as understood in its ancient context, play in the atonement of Christ? Is the atonement a “victory”? How so? Was Christ a “substitute,” taking humankind’s place on the cross and suffering the death and judgment that sinners deserve? How does the death of Christ on the cross rescue or liberate sinners from death? Does the cross achieve benefits for only humans, or do those benefits extend to the entirety of creation? This book is a succinct conversation in which all these questions receive attention, with nuanced differences between the two interlocutors. This conversation along with Robert Stewart’s introductory framework make this book an excellent primer to the study of the atonement, and readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the meanings of the cross.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1646981898

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9781646981892

Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]

The Complete Encyclopedia [3 volumes]

By: Robert North Roberts,Scott John Hammond,Valerie A. Sulfaro

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Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]

The Complete Encyclopedia [3 volumes]

By: Robert North Roberts,Scott John Hammond,Valerie A. Sulfaro

The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and events surrounding all American presidential elections, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaign of 2008. Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms: The Complete Encyclopedia is an easy-to-use reference work designed to encourage students and anyone interested in democratic politics to undertake a greater understanding of this complex aspect of American political life. The three-volume work covers each presidential campaign in depth, examining a large number of related issues ranging from the use of social media in modern presidential campaigns to negative campaign ads and key slogans used in every presidential campaign. Volume One contains entries offering specific and focused information on issues, trends, factors, slogans, strategies, and other more detailed elements of presidential campaigning from the first stirrings of the American democratic process to the first decade of the 21st century. Volumes Two and Three provide chronological accounts of every presidential campaign since the ratification of the Constitution through the campaign of 2008, with Volume Two covering the campaign of 1788–89 to the campaign of 1908, and Volume Three covering the campaign of 1912 to the campaign of 2008.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313380937

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9780313380938

The Long Ascent, Volume 3

Genesis 1-11 in Science & Myth

By: Robert Sheldon

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The Long Ascent, Volume 3

Genesis 1-11 in Science & Myth

By: Robert Sheldon

Can Eden, the flood, and the Tower of Babel be real events that historians have simply renamed? Could Finnish and Norse, Hindu, Greek and Egyptian myth all be recording this same real history? Did Noah’s generation surpass the agricultural, nuclear, and biotech technology of the twenty-first century? How did the ancients cut the multi-ton stones of the Egyptian pyramids and Incan walls, or melt Scottish forts? Did ancient China and Sumer know about the twin helix of DNA? Were successful human breeding experiments the origin of giants, while monsters like Grendel were the result of failures? What disaster occurred to them that caused the forgetting of all this knowledge? We know that comets captured by the sun’s gravity break up into boulder streams that periodically intersect the Earth’s orbit. Plato and the rabbis told us that repeating cosmic disasters have erased most of our history, leaving us only myth and Genesis. This book weaves the modern scientific evidence from Greenland ice cores, Mediterranean bathymetry, NASA archaeology, and human genetics with the linguistic insights of the Hebrew of Genesis 1–11 into a compelling narrative that we are only the second-most advanced civilization on planet Earth. For now.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666749753

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9781666749755

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The Spectacle of Skill

The Spectacle of Skill

China’s Foreign Places

China’s Foreign Places

Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers

Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers

Hidden History of Milwaukee

Hidden History of Milwaukee

Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar

Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar

The Space Within

The Space Within

Extravasation of Cytotoxic Agents

Extravasation of Cytotoxic Agents

Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

Texas Search and Seizure - Sixth Edition

Texas Search and Seizure - Sixth Edition

QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 6, MCQ Companion to Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 6, MCQ Companion to Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

Cracking the Freemasons Code

Cracking the Freemasons Code

Medical Laboratory Science Review

Medical Laboratory Science Review

What Did the Cross Accomplish?

What Did the Cross Accomplish?

Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]

Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]

The Long Ascent, Volume 3

The Long Ascent, Volume 3

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