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The Bard

Robert Burns, A Biography

By: Robert Crawford

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The Bard

Robert Burns, A Biography

By: Robert Crawford

No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.

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Princeton University Press

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1400832845

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9781400832842

Before Bioethics

A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

By: Robert Baker

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Before Bioethics

A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

By: Robert Baker

The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199774110

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9780199774111

The Character Codex I

By: Robert Neri

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The Character Codex I

By: Robert Neri

A new supplement from Ranger Games for the Dice & Glory game system containing specialist (traditional) character classes. This book is a great resource for both Players and Game Masters introducing classic archetype specialist classes as well as new and strange hybrids. Requires the Dice & Glory Core Rulebook This book contains: Over 70 Fantasy Specialist Classes with full descriptions of class abilities and level progression tables! Of these, there are 4 Brick classes, 16 Fighter classes, 7 Adventurer classes, 5 Rogue classes, 6 Psychic classes, 19 mage classes, 7 Clergy classes and 13 NPC classes! NPC tables which can be applied to NPC's to easily apply specialist class levels! Multiple forms of stylized Martial Arts forms! ...And advice on how and why to pick a specialist class, advice for Game Masters about NPC's and monsters with specialist classes. This book is an invaluable resource for any player or GM of the D&G system.

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102

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Lulu.com

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0997267410

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9780997267419

The Book of Chatbots

From ELIZA to ChatGPT

By: Robert Ciesla

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The Book of Chatbots

From ELIZA to ChatGPT

By: Robert Ciesla

Primitive software chatbots emerged in the 1960s, evolving swiftly through the decades and becoming able to provide engaging human-to-computer interactions sometime in the 1990s. Today, conversational technology is ubiquitous in many homes. Paired with web-searching abilities and neural networking, modern chatbots are capable of many tasks and are a major driving force behind machine learning and the quest for strong artificial intelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI). Sophisticated artificial intelligence is changing the online world as advanced software chatbots can provide customer service, research duties, and assist in healthcare. Modern chatbots have indeed numerous applications — including those of a malicious nature. They can write our essays, conduct autonomous scams, and potentially influence politics. The Book of Chatbots is both a retrospective and a review of current artificial intelligence-driven conversational solutions. It explores their appeal to businesses and individuals as well as their greater social aspects, including the impact on academia. The book explains all relevant concepts for readers with no previous knowledge in these topics. Unearthing the secrets of virtual assistants such as the (in)famous ChatGPT and many other exciting technologies, The Book of Chatbots is meant for anyone interested in the topic, laypeople and IT-enthusiasts alike.

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Springer Nature

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3031510046

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9783031510045

Colleges That Pay You Back, 2018 Edition

The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck

By: Princeton Review (COR),Robert Franek

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Colleges That Pay You Back, 2018 Edition

The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck

By: Princeton Review (COR),Robert Franek

Profiles two hundred schools on their financial value, including academics, cost of attendance, financial aid, post-grad salary figures, and job satisfaction ratings from alumni.

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Princeton Review

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1524757837

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The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

By: Robert Greenberger

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The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

By: Robert Greenberger

The ultimate guide to the man behind the mask . . . and the mythology behind the man. “Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible. . . . I shall become a bat!” So declared millionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, orphaned as a boy by a murderous thug and driven as a man to battle the scourge of crime by becoming Batman. Batman swooped into popular culture in 1939–and for nearly seventy years has thrilled audiences in countless comics, live-action and animated television programs, and seven feature films. Prowling the darkened rooftops of Gotham City, roaring through the teeming streets in the sleek, high-powered Batmobile, and leaping into action when the iconic Bat-Signal pierces the night sky, the Caped Crusader is a larger-than-life legend. And now, for the first time in more than thirty years, everything there is to know about Batman–from the beginning to the present, and from A to Z–is collected in one comprehensive new sourcebook. More than 500 pages of entries and illustrations include: • fascinating details and the complete background on Batman’s origins • biographies of every major character in the Batman universe–including his closest allies, from Robin the Boy Wonder and faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth to Commissioner Gordon; and his countless enemies, from the Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler to Scarecrow, Two-Face, Ra’s al Ghul and Poison Ivy • classic black-and-white comic book artwork throughout • two sixteen-page full-color artwork inserts Even an all-access pass to the Batcave couldn’t rival former DC Comics editor and Batman scholar extraordinaire Robert Greenberger’s exhaustive ultimate archive. The Essential Batman Encyclopedia is a must for every Batman fan’s bookshelf. BATMAN, the DC Logo, and all related names, characters and elements are trademarks of DC Comics © 2008. All rights reserved.

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Random House Worlds

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0345501063

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9780345501066

The Best Value Colleges 2013

By: Robert Franek,Laura Braswell,Princeton Review,David Soto

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The Best Value Colleges 2013

By: Robert Franek,Laura Braswell,Princeton Review,David Soto

Looks at one hundred fifty colleges and universities across the country that provide superb academic studies, top-notch facilities, and other excellent features for a lot less money than the other schools.

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Princeton Review

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0307945987

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9780307945983

Disrupted Dialogue

Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

By: Robert M. Veatch

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Disrupted Dialogue

Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

By: Robert M. Veatch

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then, medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. Only in the past three decades has the dialogue resumed as physicians turned to humanists for help just when humanists wanted their work to be relevant to real-life social problems. The book tells the critical story of how the breakdown in communication between physicians and humanists occurred and how it was repaired when new developments in medicine together with a social revolution forced the leaders of these two fields to resume their dialogue.

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Oxford University Press

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019516976X

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9780195169768

A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats

By: Michael G. Becker,Robert J. Dilligan,Todd K. Bender

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A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats

By: Michael G. Becker,Robert J. Dilligan,Todd K. Bender

First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

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Routledge

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1317275756

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9781317275756

The Yuma Reclamation Project

Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement Along the Lower Colorado River

By: Robert Sauder

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The Yuma Reclamation Project

Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement Along the Lower Colorado River

By: Robert Sauder

In the arid American West, settlement was generally contingent on the availability of water to irrigate crops and maintain livestock and human residents. Early irrigation projects were usually the cooperative efforts of pioneer farmers, but by the early twentieth century they largely reflected federal intentions to create new farms out of the western public domain. The Yuma Reclamation Project, authorized in 1904, was one of the earliest federal irrigation projects initiated in the western United States and the first authorized on the Colorado River. Its story exemplifies the range of difficulties associated with settling the nation’s final frontier—the remaining irrigable lands in the arid West, including Indian lands—and illuminates some of the current issues and conflicts concerning the Colorado River. Author Robert Sauder’s detailed, meticulously researched examination of the Yuma Project illustrates the complex multiplicity of problems and challenges associated with the federal government’s attempt to facilitate homesteading in the arid West. He examines the history of settlement along the lower Colorado River from earliest times, including the farming of the local Quechan people and the impact of Spanish colonization, and he reviews the engineering problems that had to be resolved before an industrial irrigation scheme could be accomplished. The study also sheds light on myriad unanticipated environmental, economic, and social challenges that the government had to confront in bringing arid lands under irrigation, including the impact on the Native American population of the region.The Yuma Reclamation Project is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of federal reclamation endeavors in the West. It provides new and fascinating information about the history of the Yuma Valley and, as a case study of irrigation policy, it offers compelling insights into the history and consequences of water manipulation in the arid West.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874178010

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9780874178012

The Best Northeastern Colleges, 2011 Edition

By: Robert Franek

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The Best Northeastern Colleges, 2011 Edition

By: Robert Franek

Vols. for 2006- edited by: Robert Franek.

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Princeton Review

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0375429921

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9780375429927

The Bard

Robert Burns, a Biography

By: Robert Crawford

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The Bard

Robert Burns, a Biography

By: Robert Crawford

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Princeton University Press

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0691141711

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9780691141718

The Best 368 Colleges 2009

By: Robert Franek,Princeton Review,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier

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The Best 368 Colleges 2009

By: Robert Franek,Princeton Review,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier

A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-two different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.

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Princeton Review

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0375428720

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9780375428722

Two Rooms

The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood

By: Robert Hamburger

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Two Rooms

The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood

By: Robert Hamburger

Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852?1944) led an exuberant life that seemed to embrace the entire nation and its times. Wood remembered seeing Abraham Lincoln, he knew Chief Joseph, Clarence Darrow, and Lincoln Steffens, and he survived to the dawn of the atomic era. Among his acquaintances he counted Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Ansel Adams. He fought in the Indian campaigns of the post?Civil War era; he represented wealthy businessmen as an attorney in Portland, Oregon, during the Gilded Age; he befriended the political and cultural radicals of New York in the early twentieth century; and he became a central figure among the West Coast artists of the 1930s. He was, in short, a man of extraordinarily wide?and often conflicting?impulses and talents. In this captivating, highly readable biography of Wood, Robert Hamburger presents both the life and the times, Wood?s work and the intellectual, political, and cultural crosscurrents of his era. Hamburger ably captures Wood?s many contradictions yet unearths the enduring essence of the man: his rebelliousness, his hatred of social and economic inequalities, his unbounded appetite for life, beauty, and pleasure.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803223897

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9780803223899

Weapons for Victory

The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later

By: Robert James Maddox

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Weapons for Victory

The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later

By: Robert James Maddox

The highly acclaimed Weapons for Victory originally appeared in 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Now, in this paperback edition, Robert James Maddox provides a new introduction about the ongoing controversy related to the decision to bomb Hiroshima.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274331

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9780826274335

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Before Bioethics

Before Bioethics

The Character Codex I

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The Book of Chatbots

The Book of Chatbots

Colleges That Pay You Back, 2018 Edition

Colleges That Pay You Back, 2018 Edition

The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

The Best Value Colleges 2013

The Best Value Colleges 2013

Disrupted Dialogue

Disrupted Dialogue

A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats

A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats

The Yuma Reclamation Project

The Yuma Reclamation Project

The Best Northeastern Colleges, 2011 Edition

The Best Northeastern Colleges, 2011 Edition

The Bard

The Bard

The Best 368 Colleges 2009

The Best 368 Colleges 2009

Two Rooms

Two Rooms

Weapons for Victory

Weapons for Victory

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