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The Boomer Bible

By: R. F. Laird,Robert F. Laird

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A satirical interpretation of the bible features an interpretation of world history from Creation to the modern era, as well as commentary on religion, art, film, literature, television, and other cultural matters

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Workman Publishing

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1563050757

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9781563050756

Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

By: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas,Lars Arendt-Nielsen,Robert D. Gerwin

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Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

By: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas,Lars Arendt-Nielsen,Robert D. Gerwin

This is the first book for the new Series Contemporary Issues in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine. This textbook will assess both clinical and research aspects of the diagnosis and management of two highly prevalent headache disorders: tension-type and cervicogenic headaches. This textbook will cover both physical therapy and physical medicine approaches to the management of these headache disorders.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449617654

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9781449617653

Not by Bread Alone

Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin

By: Robert Nalbandov

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Not by Bread Alone

Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin

By: Robert Nalbandov

Since its independence in 1991, Russia has struggled with the growing pains of defining its role in international politics. After Vladimir Putin ascended to power in 2000, the country undertook grandiose foreign policy projects in an attempt to delineate its place among the world’s superpowers. With this in mind, Robert Nalbandov examines the milestones of Russia’s international relations since the turn of the twenty-first century. He focuses on the specific goals, engagement practices, and tools used by Putin’s administration to promote Russia’s vital national and strategic interests in specific geographic locations. His findings illuminate Putin’s foreign policy objective of reinstituting Russian global strategic dominance. Nalbandov argues that identity-based politics have dominated Putin’s tenure and that Russia’s east/west split is reflected in Asian-European politics. Nalbandov’s analysis shows that unchecked domestic power, an almost exclusive application of hard power, and determined ambition for unabridged global influence and a defined place as a world superpower are the keys to Putin’s Russia.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612348009

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9781612348001

Soviet Constitutional Crisis

By: Robert Sharlet

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Soviet Constitutional Crisis

By: Robert Sharlet

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev years, Robert Sharlet traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the erstwhile USSR. Sharlet, a noted authority on Soviet law and constitutional development, demonstrates the gradual transformation of law from an instrument of Communist Party rule into the new "rules of the game" for nonauthoritarian political development. In effect, he argues, one of Gorbachev's most durable achievements may be his redefinition of Soviet politics into a legal idiom along with his relocation of policymaking from behind the closed doors of Party conclaves into the more open, emergent arena of constitutional government. In analyzing the politics of law from the Brezhnev era to the rise of Yeltsin, the author takes account of the "war of laws", the symbolic uses of the Soviet constitution, and even the fact that the leaders of the failed coup attempted to justify their seizure of power on constitutional grounds. Constitutionalism has sufficiently suffused Soviet public life, the book concludes, that most of the sovereign republics as successors to the former USSR, have begun designing their futures - to varying degrees - in constitutional forms.

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Routledge

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1315486474

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Bohuslav Martinů

A Research and Information Guide

By: Robert Simon

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Bohuslav Martinů

A Research and Information Guide

By: Robert Simon

This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available to prospective researchers and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry into the life and music of this Czech composer. It includes all secondary sources on Martinu and his music, as well as chronology of his life and a complete list of works.

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Routledge

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1317806107

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Russia and the Idea of the West

Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War

By: Robert English

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Russia and the Idea of the West

Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War

By: Robert English

An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power—as gloss on what was essentially a retreat forced by crisis and decline. Robert English makes a major contribution by demonstrating that Gorbachev's foreign policy was in fact the result of an intellectual revolution. English analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-academic elite and its impact on the Cold War's end. English worked in the archives of the USSR Foreign Ministry and also gained access to the restricted collections of leading foreign-policy institutes. He also conducted nearly 400 interviews with Soviet intellectuals and policy makers—from Khrushchev- and Brezhnev-era Politburo members to Perestroika-era notables such as Eduard Shevardnadze and Gorbachev himself. English traces the rise of a "Westernizing" worldview from the post-Stalin years, through a group of liberals in the late1960s–70s, to a circle of close advisers who spurred Gorbachev's most radical reforms.

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Columbia University Press

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0231504748

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9780231504744

Handbook Of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy

By: Robert Sherman, Ed.D.,Norman Fredman, Ph.D.

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Handbook Of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy

By: Robert Sherman, Ed.D.,Norman Fredman, Ph.D.

Published in 1987, Handbook of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. The purpose of this handbook is to provide a single convenient source to which practitioners, researchers, and trainees can turn in order to learn how to use marriage and family instruments and to find descriptions of instruments suited to their needs.

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Routledge

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1134846657

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Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain E-Book

Volume 1: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management Series; Expert Consult Premium Edition -- Enhanced Online Features

By: Salim Hayek,Robert Levy,Timothy Deer

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Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain E-Book

Volume 1: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management Series; Expert Consult Premium Edition -- Enhanced Online Features

By: Salim Hayek,Robert Levy,Timothy Deer

Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain - a volume in the new Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art guidance on the full range of neuromodulation techniques performed today. Salim Hayek, MD, PhD and Robert Levy, MD, PhD offer expert advice on a variety of spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and peripheral nerve field stimulation procedures to treat chronic pain. Comprehensive, evidence-based coverage on selecting and performing these techniques - as well as weighing relative risks and complications - helps you ensure optimum outcomes. With access to the fully searchable text at www.expertconsult.com, you’ll have the detailed visual assistance you need right at your fingertips. Understand the rationale and scientific evidence behind interventional and neuromodulatory techniques and master their execution. Optimize outcomes, reduce complications, and minimize risks by adhering to current, evidence-based practice guidelines. Apply the newest developments in motor cortex stimulation, deep brain stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and spinal cord stimulation. Quickly find the information you need in a user-friendly format with strictly templated chapters supplemented with illustrative line drawings, images, and treatment algorithms. Access the fully searchable contents, plus bonus procedural videos, at expertconsult.com.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455733997

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9781455733996

The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

By: Robert Deutsch

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The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

By: Robert Deutsch

The first study in the Western world to compare the relationship between food and politics in the countries of Eastern Europe, this book views the current food revolution as part of the modernization process. Robert Deutsch argues that the communist leaders in the Comecon countries increasingly link political stability and preservation of power to the problem of satisfying consumer demand. He also assesses the various social forces that have brought about the food revolution. The most important is the expanded working class, which is no longer willing to defer consumer demands to a hypothetical communist future. The CMEA countries thus face the dilemma of either gradually liberalizing their economies in order to meet growing consumer demands or resorting to repression. Neither of these options promises a long-term solution for implementing economic policies prescribed by Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Robert Deutsch presents case studies of Hungary, Bulgaria, and the German Democratic Republic as examples of the "relative success" of economic reforms. To a greater or lesser extent, these countries have opted for economic decentralization by liberalizing private ownership and pricing policy and by integrating planning with market-oriented concepts. The author compares this with the economic problems of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The study is enhanced by an exhaustive bibliography, arranged topically and drawn from the specialized literature in several languages.

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Routledge

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1000301486

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Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev

By: Robert Owen Freedman

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Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev

By: Robert Owen Freedman

Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 signalled the beginning of significant improvements in Soviet-Israeli relations--thoroughly examined in this carefully researched volume. Based on an analysis of Soviet behavior and interviews with Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministry officials and PLO leaders, this study describes how eased tensions between the Soviet Union and Israel have been achieved and analyzes the Soviet Union's reasons for advancing diplomatic relations with Israel. Robert Owen Freedman follows the progress of Soviet policy from the 1985 meeting between the Soviet and Israeli ambassadors to France, to the 1987 arrival of the Soviet consular delegation in Israel, which heralded rapid improvement on the diplomatic front, to the 1989 trade agreements, cultural, academic, and athletic exchanges, and the 1990 political meetings between high ranking officials. Freedman identifies three primary goals that motivated these Soviet initiatives towards Israel: a desire to improve relations with the United States; a desire to play a major role in Middle East diplomacy; and a desire for trade with Israel. Both meticulously documented and forward-looking, the conclusions reached can stimulate discussion and provide a basis for further study for members of the academic, political, and diplomatic communities.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313390916

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9780313390913

Moscow and the Middle East

Soviet Policy Since the Invasion of Afghanistan

By: Robert Owen Freedman

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Moscow and the Middle East

Soviet Policy Since the Invasion of Afghanistan

By: Robert Owen Freedman

Professor Freedman provides an exhaustive account of Soviet policy in the Middle East from the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to withdrawal from the country ten years later.

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CUP Archive

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0521359767

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9780521359764

Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care: Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting

By: Robert C Smith,Dale D'Mello,Gerald G. Osborn,Laura Freilich,Francesca C. Dwamena,Heather S. Laird-Fick

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Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care: Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting

By: Robert C Smith,Dale D'Mello,Gerald G. Osborn,Laura Freilich,Francesca C. Dwamena,Heather S. Laird-Fick

An innovative psychiatry textbook that presents behavioral disorders from the perspective of what is seen in medical settingsThe goal of Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care is not to make psychiatrists out of medical clinicians, but rather, to help clinicians manage common behavioral conditions that most often present in a medical setting. Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care seeks to integrate medicine and psychiatry --- as the authors’ systems-based biopsychosocial model proposes. The book identifies physical symptoms as a common mode of presentation of mental health problems and describes how to integrate them with psychological symptoms to make diagnoses of mental disorders. Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care also details a behaviorally defined, evidence-based mental healthcare model that can be effectively used in a medical setting. The combined experiences in primary care of the authors --- who specialize in both general internal medicine and psychiatry --- provide the perfect background for a book of this nature. Having trained medical students, as well as internal and family medicine residents since 1986, their experience and research demonstrates the information they outline is effective and associated with improved mental and physical health outcomes.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260116786

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9781260116786

Book's by Robert F. Laird

The Boomer Bible

The Boomer Bible

Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache

Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache

Not by Bread Alone

Not by Bread Alone

Soviet Constitutional Crisis

Soviet Constitutional Crisis

Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Martinů

Russia and the Idea of the West

Russia and the Idea of the West

Handbook Of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy

Handbook Of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy

Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain E-Book

Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain E-Book

The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev

Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev

Moscow and the Middle East

Moscow and the Middle East

Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care: Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting

Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care: Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting

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