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A Cinema of Loneliness

By: Robert Kolker

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In this updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, Kolker reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, as he examines works like Munich, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, and Funny People, in addition to classics by Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman.

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0199738882

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The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of Drinks

By: Robert Giorgione

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The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of Drinks

By: Robert Giorgione

The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of Drinks is an extensive selection of Robert Giorgione's favourite drink stories and wines from a his 25-year career as a top flight restaurant wine buyer, award-winning sommelier and wine consultant.

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0244382921

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A Cinema of Loneliness

Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

By: Robert Phillip Kolker

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A Cinema of Loneliness

Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

By: Robert Phillip Kolker

In this 20th anniversary edition, Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the phenomenon of cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on Kubrick, Scorsese, Altman and Spielberg.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195123492

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Marine Mammals of California

By: Robert T. Orr

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Marine Mammals of California

By: Robert T. Orr

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

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The End of the Bronze Age

Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition

By: Robert Drews

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The End of the Bronze Age

Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition

By: Robert Drews

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.

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Princeton University Press

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0691209979

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Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots

An Evangel of Religion and Love

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots

An Evangel of Religion and Love

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

On 29 February 1836, Les Huguenots, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), with words by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) and Émile Deschamps (1791–1871), was performed for the first time, at the Paris Opéra. It was to be one of the most successful productions ever staged at the Opéra, with 1,126 performances in Paris over the next hundred years, and, in the process, breaking all box office records. It became Meyerbeer’s most popular work, with thousands of stagings throughout the world. Les Huguenots is a huge exploration of faith, tolerance, hatred, extermination, love, loyalty, self-sacrifice and hope in despair. It is the first panel in a central diptych on the Reformation, at the heart of the wider tetralogy of Meyerbeer’s grand operas, where issues of power, religion and love are examined in a variety of modes. For five years after the sensational premiere of Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer worked on this gigantic drama, partly adapted by Scribe from Prosper Mérimée’s Chronique de Charles IX. Meyerbeer matches the text in drama, splendour and ceremony: it combines theatricalism with profound depths of feeling. Its gorgeous colouring, intense passion, consistency of dramatic treatment, and careful delineation of character secured for this work vast fame and influence. It was an epoch-making opera, an enduring monument to Meyerbeer’s fame. The music for this sombre tapestry of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre springs from the core of the vivid action, and creates a panoramic alternation of moods, that capture the tragedy of religious intolerance and personal anguish in one of the most fraught events in history, when some 30,000 French Protestants were murdered during 24 August 1574. Meyerbeer’s music rises to the occasion, and reaches sublime heights of music drama, especially in the fourth and fifth acts, with the Blessing of the Daggers (one of the most electric scenes in all opera), the more powerful Love Duet, and the Trio of Martyrdom in the last moments of the opera. Spectacle was incorporated in the plot, in Meyerbeer’s concern to conjure up the couleur locale of those heroic times. In spite of the overwhelming dramatic power and the instrumental riches of the score, the most significant aspect of the work came to be regarded as the supremacy of the seven principal vocal parts. Performances of Les Huguenots at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 1890s were among the most famous in operatic history.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443860840

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Morgantina Studies, Volume IV

The Protohistoric Settlement on the Cittadella

By: Robert Leighton

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Morgantina Studies, Volume IV

The Protohistoric Settlement on the Cittadella

By: Robert Leighton

Excavations conducted at Morgantina by Princeton University and the University of Illinois have revealed substantial Iron Age remains beneath the Greek town on the Cittadella hilltop. In this volume Robert Leighton presents a full study of this extensive protohistoric settlement in Sicily. The broad scope of evidence, particularly the survival of long houses and tombs with much of their structures and contents preserved, permits an unusually thorough examination of indigenous cultural traditions prior to the foundation of the Greek town in the Archaic period. An illustrated catalogue of the finds presents more than 700 artifacts from the site, most of which are previously unpublished. The author discusses all the excavated protohistoric areas in detail, and presents a full range of maps, plans, excavation photographs, reconstruction drawings, and radiocarbon dates. The diverse body of finds includes a wide variety of pottery forms as well as tools and ornaments of both metal and stone that document local crafts, metallurgy, and numerous aspects of daily life. In studying these objects, Leighton draws on parallels with material from the Italian peninsula and considers the evidence of the historical sources, revealing links between Sicily and Italy in the protohistoric period. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Integration of Metabolism, Energetics, and Signal Transduction

Unifying Foundations in Cell Growth and Death, Cancer, Atherosclerosis, and Alzheimer Disease

By: Robert K. Ockner

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Integration of Metabolism, Energetics, and Signal Transduction

Unifying Foundations in Cell Growth and Death, Cancer, Atherosclerosis, and Alzheimer Disease

By: Robert K. Ockner

Complex and unexplained phenomena tend to foster unorthodox perspectives. This publication is an example, as is a prior publication that emphasized the concept that intermediary metabolism might play a significant and determining role in hepatocyte proliferation and 1 tumorigenesis. Formulation of this hypothesis was based on an attempt to clarify several poorly understood phenomena; including the observations: 1) that xenobiotic peroxisome proliferators such as the fibrate hypolipidemic agents induce hepatocyte proliferation and carcinogenesis in rodents; 2) that benign and malignant liver tumors complicate the human syndrome of glycogen storage disease type I (glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency); and 3) that in this same syndrome, administration of glucose exerts an anti-tumor effect. Fatty acid and glucose metabolism are tightly linked in a we- established and profoundly inportant interplay. This connection, together with the fact that peroxisome proliferator-induced hepatocyte proliferation and carcinogenesis reflects inhibition of mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I and fatty acid oxidation, suggested the possibility that regulation of fatty acid metabolism could prove to be a pivotal determinant in the control of cell growth. In 1993, the year in which the paper cited above was published, insight into the importance of growth factors and signal transduction pathways in cell cycle regulation was increasing rapidly, but metabolic and energetic aspects of cell proliferation had attracted relatively little attention. Despite this, the concept seemed inescapable that the two seemingly distinct and unrelated determinants — signal transduction and metabolism — were integrally linked.

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030648529X

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

By: Robert Parrino,David S. Kidwell,Thomas Bates

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

By: Robert Parrino,David S. Kidwell,Thomas Bates

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 2nd Edition offers an innovative integration of conceptual understanding and problem-solving ... of intuition and decision-making ... of the authors' industry and classroom/research experience ... with current real-world examples and online practice. Authors Robert Parrino, David Kidwell, and Thomas Bates believe that students who understand the intuition underlying the basic concepts of finance are better able to develop the critical judgments necessary to apply financial tools in real decision- making situations. Their text develops intuitive thinking while simultaneously helping students develop problem solving and computational skills. It then shows students how to apply intuition and analytical skills to decision making while integrating it all with valuation and building shareholder value.

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0470876441

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South of Somewhere

Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy

By: Robert V. Camuto

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South of Somewhere

Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy

By: Robert V. Camuto

Robert V. Camuto sets out across modern Southern Italy in search of the “South-ness” that defined his youthful experience and views the world through wine, food, and families.

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1496225961

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Before Gillette

The Quest for a Safe Razor : Inventors and Patents, 1762-1901

By: Robert K. Waits

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Before Gillette

The Quest for a Safe Razor : Inventors and Patents, 1762-1901

By: Robert K. Waits

A book for the barberiana collector or anyone curious about the history of safety razors before Mr. Gillette's invention. The stories of inventors and patents, plus numerous photographs of collectible safe shaving devices. Index.

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0557059100

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Seed Ecophysiology of Temperate and Boreal Zone Forest Trees

By: Robert E. Farmer

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Seed Ecophysiology of Temperate and Boreal Zone Forest Trees

By: Robert E. Farmer

This is the first truly modern book solely devoted to seed reproduction of forest trees-from flowering to establishment, with emphasis on the interaction of environment with physiological processes. Focus is on seed function in natural settings and the application of information to natural regeneration of forests. This easy-to-read text addresses important principles and provides in-depth coverage of existing literature. Presentation of the information is organized to allow for a natural development of the main theme with full explanations of such important components as seed production, dispersal and germination, as well as the integral parts played by water, temperature, light, chemicals, animals, pathogens and aging. A highly useful book for investigators, practitioners or students.

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1574440543

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The Cinema of Robert Altman

Hollywood Maverick

By: Robert Niemi

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The Cinema of Robert Altman

Hollywood Maverick

By: Robert Niemi

In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the most influential works of New American Cinema. While Altman always professed to have nothing authoritative to say about the state of contemporary society, this volume surveys all of his major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America, depicted as a lonely wasteland of fraudulent spectacle, exploitative social relations, and unfulfilled solitaries in search of elusive community.

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0231850867

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The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset

Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews

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The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset

Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews

Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset is the ultimate guide to this alluring region. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your list and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets. We know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out. In The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset: - Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing - Area-by-area chapter highlights - Top 5 boxes - Things not to miss section Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset.

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1409358852

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9781409358855

Rough Guide Sardinia

By: Robert Andrews

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Rough Guide Sardinia

By: Robert Andrews

Now available in ePub format. The full color Rough Guide to Sardinia is the ultimate travel guide to one of the Mediterranean's most fascinating islands. Discover Sardinia's highlights with stunning photography, color-coded maps, and more listings and information than ever before. You'll find detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Sardinia, from museums and archaeological sites to mountain hikes and beaches, as well as up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, and restaurants for all budgets. The guidebook covers, at length, the major festivals, explores Sardinia's checkered history and rich archaeology, and features lesser-known aspects of the island, such as its industrial heritage, literature, handicrafts, culinary quirks, and trekking opportunities. Packed with practical advice, suggested itineraries, and "top 5" sidebars, The Rough Guide to Sardinia will help you make the most of your time on this stunning island.

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The Extravagant Universe

Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos

By: Robert P. Kirshner

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The Extravagant Universe

Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos

By: Robert P. Kirshner

The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes space itself expand. In addition to sharing the story of this exciting discovery, Kirshner also brings the science up-to-date in a new epilogue. He explains how the idea of an accelerating universe--once a daring interpretation of sketchy data--is now the standard assumption in cosmology today. This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape. Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine.

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1400883806

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Biology of Aging

Observations and Principles

By: Robert Arking

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Biology of Aging

Observations and Principles

By: Robert Arking

Robert Arking's Biology of Aging, 3rd edition, is an introductory text to the biology of aging which gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students a thorough review of the entire field. His prior two editions have also served admirably as a reference text for clinicians and scientists. This new edition captures the extraordinary recent advances in our knowledge of the ultimate and proximal mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of aging. As a result, six important conceptual changes are included here: · Clarified distinctions between the biological mechanisms involved in longevity determination and those involved in senescent processes. · A new conceptual framework around which we can organize all the new facts about aging. This will assist readers to make sense of the information and use the data to form their own ideas. · Increased knowledge of aging cells has lead to new ideas on how a cell transits from a healthy state to a senescent state, while still allowing for high levels of intra- and inter-specific variability. · Discussion of senescent mechanisms assists the reader to understand that aging is a non-programmatic loss of function, likely arising from the loss of regulatory signals, and so is modifiable in the laboratory. · Because the standard evolutionary story does not fully explain the evolution of social organisms, this edition also includes recent work dealing with intergenerational resource transfers. · Lastly, if aging mechanisms are plastic, then the demand to move these anti-aging interventions into the human arena will inevitably grow. A discussion of the biological and ethical arguments on both sides of the question frames the question in an appropriate manner. The mass of data related to aging is summarized into fifteen focused chapters, each dealing with some particular aspect of the problem. The last two chapters integrate all this material into a coherent view of how the relevant biological processes change over the life span. This view is expressed in two non-technical figures (you might say that the whole book exists to fully support Figs 9-4 & 14-9), whose meanings are elucidated as the reader progresses through the book.

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Oxford University Press

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0190290498

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Hand-list of genera and species of birds

Part 3

By: George Robert Gray

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Hand-list of genera and species of birds

Part 3

By: George Robert Gray

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382135604

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The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health

By: Robert A. Ronzio

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The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health

By: Robert A. Ronzio

Presents articles on a variety of topics related to eating and nutrition.

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0816066302

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Lethal White

By: Robert Galbraith

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Lethal White

By: Robert Galbraith

An unsettling cold case investigation ensnares Cormoran Strike and his partner in a web of dangerous secrets in this #1 New York Times bestseller, the inspiration for HBO Max's acclaimed series C.B. Strike. When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott -- once his assistant, now a partner in the agency -- set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward. His newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been; Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that. The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, Lethal White is "addictive, murderous fun" for British mystery lovers and crime fiction fans alike (Vox).

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Little, Brown and Company

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0316422746

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The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

By: Arthur Hay Tweeddale,Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay

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The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

By: Arthur Hay Tweeddale,Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385470048

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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

By: Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall

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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

By: Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall

A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change. Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.

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0813820162

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

By: Robert Kliegman,Joseph W. St. Geme III

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

By: Robert Kliegman,Joseph W. St. Geme III

Welcome to the 21st Edition of Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics – the reference of choice among pediatricians, pediatric residents, and others involved in the care of young patients. This fully revised edition continues to provide the breadth and depth of knowledge you expect from Nelson, while also keeping you up to date with new advances in the science and art of pediatric practice. Authoritative and reader-friendly, it delivers the information you need in a concise, easy-to-use format for everyday reference and study. From rapidly changing diagnostic and treatment protocols to new technologies to the wide range of biologic, psychologic, and social problems faced by children today, this comprehensive reference keeps you on the cutting edge of the very best in pediatric care. - Includes more than 70 new chapters, including Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases, Approach to Mitochondrial Disorders, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Zika, update on Ebola, Epigenetics, Autoimmune Encephalitis, Global Health, Racism, Media Violence, Strategies for Health Behavior Change, Positive Parenting, and many more. - Features hundreds of new figures and tables throughout for visual clarity and quick reference. - Offers new and expanded information on CRISPR gene editing; LGBT health care; gun violence; vaccinations; immune treatment with CAR-T cells; new technology in imaging and genomics; new protocols in cancer, genetics, immunology, and pulmonary medicine; and much more. - Provides fresh perspectives from four new associate editors: Nathan J. Blum of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Karen Wilson of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York; Samir S. Shah of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; and Robert C. Tasker of Boston Children's Hospital. - Remains your indispensable source for definitive, evidence-based answers on every aspect of pediatric care.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323568882

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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law

By: Lisa G. Lerman,Philip G. Schrag,Robert Rubinson

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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law

By: Lisa G. Lerman,Philip G. Schrag,Robert Rubinson

This problem-based book reflects the authors’ broad range of teaching, clinical, and policy-making experience. The book’s carefully crafted ethical problems challenge students to engage in a deep analysis and participate in lively class discussion. Features include: Real-world problems, most based on actual cases, in which students are asked to step into the shoes of practicing lawyers to confront difficult ethical dilemmas that often arise in practice. The law governing lawyers explained in an accessible question-and-answer format. A succinct explanation of relevant Model Rules and other law governing lawyers, including examples from disciplinary and malpractice cases. An opportunity for students, through specific examples, to reflect on their own conception of their professional roles on behalf of clients and their obligations to the legal system as a whole. Lively presentation of materials, including cartoons, tables, and photos. Clear and concise presentation through text and charts that summarize relevant law. Unsolicited comments from adopters of Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Professor Cynthia Batt, Stetson University College of Law, wrote that this book “has the BEST teacher’s manual of any text ever.” Professor Jamie P. Werbel, Seton Hall University School of Law wrote: I wanted to drop you a line and let you know how fabulous your textbook is! I just started teaching Professional Responsibility this year, and your book has been invaluable to me as I guide my students through the course. My husband, also an attorney, made fun of me last semester as a few times I was reading it at night in bed! It really is just that enjoyable to read. New to the 6th Edition: A comprehensive revision of the entire text, adding material to continue to provide students with a wealth of opportunities to grapple with ethical issues. Inclusion of recent developments in the field, including: Discussion of the amendments to Model Rule 1.8 regarding gifts to clients: The new ABA ethics opinion on what constitutes material adversity under Rule 1.9; Developments in some states on permitting non-lawyers to provide some legal services; Changes in some states’ rules on non-lawyer ownership of firms; Expanded coverage of ethical issues arising from use of the Internet and social media, such as an ABA opinion on how lawyers may respond to online critiques of their services. Material on recent events that have raised important issues of professional responsibility, especially discipline and sanctions for lawyers who made unfounded claims about the 2020 presidential election. Updated empirical information about the practice of law, including the continuing concerns about diversity within the profession. Benefits for Students: Problem-based approach, often based on real-life cases, offers students a practical way to test their understanding Graphics (cartoons, tables, photos) throughout, which make the presentation lively and engaging Shocking examples of recent lawyer misconduct maintain student interest A readable and enjoyable law school textbook

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I Love You Madly!

On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth

By: Robert M. Gordon

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I Love You Madly!

On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth

By: Robert M. Gordon

What does it take to have a lasting relationship? Dr. Robert Gordon shows that the course of love is fairly predictable based on the personalities and histories of the lovers. Only insight and mutual concern can help change this path. He explains the psychology of romantic love from both personal and professional perspectives. Along the way, he integrates evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis and social psychology in the context of dramatic stories of love and psychotherapy. Learn how to recognize healthy love relations from relationship killers such as narcissism, defensiveness, and hostility. I Love You Madly informs about the science of psychology, yet reads as an entertaining novel.

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Shadow Wave

Book 12

By: Robert Muchamore

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Shadow Wave

Book 12

By: Robert Muchamore

After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission, especially as it's going to be his last as a CHERUB agent. And then retired colleague Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his oldest friend. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

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Quality Social Work

By: Robert Adams

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Quality Social Work

By: Robert Adams

This book offers a practical approach to maximising quality in social work that is based on developing a working culture that empowers key stakeholders in the delivery of services, whether these are managers, practitioners, service users or carers. Aiming to transcend the constraints on professionalism imposed by managerialism and the contract culture, it provides a critical appraisal of the main approaches to quality assurance and analyses these in detail in relation to child care, community care, mental health and criminal justice.

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International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean

A History

By: Robert J. Alexander,Eldon Parker

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International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean

A History

By: Robert J. Alexander,Eldon Parker

The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the roles of pan-regional and worldwide labor organizations in the labor movements across the nations of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. With a career that covers over a half century, Robert J. Alexander is perhaps our foremost authority on Latin American history and politics. In International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean: A History, Alexander explores one of the most fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the Latin American labor scene he has so meticulously chronicled: the relationships between labor unions within specific nations, region wide organizations, and organized labor around the world. Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues. Coverage includes the AFL-offshoot Pan American Federation of Labor and the CIA-backed AIFLD; the role of the Russian Union, Profintern; European-based unions like the anti-Communist/anti-Fascist Postal Telegraph and Telephone International; and intraregional organizations like the Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (CTAL)—the first attempt to form a multinational labor organization exclusively for the region.

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Securities Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: James D. Cox,Robert W. Hillman,Donald C. Langevoort,Ann M. Lipton

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Securities Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: James D. Cox,Robert W. Hillman,Donald C. Langevoort,Ann M. Lipton

The Tenth Edition of Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials encompasses the sea changes that have recently occurred in the securities laws and capital markets, brought about by both SEC rulemaking and shifts in underwriting practices. The casebook carries forward its long-held standard of providing students with an in-depth, sophisticated, practical look at contemporary securities law. As it has since its first edition, this volume contains a highly teachable mix of problems, cases, and textual material, encouraging students to build their knowledge base by being active problem-solvers. Always forward-thinking, stressing current developments and controversies, the book is also highly modular, so that professors can easily pick and choose how to structure their courses without being locked into any given progression. New to the Tenth Edition: Developments involving cryptocurrencies and coin offerings Commentary on market developments such as issues arising with the retailization of trading markets The SEC’s procedures for direct listings and the regulatory issues surrounding the explosion of SPACs The sweeping November 2020 reforms to the issuer transaction exemptions from registration, and the new standards for evaluating whether offerings will be integrated The Supreme Court’s most recent Goldman Sachs decision addressing fraud on the market Coverage of several developments affecting the SEC’s enforcement powers The SEC’s new rules for proxy advisory services and shareholder proposals Where the law stands today regarding the obligations of broker-dealers in the wake of Regulation Best Interest Professors and students will benefit from: The book’s highly modular organization, enabling different teaching formats and coverage Extensive use of problems that build student awareness of the fundamentals, with directions in the Teacher’s Manual on how best to teach them Concise notes that introduce the reader to both theory and real-life practice issues A book that is always up-to-date and on the cutting edge

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1543838480

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Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalisation

By: Dallas Hanson,Michael A. Hitt,R. Duane Ireland,Robert E. Hoskisson

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Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalisation

By: Dallas Hanson,Michael A. Hitt,R. Duane Ireland,Robert E. Hoskisson

With an emphasis on global advantage, the text offers a comprehensive examination of regional and international issues to provide a complete, accurate and up-to-date explanation of the strategic management process. New coverage on environmental concerns and emerging technologies as well as examples and cases from Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific serve to engage students while updated international content demonstrates how strategic management is used in the global economy. The text takes a 'resource-based' approach, which requires the examining of a firm's unique bundling of its internal resources. This text is appropriate for upper-level undergrad, usually third year; post grad in Masters courses.

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Cengage AU

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0170373150

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Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality

By: Robert T. Self

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Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality

By: Robert T. Self

With his complex and unconventional films, Robert Altman often draws an impassioned response from critics but bafflement and indifference from the general public. Some audiences have dismissed his movies as insignificant, unsatisfying, and unreadable. Ironically, Altman might agree: he makes films in order to challenge filmgoers' expectations of straightforward narratives and easily understood endings. In Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality, Robert T. Self sheds light on Altman's work and provides the most comprehensive analysis of his films to date. With close readings of classics like MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, as well as the more recent films The Player, Short Cuts, and Cookie's Fortune, Self asserts the value of Altman's work not only to film theory and the entertainment industry but to American culture. Book jacket.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816637903

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The Brightonomicon

By: Robert Rankin

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The Brightonomicon

By: Robert Rankin

Our teenage hero, having been thrown from Brighton Pier by the leader of The Canvey Island Mod Squad, narrowly escapes drowning thanks to the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon (not to mention the reinventer of the Ocarina), Hugo Rune Himself. Our hero has lost his memory, and, in desperation, agrees to join The Lad Himself in the solving of twelve cases based upon The Brightonomicon, the new zodiac signs formed by the alignment of Brighton streets and discovered by Rune: carriageway constellations. And together they must find the Chronovision before it falls into the wrong hands and affords ultimate power to the would-be world dictator. And this being an adventure most exciting, they must find it before the sinister Count Otto Black, would-be World Dictator and all-round bad guy. Or the whole world will all go to pot.

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0575088192

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Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

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Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

This is a long-overdue revision and expansion of what has become a classic book in marine literature. This lavishly illustrated volume provides exhaustive coverage of more than 90 percent of the region's reef fishes. Every species is thoroughly illustrated, including photographs of the juvenile, female and male in species that vary in appearance during their development. Besides the wide array of underwater and diagnostic laboratory photographs, the book also contains seven plates painted by the talented natural-history artist Roger Swainston. With an additional 32 pages and 90 photos (covering 60 new species in all), this revised and expanded edition will enable even a beginning layman to identify most of the region's reef fishes. Divers, anglers, underwater naturalists and professional biologists are equally catered to.

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University of Hawaii Press

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By My Side: The Tikrit Diaries

The Tikrit Diaries

By: Robert B. Repenning

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By My Side: The Tikrit Diaries

The Tikrit Diaries

By: Robert B. Repenning

In 2005, Robert Repenning, a Catholic priest served as an Army Chaplain in Iraq. This is the printed version of his on line journal, which he kept during his deployment. "By My Side" provides a unique perspective of his ministry in Iraq blending Catholicism, politics, rock and roll, and personal reflection while also being a vehicle to keep in touch with his loved ones while he was away.

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Lulu.com

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0557225701

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The Twin Powers

By: Robert Lipsyte

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The Twin Powers

By: Robert Lipsyte

Identical twins and mirror opposites Tom and Eddie share a "road trip" between planets and risk everything to save their father from the alien scientists.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods

By: Robert W. Hutkins

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Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods

By: Robert W. Hutkins

While many food science programs offer courses in the microbiology and processing of fermented foods, no recently published texts exist that fully address the subject. Food fermentation professionals and researchers also have lacked a single book that covers the latest advances in biotechnology, bioprocessing, and microbial genetics, physiology, and taxonomy. In Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods, Robert Hutkins has written the first text on food fermentation microbiology in a generation. This authoritative volume also serves as a comprehensive and contemporary reference book. A brief history and evolution of microbiology and fermented foods, an overview of microorganisms involved in food fermentations, and their physiological and metabolic properties provide a foundation for the reader. How microorganisms are used to produce fermented foods and the development of a modern starter culture industry are also described. Successive chapters are devoted to the major fermented foods produced around the world with coverage including microbiological and technological features for manufacture of these foods: Cultured Dairy Products Cheese Meat Fermentation Fermented Vegetables Bread Fermentation Beer Fermentation Wine Fermentation Vinegar Fermentation Fermentation of Foods in the Orient Examples of industrial processes, key historical events, new discoveries in microbiology, anecdotal materials, case studies, and other key information are highlighted throughout the book. Comprehensively written in a style that encourages critical thinking, Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods will appeal to anyone dealing in food fermentation – students, professors, researchers, and industry professionals.

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047027624X

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