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The Real Disaster Is Above Ground

A Mine Fire and Social Conflict

By: J. Stephen Kroll-Smith,Stephen Robert Couch

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The Real Disaster Is Above Ground

A Mine Fire and Social Conflict

By: J. Stephen Kroll-Smith,Stephen Robert Couch

In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the documentary materials and the community that has appeared. The authors report on the futile efforts of residents to reach a common understanding of an underground threat that was not readily visible and invited multiple interpretations. They trace the hazard management strategies of government agencies that, ironically, all too often created additional threats to the welfare of Centralians. They report on the birth and demise of community organizations, each with its own solution to the problem and its diehard partisans. The final solution, now being put into effect, is to abandon the town and relocate its people. Centralia's environmental disaster, the authors argue, is not a local or isolated phenomenon. It warns of the danger lurking in our own technology when safeguards fail and disaster management policy is not in place to respond to failure, as the examples of Chernobyl and Bhopal have clearly demonstrated. The lessons in this study of the fate of a small town in Pennsylvania are indeed sobering. They should be pondered by a variety of social scientists and planners, by all those dealing with the behavior of people under stress and those responsible for the welfare of the public.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184738

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Part XII: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Austrian versus British

By: Robert Leeson

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Part XII: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Austrian versus British

By: Robert Leeson

F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence. Two concepts of civilization revolve around power – should it be separated or concentrated? Liberalism in the non-Austrian classical tradition remains fearful of power concentrated in the hands of government, labour unions or corporations; Red Terrorists sought to monopolize power to liquidate enemies and competitors as a prelude to utopia (the ‘withering away of the State’); and behind the ‘slogan of liberty,’ White Terror promoters (Mises and Hayek) sought to concentrate power in the hands of a ‘dictatorial democracy’ where henchmen would liquidate enemies, and – ‘guided’ by ‘utopia’ (the ‘spontaneous’ order) – follow orders from their social superiors. This volume, Part XII, examines the ‘free’ market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of ‘free’ market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded ‘independent policy expert’ status.

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Springer

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3319745093

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What’s Wrong with Economics?

A Primer for the Perplexed

By: Robert Skidelsky

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What’s Wrong with Economics?

A Primer for the Perplexed

By: Robert Skidelsky

A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time. This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the advice of flawed economic models. Noted economic thinker Robert Skidelsky explains the circumstances that have brought about this constriction and proposes an approach to economics which includes philosophy, history, sociology, and politics. Skidelsky's clearly written and compelling critique takes aim at the way that economics is taught in today's universities, where a focus on modelling leaves students ill-equipped to grapple with what is important and true about human life. He argues for a return to the ideal set out by John Maynard Keynes that the economist must be a "mathematician, historian, statesman, [and] philosopher" in equal measure."--Provided by publisher.

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Yale University Press

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030024987X

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W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics

By: Robert L. Tignor

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W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics

By: Robert L. Tignor

W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonization, it provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders. If there were a record for the number of "firsts" achieved by one man during his lifetime, Lewis would be a contender. He was the first black professor in a British university and also at Princeton University and the first person of African descent to win a Nobel Prize in a field other than literature or peace. His writings, which included his book The Theory of Economic Growth, were among the first to describe the field of development economics. Quickly gaining the attention of the leadership of colonized territories, he helped develop blueprints for the changing relationship between the former colonies and their former rulers. He made significant contributions to Ghana's quest for economic growth and the West Indies' desire to create a first-class institution of higher learning serving all of the Anglophone territories in the Caribbean. This book, based on Lewis's personal papers, provides a new view of this renowned economist and his impact on economic growth in the twentieth century. It will intrigue not only students of development economics but also anyone interested in colonialism and decolonization, and justice for the poor in third-world countries.

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Princeton University Press

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0691215715

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Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools

Functional Behavioral Assessment

By: Deanne A. Crone,Leanne S. Hawken,Robert H. Horner

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Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools

Functional Behavioral Assessment

By: Deanne A. Crone,Leanne S. Hawken,Robert H. Horner

A widely used practitioner guide and text, this book presents a blueprint for meeting the challenges of severe problem behavior in grades PreK-8. It shows how to provide effective behavior support for the 1-5% of students who require intensive, individualized intervention. Case examples illustrate step-by-step procedures for identifying student needs using functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and designing, implementing, and evaluating team-based behavior support plans (BSPs). The book also describes how to build school- and districtwide capacity to conduct FBA-BSPs. Reproducible forms and worksheets are included; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition: *Incorporates current FBA-BSP research and best practices. *Chapters on developing districtwide capacity; FBA apps and software; applications for academic problems; and early childhood settings. *Increased attention to FBA-BSP as a Tier III intervention within a multi-tiered framework. See also the authors' less intensive intervention for moderate problem behavior: Responding to Problem Behavior in Schools, Second Edition: The Behavior Education Program, and the related training DVD, Check-In, Check-Out, Second Edition: A Tier 2 Intervention for Students at Risk.

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Guilford Publications

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146251975X

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Reimagining American Theatre

By: Robert Brustein

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Reimagining American Theatre

By: Robert Brustein

Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.

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Macmillan

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0809080583

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Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution

By: Robert Cord

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Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution

By: Robert Cord

Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of years after the onset of the Great Depression, whilst others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, such as Keynes’s close relations with the Cambridge ‘Circus’, a group of able, young Cambridge economists who dissected and assisted Keynes in developing crucial ideas in the years leading up to the General Theory. However, no systematic effort has been made to bring together these and other factors to examine them from a sociology of science perspective. This book fills this gap by taking its cue from a well-established tradition of work from history of science studies devoted to identifying the intellectual, technical, institutional, psychological and financial factors which help to explain why certain research schools are successful and why others fail. This approach, it turns out, provides a coherent account of why the revolution in macroeconomics was ‘Keynesian’ and why, on a related note, Keynes was able to see off contemporary competitor theorists, notably Friedrich von Hayek and Michal Kalecki.

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Routledge

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1135132186

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Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge

Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work

By: Robert S. Kahn

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Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge

Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work

By: Robert S. Kahn

This book looks closely at both Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge, placing both in their historical and social contexts. It considers interesting questions about whether absolute music--music without words--can have meaning and speculates that some works of Western music can evoke synesthesia in listeners--a sense of motion through three-dimensional volumes of space. The author also speculates that Beethoven's long creative dry spell in his late 40s was caused by an extended bout with clinical depression.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810874180

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Organic Substances and Sediments in Water

By: Robert A. Baker

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Organic Substances and Sediments in Water

By: Robert A. Baker

The fate and transport of natural and anthropogenic sediment-borne organic contaminants is a critical environmental issue and complex processes are involved that until now have been poorly defined. Organic Substances and Sediments in Water is a three-volume book that provides the best information available regarding the many interdisciplinary factors affecting organic substances associated with particulates in water. Topics discussed include absorption and transport of contaminants associated with particles; interfacial processes affecting fate and transport of organic substances associated with particles; the release of contaminants in receiving water bodies; water treatment; the role of biological factors in the fate and transport of organic contaminants in aqueous systems; development of biotransformation in natural and anthropogenic systems; the use of organic contaminant and sediment chemicals; biological and physical data to refine models to be used by resource managers; and chemical and biological processes that affect the fate and transport of organic constituents and determine degradation of contaminants and uptake in plants. This will be an important reference for environmental chemists, environmental engineers, environmental biologists, water treatment and natural system modelers, and soils scientists.

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CRC Press

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0873715284

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Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

By: Robert E. Draper

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Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

By: Robert E. Draper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375048300

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Godly Zeal and Furious Rage

The Witch in Early Modern Europe

By: Geoffrey Robert Quaife

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Godly Zeal and Furious Rage

The Witch in Early Modern Europe

By: Geoffrey Robert Quaife

This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another. At the root of the persecution of witches is the image of Christian society which the various ruling elites were keen to keep pure. All historians will welcome this ambitious work of synthesis of a highly complex topic.

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Routledge

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0415603498

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John Maynard Keynes

1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

By: Robert Skidelsky

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John Maynard Keynes

1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

By: Robert Skidelsky

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. John Maynard Keynes offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought. ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' - Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. 'A masterpiece of biographical and historical analysis' - New York Times

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Penguin

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0143036157

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Hidden History of Rocky Hill

By: Robert Herron

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Hidden History of Rocky Hill

By: Robert Herron

Many know Rocky Hill as the home of the oldest operating ferry in the country and its renowned Dinosaur State Park. However, there is a lot more history that is seldom seen. Abigail (Smith) Grimes was the imposing matriarch who laid the foundation for the town. Elsie Rhodes was a hero in two wars, although her name today is only barely visible on a memorial. Eli Rodman was an African American man who served valiantly in the Civil War, although his surviving daughters were nearly cheated out of his estate. Even a bit of whimsy, like the story of Hayes Farm's hairless cows, reflects the hardworking agrarian roots of the local community. Join author and Town Historian Robert Herron as he uncovers the forgotten stories and personalities that bring this unique town's history into focus.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467150622

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Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation

By: Robert Arnott

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Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation

By: Robert Arnott

This book provides insights into health, disease, and healing in the Indus Civilisation during the third to early second millennia BCE. Based on original research, it examines skeletal remains, material culture, and environmental factors. The book sheds light on diseases, healing practices, and public health in this ancient civilization.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803277394

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The Transcendentalists and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

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The Transcendentalists and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374711887

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Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

Tales of Romance and Tragedy

By: Grand Ole Opry,Robert K. Oermann

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Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

Tales of Romance and Tragedy

By: Grand Ole Opry,Robert K. Oermann

The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold. We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars all in the same month, starting the rumor of the "Opry Curse." We'll learn how after being stabbed, shot, and maimed, Trace Adkins calls his early honky-tonk years "combat country," and we'll find inspiration from DeFord Bailey, an African American harmonica player in 1927 crippled by childhood polio who rose to fame as one of the first Opry stars. Our hearts will break for Willie Nelson, who lost his only son on Christmas Day, and soar for Amy Grant and Vince Gill, who found true love. Based on over 150 firsthand interviews with the stars of The Grand Ole Opry, these are stories that tell the heart of country--the lives that are lived and inspire the songs we love.

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Center Street

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1599951843

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Middle English Dictionary

Plan and bibliography

By: Robert E. Lewis,Mary Jane Williams

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Middle English Dictionary

Plan and bibliography

By: Robert E. Lewis,Mary Jane Williams

The final installment of the most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

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University of Michigan Press

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0472013106

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9780472013104

Ice Cream

By: Robert T. Marshall,H. Douglas Goff,Richard W. Hartel

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Ice Cream

By: Robert T. Marshall,H. Douglas Goff,Richard W. Hartel

Completely re-written with two new co-authors who provide expertise in physical chemistry and engineering, the Sixth Edition of this textbook/reference explores the entire scope of the ice cream industry, from the chemical, physical, engineering and biological principles of the production process, to the marketing and distribution of the finished product. This Sixth Edition builds on the strengths of previous editions with its coverage of the history, production and consumption, composition, ingredients, calculation and preparation of mixes, equipment, processing, freezing, hardening, storage, distribution, regulations, cleaning and sanitizing, safety, and quality of ice cream and related frozen desserts. Specifically, the chapters on composition and properties, ingredients, calculations, freezing, refrigeration, analyzing frozen desserts, and microbiological quality and safety are expanded. SI units have been incorporated throughout, also with easy reference to US equivalents, where appropriate. The Sixth Edition includes a more thorough treatment of industrial production, incorporating the latest research reports and the newest equipment produced by the supplying industry. Data on the composition of typical frozen desserts is presented, including more than 50 formulas and 85 special recipes. Outstanding in its breadth and coherence, Ice Cream, Sixth Edition continues to serve as a primary educational authority for students in food science and dairy science, as well as an authoritative resource for all aspects of the ice cream industry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306477009

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Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations

By: Robert Goffee,Richard Scase

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Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations

By: Robert Goffee,Richard Scase

Corporate Realities, first published in 1995, provides a concise but comprehensive review of the management issues relating to different types of organisation. Avoiding academic jargon, it describes the characteristics of administrative, manufacturing, service and professional organisations. It explores the features of both small and large businesses. The authors demonstrate how the transition from small to large scale can be achieved, as well as reviewing recent attempts to recreate entrepreneurial forms of organisation in the context of larger, more complex ones. Most importantly, it identifies future trends and the skills that will be needed to manage corporations at the turn of the century. This book will be of interest to students of business studies.

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1317496639

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Higher Education and the Student

From Welfare State to Neoliberalism

By: Robert Troschitz

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Higher Education and the Student

From Welfare State to Neoliberalism

By: Robert Troschitz

As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system in recent decades. What was once a public good has turned into a market in which universities are required to perform like businesses, with students being increasingly referred to as customers. The Idea of Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing function of higher education and how we see the student. But instead of offering yet another critique of neoliberalism and marketisation, it widens the view beyond the present.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315448238

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Without Consent Or Contract

The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel

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Without Consent Or Contract

The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel

Norton paperback. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 487-523.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312194

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Corporations and Other Business Associations

Cases and Materials

By: Charles R.T. O'Kelley,Robert B. Thompson,Dorothy S. Lund

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Corporations and Other Business Associations

Cases and Materials

By: Charles R.T. O'Kelley,Robert B. Thompson,Dorothy S. Lund

Sophisticated yet accessible, Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials balances economic and legal theory with a flexible organization, popular case selection, and engaging problems. Current users will recognize a familiar format with creative updates. New users will recognize a casebook easily adaptable for use in a typical Corporations or Business Associations course, ranging in length from three to five credit hours, and providing ample material from which an instructor may choose how much emphasis to give to particular topics. New to the Ninth Edition: O’Kelley and Thompson are excited to welcome Dorothy Lund as a co-author. Chapter 3 now ends with a set of four very teachable shareholder governance cases capturing the current state of play in public corporations. Chapter 4 blends new presentation of corporate purpose with revised discussion of benefit corporations, has emphasis on Directors’ monitoring responsibilities, and includes the Delaware Supreme Court opinions in Marchand v. Barnhill and the Walt Disney Shareholder Litigation (newly edited in response to user interest). Chapter 4 also incorporates developments in derivative litigation popularly referred to as “thedeath ofAronson.” Chapter 6 continues its leading and innovative treatment of LLCs, adding two new cases – Obeid v. Hogan and Manere v. Collins. Chapter 8 includes the seminal appraisal case – DFC Global Corporation v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P. – and notes regarding important subsequent cases. Chapters 9, 10, and 11 contain newly edited versions of several classic cases, and expanded coverage of user favorites, including Time v. Paramount, Moran v. Household Finance, and the Blasius case. Professors and students will benefit from: Balance of theory, cases, and problems in which law and economic theory enriches without dominating the focus of the book Carefully edited and selected cases— both classic and contemporary cases Excellent and ample problems explore practical applications of theory in the business world Flexible organization easily adapts to different teaching approaches Strongest book on LLCs/LLPs and other business associations

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Aspen Publishing

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1543825931

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Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

Background and Rhetoric

By: Robert S. Kinney

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Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

Background and Rhetoric

By: Robert S. Kinney

In the search for Matthean theology, scholars overwhelmingly approach the Gospel of Matthew as the "the most Jewish Gospel." Studies of its Sitz im Leben focus on its relationship to Judaism, whether arguing from the perspective that Matthew wrote from a cloistered Jewish community or as the leader of a Gentile rebellion against such a Jewish community. While this is undoubtedly an important and necessary discussion for understanding the Gospel, it often assumes too much about the relationship between Judaism and Hellenism (via Martin Hengel). Robert S. Kinney argues for a hybridized perspective in which Matthew's attention to Jewish sources and ideas is not denied, but in which echoes of Greek and Roman sources can be observed, focusing on identifying Matthew's use of rhetoric and its possible echoes of Greco-Roman philosophical disciple-gathering teachers.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161545230

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The Life Cycle of a CEO

The Myths and Truths of How Leaders Succeed

By: Claudius A Hildebrand,Robert J Stark

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The Life Cycle of a CEO

The Myths and Truths of How Leaders Succeed

By: Claudius A Hildebrand,Robert J Stark

A groundbreaking roadmap for CEOs to achieve high performance and navigate the predictable crises of corporate life Being appointed CEO is seen by many as the pinnacle of success in business, but it is actually the first step in a journey of evolving stages requiring ongoing personal reinvention. In an unprecedented study of the individual performance of every twenty-first-century CEO of the S&P 500, combined with over 100 in-depth interviews of CEOs and board directors, Claudius A. Hildebrand and Robert J. Stark discovered the CEO Life Cycle, a series of five stages: launch, calibration, reinvention, complacency trap, and legacy. Each presents distinctive headwinds and tailwinds that require leaders to develop the fresh skills and strategies needed to thrive. Successful CEOs are often portrayed as fully formed heroes endowed with exceptional leadership traits. Hildebrand and Stark break through the mythology to provide unique understanding, explaining how outstanding leaders surmount predictable challenges and develop the mental fortitude, emotional resilience, and self-awareness required to keep adapting. Invaluable not only for CEOs to take their game to the next level of high performance but also for executives who envision themselves in the role, The Life Cycle of a CEO provides the unvarnished truth about what it takes to be a successful CEO.

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PublicAffairs

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1541702840

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The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science

Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration

By: Robert Viagas

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The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science

Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration

By: Robert Viagas

The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman. Also, featured are Chita Rivera and Edward Albee; costume designer William Ivey Long; set designer Robin Wagner, and director and choreographer Susan Stroman.

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1476849498

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Economic Theory, Welfare, and the State

Essays in Honour of John C. Weldon

By: Athanasios Asimakopulos,Robert D. Cairns

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Economic Theory, Welfare, and the State

Essays in Honour of John C. Weldon

By: Athanasios Asimakopulos,Robert D. Cairns

Economic Theory, Welfare, and the State looks at how economic theory can be used to investigate and analyse the operations of market economies and to provide the basis for improvements in government policy-making. The collection begins with two chapters on the history of economic thought, followed by an exploration of possible areas of conflict between the interests of groups and individuals, and an insightful blend of economic history and economic theory that sheds light on the Canadian government's policy of settling the Prairies by providing land grants. Also included are a critical analysis of rational expectations models and their use in econometrics, an examination of why money should be treated as a public good, and two contributions on international trade theory. Two chapters deal with the problem of maintaining satisfactory levels of employment and three chapters examine different aspects of public pensions. Among the contributors to this volume are a former teacher of Weldon's, his fellow students and colleagues, and former students. They are Louis Ascah, Athanasios Asimakopulos, Clarence Lyle Barber, Kenneth E. Boulding, John Burbidge, Robert D. Cairns, John S. Chipman, John H. Dales, Christopher Green, Peter Howitt, Murray C. Kemp, Gideon Rosenbluth, Robin Rowley, Thomas K. Rymes, David Schwartzman, Dan Usher, and Shigemi Yabuuchi.

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0773563032

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9780773563032

DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Mystery & Revenge Tales

An Electrical Slip, The Vengeance of the Dead, The Great Pegram Mystery, The Vengeance of the Dead and many more

By: Robert Barr

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DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Mystery & Revenge Tales

An Electrical Slip, The Vengeance of the Dead, The Great Pegram Mystery, The Vengeance of the Dead and many more

By: Robert Barr

This unique collection of some of the greatest murder mysteries and revenge thrillers, has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Face and the Mask Death Cometh Soon or Late The Woman of Stone The Chemistry of Anarchy The Fear of It The Metamorphoses of Johnson The Reclamation of Joe Hollends The Type-Written Letter The Doom of London The Predicament of De Plonville A New Explosive The Great Pegram Mystery High Stakes "Where Ignorance Is Bliss" The Departure of Cub Mclean Old Number Eighty-Six Playing With Marked Cards The Bruiser's Courtship The Raid On Mellish Striking Back Crandall's Choice The Failure of Bradley Ringamy's Convert A Slippery Customer The Sixth Bench Revenge! An Alpine Divorce Which Was The Murderer? A Dynamite Explosion An Electrical Slip The Vengeance of the Dead Over The Stelvio Pass The Hour and the Man "And the Rigour of the Game" The Bromley Gibberts Story Not According to the Code A Modern Samson A Deal on 'Change Transformation The Shadow of the Greenback The Understudy "Out Of Thun" A Dramatic Point Two Florentine Balconies The Exposure of Lord Stansford Purification Robert Barr (1849–1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. His famous detective character Eugéne Valmont, fashioned after Sherlock Holmes, is said to be the inspiration behind Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.

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e-artnow

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8075831829

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9788075831828

Golden Darkness

By: Robert Grajewski

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Golden Darkness

By: Robert Grajewski

Twenty-five centuries ago, a dying tribal elder drinks from a spring in a cavern in the heart of a mountain in Western Africa. The spring glows with a soft golden light. As the elder drinks, the water of the spring transforms the very essence of his being, and the mysteries which separate humanity from the divine are unlocked and bridged. He becomes the Firstborn of an ancient tradition hidden among the people and legends of the West African savanna. In the wooded foothills of present-day Switzerland, three very old men- ancient men of the ancient tradition-prepare to confront the dark fulfillment of a prophecy foretold by the Firstborn. These three possess mental and physical abilities which seem limitless-abilities enabling them to perform miraculous works once thought to be the exclusive domain of the gods of human belief throughout the ages. The dark one, the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy, is equally empowered- the unexpected product of medical science overreaching its intended result. However, this one does not wish to remain hidden. Through the miraculous signs and wonders which he can perform, he desires to draw thousands to himself as an object of boundless, cultish worship. He longs to be their dark messiah, and his cult of fear and death has already started to grow. The three ancient Africans have been waiting centuries for this dark one to appear-the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy-and only they stand in his way. The grains of truth embodied in all mythology will find reality in this confrontation pitting supernatural good against supernatural evil. The confrontation was prophesized, the outcome was not.

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iUniverse

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1450245471

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9781450245470

Lone Star Lawmen

The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

By: Robert M. Utley

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Lone Star Lawmen

The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

By: Robert M. Utley

Written by a respected Western historian, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.

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Oxford University Press

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0195154444

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American Iron, 1607-1900

By: Robert B. Gordon

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American Iron, 1607-1900

By: Robert B. Gordon

By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the 18th century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals. In this work, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the 20th century.

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JHU Press

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0801868165

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9780801868160

The Greatest Sales Training in the World

By: Robert Nelson

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The Greatest Sales Training in the World

By: Robert Nelson

Based on the All-Time Best Seller by Og Mandino, this book is a practical how-to sales guide that reveals in vivid detail how to: Develop successful sales habits; Penetrate the defense systems of clients; Develop persistence; Elevate your self-esteem; Break the paralyzing habit of procrastination

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Frederick Fell Publishers

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0883911213

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Airlines and Air Mail

The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

By: F. Robert van der Linden

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Airlines and Air Mail

The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

By: F. Robert van der Linden

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318441X

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