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Kenya

The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

By: Norman Miller,Rodger Yeager

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Kenya

The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

By: Norman Miller,Rodger Yeager

First Published in 2018. This book captures the self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity, focusing on the contemporary period, beginning with the rise to power of President Daniel arap Moi in 1978.

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245

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Routledge

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0429973195

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9780429973192

Wildlife, Wild Death

Land Use and Survival in Eastern Africa

By: Rodger Yeager,Norman N. Miller

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Wildlife, Wild Death

Land Use and Survival in Eastern Africa

By: Rodger Yeager,Norman N. Miller

This book examines the relationship between agricultural land use and wildlife protection in two eastern African countries--Kenya and Tanzania. Although both elements are vital to the societies and economies of these countries, environmentally sensitive land-use practices and effective wildlife management are seriously lacking in Kenya and Tanzania. Within the broader context of environmental public policy, the book traces the origins of these problems in the different policy experiences of the two countries and explores their current dimensions and magnitudes. It also recommends future research and policy reforms that must be undertaken if Kenya and Tanzania are to achieve their developmental goals while avoiding environmental disaster and the extinction of their endangered wild animals. Through its analysis, the book provides a better understanding of similar conflicts wherever they appear in a world of increasing competition among threatened life forms.

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196

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SUNY Press

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0887061699

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9780887061691

Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima

Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century

By: Gillian M Rodger

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Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima

Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century

By: Gillian M Rodger

In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. As some in the working class moved up into the middling classes, they took their affinity for variety with them, transforming and broadening middle-class values. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima places the saloon keepers, managers, male impersonators, minstrels, acrobats, singers, and dancers of the variety era within economic and social contexts by examining the business models of variety shows and their primarily white, working-class urban audiences. Rodger traces the transformation of variety from sexualized entertainment to more family-friendly fare, a domestication that mirrored efforts to regulate the industry, as well as the adoption of aspects of middle-class culture and values by the shows' performers, managers, and consumers.

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298

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University of Illinois Press

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0252077342

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9780252077340

Design Theory

By: Charles C. Lindner,Christopher A. Rodger

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Design Theory

By: Charles C. Lindner,Christopher A. Rodger

Design Theory, Second Edition presents some of the most important techniques used for constructing combinatorial designs. It augments the descriptions of the constructions with many figures to help students understand and enjoy this branch of mathematics. This edition now offers a thorough development of the embedding of Latin squares and combinatorial designs. It also presents some pure mathematical ideas, including connections between universal algebra and graph designs. The authors focus on several basic designs, including Steiner triple systems, Latin squares, and finite projective and affine planes. They produce these designs using flexible constructions and then add interesting properties that may be required, such as resolvability, embeddings, and orthogonality. The authors also construct more complicated structures, such as Steiner quadruple systems. By providing both classical and state-of-the-art construction techniques, this book enables students to produce many other types of designs.

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272

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CRC Press

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1420082973

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9781420082975

Wildlife, Wild Death

Land Use and Survival in Eastern Africa

By: Rodger Yeager,Norman N. Miller

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Land Use and Survival in Eastern Africa

By: Rodger Yeager,Norman N. Miller

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0887061680

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9780887061684

Kenya

The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

By: Norman Miller,Rodger Yeager

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Kenya

The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

By: Norman Miller,Rodger Yeager

Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya's exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya's land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.

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Westview Press

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0813382025

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9780813382029

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