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Preserving Planet Earth

Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past

By: Jane Roland Martin

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Preserving Planet Earth

Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past

By: Jane Roland Martin

This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanity’s contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about large-scale cultural change. Is it possible for humankind to change its ways and shed the belief that the planet is ours to do with as we like? Internationally acclaimed philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin argues that "humancentrism" is a learned affair, and what is learned can be unlearned. Turning to the past to see how large-scale cultural change has occurred, she discovers a pattern in the achievements of such historical luminaries as Martin Luther, Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Greta Thunberg that we too can follow. Drawing on history, philosophy, and literature as well as the natural and social sciences and hoping to mobilize readers to effective action, Martin employs an accessible and powerful rhetoric, with each chapter beginning with a scene from history written in dialogue form. This book calls on young and old to avert a looming tragedy of Aristotelian proportions--the demise of the “Mother Nature” that made it possible for our species to flourish. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its approach, it will appeal to students and teachers as well as general readers interested in environmental studies, philosophy, and education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040026834

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American Disruptor

The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford

By: Roland De Wolk

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American Disruptor

The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford

By: Roland De Wolk

The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors. It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him—his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel—a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved. Richly detailed and deeply researched, American Disruptor restores Leland Stanford’s rightful place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern America.

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University of California Press

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0520383230

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Roland Martin's 101 Bass-Catching Secrets

By: Roland Martin

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Roland Martin's 101 Bass-Catching Secrets

By: Roland Martin

Roland Martin, the most successful bass fisherman in history in terms of tournaments won, is a prolific source of bass fishing wisdom and sure-fire bassing tips. Both practical and discursive, Martin not only discusses why bass strike, how to use live bait, plugs, and spinners, tricks for night fishing, and how to fish logs, weeds, rocks, and trees; he also recounts how he once fished five rods at once during a school feeding frenzy, and how fellow legend Bill Dance charmed him out of a spinnerbait and beat him with it in a tournament. Full of information and great stories, Roland Martin's 101 Bass-Catching Secrets is the best guide available to help fishermen land more bass, and a revealing look at the exciting world of professional fishing.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626367329

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9781626367326

The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture

By: Roland H. Worth

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The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture

By: Roland H. Worth

“To understand the immediate cultural and societal background of the cities to which John wrote in Revelation 1 and 2, we must first understand the broader background of Roman civilization and its impact upon Asian province,” writes Roland H. Worth in the introduction to this fascinating, information-packed work. It is an in-depth study of the history, culture, society, economics, and environment of early Christians living in Roman Asia. Drawing on a multitude of resources from diverse disciplines, Worth surveys Roman life and attitudes in general, and demonstrates how Roman power developed and was exercised in Asia. He describes life in Roman Asia: what it was like to live in that province, how the imperial cult grew and prospered there, as well as the nature of official governmental persecution in the first century. A second book, The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture, will fill in the details of the local background of the Christians for whom the “mini-epistles” in the book of Revelation were written.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532685858

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9781532685859

Italy

A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present

By: Roland Sarti

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Italy

A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present

By: Roland Sarti

Exploring more than 500 years of the country's history, Italy provides readers interested in modern Italy or European history with a greater understanding of Italy's past, from the Renaissance to the present. This guide presents the milestones in Italy's history in an interesting and readable way.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816074747

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The Way of the Intelligent Rebel

Succeed Outside the System, Teach Yourself Anything, and Achieve Ultimate Freedom

By: Olivier Roland

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The Way of the Intelligent Rebel

Succeed Outside the System, Teach Yourself Anything, and Achieve Ultimate Freedom

By: Olivier Roland

Olivier Roland offers an inspiring road map to help readers get more out of life as an 'Intelligent Rebel' and find success and fulfilment by breaking out of the system. Do you dream of a less stressful life? Break out of the system, embrace your purpose and shape your own journey to success and fulfilment. We're not designed for a one-size-fits-all education or lifestyle-so why not choose a path where you can make your own rules, follow your passions, and live a rewarding, purpose-fueled life? Breaking out of the "system" and becoming an entrepreneur or a creator can be daunting, but with this step-by-step guide to taking charge of your life, realizing your individual potential, and building a sustainable business with minimal risk, you'll discover that the way of the intelligent rebel is ultimately a path to freedom and self-realization. You'll learn how to: navigate the limitations of traditional education to learn effectively create a viable and sustainable business that serves your lifestyle implement cutting-edge business tools and strategies for success start your business part-time, even if you have a job or studies hack your self-led learning with revolutionary techniques embrace your purpose and live with happiness and freedom

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Hay House, Inc

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1788175174

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9781788175173

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

The Structuralists on Myth

By: Roland A. Champagne

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The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

The Structuralists on Myth

By: Roland A. Champagne

The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. ‘Structuralists’ attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as ‘structures’. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themselves to have talents as the collectors from myths of these bundles of information.

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Routledge

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1317555929

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9781317555926

Field Palaeontology

By: Roland Goldring

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Field Palaeontology

By: Roland Goldring

This is the major text on the integration of field palaeontology and sedimentology, particularly valuable for both practical lab exercises and students working independently and unsupervised on field projects" Reviewer's comment Field Palaeontology provides a comprehensive, rigorous and unique approach to the analysis of fossils and sediments and offers a practical field guide which no palaeontology student can afford to be without. The past decade has seen immense changes in palaeontology and in the study of sedimentary rocks in general. This edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account these advancements in the subject to produce a book that is unique in its coverage of palaeontology and sedimentology. It aims to provide a basis for evaluating the information potential of fossiliferous sediments, and then to give an outline of the strategy and tactics whicn can be adopted in the field. Field Palaeontology is written for advanced undergraduate courses in palaeontology, palaeoecology, palaeobiology, sedimentology and biostratigraphy within geoscience and geology degrees. It is also useful reading for Masters earth science students and first year postgraduates looking for a grounding in the basics of the subject.

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1317880439

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

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University of Texas Press

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1477321772

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This Day in American History, 4th ed.

By: Ernie Gross,Roland H. Worth, Jr.

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This Day in American History, 4th ed.

By: Ernie Gross,Roland H. Worth, Jr.

This up-to-date fourth edition of the most important and interesting data--on a day by day basis--throughout American history includes more than 1,400 new entries with information on a wide variety of subjects--both the "important" matters (Supreme Court decisions, war events, scientific breakthroughs, etc.) and the lesser known but thought provoking incidents and phenomena (societal changes, unexpected events) that add richness and depth to American history.

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McFarland

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0786448393

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9780786448395

Advertising the American Dream

Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

By: Roland Marchand

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Advertising the American Dream

Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

By: Roland Marchand

It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses. As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. Advertisers may only have dimly perceived the profound transformations America was experiencing. However, the advertising they created is a wonderfully graphic record of the underlying assumptions and changing values in American culture. With extensive reference to the popular media—radio broadcasts, confession magazines, and tabloid newspapers—Professor Marchand describes how advertisers manipulated modern art and photography to promote an enduring "consumption ethic." 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 1986. It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new w

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Univ of California Press

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0520403657

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9780520403659

Pluto

A Space Discovery Guide

By: James Roland

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Pluto

A Space Discovery Guide

By: James Roland

-Find out about the first-ever close-up photos of Pluto's incredible landscape and what this means for the future of our understanding about planets in this fascinating book, chock full of the latest scientific information.---

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Lerner Publications (Tm)

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1512425877

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9781512425871

Cardiac Valve Allografts II

Science and Practice

By: Roland Hetzer

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Cardiac Valve Allografts II

Science and Practice

By: Roland Hetzer

CARDIAC VALVE ALLOGRAFTS (HOMOGRAFTS) highlights the current controversy about freehand subcoronary aortic valve and root replacement with regard to postoperative morbidity and long term durability. It discusses particular implantation techniques of preference in young patients and in different root pathology. Other chapters address intermediate- and long-term results on cardiac valve and vascular homografts for treating complicating cardiac valve and aortic infections. The chapter on basic science additionally makes this book a highly authoritative reference source for cardiac surgeons, physicians and scientists. This work provides a current survey of the state-of-the-art.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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3798510644

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9783798510647

Development Economics

By: Gérard Roland

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Development Economics

By: Gérard Roland

Gerard Roland's new text, Development Economics, is the first undergraduate text to recognize the role of institutions in understanding development and growth. Through a series of chapters devoted to specific sets of institutions, Roland examines the effects of institutions on growth, property rights, market development, and the delivery of public goods and services and focuses. With the most comprehensive and up to date treatment of institutions on development, Roland explores the important questions of why some countries develop faster than others and why some fail while others are successful.

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Routledge

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1315510553

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9781315510552

Cochlear Implants: Adult and Pediatric, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics

By: J. Thomas Roland Jr.,David S. Haynes

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Cochlear Implants: Adult and Pediatric, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics

By: J. Thomas Roland Jr.,David S. Haynes

Clinical information for Otolaryngologists is provided in topics that include: Imaging and Anatomy; Genetics of Hearing Loss, Testing and Relevance to Cochlear Implantation; Candidacy Evaluation, Medical and Surgical Considerations, expanding criteria in Children; Surgical Technique and Accepted Variations in Children; Bilateral Cochlear Implantation; Implanting Obstructed and Malformed Cochleae; Device Programming NRT, NRI, Streamlined programming; Cochlear Implants and Music; Rehabilitation and Educational Considerations; Outcomes and Variables Affecting Outcomes; Language Development and Cochlear Implantation; New Frontiers in Cochlear Implantation, electroacoustic, hearing preservation, etc; Revision Cochlear Implantation in Children; and Current and Future Device Options.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455743011

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9781455743018

Time of Troubles

A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity

By: Roland Boer,Christina Petterson

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Time of Troubles

A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity

By: Roland Boer,Christina Petterson

Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both‒‒either imagining the ancients as involved in “primitive” economic relationships, or else projecting the modern capitalist preoccupation with markets and the enterprising individual back onto first-century realities. Roland Boer and Christina Petterson blaze a new trail, relying on the expansive work on the Roman economy of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (who was relatively uninterested in the New Testament, however) and on the theoretical framework of the Regulation school. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, Regulation theory gives appropriate regard to the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to be the norm, except for brief episodes of imposed stability. Boer and Petterson find the Roman world in crisis as slavery expands, transforming the agricultural economy so that slave estates could supply the needs of the polis. Successive chapters describe aspects of the economic crisis in the first century and turn at last to understand the ideological role played by nascent Christianity.

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Fortress Press

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1506406327

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9781506406329

Dinosaurs Under the Aurora

By: Roland A. Gangloff

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Dinosaurs Under the Aurora

By: Roland A. Gangloff

In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist would unknowingly find the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs under the Aurora immerses readers in the challenges, stark beauty, and hard-earned rewards of conducting paleontological field work in the Arctic. Roland A. Gangloff recounts the significant discoveries of field and museum research on Arctic dinosaurs, most notably of the last 25 years when the remarkable record of dinosaurs from Alaska was compiled. This research has changed the way we think about dinosaurs and their world. Examining long-standing controversies, such as the end-Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and whether dinosaurs were residents or just seasonal visitors to polar latitudes, Gangloff takes readers on a delightful and instructive journey into the world of paleontology as it is conducted in the land under the aurora.

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Indiana University Press

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0253007186

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9780253007186

Civil liability for damage caused by waste

By: Boris Meissner,Roland Pappel

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Civil liability for damage caused by waste

By: Boris Meissner,Roland Pappel

The subject of this book is the »Proposal for a Council Directive on Civil Liability for Damage Caused by Waste« which was first presented by the Commission of the European Communities in 1989, then amended in 1991, and which remains under consideration by the Council to this day.The book attempts to look at the Proposal from a comparative point of view, asking what impact the Directive, if implemented as drafted, would have on the law of different Member States of the EC. For this purpose, England (as part of the U. K.) and Germany have been taken as examples. A detailed and comparative outline of the English and German law related to civil liability for waste precedes the examination of the proposed Directive. In this way, the book also contributes to the discussion triggered by the Commission's »Green Paper on Remedying Environmental Damage« of 1993. To the main text of the book, which is written in English, an extensive German summary has been added.Gegenstand dieses Buches ist der von der Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (jetzt: der Europäischen Union)im Jahre 1989 vorgelegte »Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie des Rates über die zivilrechtliche Haftung für die durch Abfälle verursachten Schäden«, der im Jahre 1991 mit wesentlichen Änderungen versehen wurde und dem Rat nach wie vor zur Prüfung vorliegt.Das Buch beleuchtet den Richtlinienvorschlag rechtsvergleichend, d. h. unter der Fragestellung, wie sich die Richtlinie auf die Rechtslage in verschiedenen Mitgliedsstaaten der EU auswirken würde, wenn sie in ihrer derzeitigen Fassung in Kraft träte. Als Beispiele dienen England (als Teil des Vereinigten Königreiches) und Deutschland. Eine detaillierte und rechtsvergleichende Darstellung des englischen und deutschen Rechts in bezug auf die zivilrechtliche Haftung für Abfälle ist daher der Untersuchung des Richtlinienvorschlages vorangestellt. Auf diese Weise leistet das Buch auch einen Beitrag zu der Diskussion, die das im Jahre 1993 von der Europäischen Kommission vorgelegte »Grünbuch über die Sanierung von Umweltschäden« ausgelöst hat. Dem in englischer Sprache verfaßten Haupttext wurde eine ausführliche deutsche Zusammenfassung beigegeben.

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Duncker & Humblot

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3428481569

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9783428481569

At War's End

Building Peace After Civil Conflict

By: Roland Paris

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At War's End

Building Peace After Civil Conflict

By: Roland Paris

All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is basically sound, but pushing this process too quickly can have damaging and destabilizing effects. The process of liberalization is inherently tumultuous, and can undermine the prospects for stable peace. A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant. Peacebuilders should establish the foundations of effective governmental institutions prior to launching wholesale liberalization programs. Avoiding the problems that marred many peacebuilding operations in the 1990s will require longer-lasting and, ultimately, more intrusive forms of intervention in the domestic affairs of these states. This book was first published in 2004.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521541972

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9780521541978

The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

By: Roland Vegso

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The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

By: Roland Vegso

The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti-Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.

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Fordham Univ Press

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082324556X

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9780823245567

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer. The reader can thus look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed notes distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce's diverse literary and popular sources. The third edition has added material reflecting fifteen years of research, including significant new insights from Joyce's compositional notebooks (the "Buffalo Notebooks"), now being edited for the first time.

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JHU Press

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0801883814

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9780801883811

In the Realms of Gold

Pioneering in African History

By: Roland Oliver

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In the Realms of Gold

Pioneering in African History

By: Roland Oliver

The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s; his efforts to train and foster African graduate students to teach in African universities; his role in establishing conferences and journals to bring together the work of historians and archaeologists from Europe and Africa; his encounters with political and religious leaders, scholars, soldiers, and storytellers; and the political and economic upheavals of the continent that he witnessed.

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Routledge

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1134571712

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9781134571710

Energy Security

By: Roland Dannreuther

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Energy Security

By: Roland Dannreuther

Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil fuels. It is easy to see why energy security has become one of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century. In this book, Roland Dannreuther offers a new and comprehensive approach to understanding energy security. Drawing on the latest research, he treats energy security as a value that is continually in dynamic conflict with other core values, such as economic prosperity and sustainability. The different physical properties of the key energy resources – coal, oil, gas, nuclear and renewables – are of course critical for the differing manifestations of energy insecurity. But it is the social, economic and political contexts, developed over time and place, which are essential for a fuller appreciation of contemporary energy challenges. In highlighting the history and politics of energy security and the critical role played by power and justice in framing these debates, this incisive and cutting-edge analysis is a go-to introduction for students grappling with the complexities of energy security today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509520945

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9781509520947

From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

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From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journeys End, which was based on his own experiences as a young officer on the Western Front. Its success made him a household name and opened the door to a highly lucrative career as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood and in Britain. Many of his movies The Invisible Man, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Four Feathers Odd Man Out, Quartet, and, of course, The Dam Busters are still well known, but the man behind them much less so. This book rediscovers Sherriff using his own words his letters, diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts to shed light on a man who ironically gained his greatest success from the trench warfare he found so difficult to bear.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473860717

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9781473860711

Album

Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

By: Roland Barthes

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Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

By: Roland Barthes

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works, as well as a rich archive of epistolary friendships, spanning half a century, among the leading intellectuals of the day. Barthes was one of the great observers of language and culture, and Album shows him in his element, immersed in heady French intellectual culture and the daily struggles to maintain a writing life. Barthes's correspondents include Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marthe Robert, and Jean Starobinski, among others. The book also features documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile; unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics and philosophers of the twentieth century and the world of letters in which he lived and breathed.

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0231545886

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The Preparation of the Novel

Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980

By: Roland Barthes

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The Preparation of the Novel

Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980

By: Roland Barthes

Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.

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0231136153

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9780231136150

Albert Sidney Johnston

Soldier of Three Republics

By: Charles P. Roland

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Albert Sidney Johnston

Soldier of Three Republics

By: Charles P. Roland

A biography of the man whom Jefferson Davis could have considered one of his greatest generals during the American Civil War. A revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy’s top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War. Albert Sidney Johnston was selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times Illustrated in 1981 and by Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society in 1995. Featuring a new forward by Gary W. Gallagher and a new preface by the author Praise for Albert Sidney Johnston “A biography of the Kentucky native who might have been mentioned in the same breath as Robert E. Lee had Johnston not died while commanding Confederate troops at the battle of Shiloh in 1862, only a year after the war started.”—Lexington Herald-Leader “Johnston’s early years, military career, and encounters with Indians, Mormons, and Union soldiers are the focus of this “masterly” study.”—Civil War Book Review “The view of army life and the terrible decisions that many southern officers had to make at the beginning will provide an excellent background for further understanding the Civil War.”—Paper Wars

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813143381

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9780813143385

'Fair and Equitable Treatment' in International Investment Law

By: Roland Kläger

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'Fair and Equitable Treatment' in International Investment Law

By: Roland Kläger

This book looks at fair and equitable treatment as a key standard of international investment law.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521197716

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9780521197717

Viscoelastic Behavior of Rubbery Materials

By: C. Michael Roland

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Viscoelastic Behavior of Rubbery Materials

By: C. Michael Roland

The gigantic size of polymer molecules makes them "viscoelastic": their behavior changes depending on how fast and for how long the material is used. This book describes the latest discoveries in the field from a fundamental molecular perspective, in order to guide the development of better and new applications for soft materials.

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Oxford University Press

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0199571570

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9780199571574

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