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A Dangerous Woman

American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould

By: Susan Ronald

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A Dangerous Woman

American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould

By: Susan Ronald

A Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald's revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940’s Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank’s millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars—like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence stayed on, fearing retribution by the IRS. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Göring’s Aerobank. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estée Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say “money doesn’t care who owns it,” Florence’s life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250311357

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Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling

The Games People Play, Second Edition

By: Ronald J. Gould

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Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling

The Games People Play, Second Edition

By: Ronald J. Gould

Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling: The Games People Play, Second Edition demonstrates how discrete probability, statistics, and elementary discrete mathematics are used in games, sports, and gambling situations. With emphasis on mathematical thinking and problem solving, the text draws on numerous examples, questions, and problems to expla

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CRC Press

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1498719538

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9781498719537

Criminology

Theory, Research, and Policy

By: Gennaro F. Vito,Jeffrey R. Maahs,Ronald M. Holmes

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Criminology

Theory, Research, and Policy

By: Gennaro F. Vito,Jeffrey R. Maahs,Ronald M. Holmes

Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. The authors have produced a comprehensive work on major criminological theories, combining classical criminology with new topics, such as Internet crime and terrorism. The text also focuses on how criminology shapes public policy.

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522

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763730017

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9780763730017

Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging

By: Ronald Ross Watson

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Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging

By: Ronald Ross Watson

Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging aims to equip anyone studying geriatric nutrition or working with aging adults with the latest scientific reviews of critical topics. The major objective of this book is to review, in detail, the health problems of the aged and how normal food, lifestyle, or nutritional and dietary supplements can help treat them. Nutrient requirements for optimum health and function of aging physiological systems are often quite distinct from those required for young people. The special nutrition problems of the aged are intensively researched and tested, especially as the elderly become a larger percentage of the population. Many chronic diseases and cancers are found with higher frequency in the aged, and it is also widely known that many elderly people use foods and nutrients well above the recommended daily allowance, which can be detrimental to optimal health. - Explains the evidence supporting nutritional interventions relevant to age-related diseases - Reviews the macro- and micro-nutrient requirements of aging adults and their variables - Describes how alcohol, drugs, and caffeine can impact deficiencies, also exploring functional food and dietary supplements that can be used for prevention and treatment

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Academic Press

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0128092998

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Reason to Believe

Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

By: Hephzibah Roskelly,Kate Ronald

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Reason to Believe

Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

By: Hephzibah Roskelly,Kate Ronald

Reason to Believe is about teaching and the possibility of making positive change in education. The authors explore the way that American pragmatism and the rhetoric of North American romanticism work together to create a method for restoring hope to teachers and responsiveness to the systems they work within. What the book calls romantic/pragmatic rhetoric offers teachers a way to locate the roots of their beliefs and methods, to name them, and thus to act to change and challenge systems that have become in William James' phrase "tyrannical machines.

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State University of New York Press

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1438417861

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Humanism and the Death of God

Searching for the Good After Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche

By: Ronald E. Osborn

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Humanism and the Death of God

Searching for the Good After Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche

By: Ronald E. Osborn

Humanism and the Death of God is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary quandaries when it comes to questions of human nature and moral obligation, Ronald E. Osborn argues that "the death of God" ultimately tends toward the death of liberal understandings of the human as well. Any fully persuasive defense of humanistic values--including the core humanistic concepts of inviolable dignity, rights, and equality attaching to each individual--requires an essentially religious vision of personhood. Osborn shows such a vision is found in an especially dramatic and historically consequential way in the scandalous particularity of the Christian narrative of God becoming a human. He does not attempt to provide logical proofs for the central claims of Christian humanism along the lines some philosophers might demand. Instead, this study demonstrates how philosophical naturalism or materialism, and secular humanisms and anti-humanisms, might be persuasively read from the perspective of a classically orthodox Christian faith.

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Oxford University Press

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0198792484

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9780198792482

The Craft of Ritual Studies

By: Ronald L. Grimes

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The Craft of Ritual Studies

By: Ronald L. Grimes

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual. Grimes exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual--for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual's only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He provides a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual events, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume includes a case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes develops such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments. This important book, the capstone work of Grimes's three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies, is accompanied by a set of online videos, as well as appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199373566

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9780199373567

Why Think?

Evolution and the Rational Mind

By: Ronald de Sousa

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Why Think?

Evolution and the Rational Mind

By: Ronald de Sousa

In this short and accessible book, Ronald de Sousa shows us that in order to understand what is truly important about our reasoning capacity, we need to change our thinking about what rationality actually is.

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Oxford University Press

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019518985X

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Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

Linear Thinking about Branching Trees

By: Ronald A. Jenner

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Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

Linear Thinking about Branching Trees

By: Ronald A. Jenner

Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that mentally traces character evolution along lineages of hypothetical ancestors. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology traces the history of narrative phylogenetics and lineage thinking to the present day, drawing on perspectives from the history of science, philosophy of science, and contemporary scientific debates. It shows how the power of phylogenetic hypotheses to explain evolution resides in the precursor traits of hypothetical ancestors. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the topic of ancestors, which is central to modern biology, and is therefore of interest to graduate students, researchers, and academics in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009302647

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Intangible Materialism

The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language

By: Ronald Schleifer

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Intangible Materialism

The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language

By: Ronald Schleifer

Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816644675

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Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases E-Book

By: Michael H. Weisman,Michael E. Weinblatt,James S. Louie,Ronald Van Vollenhoven

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Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases E-Book

By: Michael H. Weisman,Michael E. Weinblatt,James S. Louie,Ronald Van Vollenhoven

Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases takes a patient management approach to treating adult and pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases. Michael H. Weisman, Michael Weinblatt, James S Louie, and Ronald Van Vollenhoven offer their unique insights into choosing the correct pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies for your patients. Chapters cover the full breadth of rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, connective tissue diseases, osteoporosis, regional pain disorders, and fibromyalgia. The full-color design presents detailed clinical photographs and treatment algorithms for visual guidance and easy reference. You’ll have all you need to provide your patients with the most effective treatment from this unique resource. Focuses on patient management instead of disease management so that you can tailor treatment plans according to each patient’s needs. Covers the treatment of pediatric patients as well as adults so that you can properly address the particular needs of any patient you see. Features the guidance and specific recommendations of experts from United States and Europe for a state-of-the-art approach to the variety of treatments currently in use. Displays the clinical manifestations of rheumatic diseases in full color, along with treatment algorithms for easy at-a-glance reference.

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1437719767

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Book's by Ronald J. Gould

A Dangerous Woman

A Dangerous Woman

Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling

Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling

Criminology

Criminology

Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging

Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging

Reason to Believe

Reason to Believe

Humanism and the Death of God

Humanism and the Death of God

The Craft of Ritual Studies

The Craft of Ritual Studies

Why Think?

Why Think?

Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

Intangible Materialism

Intangible Materialism

Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases E-Book

Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases E-Book

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