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The Neuropsychology of Attention

By: Ronald A. Cohen

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The Neuropsychology of Attention

By: Ronald A. Cohen

It has been 15 years since the original publication of Neuropsychology of Attention. At the time of its publication, attention was a construct that had long been of theoretical interest in the field of psychology and was receiving increased research by cognitive scientists. Yet, attention was typically viewed as a nuisance variable; a factor that needed to be accounted for when assessing brain function, but of limited importance in its own right. There is a need for a new edition of this book within Neuropsychology to present an updated and integrated review of what is know about attention, the disorders that affect it, and approaches to its clinical assessment and treatment. Such a book will provide perspectives for experimental neuropsychological study of attention and also provide clinicians with insights on how to approach this neuropsychological domain.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038772639X

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9780387726397

Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society

By: Ronald Inglehart

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Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society

By: Ronald Inglehart

Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977), broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies. This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a much broader process of cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life in these societies. Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of economic development that is pursued.

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Princeton University Press

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069118674X

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9780691186740

Desert Geomorphology

By: Ronald U. Cooke,Andrew Warren,Andrew S. Goudie

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Desert Geomorphology

By: Ronald U. Cooke,Andrew Warren,Andrew S. Goudie

Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and

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CRC Press

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0203020596

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9780203020593

Political Attitudes Over the Life Span

The Bennington Women After Fifty Years

By: Duane Francis Alwin,Ronald Lee Cohen,Theodore Mead Newcomb

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Political Attitudes Over the Life Span

The Bennington Women After Fifty Years

By: Duane Francis Alwin,Ronald Lee Cohen,Theodore Mead Newcomb

A handsome work of cartography. The maps match census data to the results of electron returns. The third study of the political attitudes of a group of women who attended Bennington College in the 1930s and 1940s. The first two (1943 and 1967) focused on the importance of the social environment in shaping and maintaining attitudes. The third, based on interviews conducted in 1984, investigates the effect not only of social factors, but also of the aging process and the changing times. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299130142

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9780299130145

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

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Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

The 9th edition of Maudsley and Burn's Land Law Cases and Materials continues to provide an essential reference work for students and practitioners. It includes a wide range of extracts from cases, statutes, Law Commission reports and other literature, which highlight the key issues to understand the present law and its continuing development.

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0199226172

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The Creationists

From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design

By: Ronald L. Numbers

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The Creationists

From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design

By: Ronald L. Numbers

In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as 'intelligent design' makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. This edition offers an overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.

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Harvard University Press

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0674023390

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9780674023390

The 1923 New York Yankees

A History of Their First World Championship Season

By: Ronald A. Mayer

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The 1923 New York Yankees

A History of Their First World Championship Season

By: Ronald A. Mayer

The 1923 Yankees started the dynasty. With stars like Babe Ruth, Wally Pipp, Joe Dugan and Bob Meusel, they won the pennant by 16 games before claiming the franchise's first World Series title. Five Yankee pitchers won 16 games that year, led by Sam Jones (21-8), and the team finally defeated McGraw's Giants after losing to them in the Series two years in a row. This book covers that first Yankees championship team in great detail, taking the reader through the entire season, game-by-game.

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McFarland

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0786444045

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9780786444045

Inheritance of the Meek

The Return to Hidden Forest

By: Ronald Strahl

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Inheritance of the Meek

The Return to Hidden Forest

By: Ronald Strahl

Inheritance of the Meek: The Return to Hidden Forest is a fast-paced and heartwarming story about how a group of friends discover the importance of questioning old beliefs and of embracing renewal. The friends have some innocent misadventures with a family of bears that help them understand how their wild cousins don't spend time mired in the past. By contrast, they learn that when human encounters went sour it was usually a product of lazy humans holding on to old beliefs and behaviors that had lost most of their original meaning. This book features Chase Baer, who demonstrates both strength and willingness to embrace change. From surviving a plot to get him fired to finding the love of his life, Chase Baer demonstrates example after example of the kind of strength of character that exemplifies a life of integrity.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1645158888

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9781645158882

Cotton Mill Man

A Life of Struggle

By: Ronald Pressley

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Cotton Mill Man

A Life of Struggle

By: Ronald Pressley

Jimmy was an idealistic farm boy who dreamed of more than life on the farm. With limited means but unlimited dreams, he moved to the city to escape the drudgery of farm life and discover a new life he never knew existed. But life in the city was full of unexpected twists and turns, and Jimmy soon found himself in a roller-coaster life where he had to make difficult choices with far-reaching consequences. Discover this engrossing and fast-paced tale of life in turn-of-the-century America and follow Jimmy's journey as he navigates his way through the tumultuous waters of city life. If you enjoyed John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, you would love this emotive and thought-provoking story of one man's struggle to make the best of his life. Buy now before the price changes!

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1122 Creations

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9798353231981

The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

By: Ronald R. Switzer

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The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

By: Ronald R. Switzer

On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806151307

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9780806151304

Behavior-based Robotics

By: Ronald C. Arkin

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Behavior-based Robotics

By: Ronald C. Arkin

Foreword by Michael Arbib This introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniques central to the development of this class of systems in a clear and thorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and learning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robot architectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends in robot intelligence. The text throughout refers to actual implemented robots and includes many pictures and descriptions of hardware, making it clear that these are not abstract simulations, but real machines capable of perception, cognition, and action.

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MIT Press

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0262011654

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9780262011655

Deadly Diversions Two

By: Ronald Bullock

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Deadly Diversions Two

By: Ronald Bullock

This follow-up to the first book Deadly Diversions charts the progress of Detective Chief Inspector Bob Reeves in a revenge quest to avenge the bestial treatment of his daughter captured whilst serving as a British Secret Service agent. At the hands of a deadly, cunning conniving Russian and British double agent who organizes a world organization dedicated to creating a Third world war The deadly insane cruel Lesbian is one who delights in torturing beautiful young women and finally murdering them, but one young undercover agent captured while trying to infiltrate the organization kidnapping those young women, is found murdered and her body dumped on a deserted wharf in the old London dockland. Reeves is sure it Lubyanka murdering the young women and he starts searching for her but will he be successful in finding her and her organization members who are committing these murders, the chase is on!

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AuthorHouse

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1504995716

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Murder at Pope's Cafeteria

By: Ronald Martin

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Murder at Pope's Cafeteria

By: Ronald Martin

Story about the quadruple homicide in Des Peres, Mo in Oct 1980. Committed by a mass murderer and serial killer. Multi-national killer and some of the possible crimes connected to him.

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Lulu.com

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1483492117

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Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada

By: Ronald Altig,Roy W. McDiarmid

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Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada

By: Ronald Altig,Roy W. McDiarmid

Generously illustrated, this essential handbook for herpetologists, ecologists, and naturalists features comprehensive keys to eggs, embryos, salamander larvae, and tadpoles; species accounts; a glossary of terms; and an extensive bibliography. The taxonomic accounts include a summarization of the morphology and basic natural history, as well as an introduction to published information for each species. Tadpole mouthparts exhibit major characteristics used in identifications, and the book includes illustrations for a number of species. Color photographs of larvae of many species are also presented. Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada, written by the foremost experts on larval amphibians, is the first guide of its kind and will transform the fieldwork of scientists and fish and wildlife professionals.

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Cornell University Press

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080145607X

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9780801456077

Honus Wagner and His Pittsburgh Pirates

Scenes from a Golden Era

By: Ronald T. Waldo

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Honus Wagner and His Pittsburgh Pirates

Scenes from a Golden Era

By: Ronald T. Waldo

Honus Wagner's spectacular baseball career spanned 21 seasons from 1897 through 1917. Widely considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history, Wagner won eight National League batting titles and helped win the pennant four times for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. This book assembles the many stories about Wagner that circulated among his teammates, opposing players, writers and fans--reminiscences that define both his career and his life as a citizen in the Pittsburgh suburb of Carnegie.

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McFarland

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0786496673

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What Is America?

A Short History of the New World Order

By: Ronald Wright

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What Is America?

A Short History of the New World Order

By: Ronald Wright

From the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book. The USA is now the world’s lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil rights now seem threatened by forces within itself? Brimming with insight into history and human behaviour, and written in Wright’s captivating style, What Is America? shows how this came to pass; how the United States, which regards itself as the most modern country on earth, is also deeply archaic, a stronghold not only of religious fundamentalism but of “modern” beliefs in limitless progress and a universal mission that have fallen under suspicion elsewhere in the west, a rethinking driven by two World Wars and the reckless looting of our planet. A fresh, passionate look at the past and future of the world’s most powerful nation, What Is America? will reframe the debate about our neighbour and ourselves.

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Knopf Canada

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0307371670

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Safety Management in Small Motor Carriers

By: Ronald R. Knipling,Kenna C. Nelson,Gene Bergoffen,Stephen V. Burks

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Safety Management in Small Motor Carriers

By: Ronald R. Knipling,Kenna C. Nelson,Gene Bergoffen,Stephen V. Burks

TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 22: Safety Management in Small Motor Carriers explores small motor carriers' strengths and weaknesses in safety management, and identifies potentially effective safety practices.

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Transportation Research Board

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0309223407

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Uncertainty and Intelligent Information Systems

By: Ronald R. Yager

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Uncertainty and Intelligent Information Systems

By: Ronald R. Yager

Intelligent systems are necessary to handle modern computer-based technologies managing information and knowledge. This book discusses the theories required to help provide solutions to difficult problems in the construction of intelligent systems. Particular attention is paid to situations in which the available information and data may be imprecise, uncertain, incomplete or of a linguistic nature. The main aspects of clustering, classification, summarization, decision making and systems modeling are also addressed. Topics covered in the book include fundamental issues in uncertainty, the rapidly emerging discipline of information aggregation, neural networks, Bayesian networks and other network methods, as well as logic-based systems.

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World Scientific

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981279235X

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9789812792358

Flora of the Erie Islands

Its Origin, History and Change

By: Thomas Duncan,Ronald L. Stuckey

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Flora of the Erie Islands

Its Origin, History and Change

By: Thomas Duncan,Ronald L. Stuckey

In response to a request,in 2009, by the Lake Erie Island Chapter of the Black Swamp Conservancy, the Flora of the Erie Islands: Its Origin, History and Change is published to assist their conservation activities and programs. Completed in 1976 and, in 1979, scheduled to be although not published, xerographic copies of the manuscript were provided to researchers studying the islands' flora. As a result, the unpublished manuscript was widely cited in publications during the past 35 years and,in published form, remains a primary research resource concerning the flora of the Erie Archipelago.

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055722067X

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9780557220670

A Different Mirror

A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition)

By: Ronald Takaki

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A Different Mirror

A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition)

By: Ronald Takaki

Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

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eBookIt.com

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1456611062

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9781456611064

Violence in the Black Imagination

Essays and Documents

By: Ronald T. Takaki

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Violence in the Black Imagination

Essays and Documents

By: Ronald T. Takaki

1992 has been an explosive year for racial relations in the United States--from the reactions to the Rodney King verdict to debate about Malcolm X and the film portrayal of his role in American history. What relations do the recent events in Los Angeles have to the Watts Riots in 1965? Violence in the Black Imagination shows that these recent events force us to understand the history of racism in America and its legacy of antagonism and violence. Ronald T. Takaki presents three short novels of major African-American leaders in the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the leading black abolitionist; Martin Delany, the father of black nationalism; and William Wells Brown, a pioneer of the black novel. The novels are accompanied by substantive essays which provide both biographical information on the author and explore the common theme of their work--the issue of black revolutionary violence in antebellum America. The work includes a new preface which examines the 1992 South Central Los Angeles racial explosion in relationship to Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the 1965 Watts Riot.

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Oxford University Press

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0198024398

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9780198024392

Miss Dashwood's Dilemma

By: Ronald McGowan

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Miss Dashwood's Dilemma

By: Ronald McGowan

Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, the erstwhile ""Terror of the Seas"" must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their roles, but Margaret, while admitting that piracy is no longer a viable option, is determined to do something different, and to seek fame and fortune in her own way. Find out how she succeeds in her ambition, in this latest homage to the inimitable Jane Austen from the author of 'Pride Unprejudiced', 'To Make Sport for our Neighbours', and 'Naples to Northanger'.

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1326827472

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Massacre at Mountain Meadows

By: Ronald W. Walker,Richard E. Turley,Glen M. Leonard

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Massacre at Mountain Meadows

By: Ronald W. Walker,Richard E. Turley,Glen M. Leonard

On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an exposé, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199830975

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Toxic Plants of North America

By: George E. Burrows,Ronald J. Tyrl

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Toxic Plants of North America

By: George E. Burrows,Ronald J. Tyrl

Toxic Plants of North America, Second Edition is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference for both wild and cultivated toxic plants on the North American continent. In addition to compiling and presenting information about the toxicology and classification of these plants published in the years since the appearance of the first edition, this edition significantly expands coverage of human and wildlife—both free-roaming and captive—intoxications and the roles of secondary compounds and fungal endophytes in plant intoxications. More than 2,700 new literature citations document identification of previously unknown toxicants, mechanisms of intoxication, additional reports of intoxication problems, and significant changes in the classification of plant families and genera and associated changes in plant nomenclature. Toxic Plants of North America, Second Edition is a comprehensive, essential resource for veterinarians, toxicologists, agricultural extension agents, animal scientists, and poison control professionals.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0813820340

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9780813820347

China Change And Confucian "Benevolence": Human Values, Truth And Policy

By: Ronald Colin Keith

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China Change And Confucian "Benevolence": Human Values, Truth And Policy

By: Ronald Colin Keith

Henry Kissinger observed, 'Everybody wants to be a China hawk.' China is a bully. China is Nazi Germany. China commits genocide. China disrupts the 'international rules-based order.' Responding to such uninformed generalization on the nature of China's regime and its lack of human values, the Western Liberal Democracies have created their own 'China Problem' by clinging to Cold War anachronism. The clash of values is not nearly as deep and extensive as is often claimed. Furthermore, the contemporary public discourse on China needs a complete assessment of the values that have emerged in Xi Jinping's China. Xi is regarded as 'red' like Mao. Xi, however, has abandoned Mao's view of class struggle and his notion of a 'rejuvenated China' embraces traditional core principles that Mao bitterly condemned. 'Ren', or 'benevolence', for example, now informs entwined domestic and foreign policy as 'moderate prosperity in all respects'. 'Ren', or 'benevolence' is aligned with 'common security' and 'common development'. The question is whether this is a positive restoration of traditional values that will contribute to domestic development and international peace, or restorationist Middle-Kingdom-ism designed to assert Chinese values worldwide. This book's analysis of Chinese values argues that the current interpretation of the 'China Threat' is predicated in a serious misunderstanding of Chinese values.It is often commented that China is 'the defining geopolitical issues of our time'. This book is an especially timely contribution to the currently limited public policy debate on China as a threat to Western values and the 'international rules-based system'. Correction is long overdue with reference to speculative assumptions that Xi Jinping's regime represents a return to Mao's regime. 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics' has significantly moved on under Xi's leadership. Hyperbole about China has presumed the continuation of Chinese Cold War ideology and has either lightly commented on, or ignored altogether the resurgence of core traditional ideas in Chinese policy formation. This book provides detailed research of 'Xi Jinping Thought' and 'Xi Jinping Diplomatic Thought'. It adopts a widely construed, but serious interdisciplinary, approach towards the 'China Problem', drawing on both the social sciences and humanities. This wide-angled approach includes 'new sinology' in its recent review of 'translated China', synthesizing tradition and culture with the development of modern Chinese ideology, politics and policy formation. The book's significant topicality is presented within an unconventional approach and formatted contents designed to reach out to the biggest circle of general and advanced, China-interested readers in the time of great debate.

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World Scientific

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981125933X

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Fred Clarke

A Biography of the Baseball Hall of Fame Player-Manager

By: Ronald T. Waldo

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Fred Clarke

A Biography of the Baseball Hall of Fame Player-Manager

By: Ronald T. Waldo

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, Fred Clarke began his career in 1894 with a record day at the plate, going 5 for 5. He would go on to play for 21 years spending most of that time as the player-manager of the Pirates, a team he led to four pennants and one World Series Championship (1909).

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0786460164

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Wisconsin and the Civil War

By: Ronald Paul Larson

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Wisconsin and the Civil War

By: Ronald Paul Larson

Wisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks built a dam that saved a stranded Union fleet. The Second Wisconsin Infantry suffered the highest percentage of battle deaths in the Union army. Back home, in a state largely populated by immigrants and recent transplants, the war effort forced Wisconsin's residents to forge a common identity for the first time. Drawing on unpublished letters and new research, Ron Larson tells Wisconsin's Civil War story, from the famous exploits of the Iron Brigade to the heretofore largely unknown contributions of the Badger State's women, African Americans and Native Americans.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439663793

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9781439663790

Saving Sophie

A Novel

By: Ronald H. Balson

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Saving Sophie

A Novel

By: Ronald H. Balson

From the author of Once We Were Brothers, Liam and Catherine team up again to investigate an embezzlement case, and discover a link between their prime suspect, a kidnapping, and a terrorist cell

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Macmillan

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1250065852

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9781250065858

Characters from the Diamond

Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball

By: Ronald T. Waldo

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Characters from the Diamond

Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball

By: Ronald T. Waldo

Baseball during the late 1800s and the Deadball Era was filled with aggressive, hard-nosed players who had no qualms about exhibiting belligerent behavior while tenaciously achieving victory on the diamond. These unique and eccentric individuals helped the game grow in popularity through their brilliance on the field and their legendary exploits off it. From manager Miller Huggins fighting with a pitcher over thick, juicy steaks to Rube Waddell getting arrested for tossing doughnuts at the coiffure of a waitress, their stories kept baseball fans entertained throughout the season—and still entertain us today. In Characters from the Diamond: Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball, Ronald T. Waldochronicles the adventures of an unparalleled group of players, managers, and umpires whose tales continue to define that era of baseball. From the days of Chris Von der Ahe when his St. Louis Browns dominated the American Association to the Great War, this book presents an array of unique stories, peculiar accounts, and humorous anecdotes involving the men who were the very fabric of the game during that time period. Baseball icons such as John McGraw, Willie Keeler, Ty Cobb, Frank Chance, Rube Waddell, and Mike Donlin are profiled in this book, while numerous lesser-known players—including Arthur Evans, Jack Rowan, Bill Kellogg, Bill Bailey, Ping Bodie, and William Dugan—are also given their moment in the sun alongside their more famous baseball brethren. Characters from the Diamond breathes life back into baseball from the late nineteenth century and Deadball Era. Illuminating, entertaining, and noteworthy, these stories surrounding some of the game’s most unique individuals paint a humorous, off-beat picture of an often-forgotten era for baseball lovers everywhere.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442258691

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Colonel Brandon's Secret

By: Ronald McGowan

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Colonel Brandon's Secret

By: Ronald McGowan

Colonel Brandon's adventures in India and in England both before and after he met Marianne Dashwood.

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Lulu.com

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1326504134

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9781326504137

The Progressive Army

US Army Command and Administration, 1870–1914

By: Ronald J. Barr

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The Progressive Army

US Army Command and Administration, 1870–1914

By: Ronald J. Barr

The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of various European nations on the US military are examined. The central theme, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques developed by US business to improve government.

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233

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Springer

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1349268887

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Cosmopolitan Communications

Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

By: Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart

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Cosmopolitan Communications

Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

By: Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart

This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and identifies the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521493684

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9780521493680

Walker's Mammals of the World

Monotremes, Marsupials, Afrotherians, Xenarthrans, and Sundatherians

By: Ronald M. Nowak

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Walker's Mammals of the World

Monotremes, Marsupials, Afrotherians, Xenarthrans, and Sundatherians

By: Ronald M. Nowak

Walker's vision, the text smoothly combines in-depth scholarship with a popular, readable style to preserve and enhance what the Washington Post called a landmark of zoological literature.

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785

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JHU Press

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1421424673

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Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota

Volume 1: Plants and Invertebrates

By: Ronald Eisler

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Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota

Volume 1: Plants and Invertebrates

By: Ronald Eisler

Each book has two main goals1. Determine baseline concentrations of metals and metalloids in tissues of representative field populations of estuarine coastal, and open ocean organisms (Book 1:algae and macrophytes, protists, sponges, coelenterates, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, chaetognaths, annelids, echinoderms, and tunicates) (Book 2: elasmobranchs, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals) and their significance to organism health and to the health of their consumers.2. Synthesize existing information on biological, chemical, and physical factors known to modify uptake, retention, and translocation of each element under field and laboratory conditions. Recognition of the importance of these modifiers and their accompanying interactions is essential to the understanding of metals kinetics in marine systems and to the interpretation of baseline residue data. - Synthesizes existing information on biological, chemical, and physical factors known to modify uptake, retention, and translocation of each element - Aids understanding of metals kinetics in marine systems - Allows the interpretation of baseline residue data

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Elsevier

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0080963528

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