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Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

By: Russell K. Skowronek,M. James Blackman,Ronald L. Bishop

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Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

By: Russell K. Skowronek,M. James Blackman,Ronald L. Bishop

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the southwestern United States was known as Alta California, a remote part of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California fills that lacuna and reinterprets the position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire. Using both petrography and neutron activation analysis to examine over 1,600 ceramic samples, the contributors to this volume explore the region’s ceramic production, imports, trade, and consumption. From artistic innovation to technological diffusion, a different aspect of the intricacies of everyday life and culture in the region is revealed in each essay. This book illuminates much about Spanish imperial expansion in a far corner of the colonial world. Through this research, California history has been rewritten.

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University Press of Florida

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0813048885

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9780813048888

Yountsville

The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town

By: Ronald V. Morris

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Yountsville

The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town

By: Ronald V. Morris

In Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town , Ronald Morris and collaborators examine the history and context of a rural Midwestern town, including family labor, working women, immigrants, and competing visions of the future. Combing perspectives from history, economics, and archeology, this exploration of a pioneering Midwestern company town highlights how interdisciplinary approaches can help recover forgotten communities. The Yount Woolen Mill was founded during the pioneer period by immigrants from Germany who employed workers from the surrounding area and from Great Britain who were seeking to start a life with their families. For three generations the mill prospered until it and its workers were faced with changing global trade and aging technology that could not keep pace with the rest of the world. Deindustrialization compelled some residents to use education to adapt, while others held on to their traditional skills and were forced to relocate. Educators in the county seat offered Yountsville the opportunity to change to an education-based economy. Both the educators and the tradesmen associated with the mill believed their chosen paths gave children the best opportunities for the future. Present-day communities working through industrialization and deindustrialization still push for educational reform to improve the lives of their children. In the Midwest, many stories exist about German immigrants working in urban areas, but there are few stories of immigrants as capitalists in rural areas. The story of the Yount family is one of an immigrant family who built an industry with talent, labor, and advantage. Unfortunately, deindustrialization, dislocation, adaptation, and reuse were familiar problems in the Midwest. Archeologists, scholars, and students of state and local history and the Midwest will find much of interest in this book.

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214

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268106649

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9780268106645

Dynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II

Semi-Markov and Decision Processes

By: Ronald A. Howard

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Dynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II

Semi-Markov and Decision Processes

By: Ronald A. Howard

This book is an integrated work published in two volumes. The first volume treats the basic Markov process and its variants; the second, semi-Markov and decision processes. Its intent is to equip readers to formulate, analyze, and evaluate simple and advanced Markov models of systems, ranging from genetics and space engineering to marketing. More than a collection of techniques, it constitutes a guide to the consistent application of the fundamental principles of probability and linear system theory. Author Ronald A. Howard, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, continues his treatment from Volume I with surveys of the discrete- and continuous-time semi-Markov processes, continuous-time Markov processes, and the optimization procedure of dynamic programming. The final chapter reviews the preceding material, focusing on the decision processes with discussions of decision structure, value and policy iteration, and examples of infinite duration and transient processes. Volume II concludes with an appendix listing the properties of congruent matrix multiplication.

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857

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Courier Corporation

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0486152006

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9780486152004

Canals For A Nation

The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860

By: Ronald E. Shaw

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Canals For A Nation

The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860

By: Ronald E. Shaw

All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.

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303

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813145813

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9780813145815

Hormones, Genes, and Cancer

By: Brian E. Henderson,Bruce Ponder,Ronald K. Ross

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Hormones, Genes, and Cancer

By: Brian E. Henderson,Bruce Ponder,Ronald K. Ross

Hormonal carcinogenesis is an important and controversial area of current research. In addition to accelerating existing cancers, can hormones play the role of primary carcinogens? How do genetic factors influence hormone-related cancer risk? Hormones, Genes, and Cancer addresses these questions. Over the past few decades, cancer research has focused on external environmental causes(e.g., tobacco smoke, viruses, asbestos). With the advent of new genetic sequencing techniques, we are just now beginning to understand how the body's internal environment(i.e., the hormones and growth factors that determine normal development) influences cancer etiology and prevention. From molecular insights to clinical analyses, this volume provides state-of-the-art information on the complex interactions between hormones and genes and cancer. The epidemiology and molecular endocrinology of prostate, breast, uterine, ovarian and testicular cancer are detailed in this timely treatise.

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Oxford University Press

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0199771588

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9780199771585

For the People

American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s

By: Ronald P. Formisano

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For the People

American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s

By: Ronald P. Formisano

For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives. Ron Formisano seeks to rescue populist movements from the distortions of contemporary opponents as well as the misunderstandings of later historians. From the Anti-Federalists to the Know-Nothings, Formisano traces the movements chronologically, contextualizing them and demonstrating the progression of ideas and movements. Although American populist movements have typically been categorized as either progressive or reactionary, left-leaning or right-leaning, Formisano argues that most populist movements exhibit liberal and illiberal tendencies simultaneously. Gendered notions of "manhood" are an enduring feature, yet women have been intimately involved in nearly every populist insurgency. By considering these movements together, Formisano identifies commonalities that belie the pattern of historical polarization and bring populist movements from the margins to the core of American history.

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326

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807886114

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9780807886113

Plant Life of Kentucky

An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora

By: Ronald Jones

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Plant Life of Kentucky

An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora

By: Ronald Jones

Compiles detailed identification keys to families, genera, and species of plant life found in Kentucky, and contains information on wildlife and human uses, important weeds, poisonous plants, and medicinal herbs, as well as scientific and common names, flowering periods, habitat, physiographic distribution, state and federal designations, and wetland ranking.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813123313

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9780813123318

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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447

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Cambridge University Press

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0521493684

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9780521493680

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

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EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

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McGraw Hill

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1526846985

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The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)

By: Ronald C. Egan

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The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)

By: Ronald C. Egan

The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested in different genres. Ou-yang Hsiu's achievements in each genre are examined, and set in the context of his age. Topics include the broad shift between T'ang and Sung dynasty prose styles that Ou-yang Hsiu helped to effect, his contributions to the new poetic values of the Northern Sung, and his place in the evolution of Sung dynasty songs (together with a reconsideration of a group of supposedly spurious songs). An appendix provides additional translations of Ou-yang Hsiu's prose.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521101549

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9780521101547

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

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EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour is here with a new, fully updated and revised third edition. Bringing new developments in the field and its renowned pedagogical design, the third edition offers an exciting and engaging introduction to the study of psychology.This book’s scientific approach, which brings together international research, practical application and the levels of analysis framework, encourages critical thinking about psychology and its impact on our daily lives. Key features: Fully updated research and data throughout the book as well as increased cross cultural referencesRestructured Chapter 3 on Genes, Environment and Behaviour, which now starts with a discussion of Darwinian theory before moving on to Mendelian geneticsCore subject updates such as DSM-5 for psychological disorders and imaging techniques on the brain are fully integratedRevised and updated Research Close Up boxesCurrent Issues and hot topics such as, the study of happiness and schizophrenia, intelligence testing, the influence of the media and conflict and terrorism are discussed to prompt debates and questions facing psychologists todayNew to this edition is Recommended Reading of both classic and contemporary studies at the end of chapters Connect™ Psychology: a digital teaching and learning environment that improves performance over a variety of critical outcomes; easy to use and proven effective. LearnSmart™: the most widely used and intelligent adaptive learning resource that is proven to strengthen memory recall, improve course retention and boost grades. SmartBook™: Fuelled by LearnSmart, SmartBook is the first and only adaptive reading experience available today.

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McGraw Hill

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0077169859

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9780077169855

Pay for Play

A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform

By: Ronald A. Smith

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Pay for Play

A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform

By: Ronald A. Smith

In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court. Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform also tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform--to combat corruption, to level the playing field, and to make sports more accessible to minorities and women--Ronald A. Smith candidly explains why attempts at change have often failed. Of interest to historians, athletic reformers, college administrators, NCAA officials, and sports journalists, this thoughtful book considers the difficulty in balancing the principles of amateurism with the need to draw income from sporting events.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252035879

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9780252035876

Abnormal Psychology

By: Ronald J. Comer

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Abnormal Psychology

By: Ronald J. Comer

Ron Comer's Abnormal Psychology continues to captivate students with its integrated coverage of theory, diagnosis, and treatment, its inclusive wide-ranging cross-cultural perspective, and its compassionate emphasis on the real impact of mental illness on the lives of patients and their families. Long acclaimed for being well attuned to the evolution of the field and changes in the classroom, Comer's bestselling text returns in a timely new edition, fully updated in anticipation of the DSM-5, and enhanced by powerful new media tools.

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Macmillan

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1429282541

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Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Yountsville

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Dynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II

Dynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II

Canals For A Nation

Canals For A Nation

Hormones, Genes, and Cancer

Hormones, Genes, and Cancer

For the People

For the People

Plant Life of Kentucky

Plant Life of Kentucky

Cosmopolitan Communications

Cosmopolitan Communications

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)

The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

Pay for Play

Pay for Play

Abnormal Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

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