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Manual on International Courts and Tribunals

By: Ruth Mackenzie,Cesare P. R. Romano,Yuval Shany,Philippe Sands

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Manual on International Courts and Tribunals

By: Ruth Mackenzie,Cesare P. R. Romano,Yuval Shany,Philippe Sands

The dramatic rise in the number of international courts and tribunals and the expansion of their legal powers has been one of the most significant developments in international law of the late 20th century. The emergence of an international judiciary provided international law with a stronger than ever law enforcement apparatus, and facilitated the transformation of many aspects of international relations from being power-based to being law-based. The first edition of the Manual on International Courts and Tribunals, published in 1999, was the first book to survey systematically this new institutional landscape, by describing in an accessible and uniformly structured manner the legal powers and operating procedures of all major international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. In doing so, it laid the groundwork for comparative study and research of the law and practice of international courts and tribunals - an emerging field of international legal research, which has already spurred a series of publications, conferences and academic courses. This second edition updates the first edition by describing the many legal changes that have taken place in the last decade, including important reforms in the laws and procedures of many international courts and tribunals, relevant developments in their increasingly rich jurisprudence and the creation of new judicial fora. Moreover, it assesses the overall record of these judicial bodies. The data and legal analysis offered in the book provide both practitioners and academics with an important basis of knowledge that will help them better understand the details of international adjudication and its context.

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Literary Historicity

Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Ruth Mack

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Literary Historicity

Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Ruth Mack

Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies of history in Britain. Such philosophies, she argues, could be important literarily without being focused, as has been assumed, on questions of fact and fiction. Eighteenth-century writerslike many twentieth-century philosophersoften used literary form not in order to exhibit a work's fictional status but in order to consider what the relation between the past and present might be. Literary Historicity portrays a British Enlightenment that both embraces the possibility of historical experience and interrogates the terms for such experience, one deeply engaged with historical consciousness not as an inevitability of the modern world, but as something to be understood within it.

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Stanford University Press

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0804759111

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Subjects and Narrative in Archaeology

By: Ruth M. Van Dyke,Reinhard Bernbeck

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Subjects and Narrative in Archaeology

By: Ruth M. Van Dyke,Reinhard Bernbeck

Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of archaeological prose and representation, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The volume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfiction, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other artistic pursuits have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis. Chapters in the volume are augmented by narrative, poetry, paintings, dialogues, online databases, videos, audio files, and slideshows. The work will be available in print and as an enhanced ebook that incorporates and showcases the multimedia elements in archaeological narrative. While exploring these new and not-so-new forms, the contributors discuss the boundaries and connections between empirical data and archaeological imagination. Both a critique and an experiment, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology addresses the goals, advantages, and difficulties of alternative forms of archaeological representation. Exploring the idea that academically sound archaeology can be fun to create and read, the book takes a step beyond the boundaries of both traditional archaeology and traditional publishing.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457194317

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Tennis

A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

By: Greg Ruth

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Tennis

A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

By: Greg Ruth

Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment. Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.

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University of Illinois Press

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025205279X

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Surgical Technology

Principles and Practice

By: Joanna Kotcher Fuller,Joanna Ruth Fuller

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Surgical Technology

Principles and Practice

By: Joanna Kotcher Fuller,Joanna Ruth Fuller

Deliver the best patient care before, during, and after surgery with this straightforward, step-by-step guide to surgical skills and operating room procedures. It provides comprehensive coverage of all the updated AST Core Curriculum, 6th Edition components - health care sciences, technological sciences, patient care concepts, surgical technology, and surgical procedures. A mentoring approach makes even complex skills and techniques easy to understand. User-friendly features such as full-color illustrations, chapter outlines and summaries, review questions, critical thinking exercises, and technique boxes help you focus on the most important concepts and make it easier to retain and recall critical information. Chapter objectives correspond to the latest AST Core Curriculum objectives to ensure you have access to the most reliable information in the operating room. Enhanced critical thinking scenarios at the end of each chapter help you strengthen your critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills and highlight practical applications of key concepts. Additional information on special populations, including bariatric, pregnant, physically or mentally challenged, isolation, trauma, language barrier, and substance abuse patients, highlights important considerations for the surgical technologist regarding transfer, preparation, and procedure set up.Expanded coverage of surgical lasers keeps you up to date with the latest technology so you can effectively assess the function, assembly, use, and care of equipment in the surgical suite. UPDATED! Coverage reflects the new AST Core Curriculum, 6th Edition to keep you current. NEW! Chapters on Disaster Preparedness and Response and Transplant Surgery offer cutting-edge information on these key topics.Coverage of the Assistant Circulator role, as well as a break down of first and second scrub roles, help you better understand the responsibilities of each member of the surgical team.

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1455725064

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Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96

By: Jack M. Holl,Richard G. Hewlett,Ruth R. Harris

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Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96

By: Jack M. Holl,Richard G. Hewlett,Ruth R. Harris

A history of Argonne National Laboratory as the site of research in nuclear reactor technology, biology and medicine, materials science and world-renowned programs in physics.

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0252023412

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The Chronicles of Ruth

By: Ruth Baird Shaw

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The Chronicles of Ruth

By: Ruth Baird Shaw

Ruth Shaw began a blog, Ruthlace, in 2006 at the age of 82, in order to write about her life growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, the Great Depression, World War II, along with stories her own mother shared with her of earlier times.

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CONOR

By: Ruth Langan

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CONOR

By: Ruth Langan

THE O'NEIL SAGA A family driven by destiny! An Honorable Rogue… Gifted with a smooth tongue and a sharp blade, Conor O'Neil sought to avenge the hardships his people had endured. But while he played a risky game of politics and power, Emma Vaughn played an even riskier game still. An Innocent Seductress… Emma was shy and innocent, until she arrived at the queen's court with one duty-filled goal—to turn Conor O'Neil's attentions from intrigue to pleasure. But though each flirtatious caress brought her closer to success…Emma was beginning to wonder on which side her true loyalties lay.

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Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information

Philosophies, Practices and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century

By: Ruth C Carter

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Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information

Philosophies, Practices and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century

By: Ruth C Carter

Discover how librarians around the world are responding to the new demands of a fast-changing profession! More computers and fewer staff, more types of resources to catalog and less time in which to study them--these are the problems librarians are facing at the dawn of a new millennium. Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information offers solutions from cataloging and technical services managers around the world. Contributions from Australia, Botswana, Latin America, Canada, and the United States guarantee a truly international perspective. Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information describes new and effective ways to coordinate all aspects of automation, staffing, organization, teamwork, and work flow. These techniques have been tested in libraries ranging from small college libraries to the ancient and revered Bodleian Library and the vast Library of Congress. National libraries, academic libraries, and specialized medical and law libraries are also represented. In Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information, catalogers and technical services managers will find useful suggestions in a number of areas, including: total quality management flexible strategies for cataloging local and remote resources cataloging operations, trends, and perspectives putting cataloging philosophy into practice staff assignments and workflow distribution building team spirit Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information is an invaluable resource for library administrators, catalogers, library educators, technical services managers, and information scientists.

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1317956699

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Cyber Risk, Intellectual Property Theft and Cyberwarfare

Asia, Europe and the USA

By: Ruth Taplin

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Cyber Risk, Intellectual Property Theft and Cyberwarfare

Asia, Europe and the USA

By: Ruth Taplin

The desire to steal the intellectual property (IP) of others, be they creative individuals or company teams working in patent pools to create new innovations, remains the same. Political methods have become more sophisticated in terms of devaluing the output of creative humans by creating open- source access, which can be taken freely by all and sundry. What has changed is the new cyber- based technology that allows increased theft of IP. Likewise, warfare for geo- political imperatives is not new but sophisticated cyber- based methods that can actually carry out infrastructural damage through cyberspace are new and are accordingly termed cyberwarfare. How cyber strategies are used in IP theft and cyberwarfare in relation to new complex digital technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT) is explored in relation to particular essential sectors in the economy: marine, smart energy power grids and insurance. Country- specifi c studies based on either being the recipient or perpetrator (or both) of cyberattacks provide analysis in relation to Japan, China and North Korea, Russia, Europe (the UK in particular), Iran and the USA.

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0429841965

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The Forest Certification Handbook

By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

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The Forest Certification Handbook

By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. Yet since first publication an enormous amount has happened in the field. This new second edition has been entirely rewritten to incorporate the changes over the past decade and is a complete and up-to-date source of information on all aspects of developing, selecting and operating a forest certification program that provides both market security and raises standards of forest management.

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1136554068

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The Lives of Agnes Smedley

By: Ruth Price

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The Lives of Agnes Smedley

By: Ruth Price

Was she a selfless political activist? A feminist heroine? A gifted writer who rose from poverty to become a leading journalist and author of the cult classic Daughter of Earth? A spy for the Soviet Union? Or all of these things? Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women. Ruth Price traces Agnes Smedley's unlikely trajectory from a small Missouri town to the coal country of Colorado; to Berkeley and Greenwich Village; to Berlin, Moscow, and China. Fueled by a fury at injustice, Smedley threw herself headlong into the crucial issues of the time, from Indian independence to birth control, women's rights, and the revolution in China. Her friends included such figures as Margaret Sanger, Langston Hughes, Emma Goldman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mao Zedong, and many others. Perhaps most important, Price uncovers an astonishing truth: Smedley, long thought to be the unfair target of a Cold War smear campaign, was indeed guilty of the espionage charges leveled against her by General Douglas MacArthur and others. Smedley worked to foment armed revolution in India and gathered intelligence for the Soviet Union, seeing it as a bulwark against fascism. Price argues that Smedley acted out of a passionate idealism and that she exhibited a courage and compassion worthy of a renewed, if more complicated, admiration today. Epic in scope, painstakingly researched, and unflinchingly honest, The Lives of Agnes Smedley offers a stunning reappraisal of one of America's most controversial Leftists and a new look at the troubled historical terrain of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0195343867

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Fairy Godfather

Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition

By: Ruth B. Bottigheimer

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Fairy Godfather

Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition

By: Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city. With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812236807

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Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

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Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

The Heinemann History Scheme offers an opportunity to refresh the approach to teaching at Key Stage 3. It uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. The Scheme is an exact match to the QCA scheme of work.

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0435325965

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Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times

By: Ruth Arber

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Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times

By: Ruth Arber

This book provides a research narrative of the way an urban school community speaks about race and ethnic relationships in times of change. It analyses the history of multicultural policy and practice in Australia. Coverage also discusses the struggle to understand identity and race and cultural difference and presents a comprehensive methodological framework to explore the complex interactions that shape race and ethnic relationships.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402064586

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The Tree in the Churchyard

A Bicentennial History of Meadow Creek Presbyterian Church

By: Ruth Kross

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The Tree in the Churchyard

A Bicentennial History of Meadow Creek Presbyterian Church

By: Ruth Kross

The congregation of Meadow Creek enjoys dinner on the grounds in the shade of a massive red oak tree. Many of the people seated around the tables are descendants of Revolutionary War veterans and have lived on the south side of the Nolichucky River all their lives. Most of them are farmers. They love this place. They're very good at what they do. And they treasure their church. For two hundred years, the congregation has met here, and it hasn't always been easy. The Christian life never is.

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WestBow Press

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1449738877

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Phlebotomy Exam Review, Enhanced Edition

By: Ruth E. McCall

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Phlebotomy Exam Review, Enhanced Edition

By: Ruth E. McCall

Phlebotomy Exam Review, Enhanced Seventh Edition thoroughly prepares students for any of the national certification exams in phlebotomy.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284322513

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Innovation, Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea

Park to Park

By: Ruth Taplin

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Innovation, Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea

Park to Park

By: Ruth Taplin

South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class technology and a population who are largely digitally proficient. The course is charted from the rule of Park Chung-hee to his democratically elected daughter President Park Geun-hye who is now on trial for corruption. The legacy of the Park to Park era is not only the most fruitful in Korean history but the most tumultuous, most recently because of the accelerated nuclear ambitions of North Korea. The analysis is through the framework of investment, innovation and intellectual property rights and the double edged sword of cult and rapid action, so central to Korean culture.

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Routledge

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1315409240

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Mollusks

By: Ruth Miller

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Mollusks

By: Ruth Miller

The Animal Kingdom series explores the familiar and bizarre creatures that make up the animal world. Each book looks at a particular group of animals and explains how they are classified into smaller groups such as phyla, classes, orders, and species. The books also examine what makes these groups different from each other. Book jacket.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1410910512

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From Weeds to Wisdom

Extracting Spiritual Lessons from the Unlikely

By: Deborah Ruth Reaves

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From Weeds to Wisdom

Extracting Spiritual Lessons from the Unlikely

By: Deborah Ruth Reaves

Are you in need of Spandex grace? Would you like to see in spiritual 3D? Experience a unique look at faith in From Weeds to Wisdom. Just as Moses's life was completely changed because of a burning bush, so our lives can be changed because of a despised weed, the quietness of snow, or the accumulation of junk. Oftentimes, we see the ordinary as just the backdrop of our world, while God has strategically placed situations there to play a major role in how we see life. When Deborah R. Reaves asked God to open her eyes to the spiritual insights around her, the illustrations God revealed brought her a new understanding of God and her faith. The modern-day parables of her devotions will inspire you to take a fresh look at your experiences and discover how God is moving in them. Awaken your heart to the imprint of God through From Weeds to Wisdom and grow in your Christian walk.

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Tate Publishing

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1617397075

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Radiography Essentials for Limited Practice - E-Book

By: Bruce W. Long,Eugene D. Frank,Ruth Ann Ehrlich

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Radiography Essentials for Limited Practice - E-Book

By: Bruce W. Long,Eugene D. Frank,Ruth Ann Ehrlich

Written exclusively for limited radiography students, Radiography Essentials for Limited Practice, 5th Edition makes it easy to learn and perform basic procedures. This edition has been revised to improve information clarity and reflect changes in practice. It incorporates all the subjects mandated by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) curriculum, so you will be thoroughly prepared for the ARRT Limited Scope Exam. Coverage includes the latest information on x-ray science and techniques, processing, radiation safety, radiographic anatomy, patient care, and pathology, along with updated step-by-step instructions for positioning and procedures. - Concise coverage thoroughly prepares you for the ARRT Limited Scope Exam and clinical practice with the latest on x-ray science and techniques, radiation safety, radiographic anatomy, pathology, patient care, ancillary clinical skills, and positioning of upper and lower extremities, spine, chest and head. - Step-by-step instructions provide guidance on how to position patients for radiographic procedures performed by limited operators. - The latest information on state licensure and limited radiography terminology ensures that you understand the role of the limited practitioner. - Math and radiologic physics concepts are presented at an easy-to-understand level. - Chapter on Bone Densitometry provides all the information you need to know to for the ARRT exam and clinical practice. - NEW! Expanded digital imaging concepts reflect current practice and meet the requirements of the ASRT Limited Scope Content Specifications. - NEW! Updated drawings, photos, and medical radiographs enhance your understanding of key concepts and illustrate current technology. - NEW! Two-color design helps make complex material easier to comprehend.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323473806

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Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

Experiencing Aural Architecture

By: Barry Blesser,Linda-Ruth Salter

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Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

Experiencing Aural Architecture

By: Barry Blesser,Linda-Ruth Salter

How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationships are strongly influenced by the way that space changes sound. In Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter examine auditory spatial awareness: experiencing space by attentive listening. Every environment has an aural architecture.The audible attributes of physical space have always contributed to the fabric of human culture, as demonstrated by prehistoric multimedia cave paintings, classical Greek open-air theaters, Gothic cathedrals, acoustic geography of French villages, modern music reproduction, and virtual spaces in home theaters. Auditory spatial awareness is a prism that reveals a culture's attitudes toward hearing and space. Some listeners can learn to "see" objects with their ears, but even without training, we can all hear spatial geometry such as an open door or low ceiling. Integrating contributions from a wide range of disciplines—including architecture, music, acoustics, evolution, anthropology, cognitive psychology, audio engineering, and many others—Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? establishes the concepts and language of aural architecture. These concepts provide an interdisciplinary guide for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how space enhances our well-being. Aural architecture is not the exclusive domain of specialists. Accidentally or intentionally, we all function as aural architects.

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MIT Press

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026251317X

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Talking to Strange Men

By: Ruth Rendell

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Talking to Strange Men

By: Ruth Rendell

A lonely man stumbles into a dangerous game in this twisting novel of psychological suspense by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Crocodile Bird. In a desolate alley on the bank of the Thames, a spy slips through the shadows. Mungo is the Director General of English intelligence, and he knows Moscow Centre has been watching him for weeks, but there is no spy in London better at losing a tail. Satisfied he hasn’t been followed, he drops off his message and disappears into the night. It’s a classic scene of Cold War espionage, save for one detail: Mungo isn’t a spy at all. He’s a teenager, playing an epic game of make-believe. John Creevey, still reeling from the implosion of his marriage, is dreaming of taking revenge against his wife’s lover when he discovers one of Mungo’s coded signals. Unaware that the message is simply part of a child’s game, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the rest of the spy network—a tragic misunderstanding that threatens to turn this imaginary war into something very real—and very deadly. “Rendell has brilliantly interwoven these compelling strands into one masterful tale of suspense,” writes Library Journal. Three-time Edgar Award winner Ruth Rendell was a master of psychological suspense, and Talking to Strange Men is one of the most unusual espionage stories in the history of the Cold War.

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Open Road Media

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1453210911

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Montana

Second Edition

By: Ruth Bjorklund

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Montana

Second Edition

By: Ruth Bjorklund

This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Montana. All books in the It's My State! � series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1627121005

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Environmental Engineering

By: P Aarne Vesilind,J. Jeffrey Peirce,Ruth F. Weiner

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Environmental Engineering

By: P Aarne Vesilind,J. Jeffrey Peirce,Ruth F. Weiner

Environmental Engineering, Second Edition is an introductory book on environmental engineering, which includes materials important to environmental engineers: water resources, air quality, solid and hazardous wastes (including radioactive waste), noise, and social and ethical considerations. The text begins with a short introduction on the roots of environmental engineering and presents the concept of risk and safety. The following chapters are devoted to discussions on such topics as sources of water pollution, measurement of water quality, wastewater treatment, quantities and characteristics of municipal solid waste, and solid and hazardous waste law. The types of air pollutants, air pollution control, and noise measurement and control are dealt with in detail as well. The last chapter covers the topic on environmental ethics. This book will be of use to junior or senior level engineering students.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483162621

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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

By: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

By: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

The experience of birth has functioned through the ages as a vital metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. This book highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Similarities between Kabbalistic and midrashic perceptions of birth and its current place in cultural and psychoanalytic discourse are discussed.

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3110688026

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Marcabru

A Critical Edition

By: Marcabrun,Simon Gaunt,Ruth Harvey,Linda M. Paterson

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Marcabru

A Critical Edition

By: Marcabrun,Simon Gaunt,Ruth Harvey,Linda M. Paterson

One of the earliest troubadours, Marcabru was a remarkable artist and entertainer, and a figure of crucial importance to the development of the European courtly lyric. His blistering attacks on contemporary court society reveal an intellectual insider's view of the clash between clerical morality and the emerging secular ethics of love and courtesy. His fervent, often acerbic engagement with contemporary events also provides a unique southern perspective on political upheavals and crusading movements in twelfth-century Occitania and northern Spain. This new critical edition, the first for nearly 100 years, makes his complete corpus accessible to a wide readership, supplying translations, full critical apparatus, and copious textual notes, with a substantial glossary of Marcabru's extraordinarily inventive vocabulary. The introduction supplies historical information, discussion of the poet's language, and an analysis of the manuscript transmission. It also raises fresh issues of troubadour versification techniques in this formative period, and engages in a new way with the current debate about editorial methodology and medieval textual criticism. Leaflet blurb - see AN]

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859915743

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Natural Stone and World Heritage

The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

By: Ruth Siddall

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Natural Stone and World Heritage

The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

By: Ruth Siddall

This book is about the stone used to build the castles of Edward I in North West Wales. It provides a description of the available geological resources and the building materials used in the construction of Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech and Beaumaris Castles. It takes a broad view of this subject, placing the stone used in the castles in the context of both earlier and later buildings across the region of study, from the Neolithic up until the present day. The book will serve as a useful source book for geologists, archaeologists, architects, representatives of the natural stone industry, historians and cultural heritage management professionals specifically and for academic and non-academic communities, travellers and tourism industry operators in general.

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264

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CRC Press

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1000481220

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9781000481228

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