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Thurgood Marshall

By: Ruth Tenzer Feldman

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Thurgood Marshall

By: Ruth Tenzer Feldman

Chronicles the life of Thurgood Marshall from his birth in Baltimore, through his school days, to his position as a lawyer for the NAACP and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822549891

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9780822549895

A Lovesong for India

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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From the Booker Prize–winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard’s End: “Cinematic” and “exquisite” stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly). In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat and Dust and the screenplays for The Remains of the Day and A Room with a View, continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what unites us across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes. In “Innocence,” an older couple, whose social standing is marred by a decades–old scandal, rent out rooms in their Delhi home for both companionship and income. The couple becomes deeply invested in the lives of their two tenants, but with the addition of a third renter—a beautiful and provocative woman from India—tensions in the household push the story to its feverish conclusion. “Talent” finds Jhabvala in New York City reflecting on the friction between family and societal expectations. Magda is a talent scout whose work is her entire life until she meets Ellie, a singer whose immense ability and unguarded personality captivate Magda. Soon Ellie is integrated into Magda’s extended family—for better or worse. This remarkable collection is the hallmark of Jhabvala’s celebrated career and a testament to her “balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty” (The New York Times).

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Catapult

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1619021048

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9781619021044

Boulder Hiking Trails

The Best of the Plains, Foothills and Mountains

By: Ruth Carol Cushman,Glenn Cushman

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Boulder Hiking Trails

The Best of the Plains, Foothills and Mountains

By: Ruth Carol Cushman,Glenn Cushman

Mountains, plains, and foothills are all within a short distance of downtown Boulder. Boulder Hiking Trails, written by two avid hikers, naturalists, and long-time Boulder residents, is the definitive guide to this hiker's paradise. Descriptions of hikes include snippets of local history and facts about plant and animal life. This fourth edition of Boulder Hiking Trails is an indispensable reference for visitors and residents alike-and hikers of all abilities-wanting to explore and enjoy the natural beauty in and around Boulder, Colorado. Book jacket.

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Pruett Publishing

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0871089408

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9780871089403

At the End of the Century

The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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At the End of the Century

The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures—European, post–Independence Indian, and American—is never more acute. In “A Course of English Studies,” a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but also to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching “Expiation,” the blind, unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith. The wry and triumphant “Pagans” brings us middle–aged sisters Brigitte and Frankie in Los Angeles, who discover a youthful sexuality in the company of the languid and handsome young Indian, Shoki. This collection also includes Jhabvala’s last story, “The Judge’s Will,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 2013 after her death. The profound inner experience of both men and women is at the center of Jhabvala’s writing: she rivals Jane Austen with her impeccable powers of observation. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer’s astonishing lifetime gift for language, and leaves us with no doubt of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s unique place in modern literature. "The stories—all of them elegantly plotted and unsentimental, with an addictive, told–over–tea quality—are largely character studies of people isolated, often tragically, by custom or self–delusion . . . Vivid, unsparing portraits are leavened with the kind of humanizing moments that evoke a total world within their compression."—Megan O’Grady, The New York Times Book Review

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Catapult

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1640093249

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9781640093249

Boulder Hiking Trails, 5th Edition

The Best of the Plains, Foothills, and Mountains

By: Ruth Carol Cushman,Glenn Cushman

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Boulder Hiking Trails, 5th Edition

The Best of the Plains, Foothills, and Mountains

By: Ruth Carol Cushman,Glenn Cushman

In this new edition of a classic hiking guide to the trails of Boulder County, a local couple leads you to all your favorite spots and hidden gems throughout the area. Long-time Boulder residents Ruth Carol and Glenn Cushman lead you on their favorite and most scenic hikes through mountains, plains, and foothills, just a few minutes’ drive from Boulder. Walk in Chautauqua Park and view the Flatirons, explore Mount Sanitas, marvel at the Royal Arch, embrace nature in Eldorado Canyon State Park, find historical sites and beautiful lakes and waterfalls, and more. Boulder Hiking Trails features: A total of 84 trails, loops, and hikes, with 6 brand-new trails New color photographs along with updated maps Trail descriptions of each hike, including the highlights, distance, elevation, and difficulty Optional connecting trails for hikers who want more Historical tidbits and fun facts of the trails’ locales Directions and access to the trail This guide is great for hikers of all levels to discover the best hikes found in Boulder, Colorado.

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Graphic Arts Books

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1513262165

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9781513262161

Killing Moon

By: Rebecca York,Ruth Glick

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Killing Moon

By: Rebecca York,Ruth Glick

In the woods, a killer waits, surrounded by the graves of his victims, anticipating his next kill. In the woods, a wolf stalks his prey, surrendering only to the laws of nature, not of man ...

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Penguin

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0425220273

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9780425220276

The Archaeology of South Asia

From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE

By: Robin Coningham,Ruth Young

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The Archaeology of South Asia

From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE

By: Robin Coningham,Ruth Young

This book synthesises the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE) to the third century BCE.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521846978

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9780521846974

For Whose Benefit?

The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

By: Ruth Patrick

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For Whose Benefit?

The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

By: Ruth Patrick

Welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been underway for years now, but there has been little reflection on how it has been experienced and thought about by the people who are directly affected by it. This book draws on extended, repeat interviews with single parents, disabled people, and young job seekers to consider how they experience the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security for those who rely on it. This analysis enables the author to highlight the gap between the lived experience of welfare and the policy rhetoric surrounding it.

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Policy Press

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1447333462

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9781447333463

Princetonians, 1784-1790

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Ruth L. Woodward,Wesley Frank Craven

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Princetonians, 1784-1790

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Ruth L. Woodward,Wesley Frank Craven

These volumes, the fourth and fifth, complete the series of biographical sketches of students at Princeton University (the College of New Jersey in colonial times). They cover pivotal years for both the nation and the College. In 1784, the war with England had just ended. Nassau Hall was still in a shambles following its bombardment, and the College was in financial distress. It gradually regained financial and academic strength, and the Class of 1794 graduated in the year of the death of President John Witherspoon, one of the most important early American educators. The introductory essay by John Murrin, editor of the series since 1981, explores the postwar context of the College. The two volumes contain biographies of 354 men who attended with the classes of 1784 through 1794 and two other students whose presence at the College in earlier years has only now been demonstrated. During these years Princeton accounted for about an eighth of all A.B. degrees granted in the United States. It was the young republic's most "national" college, although it had nearly lost its New England constituency and was instead beginning to draw nearly 40 percent of its students from the South. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400861268

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9781400861262

Rosa Parks

Freedom Rider

By: Ruth Ashby

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Rosa Parks

Freedom Rider

By: Ruth Ashby

A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402758049

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9781402758041

Take Five Minutes: Fascinating Facts and Stories for Reading and Critical Thinking

By: Ruth Foster

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Take Five Minutes: Fascinating Facts and Stories for Reading and Critical Thinking

By: Ruth Foster

Features reproducible intellectually stimulating activities that promote learning, reinforce what has been covered, sparks students' interest and takes only a few minutes to use.

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0743930509

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9780743930505

Democracy at Work

Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice

By: Ruth Dukes,Wolfgang Streeck

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Democracy at Work

Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice

By: Ruth Dukes,Wolfgang Streeck

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue that the time is ripe to restate the principles of industrial democracy and citizenship for the post-industrial era. Considering developments within political economy, employment relations and labour law since the postwar decades, they trace the rise of globalization and the ‘dualization’ of labour markets – the emergence of a core and periphery of workers – and the progressive insulation of working relations from democratic governance. What these developments amount to, they argue, is an urgent need for political intervention to tame the new world of ‘gigging’ and other forms of highly precarious work. This, according to the authors, will require far-reaching institution-building designed to fill legal concepts such as ‘employment’ with political substance. This eloquent call for a reimagining and renewal of the institutional and material conditions of freedom of association and the reinvention of industrial democracy will be crucial reading for anyone interested in work in the twenty-first century.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509549005

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9781509549009

Bertrand's Brother

The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell

By: Ruth Derham

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Bertrand's Brother

The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell

By: Ruth Derham

Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher Bertrand. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also a serial adulterer and convicted bigamist, sent down from Oxford for supposed homosexual practices.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398102849

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9781398102842

My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg,Mary Hartnett,Wendy W. Williams,Wendy Williams (Writer on law)

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My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg,Mary Hartnett,Wendy W. Williams,Wendy Williams (Writer on law)

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a ... collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had [an] ... influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--

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Simon and Schuster

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150114524X

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9781501145247

American Gothic Literature

A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

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American Gothic Literature

A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left its mark on the genre--the English ghostly setting becomes the wilderness haunted by spectral Indians. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans adds urgency to traditional Gothic anxieties about possession. The unchanging role of woman in early Gothic narratives parallels the status of American women, even after the Revolution. Twentieth-century Gothic works offer inclusion to previously silent voices, including immigrant writers with their own cultural traditions. The 21st century unleashes the zombie horde--the latest incarnation of the voracious American.

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McFarland

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1476633401

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9781476633404

The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

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The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in great detail, including chapters on the council of the North, the White Rose Party, and the Exeter Conspiracy. This is the second of two volumes written by these authors on this period in history.

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Routledge

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0429590385

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9780429590382

Paired Passages - Linking Fact to Fiction, Grade 7

By: Ruth Foster

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Paired Passages - Linking Fact to Fiction, Grade 7

By: Ruth Foster

Help students develop and practice the skills they need to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction passages. After each of the 25 pairs of passages, students are asked both multiple choice and open-ended questions.

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1420629174

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9781420629170

International Law

Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives

By: Donald R Rothwell,Stuart Kaye,Afshin Akhtar-Khavari,Ruth Davis,Imogen Saunders

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International Law

Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives

By: Donald R Rothwell,Stuart Kaye,Afshin Akhtar-Khavari,Ruth Davis,Imogen Saunders

Now in its third edition, International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives remains an authoritative textbook on international law for Australian students. With a strong focus on Australian practice and interpretation, the text examines how international law is developed, implemented and interpreted within the international community and considers new and developing approaches within this field. This edition has been comprehensively updated to address recent developments in international law. The selection of cases and materials provides a thorough coverage of core areas and addresses a range of contemporary challenges, including climate change, human rights, nuclear proliferation and the South China Sea. A new chapter on international trade law reflects the growing importance of this body of law in Australian practice. Guiding commentary provides a rigorous analysis of key principles. Written by a team of experts with substantial experience in this field, International Law is an essential resource for students.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108677215

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9781108677219

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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9781449738877

Rare Bird

Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

By: Maria Mudd Ruth

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Rare Bird

Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

By: Maria Mudd Ruth

“Rare insights into the trials and joys of scientific discovery.” —Publisher’s Weekly

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Mountaineers Books

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1594858365

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9781594858369

Women and the Military

Global Lives in Focus

By: Ruth Margolies Beitler,Sarah M. Gerstein

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Women and the Military

Global Lives in Focus

By: Ruth Margolies Beitler,Sarah M. Gerstein

This addition to the Women and Society around the World series explores the roles, challenges, and accomplishments of women in the military in countries across the globe. Around the world, millions of men serve in their countries' militaries, be it on land, on the seas, or in the air. But while many militaries have opened all positions to women, even those on the front lines, others remain closed. Countries have cited a number of reasons for their policies, including changing views of women and the military, conscription, and economic and demographic trends. Written by a professor of comparative politics at the United States Military Academy at West Point and an active duty army major, this book seeks to provide an understanding of women's roles in militaries around the world. The book is organized by region, exploring societal and cultural views of masculinity and war, as well as factors influencing changing views of women and the military, including conscription and economic and demographic trends. Topics also include sexual harassment, recruitment, and views on women's physicality and strength. High school students, undergraduates, and general readers will find this cross-cultural study a fascinating and important resource.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440860238

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9781440860232

Environmental Economics

Concepts, Methods and Policies

By: Dodo J. Thampapillai,Matthias Ruth

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Environmental Economics

Concepts, Methods and Policies

By: Dodo J. Thampapillai,Matthias Ruth

Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital. Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics, as well as the principles of ecological resilience, this book is divided into five key parts, which includes extensive coverage of environmental microeconomics and macroeconomics. It drills down into issues and challenges including consumer demand; production and supply; market organisation; renewable and non-renewable resources; environmental valuation; macroeconomic stabilisation, and international trade and globalisation. Drawing on case studies from forestry, water, soil, air quality, and mining, this book will equip readers with skills that enable the analyses of environmental and economic policy issues with a specific focus on the sustainability of the economy. Rich in pedagogical features, including key concepts boxes and review questions at the end of each chapter, this book will be a vital resource for upperlevel undergraduate and postgraduate students studying not only environmental economics/ecological economics but also economics in general.

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Routledge

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135167059X

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9781351670593

Property and Power in English Gothic Literature

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

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Property and Power in English Gothic Literature

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession--the contested castle, the beleaguered yet enduring woman, the haunting ghost, the disjointed narrative--warning that seemingly mundane codes of ownership have menacing implications, such as the civil death of women through marriage. This book explores the masterplot of the English Gothic text as a response to the Enlightenment's rational certainty regarding possession of self, property and narrative.

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McFarland

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0786498501

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9780786498505

Calculated Futures

Theology, Ethics, and Economics

By: D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York

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Calculated Futures

Theology, Ethics, and Economics

By: D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York

Calculated Futures seeks a way forward by engaging economics as a social scientific discipline without subordinating theology to it.

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Baylor University Press

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1602580146

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9781602580145

Tom Cruise

Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood

By: Ruth O'Donnell

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Tom Cruise

Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood

By: Ruth O'Donnell

Tom Cruise is a Hollywood superstar like no other. World famous since his debut in the 1980s, he remains among the highest paid actors. Why has his persona resonated so powerfully with millions of viewers? Using psychoanalytic theory, "Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood" demonstrates how his star persona sublimates anxieties about masculinity. Amid Reagan-era military jingoism and concern over declining industrial labour, he represented a new model of American masculinity based on white-collar upward mobility. Spanning blockbuster films such as Risky Business (1983), Jerry Maguire (1996) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996 - 2011), this book illustrates how his characters exemplify entrepreneurialism, charisma, technological gadgetry and verbal acuity to redefine male success. His newly emotive type - 'help me help you' - also successfully overcomes interpersonal conflicts with patriarchal authority and senior women in the workplace, and navigates race relations. The first scholarly study of Tom Cruise's celebrity, this book surveys his entire career and builds on Richard Dyer's 'star theory.' It develops the core dynamic of his star persona, a mix of projected character traits and 'real life' trivia or gossip, and establishes that his box office success reflects his persona's ability to work through the psychodynamic preoccupations of his films. This exceptional appeal evolved, at times characterised by complicity with 1980s materialistic hedonism (Taps, 1981), male spectacle (Magnolia, 1999), or his use of martial technology (War of the Worlds, 2005), and their attendant psychic meanings. Recent shifts in American culture, however, in tandem with Tom Cruise's growing evangelism for the Church of Scientology, may be threatening his appeal. Ultimately, this book offers a picture of how stars reflect the values and crises of their societies, and fills a substantial gap in scholarship on celebrity studies, critical cultural analysis, masculinity studies, and film theory.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857727281

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9780857727282

A History and Theory of Informed Consent

By: Ruth R. Faden,Tom L. Beauchamp,Nancy M. P. King

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A History and Theory of Informed Consent

By: Ruth R. Faden,Tom L. Beauchamp,Nancy M. P. King

A timely, authoritative discussion of an important clincial topic, this useful book outlines the history, function, nature and requirements of informed consent, focusing on patient autonomy as central to the concept. Primarily a philosophical analysis, the book also covers legal aspects, with chapters on disclosure, comprehension, and competence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195036867

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9780195036862

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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0429841973

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9780429841972

Keswick in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

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Keswick in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

Keswick in the Great War is an expert account of this Lake District market town's fascinating, yet largely forgotten, contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918.It charts the remarkable, and sometimes moving, stories of several heroic local figures, including Lord and Lady Rochdale, who converted their home into a VAD hospital; Caleb Barnes, a former headteacher of Braithwaite Primary School who was taken prisoner in Belgium; Catherine Elizabeth Marshall, supporter of The No-Conscription Fellowship, whose husband, the chairman of the NCF, was imprisoned in 1916; and Reverend Bettison, Curate of Crosthwaite, who was mobilised on 4 August 1914 and sent to Burma in October 1914. The book also acts as an accessible reference guide to local war memorials, such as The Fretwork War Shrine, as integrated throughout are rare wartime illustrations of these memorials and rolls of honour, like the recently discovered roll of honour found inside Underskiddaw Church Rooms.Overall, this is a poignant testimony to the momentous efforts, bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Keswick during the Great War, who sought to find normality in a reality so far removed from anything they had ever known.

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Pen and Sword

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1473848636

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9781473848634

A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell

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A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell

A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Times–bestselling author. Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist’s startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family’s story in a new light. Set in post–World War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family. Called “a rich, beautifully crafted novel” by P. D. James, Time magazine has described its author as “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”

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