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Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies

By: Ryan Mayfield

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Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies

By: Ryan Mayfield

Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies (9781119544357) was previously published as Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies (9780470598931). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. The fun and easy way to get a grip on photovoltaic design and installation Designing and installing solar panel systems is a trend that continues to grow. With 'green collar' jobs on the rise and homeowners looking for earth-friendly ways to stretch their dollars and lesson their carbon imprint, understanding photovoltaic design and installation is on the rise. Photovoltaic Design & Installation For Dummies gives you a comprehensive overview of the history, physics, design, installation, and operation of home-scale solar-panel systems. You'll also get an introduction to the foundational mathematic and electrical concepts you need to understand and work with photovoltaic systems. Covers all aspects of home-scale solar-power systems Viable resource for professionals, students, and technical laymen Can be used to study for the NABCEP exam Whether you're a building professional looking to expand your business and skills to meet the growing demand for solar power installation or are seeking a career in this rapidly expanding field, Photovoltaic Design & Installation For Dummies has you covered!

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1119544335

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Which Side Are You On

A Novel

By: Ryan Lee Wong

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Which Side Are You On

A Novel

By: Ryan Lee Wong

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother—once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition—demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family’s roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered.

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Catapult

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1646222024

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Black Cowboys of Rodeo

Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West

By: Keith Ryan Cartwright

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Black Cowboys of Rodeo

Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West

By: Keith Ryan Cartwright

They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America’s struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice. Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers as Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after being the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the first Black cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas. Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496229495

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California Family Law

By: Marshall W Waller,Ryan C Waller

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California Family Law

By: Marshall W Waller,Ryan C Waller

Covers major issues of family law in California, particularly in the areas surrounding marriage, separation, divorce, and parents and children. Includes litigation strategies and instructive material on the preparation of formal requests to the family court, issuance of discovery and templates and forms as needed throughout the process of divorce"--

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Aspen Publishing

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The Space Between Us

Social Geography and Politics

By: Ryan D. Enos

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The Space Between Us

Social Geography and Politics

By: Ryan D. Enos

The Space Between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the lens of numerous examples across the globe and drawing on a compelling combination of research techniques including field and laboratory experiments, big data analysis, and small-scale interactions, this timely book provides a new understanding of how geography shapes politics and how members of groups think about each other. Enos' analysis is punctuated with personal accounts from the field. His rigorous research unfolds in accessible writing that will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike, illuminating the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives"--Jacket.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108420648

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God's Pale Horse

By: James Ryan

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God's Pale Horse

By: James Ryan

God's Pale Horse" by James Ryan is a profound and unsettling exploration of historical injustice, intertwining divine mandates with human atrocities. Through a meticulous examination of the conquest and subsequent devastation of the Americas, Ryan unveils how the invocation of divine authority has been historically manipulated to justify the unspeakable: the systematic extermination of indigenous peoples. This book takes the reader on a harrowing journey through history, starting from the apocalyptic riders in the Book of Revelation, echoing through the arrival of Columbus, and resonating in the genocidal policies against Native Americans. Ryan compellingly argues that these events were not merely acts of survival but orchestrated campaigns of extermination sanctioned by misinterpretations of Christian doctrines and fueled by economic greed. From the shores touched by Columbus to the battlefields of the American Indian Wars, "God's Pale Horse" explores the theological and political justifications used to rationalize the horrors committed against Native populations. It examines the portrayal of indigenous people as obstacles to the divine promise, destined to be conquered or annihilated. Ryan challenges the reader to reconsider the narratives of American history and the sanctified violence carried out in the name of God and country. This book is not only a historical account but a moral inquiry into the depths of human cruelty and the enduring fight for justice. It is a crucial read for anyone seeking to understand the darker chapters of American history and the implications of using divine justification for terrestrial horrors. "God's Pale Horse" is a call to acknowledge and rectify the past, urging a reexamination of the myths that have shaped American identity. It's an essential addition to the discourse on history, religion, and the ethics of power.

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eBookIt.com

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1456650491

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Andrew Fuller’s Theology of Revival

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in Spiritual Renewal

By: Ryan Rindels

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Andrew Fuller’s Theology of Revival

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in Spiritual Renewal

By: Ryan Rindels

Revival is the arguable heartbeat of evangelical Christianity. Though a theologically diverse and globally diffused phenomenon, evangelicalism originated in a distinctly Calvinistic milieu. Many Puritans in the seventeenth century, "evangelicals before the revivals," emphasized the work of the Holy Spirit, including the importance of personal conversion. Unlike theologically Arminian proponents of revival such as Charles G. Finney, many Puritans and early evangelicals believed and taught that the absolute sovereignty of God was compatible with human responsibility. Calvinistic Baptists in the early eighteenth century who rejected this tension declined numerically, yet a new generation of pastors led their denomination through this impasse. Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) defended Reformed doctrine in the Particular Baptist tradition while emphasizing the importance of human response in his preaching, writing, and fundraising for the Baptist Missionary Society. The fruit of Fuller's ministry included growth of churches in England, conversions among people groups in the Global South, and the preservation of Reformed theology in a challenging Enlightenment context.

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1725282887

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Eight Men Speak

A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

By: Oscar Ryan,Edward Cecil-Smith,Frank Love,Mildred Goldberg

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Eight Men Speak

A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

By: Oscar Ryan,Edward Cecil-Smith,Frank Love,Mildred Goldberg

This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage–the published text–of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC. In its theatrical techniques, incorporating avant-garde expressionist staging, mass chant, agitprop and modernist dramaturgy, Eight Men Speak exemplified the vanguardist aesthetics of the Communist left in the years before the Popular Front. It is the first instance of the collective theatrical techniques that would become widespread in subsequent decades and formative in the development of modern Canadian drama. These include a decentred narrative, collaborative authorship and a refusal of dramaturgical linearity in favour of theatricalist demonstration. As such it is one of the most significant Canadian plays of the first half of the century, and, on the evidence of the surviving photograph of the mise-en-scene, one of the earliest examples of modernist staging in Canada. - This book is published in English.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776620754

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Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Quest for Evangelical Enlightenment

Scripture and Experimental Religion

By: Ryan P. Hoselton

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Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Quest for Evangelical Enlightenment

Scripture and Experimental Religion

By: Ryan P. Hoselton

This book explores the early evangelical quest for enlightenment by the Spirit and the Word. While the pursuit originated in the Protestant Reformation, it assumed new forms in the long eighteenth-century context of the early Enlightenment and transatlantic awakened Protestant reform. This work illuminates these transformations by focusing on the dynamic intersection of experimental philosophy and experimental religion in the biblical practices of early America’s most influential Protestant theologians, Cotton Mather (1663-1728) and Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). As the first book-length project to treat Mather and Edwards together, this study makes an important contribution to the extensive scholarship on these figures, opening new perspectives on the continuities and complexities of colonial New England religion. It also provides new insights and interpretive interventions concerning the history of the Bible, early modern intellectual history, and evangelicalism’s complex relationship to the Enlightenment.

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Springer Nature

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3031449355

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War Dog

By: Chris Ryan

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War Dog

By: Chris Ryan

Did you ever think that a dog could save someone's life? I'm living proof that it can happen. My name's Jamie, and I want to tell you about something that happened to me last summer. You were probably on your school holidays. I was in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban. I lost my leg doing it. But I can live with that. Because if it wasn't for a brave sniffer dog and his handler, I'd have lost a whole lot more... Told through the eyes of Jamie, an amputee veteran, WAR DOG is the story of Lance Corporal Sam Maguire, part of a bomb disposal squad in Afghanistan, and the springer spaniel sniffer dog Charlie who becomes his best friend. Chris Ryan fans: This title is a standalone short story published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children and young adults reading with confidence. EDGE - for books you can't put down.

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Poemetti

12 Advanced Piano Pieces for Children

By: Gian Carlo Menotti,Sylvia Watkins Ryan

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Poemetti

12 Advanced Piano Pieces for Children

By: Gian Carlo Menotti,Sylvia Watkins Ryan

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911--2007) is best remembered as an opera composer and founder of three international performing arts festivals. Menotti has left behind a lasting legacy of lyrical and accessible music. Poemetti: 12 Pieces for Children was first published in 1937. These descriptive pieces demonstrate Menotti's celebrated lyric gift as well as the careful craft that characterizes his work. Taken as a whole, the set can be seen as Menotti's version of an "Album for the Young," recalling images of his colorful childhood in Italy. These brief compositions are varied in meter, tempo, character, texture, and technical demands and are suitable for developing the musical imagination and keyboard facility of pianists at the intermediate level. The collection is pianistic in style, with each piece serving as a miniature technical etude. The titles are evocative and aid the performer in conceptualizing a convincing interpretation. Titles: * Giga * Lullaby * Bells at Dawn * The Spinner * The Bagpipers * The Brook * The Shepherd * Nocturne * The Stranger's Dance * Winter Wind * The Manger * War Song

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Alfred Music

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1470628724

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Divine Conflict and the Divine Warrior

Listening to Romans and Other Jewish Voices

By: Scott C. Ryan

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Divine Conflict and the Divine Warrior

Listening to Romans and Other Jewish Voices

By: Scott C. Ryan

Scott C. Ryan investigates divine conflict motifs in select Jewish literature and places the findings in dialogue with Paul's Letter to the Romans. Paul emerges as a writer who participates in Jewish divine conflict traditions even as he modifies the motifs in light of the Christ-event." --back cover.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161565010

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The Reality of American Energy

The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy

By: Ryan M. Yonk,Jordan Lofthouse,Megan Hansen

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The Reality of American Energy

The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy

By: Ryan M. Yonk,Jordan Lofthouse,Megan Hansen

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment. Climate change, energy generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the most salient—and controversial—political issues today. Our country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while discouraging others as much as by the energy-production companies or the scientists working to reduce the environmental impact of all energy production. The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs of Electricity provides rare insights into the politics and economics surrounding electricity in the United States. It identifies the economic, physical, and environmental implications of distorting energy markets to limit the use of fossil fuels while increasing renewable energy production and explains how these unseen effects of favoring renewable energy may be counterproductive to the economic interests of American citizens and to the protection of the environment. The first two chapters of the book introduce the subject of electricity policy in the United States and to enable readers to understand why policymakers do what they do. The remainder of the book examines the realities of the major electricity sources in the United States: coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydrodynamic, wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal. Each of these types of energy sources is analyzed in a dedicated chapter that explains how the electricity source works and identifies how politics and public policy shape the economic and environmental impacts associated with them.

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1440853924

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All Involved: Day Five

By: Ryan Gattis

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All Involved: Day Five

By: Ryan Gattis

All Involved can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 6 serialized eBook-only parts. This is part 5 of 6, or DAY 5 of 6 days. At 3:15pm on April 29, 1991, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, through seventeen interconnected first-person narratives set in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s.

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0062418939

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Post-Jazz Poetics

A Social History

By: J. Ryan

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Post-Jazz Poetics

A Social History

By: J. Ryan

African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements signifying some of the most incisive and complex elements of modern American culture. Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. These writers engagements with jazz-based compositional devices represent a new strand of radical black poetics, while their renditions of local-to-global social critique sketch the outlines of a transnational feminism.

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0230109098

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9780230109094

Lobbying From Below

By: Mick Ryan

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Lobbying From Below

By: Mick Ryan

This volume examines the origins and development of the pressure group, INQUEST, and its struggle for penal reform, against the backdrop of the intense political and social upheaval that characterized the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Routledge

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1134217099

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Before Method and Models

The Political Economy of Malthus and Ricardo

By: Ryan Walter

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Before Method and Models

The Political Economy of Malthus and Ricardo

By: Ryan Walter

The debate over theory before Malthus and Ricardo : Burke, Mackintosh, and Stewart -- The vocabulary of theory and practice in the Bullion controversy, 1797- -- The corn laws and free trade casuistry, 1813- -- Doctrinal contest I : value -- Doctrinal contest II : rent -- Doctrinal contest III : profits -- Conclusion: A new past.

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Oxford University Press

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019760305X

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Caught on Tape

White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment

By: Kelly

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Caught on Tape

White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment

By: Kelly

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube, contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the spectators are the ones really caught on tape.

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019767786X

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Between Images

Montage and the Problems of Relation

By: Ryan Conrath

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Between Images

Montage and the Problems of Relation

By: Ryan Conrath

Between Images proposes a unique theory of montage a technique of relation: a means of fundamentally rethinking and reshaping how humans relate-to ourselves and each other, to the material world, to the planet and its nonhuman inhabitants. Historically, film criticism has cast montage in one of several roles: as narrative's invisible executor of spatiotemporal continuity to maintain the viewer's investment in the story-world; as an agent of disorder that confounds conventions of storytelling and realism and prompts the viewer's intellectual engagement; and as an expressionistic device for augmenting the duration and combination of shots to affect viewers at a sensory level. While not exactly abandoning such accounts, this study tries to move closer to the heart of montage by distinguishing the space between images as itself a powerful source of ideas, feelings, and forms. Venturing into an "expanded field of montage" beyond the limited purview of a given film's "editing," Between Images traces the cut and the splice across photographic and cinematic media in a range of material, conceptual, and political contexts. In all of this, the space between images becomes a setting for navigating and renegotiating the terms of relation, of the "being-with" that connects all forms of life. Between Images brings together a diverse cast of experimental filmmakers, including Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Steve McQueen, and Cauleen Smith, Daïchi Saito, and Ja'Tovia Gary, and in doing so, situates the cinematic"--

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0197612296

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Salt Mines

By: Allyn C. Ryan

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Salt Mines

By: Allyn C. Ryan

The success of the Apollo program in the 1960s was the first step in our manned attempts at conquering space. Salt Mines revisits aerospace history-that-never-was and explores the plausibility of interplanetary space travel, the confrontations between management and the union, and the effects of downsizing on the sudden emergence of violence in the workplace. Colorful characters who work in the "salt mines" add threads of complexity, laughter, and pathos to the story. There is Chuck Gibson, an avowed union man who likes nothing better than to hear Minerva Aerospace Corporation (MAC) ́s top executives get a roasting. And yes, the prima donna of Mahogany Row, Dr. Rick Davis, although rather eccentric, is someone to be reckoned with. Then there is Jiggs Tanaka, the Hermes coordinator, who never gets the respect he deserves from his subordinates despite his prudence and sensitivity to people issues. On the other hand, Andy Stahl, the demoted Orion coordinator, who drives around naked in a van, is uproariously funny mouthing cryptic utterances from Tennyson ́s "Morte d ́Arthur" and Shakespeare ́s The Merchant of Venice. Not to be forgotten is Will Hardy, the super-dipper, whose speech "Uncle Sam ́s Cabin" has made him the darling of Wall Street. And of course, Nina Hill, the only woman technical writer. Her penchant for enticing top corporate executives precipitates a murder. Finally, there is Derek Lambert, the protagonist. Most of the story unfolds from Derek ́s point-of-view in an episodic narrative of events that reflect the intriguing and dynamic world of the aerospace industry at its height in the 1980s. Intertwined with the events is Derek Lambert ́s recurring nightmare of a past he wants desperately to forget. Although he dearly loves his wife, Jenny DuBois, he can ́t bring himself to forgive her for walking out on him during their honeymoon. In the pressure-laden environment at MAC, Derek manages to remain neutral in the day-to-day conflicts between management and the employees, although his life is inextricably committed to the Hermes program. The Hermes is to be the first manned space capsule to go on a grand tour of the solar system in 1982. This tour coincides with the alignment of the planets, a heavenly phenomenon occurring only once in 179 years. Working at the salt mines might have been a perfect haven for Derek had it not been for the visit of his mother. Since his emotional and psychological problems stem from a strong attachment to his mother, her arrival rekindles the old guilt feelings that have dogged him for years. As if by coincidence, everything takes a downturn at the salt mines. In a period of five months, MAC totters on the brink of financial collapse. Lawsuits. Intrigues. Tension-related deaths. Strikes. Layoffs. Murder. The effect is devastating. To escape being drawn into the morass of the salt mines syndrome, Derek turns to Cindy Li, a beautiful Chinese stewardess. Derek resists the idea of a relationship at first, but Cindy will do anything to achieve her goal. As these societal, corporate, and personal problems compound, the episodic pace accelerates into a suspenseful thriller that is resolved in the novel ́s final shocking developments.

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1462811698

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The Triathlete Guide to Sprint & Olympic Triathlon Racing

By: Chris Foster,Ryan Bolton

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The Triathlete Guide to Sprint & Olympic Triathlon Racing

By: Chris Foster,Ryan Bolton

The Triathlete Guide to Sprint and Olympic Triathlon Racing will help you discover the speed, thrill, and challenge of triathlon’s most popular race distances. Not everyone has time to train for long-course triathlons. By pursuing triathlon’s shorter distances, you can enjoy all the total body fitness benefits of the swim-bike-run sport and discover the unique challenges of short-course racingall while enjoying a life outside of training. This complete guide from former pro triathletes Chris Foster and coach Ryan Bolton shares all the know-how you need to find speed and enjoy successful racing in sprint and Olympic-distance triathlons. Foster, now the Senior Editor of Triathlete magazine, shares his pro advice for how to set a smart race strategy, how to master triathlon pacing, how to execute fast transitions, how to train to improve your weakness and race to your strengths. Bolton offers smart, effective sprint and Olympic triathlon training plans so you can get started right away, no matter your background. Sprint and Olympic triathlons are triathlon’s most popular distances for good reasons. Experienced triathletes returning to the short course will enjoy a break from long, slow hours of training and rediscover the joy of speed. Active people looking for a new challenge can jump right into triathlon’s most beginner-friendly distances. The Triathlete Guide to Sprint and Olympic Triathlon Racing makes it simple to get back up to speed in the world’s most rewarding endurance sport.

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1948006200

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Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

By: Casey Ryan Kelly

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Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

By: Casey Ryan Kelly

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines the growing popularity of food and travel television and its implications for how we understand the relationship between food, place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods, Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television, attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases global poverty, and contributes to myths of American exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of cultural difference and economic success.

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Lexington Books

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1498544452

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9781498544450

Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar

A Rhetorical Framing Study of Their Writings on Native Americans

By: Christopher J. Ryan

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Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar

A Rhetorical Framing Study of Their Writings on Native Americans

By: Christopher J. Ryan

This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar which analyzes the frames applied in the writings of the two leaders to define Native Americans. Presenting their individual writings as a dialogue and an argument, it considers the points at which Houston and Lamar’s rhetorical depictions overlapped and diverged, and explores the range and overall social impact of each president’s portrayal of Native Americans. It prompts readers to consider the implications of such rhetorical framing both historically and through the modern day in application to a wide array of social groups.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498567738

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9781498567732

Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism

The United States and the Asian "Other", 1899–1957

By: Ryan Anningson

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Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism

The United States and the Asian "Other", 1899–1957

By: Ryan Anningson

This book analyzes Buddhist discussions of the Aryan myth and scientific racism and the ways in which this conversation reshaped Buddhism in the United States, and globally. The book traces the development of notions of Aryanism in Buddhism through Buddhist publications from 1899-1957, focusing on this so-called "yellow peril," or historical racist views in the United States of an Asian "other." During this time period in America, the Aryan myth was considered to be scientific fact, and Buddhists were able to capitalize on this idea throughout a global publishing network of books, magazines, and academic work which helped to transform the presentation of Buddhism into the "Aryan religion." Following narratives regarding colonialism and the development of the Aryan myth, Buddhists challenged these dominant tropes: they combined emic discussions about the "Aryan" myth and comparisons of Buddhism and science, in order to disprove colonial tropes of "Western" dominance, and suggest that Buddhism represented a superior tradition in world historical development. The author argues that this presentation of a Buddhist tradition of superiority helped to create space for Buddhism within the American religious landscape. The book will be of interest to academics working on Buddhism, race and religion, and American religious history.

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