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The Early Elizabethan Polity

William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569

By: Stephen Alford

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The Early Elizabethan Polity

William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569

By: Stephen Alford

An alternative account of the so-called 'succession crisis' in the first decade of the reign of Elizabeth I.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892856

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Big Wonderful Thing

A History of Texas

By: Stephen Harrigan

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The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

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University of Texas Press

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0292759517

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9780292759510

1 Henry IV

A Critical Guide

By: Stephen Longstaffe

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1 Henry IV

A Critical Guide

By: Stephen Longstaffe

An introduction to Shakespeare's I Henry IV - introducing its critical and performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441170421

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Apprenticeship for Adulthood

By: Stephen F. Hamilton

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Apprenticeship for Adulthood

By: Stephen F. Hamilton

As America’s need for productive workers increases, Hamilton explains how apprenticeship would exploit workplaces as learning environments, helping young people to make the crucial connections between school learning, community participation, and a satisfying, constructive life’s work.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451602367

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Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870

War and Peace in the Upper South

By: Stephen V. Ash

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Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870

War and Peace in the Upper South

By: Stephen V. Ash

Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War--an approach exemplified and extended in Ash's later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. For the new edition, Ash has written a preface that takes into account the advance of Civil War historiography since the book's original appearance. This preface cites subsequent studies focusing not only on race and class but also on women and gender relations, the significance of partisan politics in shaping the course of secession in Tennessee and other upper-South states, the economic forces at work, the influence of republican ideology, and the investigation of the degree to which slaves were active agents in their own emancipation.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572335394

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Shaping the Western Hemisphere

By: Stephen Sabastian

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Shaping the Western Hemisphere

By: Stephen Sabastian

Creating this puzzle what quite the challenge, I hope it is quite the challenge for you to solve it, hey why not try solving it for a Guinness World Record. In this book is an email address to receive the Puzzle key, that address was hacked here is new email address; Sabastians_Puzzles_Ink@yahoo.com

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Lulu.com

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130079030X

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Food Hoarding in Animals

By: Stephen B. Vander Wall

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Food Hoarding in Animals

By: Stephen B. Vander Wall

In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa—mammals, birds, and arthropods—to address issues in evolution, ecology, and behavior. Drawings, photographs, and appendixes document complex and intrinsically interesting food-hoarding behaviors, and the bibliography of nearly 1,500 sources is itself an invaluable and unique reference.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226847357

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Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities

Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions

By: Stephen B. Richards,Michael P. Brady,Ronald L. Taylor

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Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities

Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions

By: Stephen B. Richards,Michael P. Brady,Ronald L. Taylor

Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions provides thorough coverage of the causes and characteristics of cognitive and intellectual disabilities (formerly known as mental retardation) as well as detailed discussions of the validated instructional approaches in the field today. Features include: A companion website that offers students and instructors learning objectives, additional activities, discussion outlines, and practice tests for each chapter of the book An up-to-date volume that reflects the terminology and criteria of the DSM-V and is aligned with the current CEC standards Teaching Applications: presents the strongest coverage available in any introductory text on instructional issues and applications for teaching students with cognitive and intellectual disabilities A unique chapter on "Future Issues" that explores the philosophical, social, legal, medical, educational, and personal issues that professionals and people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities face This comprehensive and current introductory textbook is ideally suited for introductory or methods courses related to cognitive and intellectual disabilities.

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Routledge

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1135049262

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Understanding Intellectual Disabilities

Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions

By: Stephen B. Richards,Michael P. Brady,Ronald L. Taylor

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Understanding Intellectual Disabilities

Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions

By: Stephen B. Richards,Michael P. Brady,Ronald L. Taylor

The third edition provides thorough coverage of the causes and characteristics of intellectual disabilities as well as detailed discussions of the validated instructional approaches in the field today. A revised "Future Directions" chapter explores the most recent philosophical, social, legal, medical, educational, and personal issues that professionals and people with intellectual disabilities face. All chapters have been updated with recent developments in research and the newest terminology being used in the field. This comprehensive and current introductory textbook is ideally suited for introductory or methods courses related to intellectual disabilities.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040024211

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9781040024218

Landmark Debates in Congress

By: Stephen W. Stathis

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Landmark Debates in Congress

By: Stephen W. Stathis

Presents and analyzes numerous pivotal historical debates, from the Declaration of Independence to authorizing war with Iraq.

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SAGE

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0872899764

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The Gifted Passage

Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text

By: Stephen Houston

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The Gifted Passage

Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text

By: Stephen Houston

In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and murals, in works that helped to shape and reflect masculinity in Maya civilization. The political volatility of the Classic Maya period gave male adolescents valuable status as potential heirs, and many of the most precious surviving ceramics likely celebrated their coming-of-age rituals. The ardent hope was that youths would grow into effective kings and noblemen, capable of leadership in battle and service in royal courts. Aiming to shift mainstream conceptions of the Maya, Houston argues that adolescent men were not simply present in images and texts, but central to both.

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Yale University Press

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0300230176

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Building a House Divided

Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War

By: Stephen G. Hyslop

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Building a House Divided

Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War

By: Stephen G. Hyslop

By the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins and evolution of the coming conflict between North and South can in fact be traced back to the early years of the American Republic, as Stephen G. Hyslop demonstrates in Building a House Divided, an exploration of how the incipient fissure between the Union’s initial slave states and free states—or those where slaves were gradually being emancipated—lengthened and deepened as the nation advanced westward. Hyslop focuses on four prominent slaveholding expansionists who were intent on preserving the Union but nonetheless helped build what Lincoln called a house divided: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who managed a plantation in Mississippi bequeathed by his father-in-law. Hyslop examines what these men did, collectively and individually, to further what Jefferson called an “empire of liberty,” though it kept millions of Black people in bondage. Along with these major figures, in all their conflicts and contradictions, he considers other American expansionists who engaged in and helped extend slavery—among them William Clark, Stephen Austin, and President John Tyler—as well as examples of principled opposition to the extension of slavery by northerners such as John Quincy Adams and southerners like Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton, who held slaves but placed preserving the Union above extending slavery across the continent. The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation’s foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists like Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Douglas, until the house they built upon it could no longer stand for two opposite ideas at once.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806193417

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The Artful Species

Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

By: Stephen Davies

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The Artful Species

Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

By: Stephen Davies

Explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature reaching back hundreds of thousands of years to our humanoid ancestors. Examines human aesthetic interest in animals, decouples human beauty from mate selection, and weighs the arts as biological, social, or mixed adaptations.

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Oxford University Press

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0199658544

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Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

Containing Notes on the Various Governmental Organizations; Lists of the Principal Colonial, State and County Officers, and the Congressional Delegations and Presidential Electors, with the Votes of the Electoral Colleges. The whole arranged in Constitutional Periods

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

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Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752521090

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The Authentic Shakespeare

and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage

By: Stephen Orgel

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The Authentic Shakespeare

and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage

By: Stephen Orgel

In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.

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Routledge

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1317796225

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Ottawa and the Outer Provinces

The Challenge of Regional Integration in Canada

By: Stephen Tomblin

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Ottawa and the Outer Provinces

The Challenge of Regional Integration in Canada

By: Stephen Tomblin

Preface One: Shifting Boundaries and Regional Integration Two: The Quest to Create a Nation Three: The Atlantic Region of Canada Four: The Prairie/Western Regions of Canada Five: British Columbia: A Distinct Economic Zone? Six: Future Patterns of Cooperation Notes Index

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550284762

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Statistics in Psychology

Explanations without Equations

By: Stephen Jones

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Statistics in Psychology

Explanations without Equations

By: Stephen Jones

How do you choose the appropriate statistical method for any given research task? What are the features that discern one statistical method from another, and for which research projects are they appropriate to use? Written specifically with the undergraduate psychology student in mind and for those who desire an explanation for the use of statistics in psychological research without the mathematics, this refreshing and much-needed introduction is invaluable for any psychology students who 'don't get numbers'. Breaking away from the traditional, numerical approaches, Jones delivers an engaging and insightful read into the rationale behind the use of statistics, drawing upon non-numerical examples and scenarios from both psychological literature and everyday life to explain key statistical concepts. Learn about the methods for testing populations and samples, standard errors, inferential and descriptive statistics as well as variables and participants. This is an ideal companion to core textbooks and will serve a clearer understanding of statistical methods in psychology. By reading this book students can hope to gain a better sense of what makes empirically valid research and learn to critically evaluate facts and figure in any presented research. The foundations of psychology's claims are the empiricism of well-conducted and reliable data.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350312517

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Weed Physiology

Volume 2: Herbicide Physiology

By: Stephen O. Duke

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Weed Physiology

Volume 2: Herbicide Physiology

By: Stephen O. Duke

Volume 2 deals with the mechanisms of herbicide action and of resistance and tolerance to herbicides. The first five chapters of this volume cover the effects of herbicides and adjuvants on the physiology of plants. Professor Black‘s chapter begins by covering the effects of herbicides on photosynthesis, including photosynthetic assimilation of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus. This is followed by Dr. Morelands chapter on herbicide interactions with plant respiration. The third chapter by Professor Bartels deals with the effects of herbicides on chloroplast and cellular development with emphasis on correlating physiological information with ultrasound effects.

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1351094637

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Arming without Aiming

India's Military Modernization

By: Stephen P. Cohen,Sunil Dasgupta

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Arming without Aiming

India's Military Modernization

By: Stephen P. Cohen,Sunil Dasgupta

India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component—strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the future, and what are the likely ramifications? Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta answer those crucial questions in a book so timely that it reached number two on the nonfiction bestseller list in India. "Two years after the publication of Arming without Aiming, our view is that India's strategic restraint and its consequent institutional arrangement remain in place. We do not want to predict that India's military-strategic restraint will last forever, but we do expect that the deeper problems in Indian defense policy will continue to slow down military modernization."—from the preface to the paperback edition

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815724926

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Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure

By: Stephen Neidle

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Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure

By: Stephen Neidle

This unique and practical resource provides the most complete and concise summary of underlying principles and approaches to studying nucleic acid structure, including discussion of x-ray crystallography, NMR, molecular modelling, and databases. Its focus is on a survey of structures especially important for biomedical research and pharmacological applications. To aid novices, Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure includes an introduction to technical lingo used to describe nucleic acid structure and conformations (roll, slide, twist, buckle, etc.). This completely updated edition features expanded coverage of the latest advances relevant to recognition of DNA and RNA by small molecules and proteins. In particular, the reader will find extensive new discussions on: RNA folding, ribosome structure and antibiotic interactions, DNA quadruplexes, DNA and RNA protein complexes, and short interfering RNA (siRNA). This handy guide ends with a complete list of resources, including relevant online databases and software. - Completely updated with expanded discussion of topics such as RNA folding, ribosome structure and antibiotic interactions, DNA quadruplexes, DNA and RNA protein complexes, and short interfering RNA (siRNA) - Includes a complete list of resources, including relevant online databases and software - Defines technical lingo for novices

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Elsevier

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0080553524

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9780080553528

Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries

A History and an Analysis of Trends

By: Stephen A. Zeff

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Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries

A History and an Analysis of Trends

By: Stephen A. Zeff

This title, first published in 1972, examines five countries that have experience with programs designed to improve the quality of financial reporting. Zeff devotes separate chapters to the historical evolution of the program, and then goes on to compare and analyse the various trends. This book presents an important piece of research to those concerned with the development of accounting principles.

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1317352254

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Law and Society in England 1750-1950

By: William Cornish,Stephen Banks,Charles Mitchell,Paul Mitchell,Rebecca Probert

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Law and Society in England 1750-1950

By: William Cornish,Stephen Banks,Charles Mitchell,Paul Mitchell,Rebecca Probert

Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509931252

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9781509931255

Sport Marketing

By: Bernard James Mullin,Stephen Hardy,William Anthony Sutton

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Sport Marketing

By: Bernard James Mullin,Stephen Hardy,William Anthony Sutton

This student text provides a foundation of theory and principles for those seeking sports management position. It provides an overview of the reasons and foundations for sport marketing as well as theoretical and research issues, and why market segmentation is important.

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Human Kinetics

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0736060529

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9780736060523

Million Dollar Data: Building Confidence – Vol.1

How to collect quality data and create truth in the school science laboratory

By: Stephen DeMeo

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Million Dollar Data: Building Confidence – Vol.1

How to collect quality data and create truth in the school science laboratory

By: Stephen DeMeo

Global warming, our current and greatest challenge, is without precedent. Among the many consequences that are impacting our society, one unanticipated concern involves scientific truth. When the President of the United States, and others in his administration, declare that global warming is fake science, it calls into question what real science is and what real school science should be. I will argue that real science is quality science, one that is based on the rigorous collection of reliable and valid data. To collect quality data requires bending over backwards to get things right, and this is exactly what makes science so special. Truth is made when scientists go this extra yard and devise controlled experiments, collect large data sets, confirm the data, and rationally analyze their results. Making scientific truth sounds difficult to do in the science laboratory, but in reality, there are many straightforward ways that truth can be constructed. In the first of two volumes, I discuss twelve such ways – I call them Confidence Indicators – that can allow students to strongly believe in their data and their subsequent results. Many of these methods are intuitive and can be used by young students on the late elementary level all the way up to those taking introductory college science courses. As in life, science is not without doubt. In the second volume I introduce the concept of scientific uncertainty and the indicators used to calculate its magnitude. I will show that science is about connecting confidence with uncertainty in a specific manner, what I refer to as the Confidence-Uncertainty Continuum expression. This important relationship epitomizes the scientific enterprise as a search for probabilistic rather than absolute truth. This two-volume set will contain a variety of ways that data quality can be instituted into a science curriculum. To support its use, many of the examples that I will present involve science teachers as well as student work and feedback from different grade levels and in different scientific disciplines. Specific chapters will be devoted to reviewing the academic literature on data quality as well as describing my own personal research on this important but often neglected topic.

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Educe NY

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0983712069

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9780983712060

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South

By: Stephen Ward Angell

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Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South

By: Stephen Ward Angell

Henry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man, " as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical biography of Turner, firmly places him alongside DuBois and Washington as a preeminent visionary of the postbellum African-American experience. The strength and vitality of today's black church tradition owes much to the herculean labors of pioneers such as Turner, one of the most skillful denominational builders in American history. When emancipation created the prerequisites for a strong national religious organization, Turner, with his boldness, charisma, political wisdom, eloquence, and energy, took full advantage of the opportunity. Combining evangelicalism with forthright agitation for racial freedom, he instigated the most momentous transformation in A.M.E. Church history--the mission to the South. Stephen Angell views Turner's advocacy of ordination for women and his missionary work in Africa as a further outgrowth of the bishop's deep evangelical commitment. The book's epilogue offers the first serious analysis of Turner's theology and his replies to racist distortions of the Christian message.

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1572331569

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Exploring the Landscape of the Mind

Understanding Human Thought and Behaviour

By: Stephen S. Clark

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Exploring the Landscape of the Mind

Understanding Human Thought and Behaviour

By: Stephen S. Clark

This book is based on the premise that humankind is, first and foremost, the outcome of the process of biological evolution. Recognition of this is fundamental to our understanding of who we are and how we behave. All living things have evolved the physical and mental attributes that promote their prospects for survival; they are good at doing the things that enable them to pass on their genes to succeeding generations, and we are no exception. Of course, through the development of culture, we have gained some freedom from our biological origins. Nevertheless, evolution has constructed the foundation upon which culture is built. The first part of the book, Ourselves Interacting with the World, presents an overview of the main capabilities that evolution has endowed us with and that enable us to interact with the environment in advantageous ways. This includes our senses, which act as windows on the world and also, of great importance, our emotions and ability to remember. Our ability to think is perhaps the crowning achievement of our evolutionary journey, and, of course, we must be able to act in a timely and effective manner. The second part of the book, Living Together, traces the history of how we became social creatures. To be truly human, we had to be capable of sharing and cooperation. We also needed to be able to control our aggressiveness and talent for deception. We settled down, making the transition from hunter-gatherers to urban dwellers, and agreed upon values and norms of behavior that enhanced our ability to get along. Ultimately, we came to see good and bad as a morality of right and wrong, further augmenting group cohesiveness. In the final part of the book, Challenges and Opportunities, attention turns to a consideration of the constraints and possibilities that must be considered in looking to the future. These realities can be seen to play out in four social arenas: the pursuit of fairness, the seeking of justice, the interplay of political beliefs and good government, and ultimately, a united society that is, at the same time, a true community. Our quest for these things will be greatly aided by a deep knowledge and appreciation of our evolutionary past and the indelible imprint it has left upon us. It may even lead us to that most elusive of all things, happiness.

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1524519162

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