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American Jihad

The Terrorists Living Among Us

By: Steven Emerson

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American Jihad

The Terrorists Living Among Us

By: Steven Emerson

Leading the second wave of post 9/11 terrorist books, American Jihad reveals that America is rampant with Islamic terrorist networks and sleeper cells and Emerson, the expert on them, explains just how close they are to each of us.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743477502

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The American House of Saud

The Secret Petrodollar Connection

By: Steven Emerson

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The American House of Saud

The Secret Petrodollar Connection

By: Steven Emerson

An examination of Saudi Arabia and its immense clout in the United States and throughout the Western world thanks to its petrodollars wealth and control of a huge proportion of the world's petroleum.

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Franklin Watts

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0531097781

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Recovering the Liberal Spirit

Nietzsche, Individuality, and Spiritual Freedom

By: Steven F. Pittz

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Recovering the Liberal Spirit

Nietzsche, Individuality, and Spiritual Freedom

By: Steven F. Pittz

Liberalism is often castigated for being spiritually empty and unable to provide meaning for individuals. Is it true that there simply is no spiritual side to liberalism? In Recovering the Liberal Spirit, Steven F. Pittz develops a novel conception of spiritual freedom. Drawing from Nietzsche and his figure of the "free spirit," as well as from thinkers as varied as Mill, Emerson, Goethe, Hesse, C. S. Lewis, and Tocqueville, Pittz examines a tradition of individual freedom best described as spiritual. Spiritual freedom is an often overlooked category of liberal freedom, and it provides a path to meaning without a return to communal or traditional life. While carefully considering Progressive and Communitarian counterarguments Pittz argues for both the possibility and the desirability of a free-spirited life. Citizens who are "free spirits" deliver great benefits to liberal democracies, primarily by combatting dogmatism and fanaticism and the putative authority of public opinion.

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State University of New York Press

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1438479794

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The Chosen Wars

How Judaism Became an American Religion

By: Steven R. Weisman

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The Chosen Wars

How Judaism Became an American Religion

By: Steven R. Weisman

“An important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American history” (New York Journal of Books), Steven R. Weisman tells the dramatic story of the personalities that fought each other and shaped this ancient religion in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The struggles that produced a redefinition of Judaism illuminate the larger American experience and the efforts by all Americans to reconcile their faith with modern demands. The narrative begins with the arrival of the first Jews in New Amsterdam and plays out over the nineteenth century as a massive immigration takes place at the dawn of the twentieth century. First there was the practical matter of earning a living. Many immigrants had to work on the Sabbath or traveled as peddlers to places where they could not keep kosher. Doctrine was put aside or adjusted. To take their places as equals, American Jews rejected their identity as a separate nation within America. Judaism became an American religion. These profound changes did not come without argument. Steven R. Weisman’s “lucid and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) The Chosen Wars tells the stories of the colorful rabbis and activists—including Isaac Mayer Wise, Mordecai Noah, David Einhorn, Rebecca Gratz, and Isaac Lesser—who defined American Judaism and whose disputes divided it into the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox branches that remain today. “Only rarely does an author succeed in writing a book that reframes how we perceive our own history. The Chosen Wars is...fascinating and provocative” (Jewish Journal).

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The Young John Muir

An Environmental Biography

By: Steven Jon Holmes

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The Young John Muir

An Environmental Biography

By: Steven Jon Holmes

As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir's formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature. From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir struggled--often without success--to find a place for himself both in nature and in society. Far from granting comfort, the natural world confronted the young Muir with a full range of practical, emotional, and religious conflicts. Only with the help of his family, his religion, and the extraordinary power of nature itself could Muir in his late twenties find a welcoming vision of nature as home--a vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience, most immediately in his transformative travels through the South and to the Yosemite Valley. More than a biography, The Young John Muir is a remarkable exploration of the human relationship with wilderness. Accessible and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the individual struggle to come to terms with the power of nature.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299161544

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Robert Lowell

Life and Art

By: Steven Gould Axelrod

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Robert Lowell

Life and Art

By: Steven Gould Axelrod

This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpenetration of his life and his art. Originally published in 1978. 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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140086710X

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Ramp Hollow

The Ordeal of Appalachia

By: Steven Stoll

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Ramp Hollow

The Ordeal of Appalachia

By: Steven Stoll

Contemporary ancestors -- Provision grounds -- The Rye Rebellion -- Mountaineers are always free -- Interlude: agrarian twilight -- The captured garden -- Negotiated settlements

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Hill and Wang

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080909505X

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William Everson

The Shaman's Cal: Expanded Edition

By: Steven Herrmann

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William Everson

The Shaman's Cal: Expanded Edition

By: Steven Herrmann

In 1991, author and Jungian psychotherapist Steven Herrmann was “called” by the poet-shaman William Everson to collaborate on writing a book. It is from that event that the subtitle of this book emerged, The Shaman’s Call. Its aim is to instill in readers that if one follows one’s calling from the shamanic archetype with the right attitude, it could culminate in true cosmic awareness. And, it would interconnect the psyche with nature, or what C.G. Jung called the “Self.” Such awareness is made clear through the transfiguring power of American poet-shamans, who transmit what they are called by nature to convey: that an experience of the Self is a life-altering experience. The calling can be transmitted by way of an animal power to a person through dreams, transformative relationships, in-depth psychotherapy, religious experiences, art, scientific endeavor, or through the hearing, reading or writing of shamanic poetry. During the conversations with Everson, emerged a vision of the way shamanism has been portrayed in American poetry, from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, to Emily Dickinson’s The Complete Poetry, to what Everson achieved in his seminal poems, October Tragedy, The Encounter and Black Hills, and in his literature course at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conversations form a link between the 80-year-old poet-shaman and the 35-year-old Jungian author Steven Herrmann, who was just beginning to find his own wings as a poet. The Expanded edition commemorates William Everson’s birth on September 10, 1912. Herrmann co-organized three Centennial events to celebrate Everson’s work in the fall of 2012. Part II contains Seven Meditations: William Everson’s Basic Teachings on Vocation, a final conversation with Everson on vocatypes, and Herrmann’s Centennial essays and poems.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope

By: Steven P. Schneider

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A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope

By: Steven P. Schneider

Schneider presents new and penetrating readings of Ammons's central poems, such as "Corsons Inlet," Sphere, and "Easter Morning.".

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Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design

Third International Conference, FMCAD 2000 Austin, TX, USA, November 1-3, 2000 Proceedings

By: Warren A. Jr. Hunt,Steven D. Johnson

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Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design

Third International Conference, FMCAD 2000 Austin, TX, USA, November 1-3, 2000 Proceedings

By: Warren A. Jr. Hunt,Steven D. Johnson

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design, FMCAD 2000, held in Austin, Texas in November 2000. The 30 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. All current issues of research and development approaches based on formal methods for the design and analysis of systems are addressed. Among the topics covered are formal verification, formal specification, systems analysis, program analysis, model checking, automated modeling, program semantics, theorem proving, symbolic simulation, and transition systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540412190

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Irresistible Dictation

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science

By: Steven Meyer

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Irresistible Dictation

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science

By: Steven Meyer

Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century’s preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research at Harvard’s psychological laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices.

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0804749302

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Evidence in Context

A Trial Evidence Workbook

By: Robert P. Burns,Steven Lubet,Richard E. Moberly

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Evidence in Context

A Trial Evidence Workbook

By: Robert P. Burns,Steven Lubet,Richard E. Moberly

Evidence in Context is the perfect book for transforming abstract knowledge of rules of evidence into a hands-on familiarity with how those rules work. Utilizing two fictional case files, Evidence in Context presents users with items similar to the material trial lawyers may have as they approach trial—documents, photos, web pages, text messages, and more. Both cases present engaging fact patterns as they introduce lawyers to the rigors of evidence rules. Both raise realistic and challenging issues in the law of evidence and allow for a critical assessment of that law. They are followed by over three hundred problems for class analysis and discussion. These problems address the full range of evidentiary issues. New to the Sixth Edition: MacIntyre case file updated to reflect modern working situation Text message evidence Web page evidence Updated problems that address these newer forms of evidence Professors and students will benefit from: The inclusion of both a criminal and a civil case file, providing opportunities for students to work as prosecutors, defense counsel, and plaintiff’s counsel Engaging fact patterns and evidentiary items More than 300 problems that guide students through multiple evidence scenarios

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Aspen Publishing

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1601569718

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Ceaseless Music

Sounding Wordsworth’s The Prelude

By: Steven Matthews

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Ceaseless Music

Sounding Wordsworth’s The Prelude

By: Steven Matthews

Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today. Beginning with an exploration of the poem's genesis, from draft versions found in Wordsworth's notebooks onwards, the book goes on to sound out The Prelude's radical versions of selfhood through its attention to the 'musics' of place and of experience. The scope of the book ranges from biographical writings, to American literature and philosophy, neuroscience, musicology, and British and American poetries. The reader will discover new creative work in various modes, together with many re-echoings of Wordworth's text in later writers, across history, and from across the globe.

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1474232809

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A Nation Without Borders

The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

By: Steven Hahn

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A Nation Without Borders

The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

By: Steven Hahn

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and, throughout, is internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of “sectionalism,” emphasizing the national footing of slavery and the struggle between the northeast and Mississippi Valley for continental supremacy. It places the Civil War in the context of many domestic rebellions against state authority, including those of Native Americans. It fully incorporates the trans-Mississippi west, suggesting the importance of the Pacific to the imperial vision of political leaders and of the west as a proving ground for later imperial projects overseas. It reconfigures the history of capitalism, insisting on the centrality of state formation and slave emancipation to its consolidation. And it identifies a sweeping era of “reconstructions” in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that simultaneously laid the foundations for corporate liberalism and social democracy. The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. From an agricultural society with a weak central government, the United States became an urban and industrial society in which government assumed a greater and greater role in the framing of social and economic life. As the book ends, the United States, now a global economic and political power, encounters massive warfare between imperial powers in Europe and a massive revolution on its southern border―the remarkable Mexican Revolution―which together brought the nineteenth century to a close while marking the important themes of the twentieth.

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0143121782

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Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy

Volume One / Cases

By: Robert P. Burns,Steven Lubet,Richard E. Moberly

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Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy

Volume One / Cases

By: Robert P. Burns,Steven Lubet,Richard E. Moberly

Volume One of Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy contains two relatively detailed case files, quite similar to the material a trial lawyer may have as he or she approaches trial. The first file is a murder case, where the issue is the identity of the killer and the defendant is the estranged husband of the victim. The second file is a civil action for defamation brought by a former employee against her very wealthy employer. The cases are designed to raise realistic and challenging issues in trial theory and practice and in the law of evidence. The book is designed to be used with Volume II of Problems and Materials, which contains over three hundred problems in Evidence and over sixty exercises in Trial Advocacy based on the files.

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160156578X

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Modern Python Cookbook

130+ updated recipes for modern Python 3.12 with new techniques and tools

By: Steven F. Lott

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Modern Python Cookbook

130+ updated recipes for modern Python 3.12 with new techniques and tools

By: Steven F. Lott

Enhance your Python skills with the third edition of Modern Python Cookbook with 130+ new and updated recipes covering Python 3.12, including new coverage on graphics, visualizations, dependencies, virtual environments, and more. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format Key Features New chapters on type matching, data visualization, dependency management, and more Comprehensive coverage of Python 3.12 with updated recipes and techniques Provides practical examples and detailed explanations to solve real-world problems efficiently Book DescriptionPython is the go-to language for developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists worldwide. Known for its versatility, Python can efficiently power applications, offering remarkable speed, safety, and scalability. This book distills Python into a collection of straightforward recipes, providing insights into specific language features within various contexts, making it an indispensable resource for mastering Python and using it to handle real-world use cases. The third edition of Modern Python Cookbook provides an in-depth look into Python 3.12, offering more than 140 new and updated recipes that cater to both beginners and experienced developers. This edition introduces new chapters on documentation and style, data visualization with Matplotlib and Pyplot, and advanced dependency management techniques using tools like Poetry and Anaconda. With practical examples and detailed explanations, this cookbook helps developers solve real-world problems, optimize their code, and get up to date with the latest Python features.What you will learn Master core Python data structures, algorithms, and design patterns Implement object-oriented designs and functional programming features Use type matching and annotations to make more expressive programs Create useful data visualizations with Matplotlib and Pyplot Manage project dependencies and virtual environments effectively Follow best practices for code style and testing Create clear and trustworthy documentation for your projects Who this book is for This Python book is for web developers, programmers, enterprise programmers, engineers, and big data scientists. If you are a beginner, this book offers helpful details and design patterns for learning Python. If you are experienced, it will expand your knowledge base. Fundamental knowledge of Python programming and basic programming principles will be helpful

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1835460755

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Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

By: Steven Biel

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Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

By: Steven Biel

A cultural history of freelance critics and an exploration of their collective effort to construct a viable public intellectual life in the US. Independence and social engagement were the terms of self- definition and the aspirations that bound together a broad range of critics, including Randolph Bourne, Max Eastman, Walter Lippmann, Margaret Sanger, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Malcolm Cowley, and Waldo Frank. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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0814712320

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire

War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy

By: Steven Trout

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire

War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy

By: Steven Trout

A great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico. A de-facto national Vietnam veterans memorial, built by one family more than a decade before the Wall in Washington, DC, and without aid or recognition from the US government, the chapel at Angel Fire is a testament to one young American’s sacrifice—but also to the profound determination of his family to find meaning in their loss. In The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire, Steven Trout tells the story of Marine Lieutenant David Westphall, who was killed near Con Thien on May 22, 1968, and of the Westphall family’s subsequent struggle to create and maintain a one-of-a-kind memorial chapel dedicated to the memory of all Americans lost in the Vietnam War and to the cause of world peace. Focused primarily on a life lost amid our nation’s most controversial conflict and on the Westphalls’ desperate battle to keep their chapel open between 1971 and 1982, the book’s brisk and moving narrative traces the memorial’s evolution from a personal act of family remembrance to its emergence as an iconic pilgrimage destination for thousands of Vietnam veterans. Documenting the chapel’s shifting messages over time, which include a momentary (and controversial) recognition of the dead on both sides of the war, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire spotlights one American soldier’s tragic story and the monument to hope and peace that it inspired.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700629343

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James Jones

An American Literary Orientalist Master

By: Steven R. Carter

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James Jones

An American Literary Orientalist Master

By: Steven R. Carter

James Jones's spiritual beliefs were central to his great World War II trilogy From Here to Eternity. The Thin Red Line, and Whistle, as well as to the rest of his fiction. In this first book-length exploration of the subject, Steven Carter argues that Jones's ideas about reincarnation, karma, and spiritual evolution were heavily influenced by transcendentalism, theosophy, and Oriental religions. The author places Jones in what he identifies as a tradition of American literary Orientalism that includes Emerson, Thoreau, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and others. Carter bases his argument on extensive research into American literature and criticism coupled with visits and personal correspondence with Jones.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252023714

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Designs for Living

A Comparative Approach to Normalisation for the New Millennium

By: Steven Carnaby

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Designs for Living

A Comparative Approach to Normalisation for the New Millennium

By: Steven Carnaby

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the principle of normalisation informs British learning disability services by instructing them to help service users acquire behaviours and characteristics which are as 'culturally normative as possible'. While many studies have attempted to assess the efficacy of this approach, their measurement criteria are usually based on levels of competence and participation - values themselves derived from the principle of normalisation. The case study in this volume compares services in London to services in Milan, Northern Italy,where the concept of deinstitutionalisation has been interpreted differently. Recommendations are made for increasing good practice in certain aspects of British provision. A key suggestion is that consistent, legislated training for support staff in British learning disability services might contribute towards ameliorating current difficulties described by much of the contemporary research.

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Routledge

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0429863721

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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

By: Steven Cassedy

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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

By: Steven Cassedy

This book explores the word meaning as it is used in such expressions as "the meaning of life," "the search for meaning," "ultimate meaning." In many of the "metaphysical" contexts where we find the word meaning, it appears to mean "purpose," "value," "goal," "direction," and even "God." The book answers the following questions: How did the English word meaning come to carry these various sub-senses, given that its original sense has to do with signifying? When did the notion of a "meaning of life" arise in English and other languages? How does the English word meaning, which is a verbal noun, differ in these usages from the roughly equivalent words in other European languages? How did the word evolve in usage over time? How has it been used in recent decades? The book's chapters show that the usage is relatively recent, arising in the late eighteenth century in German romanticism and passing into English in the early nineteenth century; that the English word functions differently from the way its European near-equivalents do, thanks to its ability to suggest signifying and hence interpretation; that it is seldom defined and hence ambiguous and polyvalent; that it functions today in a wide variety of contexts, including psychotherapy and the continuing conversation between secularism and religion; and that ambiguity and polyvalence are actually the source of its power, since those qualities allow for flexibility in the way the word is understood"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190936908

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Henry David Thoreau

American Naturalist, Writer, and Transcendentalist

By: Steven P. Olson

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Henry David Thoreau

American Naturalist, Writer, and Transcendentalist

By: Steven P. Olson

Presents the life and career of famed American naturalist and author, Henry David Thoreau, and discusses the legacy of his work.

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Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature

Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality

By: Steven Petersheim

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Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature

Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality

By: Steven Petersheim

A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne’s romances and other writings. Hawthorne’s sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today’s readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne’s attitude toward the natural world.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498581188

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Lake Views

This World and the Universe

By: Steven Weinberg

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Lake Views

This World and the Universe

By: Steven Weinberg

Just as Henry David Thoreau “traveled a great deal in Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York Times reporter James Glanz, “a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate—and sting.” This collection presents Weinberg’s views on topics ranging from problems of cosmology to assorted world issues—military, political, and religious. Even as he moves beyond the bounds of science, each essay reflects his experience as a theoretical physicist. And as in the celebrated Facing Up, the essays express a viewpoint that is rationalist, reductionist, realist, and secular. A new introduction precedes each essay, explaining how it came to be written and bringing it up to date where necessary. As an essayist, Weinberg insists on seeing things as they are, without despair and with good humor. Sure to provoke his readers—postmodern cultural critics, enthusiasts for manned space flight or missile defense, economic conservatives, sociologists of science, anti-Zionists, and religious zealots—this book nonetheless offers the pleasure of a sustained encounter with one of the most interesting scientific minds of our time.

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Harvard University Press

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0674071999

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Faithful Performances

Enacting Christian Tradition

By: Steven R. Guthrie

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Faithful Performances

Enacting Christian Tradition

By: Steven R. Guthrie

The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory editorial chapter reflecting on the nature of artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of tradition and identity, Part One of this book attends specifically to the phenomenon of dramatic performance and possible theological applications of it. Part Two considers various aspects of the performance of Christian identity, looking at worship, the interpretation of the Bible, Christian response to elements in the contemporary media, the shape of Christian moral life, and ending with a theological reflection on the shape of personal identity, correlating it with the theatrical metaphors of 'character' and 'performing a part' in a scripted drama. Part Three demonstrates how art forms (including some technically non-performative ones - literature, poetry, painting) may constitute faithful Christian practices in which the tradition is authentically 'performed', producing works which break open its meaning in profound new ways for a constantly shifting context.

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Routledge

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Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality

By: Robert Steven Koppelman

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Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality

By: Robert Steven Koppelman

As a man who disclaimed any kind of religious orthodoxy, Robert Penn Warren nonetheless found in Christianity "the deepest and widest metaphor for life." The significance he drew from it was one he expressed strictly in humanistic and natural terms: spiritual renewal and redemption were possible through engagement with literature and participation in the world. In Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality, Robert Koppelman explores the spiritual or religious dimension to Warren's work in light of his admitted agnosticism. Beginning with an overview of Warren's career as a Fugitive at Vanderbilt and then, later, as a formidable New Critic, Koppelman argues that Warren's regard for the spiritual aesthetic of both literary language and form can be traced to his early study of poetic metaphor. To illustrate Warren's mature vision, Koppelman centers his study on two novels and two poetry collections: All the King's Men, A Place to Come To, Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. He also examines the critical studies that concentrate on Warren's vision of time, history, and spiritual fulfillment, as well as those essays by Warren that complement his poems and novels in such a way as to elicit the reader's participation in the redemption of their narrators. Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality renews Warren's commitment to experiencing both literature and life as opportunities to participate in a realm of beauty and vision that is still open to contemporary readers.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826209963

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Barack Obama

American Historian

By: Steven Sarson

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Barack Obama

American Historian

By: Steven Sarson

Barack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history. His articles, books, and speeches are replete with references to America's past and how that relates to the present he sees and the future he envisions. Exploring Obama's own words, Steven Sarson examines his interpretation of American history from colonial times to the present, showing how Obama sees American history as beginning with the “common creed” of equality and liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and the “more perfect union” created by the Constitution. He analyses Obama's understanding of the colonies, revolution, and early nation, slavery and the civil war, segregation and civil rights, economy and society, Native Americans and foreign policy. An epilogue explores how Obama personifies the American dream through the stories of individuals, including his own. A unique and fascinating take on the past and how we interpret it, this book will appeal to all students and scholars of American history, as well as anyone interested in Obama's presidency.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350032360

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New York Rock

From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB

By: Steven Blush

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New York Rock

From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB

By: Steven Blush

The definitive history of a key period in rock ‘n’ roll, from new wave to no wave, punk to punk revival, from the bestselling author of American Hardcore.

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Macmillan

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1250083613

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Free Speech and Human Dignity

By: Steven J. Heyman

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Free Speech and Human Dignity

By: Steven J. Heyman

Debates over hate speech, pornography, and other sorts of controversial speech raise issues that go to the core of the First Amendment. Supporters of regulation argue that these forms of expression cause serious injury to individuals and groups, assaultin

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Yale University Press

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0300148224

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9780300148220

A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

By: Steven Boldy

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A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

By: Steven Boldy

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English or Spanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays of the forties and fifties, especially Ficciones and El Aleph, to be his most significant works, and organizes its material in consequence. About two thirds of the book analyzes the stories of this period text by text. The early sections map Borges's intellectual trajectory up to the fifties in some detail, and up to his death more briefly. They aim to provide an account of the context which will allow the reader maximum access to the meaning and significance of his work and present a biographical narrative developed against the Argentine literary world in which Borges was a key player, the Argentine intellectual tradition in its historical context, and the Argentine and world politics to which his works respond in more or less obvious ways. STEVEN BOLDY is Reader in Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1855662663

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Krishna's Song

A New Look at the Bhagavad Gita

By: Steven J. Rosen

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Krishna's Song

A New Look at the Bhagavad Gita

By: Steven J. Rosen

Rosen offers Westerners an easy-to-read introduction to a sacred text, demystifying its considerable philosophy in a user-friendly way. This is not yet another translation, merely reiterating what the Gita itself has to say. It is rather an attempt to culturally translate the text, making use of concepts and categories to which Western readers are accustomed. By engaging familiar motifs—such as issues of modernity, pop-culture icons, and well-known philosophers in the West—the author brings the Gita into focus for non-specialists and scholars alike. Through a series of contemporary news references and insightful summaries, readers will finally understand the facts and personalities that make up the Bhagavad Gita. Using his many years of Gita-centered research, Rosen unlocks the mysteries of the text's spiritual underpinnings. He provides an overview of the Gita's narrative and teachings alongside documentation of its traditional application and more modern ways in which the text can be understood. Students and scholars alike will rejoice in how well this book lays bare the culture and the context of the Gita, resulting in a reader's deep familiarity with this most sacred of all the world's wisdom texts.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313345546

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9780313345548

Intimate and Personal Care with People with Learning Disabilities

By: Steven Carnaby,Paul Cambridge

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Intimate and Personal Care with People with Learning Disabilities

By: Steven Carnaby,Paul Cambridge

This book examines aspects of care such as training, ethnicity, sexuality and competence in practice. Topics include the nature of touch, how physical contact is intended and experienced, carers' duty of care, and risk management. The book also explores management considerations of best value, care standards, performance monitoring and inspection.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843101300

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9781843101307

Dislocating Race & Nation

Episodes in Nineteenth-century American Literary Nationalism

By: Robert Steven Levine

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Dislocating Race & Nation

Episodes in Nineteenth-century American Literary Nationalism

By: Robert Steven Levine

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British lite

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080783226X

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Rattling The Cage

Toward Legal Rights For Animals

By: Steven M. Wise

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Rattling The Cage

Toward Legal Rights For Animals

By: Steven M. Wise

Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.

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0306824000

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Constitutional Law

Cases, Materials, and Problems

By: Russell L. Weaver,Steven I. Friedland

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Constitutional Law

Cases, Materials, and Problems

By: Russell L. Weaver,Steven I. Friedland

Constitutional Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems, Sixth Edition by Russell L. Weaver and Steven Friedland is a casebook designed as a teacher’s book by stimulating thought, inviting discussion, and helping professors more effectively teach. Its thought-provoking problem approach encourages students to delve deeper into constitutional doctrine and gives them an accessible and interesting way to learn constitutional issues. Problems at the beginning of each chapter are referenced throughout the text for continuity. Principal constitutional law cases are edited as lightly as possible to allow the Supreme Court to speak for itself, with shorter notes that accompany the problems. This new edition is much shorter than previous editions so that it can be comfortably taught in a four credit, one semester course. This casebook makes Constitutional Law accessible and teachable. It will help students understand constitutional theory, lead students to greater insights, generate classroom interactivity and provide a platform for inspired learning. The casebook includes problems with many different models and formats. Many problems are factual in nature and are designed to encourage students to ponder how constitutional doctrine might apply in particular contexts. In some instances, these fact-based problems are premised upon actual cases, including U.S. Supreme Court cases. Other problems are theoretical in nature and are simply designed to help students better understand constitutional doctrine. New to the Sixth Edition. The sixth edition includes many new cases. Among them are: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (the abortion decision) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina (the affirmative action decision) West Virginia v. EPA (the major questions doctrine) Biden v. Nebraska )the student loan case) Professors and students will benefit from: ● Lightly edited cases allow students to see the fullest possible analysis of the law. ● Diverse perspectives are presented on constitutional interpretation, federalism, and public policy. ● An emphasis on federalism and other oft-marginalized topics– compared to other constitutional law casebooks, this text spends considerable time on federalism, balance of powers, and other topics that are sometimes only given passing reference. ● A complete examination of Second Amendment rights and executive power.

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