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Lone Star

A History of Texas and the Texans

By: T. R. Fehrenbach

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Lone Star

A History of Texas and the Texans

By: T. R. Fehrenbach

The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

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1497609704

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Feminist Security Studies

A Narrative Approach

By: Annick T. R. Wibben

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Feminist Security Studies

A Narrative Approach

By: Annick T. R. Wibben

This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies. The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and other) narratives to be recognized and taken seriously as security narratives. To make this possible, it presents a feminist reading of security studies that aims to invigorate the debate and radicalize critical security studies. Since feminism is a political project, and security studies are, at their base, about particular visions of the political and their attendant institutions, this is of necessity a political intervention. The book works through and beyond security studies to explore possible spaces where an opening of security, necessary to make way for feminist insights, can take place. While it develops and illustrates a feminist narrative approach to security, it is also intended as an intervention that challenges the politics of security and the meanings for security legitimized in existing practices. This book provides develops a comprehensive framework for the emerging field of feminist security studies and will be of great interest to students and scholars of feminist IR, critical security studies, gender studies and IR and security studies in general.

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Routledge

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113685259X

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9781136852596

New Orleans

A Writer's City

By: T. R. Johnson

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New Orleans

A Writer's City

By: T. R. Johnson

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.

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Cambridge University Press

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100907654X

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Aluminum-Lithium Alloys

Chapter 3. Phase Diagrams and Phase Reactions in Al–Li Alloys

By: N. Eswara Prasad,T.R. Ramachandran

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Aluminum-Lithium Alloys

Chapter 3. Phase Diagrams and Phase Reactions in Al–Li Alloys

By: N. Eswara Prasad,T.R. Ramachandran

The formation of metastable and equilibrium phases in binary Al–Li, ternary Al–Li–Mg and Al–Li–Cu, and quaternary Al–Cu–Li–Mg alloys has been studied by using a variety of experimental techniques including differential scanning calorimetry, electrical resistivity, X-ray diffraction, conventional and high-resolution electron microscopy and 3D atom probe measurements. Al3Li (δ′) is the strengthening phase in binary Al–Li and ternary Al–Li–Mg alloys. Mg reduces the solubility of Li in Al and also substitutes for Li in δ′. The characteristics of θ′ (and θ) and T1 phases in Al–Li–Cu alloys and the composition limits where these phases are formed are well understood. For low Li contents (1.4–1.5%). Formation of T1 is promoted by small additions of Ag and Mg and by cold work prior to artificial aging. Zr forms the metastable β′ (Al3Zr) phase, which has an appreciable effect on retarding recrystallization besides providing nucleation sites for composite δ′ particles. Sc and Yb additions behave in a similar way; the added advantage is improved creep strength. The available information from phase equilibria studies of Al–Li–Cu–Mg alloys is somewhat limited, but sufficient to give an indication of the desirable solution treatment and aging temperatures and the phases formed at these temperatures. 3D atom probe studies suggest the involvement of Mg atoms in the formation of clusters which lead to the formation of the T1 phase, during artificial ageing of aging of quenched Al–Cu–Mg–Ag alloys. All these aspects are covered in detail, with specific reference to different commercial and semi-commercial Al–Li alloys, wherever possible.

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0128068418

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Journey Through the Mirror

Book Two of the Rising World Trilogy

By: T. R. Williams

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Journey Through the Mirror

Book Two of the Rising World Trilogy

By: T. R. Williams

Following Journey Into the Flame—“a spiritual adventure of the first order” (New York Times bestselling author Felix Palma)—comes the second part in a post-apocalyptic trilogy about a set of ancient books that hold the key to humanity’s survival. In 2030, after the Great Disruption brought humanity to the brink of a second dark age, the Chronicles of Satraya were discovered, restoring hope in the world. But the secret powers in their pages remained largely unknown. There were some, however, who understood them. The Reges Hominum, the Kings of Men, a clandestine group influencing history from the shadows, sought to use their hidden gifts to regain world control. But their plans were foiled by an unlikely group: Alain Perrot, an eccentric old man and former member of the Council of Satraya; Special Agent Valerie Perrot, his daughter; and Logan Ford, a young painter who discovered he was the son of one of the Chronicles’ original finders, long since murdered in an effort to protect them. Soon, seemingly unrelated global events pull Logan and his allies into another contest with those enemies determined to bring a rising world back down. The earth’s still-recovering energy supply is put at risk. Illnesses spread. Earthquakes without epicenters shatter the land. And the only things holding the world together are the Chronicles, connected to a series of scattered, hidden mirrors around the globe. With T.R. Williams’s trademark excitement, mystery, magic, and deep wisdom, the second book in the Rising World trilogy ensures that you will never look at your reflection the same way again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476713421

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Journey Into the Flame

Book One of the Rising World Trilogy

By: T. R. Williams

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Journey Into the Flame

Book One of the Rising World Trilogy

By: T. R. Williams

In 2027, the Great Disruption shook the world. An unexplained solar storm struck the earth, shifting it four degrees south on its axis. Everything went dark. Humanity was on the verge of despair. Then a man named Camden Ford discovered a set of ancient books called the Chronicles of Satraya. Thirty years later, the world is a different place. Thanks to the teachings of the Chronicles, hope has been restored, cities rebuilt, technology advanced. The books also have a different owner: Logan Cutler, who inherited them when Camden mysteriously disappeared. But when Logan auctions off the books to pay his debts, they fall into the wrong hands. The Reges Hominum, a clandestine group that once ruled history from the shadows, is launching a worldwide conspiracy to regain control. Soon Logan realizes he’s made a terrible mistake. With the help of special agent Valerie Perrot and the wisdom of the Chronicles as his guide, he embarks on an epic quest to get the books back before it’s too late.

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1476713367

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9781476713366

Birth of the Uber-Woman

A young woman sets out to fulfill her father's failed dream

By: T.R. McCormack

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Birth of the Uber-Woman

A young woman sets out to fulfill her father's failed dream

By: T.R. McCormack

About the Book Valerie Rand has always succeeded at everything she does; she excels in school and is easily the best player on any high school sports team she joins. When Valerie learns of her father’s dream to become a professional wrestler before his disability made it impossible, she decides to make professional wrestling her dream as well. After much hard work and practice, Valerie enrolls in college with the hopes of joining the men’s wrestling team, but for the first time in her life, Valerie will face incredible hurdles, from a prejudiced coach to irritating teammates, threatening to stop her from achieving her goal.

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Dorrance Publishing

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Walking with Angels

By: T. R. Allen

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Walking with Angels

By: T. R. Allen

A modern-day Job story that will make you wonder: "What would your life be like if you could see the truth?"As a teenage girl Aural Phoenix is not very popular despite her above-average looks. She has only one friend and spends most of her time wrapped up in her Bible alone at home. The reason for her hermitage is simple: As a child she gained the gift of being able to see into the spirit world and made the mistake of revealing this truth to her friends. They didn't believe her, but when she stuck to her guns she was labeled a "freak".Now being treated by a psychologist capable of locking her away because she will not lie about the truth of her sight, (lying only makes the demons laugh at her), Aural tries her best to explain herself and her life to the doctor. When she's done, things go from bad to WORSE!

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iUniverse

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0595226590

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9780595226597

Hymenoptera and Conservation

By: T. R. New

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Hymenoptera and Conservation

By: T. R. New

Hymenoptera, the bees, wasps and ant, are one of the largest insect orders, and have massive ecological importance as pollinators and as predators or parasitoids of other insects. These roles have brought them forcefully to human notice , as governors of some key ecological services that strongly influence human food supply. Recent declines of pollinators and introductions of alien pests or biological control agents are only part of the current concerns for conservation of Hymenoptera, and of the interactions in which they participate in almost all terrestrial ecosystems. Both pests and beneficial species abound within the order, sometimes closely related within the same families. Many taxa are both difficult to identify, and very poorly known. This global overview, the first such account for the whole of the Hymenoptera, discusses a broad range of themes to introduce the insects and their conservation roles and needs, and how their wellbeing may be approached. The book is intended as a source of information for research workers, students, conservation managers and naturalists as an introduction to the importance of this dominant insect order.

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1118381327

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9781118381328

U.S. Marines in Action

Two Hundred Years of Guts and Glory

By: T. R. Fehrenbach

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U.S. Marines in Action

Two Hundred Years of Guts and Glory

By: T. R. Fehrenbach

Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself. U.S. Marines in Action provides a comprehensive and stirring account of the activities of the military corps that has become synonymous with guts and glory. Fehrenbach dramatizes the incredible heroism of the leathernecks over two centuries of peacekeeping missions in every corner of the globe.

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1497609763

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Analysis of Seawater

A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist

By: T.R. Crompton

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Analysis of Seawater

A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist

By: T.R. Crompton

This practice-oriented guidebook collects nearly all methods published since 1975 on the chemical analysis of seawaters. Detailed descriptions of both classical and most advanced physico-chemical and chemical techniques including 45 tables and 48 figures make this volume an invaluable source for analysts, oceanographers, fisheries experts, politicians and decision makers engaged in seawater environmental protection. The methods are presented in a logical manner so that the reader can readily learn to perform them.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540267638

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Year of Our Lord

Faith, Hope, and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta

By: T. R. Pearson

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Year of Our Lord

Faith, Hope, and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta

By: T. R. Pearson

Lucas McCarty lives in the Mississippi Delta. He is the only white congregant in the African-American Trinity House of Prayer Holiness church. Lucas is bereft of the ability to speak due to cerebral palsy, yet he sings there in the church choir. Thus is the subject of Year of Our Lord, a portrait of courage, acceptance and grace, rendered in the lyrical prose of T.R. Pearson and the haunting photographs of Langdon Clay. Year of Our Lord is a visual journey, exploring one of the poorest parts of the American South, a place that economic progress has left behind. And it is a spiritual journey, a revelation of a community that has replaced the hope for earthly prosperity with an abundance of faith in God and the life beyond. The Delta¿s is a culture that can look upon Lucas and say, ¿God don¿t make mistakes.¿ It is a place that in the face of abject poverty can proclaim, life offers ¿too much joy!¿ Year of Our Lord, then, is an opportunity to see into another¿s world, and to embrace the best of it.

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Mockingbird Publishing

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0982852819

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9780982852811

Toxicants in Aqueous Ecosystems

A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist

By: T.R. Crompton

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Toxicants in Aqueous Ecosystems

A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist

By: T.R. Crompton

It is becoming increasingly realised that the oceans and rivers, in particular, are not unlimited reservoir into which waste can be dumped and that control of these emissions is necessary if complete destruction of the environment is to be avoided. T. R. Crompton has drawn together up-to-date information on these issues and on the relevant analytical methods needed by all experts active in environmental protection and toxicology.

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3540357416

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Heme and Hemoproteins

By: K.W. Bock,G.H. Elder,L.G. Israels,G.S. Marcks,F. De Matteis,J.D. Maxwell,U.A. Meyer,H.L. Rayner,H.L. Remmer,S. Sassa,B.A. Schacter,G.H. Tait,T.R. Tephly,D.P. Tschudy

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Heme and Hemoproteins

By: K.W. Bock,G.H. Elder,L.G. Israels,G.S. Marcks,F. De Matteis,J.D. Maxwell,U.A. Meyer,H.L. Rayner,H.L. Remmer,S. Sassa,B.A. Schacter,G.H. Tait,T.R. Tephly,D.P. Tschudy

The study of the biological effects of foreign chemicals (whether therapeutic drugs or chemicals present at work or in the environment) interests the biologist from a number of different and complementary viewpoints. Apart from the more obvious pharmacological and toxicological interest, the experimentalist often uses foreign chemicals to produce in experimental animals disease states similar to naturally occurring diseases, so that their pathogenetic mechanisms and therapy can be studied under controlled conditions. In addition - as Claude Bernard pointed out over a century ago - foreign chemicals can be employed as instruments to analyze the most delicate vital processes; much can be learned about the physiological processes themselves by a careful study of the mechanisms by which these are altered by chemicals. The field of heme and hemoproteins offers an example of the interplay of these different approaches. Their metabolism can be altered by therapeutic drugs and other foreign chemicals and this results in a variety of biological responses that transcend the boundaries of pharmacology into the confines of clinical medi cine, genetics, toxicology, biochemistry and physiology. In this book a multidisciplinary approach to the study of heme metabolism is presented including the effect of chemicals on heme metabolism in patients, the results of experimental work in the whole animal, as well as in vitro studies.

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3540084606

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Ecological Methods

With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations

By: T.R. Southwood

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Ecological Methods

With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations

By: T.R. Southwood

The virtual impossibility of extracting the many different species from a habitat with equal efficiency by a single method (e.g. Nef, 1960). 1.1 Population estimates Population estimates can be classified into a number of different types; the most convenient classification is that adopted by Morris (1955), although he used the terms somewhat differently in a later paper (1960). 1.1.1 Absolute and related estimates The animal numbers may be expressed as a density per unit area of the ground of the habitat. Such estimates are given by nearest neighbour and related techniques (Chapter 2), marking and recapture (Chapter 3), by sampling a known fraction of the habitat (Chapter 4-6) and by removal sampling and random walk techniques (Chapter 7). Absolute population The number of animals per unit area (e.g. hectare, acre). It is almost impossible to construct a budget or to study mortality factors without the conversion of population estimates to absolute figures, for not only do insects often move from the plant to the soil at different developmental stages, but the amount of plant material is itself always changing. The importance of obtaining absolute estimates cannot be overemphasized.

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9401572917

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9789401572910

The Lady Was a Spy

By: TR Garrison

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The Lady Was a Spy

By: TR Garrison

JEAN WEBB GREW UP WITHOUT A FATHER in the years after World War I, and she learned early on that she needed to go after what she wanted. Following in the footsteps of her Marine lieutenant father, she decided to serve her country, joining the Reserve Officers Training Corps while at Missouri University. Graduating with high honors, she became a second lieutenant in the US Army Intelligence Corps. After learning German and working at Army headquarters, she was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, where she participated in important and dangerous missions during World War II. When the war was over her work wasnt done: She spent a year and a half catching escaped Nazis and kicking communists out of northern Italy before settling down to a calm life as a private investigator in Phoenix, Arizona. But only six months passed before an undercover FBI agent in Mexico discovered that a hit had been put on Jeans head. A past that she thought was over had caught up with her, and Jean was called back into action.

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1491766182

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Comprehensive Water Analysis

Two volume set

By: T R Crompton

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Comprehensive Water Analysis

Two volume set

By: T R Crompton

This book brings together in one place all available information on the determination of metals, organics, organometallic compounds, anions, cations, dissolved gases, radioactive substances and miscellaneous determinands in natural and treated waters.

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CRC Press

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0203498410

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9780203498415

Determination of Organic Compounds in Natural and Treated Waters

By: T R Crompton

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Determination of Organic Compounds in Natural and Treated Waters

By: T R Crompton

A comprehensive reference which draws together and systematises the information available on the occurrence and determination of organic substances in all types of non-saline and saline natural and treated waters. It provides a comprehensive description of organic compounds in all natural and treated water types. The book includes a series of table

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0203016351

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9780203016350

British Railways 1948-73

A Business History

By: T. R. Gourvish,N. Blake

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British Railways 1948-73

A Business History

By: T. R. Gourvish,N. Blake

Originally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalised industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government. After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948-2), Railway Executive (1948-53) and British Railways Board (1963-73). Calculations of profit and loss, investment, and productivity are provided on a consistent basis for 1948-73. This business history thus represents a major contribution not only to the debate about the role of the railways in a modern economy but also to that concerning the nationalised industries, which have proved to be one of the most enduring problems of the British economy since the war.

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0521264804

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9780521264808

The Drama of Social Life

Essays in Post-Modern Social Psychology

By: T. R. Young

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The Drama of Social Life

Essays in Post-Modern Social Psychology

By: T. R. Young

These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other. Young argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the “colonization of desire.” Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, kinship, friendship and community. While Young focuses his critique on capitalist societies undergoing great changes, he insists that the same developments are to be found in bureaucratically organized socialist societies. The Drama of Social Life is of interest to those who study theories of moral development, cultural studies, the uses of leisure, politics, or simply the uses of “make believe.” It is intended for the informed lay public as much as for social psychologists.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412863449

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Insect Species Conservation

By: T. R. New

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Insect Species Conservation

By: T. R. New

This book brings together scattered information on insect conservation, providing a robust foundation for future progress, using examples from around the world.

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0521510775

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D. H. Lawrence and the Bible

By: T. R. Wright

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D. H. Lawrence and the Bible

By: T. R. Wright

Wright's study sheds light not only on his work but on the Bible on the creative process itself.

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The Muse in the Machine

Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic

By: T. R. Hummer

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The Muse in the Machine

Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic

By: T. R. Hummer

Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. Hummer writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the divided soul of his native American South, and the salving, transcendent practice of musicianship. Inevitably entwined with a personal or cultural component, Hummer's criticism is thus grounded in experience that is always familiar and often straight to the heart in its rightness. In one of those statements of "poetic purpose" that goes hand in hand with a residency, guest editorship, or lecture tour, Hummer once wrote that "poetry inhabits and enunciates an incommensurable zone between individual and collective, between body and body politic, an area very ill-negotiated by most of us most of the time. Our culture, with its emphasis on the individual mind and body, teaches us very little about how even to think about the nature of this problem. . . . E pluribus unum is a smokescreen: what pluribus; what unum? And yet this phrase is an American mantra, as if it explained something." This is a quintessential Hummer moment: a writer has just given himself a good reason to quit. What Hummer knows must happen next is what The Muse in the Machine is all about.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820342785

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Chromatography of Natural, Treated and Waste Waters

By: T.R Crompton

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Chromatography of Natural, Treated and Waste Waters

By: T.R Crompton

Chromatography of Natural, Treated and Waste Waters is the first book to bring together information of a range of chromatographic techniques in all types of water, precipitation to sewage effluents. Organic and inorganic compounds, cations, anions and elements are all discussed. Particular attention is paid to multi compound analysis of water, and

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1482288214

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Image Government

Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702

By: T. R. Langley

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Image Government

Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702

By: T. R. Langley

Spin' seems to be everywhere in politics nowadays, and is often spoken of as if it were entirely new. This book gives the lie to that claim, showing how the art of the spin-doctor was widely practised over three hundred years ago. The term 'art'is used here in the sense of artistic imagery as well as of the skill of the spinner in manipulating opinion. Langley discusses the work of authors such as Edmund Waller and painters like Antonio Verrio to illuminate the changing ideologies of the late Stuart era and the way in which ideas about sovereignty were expressed by artists. Image Government traces some of the cranks and windings, ebbings and flowings that lead from Charles I's downfall to Queen Anne's coronation, as they are registered in printed literature and visual art. The poetry of Marvell and Dryden, multifarious political writings by greater and lesser figures, and the works of significant divines like the Whiggish Burnet, and Hickes, doyen of the non-jurers, are all used to show how the expression of ideas changed in the second half of the seventeenth century. While his awareness of the contributions of modern scholarship is everywhere apparent, the author shows a magisterial grasp of often under-exploited primary sources. This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all students and scholars of later seventeenth-century literature, history and art in bringing to light aspects of sovereignty and the underlying principles of political cohesion in the period which have hitherto been little understood.

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0227679636

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9780227679630

Deadly Ghost Arrows

By: TR Garrison

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Deadly Ghost Arrows

By: TR Garrison

Private Investigator Jean Webb receives a shocking call from Washington, DC. Her best friend at the FBI was viciously murdered in Phoenix while investigating a tip that could have helped him bring down the mob. FBI Deputy Director Collins appoints Jean as a temporary Special Agent to look into the case for the Committee on Organized Crime. Jeans background speaks for itself. She was a CIA operative, and she worked with the FBI, hunting down Nazi war criminals. This PI isnt afraid to get her hands dirty, and she vows to find the assassin who killed her friend. First, she must take on the mafia and find their hired gun, which turns out to be a woman known as Tigress. This killer is known for killing her victims using ghost arrows dipped in deadly snake venom. Not only does Jean plan on holding Tigress responsible, but she plans to bust the mob as an act of vengeance too. A nationwide manhunt begins and ends in Tucson, Arizona, at the University of Arizona stadium, where secrets revealed could spell trouble for Jean and the people she loves.

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Why Do Good People Suffer Bad Things

Discovering the Root Causes of Human Suffering - and What You Can and Cannot Do about It!

By: TR Williams

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Why Do Good People Suffer Bad Things

Discovering the Root Causes of Human Suffering - and What You Can and Cannot Do about It!

By: TR Williams

You are not alone if you struggle to understand why unwanted, unexplainable, and inconceivable bad things happen to innocent people! Never before have there been so many questions like: How could a loving God permit good people to suffer bad things and often make it appear as though the guilty are rewarded or go scot free? Why are there so many things in the world that seem unfair or unjust? Why does God seemingly hide his face from much of the horrific evil, pain and destruction? Does God really care? Is it fair for humans to be angry with God about their misfortune or suffering? Why are there so many good people accused falsely for their suffering? What defence mechanisms can I put in place to minimize evil, suffering, pain, misfortune, and the devil’s influence in my own life? What purpose does suffering, and pain serve in human life? These are some of the most thought-provoking, spiritually intuitive, deeply agitating, and most frequent questions asked by countless individuals, especially by those who believe that there is a God.

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1525531573

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Intensive Beef Production

By: T. R. Preston,M. B. Willis

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Intensive Beef Production

By: T. R. Preston,M. B. Willis

Intensive Beef Production, Second Edition focuses on the technologies, methodologies, and approaches involved in beef production, including genetics, breeding, feed utilization, fertility, and growth efficiency. The publication first elaborates on the beef market, carcass composition and quality, and genetic improvement. Discussions focus on breeding systems, correlation between traits, selection for meat production in dairy cattle, body weight and composition, carcass evaluation, consumption, and international trade. The book then examines genotype, physiology of digestion and feed utilization, and beef calf production, including factors controlling feed intake, nitrogen utilization, artificial methods of augmenting fertility, birth weight, calf mortality, and weaning weight. The text takes a look at dairy calf production, breed, sex, and hormones, and growth and efficiency. Topics include energy concentration and source, grain processing, protein, antibiotics, vitamins, growth mechanisms, breed, hormones, breed suitability, and mortality and disease. The book is a valuable reference for researchers interested in beef production.

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