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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. II

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. II

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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3385129982

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9783385129986

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

By: Kay R. Jamison,Thomas A. Traill

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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

By: Kay R. Jamison,Thomas A. Traill

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work"--

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Knopf

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0307700275

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The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908-1916

The Pediment for the House Wing of the United States Capitol

By: Thomas P. Somma

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The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908-1916

The Pediment for the House Wing of the United States Capitol

By: Thomas P. Somma

The art of Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865-1925) and turn-of-the-century sculpture in general have been attracting increasing attention. A leading American sculptor of international reputation, Bartlett was one of the best-known artists in the United States." "Bartlett's sculptural decoration for the House pediment at the U.S. Capitol Building was his most prestigious public monument and one of the most historically important federal commissions to be awarded in the United States during the early twentieth century. Its installation in the long-vacant House pediment finally brought to completion a project of Capitol expansion that had begun more than a half-century earlier. As such, it provides a valuable opportunity for exploring the early development of government-sponsored public sculpture in the United States. Unveiled just eight months prior to U.S. entry into World war I, the pediment also represents one of the most visible public expressions of the ideals of the late American Renaissance (1876-1917)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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University of Delaware Press

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0874135281

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Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications

By: Thomas T. Samaras

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Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications

By: Thomas T. Samaras

Several books have been published on scaling in biology and its ramifications in the animal kingdom. However, none has specifically examined the multifaceted effects of how changes in human height create disproportionately larger changes in weight, surface area, strength and other physiological parameters. Yet, the impact of these non-linear effects on individual humans as well as our world's environment is enormous. Since increasing human body size has widespread ramifications, this book presents findings on the human species and its ecological niche. its community and how the species interacts with its environment. Thus, a few chapters provide an ecological overview of how increasing human body size relates to human evolution, fitness, health, survival and the environment. This book provides a unique purview of the laws of scaling on human performance, health, longevity and the environment. Numerous examples from various research disciplines are used to illustrate the impact of increasing body size on many aspects of human enterprises, including work output, athletics and intellectual performance.

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Nova Publishers

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1600214088

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Yours Ever

People and Their Letters

By: Thomas Mallon

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Yours Ever

People and Their Letters

By: Thomas Mallon

A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature—a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.

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353

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Vintage

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0307378640

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9780307378644

Pliny's Defense of Empire

By: Thomas R. Laehn

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Pliny's Defense of Empire

By: Thomas R. Laehn

Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels intellectually incapable of formulating a cogent argument supported through the selective marshaling of his materials. In Pliny’s Defense of Empire, Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the architecture of Pliny’s encyclopedia, exposing fundamental errors in the inherited understanding of the text traceable to its initial reception in ancient Rome. Recognition of the text’s true structure reveals that Pliny’s encyclopedia is in fact a first-rate work of political philosophy constituting an apology for Roman imperial expansionism grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. Correcting the accreted errors and prejudices of nearly 2,000 years of faulty Plinian scholarship, Laehn critically examines one of the most persuasive apologies for the Roman Empire ever written and succeeds in rehabilitating the Elder Pliny as one of the world’s greatest political thinkers. An excellent resource and a must read for scholars in political theory, philosophy, and classical studies.

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168

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Routledge

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1136676244

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9781136676246

Norfolk

The First Four Centuries

By: Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger

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Norfolk

The First Four Centuries

By: Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger

This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813919886

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9780813919881

Landfall

A Novel

By: Thomas Mallon

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Landfall

A Novel

By: Thomas Mallon

Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years—amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina—Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax. The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify the panoply of characters around him. They include his acerbic, crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; his desperately correct and eager-to-please secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice; the gnomic and manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; foreign leaders from Tony Blair to Vladimir Putin; and the caustic one-woman chorus of Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas. A gallery of political and media figures, from the widowed Nancy Reagan to the philandering John Edwards to the brilliantly contrarian Christopher Hitchens, bring the novel and the era to life. The story is deepened and driven by a love affair between two West Texans, Ross Weatherall and Allison O'Connor, whose destinies have been affixed to Bush's since they were teenagers in the 1970s. The true believer and the skeptic who end up exchanging ideological places in a romantic and political drama that unfolds in locations from New Orleans to Baghdad and during the parties, press conferences, and state funerals of Washington, D.C.

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Vintage

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1101871067

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9781101871065

Light Through the Darkness

By: Dwayne Thomas Smith

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Light Through the Darkness

By: Dwayne Thomas Smith

Like a great preaching from the pulpit, "Light through the Darkness" speaks to the generations. The message gives glory to God and guidance for readers that will direct them back to the word of God. (Prayer/Spirituality/Devotions)

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Xulon Press

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1594679053

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Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing

By: Karl Hörmann,Thomas Verse

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Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing

By: Karl Hörmann,Thomas Verse

Nasal continuous positive airway pressure ventilation is the gold standard in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. Long-term compliance rates are about 60%. Therefore, several alternative treatment options are of special interest. Beside conservative therapies, various surgical concepts exist. The field of surgery for sleep disordered breathing has rapidly grown with new instrumentation and surgical techniques in the last 10 years. Surgeons in these fields have to attend scientific meetings, participate in workshops, and read the literature to stay up to date. In our sleep laboratories we conduct 30 polysomnographies each night. Each year, we perform almost 1,000 surgical procedures for sleep disordered breathing apart from numerous other conservative and apparative treatment modalities. Referring to our expe- ence and the present literature, we tried to give new information on surgical techniques in this second edition. The chapters are grouped in different anatomical fields of interest. We wanted to give general advice and specific new hints for the surgery of sleep disordered breathing so that the reader learns basic techniques followed by more advanced surgery. In addition to the illustrated surgical descriptions, the chapters contain informations about indications and contraindications of each surgical procedure and the postoperative care. Special interest has been dedicated to evidence-based medicine. So in each chapter, there is a table of references summarizing the effectiveness of the procedure and EBM grade.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540777865

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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

By: Thomas Chambers

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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

By: Thomas Chambers

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical mobility and connectedness. By working across the dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive detail is intersected with spatial scales of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘international’, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and continuity. Empirically, then, the book provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders, connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and economic or social flux.

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UCL Press

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1787354539

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Heretics and Heroes

How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

By: Thomas Cahill

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Heretics and Heroes

How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

By: Thomas Cahill

The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning News This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies—and of unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can, the great gift-givers who shaped our history—those who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.

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0385495587

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The 1996 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

By: Thomas Jay Kemp

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The 1996 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

By: Thomas Jay Kemp

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842027408

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9780842027403

Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969

By: Thomas Clarkin

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Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969

By: Thomas Clarkin

A study of the shift in American Indian and white relations as both Presidents favored new policies that would have fostered the survival of American Indian cultures and heritages, yet they faced opposition from western senators who insisted on carrying out the so-called termination policies.

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UNM Press

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082632262X

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9780826322623

Seeing Between the Pixels

Pictures in Interactive Systems

By: Christine Strothotte,Thomas Strothotte

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Seeing Between the Pixels

Pictures in Interactive Systems

By: Christine Strothotte,Thomas Strothotte

This practical and informative book highlights the relationship between pictures and linguistic representations of information. The authors define a new classification for pictures that focuses on the tasks users carry out with the help of images on computer screens, and present a model for analyzing and influencing the flow of information. For specialists in computer science, the book bridges the gap between computer graphics and human-computer interaction, while for general readers, it offers a wealth of insights and practical advice on how to use pictures as a medium of communication.

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3642603610

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908-1916

The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908-1916

Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Yours Ever

Yours Ever

Pliny's Defense of Empire

Pliny's Defense of Empire

Norfolk

Norfolk

Landfall

Landfall

Light Through the Darkness

Light Through the Darkness

Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing

Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

Heretics and Heroes

Heretics and Heroes

The 1996 Genealogy Annual

The 1996 Genealogy Annual

Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969

Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969

Seeing Between the Pixels

Seeing Between the Pixels

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