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Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation

A View from Africa

By: Thomas S. Jayne

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A View from Africa

By: Thomas S. Jayne

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294

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Nova Publishers

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1590333446

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9781590333440

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

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The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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425

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382197154

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9783382197155

Psychiatry

The Science of Lies

By: Thomas Szasz

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Psychiatry

The Science of Lies

By: Thomas Szasz

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand—physicians, patients, politicians, health insurance providers, and legal professionals—take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating nondiseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and nondisease—genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood—thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain. There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medically and politically authenticated charlatanry are left to their own intellectual and moral resources to make critical decisions about human dilemmas miscategorized as "mental diseases" and about medicalized responses misidentified as "psychiatric treatments." Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all backgrounds.

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170

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Syracuse University Press

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0815650442

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9780815650447

Instream Flow Protection

Seeking A Balance In Western Water Use

By: David M. Gillilan,Thomas C. Brown

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Instream Flow Protection

Seeking A Balance In Western Water Use

By: David M. Gillilan,Thomas C. Brown

Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous examples to illustrate their discussions, with case studies of major river systems including the Bitterroot, Clark's Fork, Colorado, Columbia, Mimbres, Mono Lake, Platte, Snake, and Wind. Policymakers, land and water managers at local, state, and federal levels, attorneys, students and researchers of water issues, and anyone concerned with instream flow protection will find the book enormously valuable.

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433

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Island Press

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1610910877

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9781610910873

Think Tanks in America

By: Thomas Medvetz

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Think Tanks in America

By: Thomas Medvetz

A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they’ve had on the United States. Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they produce? Where does their authority come from? And how influential have they become? In Think Tanks in America, Thomas Medvetz argues that the unsettling ambiguity of the think tank is less an accidental feature of its existence than the very key to its impact. By combining elements of more established sources of public knowledge—universities, government agencies, businesses, and the media—think tanks exert a tremendous amount of influence on the way citizens and lawmakers perceive the world, unbound by the more clearly defined roles of those other institutions. In the process, they transform the government of this country, the press, and the political role of intellectuals. Timely, succinct, and instructive, this provocative book will force us to rethink our understanding of the drivers of political debate in the United States.

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339

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University of Chicago Press

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0226517306

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9780226517308

Web Programming

Techniques for Integrating Python, Linux, Apache, and MySQL

By: George Kuriakose Thiruvathukal,John P. Shafaee,Thomas W. Christopher

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Web Programming

Techniques for Integrating Python, Linux, Apache, and MySQL

By: George Kuriakose Thiruvathukal,John P. Shafaee,Thomas W. Christopher

This book is aimed at the practicing programmer seeking to use Python and Linux to rapidly develop web and enterprise services. Will be especially important to those involved in e-commerce programming.

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772

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Prentice Hall

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0130410659

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9780130410658

Buying Time

Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

By: Thomas F. McDow

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Buying Time

Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

By: Thomas F. McDow

In Buying Time, Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain how, in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. That vibrant and enormously influential swath extended from the desert fringes of Arabia to Zanzibar and the Swahili coast and on to the Congo River watershed. In the half century before European colonization, Africans and Arabs from coasts and hinterlands used newfound sources of credit to seek out opportunities, establish new outposts in distant places, and maintain families in a rapidly changing economy. They used temporizing strategies to escape drought in Oman, join ivory caravans in the African interior, and build new settlements. The key to McDow’s analysis is a previously unstudied trove of Arabic business deeds that show complex variations on the financial transactions that underwrote the trade economy across the region. The documents list names, genealogies, statuses, and clan names of a wide variety of people—Africans, Indians, and Arabs; men and women; free and slave—who bought, sold, and mortgaged property. Through unprecedented use of these sources, McDow moves the historical analysis of the Indian Ocean beyond connected port cities to reveal the roles of previously invisible people.

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Ohio University Press

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0821446096

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9780821446096

American-Japanese Security Agreements, Past and Present

By: Thomas A. Drohan

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American-Japanese Security Agreements, Past and Present

By: Thomas A. Drohan

What led two mortal enemies to become allies nine years after the end of World War II? When the Allies began their occupation of defeated Axis countries, many people favored a program of harsh reparation and demilitarization. For the United States, this was tempered with a desire not only to prevent such a war from happening again but to help the occupied countries rebuild their economic and political infrastructure. This aspiration, coupled with the rise of communist China and its perceived threat not only to Southeast Asia but the world, formed the catalyst for a U.S.-Japanese alliance. The alliance between the United States and Japan persists in spite of changing political world views. The changes which have affected world politics have often resulted in corresponding adjustments to the U.S.-Japan security agreement. From 1954 to the present day, this volume takes an in-depth look at the fundamental nature of the relationship. The book addresses the historical origins of security relations in both countries and the ways in which these formed the basis for their postwar security cooperation and examines the negotiated set of shared military, economic and political agreements and expectations which have shaped their relationship. The work's main focus, however, is the way in which this alliance has evolved. Four cases of significant policy change--in 1960, 1981, 1987 and 1997--are analyzed along with a discussion of the relevant strategic and tactical realities of the time. The reactions of the United States and Japan to recent events such as Iraq's Kuwait invasion and the 2001 terrorist attacks on America are also discussed. Numerous tables are included.

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225

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McFarland

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1476607753

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9781476607757

Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies

By: Thomas E. Pickenpaugh

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Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies

By: Thomas E. Pickenpaugh

Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies By: Thomas E. Pickenpaugh Discover the role that psychology plays in the how rulers across the world have traditionally dressed, as well as the logic behind them. From the use of the teeth of dominant predators in cultural dress to the modern-day businessman’s necktie, Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies examines trends in fashion that have historically been symbolic of rank, power, and authority.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1685370497

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Book's by Thomas W. Christopher

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Instream Flow Protection

Instream Flow Protection

Think Tanks in America

Think Tanks in America

Web Programming

Web Programming

Buying Time

Buying Time

American-Japanese Security Agreements, Past and Present

American-Japanese Security Agreements, Past and Present

Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies

Symbols of Leadership in Traditional and Modern Societies

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