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New Geographies of the American West

Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place

By: William Riebsame Travis

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New Geographies of the American West

Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place

By: William Riebsame Travis

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the ecological and social outcomes of Western development. Unlike previous "boom" periods dependent on oil or gold, the modern population explosion in the West reflects a sustained passion for living in this specific landscape. But the encroaching exurbs, ranchettes, and ski resorts are slicing away at the very environment that Westerners cherish. Efforts to manage growth in the West are usually stymied at the state and local levels. Is it possible to improve development patterns within the West's traditional anti-planning, pro-growth milieu, or is a new model needed? Can the region develop sustainably, protecting and managing its defining wildness, while benefiting from it, too? Travis takes up the challenge , suggesting that functional and attractive settlement can be embedded in preserved lands, working landscapes, and healthy ecologies.

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Island Press

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1597266140

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Decolonizing Preaching

Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

By: Sarah Travis

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Decolonizing Preaching

Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

By: Sarah Travis

Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners. In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis argues that sermons have a role in shaping the identity and ethics of listeners by helping them formulate responses to empire and colonization. Travis employs postcolonial theories to provide important insights for the practice of preaching today. She also turns to the social doctrine of the Trinity to offer a vision of the divine/human community that effectively deconstructs colonizing discourse. This book offers preachers and other practical theologians a gentle introduction to colonial history, postcolonial theories, and Social Trinitarian theology, while equipping them with tools to decolonize preaching and strategies for preventing, resisting, and responding to colonizing discourse. Travis effectively casts a vision of a "perichoretic space" in which preacher and listener encounter the living God-in-Trinity and are transformed, reconciled, and sent out to others in the church and beyond.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630876623

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9781630876623

A London Year

365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters

By: Travis Elborough,Nick Rennison

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A London Year

365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters

By: Travis Elborough,Nick Rennison

DIVA London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. This ebook edition, with its own distinct cover, has been optimised for the digital reader. A hyperlinked contents page makes it easy for the reader to dip in and out of the book while each 'page' is dedicated to a separate day. To further improve formatting, the illustrations from the printed edition have been omitted. We promise this does not detract from the reading experience. This ebook serves as the perfect accompaniment to the print edition. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of todayâ€™s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common. Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the cityâ€™s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, the ebook of A London Year is the perfect read for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city./div

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Frances Lincoln Adult

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1781311447

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Museum Musings: the Complete Collection

By: Travis Monday

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Museum Musings: the Complete Collection

By: Travis Monday

Contains the complete collection of 62 articles (without the photos) previously published by the author in the Sweetwater Reporter in Sweetwater, Texas, about the history of Nolan County, Texas, and the surrounding area. Includes an index and additional chronologies designed especially for researchers and family historians. Topics include: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Royal Air Force (RAF), Double Heart Ranch and Rodeo, Harley Sadler, Lew Jenkins, Elvis Presley, Sweetwater Fire Department, Law Enforcement Stories (Lawmen & Outlaws), Cowboys and Indians, Frank Hamer, Drive In Theaters, Pan Zareta (famous horse), Coca-Cola, Hospitals and Courthouses of Nolan County, Grogan Wells, Santa Fe Roundhouse, C-47 Airplane Crash, S. D. Myres, Salty Pups Football Team (Sweetwater Mustangs), Dorothy Scarborough (The Wind), Mulberry Mansion, and others.

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Lulu.com

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1411628349

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9781411628342

Before Kukulkán

Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná

By: Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina,Travis W. Stanton,David A. Freidel

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Before Kukulkán

Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná

By: Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina,Travis W. Stanton,David A. Freidel

A significant look at Maya life prior to Chichén Itzá during the Classic Period in the Yucatán"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816532648

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9780816532643

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

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Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casualties are listed by state and unit, in many cases with specifics regarding wounds, circumstances of casualty, military service, genealogy and physical descriptions. Detailed casualty statistics are given in tables for each company, battalion and regiment, along with brief organizational information for many units. Appendices cover Confederate and Union hospitals that treated Southern wounded and Federal prisons where captured Confederates were interned after the battle. Original burial locations are provided for many Confederate dead, along with a record of disinterments in 1871 and burial locations in three of the larger cemeteries where remains were reinterred. A complete name index is included.

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McFarland

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1476624364

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9781476624365

Joseph Chamberlain

A Most Radical Imperialist

By: Travis L. Crosby

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Joseph Chamberlain

A Most Radical Imperialist

By: Travis L. Crosby

Joseph Chamberlain was a dynamic orator, notable reformer and superb parliamentary tactician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his early political career Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member and a supporter of political reform, yet after the Liberal Split, his allegiance changed dramatically when his Liberal Unionist Party entered into alliance with the Conservatives. As Colonial Secretary in Salisbury's government, he was a prime instigator of the Boer War and an important negotiator in the attempts to build an Anglo-German alliance. Ultimately disenchanted with the Conservative leadership of Salisbury and Balfour, he played an integral role in the Unionist Split over the issue of Tariff Reform which ultimately led to Balfour's downfall. Travis Crosby here sheds light on an often-overlooked, but exceptionally influential politician. He argues that Chamberlain was driven primarily by a personal need for power and control - characteristics that went beyond political loyalties. Nevertheless, his accomplishments as chief spokesman for electoral and social reform, and his achievements as Colonial Secretary, were genuine and lasting.This book sheds new light on an influential character who played an important role in the development of British politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857719505

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9780857719508

Planning for Tourism, Leisure and Sustainability

International Case Studies

By: Anthony S. Travis

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Planning for Tourism, Leisure and Sustainability

International Case Studies

By: Anthony S. Travis

Providing a wide range of case studies in sustainable tourism planning, this authoritative work presents cases at both international and national levels as well as on a regional, sub-regional, urban, local and site scale. Drawing on the author's world-wide experience and with contributions from professionals in the field, this book takes a comparative approach relating to different economic, political and temporal dimensions, examining established initiatives both in the context of the standards of the time and from a modern perspective looking back. With an emphasis on sustainability, this un.

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CABI

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1845937430

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9781845937430

False Dialogue: Dan Icor Trilogy

By: Travis Pearson

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False Dialogue: Dan Icor Trilogy

By: Travis Pearson

Seventeen-year-old Betsy Lane is a hardworking high school senior who waits tables at a small eatery in a picturesque town. Cheerful and honest, she is happily going about another day at work-until notorious hoodlum Duane Washington and his two friends sit in her section. As Betsy bravely attempts to rebuff Duane's unwanted advances, she has no idea that Dan Icor, a business leader with secret abilities, is watching from a distance. When Dan and Sheriff Jack West are forced to intercede in an attempt to save Betsy's innocence, their actions trigger a series of catastrophic events that include a brutal attack, an abduction, a dramatic rescue, and a killing. But just when Dan thinks the crisis has ended, he is led down a new path where he must utilize his gifted warrior talents amid a chaotic political environment where nothing is certain. False Dialogue continues the gripping tale of one man's journey as he learns to rely on his special abilities to battle hoodlums and rescue those in need.

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1483456684

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9781483456683

Atlas of Forgotten Places

Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe

By: Travis Elborough

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Atlas of Forgotten Places

Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe

By: Travis Elborough

Explore the places that time forgot. These abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics – an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life – Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked, and disappearing worlds and immortalizes them in this book of original maps, accompanied by moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to life, telling us what happened, when and why, and to whom. The book features 40 sites, including: Santa Claus, Arizona, USA: A festive tourist resort-turned-ghost town deep in the desert where you could once meet Santa Claus any day of the year; Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city’s best-kept secrets is an underground, cathedral-like relic that many Victorian commuters bustled through; Montserrat, West Indies: The small Caribbean island with a population of 5,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active, and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone; Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS; Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Tuscany, Italy: Once dubbed ‘the place of no return’, this long-closed lunatic asylum once housed 6,000 patients who were never allowed to leave. From eerie ghost towns to epic undersea monuments, armchair travelers and adventure seekers will be captivated by this curious atlas of strange and surreal abandoned sites across the world. It follows on from the success of the award-winning title Atlas of Vanishing Places, and forms part of an atlas series that offers lesser-known histories of hidden, fascinating locations worldwide. Also in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of Untamed Places, Atlas of the Unexpected and Atlas of Vanishing Places (WINNER Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020).

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Aurum

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0711290857

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9780711290853

An Autobiography of Black Chicago

By: Dempsey Travis

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An Autobiography of Black Chicago

By: Dempsey Travis

Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be able to do it with the same command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, emulates the best works of Studs Terkel — portraying the African American Chicago community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis, his family, and his fellow Chicagoans. Through his family's and his own experiences, plus those of the book's numerous well-respected contributors, Travis tells a comprehensive, intimate story of African Americans in Chicago. Starting with John Baptiste Point du Sable, who was the first non–Native American to settle on the mouth of the Chicago River, and ending with Travis's successes providing equal housing opportunities for Chicago African Americans, An Autobiography of Black Chicago acquaints the reader with the city's most prominent African American figures — told through their own words.

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Agate Publishing

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1572847077

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9781572847071

GASFLOW-MPI: A Scalable Computational Fluid Dynamics Code for Gases, Aerosols and Combustion. Band 2 (Users' Manual (Revision 1.0).

By: Xiao, Jianjun,Travis, Jack,Royl, Peter,Necker, Gottfried,Svishchev, Anatoly,Jordan, Thomas

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GASFLOW-MPI: A Scalable Computational Fluid Dynamics Code for Gases, Aerosols and Combustion. Band 2 (Users' Manual (Revision 1.0).

By: Xiao, Jianjun,Travis, Jack,Royl, Peter,Necker, Gottfried,Svishchev, Anatoly,Jordan, Thomas

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is developing the parallel computational fluid dynamics code GASFLOW-MPI as a best-estimate tool for predicting transport, mixing, and combustion of hydrogen and other gases in nuclear reactor containments and other facility buildings. GASFLOW-MPI is a finite-volume code based on proven computational fluid dynamics methodology that solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for three-dimensional volumes in Cartesian or cylindrical coordinates.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731504499

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The Oxford Handbook of Country Music

By: Travis D. Stimeling

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The Oxford Handbook of Country Music

By: Travis D. Stimeling

Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice as well as the ways in which the genre interacts with media and social concerns such as class, gender, and sexuality, The Oxford Handbook of Country Music interrogates prevailing narratives, explores significant lacunae in the current literature, and provides guidance for future research. More than simply treating issues that have emerged within this subfield, The Oxford Handbook of Country Music works to connect to broader discourses within the various fields that inform country music studies in an effort to strengthen the area's interdisciplinarity. Drawing upon the expertise of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook presents an introduction into the historiographical narratives and methodological issues that have emerged in country music studies' first half-century.

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Oxford University Press

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0190683856

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9780190683856

Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks

The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene

By: Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D.

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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks

The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene

By: Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D.

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children of the Cold War, post-World War II suburban migration, and the Baby Boom escaped the socially conservative world their parents had created, to instead create for themselves an idyllic rural Texan utopia. Progressive country music--a hybrid of country music and rock--played out the contradictions at work among the residents of the growing Austin community: at once firmly grounded in the conservative Texan culture in which they had been raised and profoundly affected by the current hippie counterculture. In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene, Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles, to personal interviews of musicians as diverse as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doug Sahm. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks brings new insight into the inner workings of Austin's progressive country music scene -- by bringing the music and musicians brilliantly to life. This book will appeal to students and scholars of popular music studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, American studies, and cultural geography; the lucid prose and interviews will also make the book attractive to fans of the genre and artists discussed within. Austin residents past and present, as well as anyone with an interest in the development of progressive music or today's 'alt.country' movement will find Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks an informative, engaging resource.

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Oxford University Press

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0199831912

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9780199831913

Atlas of Improbable Places

A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

By: Travis Elborough

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Atlas of Improbable Places

A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

By: Travis Elborough

Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.

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Aurum Press

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0711264015

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9780711264014

The MVP Machine

How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

By: Ben Lindbergh,Travis Sawchik

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The MVP Machine

How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

By: Ben Lindbergh,Travis Sawchik

Move over, Moneyball -- this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players. As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance. Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals: How undersized afterthoughts José Altuve and Mookie Betts became big sluggers and MVPs How polarizing pitcher Trevor Bauer made himself a Cy Young contender How new analytical tools have overturned traditional pitching and hitting techniques How a wave of young talent is making MLB both better than ever and arguably worse to watch Instead of out-drafting, out-signing, and out-trading their rivals, baseball's best minds have turned to out-developing opponents, gaining greater edges than ever by perfecting prospects and eking extra runs out of older athletes who were once written off. Lindbergh and Sawchik take us inside the transformation of former fringe hitters into home-run kings, show how washed-up pitchers have emerged as aces, and document how coaching and scouting are being turned upside down. The MVP Machine charts the future of a sport and offers a lesson that goes beyond baseball: Success stems not from focusing on finished products, but from making the most of untapped potential.

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Basic Books

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1541698959

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9781541698956

Graphic Guide to Infectious Disease E-Book

By: Brian Kloss,Travis Bruce

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Graphic Guide to Infectious Disease E-Book

By: Brian Kloss,Travis Bruce

A unique mash-up of medical education and comic book-style illustration, Graphic Guide to Infectious Diseases uses memorable art and humorous text to provide a seriously effective way to enhance your knowledge of complex medical conditions and diseases. Emergency medicine physician Dr. Brian Kloss and illustrator Travis Bruce use pop culture references, nostalgia, and unconventional humor to bridge the gap between challenging microbiology content and clinical knowledge of infectious diseases. - Offers an innovative, concise, and fun way to learn about diseases, their signs and symptoms, and how to treat them – perfect for the busy medical student. - Improves understanding and retention of complex information by using high-quality graphic illustrations mixed with solid educational content – ensuring a high-interest, high-yield resource with a large dose of humor and an innovative writing style. - Uses visual learning to boost memorization, long-term retention, and exam performance.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032344220X

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9780323442206

Environmental Geology Workbook

By: Jack W. Travis

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Environmental Geology Workbook

By: Jack W. Travis

Environmental geologists use a wide range of geologic data to solve environmental problems and conflicts. Professionals and academics in this field need to know how to gather information on such diverse conditions as soil type, rock structure, and groundwater flow and then utilize it to understand geological site conditions. Field surveys, maps, well logs, bore holes, ground-penetrating radar, aerial photos, geologic literature, and more help to reveal potential natural hazards in an area or how to remediate contaminated sites. This new workbook presents accessible activities designed to highlight key concepts in environmental geology and give students an idea of what they need to know to join the workforce as an environmental geologist, engineering geologist, geological engineer, or geotechnical engineer. Exercises cover: • Preparation, data collection, and data analysis • Descriptive and engineering properties of earth materials • Basic tools used in conjunction with geoenvironmental investigations • Forces operating on earth materials within the earth • Inanimate forces operating on earth materials at the surface of the earth • Human activities operating on earth materials Each activity encourages students to think critically and develop deeper knowledge of environmental geology.

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Waveland Press

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1478639148

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9781478639145

Dark Ideas

How Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Ideologues Shaped Modern Terrorism

By: Morris

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Dark Ideas

How Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Ideologues Shaped Modern Terrorism

By: Morris

Dark Ideas is the first book of its kind to show how ideas have transformed violent extremism over the past six decades. Certain violent jihadi and neo-Nazi innovations have now become accepted practices by groups and individuals, yet they are rarely examined from this perspective. This book comparatively examines some of these strategic and tactical ideas in context. Innovations such as how to weaponize thoughts, create new forms of violence, or shift targets advance terrorism studies into the realm of violent extremist doctrine. Each chapter examines the most influential violent jihadi or neo-Nazi ideologue behind an innovation, the context from which it originated, and how it transitioned from idea to action. The author concludes with some recommendations for policymakers and experts in the field.

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Lexington Books

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0739191055

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9780739191057

Uneven Roads

An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

By: Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis

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Uneven Roads

An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

By: Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis

Uneven Roads helps students grasp how, when, and why race and ethnicity matter in U.S. politics. Using the metaphor of a road, with twists, turns, and dead ends, this incisive text takes students on a journey to understanding political racialization and the roots of modern interpretations of race and ethnicity. The book’s structure and narrative are designed to encourage comparison and reflection. Students critically analyze the history and context of U.S. racial and ethnic politics to build the skills needed to draw their own conclusions. In the Third Edition of this groundbreaking text, authors Shaw, DeSipio, Pinderhughes, Frasure, and Travis bring the historical narrative to life by addressing the most contemporary debates and challenges affecting U.S. racial and ethnic politics. Students will explore important issues regarding voting rights, political representation, education and criminal justice policies, and the immigrant experience.

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CQ Press

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1071824589

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9781071824580

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

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Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

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McFarland

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0786456183

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9780786456185

Black John 3:16

By: Shawn Travis

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Black John 3:16

By: Shawn Travis

Life can be rough on the streets of Chicago, especially for a young black man growing up in the hood. As gangs are created, drugs are distributed and violence begins to take hold on one's life. There's nowhere to go, but down after enduring the sights of someone being murdered in the backyard of your poverty infested neighborhood at a young age, to being initiated into a gang, where it's death before dishonor. Black John 3:16 is a graphic, deep and propelling tale about gang rivalaries, sex, drugs, crime, lies and chilling truths. Could you survive the streets of Chica

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Lulu.com

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1304613828

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9781304613820

Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration

By: Curtis C. Travis,Holly A. Hattemer-Frey

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Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration

By: Curtis C. Travis,Holly A. Hattemer-Frey

This much-needed book provides an enlightening perspective on the environmental and human health impacts of municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration. Over 100 tables and figures allows speedy access to important data you will refer to again and again. The comprehensive text assesses the human health risks associated with exposure to facility emitted pollutants-especially the highly toxic dioxin. It includes an evaluation of multipathway (inhalation and food chain) exposures. This essential publication also evaluates facility emissions, plausible air concentrations, the potential for deposition of pollutants onto plant, soil, and water surfaces, the movement and accumulation of pollutants through environmental media, and the potential for human exposure. Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration is an up-to-date volume which encourages readers to formulate opinions about some of the fundamental issues affecting the management of municipal solid waste. Anyone involved with environmental science, hazardous waste, toxicology, risk analysis and/or environmental engineering will certainly value and utilize this well-written resource.

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CRC Press

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0849349338

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9780849349331

Mastering Christianity

Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World

By: Travis Glasson

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Mastering Christianity

Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World

By: Travis Glasson

This book examines how missionaries of the Anglican Church in North America, the Caribbean, and Africa initially spread a religiously-grounded understanding of human diversity that stressed the essential unity of all people but over time developed the idea that slavery and Christianity were entirely compatible and could be mutually beneficial, leading the Church to become an institutional opponent of the abolition movement.

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OUP USA

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0199773963

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9780199773961

Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature

Crash and Burn

By: Jennifer Travis

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Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature

Crash and Burn

By: Jennifer Travis

Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and commercial growth, but also posed unprecedented physical hazard. Most of all, Americans were uncertain, particularly in light of environmental disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, about their own city on a hill and the once indisputable and protective hand of a beneficent God. The disasters, accidents, and social and political upheavals that characterized nineteenth-century culture had enormous explanatory power, metaphoric and real. Today we speak of similar insecurities: financial, informational, environmental, and political, and we obsessively express our worry and fear for the future. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio refers to these feelings as the “threat horizon,” one that endlessly identifies and produces new dangers.Why, he asks, does it seem easier for humanity to imagine a future shaped by ever-deadlier accidents than a decent future? Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth Century American Literature; or, Crash and Burn American invites readers to examine the “threat horizon” through its nascent expression in literary and cultural history. Against the emerging rhetoric of danger in the long nineteenth century, this book examines how a vocabulary of vulnerability in the American imaginary promoted the causes of the structurally disempowered in new and surprising ways, often seizing vulnerability as the grounds for progressive insight. The texts at the heart of this study, from nineteenth-century sensation novels to early twentieth-century journalistic fiction, imagine spectacular collisions, terrifying conflagrations, and all manner of catastrophe, social, political, and environmental. Together they write against illusions of inviolability in a growing technological and managerial culture, and they imagine how the recognition of universal vulnerability may challenge normative representations of social, political, and economic marginality.

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1498563422

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Happenings

By: Dr. Travis B. Reese

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Happenings

By: Dr. Travis B. Reese

The stories in this book are real unless otherwise indicated. The "Happenings" are real. Some seem too far out of the ordinary to be real or true, but they are true. This book "Happenings" is stories and memories of friends, acquaintances and kinfolk through out my life. Some are funny, some are sad, but they all were "Happenings".

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1496912500

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Deception: Dan Icor TrilogyÑBook 3

By: Travis Pearson

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Deception: Dan Icor TrilogyÑBook 3

By: Travis Pearson

Dan Icor is a small-town banker with special abilities who is used to controversy. Now someone is attempting to destroy him, his family, and friends. While Dan is subjected to physical, psychological, and regulatory attacks, he believes secrets with the potential to affect the outcome of the upcoming presidential election are hidden within his town. The stakes are high. The political handlers of one candidate, who they believe will transform the country into their version of Utopia, want Dan and his inner circle eliminated for the greater good-even if the entire town is annihilated in the process. Dan realizes that his only salvation is to find and reveal the secrets to a skeptical public before his ruthless adversaries carry out their plan. Despite his determination and resourcefulness, the odds are against him. Deception shares the exciting conclusion of one man's lengthy journey from bank executive to hero as he valiantly risks everything to transform the future of his country.

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1483457125

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The Craft of Criminology

Selected Papers

By: Travis Hirschi

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The Craft of Criminology

Selected Papers

By: Travis Hirschi

Travis Hirschi is one of the most cited criminologists of the twentieth century. His work has provoked controversy and heated debates about the causes of crime, proper research methods, and the most effective policies to prevent and control crime. Known as a spokesperson for social control theory, Hirschi always ties his ideas to the mode of investigation and the mode of investigation to substantive concerns. Theoretical contributions and research methodology have been twin driving forces throughout his career. This book contains representative selections of Hirshi’s work over many years. It is remarkable how little is known about Hirschi’s life and career. John H. Laub’s introduction combines a discerning account of Hirschi’s life and work, accompanied by an interview with the author. Laub’s volume covers various topics: methodological issues; principles of casual analysis; criteria of causality; longitudinal research on crime; rules and the study of deviant behavior; correlations between crime and delinquency; control theory of delinquency; intelligence, causes, and prevention of delinquency; family structure and crime; theory of crime; crime and criminality; deviance; white collar crime; and juvenile justice systems. Now available in paperback, this is an invaluable text for courses in criminology, as well as a valuable addition to professional libraries.

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1412836379

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Religious Traditions of the World

By: James F. Lewis,William G. Travis

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Religious Traditions of the World

By: James F. Lewis,William G. Travis

Originally published: Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, c1991.

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1579102301

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Health Freaks

America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness

By: Travis A. Weisse

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Health Freaks

America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness

By: Travis A. Weisse

Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought "fad" diets—such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens. Drawing on novel archival sources and a wide variety of popular media, Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received. Through colorful profiles of the leaders of four major diet movements, Health Freaks demonstrates that these diet gurus weren't shady snake oil salesmen preying on the vulnerable; rather, they were vocal champions for millions of frustrated Americans seeking longer, healthier lives.

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1469683024

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