Trevor Shelley's Books

The Book of Origins

Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use

By: Trevor Homer

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The Book of Origins

Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use

By: Trevor Homer

Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known: • Gandhi was married at age thirteen! • Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as “Genuine American Fortune Cookies.” • Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I. • The original idea for the electric chair came from an American dentist. For aspiring mindblowers and wanna-be know-it-alls, The Book of Origins is a treasure trove of trivia and fascinating facts guaranteed to entertain and enlighten.

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Penguin

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0452288320

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9780452288324

The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation

The Ethics of Procreation

By: Trevor Hedberg

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The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation

The Ethics of Procreation

By: Trevor Hedberg

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation. In light of climate change, species extinctions, and other looming environmental crises, Trevor Hedberg argues that we have a collective moral duty to halt population growth to prevent environmental harms from escalating. This book assesses a variety of policies that could help us meet this moral duty, confronts the conflict between protecting the welfare of future people and upholding procreative freedom, evaluates the ethical dimensions of individual procreative decisions, and sketches the implications of population growth for issues like abortion and immigration. It is not a book of tidy solutions: Hedberg highlights some scenarios where nothing we can do will enable us to avoid treating some people unjustly. In such scenarios, the overall objective is to determine which of our available options will minimize the injustice that occurs. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental ethics, environmental policy, climate change, sustainability, and population policy. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Routledge

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1351037005

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9781351037006

Prairie Bohemian

Frank Gay’s Life in Music

By: Trevor W. Harrison

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Prairie Bohemian

Frank Gay’s Life in Music

By: Trevor W. Harrison

Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got to hear him play the Cole Porter songs he loved with Carlos Montoya, never got to watch the ashes build dangerously on the end of his menthol cigarette. And when Frank Gay died, only the guitar players gently wept. — Shelley Youngblut Until his death in 1982, Edmonton luthier and guitarist Frank Gay built guitars for several famous musicians, including country stars Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Webb Pierce, and Hank Snow. He captivated listeners with his singular talent on guitar and other instruments, and was well known within the music industry. Trevor Harrison’s detective work uncovers the story of this private, charming, and bohemian man, doing a tremendous service to Canadian culture and music history. Harrison pieces together Frank Gay’s life through interviews with people who knew him and saw him play. Very few recordings of him playing exist, and the sparse accounts of Gay’s life and work raise more questions than they answer. Musicians and instrument makers, as well as those interested in Canadian music or Edmonton’s colourful past, will be fascinated by this biography of western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay.

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University of Alberta

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1772120669

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Dam

By: Trevor Turpin

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Dam

By: Trevor Turpin

Trevor Turpin traces the development, design, and consequences of the dam, from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.

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Reaktion Books

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1861893280

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9781861893284

The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

By: Trevor Royle

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The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

By: Trevor Royle

The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.

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Random House

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1780574193

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9781780574196

The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation

By: Trevor Owens

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The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation

By: Trevor Owens

A guide to managing data in the digital age. Winner of the ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award by the Society of American Archivists Many people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"—where records of the recent past become completely lost or inaccessible—appear with regular frequency in the popular press. It's as if we need a system to safeguard our digital records for future scholars and researchers. Digital preservation experts, however, suggest that this is an illusory dream not worth chasing. Ensuring long-term access to digital information is not that straightforward; it is a complex issue with a significant ethical dimension. It is a vocation. In The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, librarian Trevor Owens establishes a baseline for practice in this field. In the first section of the book, Owens synthesizes work on the history of preservation in a range of areas (archives, manuscripts, recorded sound, etc.) and sets that history in dialogue with work in new media studies, platform studies, and media archeology. In later chapters, Owens builds from this theoretical framework and maps out a more deliberate and intentional approach to digital preservation. A basic introduction to the issues and practices of digital preservation, the book is anchored in an understanding of the traditions of preservation and the nature of digital objects and media. Based on extensive reading, research, and writing on digital preservation, Owens's work will prove an invaluable reference for archivists, librarians, and museum professionals, as well as scholars and researchers in the digital humanities.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421426978

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The Challenge of Change

Report of a Conference on Technological Change and Human Development at Jerusalem, 1969

By: Trevor Evans

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The Challenge of Change

Report of a Conference on Technological Change and Human Development at Jerusalem, 1969

By: Trevor Evans

The Challenge of Change: Report of a Conference on Technological Change and Human Development at Jerusalem, 1969 focuses on the interconnection of technological progress and human development. The manuscript first reiterates the need to establish a working relationship between technological advancement and human progress. The position that human is necessitated to impose intellectual will to retain control and mastery of technological progress is noted. The book then emphasizes that human should prepare to be able to adjust to the advance of technology. The expansion of the functions of computers and their growing applications are underscored. The text takes a look at the role of modern technology in uplifting the economic conditions of less developed countries. The book also points at the role of education in helping human to be able to cope with the issues and problems related with technological change. The text then underscores the need for workers to establish their position in the ownership of capital. The effects of automation on workers and industries and the problem of unequal distribution of wealth are discussed. The manuscript is a dependable source of data for readers interested in ascertaining the relationship of technological progress and human development.

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Elsevier

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1483147665

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9781483147666

Writing in Public

Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Trevor Ross

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Writing in Public

Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Trevor Ross

What is the role of literary writing in democratic society? Building upon his previous work on the emergence of “literature,” Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control. Ross argues that—with liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national value—the legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public discourse, and safeguarding public deliberation from the coercions of propaganda. For speech to be truly free, however, there had to be an enabling exception to the rules. Since the late eighteenth century, Ross suggests, the role of this exception has been performed by the idea of literature. Literature is valued as the form of expression that, in allowing us to say anything and in any form, attests to our liberty. Yet, paradoxically, it is only by occupying no definable place within the public sphere that literature can remain as indeterminate as the public whose self-reinvention it serves.

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JHU Press

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1421426323

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Arthur Balfour's Ghosts

An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings

By: Trevor Hamilton

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Arthur Balfour's Ghosts

An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings

By: Trevor Hamilton

This book tells the incredible story of the cross-correspondence automatic writings, described by one leading scholar of the field, Alan Gauld, 'as undoubtedly the most extensive, the most complex and the most puzzling of all ostensible attempts by deceased persons to manifest purpose, and in so doing to fulfil their overriding purpose of proving their survival'. It is an intensely personal and passionate story on so many levels: May Lyttelton trying to convince her lover Arthur Balfour of her continued existence; Myers with indomitable persistence trying to produce evidence to prove survival generally; Gurney and Francis Balfour striving from beyond the grave to influence the birth of children who would work for world peace; Gerald Balfour and his lover Winifred Coombe-Tennant believing that their child, Henry, would be the Messianic leader of this group of children.

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Andrews UK Limited

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184540968X

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9781845409685

The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds

5,000 staggering facts on science, nature, history, movies, music, the universe and more!

By: Nigel Henbest,Simon Brew,Sarah Tomley,Ken Okona-Mensah,Tom Parfitt,Trevor Davies,Chas Newkey-Burden

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The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds

5,000 staggering facts on science, nature, history, movies, music, the universe and more!

By: Nigel Henbest,Simon Brew,Sarah Tomley,Ken Okona-Mensah,Tom Parfitt,Trevor Davies,Chas Newkey-Burden

A polish bear in World War II rose to the rank of colonel. Penguins can't taste fish. The ashes of the man who invented the Pringles container are buried in one one. On Neptune it rains diamonds. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words. These are just 0.1% of all the facts in this incredible tome! Written by seven authors and covering subjects as diverse as The Universe, Art and Literature, The Natural World and Movies, The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds is the ultimate trivia book! Why not amaze family and friends with the reasons pandas do handstands, the sinister source of the term 'rule of thumb', or that the patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire. Every entry is weird, wonderful, inspiring and quite brilliantly, true!

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Cassell

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178840470X

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9781788404709

Grime 314

A Novel

By: Trevor Siegel

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Grime 314

A Novel

By: Trevor Siegel

Set in a world governed by grammar, Grime 314 is a dystopian drama that satirizes political correctness in modern culture. It follows a court case, from the initial arrest to the courtroom itself, with the narrative shifting between the defendant, the defendants young and inexperienced attorney, the police officer that arrested the defendant, and a member of the jury. Told in riveting detail, Grime 314 is a story of love, loss, and grammar in a world torn apart by correctness.

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iUniverse

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1532040571

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9781532040573

Parry to Finzi

Twenty English Song-composers

By: Trevor Hold

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Parry to Finzi

Twenty English Song-composers

By: Trevor Hold

Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index"--Jacket.

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Boydell Press

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1843831740

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9781843831747

The World Through Blunted Sight

An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character

By: Patrick Trevor-Roper

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The World Through Blunted Sight

An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character

By: Patrick Trevor-Roper

How did faulty or failing eyesight affect the style and technique of writers and artists. How did it affect the way they convey their visual impressions. In a classic study, first published in 1970 and thoroughly revised in 1988, Patrick Trevor-Roper combines his professional knowledge of ophthalmology with his extensive familiarity with art and literature to fascinatingly examine the work of painters, sculptors, poets and prose writers. Looking at the effects of myopia, cataracts, colour blindness, squints and total blindness he speculates on what the impact would have been on artists had they worn glasses. Illustrated with colour reproductions and a wealth of black and white photos, this was a true labour of love from a highly cultured man, erudite and stimulating.

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Souvenir Press

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0285642073

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9780285642072

WORDS IN PAIN

By: Trevor Moore

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WORDS IN PAIN

By: Trevor Moore

First published anonymously in 1919, these letters from a dying woman to her doctor display an attitude to death which is fiercely independent of religion but full of hope. The book will appeal to diverse readers: it is a picture of family life and love, interspersed with clear-headed musings on the nature of illness, loss and death; it illuminates the development of rationalist thought, humanism and liberal education and the history of adoption; and it providescomfort for those who try to come to terms with dying, without religion to cushion the blow. As her dialogues withthe doctor, a Christian, show, Jacoby is witty and erudite, and rails against the dogmas of organised religion whileespousing a passionate morality.

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eBook Partnership

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1911072447

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9781911072447

GCSE English Literature for AQA Poetry Student Book

By: Trevor Millum,Andy Mort

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GCSE English Literature for AQA Poetry Student Book

By: Trevor Millum,Andy Mort

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 GCSE English qualifications. Written for the AQA GCSE English Literature specification for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book provides in-depth coverage of the poetry and unseen poetry aspects of the specification. With progress at its heart, students will build skills through a range of active learning approaches, including class, group and individual activities, with an emphasis on exploring poems in depth and comparing poems. An enhanced digital version and free Teacher's Resource are also available.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107454719

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9781107454712

21st Century Japan

A New Sun Rising

By: Trevor Harrison

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21st Century Japan

A New Sun Rising

By: Trevor Harrison

Subtle insights into Japan that are different from the usual catalog of descriptions and analyses.

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1551643065

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9781551643069

What Went Wrong?

Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

By: Trevor Kletz,Paul Amyotte

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What Went Wrong?

Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

By: Trevor Kletz,Paul Amyotte

What Went Wrong? 6th Edition provides a complete analysis of the design, operational, and management causes of process plant accidents and disasters. Co-author Paul Amyotte has built on Trevor Kletz's legacy by incorporating questions and personal exercises at the end of each major book section. Case histories illustrate what went wrong and why it went wrong, and then guide readers in how to avoid similar tragedies and learn without having to experience the loss incurred by others. Updated throughout and expanded, this sixth edition is the ultimate resource of experienced-based analysis and guidance for safety and loss prevention professionals. - 20% new material and updating of existing content with parts A and B now combined - Exposition of topical concepts including Natech events, process security, warning signs, and domino effects - New case histories and lessons learned drawn from other industries and applications such as laboratories, pilot plants, bioprocess plants, and electronics manufacturing facilities

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128105402

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9780128105405

Beat about the Bush

Birds

By: Trevor Carnaby

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Beat about the Bush

Birds

By: Trevor Carnaby

Revealing fascinating insights into the mysterious lives of birds native to the mother continent, this remarkable guide exhibits the many vibrantly colorful species found in the South African bush. Providing an in-depth discourse on all aspects of bird life--detailing their myriad forms, survival strategies in a harsh landscape, breeding and feeding behaviors, movements, migrations, preferred habitat, unique behavioral patterns, and vocalizations--this comprehensive manual also expertly advises on how to easily and accurately identify each individual species. Populated with more than 900 brilliantly vivid photographs and exhaustively researched to fill the gap in existing literature and field guides, this essential reference will delight nature lovers, tourists, birdwatchers, and bush lovers alike.

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Jacana Media

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1770092412

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You Don't Own Me

The Life and Times of Lesley Gore

By: Trevor Tolliver

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You Don't Own Me

The Life and Times of Lesley Gore

By: Trevor Tolliver

(Book). 1963 tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president. That summer, sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, "It's My Party," propelling her to Number One on the charts. For the next several years, the crowned Princess of Pop dominated the radio with a string of hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry," "She's A Fool," "Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows," and the rousing anthem for independence, "You Don't Own Me," making her the most successful and influential solo female artist of the 60s. But beneath the bubblegum facade was a girl squirming against social and professional pressures to simply be herself and to forge a future where she could write and perform music beyond the trappings of teenage angst and love triangles. Assembled over five years of research and interviews, this is the first and long overdue biography of Lesley Gore, one of pop music's pioneering Mothers, which chronicles her meteoric rise to fame, her devastating fall from popularity and struggle for relevance in the 1970s, and her reemergence as a powerful songwriter, political activist, and camp icon. The biography includes behind-the-scenes stories about the making of her hit records, debunks or clarifies popular myths about her career, and places her remarkable life and times within a historical context to reveal how her music was both impacted by, and contributed to, each decade of her astounding fifty-year career.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1495049728

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9781495049729

European Plastic Pipes Market

By: Trevor Stafford

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European Plastic Pipes Market

By: Trevor Stafford

This report has the objective of bringing together information from a broad spectrum of polymer and pipe supply technology and relating it to the regional and demographic trends of the demand side. This approach will enable readers to view their own more detailed market information within a broader context and consequently gain a more complete understanding of long term trends.

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iSmithers Rapra Publishing

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1859572375

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Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution

The Ongoing Debate

By: Trevor Palmer

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Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution

The Ongoing Debate

By: Trevor Palmer

In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record. According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461549019

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365 Fascinating Facts

And Reasons to Buy This Book

By: Trevor Hopwood

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365 Fascinating Facts

And Reasons to Buy This Book

By: Trevor Hopwood

From ancient Egypt to modern times, this compendium presents interesting factoids, tidbits, and trivia from history for every day of the year. With intriguing snippets sure to please any history aficionado, this collection provides the answers to questions such asWhat was the first television advertising broadcast and what was advertised?When was the first executioner appointed in the United Kingdom and who was on the receiving end of his services'andWhat once caused Big Ben to run four and a half minutes slow?

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Janus Publishing Company Lim

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1857566610

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9781857566611

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

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The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of “period pieces” that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist René Girard's notion of “triangular desire,” he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction. Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found “the One” at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441120351

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9781441120359

The Collected Stories

By: William Trevor

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The Collected Stories

By: William Trevor

A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

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Penguin

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0140232451

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9780140232455

The Tempest

By: Trevor R. Griffiths

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The Tempest

By: Trevor R. Griffiths

The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. Other sections discuss early performances and cultural contexts. A wide-ranging sample of critical responses accompanies consideration of key performances and productions on stage and film.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137091169

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9781137091161

Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy

By: Trevor C.W. Farrow

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Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy

By: Trevor C.W. Farrow

Privatization is occurring throughout the public justice system, including courts, tribunals, and state-sanctioned private dispute resolution regimes. Driven by a widespread ethos of efficiency-based civil justice reform, privatization claims to decrease costs, increase speed, and improve access to the tools of justice. But it may also lead to procedural unfairness, power imbalances, and the breakdown of our systems of democratic governance. Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy demonstrates the urgent need to publicize, politicize, debate, and ultimately temper these moves towards privatized justice. Written by Trevor C.W. Farrow, a former litigation lawyer and current Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy does more than just bear witness to the privatization initiatives that define how we think about and resolve almost all non-criminal disputes. It articulates the costs and benefits of these privatizing initiatives, particularly their potential negative impacts on the way we regulate ourselves in modern democracies, and it makes recommendations for future civil justice practice and reform.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442645784

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9781442645783

Two Years in the Lives of Two English Teachers

To Be, To Do, To Become

By: Bob Fecho,Dawan Coombs,Trevor Thomas Stewart,Rachel Knecht,Emelio DiSabato

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Two Years in the Lives of Two English Teachers

To Be, To Do, To Become

By: Bob Fecho,Dawan Coombs,Trevor Thomas Stewart,Rachel Knecht,Emelio DiSabato

This book invites readers to explore the complexity of becoming a teacher through the stories of two novice ELA teachers, Emelio and Rachel, over the course of their first two years. The authors’ detailed, empathetic, and ethnographic approach allows space for the teachers to reveal little-seen and often overlooked "wobble moments." These moments illuminate the complexity and nuances that confront, confound, and compel teachers to remain in dialogue with practice. Documenting the journeys of two teachers with compassion and intellectual rigor, this book provides insights into and challenges preconceived notions of what it means to be a teacher. It is essential reading for preservice teachers, scholars, and researchers in English education, as well as individuals considering teaching as a profession.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003834566

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9781003834564

Crusader for Justice

Federal Judge Damon J. Keith

By: Peter J. Hammer,Trevor W. Coleman

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Crusader for Justice

Federal Judge Damon J. Keith

By: Peter J. Hammer,Trevor W. Coleman

The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, authors Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman presents the first ever biography of native Detroiter Judge Keith, surveying his education, important influences, major cases, and professional and personal commitments. Along the way, the authors consult a host of Keith's notable friends and colleagues, including former White House deputy counsel John Dean, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and industrialist Edsel Ford II for this candid and comprehensive volume. Hammer and Coleman trace Keith's early life, from his public school days in Detroit to his time serving in the segregated U.S. army and his law school years at Howard University at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. They reveal how Keith's passion for racial and social justice informed his career, as he became co-chairman of Michigan's first Civil Rights Commission and negotiated the politics of his appointment to the federal judiciary. The authors go on to detail Keith's most famous cases, including the Pontiac Busing and Hamtramck Housing cases, the 1977 Detroit Police affirmative action case, the so-called Keith Case (United States v. U.S. District Court), and the Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft case in 2002. They also trace Keith's personal commitment to mentoring young black lawyers, provide a candid look behind the scenes at the dynamics and politics of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and even discuss some of Keith's difficult relationships, for instance with the Detroit NAACP and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Judge Keith's forty-five years on the bench offer a unique viewpoint on a tumultuous era of American and legal history. Readers interested in Civil Rights-era law, politics, and personalities will appreciate the portrait of Keith's fortitude and conviction in Crusader for Justice. More information can be found at crusaderforjustice.com

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Wayne State University Press

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0814338453

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9780814338452

The Wartime Journals

By: Hugh Trevor-Roper

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The Wartime Journals

By: Hugh Trevor-Roper

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor-Roper, a war-time 'backroom boy' who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England - including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service, the Abwehr. He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war interrogated many of Hitler's immediate circle, investigated Hitler's death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler's will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper's secret journals - unknown even to his family and closest confidants - is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. At the same time they offer an engaging - sometimes mischievous - and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857721070

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9780857721075

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution

By: Trevor Burnard

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Jamaica in the Age of Revolution

By: Trevor Burnard

A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century Jamaica Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a precursor to the modern factory in its management of labor, its harvesting of resources, and its scale of capital investment and ouput. Planters, supported by a dynamic merchant class in Kingston, created a plantation system in which short-term profit maximization was the main aim. Their slave system worked because the planters who ran it were extremely powerful. In Jamaica in the Age of Revolution, Trevor Burnard analyzes the men and women who gained so much from the labor of enslaved people in Jamaica to expose the ways in which power was wielded in a period when the powerful were unconstrained by custom, law, or, for the most part, public approbation or disapproval. Burnard finds that the unremitting war by the powerful against the poor and powerless, evident in the day-to-day struggles slaves had with masters, is a crucial context for grasping what enslaved people had to endure. Examining such events as Tacky's Rebellion of 1760 (the largest slave revolt in the Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution), the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong in 1783 in an Atlantic context, Burnard reveals Jamiaca to be a brutally effective and exploitative society that was highly adaptable to new economic and political circumstances, even when placed under great stress, as during the American Revolution. Jamaica in the Age of Revolution demonstrates the importance of Jamaican planters and merchants to British imperial thinking at a time when slavery was unchallenged.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081225192X

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9780812251920

Educational Research by Association

AARE presidential addresses and the field of educational research

By: Trevor Gale,Bob Lingard

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Educational Research by Association

AARE presidential addresses and the field of educational research

By: Trevor Gale,Bob Lingard

Educational Research by Association is an archive of an archive. It is a collection of eleven Presidential Addresses delivered over the last 40 years to the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and published annually in AARE’s academic journal, the Australian Educational Researcher (AER).

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BRILL

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946091019X

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9789460910197

Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama

By: Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths

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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama

By: Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths

A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.

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A&C Black

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1408149842

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9781408149843

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