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Worker Safety Under Siege

Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World

By: Vernon Mogensen

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Worker Safety Under Siege

Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World

By: Vernon Mogensen

This eye-opening book shows how the rights of workers to safe and healthful workplaces are under greater attack today than at any time since the passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. This collection is organized around three thematic issues that pose significant challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's ability to protect workers' safety and health. First, the economy has shifted from an industrial base to a white collar/service base, which includes more women workers than ever before - yet many of the safety and health problems that affect women are not being adequately addressed. Second, free market ideology and globalization have served to undermine worker safety and health laws. And finally, the effects of 9/11 have exacerbated the trend toward weakening workers' rights and safety standards in the name of national security.

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Routledge

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1317451724

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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

By: Vernon K. Robbins

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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

By: Vernon K. Robbins

In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity.

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1134826672

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Soldiers Once and Still

Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

By: Alex Vernon

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Soldiers Once and Still

Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

By: Alex Vernon

As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century’s legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans’ literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O’Brien, three of the twentieth century’s most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various ways war and the military, through both cultural and personal experience, have affected social and gender identities and dynamics in each author’s work. Hemingway, Salter, and O’Brien form the core of Soldiers Once and Still because each represents a different warring generation of twentieth-century America: World War I with Hemingway, World War II and Korea with Salter, and Vietnam with O’Brien. Each author also represents a different literary voice of the twentieth century, from modern to mid-century to postmodern, and each presents a different battlefield experience: Hemingway as noncombatant, Salter as air force fighter pilot, and O’Brien as army grunt. War’s pervasive influence on the individual means that, for veterans-turned-writers like Hemingway, Salter, and O’Brien, the war experience infiltrates their entire body of writing—their works can be seen not only as war literature but also as veterans’ literature. As such, their entire postwar oeuvre, regardless of whether an individual work explicitly addresses the war or the military, is open to Vernon’s exploration of war, society, gender, and literary history. Vernon’s own experiences as a soldier, a veteran, a writer, and a critic inform this enlightening critique of American literature, offering students and scholars of American literature and war studies an invaluable tool for understanding war’s effects on the veteran writer and his society.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587296233

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fourth edition

By: W. Kip Viscusi,John M. Vernon,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fourth edition

By: W. Kip Viscusi,John M. Vernon,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.

A substantially revised and updated new edition of the leading text on business and government, with new material reflecting recent theoretical and methodological advances; includes further coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case, the deregulation of telecommunications and electric power, and new environmental regulations. This new edition of the leading text on business and government focuses on the insights economic reasoning can provide in analyzing regulatory and antitrust issues. Departing from the traditional emphasis on institutions, Economics of Regulation and Antitrust asks how economic theory and empirical analyses can illuminate the character of market operation and the role for government action and brings new developments in theory and empirical methodology to bear on these questions. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout, with new material added and extended discussion of many topics. Part I, on antitrust, has been given a major revision to reflect advances in economic theory and recent antitrust cases, including the case against Microsoft and the Supreme Court's Kodak decision. Part II, on economic regulation, updates its treatment of the restructuring and deregulation of the telecommunications and electric power industries, and includes an analysis of what went wrong in the California energy market in 2000 and 2001. Part III, on social regulation, now includes increased discussion of risk-risk analysis and extensive changes to its discussion of environmental regulation. The many case studies included provide students not only pertinent insights for today but also the economic tools to analyze the implications of regulations and antitrust policies in the future.The book is suitable for use in a wide range of courses in business, law, and public policy, for undergraduates as well at the graduate level. The structure of the book allows instructors to combine the chapters in various ways according to their needs. Presentation of more advanced material is self-contained. Each chapter concludes with questions and problems.

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MIT Press

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0262287323

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

By: W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph Emmett Harrington,John Mitcham Vernon

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

By: W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph Emmett Harrington,John Mitcham Vernon

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The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste

By: Vernon Hyde Minor

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The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste

By: Vernon Hyde Minor

This book describes the waning days of the baroque.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521843413

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Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

By: Burton L. Mack,Vernon K. Robbins

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Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

By: Burton L. Mack,Vernon K. Robbins

Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels will open the next stage in Synoptic studies. Mack and Robbins have returned synoptic criticism to the road it missed when Bultmann and Dibelius decided to ingnore Greco-Roman education and rhetoric. Starting from a sophisticated and detailed study of what the rhetorical handbooks say about the elaboratioin of chreiai, they illuminate the most basic techniques and logic which the Gospel writers used in developing the Jesus traditions. It is required reading for everyone with a serious interest in the critical study of the Gospels." --Stanley K. Stowers, Brown Univeristy Author of Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Authority "An impressive, programmatic argument, which successfully challenges conventional approaches to the Jesus tradition. It demonstrates the relevance of Hellenistic rhetorical theory for composition analysis of the sayings tradition. A groundbreaking study, which all serious students of the gospels must consider." --David E. Aune, St. Xavier College Author of The New Testament in Its Literary Environment "In this important new book, Mack and Robbins have clarified the patterns of persuasion that form the social, historical, and narrative worlds of the earliest Christians. All those who want a hands-on manual for studying the characters, stories, and argumentation of scripture will welcome this learned discussion of primary texts. Highly recommended for any person who is serious about understanding the Bible." - Ron Cameron, Wesleyan University Author of The Other Gospels

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725223589

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Who Do People Say I Am?

Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity

By: Vernon K. Robbins

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Who Do People Say I Am?

Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity

By: Vernon K. Robbins

Spanning early Christian writings from the Gospel of Mark to the Acts of John, this book by Vernon Robbins explores the various ways early Christians explained their understanding of the special nature of Jesus beyond the canonical Gospels. Who Do People Say I Am? shows how second-and third-century Christian authors of additional Gospels and Gospel-like writings expanded and elaborated on Jesus divinity in the context of his earthly existence. According to Robbins, these Christian authors thought that the New Testament Gospel writers could and should have emphasized the divinity of Jesus more than they did. Throughout the book Robbins asks and answers questions such as these: If Jesus introduced new beliefs and practices, what did second- and third-century believers find unresolved in the New Testament Gospels about those beliefs and practices, and how did they try to resolve them? What gaps in the storylines of the New Testament Gospels did second- and third-century Christian writers think could be filled in, and how did they fill them in? If Jesus really were fully divine when he came to earth and lived among his disciples, what experiences did his disciples have that the New Testament Gospels do not tell us? Learning activities and a bibliography at the end of each chapter help make this book a valuable resource for students and any other interested readers.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802868398

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Rethinking Race

Franz Boas and His Contemporaries

By: Vernon J. WilliamsJr.

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Rethinking Race

Franz Boas and His Contemporaries

By: Vernon J. WilliamsJr.

In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of "racial science" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park. Historians have long recognized the monumental role Franz Boas played in eviscerating the racist worldview that prevailed in the American social sciences. Williams reconsiders the standard portrait of Boas and offers a new understanding of a man who never fully escaped the racist assumptions of 19th-century anthropology but nevertheless successfully argued that African Americans could assimiliate into American society and that the chief obstacle facing them was not heredity but the prejudice of white America.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813188644

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9780813188645

Plato's Podcasts

The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living

By: Mark Vernon

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Plato's Podcasts

The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living

By: Mark Vernon

Use Ancient Wisdom to revitalise your life! Do you ever get the feeling that something went wrong? What with credit crunches, wars, congestion charges, and unemployment, it is natural to hark back to less complicated times. In this witty and inspiring book, Mark Vernon does just that. However, we are not talking about the 1980s - try 400BC! Filled with timeless insight into life, relationships, work and partying, "Plato's Podcasts" takes a sideways glance at modern living and presents the would-be thoughts of Ancient Philosophers on various topics central to our 21st century existence. From Plato on pod casts to Epicurus on bottled water, this is a funny but profound take on what life means today (and two thousand years ago).

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Simon and Schuster

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1780744617

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9781780744612

Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers

By: Vernon L. Provencal

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Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers

By: Vernon L. Provencal

Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity's self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350006009

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9781350006003

Exploring the Texture of Texts

A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations

By: Vernon K. Robbins

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Exploring the Texture of Texts

A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations

By: Vernon K. Robbins

In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

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A&C Black

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1563381834

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9781563381836

Baroque Visual Rhetoric

By: Vernon Hyde Minor

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Baroque Visual Rhetoric

By: Vernon Hyde Minor

Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque s combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442648791

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Virgil's Aeneid

Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology

By: Wendell Clausen,Wendell Vernon Clausen

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Virgil's Aeneid

Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology

By: Wendell Clausen,Wendell Vernon Clausen

The volumes published in the series "Beitr ge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3598777116

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A Book of Reasons

By: John Vernon

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A Book of Reasons

By: John Vernon

A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this “powerful, moving personal history” (Entertainment Weekly). Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged with settling his brother’s affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother’s house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid, shocking disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, and pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed to keep his sad and strange world hidden. But John couldn’t help but search for reasons. Why does a childhood full of promise turn wrong? Why do we clutter our lives with things? What are the meanings behind the material objects we acquire? John seeks answers in the most unexpected places. Buying a hammer and thermometer at Walmart, this icon of consumerism inspires a short history of tools and the discovery of mercury. Paul’s wake occasions an investigation of blood circulation and embalming. He voyages through science and physiology, culture and mythology, on a search “for a way to comprehend a life that left behind not splendid monuments but ordinary wreckage.” The result is a book of reasons: reasons for his brother’s way of life, reasons for his own response to Paul’s death. Linking the story of one odd individual to the surprising and irregular upheavals of history, John discovers how reasons, for all of us, are one means of learning to accept things that can never be explained. “[A] heartwarming tale of brotherly love.” —The Wall Street Journal “A beautiful performance lit by stark, revealing bursts of language and delivered with the gravity of liturgy.” —Publishers Weekly “His ability to evoke wonder is inspiring.” —Newsday

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HMH

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0547995148

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9780547995144

Artificial Cognitive Systems

A Primer

By: David Vernon

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Artificial Cognitive Systems

A Primer

By: David Vernon

A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer a solid grounding on key issues. This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity to predict the outcome of those actions. Drawing on artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, the field of artificial cognitive systems has as its ultimate goal the creation of computer-based systems that can interact with humans and serve society in a variety of ways. This primer brings together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer readers a solid grounding on key issues. The book first develops a working definition of cognitive systems—broad enough to encompass multiple views of the subject and deep enough to help in the formulation of theories and models. It surveys the cognitivist, emergent, and hybrid paradigms of cognitive science and discusses cognitive architectures derived from them. It then turns to the key issues, with chapters devoted to autonomy, embodiment, learning and development, memory and prospection, knowledge and representation, and social cognition. Ideas are introduced in an intuitive, natural order, with an emphasis on the relationships among ideas and building to an overview of the field. The main text is straightforward and succinct; sidenotes drill deeper on specific topics and provide contextual links to further reading.

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MIT Press

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0262552876

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Worker Safety Under Siege

Worker Safety Under Siege

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

Soldiers Once and Still

Soldiers Once and Still

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fourth edition

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fourth edition

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste

The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste

Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

Who Do People Say I Am?

Who Do People Say I Am?

Rethinking Race

Rethinking Race

Plato's Podcasts

Plato's Podcasts

Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers

Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Baroque Visual Rhetoric

Baroque Visual Rhetoric

Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil's Aeneid

A Book of Reasons

A Book of Reasons

Artificial Cognitive Systems

Artificial Cognitive Systems

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