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Chemical Ecology of Insects 2

By: R.T. Carde,W.J. Bell

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During the past decade, the study of the chemical structures used by insects has advanced from a subject that could be reviewed in a single volume to a vastly more advanced level. This important new volume brings together a focused group of reviews that offer perspective on the most interesting advances in insect chemical ecology. Chemical Ecology of Insects 2 brings together an internationally respected group of experts covering such topics as chemoreception and integration, orientation mechanisms, plant-insect interactions and insect-insect interactions. An important benefit of these reviews lies in the identification of the boundaries of our current knowledge and the most profitable areas in which we should expect these areas to develop. This important work will appeal to entomologists and ecologists working directly with insects. In addition, plant scientists interested in the interaction of plants and insects will find much valuable information. The book is intended to benefit both field and laboratory researchers as well as advanced students.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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Solid Waste: Assessment, Monitoring and Remediation

By: I. Twardowska,H.E. Allen,A.F. Kettrup,W.J. Lacy

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Solid Waste: Assessment, Monitoring and Remediation

By: I. Twardowska,H.E. Allen,A.F. Kettrup,W.J. Lacy

This book covers a broad group of wastes, from biowaste to hazardous waste, but primarily the largest (by mass and volume) group of wastes that are not hazardous, but also are not inert, and are problematic for three major reasons: (1) they are difficult to manage because of their volume: usually they are used in civil engineering as a common fill etc., where they are exposed to environmental conditions almost the same way as at disposal sites; (2) they are not geochemically stable and in the different periods of environmental exposure undergo transformations that might add hazardous properties to the material that are not displayed when it is freshly generated; (3) many designers and researchers in different countries involved in waste management are often not aware of time-delayed adverse environmental impact of some large-volume waste, and also do not consider some positive properties that may extend the area of their environmentally beneficial application.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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008054147X

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Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

By: W. J. Rorabaugh

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Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

By: W. J. Rorabaugh

Explores life in America in the early Sixties when Kennedy was President.

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Cambridge University Press

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Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator

By: David W. J. Gill

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Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator

By: David W. J. Gill

The first comprehensive biography of pioneering archaeologist and museum curator Winnifred Lamb, who was honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the four decades immediately following the First World War.

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A Pastoral Kingdom Divided

Cheviot, 1889–1894

By: W. J. Gardner

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A Pastoral Kingdom Divided

Cheviot, 1889–1894

By: W. J. Gardner

Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms. Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University historian, tells the fascinating story of the first great battle of a government championing the rights of land-hungry New Zealanders. But it is also a story about the emerging supremacy of Cabinet government and the development of modern politics.

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Bridget Williams Books

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Low Temperature Physics-LT 13

Volume 2: Quantum Crystals and Magnetism

By: K. D. Timmerhaus,W. J. O'Sullivan,E. F. Hammel

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Low Temperature Physics-LT 13

Volume 2: Quantum Crystals and Magnetism

By: K. D. Timmerhaus,W. J. O'Sullivan,E. F. Hammel

Quantum Crystals.- 1. Plenary Topics.- Quantum Crystals: Theory of the Phonon Spectrum.- Quantum Solids and Inelastic Neutron Scattering.- Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Solid and Liquid 3He Near the Melting Curve.- 2. Helium Lattice Dynamics.- 2.1 Specific Heat and Sound.- Specific Heat of Solid 3He.- The Temperature Dependence of the Longitudinal Sound Velocity of Single Crystals of HCP 4He.- Lifetimes of Hypersonic Phonons in Solid 4He.- Sound Wave Propagation and Anharmonic Effect in Solid 3He and 4He.- 2.2 Heat Transport in Isotope Mixtures.- NMR Measurements on 3He Impurity in Solid.

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1461345200

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Gaelic Scotland

The Transformation of a Culture Region

By: Charles W J Withers

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Gaelic Scotland

The Transformation of a Culture Region

By: Charles W J Withers

This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.

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Routledge

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On Being in the Middle

Doing Theology in the Face of Uncertainty

By: W. J. de Kock

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On Being in the Middle

Doing Theology in the Face of Uncertainty

By: W. J. de Kock

In our world, there’s a lack of clear middle ground. It’s a divided place, with political affiliations drawing lines between the left and the right. Being in the middle is challenging; our allegiances are pulled in different directions, making it isolating and overwhelming to navigate life’s complexities. But we live from the middle—between birth and death, between events, important dates, and between stability and change. In this uncertain space, we face existential questions about identity, the meaning of life, our purpose, and our place in the world. This is the domain of theology. Traditionally, theology attempts to answer these questions from the top down, declaring dogmas as absolute truths to remove the uncertainties. However, unexamined answers can become oppressive, stifling vitality, and can even become tyrannical—answers of the left or the right. This book suggests a different approach: doing theology from the inside out and from the bottom up, starting with sacred questions instead of rehearsed answers. We don’t expect that the answers we come to will be final. However, we expect to find God in the middle. Theology is the practice of the presence of God, where we integrate our love and knowledge of God to live wisely in a divided world.

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1666706167

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The Maqámát of Badí' al-Zamán al-Hamadhání

Translated From The Arabic With An Introduction and Notes Historical and Grammatical

By: W.J. Prendergast

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The Maqámát of Badí' al-Zamán al-Hamadhání

Translated From The Arabic With An Introduction and Notes Historical and Grammatical

By: W.J. Prendergast

The triple aim of Hamadhání in this work, first translated into English in 1915, appears to have been to amuse, to interest and to instruct; and this explains why, in spite of the inherent difficulty of a work of this kind composed primarily with a view to the rhetorical effect upon the learned and the great, there is scarcely a dull chapter in the fifty-one maqámát or discourses. The author essayed, throughout these dramatic discourses, to illustrate the life and language both of the denizens of the desert and the dwellers in towns, and to give examples of the jargon and slang of thieves and robbers as well as the lucubrations of the learned and the conversations of the cultured.

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Practical Nonparametric Statistics

By: W. J. Conover

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Practical Nonparametric Statistics

By: W. J. Conover

This highly-regarded text serves as a quick reference book which offers clear, concise instructions on how and when to use the most popular nonparametric procedures. This edition features some procedures that have withstood the test of time and are now used by many practitioners, such as the Fisher Exact Test for two-by-two contingency tables, the Mantel-Haenszel Test for combining several contingency tables, the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the survival curve, the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test and the Page Test for ordered alternatives, and a discussion of the bootstrap method.

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John Wiley & Sons

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African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900

By: W. J. Megginson

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African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900

By: W. J. Megginson

A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.

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The Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius

(1603 - 1669)

By: W. J. Van Asselt

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The Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius

(1603 - 1669)

By: W. J. Van Asselt

This book is a provocative study of an aspect of Reformed Theology that has not been treated before: a new interpretation of the Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius. It traces the pneumatological profile of Cocceian theology. In this way it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of seventeenth-century developments in theology and philosophy.

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BRILL

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9004119981

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Rates and Taxes and how they were collected

By: Tom Hood,Thomas Archer,W. J. Prowse,T. W. Robertson,W. S. Gilnert,Clement Scott

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Rates and Taxes and how they were collected

By: Tom Hood,Thomas Archer,W. J. Prowse,T. W. Robertson,W. S. Gilnert,Clement Scott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752554983

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Searching Behaviour

The behavioural ecology of finding resources

By: W.J. Bell

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Searching Behaviour

The behavioural ecology of finding resources

By: W.J. Bell

This is a book about proximate mechanisms. Although some theoreti cal structure is used to introduce the subject, the intent is to offer a comprehensive view of the mechanistic side of searching (or foraging) so as to balance the current emphasis of books on mathematical and functional models. It seems to me that the pendulum needs to swing back to studies of how animals behave, and that maybe in so doing models will become valuable again in driving experimentation. I have probably included too many examples in this book, and some are even presented in great detail. Hopefully, they provide a complete picture of the kind of animals used, the experimental setup, the kinds of data yielded, and how the data were analysed. I have done this in response to frustrating experiences of reading chapters in behavioural ecobgy books that provide insufficient information with which to evaluate an author's conclusion.

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9401130981

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The Real Making of the President

Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election

By: W. J. Rorabaugh

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The Real Making of the President

Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election

By: W. J. Rorabaugh

When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory-whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, The Making of the President. War hero, champion of labor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, JFK was long on charisma. Despite a less than liberal record, he assumed the image of liberal hero-thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as the ideological twin of Nixon and his equal as a bare-knuckled politician, showing that Kennedy's hard-won, razor-thin victory was attributable less to charisma than to an enormous amount of money, an effective campaign organization, and television image-making. The 1960 election, Rorabaugh argues, reflects the transition from the dominance of old-style boss and convention politics to the growing significance of primaries, race, and especially TV-without which Kennedy would have been neither nominated nor elected. He recounts how JFK cultivated delegates to the 1960 Democratic convention; quietly wooed the still-important party bosses; and used a large personal organization, polls, and TV advertising to win primaries. JFK's master stroke, however, was choosing as a running mate Lyndon Johnson, whose campaigning in the South carried enough southern states to win the election. On the other side, Rorabaugh draws on Nixon's often-ignored files to take a close look at his dysfunctional campaign, which reflected the oddities of a dark and brooding candidate trapped into defending the Eisenhower administration. Yet the widely detested Nixon won almost as many votes as the charismatic Kennedy, even though Democrats outnumberd Republicans by three to two. This leads Rorabaugh to reexamine the darker side of the election: the Republicans' charges of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas, the use of money to prod or intimidate, manipulation of the media, and the bulldozing of opponents. White and others helped shape persisting impressions of both candidates, influencing the way Nixon conducted subsequent campaigns and the Democrats nurtured the Kennedy legacy. The Real Making of the President gives us a more sobering look at all of that, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of one of the nation's most memorable elections.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700618872

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Equity

A Course of Lectures

By: F. W. Maitland,Frederic William Maitland,A. H. Chaytor,W. J. Whittaker

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Equity

A Course of Lectures

By: F. W. Maitland,Frederic William Maitland,A. H. Chaytor,W. J. Whittaker

The lectures given in Cambridge between 1888 and 1906 by the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, F. W. Maitland.

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0521176506

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4th DIMENSION MAGAZINE. FEB. 2018 in colors

By: WJ News Agency Times Square Press

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4th DIMENSION MAGAZINE. FEB. 2018 in colors

By: WJ News Agency Times Square Press

4th Dimension Magazine. February 2018. Published monthly by Times Square Press and Maximillien de Lafayette, New York. In full colors printed on glossy heavy stock paper, size: 8"50 by 11". On the cover: Arab cinema superstar Raghda. Content: Raghda, from diva to national hero. The world's 50 most interesting and delightful people you wish you could meet one day. Fake "followers" and "likes" on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Would you be shocked to learn that half of Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga's fans are fake? The Doomsday: The 2 million Americans and 25 Arabs who were chosen to be saved at the doomsday by the United States secret government. Interviews with America's stars and legends. The deceptive foreign policies of the West. What would happen if America overthrows President Bashar Al Assad?. A new geo-political map for Lebanon and Syria? How rich are evangelists today?.

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Lulu.com

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1387535862

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Placing the Enlightenment

Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason

By: Charles W. J. Withers

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Placing the Enlightenment

Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason

By: Charles W. J. Withers

The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized—its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance—the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Placing the Enlightenment will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226904075

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Purpose Beyond 2012

The Wisconsin Idea, Occupy Wall Street and Democracy's Future

By: Wj Reichertz

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Purpose Beyond 2012

The Wisconsin Idea, Occupy Wall Street and Democracy's Future

By: Wj Reichertz

Like many Americans, Ricky Vogt was searching for a career and purpose during the fallout from America's 2008 economic implosion. At the same time the nation was searching to resolve energy, environmental, and economic problems within a dysfunctional political system. This story explains how Vogt joined his fellow Americans as they fought amongst themselves in search of a better vision. He questions how community resolves the tension between intolerance and personal liberty; between the selfishness of trickle-down economics and the ideals of spirituality and our founding documents promoting the common good. The book depicts Vogt's evolving search for better solutions and a new way forward.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469198754

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Cases in Construction Management

By: W.J. Slater

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Cases in Construction Management

By: W.J. Slater

Written by the country's leading authority on construction management training, this book gives practical examples of construction management problems and how to deal with them.

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Routledge

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The Craft Apprentice

From Franklin to the Machine Age in America

By: W.J. Rorabaugh

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The Craft Apprentice

From Franklin to the Machine Age in America

By: W.J. Rorabaugh

The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters, diaries, and memoirs, into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.

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Oxford University Press

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0195363981

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The Urban World and the First Christians

By: Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill

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The Urban World and the First Christians

By: Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill

In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467449059

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The Uncertainty Business

Risks and Opportunities in Weather and Climate

By: W. J. Maunder

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The Uncertainty Business

Risks and Opportunities in Weather and Climate

By: W. J. Maunder

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses the value of weather and climate information in government and business decision-making. It issues a strong manifesto for the development of new areas of research requiring the skills of weather scientists, geographers, economists, planners and political scientists. It offers a coherent and non-technical presentation of this climatology, supported with practical guidance on assessing the impacts of weather and climate on human affairs.

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1000692272

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The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology

By: W. J. Torrance Kirby

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The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology

By: W. J. Torrance Kirby

The book investigates and interprets the influence of the political theology of Heinrich Bullinger and Peter Martyr Vermigli in mid-Tudor England and especially on the theory, implementation, and consolidation of the Elizabethan constitutional and religious settlement of 1559.

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