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The Day After Roswell

By: Philip Corso,William J. Birnes

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The Day After Roswell

By: Philip Corso,William J. Birnes

Discloses the government's role in the Roswell UFO incident, explaining what actually happened and its implications.

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Simon and Schuster

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067101756X

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9780671017569

J R

By: William Gaddis

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A National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis. At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk-mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is running a paper empire out of a phone booth in the school hallway. Everyone from the school staff to the municipal government to the squabbling heirs of a player-piano company to the titans of Wall Street and the politicians in Washington will be caught up in the endlessly ballooning bubble of the J R Family of Companies. First published in 1975 and winner of the National Book Award in 1976, J R is an appallingly funny and all-too-prophetic depiction of America’s romance with finance. It is also a book about suburban development and urban decay, divorce proceedings and disputed wills, the crumbling facade of Western civilization and the impossible demands of love and art, with characters ranging from the earnest young composer Edward Bast to the berserk publicist Davidoff. Told almost entirely through dialogue, William Gaddis’s novel is both a literary tour de force and an unsurpassed reckoning with the way we live now.

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785

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New York Review of Books

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1681374692

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9781681374697

The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest

Part 1

By: William Langland

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The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest

Part 1

By: William Langland

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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242

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752570717

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9783752570717

Principles and Methods of Social Research

By: William D. Crano,Marilynn B. Brewer,Andrew Lac

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Principles and Methods of Social Research

By: William D. Crano,Marilynn B. Brewer,Andrew Lac

Used to train generations of social scientists, this thoroughly updated classic text covers the latest research techniques and designs. Applauded for its comprehensive coverage, the breadth and depth of content is unparalleled. Through a multi-methodology approach, the text guides readers toward the design and conduct of social research from the ground up. Explained with applied examples useful to the social, behavioral, educational, and organizational sciences, the methods described are intended to be relevant to contemporary researchers. The underlying logic and mechanics of experimental, quasi-experimental, and non-experimental research strategies are discussed in detail. Introductory chapters covering topics such as validity and reliability furnish readers with a firm understanding of foundational concepts. Chapters dedicated to sampling, interviewing, questionnaire design, stimulus scaling, observational methods, content analysis, implicit measures, dyadic and group methods, and meta-analysis provide coverage of these essential methodologies. The book is noted for its: -Emphasis on understanding the principles that govern the use of a method to facilitate the researcher’s choice of the best technique for a given situation. - Use of the laboratory experiment as a touchstone to describe and evaluate field experiments, correlational designs, quasi experiments, evaluation studies, and survey designs. -Coverage of the ethics of social research including the power a researcher wields and tips on how to use it responsibly. The new edition features:-A new co-author, Andrew Lac, instrumental in fine tuning the book’s accessible approach and highlighting the most recent developments at the intersection of design and statistics. -More learning tools including more explanation of the basic concepts, more research examples, tables, and figures, and the addition of bold faced terms, chapter conclusions, discussion questions, and a glossary. -Extensive revision of chapter (3) on measurement reliability theory that examines test theory, latent factors, factor analysis, and item response theory. -Expanded coverage of cutting-edge methodologies including mediation and moderation, reliability and validity, missing data, and more physiological approaches such as neuroimaging and fMRIs. -A new web based resource package that features Power Points and discussion and exam questions for each chapter and for students chapter outlines and summaries, key terms, and suggested readings. Intended as a text for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in research methods (design) in psychology, communication, sociology, education, public health, and marketing, an introductory undergraduate course on research methods is recommended.

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505

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Routledge

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1317666070

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9781317666073

Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts

Strategies for Grades 6-12

By: William E. Lewis,John Z. Strong

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Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts

Strategies for Grades 6-12

By: William E. Lewis,John Z. Strong

To develop strong disciplinary literacy skills, middle and high school students need to engage with diverse types of challenging texts in every content area. This book provides a blueprint for constructing literacy-rich instructional units in English language arts, science, and social studies. The authors describe how to design interconnected text sets and plan lessons that support learning and engagement before, during, and after reading. Presented are ways to build academic vocabulary and background knowledge, teach research-based comprehension strategies, and guide effective discussions and text-based writing activities. Chapters also cover how to teach students to write argumentative, informative, and narrative essays, and to conduct discipline-specific inquiry. Special features include sample text sets and 24 reproducible planning templates and other teaching tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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Guilford Publications

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1462544770

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9781462544776

The Letters of William Gaddis

Revised Edition

By: William Gaddis

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The Letters of William Gaddis

Revised Edition

By: William Gaddis

A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel, The Recognitions (1955), while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award–winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter’s Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts, he finishes a last novel, Agapē Agape (published in 2002), as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore, as well as an afterword by the author’s daughter, Sarah Gaddis.

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705

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New York Review of Books

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1681375842

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9781681375847

Democracy as Discussion

Civic Education and the American Forum Movement

By: William M. Keith

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Democracy as Discussion

Civic Education and the American Forum Movement

By: William M. Keith

Using primary sources from archives around the country, Democracy as Discussion traces the early history of the Speech field, the development of discussion as an alternative to debate, and the Deweyan, Progressive philosophy of discussion that swept the United States in the early twentieth century.

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380

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Lexington Books

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0739115073

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9780739115077

Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

By: William Logan

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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

By: William Logan

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” among others—Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were made. Logan’s criticism is informed by the material culture of that world, whether postal deliveries in Regency London, the Métro lighting in 1911 Paris, or the wheelbarrows used in 1923. Deeper knowledge of the poet’s daily existence lets us read old poems afresh, providing a new way of understanding poems now encrusted with commentary. Logan shows that criticism cannot just root blindly among the words of the poem but must live partly in a lost world, in the shadow of the poet’s life and the shadow of the age.

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404

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Columbia University Press

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0231546513

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9780231546515

Getting Published in the Life Sciences

By: Richard J. Gladon,William R. Graves,J. Michael Kelly

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Getting Published in the Life Sciences

By: Richard J. Gladon,William R. Graves,J. Michael Kelly

The goal of this book is to make it easier for scientists, especially those new to scientific writing, to write about their results and to get their manuscripts accepted in peer-reviewed journals. The book covers each step throughout the submission process, from organizing and outlining the manuscript, presenting statistical data and results, to what happens during the in-house manuscript review process and what to do if an article is initially rejected. In addition to providing practical exercises on these topics, the book focuses on helping writers distil their research into concise take-home messages for readers, in order to convey information as clearly as possible to the target audience.

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370

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118041666

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9781118041666

Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

By: William Hersh

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Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

By: William Hersh

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor- tion of health care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some are addressed to speci?c professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in this series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to re?ect the rapid evolution in the discipline now known as health informatics, the series continues to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the ?eld. In this series, eminent experts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovation in health informatics. Incre- ingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the role of information in in?uencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also increasingly focuses on “peopleware” and the organi- tional, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of infor- tion technology in health services environments.

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496

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387787038

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9780387787039

Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform

By: Andrew J Dick,William Rich,Tony Waters

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Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform

By: Andrew J Dick,William Rich,Tony Waters

This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories from the authors’ experiences “behind the wall” among California’s prison population, the authors challenge the nature of evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.

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Springer

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1137564695

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9781137564696

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The Day After Roswell

The Day After Roswell

J R

J R

The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest

The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest

Principles and Methods of Social Research

Principles and Methods of Social Research

Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts

Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts

The Letters of William Gaddis

The Letters of William Gaddis

Democracy as Discussion

Democracy as Discussion

Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Getting Published in the Life Sciences

Getting Published in the Life Sciences

Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

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