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They Came From Beneath the Ice

By: William J. Smith

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They Came From Beneath the Ice

By: William J. Smith

The Smith family from New York are a typical, middle-class family who is about to be thrust into an intergalactic battle between space-aliens who arrived in the form of these giant meteorites, when the patriarch of the family, who is also the narrator of the story, who is sent all over the world by his employer, the local news station, for assignment, but when the send him to Antarctica, to fill in for some sick meteorologists, he and his family go down to the frozen continent, and are soon fighting for their survival when these space-aliens emerge from their frozen, rocky prison and wreak havoc on the base, and now the Smith family must use their wits to survive as "They Came From Beneath the Ice

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1300998229

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Global Governance and Diplomacy

Worlds Apart?

By: William Maley

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Global Governance and Diplomacy

Worlds Apart?

By: William Maley

While diplomacy is a well-established topic for study, global governance is a relatively new arrival to the conceptual landscape of international relations. At first glance the two exist in separate worlds. This book examines the relationship between these two concepts for the first time in a comprehensive manner.

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Springer

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0230227422

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Lone Witness to a Murder

By: William J. Smith

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Lone Witness to a Murder

By: William J. Smith

Doctor Franklin is a well-respected doctor who works at the local insane asylum.One night, he gets into a fight with his live-in girlfriend;Nancy Walker.The fight escalates until Doctor Franklin pulls out a gun and kills Ms.Walker.Just as Doctor Franklin thinks he's going to get away with murder, he finds out that there was a "Lone Witness to a Murder";a witness to the murder that he committed, who watched the whole event.Naturally, this witness is the only person standing in his way of getting away with murder, little Carol Anne;the next-door neighbor's little girl, who he must now find a way to silence forever.

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1365761711

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If We Can Put a Man on the Moon

Getting Big Things Done in Government

By: William D. Eggers,John O'Leary

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If We Can Put a Man on the Moon

Getting Big Things Done in Government

By: William D. Eggers,John O'Leary

The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing. We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, William Eggers and John O'Leary explain how to do it. The key? Understand-and avoid-the common pitfalls that trip up public-sector leaders during the journey from idea to results. The authors identify pitfalls including: -The Partial Map Trap: Fumbling handoffs throughout project execution -The Tolstoy Syndrome: Seeing only the possibilities you want to see -Design-Free Design: Designing policies for passage through the legislature, not for implementation -The Overconfidence Trap: Creating unrealistic budgets and timelines -The Complacency Trap: Failing to recognize that a program needs change At a time of unprecedented challenges, this book, with its abundant examples and hands-on advice, is the essential guide to making our government work better. A must-read for every public official, this book will be of interest to anyone who cares about the future of democracy.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422155129

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The Cold War Thrillers

The Strasbourg Legacy and The Tashkent Crisis

By: William J. Craig

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The Cold War Thrillers

The Strasbourg Legacy and The Tashkent Crisis

By: William J. Craig

Two explosive novels set in the perilous days when the world stood on the brink of chaos—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates. For almost fifty years after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union played a dangerous game in the shadows. And from those shadows would emerge unsung heroes who would fight for freedom . . . The Strasbourg Legacy: Investigating the possible Soviet theft of US munitions, CIA agent Matt Corcoran hears rumors that German communists and Aryan terrorists are conspiring to assassinate political leaders. But far more ominous is the underground cadre of surviving Nazi officers bent on starting the Fourth Reich . . . The Tashkent Crisis: As tensions rise between the superpowers, the Soviets deliver an ultimatum: surrender unconditionally or a devastating secret weapon will kill millions of Americans. Now a Special Forces team led by Col. Joe Safcek must infiltrate a secret Soviet base and destroy the mystery weapon. But the closer they get, the more Safcek realizes it may already be too late . . . With these “furious-paced” novels of “timeclock suspense” William Craig takes readers back to a time when the Cold War could have started burning with a single spark (Kirkus Reviews).

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Open Road Media

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1504057066

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Christian Political Activism at the Crossroads

By: William R. Stevenson

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Christian Political Activism at the Crossroads

By: William R. Stevenson

This volume illumines the discussion being carried on between the religious right with its concern for moral responsibility in politics and the issue-oriented activists who are concerned with how Christians in America address human-rights and hunger issues. By bringing together both Christian scholars and activists from nearly all points of the political continuum, this book offers a rare glimpse into the reality of Christian diversity on the political task. The media often suggests a monist interpretation of 'Christian politics.' This book shows both the vitality and plurality of Christian politics in America. The book covers the historical background, activist perspectives, organizational structures, and participant characteristics with essays by Frank Roberts, David O'Brien, Ruth Tucker, James Reichley, Delton Franz, Betty Coats, Lucille Taylor, Bruce Buursma, Robert Zwier, Allen Hertzke, James Guth, Lyman Kellstedt, Corwin Smidt, Stephen Monsma and concludes with a suggestion of a new direction by James Skillen of the Association for Public Justice.

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University Press of America

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0819194115

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Baby Carol Anne's Wild Urban Adventure

By: William J. Smith

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Baby Carol Anne's Wild Urban Adventure

By: William J. Smith

Amanda Smith is a gorgeous career-woman who wants her daughters to follow in her super-model footsteps, but when she hires four professional photographers to take pictures of her youngest, Carol Anne, to send to top modeling agencies, the photographers end up being con-men who kidnap their daughter, and hold her for ransom, seeing how rich the Smith family is, but the kidnappers have bitten off more than they can chew and end up having to chase Carol Anne around the city, in a hilarious adventure through the streets of New York, before Miss Kristin Moore comes to Carol Anne's rescue and takes the little tyke in, after she gets lost on the

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1387321854

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Anthony Mann

The Film Career

By: William Darby

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Anthony Mann

The Film Career

By: William Darby

This detailed study of the career of Anthony Mann argues Mann's prominence and influence alongside contemporaries like John Ford. Mann (1906-1967), who was active in Hollywood and Europe, directed or produced more than 40 films, including The Fall of the Roman Empire and God's Little Acre. Best known for his work in the film noir and western genres and his films starring Jimmy Stewart, Mann later moved into Cold War and epic films. The book features a filmography and 49 photographs.

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McFarland

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0786454482

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The Tashkent Crisis

By: William J. Craig

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The Tashkent Crisis

By: William J. Craig

Superpowers play a deadly game of brinkmanship in this “unputdownable” Cold War thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates(Manchester Evening News). The Soviet Union delivers an ultimatum to the president of the United States: Surrender unconditionally within 72 hours or a secret weapon of unprecedented capabilities will take millions of American lives. President William Mellon Stark ran on a campaign of peace and kept his promises, slashing the military budget and pouring millions into domestic programs. Now the nation is years behind in the technology of mass destruction. Desperate measures are Stark’s only options. In Soviet Asia, a team of Special Forces saboteurs led by Colonel Joe Safcek attempts to vaporize the mystery weapon with a miniature atom bomb. Closer to home, the president stages an explosive hoax to justify evacuating Washington, DC. But as zero hours approaches, Stark realizes that it might already be too late, and that he will bear the terrible responsibility of leading the United States into the ultimate confrontation.

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1504021355

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1923

The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch

By: Mark William Jones

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1923

The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch

By: Mark William Jones

How Germany’s fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923—and how pro-democracy forces fought back In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland, rampant inflation, radical violence, and finally Hitler’s infamous “beer hall putsch.” Fanning the flames of anti-government and anti-Semitic sentiment, the Nazis tried to violently seize power in Munich, only failing after they were abandoned by like-minded conservatives. In 1923, historian Mark William Jones draws on new research to offer a revealing portrait of German politics and society in this turbulent year. Tracing Hitler’s early rise, Jones reveals how political pragmatism and unprecedented international cooperation with the West brought Germany out of its crisis year. Although Germany would succumb to tyranny a decade later, the story of the republic’s survival in 1923 offers essential lessons to anyone concerned about the future of democracy today.

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Basic Books

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1541600215

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Everyone to Skis!

Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon

By: William D. Frank

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Everyone to Skis!

Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon

By: William D. Frank

Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Soviet Union, and no other nation garnered greater success at international venues. From the introduction of modern biathlon in 1958 to the USSR's demise in 1991, athletes representing the Soviet Union won almost half of all possible medals awarded in world championship and Olympic competition. Yet more than sheer technical skill created Soviet superiority in biathlon. The sport embodied the Soviet Union's culture, educational system and historical experience and provided the perfect ideological platform to promote the state's socialist viewpoint and military might, imbuing the sport with a Cold War sensibility that transcended the government's primary quest for post-war success at the Olympics. William D. Frank's book is the first comprehensive analysis of how the Soviet government interpreted the sport of skiing as a cultural, ideological, political and social tool throughout the course of seven decades. In the beginning, the Soviet Union owned biathlon, and so the stories of both the state and the event are inseparable. Through the author's unique perspective on biathlon as a former nationally-ranked competitor and current professor of Soviet history, Everyone to Skis! will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Soviet history as well as to general readers with an interest in skiing and the development of twentieth-century sport.

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1501756974

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Marathon Man

A Novel

By: William Goldman

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Marathon Man

A Novel

By: William Goldman

A Nazi conspiracy in the heart of modern-day Manhattan—the blockbuster New York Times bestseller that became the classic film thriller. At Columbia University, Thomas “Babe” Levy, a postgrad history student and aspiring marathon runner, is working to clear his late father’s name after the scandal of his suicide, triggered by the McCarthy hearings and accusations of Communist affiliations. In Paraguay, Dr. Christian Szell, former Nazi dentist and protégé of Josef Mengele, has been in exile for decades. Infamous as the “White Angel of Auschwitz,” he’s leaving his South American sanctuary to smuggle a fortune in gems out of New York City. Meanwhile, in London’s Kensington Gardens, an international assassin known only as Scylla has completed a hit. A man with too many secrets and twice as many enemies, Scylla has become a target himself, with only one place left to turn. Then, when Babe’s revered older brother, Doc, pays him a fateful and unexpected visit, it sets in motion a chain of events plunging Babe into a paranoid nightmare of family betrayal, international conspiracy, and the dark crimes of history. Now, the marathon man is running for his life, and closer to answering a single cryptic and terrifying question: “Is it safe?” William Goldman’s Marathon Man was adapted by the author for the award-winning 1976 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Upon its publication, the Washington Post called it “one of the best novels of the year,” and it remains a powerful, horrifying read. In the words of #1 New York Times–bestselling author Harlan Coben: “I found myself racing through it. You could have put a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t have been able to put [Marathon Man] down.” This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.

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1453292004

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The Reluctant Metropolis

The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles

By: William Fulton

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The Reluctant Metropolis

The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles

By: William Fulton

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s A Los Angeles Times Bestseller"William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los Angeles subway, the battle over the future of South Central L.A. after the 1992 riots, and the emergence of Las Vegas as "the new Los Angeles," Fulton offers a fresh perspective on the city's epic sprawl. The only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing "cocoon citizenship," the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.

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JHU Press

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0801865069

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Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts Classroom

By: William Boerman-Cornell,Jung Kim

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Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts Classroom

By: William Boerman-Cornell,Jung Kim

There is an increasing trend in teachers using graphic novels to get their students excited about reading and writing, using both original stories and adaptations of classic works by authors such as Homer, Shakespeare, and the Brontes. However, there is surprisingly little research available about which pedagogies and classroom practices are proven to be effective. This book draws on cutting-edge research, surveys and classroom observations to provide a set of effective methods for teaching with graphic novels in the secondary English language arts classroom. These methods can be applied to a broad base of uses ranging from understanding literary criticism, critical reading, multimodal composition, to learning literary devices like foreshadowing and irony. The book begins by looking at what English language arts teachers hope to achieve in the classroom. It then considers the affordances and constraints of using graphic novels to achieve these specific goals, using some of the most successful graphic novels as examples, including Maus; Persepolis; The Nameless City; and American Born Chinese and series such as Manga Shakespeare. Finally, it helps the teacher navigate through the planning process to figure out how to best use graphic novels in their own classroom. Drawing on their extensive teaching experience, the authors offer examples from real classrooms, suggested lesson plans, and a list of teachable graphic novels organized by purpose of teaching.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350112704

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9781350112704

Making Catholic America

Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: William S. Cossen

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Making Catholic America

Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: William S. Cossen

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation. They produced their own version of American history and claimed the power to remake the nation in their own image, arguing that they were the country's most faithful supporters of freedom and liberty and that their church had birthed American independence. Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world.

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Cornell University Press

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1501771000

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Saving Lake Winnipeg

By: Robert William Sandford

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Saving Lake Winnipeg

By: Robert William Sandford

In February of 2013, as reported by major media from all around the world, Lake Winnipeg was recognized by the Global Nature Fund as the world’s “Threatened Lake of the Year” for 2013. It is not just Manitoba and Canada, however, that deserve a black eye as a result of Lake Winnipeg landing up on this dreadful shortlist. While representative of serious economic threats to the economy of the Central Great Plains region in both Canada and the United States, the condition of Lake Winnipeg is a symbol of a much larger problem. The cyano-bacteria that now form huge blooms in Lake Winnipeg each summer are among the oldest known photosynthetic micro-organisms. Recent research demonstrates that the toxin this bacteria produces has been now been detected in water bodies all across Canada, at levels exceeding maximum guidelines in every province. The deteriorating condition of Lake Winnipeg and the pervasive presence of these toxins is a challenge to the future vitality of our crucial agricultural sector, and thus an issue of growing national health and economic concern. In his third book in this RMB series, internationally respected water analyst Robert Sandford has given the people of the Central Great Plains a true manifesto that can be used to convince government, industry and society that drastic change is needed if we are to avoid the troubles currently plaguing Lake Winnipeg from spreading to other bodies of water throughout North America.

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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1927330882

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

This is the eagerly awaited new edition of Law of Torts, the complete Irish tort law reference book. For this, the contents have been extensively revised since the last edition was published in 2000. Key developments are detailed and relevant recent case law is examined. This book is essential for both legal practitioners and people studying Irish law. Recent important legislation examined in the book includes: Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011, Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, Defamation Act 2009, Consumer Protection Act 2007, Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003. Key developments and case law are examined in areas such as pure economic loss, limitations and purchase of financial products, vicarious liability for sexual assaults, damages, privacy, defamation, psychiatric injury, liability of public authorities, employers' liability, professional negligence, defective buildings and products and occupiers' liability. First published in 1980, Law of Torts has long been a cornerstone work in Irish law, indeed in the foreword to the first edition Judge Brian Walshe noted that the book represented a challenge to the 'unquestioned assumption that English text-books would satisfy all needs.' This new addition will only add to the book's long-established merit and value.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780438842

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Divided Friends

By: William L. Portier

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Divided Friends

By: William L. Portier

In two sets of intertwined biographical portraits, spanning two generations, Divided Friends dramatizes the theological issues of the modernist crisis, highlighting their personal dimensions and extensively reinterpreting their long-range effects. The four protagonists are Bishop Denis J. O?Connell, Josephite founder John R. Slattery, together with the Paulists William L. Sullivan and Joseph McSorley. Their lives span the decades from the Americanist crisis of the 1890s right up to the eve of Vatican II. In each set, one leaves the church and one stays. The two who leave come to see their former companions as fundamentally dishonest. Divided Friends entails a reinterpretation of the intellectual fallout from the modernist crisis and a reframing of the 20th century debate about Catholic intellectual life.

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CUA Press

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0813221641

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Green's Operative Hand Surgery E-Book

Expert Consult: Online and Print

By: Scott W. Wolfe,Robert N. Hotchkiss,William C. Pederson,Scott H. Kozin

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Green's Operative Hand Surgery E-Book

Expert Consult: Online and Print

By: Scott W. Wolfe,Robert N. Hotchkiss,William C. Pederson,Scott H. Kozin

Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, edited in its Sixth Edition by Scott W. Wolfe, MD, provides today’s most complete, authoritative guidance on the effective surgical and non-surgical management of all conditions of the hand, wrist, and elbow. Now featuring a new full-color format, photographs, and illustrations, plus operative videos and case studies online at Expert Consult, this new edition shows you more vividly than ever before how to perform all of the latest techniques and achieve optimal outcomes. Access the complete contents online, fully searchable, at expertconsult.com. Overcome your toughest clinical challenges with advice from world-renowned hand surgeons. Master all the latest approaches, including the newest hand implants and arthroplastic techniques. Get tips for overcoming difficult surgical challenges through "Author’s Preferred Technique" summaries. See how to perform key procedures step by step by watching operative videos online. Gain new insights on overcoming clinical challenges by reading online case studies. Consult it more easily thanks to a new, more user-friendly full-color format, with all of the photos and illustrations shown in color. The undisputed leading reference in hand, wrist, and elbow surgery is improved with full color, new surgical video and case studies and a continued emphasis on optimal surgical management of upper extremity conditions.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455711365

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Borderlands of Slavery

The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

By: William S. Kiser

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Borderlands of Slavery

The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

By: William S. Kiser

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor—and Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and bondage in the United States. In Borderlands of Slavery, William S. Kiser presents a comprehensive history of debt peonage and Indian captivity in the territory of New Mexico after the Civil War. It begins in the early 1700s with the development of Indian slavery through slave raiding and fictive kinship. By the early 1800s, debt peonage had emerged as a secondary form of coerced servitude in the Southwest, augmenting Indian slavery to meet increasing demand for labor. While indigenous captivity has received considerable scholarly attention, the widespread practice of debt peonage has been largely ignored. Kiser makes the case that these two intertwined systems were of not just regional but also national importance and must be understood within the context of antebellum slavery, the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Kiser argues that the struggle over Indian captivity and debt peonage in the Southwest helped both to broaden the public understanding of forced servitude in post-Civil War America and to expand political and judicial philosophy regarding free labor in the reunified republic. Borderlands of Slavery emphasizes the lasting legacies of captivity and peonage in Southwestern culture and society as well as in the coercive African American labor regimes in the Jim Crow South that persevered into the early twentieth century.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812294106

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Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues

By: Stephen Gough,William Scott

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Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues

By: Stephen Gough,William Scott

In this important new book the authors explore the role of learning in sustainable development. The book sets out the key issues, and raises concepts for discussion, reflection and ongoing consideration by all stakeholders in this crucial field.

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1134474784

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Sustainable Development and Learning

Framing the Issues

By: William Scott,Stephen Gough

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Sustainable Development and Learning

Framing the Issues

By: William Scott,Stephen Gough

This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act. This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional training and development, and awareness-raising - people can bring about change, as well as engaging in debate and critique of issues. The book builds on existing work across a number of fields, as well as on original international research, in order to model the complexity of the problems, the institutional contexts in which they arise, and the interrelationships between these. Areas explored include the policy context, the links between sustainable development and learning, the economic and moral interdependence of humans and nature, the management, assessment and evaluation of learning, and globalisation. The book suggests ways in which those responsible for learning can target their efforts appropriately, matching straightforward solutions to simple problems, and designing complex interventions only where these are needed. This text will be a valuable resource for anyone studying Masters degrees and MBAs that focus on environment or sustainable development, and for professionals dealing with problems on a day-to-day basis. Though a free-standing text, its analysis is supported by a companion reader: Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: a critical review.

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Psychology Press

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0415276489

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Haunted Places

The National Directory : Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations

By: Dennis William Hauck

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Haunted Places

The National Directory : Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations

By: Dennis William Hauck

Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.

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Penguin

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0142002348

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The Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the UK: A State of Confusion - HC 979

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee,William Cash

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The Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the UK: A State of Confusion - HC 979

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee,William Cash

The application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (the EU term for human rights) in the UK has been the subject of considerable media, judicial and political interest since November last year, when the comments of a High Court Judge on its influence on UK law were reported in the press and debated in Parliament. This Report aims to clarify a number of common misconceptions about the role of the Charter. Its key conclusions are: that the Charter applies in the UK where the Government and public authorities are acting within the scope of EU law - there is no opt-out; that the Charter is directly effective in the UK, with supremacy over inconsistent national law, and can therefore be used both to interpret and enforce EU law, and so disapply national legislation based on EU law; that the Charter does not include new rights, however, or give the EU new competences - but it will affect how pre-existing EU fundamental rights and principles are applied. Ministers should act to make clear beyond any doubt that the Charter will not in future apply in the UK, in particular through an amendment to the European Communities Act 1972

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021507064X

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9780215070647

The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident

By: Donald William Scott,William L. C. Scott

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The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident

By: Donald William Scott,William L. C. Scott

What a seriously concerned citizen needs to know about the tragedy, science, politics, and history of the biological hazards' labyrinth. Includes information on government and government-sponsored biological warfare weapons research in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Great Britian Nazi-Germany, and Canada.

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