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Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)

By: William McLoughlin

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Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)

By: William McLoughlin

With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?

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276

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393302717

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9780393302714

The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America

By: William J. Phalen

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The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America

By: William J. Phalen

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that "without cotton, you have no modern industry." Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brought wealth, power and prosperity to both America and Europe. Giant industries in the northern U.S., extensive shipping networks up and down the Atlantic Coast and to Europe, new inventions and revised applications of old machines--all sprang from the success of King Cotton. This thoughtful study traces the impact of southern cotton on most of the important facets of life in antebellum America, including employment, international relations, agriculture, shipping, the U.S. economy, Native American relations, and the subjugation of humans. This one plant fashioned the way of life of the South and profoundly affected the destiny of the entire American people.

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211

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McFarland

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0786477008

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9780786477005

Banach Spaces

Proceedings of an International Workshop on Banach Space Theory, January 6-17, 1992

By: Bor-Luh Lin,William B. Johnson

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Banach Spaces

Proceedings of an International Workshop on Banach Space Theory, January 6-17, 1992

By: Bor-Luh Lin,William B. Johnson

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Banach Space Theory, held at the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela in January 1992. These refereed papers contain the newest results in Banach space theory, real or complex function spaces, and nonlinear functional analysis. There are several excellent survey papers, including ones on homogeneous Banach spaces and applications of probability inequalities, in addition to an important research paper on the distortion problem. This volume is notable for the breadth of the mathematics presented.

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224

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821851578

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9780821851579

Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections

By: William Greig

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Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections

By: William Greig

Reviewing the various IC packaging, assembly, and interconnection technologies, this professional reference provides an overview of the materials and the processes, as well as the trends and available options that encompass electronic manufacturing. It covers both the technical issues and touches on some of the reliability concerns with the various technologies applicable to packaging and assembly of the IC. The book discusses the various packaging approaches, assembly options, and essential manufacturing technologies, among other relevant topics.

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312

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387339132

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9780387339139

Studies in Civilization

By: Alan J. B. Wace,Otto E. Neugebauer,William S. Ferguson

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Studies in Civilization

By: Alan J. B. Wace,Otto E. Neugebauer,William S. Ferguson

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512819549

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9781512819540

Teacher Leadership

New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet

By: Kokila Roy Katyal,Colin William Evers

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Teacher Leadership

New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet

By: Kokila Roy Katyal,Colin William Evers

In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. As a consequence, the rise of distributed leadership as an alternative model for understanding schools and their functioning is now commonplace. The second major revolution affecting teacher leadership is the rise of the Internet and ICT, and the way these give rise to greater and more flexible opportunities for students to become autonomous learners. Autonomous student learning now occurs in significant new ways and under parameters that are far more expansive than school-based learning. An effective model of teacher leadership thus needs to capture these changes in order to reflect the new realities of student learning and student engagement with their schools.

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178

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Routledge

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131780337X

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9781317803379

Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer

The Years as Engineer in Chief, 1861-1869

By: Edward William Sloan

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Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer

The Years as Engineer in Chief, 1861-1869

By: Edward William Sloan

A classic account of the 40-year Naval career of Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, whose contributions to Naval engineering helped usher in the development of the modern American Navy. Focusing on the years during and immediately after the Civil War, this study chronicles the extensive contributions made by Isherwood in expanding the size and scope of the U.S. Navy.

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252

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Naval Institute Press

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1612512917

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9781612512914

Radiology Life Support (RAD-LS)

A Practical Approach

By: William Bush Jr

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Radiology Life Support (RAD-LS)

A Practical Approach

By: William Bush Jr

Radiology Life Support' focuses on the adverse effects and life-threatening emergencies caused by reactions to the contrast media used in every modern radiology department. Such reactions are relatively infrequent yet can be severe and are therefore difficult to identify and then handle safely without training. All radiologists will experience at least a few such reactions throughout their career. This book teaches proper recognition and treatment of adverse contrast reactions, proper use of sedation and analgesic agents, proper management of an airway in an emergency situation and principle concepts in basic and advanced life support (including early defibrilation). The text is based on the successful training course run by the editors and sponsored by the American Roentgen Ray Society. Adverse reactions to contrast agents are somewhat difficult for physicians without practice to identify and then handle effectively. This volume is a useful aid to the identification process.

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192

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CRC Press

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1351419927

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9781351419925

A Library of Poetry and Song

By: William Cullen Bryant

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A Library of Poetry and Song

By: William Cullen Bryant

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382162164

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9783382162160

Chemical Ecology of Insects

By: William J. Bell,Ring T. Cardé

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Chemical Ecology of Insects

By: William J. Bell,Ring T. Cardé

Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the chemical ecology of insects has been to delineate the major concepts of this discipline. The fine line between presenting a few topics in great detail or many topics in veneer has been carefully drawn, such that the book contains sufficient diversity to cover the field and a few topics in some depth. After the reader has penetrated the crust of what has been learned about chemical ecology of insects, the deficiencies in our understanding of this field should become evident. These deficiencies, to which no chapter topic is immune, indicate the youthful state of chemical ecology and the need for further investigations, especially those with potential for integrating elements that are presently isolated from each other. At the outset of this volume it becomes evident that, although we are beginning to decipher how receptor cells work, virtually nothing is known of how sensory information is coded to become relevant to the insect and to control the behavior of the insect. This problem is exacerbated by the state of our knowledge of how chemicals are distributed in nature, especially in complex habitats. And finally, we have been unable to understand the significance of orientation pathways of insects, in part because of the two previous problems: orientation seems to depend on patterns of distri bution of chemicals, the coding of these patterns by the central nervous system, and the generation of motor output based on the resulting motor commands.

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Springer

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1489933689

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9781489933683

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

By: William Rosen

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World

A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

By: William Rosen

The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

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401

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University of Chicago Press

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0226726347

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9780226726342

Americans and Their Weather

By: William B. Meyer

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Americans and Their Weather

By: William B. Meyer

This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer documents the ways in which different kinds of weather throughout history have represented hazards and resources not only for such exposed outdoor pursuits as agriculture, warfare, transportation, construction, and recreation, but for other realms of life ranging from manufacturing to migration to human health. He points out that while the weather and climate by themselves have never determined the course of human events, their significance as been continuously altered for better and for worse by the evolution of American life.

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Oxford University Press

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0195351177

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9780195351170

Book's by William S. Ferguson

Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)

Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)

The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America

The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America

Banach Spaces

Banach Spaces

Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections

Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections

Studies in Civilization

Studies in Civilization

Teacher Leadership

Teacher Leadership

Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer

Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer

Radiology Life Support (RAD-LS)

Radiology Life Support (RAD-LS)

A Library of Poetry and Song

A Library of Poetry and Song

Chemical Ecology of Insects

Chemical Ecology of Insects

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

Americans and Their Weather

Americans and Their Weather

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