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Chronicle Books Mindfulness Dice
Book SynopsisThis fun-to-use, interactive set of six dice makes it easy to practice mindfulness in daily life for anyone looking for more peace and balance.Mindfulness Dice includes 36 soothing practices and thousands of possible combinations. Whether at home, work, or on the go, Mindfulness Dice makes it easy to find moments of peace, awareness, and joy—with a simple roll of the dice anyone can discover simple meditations, mantras, and exercises for calm and clarity.Delivered in an eye-catching, colorful box filled with six beautiful wooden, color-coded dice plus an instructional booklet, this is a great gift for anyone looking for some relief from the stresses of daily life.• MINDFULNESS MADE FUN: This interactive format makes it fun to learn and practice mindfulness.• VALUABLE CONTENT IN AN AFFORDABLE PACKAGE: Mindfulness is proven to help people find peace and balance, and these dice offer valuable practices in an accessible forma
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Temple University Press,U.S. Finished Business
Book SynopsisRay Didinger opens his lively memoir Finished Business with the Philadelphia Eagles' upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle the emotions of a working reporter and a long-suffering Philly fan. His ability to do that is why he has built up such a loyal following. Didingerbegan following the Eagles as a kid, hanging out in his grandfather's bar in Southwest Philadelphia. He spent his summers at the team's training camp in Hershey. It was there he met his idol, flanker Tommy McDonald. He would later write a play, Tommy and Me, about their friendship and his efforts to see McDonald enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Didinger has been covering the Eagles as a newspaper columnist or TV analyst since 1970. Over the years, he wrote sports for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Daily News. He later produced Emmy Awardwinning documentaries for NFL Films before transitioning to sports talk radio an
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Duke University Press Atmospheric Noise The Indefinite Urbanism of Los
Book SynopsisMarina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles International Airport since the 1960s, showing how noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.Trade Review“An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds.” -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment *“Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Peterson’s prose is always lyric, tidal almost, but she sacrifices neither scholarly rigor nor theoretical ferocity in her pursuit of how sound gets us into questions, spaces, activities, constructions, and the politics of infrastructure. Atmospheric Noise is the story of a city remade (parts indeed sacrificed) around an airport, flight paths, and racket. It’s also the story of instrumentation, calibration, and how we both measure and experience what we claim to know. It’s a shining example of what, with care, ethnography can be." -- Gretchen Bakke * Public Books *"Peterson conceptualizes the act of listening as an intervention into the atmosphere, which originates these categories and definitions, while sound itself remains immaterial and unquantifiable. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Atmospheric Noise is an engaging and timely piece of scholarship. At its most successful, the work draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound, and the social construction of ecology and environment. It amplifies the possibilities of social science inquiry in its call for attunement to noise, to sound, to an atmospheric sensibility as method." -- Andrew Merrill * Public *"Atmospheric Noise is a rich and complex interrogation of urban noise, and there is much to engage readers interested in sonic philosophy, auditory culture, and histories of acoustics. . . . Atmospheric Noise offers an original account of how the sounds of Los Angeles airport came to shape lives, neighbourhoods, and the urban environment." -- Marie Thompson * Yearbook for Traditional Music *"This study offers researchers in fields including music, sound studies, urban planning, and American studies a model for the possible contributions of new materialism’s methodological assumptions. In doing so it invites readers and researchers to be sensitive to new attunements demanded by the changing (post)human onto-epistemologies supporting our own entanglements with the sonic in music and other regimes of tonality." -- Andrew J. Kluth * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Aerial Attunements 19 2. Noise Annoys 45 3. Environmental Imaginaries 77 4. Murmurs: Experiments in Glitching 105 5. Vibrating Matter 129 6. Indefinite Urbanism 155 Notes 185 References 207 Index 231
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Moleskine Moleskine Studio Collection Large Plain Notebook
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi R. Crumb Literature Autobiography and the Quest
Book SynopsisCharts Robert Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques.
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University Press of Kansas Last Second in Dallas
Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to his critically acclaimed Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major forensic discoveries since 2000 that overturn previously accepted ‘facts’ about the Kennedy assassination. Together they provide what no previous book on the assassination has done - incontrovertible proof that JFK was killed in a crossfire.
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Tolkien Philosopher of War
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Galison Mudpuppy Michael Storrings New York Public Library 1000
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Columbia University Press How to Feel
Book SynopsisHow to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at one of the most mysterious senses. A great read for anyone who has ever wondered why you feel the way you feel, literally. -- Olga Khazan, author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider WorldIn this addictively readable book, Sushma Subramanian explores our vital human sense of touch in terms of history, science, culture, family and most of all humanity. It's a story full of insight and surprise, told by a science writer with a poet's sense of language. Don't miss it. -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionThis book is a wonderful journey into the science of touch. Sushma Subramanian is a great writer who has deeply researched her subject, so the book offers the experience of discovering science with the ease of reading fiction. -- Tiffany M. Field, director of the Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of MedicineSubramanian brings an intensely personal narrative to the study of touch, with a breadth of coverage and a great balance for scientists and nonscientists alike. -- Robert DeSalle, author of Our Senses: An Immersive ExperienceOf all the senses, touch continues to be the least understood because it has so many components that are difficult to isolate.’ [How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch is a] useful introduction to the culture, mechanics, and consequences of touch. * Booklist *Subramanian is a thoughtful guide. [How to Feel] delivers an eye-opening mix of self-discovery and scientific investigation. * Publishers Weekly *[Subramanian] enjoyably shows through interviews with philosophers, massage therapists, haptic technologists, a man with no sense of touch and others, touch is our least understood sense. * Nature *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Dull: How Our Cultures Lost Touch2. Numb: Life Without Touch3. Mushy: When Sensation Crosses Into Emotion4. Untethered: Will the Body Become Obsolete?5. Softening: Overcoming Touch Aversion6. Boundaries: Knowing Good Touch from Bad7. Slick: How Companies Sell Us Touch8. Haptics: Bringing Touch to Our Technology9. Tactful: Building Machines That Can Touch Us BackConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake A Kids
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Indiana University Press Understanding Climate Change through Religious
Book SynopsisHow can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change. Trade ReviewThis anthology will be valuable for scholars interested in religion, climate communication, and Indigenous cultures. The book, or selected chapters from it, would be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in anthropology, area studies, environmental studies, and religion. -- Cybelle Shattuck - Western Michigan University * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain WorldRecombinant Responses1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, FijiLocal Knowledge4. "Nature Can Heal Itself"5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the SacredLoss, Anxiety, and Doubt7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier8. Loss and Recovery in the HimalayasReligious Transformations9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers10. Recasting the SacredConclusion: Religion and Climate ChangeList of ContributorsIndex
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Mixed Media Resources Let Your Imagination Sprout
Book SynopsisWith a teeny tiny seed, patience, and a little extra care, a boy and his community turn a parking lot into a thriving community garden.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Terrorism News Beat
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Disintegrating Empire
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John Wiley & Sons Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
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Emerald Publishing Informality in Policymaking
Book SynopsisThis book contains an Open Access chapter. In unveiling the realities of how policy is made, this deeply meaningful and thoughtfully constructed collection argues that the formal is only part of the story of policymaking, and thus only part of the solutions it seeks to create.
£70.30
Duke University Press Slow Disturbance
Book SynopsisFrom the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador''s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds, subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents, maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents, as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission''s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to theTrade Review“At this moment of reckoning, where histories of colonial violence and their afterlives in economies of extractivism are at the center of struggle, Slow Disturbance offers a powerful and nuanced account of the infrastructural making of the resource frontier. A must-read for those invested in understanding and transforming settler colonial materialities and ecologies.” -- Deborah Cowen, author of * The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade *“Rafico Ruiz makes a critical contribution to media studies, settler colonial studies, and studies of infrastructure and the environment. A fantastic book.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Slow Disturbance is a valuable and much-needed text that provides thoughtful insights into the ways that resource frontiers are made and enacted through small and slow efforts to sustain settler lives. Ruiz brings a critical eye to the ways that media multiply functions in these colonial projects, opening up space for new approaches to reading colonial archives in relation to their material environments." -- Cameron Butler * Public *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: First Fish, Then Mediation 1 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959 28 1. The Plant 45 Slow Disturbance, "5 Canada" 78 2. Credit and Common Sense 79 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011 111 3. Meta Incognita 120 Slow Disturbance, "Channel 12" 150 4. The Promise of Extraction 153 Slow Disturbance, "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism" 174 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997 176 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 217
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Syracuse University Press The Lost Orchard
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews. Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry's social fabric, detail its economic history, and analyse the conditions that enabled the formation of a unique binational organisation.
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University of Toronto Press Serpent River Resurgence
Book SynopsisSerpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario. Drawing on extensive archival sources, oral histories, and newspaper articles, Lianne C. Leddy examines the environmental and political power relationships that affected her homeland in the Cold War period.Focusing on Indigenous-settler relations, the environmental and health consequences of the uranium industry, and the importance of traditional uses of land and what happens when they are compromised, Serpent River Resurgence explores how settler colonialism and Anishinaabe resistance remained potent forces in Indigenous communities throughout the second half of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Serpent River Anishinaabek before 1950 2. Carving a “Jewel in the Wilderness”: The Establishment of Elliot Lake 3. “It took all the trees”: The Cutler Acid Plant and Its Toxic Legacy 4. “We weren’t supposed to use that water at all!”: Uranium Mining and the Serpent River 5. “Oooh yes, we all went up to Elliot to protest”: Resilience and Resistance at Serpent River First Nation Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Knock Knock Knock Knock It's Gonna Be Okay Inner-Truth
Book SynopsisScience has proven that optimism is actually good for your heart, and this amusing writer's journal affirms that it's also good for your brain. With playful prompts and witty quotations, It's Gonna Be Okay is smart yet comforting, much like a pair of horn-rimmed rose-colored glasses. It's also a longtime Knock Knock classic ready to reassure you with a totally fresh look! A mindfulness journal that keeps it real Featuring over 75 quotes of hopeful wit + a gorgeous ombre cover! Relaxation gifts for women? This daily journal = self-soothing magic Paperback; 7 x 9.5 inches; 160 pages; full-color throughout; ribbon page marker
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University of Toronto Press Breaking Through
Book SynopsisGlobalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and security in both historical and contemporary contexts. Throughout the volume, readers will discover fresh perspectives on under-studied dimensions of Arctic sovereignty, including: environmental changes, foreign and security policies, and how Indigenous peoples interact to produce different meanings of sovereignty and security in the Arctic. Drawing on extensive primary and secondary research, Breaking Through offers important and timely conclusions for policymakers, advocates, scholars, and students.Trade Review"The book presents rigorous and thought provoking chapters, making significant contributions about framing of sovereignty and notions of security in countries other than Canada. The book will be of interest to Arctic scholars, particularly in Canada, in addition to less specialized readers interested in Canadian foreign policy or broad regional politics." -- Andrew Chater, Brescia University College * Security Dialogue *Table of ContentsAn Introduction Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer 1. In Search of Polar Sovereignty, 1900–1959 Peter Kikkert 2. The Gentlemen’s Agreement: Sovereignty, Defence, and Canadian–American Diplomacy in the Arctic Adam Lajeunesse 3. Arctic Security and Sovereignty through a Media Lens: From a Pile of Frozen Rocks to the Bottom of the Sea Mathieu Landriault 4. Understanding Arctic Security: A Defence of Traditional Security Analysis Rob Huebert 5. National Security and the High North: Post–Cold War Arctic Security Policy in Norway Wilfrid Greaves 6. Russia and Arctic Security: Inward-Looking Realities Alexander Sergunin 7. Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Canadian Security and Safety in the Arctic P. Whitney Lackenbauer 8. One Arctic? Northern Security in Canada and Norway Andreas Østhagen 9. Understanding the Recent History of Energy Security in the Arctic Petra Dolata 10. Human Insecurities of Marginalized Peoples in the Arctic: The Cost of Arctic and Nordic Exceptionalism Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv 11. Addressing Inequalities in the Arctic: Food Security in Nunavut Natalia Loukacheva 12. The Transformative Power of "Security" Talk Frank Sejersen Afterword: Sovereign Futures in an Insecure Arctic Wilfrid Greaves Contributors Index
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MP-FAD F.A. Davis Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
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Knock Knock Knock Knock Kids Daddy Fill in the Love Journal
Book Synopsis Warning to dads: this one-of-a-kind book contains a whole bunch of love & crazy fun! Packed with easy creative prompts and fill-in doodles, What I Love About You, Daddy lets kids say I love you, Dad!as only kids can. Young'uns will enjoy filling it out on their own or with help from a grownup (or very smart hamster!). With just a little bit of kid-magic, presto! It becomes an awesome uniquely personalized book for dad he'll cherish forever and ever. (And ever!) The king of sentimental gifts for dads! Lets kids create their own I love my daddy book! Hardcover, 6.25 x 5.5 inches, 48 pages
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Fordham University Press Thinking with Adorno The Uncoercive Gaze
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze,” an innovative way of relating to the object of one’s analysis that interweaves critical intimacy and analytic vigilance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Reading | 1 1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze | 17 2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition | 39 3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel | 70 4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno’s Artwork and Its Einordnung | 95 5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka | 115 6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno | 131 7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida | 144 Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking | 161 Acknowledgments | 167 Notes | 169 Index | 203
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Knock Knock Knock Knock Over It Nifty Note
Book SynopsisIn this absurd modern world, it's okay to say "enough" sometimes. To insufferable trends. To stressful stuff. To B.S. To everything. In fact, it's more than okay: it's your birthright as a human being. Liberate yourself—and others—by announcing you're dunzo. Just say no to anything—except cool office supplies Issue Knock Knock notes to others—or yourself 4 x 5.25 inches, 50 sheets
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University of Chicago Press Trial by Treatment
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Moleskine Volant Journals Large Ruled Coral Orange
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University of Toronto Press Exorcism and Its Texts
Book SynopsisExorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics like Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, and Lope de Vega, to obscure works by anonymous writers. From comic and tragic drama to picaresque narrative and eight other genres, possession worked as a paradigm through which authors could convey extraordinary experience, including not only demonic possession but also madness or even murder. The devil was thought to be able to enter the bodily organs and infect memory, imagination, and reason. Some came to believe that possession was tied to enthusiasm, poetic frenzy, prophecy, and genius. Authors often drew upon sensational details of actual exorcisms. In some cases, such as in Shakespeare, curing the body (and the body politic)
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Inter-Varsity Press More Than Conquerors
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HarperCollins Publishers Hidden Requests
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John Wiley & Sons Rosebud June 17 1876 Prelude to the Little Big
Book SynopsisThe Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash in June 17, 1876 along Rosebud Creek i Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. This book presents the definitive account of this critical battle.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Mathematicians
Book SynopsisOffers a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring a selection of the most impressive mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberance and passion of these brilliant thinkers. The superb images are accompanied by autobiographical texts.Trade ReviewMathematicians, An Outer View of the Inner World, is an irresistible book. It consists of ninety-two positively stunning portraits by Mariana Cook (evidently the last pupil (or protégé) of Ansel Adams) accompanied by brief introspective essays by her subjects on the facing pages...The choice of subjects is outstanding; almost everyone in the mathematical world has met or corresponded with at least some of these representative scholars, and many among the latter are household words. So it is that the personal reflections accompanying the marvelous photographic portraits more often than not come across as chats with friends...This is much more than a coffee-table book." - Michael Berg, MAA ReviewTable of Contents Preface by Mariana Cook Introduction by Robert Clifford Gunning Mathematicians: Portraits Afterword by Brandon Fradd List of Mathematicians
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Chronicle Books Vintage Fashion 20 Notecards Envelopes
Book SynopsisVintage fashion takes center stage in this boxed notecard set featuring 20 distinct photographs from the exclusive collection at Palace Costume & Prop Co., the beloved, to-the-trade-only film industry haven of vintage gems that have been featured in countless cinematic classics.
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Not Stated ESV Mens Study Bible
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Faithlife Corporation Unloved
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£13.29
MI - New York University Early Christianity at Amheida Egypts Dakhla Oasis
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£59.50
The University of Chicago Press The Quality of the Archaeological Record
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The University of Chicago Press The Stockholm Paradigm
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The authors make a passionate case for the link between climate change and emerging infectious diseases. These are two of the biggest threats facing humanity and in combination the risks are escalated even further. Raising awareness of this combined threat is an original, timely, and vital contribution. I am not aware of another book on this topic that comes close to this in terms of the breadth and depth of its ambition."--Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford "The Stockholm Paradigm provides a new perspective on how we should think about (and combat) emerging pathogens. The authors, all highly respected parasitologists, are well qualified to provide the historical context, broad synthesis, and contemporary urgency required for a shift in thinking, essentially away from reactive, for profit programs. A game changer for parasitology and public health efforts focused on emerging infectious diseases."--Joseph A. Cook, Professor of Biology, Curator of the Division of Mammals at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
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The University of Chicago Press With the World at Heart Studies in the Secular
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Duke University Press On Chantal Akerman
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Moleskine Set Of 3 Moleskine Extra Large Plain Cahier
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Moleskine Set Of 3 Moleskine Extra Large Ruled Cahier
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Johns Hopkins University Press Birds of Maryland Delaware and the District of
Book SynopsisMore than 600 lush, stunning photos grace this comprehensive handbook to the birdlife of the Mid-Atlantic region. A Great Blue Heron wades in the shallows of the Potomac River, scanning for unsuspecting prey. Sunlight turns the water translucent as a small school of fish rises to the water's surface. The heron strikes and moments later is swallowing its quarrypredation in action! This handsome Great Blue Heron is but one of the more than 400 bird species found in Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. It shares the mid-Atlantic with kingfishers, eagles, mergansers, wood warblers, and many more. Exploring backyard birds, birds of prey, and birds of the open ocean, Smithsonian ornithologist Bruce Beehler and premier nature photographer Middleton Evans have crafted a comprehensive volume unparalleled in its beauty and captivating storytelling. Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia invites readers to experience the birds' lives as they live them: where they nest, how they forage, their various behaviors, and the natural environments they need to survive. Beehler offers practical advice on bird-watching, including how to find, attract, and even garden for birds, as well as the best places to see them in season. He also discusses the best birding apps, websites, and gear; provides advice on planning a birding field trip; and recommends ornithological institutions that will help you cultivate a lifelong birding hobby. Finally, Beehler challenges the reader to think about conservation efforts to preserve local bird populations. With striking color photographs of more than 400 species, this book is a bonanza for nature lovers. A wealth of images immerse the reader in the world of these wonderful creatures. Marvel at the majesty of Ospreys, navigate the ocean with storm-petrels, and nest with Mourning Doves, all while learning about the richness of the birds' lives, the complexities of their habits, and how we can help keep their populations vibrant and aloft for generations to come.Trade ReviewIf you've never been able to fully appreciate the red poll, phoebe, towhee or great crested flycatcher, you might derive hours of pleasure from a new book from Johns Hopkins University Press, Birds of Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. It's the size of a coffee table book and looks at first like one, heavily dependent on photographs. But it's far more than that. Part field guide, part birding atlas, part conservationist pleading, it is nearly 500 pages of photos by Middleton Evans and prose by ornithologist Bruce Beehler. It comes with charts, checklists and maps of birding hot spots . . . I can't imagine a more complete record of the birds of our region. It's an inspiration for anyone who has thought about — but never got around to — becoming a birder . . . The Beehler-Evans book is timely and important. It's an impressive accounting of what we have and what we could lose if we don't do more — and fast — to counter the effects of human behavior.—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore SunThis magnificent large-format guide to the local birds of Maryland, D.C. and Delaware is a treasure trove of practical information. More than 70 of the 684 color photographs are full-page . . . Give Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia as a gift and encourage a hobby that will be transformative. Experience the beauty that awaits those who venture outdoors with discerning eyes and sensitive ears.—Dinah Rokach, The BeaconTable of ContentsForeword, by Chandler S. Robbins Acknowledgments Terms, Abbreviations, and AcronymsPart I. Introduction 1. Appreciating Our Birdlife and the Gentle Art of Birding 2. Natural Geography and Local Bird Provinces 3. The Birding Seasons4. Birding in Urban, Suburban, and Agricultural Landscapes5. The Gift of Wild Places6. Landscaping for Birds and the Environment7. Feeding the Birds8. Conserving Birds and Their HabitatsPart II. Bird Group Accounts The Waterbirds 9. The Waterfowl 10. Marsh and Wading Birds11. Coastal Waterbirds12. Shorebirds13. Birds of the Open Ocean The Landbirds 14. Birds of Prey 15. Birds of Countryside, Farm, and Field16. Aerial Feeders17. Neighborhood, Backyard, and Feeder Birds18. Sparrows and Their Terrestrial Allies19. Warblers and Look-alikes20. Orioles, Blackbirds, and Colorful Fruit- and Seed-eatersPart III. Birding Tools 21. Best Birding Apps and Websites22. Necessary Birding Gear23. Planning Your Birding Field Trip24. Important Institutions for Birds and Birding25. Key Birding and Ornithological ReferencesPart IV. Bird-Finding Guide 26. Photographic Atlas and Finding Guide27. Birds Rarely Recorded in the Region28. Coded Regional Checklist and Seasonal Occurrence Chart29. Best Birding LocalitiesContributors Photography Notes Addendum Index
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De Gruyter Jugendstil. Made in Munich
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SPCK - Crossway The Story of Jesus A Guided Journey through the
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Indiana University Press Being and Logos
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionSection 1. On Reading PlatoSection 2. The Questions: Philosophy, Logos, BeingSection 3. The Way of Platonic Dialogue: Preliminary ReflectionsPart One. Socratic LogosChapter I. Provocations of Socratic Logos: Apology of SocratesSection 1. The Prologue to the Apology (17 a - 19 a)Section 2. The Way of SocratesSection 3. Service to Apollo (10 d - 24 b)Section 4. Socrates and the City (24 b - 42 a)Chapter II. Ignorance and Recollection: MenoSection 1. Meno (70 a - 79 e)Section 2. Meno and Socrates (79 e - 86 d)Section 3. Meno and Anytus (86 d - 96 d)Section 4. Meno, Socrates, Anytus (96 d - 100 c)Chapter III. Beyond the City: Phaedrus Section 1. The Setting (227 a - 230 e)Section 2. The Three Speeches (230 e -2 57 b)Section 3. The Perfection of Speech (257 b - 279 c)Postscript to Part One. The Way of Platonic Dialogue: Further ReflectionsPart Two. Being and LogosChapter IV. Logos and Its Parts: CratylusSection 1. The Problem of Names (383 a - 384 c)Section 2. The Art of Naming (384 c - 390 e)Section 3. Human Names and Divine Names (390 e- 397 a)Section 4. The Etymological Comedy (397 a - 421 c)Section 5. Imitation (421 c - 427 e)Section 6. Cratylus (427 e - 437 d)Section 7. Names and Things (437 d - 440 e)Chapter V. The Upward Way: RepublicSection 1. Down to Piraeus (Book I)Section 2. The City and the Soul (Book II - Book V, 473 c)Section 3. The Philosopher (473 c- 507 b)Section 4. The Good (507 b - 509 c)Section 5. The Divided Line (509 d - 511 e, 521 c - 535 a)Section 6. The Cave (514 a - 521 b)Chapter VI. The Way of Logos: SophistSection 1. In Search of the Sophist (216 a - 232 a)Section 2. The Problem of Being and Non-Being (232 a - 251 a)Section 3. Being and Non-Being (251 a - 259 d)Section 4. The Community of Being and Logos (259 d - 268 d)Postscript. The Way of Platonic DialogueIndexes
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SPCK - Crossway ESV Womens Study Bible
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Moleskine Moleskine Large Plain Hardcover Notebook Myrtle
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