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From the days of the Cattle Kingdom, to the sheriffs who rode out
after such outlaws as George Musgrave and Black Jack Ketchum, to
the rocket experiments of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, "TREASURES OF
HISTORY IV: Historical Events of Chaves County, New Mexico" relates
many exciting episodes in the history of Roswell, Chaves County,
and Southeast New Mexico. This is the fourth book in the Treasures
of History series and the third volume consisting mostly of stories
that had their origins as feature stories in the Roswell Daily
Record of Vision Magazine. Some chapters deal with famous
characters who had connections with Roswell, such as Frank Chisum,
the former slave who became a cattleman; George Causey, the famous
buffalo hunter; Charles Lindbergh, the aviation hero; Wild West
Show performer Uncle Kit Carson; and Milt Mabie of "Louise Massey
and the Westerners" music group. Two early doctors and three
sheriffs are chronicle. Two outstanding women--Amelia Church and
Annie Laurie Snorf--are featured. Other interesting and important
events are recorded in the book's 26 chapers. Although each chapter
is a story unto itself, they are arranged in chronological order to
place them in the appropriate period in the history of Roswell and
Chaves County.
Written by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, academics and
professionals involved in the EU funded BlueHealth project Based on
applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data
sources, including surveys, experiments and post-occupancy
evaluations Includes practical tools, scenarios and inspirational
examples for professionals and students, linked to an online
database of further projects Fully illustrated in colour
throughout.
In recent years, some have asked "Are we all originalists now?" and
many have assumed that originalists have a monopoly on concern for
fidelity in constitutional interpretation. In Fidelity to Our
Imperfect Constitution, James Fleming rejects originalisms-whether
old or new, concrete or abstract, living or dead. Instead, he
defends what Ronald Dworkin called a "moral reading" of the United
States Constitution, or a "philosophic approach" to constitutional
interpretation. He refers to conceptions of the Constitution as
embodying abstract moral and political principles-not codifying
concrete historical rules or practices-and of interpretation of
those principles as requiring normative judgments about how they
are best understood-not merely historical research to discover
relatively specific original meanings. Through examining the
spectacular concessions that originalists have made to their
critics, he shows the extent to which even they acknowledge the
need to make normative judgments in constitutional interpretation.
Fleming argues that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as
written requires a moral reading or philosophic approach. Fidelity
commits us to honoring our aspirational principles, not following
the relatively specific original meanings (or original expected
applications) of the founders. Originalists would enshrine an
imperfect Constitution that does not deserve our fidelity. Only a
moral reading or philosophic approach, which aspires to interpret
our imperfect Constitution so as to make it the best it can be,
gives us hope of interpreting it in a manner that may deserve our
fidelity.
Science and the Self offers a fundamental re-conception of the
relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the
other types of knowledge that are equally part of life. Those who
practice science typically insist that it is objective, not
subjective. Opposing them, philosophers such as Kuhn, Feyerabend,
and Foucault-indeed, the very tenor of our times-emphasize
science's subjective qualities. Science and the Self seeks to
explain how reasonable people can hold either view. Offering an
alternative to Robert Nozick's relativism, it argues that the world
is objective. However it is so only because (and to the extent
that) we subjective humans banish from its language the vast
iceberg of things, which cannot be expressed in its terms. Most of
daily life is composed of situational knowledge, which, unlike the
scientific knowledge we may distill from it, is tied to the
specific moment and place it arises in. Science and the Self offers
a refreshing, coherent view that explains the nature of the self in
the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible.
Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or
mid-size cities, totaling more than 16 million students in 22,000
schools. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse
populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a
significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural
education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant
texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our
increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the
significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant
texts have important effects on language and literacy development.
By "connecting the dots" of existing research, More Mirrors in the
Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban
children's literature can play in helping children learn to read
and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice
for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order
to accelerate literacy learning.
Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or
mid-size cities, totaling more than 16 million students in 22,000
schools. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse
populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a
significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural
education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant
texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our
increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the
significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant
texts have important effects on language and literacy development.
By "connecting the dots" of existing research, More Mirrors in the
Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban
children's literature can play in helping children learn to read
and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice
for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order
to accelerate literacy learning.
A strong and lively defense of substantive due process. From
reproductive rights to marriage for same-sex couples, many of our
basic liberties owe their protection to landmark Supreme Court
decisions that have hinged on the doctrine of substantive due
process. This doctrine is controversial-a battleground for opposing
views around the relationship between law and morality in
circumstances of moral pluralism-and is deeply vulnerable today.
Against recurring charges that the practice of substantive due
process is dangerously indeterminate and irredeemably undemocratic,
Constructing Basic Liberties reveals the underlying coherence and
structure of substantive due process and defends it as integral to
our constitutional democracy. Reviewing the development of the
doctrine over the last half-century, James E. Fleming rebuts
popular arguments against substantive due process and shows that
the Supreme Court has constructed basic liberties through common
law constitutional interpretation: reasoning by analogy from one
case to the next and making complex normative judgments about what
basic liberties are significant for personal self-government.
Elaborating key distinctions and tools for interpretation, Fleming
makes a powerful case that substantive due process is a worthy
practice that is based on the best understanding of our
constitutional commitments to protecting ordered liberty and
securing the status and benefits of equal citizenship for all.
The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive
re-evaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through
Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual
traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting
assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in
dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from
close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward
historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and
a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that
breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating
to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future
engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity.
Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character
is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in
connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long before
Israel, the name is found in an Egyptian list as one group in the
land of tent-dwellers, the Shasu. This is the starting-point for
Daniel E. Fleming's sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. In his
analysis, the Bible's 'people of Yahweh' serve as a clue to how one
of the Bronze Age herding peoples of the inland Levant gave its
name to a deity, initially outside of any relationship to Israel.
For 150 years, the dominant paradigm for Yahweh's origin has
envisioned borrowing from peoples of the desert south of Israel.
Fleming argues in contrast that Yahweh was not taken from
outsiders. Rather, this divine name is evidence for the diverse
background of Israel itself.
This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to every
aspect of the technology of low-rise construction. It includes
sub-structure (site work, setting out and foundations) and
superstructure (flooring, roofs, finishes, fittings and fixtures).
The material here covers the first year course requirement of all
courses on which construction technology is taught - no matter what
the ultimate qualification.
It offers tried and tested solutions to a range of construction
problems and is organised following the sequence of construction.
It will show what has been done in the past, demonstrating good
practice - what works and what doesn't - and common faults. There
are summaries of the more important BSI documents and reference to
the latest building regulations.
Lengthy explanations are avoided by relying heavily on hundreds of
illustrations, pairing detail drawings with clear photographs to
show real life construction situations.
The supporting spreadsheet referred to in the book can be found at
this link http:
//www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/fleming/Fleming_spreadsheet.xls
In his new work, Disappointment, Bruce Fleming starts from the
realization that even objective views of the world are so only
under specific circumstances. Subjects range from war and the
nature of explanation systems such as science and astrology to a
concept Fleming calls "coloring." When we identify coloring, it
seems to us that a single quality of something larger has eclipsed
all its other qualities for example, skin color or sexual
orientation coming to stand for the whole much more complex
individual. Once identified, coloring can be questioned and
rejected. However, to eliminate coloring, we must already have
identified it as such. Before we perceive coloring, we think we've
given an objective description of the world: today's coloring was
yesterday's objective. But this in turn suggests that today's
objective may be tomorrow's coloring. Realizing this is what leads
to the technical notion of disappointment examined in this text, a
feeling that life is a process of constant revision, not a final
state. Through the consideration of literature, artistic, and
philosophical works, Fleming explores the impact of disappointment
on our view of the world. Beginning with the imagery of Wordsworth
who lamented the "glory in the flower" of our youth fading "into
the light of common day," and the iconography of the death mask of
King Tut, Disappointment suggests that the world both is what it
claims to be, and yet is not."
The title of this book is Art and Argument, however, these two
subjects are treated in reverse order, first argument, then art.
Art and Argument is an engagingly written work about how words work
in the world and in art. Its freewheeling considerations range from
everyday examples to speculative metaphysics, touching along the
way on written works from columns by the advice doyenne Ann Landers
to literature by D.H. Lawrence, the Japanese Modernist Soseki, and
the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Steven Dunn.
James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have
introduced generations of readers to texts essential for
understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region.
Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated into
one convenient and richly illustrated volume, with a new foreword
that puts the translations in context. With more than 130 reading
selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and
artifacts, this volume provides a stimulating introduction to some
of the most significant and widely studied texts of the ancient
Near East, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Creation Epic
(Enuma elish), the Code of Hammurabi, and the Baal Cycle. For
students of history, religion, the Bible, archaeology, and
anthropology, this anthology provides a wealth of material for
understanding the ancient Near East. * Represents the diverse
cultures and languages of the ancient Near East--Sumerian,
Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, and Aramaic--in a
wide range of genres: * Historical texts * Legal texts and treaties
* Inscriptions * Hymns * Didactic and wisdom literature * Oracles
and prophecies * Love poetry and other literary texts * Letters *
New foreword puts the classic translations in context * More than
300 photographs document ancient art, architecture, and artifacts
related to the texts * Fully indexed
Written by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, academics and
professionals involved in the EU funded BlueHealth project Based on
applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data
sources, including surveys, experiments and post-occupancy
evaluations Includes practical tools, scenarios and inspirational
examples for professionals and students, linked to an online
database of further projects Fully illustrated in colour
throughout.
Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character
is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in
connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long before
Israel, the name is found in an Egyptian list as one group in the
land of tent-dwellers, the Shasu. This is the starting-point for
Daniel E. Fleming's sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. In his
analysis, the Bible's 'people of Yahweh' serve as a clue to how one
of the Bronze Age herding peoples of the inland Levant gave its
name to a deity, initially outside of any relationship to Israel.
For 150 years, the dominant paradigm for Yahweh's origin has
envisioned borrowing from peoples of the desert south of Israel.
Fleming argues in contrast that Yahweh was not taken from
outsiders. Rather, this divine name is evidence for the diverse
background of Israel itself.
Democracy's Ancient Ancestors examines the political landscape of
the ancient Near East through the archive of over 3000 letters
found in the royal palace of Mari. These letters display a rich
diversity of political actors, encompassing major kingdoms, smaller
states and various tribal towns. Mari's unique contribution to the
ancient evidence is its view of tribal organization, made possible
especially by the fact that its king Zimri-Lim was first of all a
tribal ruler, who claimed Mari as an administrative base and source
of prestige. These archaic political traditions are not essentially
unlike the forms of pre-democratic Greece, and they offer fresh
reason to recognize a cultural continuity between the classical
world of the Aegean and the older Near East. This book bridges
several areas of interest, including archaeology, ancient and
classical history, early Middle and Near East, and political and
social history.
In Federalism and Subsidiarity, a distinguished interdisciplinary
group of scholars in political science, law, and philosophy address
the application and interaction of the concept of federalism within
law and government. What are the best justifications for and
conceptions of federalism? What are the most useful criteria for
deciding what powers should be allocated to national governments
and what powers reserved to state or provincial governments? What
are the implications of the principle of subsidiarity for such
questions? What should be the constitutional standing of cities in
federations? Do we need to "remap" federalism to reckon with the
emergence of translocal and transnational organizations with porous
boundaries that are not reflected in traditional jurisdictional
conceptions? Examining these questions and more, this latest
installation in the NOMOS series sheds new light on the allocation
of power within federations.
Human health and well-being are tied to the vitality of the global
ocean and coastal systems on which so many live and rely. We engage
with these extraordinary environments to enhance both our health
and our well-being. But, we need to recognize that introducing
contaminants and otherwise altering these ocean systems can harm
human health and well-being in significant and substantial ways.
These are complex, challenging, and critically important themes.
How the human relationship to the oceans evolves in coming decades
may be one of the most important connections in understanding our
personal and social well-being. Yet, our understanding of this
relationship is far too limited. This remarkable volume brings
experts from diverse disciplines and builds a workable
understanding of breadth and depth of the processes both social and
environmental that will help us to limit future costs and enhance
the benefits of sustainable marine systems. In particular, the
authors have developed a shared view that the global coastal
environment is under threat through intensified natural resource
utilization, as well as changes to global climate and other
environmental systems. All these changes contribute individually,
but more importantly cumulatively, to higher risks for public
health and to the global burden of disease. This pioneering book
will be of value to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
students taking courses in public health, environmental, economic,
and policy fields. Additionally, the treatment of these complex
systems is of essential value to the policy community responsible
for these questions and to the broader audience for whom these
issues are more directly connected to their own health and
well-being. "The seas across this planet and their effects on human
society and its destiny are a fascinating subject for analysis and
insights derived from intellectual inquiry. This diverse and
complex subject necessarily requires a blending of knowledge from
different disciplines, which the authors of this volume have
achieved with remarkable success." "The following pages in this
volume are written in a lucid and very readable style, and provide
a wealth of knowledge and insightful analysis, which is a rare
amalgam of multi-disciplinary perspectives and unique lines of
intellectual inquiry. It is valuable to get a volume such as this,
which appeals as much to a non-specialist reader as it does to
those who are specialists in the diverse but interconnected
subjects covered in this volume." (From the "Foreword" written by,
R K Pachauri, Director General, TERI and Chairman, IPCC)
The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive
re-evaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through
Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual
traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting
assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in
dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from
close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward
historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and
a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that
breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating
to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future
engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity.
Democracy's Ancient Ancestors examines the political landscape of
the ancient Near East through the archive of over 3000 letters
found in the royal palace of Mari. These letters display a rich
diversity of political actors, encompassing major kingdoms, smaller
states and various tribal towns. Mari's unique contribution to the
ancient evidence is its view of tribal organization, made possible
especially by the fact that its king Zimri-Lim was first of all a
tribal ruler, who claimed Mari as an administrative base and source
of prestige. These archaic political traditions are not essentially
unlike the forms of pre-democratic Greece, and they offer fresh
reason to recognize a cultural continuity between the classical
world of the Aegean and the older Near East. This book bridges
several areas of interest, including archaeology, ancient and
classical history, early Middle and Near East, and political and
social history.
Considerably shorter than other casebooks, this accessible and
engaging title focuses on the controversies over constitutional
interpretation leading up to the United States Supreme Court's
holdings in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Obergefell v. Hodges
(2015): namely, that the Constitution's commitments to liberty and
equal protection encompass rights of same-sex intimacy and
marriage. It also takes up emerging conflicts between protection of
constitutional rights for gay men and lesbians, on the one hand,
and First Amendment claims of freedom of association and religious
liberty by persons who oppose protection of such rights, on the
other. This book will be suitable as either the basic text of a
one-semester course or as a supplementary text for courses in civil
liberties. With five original scholarly essays written by esteemed
constitutional scholars, this book looks beyond judicial doctrine
and asks whether the current constitutional status of gay rights is
consistent with principles that trace back to the American Founding
and the Civil War Amendments and that continue to animate American
politics.
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