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Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or
consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that
define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the
first collection of essays to critically examine the profound
contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a
discipline.
The purpose of this book is to bring together the most recent
knowledge concerning the genetic improvement of ornamental plant
species. Active researchers of many aspects of the genetics and
breeding of these species have written chapters organized into
three sections: Cytogenetics, Quantitative Genetics and Molecular
Genetics. These titles identify the basic tools used in a variety
of breeding situations. Some are traditional and well established;
others offer new and exciting challenges for the future. vii
Introduction The purpose of this book is to bring together recent
knowledge concerning the genetic improvement of ornamental plant
species. In the 20th century flower breeding has become widespread
leading to many improvements in phenotypic and production
characteristics of ornamental species. These methods depends on the
creation and subsequent selection of genetic vari ability. Lack of
variability in gene pools has been a chief limitation to the
success of flower breeding. Recent progress in molecular biology
makes it possible to add genetically well-defined characteristics
to gene pools, thus increasing the potential for genetic
improvement. These methods also enable the specific silencing of
genetic information to accomplish an intentional loss of function.
This book compiles current knowledge of the cytogenetics,
quantitative genetics, and molecular genetics of ornamental plant
species. The three sections identify the basic tools used in a
variety of breeding situations.
America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of
contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is
what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin
society each year. On the Outside examines the lives of 22
people--varied in race and gender but united by their time in the
criminal justice system--as they pass out of the prison gates and
back into society. The book takes a clear-eyed look at the
challenges faced by former convicts as they try to find work,
housing, and stable communities. Standing alongside these
individual portraits is a substantial quantitative study conducted
by the authors that followed every state prisoner in Michigan who
was released on parole in 2003 (roughly 11,000 individuals) for the
next seven years, providing a comprehensive view of their
post-prison neighborhoods, families, employment, and contact with
the parole system. On the Outside delivers a powerful combination
of hard data and personal narrative that shows why our country
continues to struggle with the social and economic reintegration of
the formerly incarcerated.
America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of
contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is
what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin
society each year. On the Outside examines the lives of 22
people-varied in race and gender but united by their time in the
criminal justice system-as they pass out of the prison gates and
back into society. The book takes a clear-eyed look at the
challenges faced by former convicts as they try to find work,
housing, and stable communities. Standing alongside these
individual portraits is a substantial quantitative study conducted
by the authors that followed every state prisoner in Michigan who
was released on parole in 2003 (roughly 11,000 individuals) for the
next seven years, providing a comprehensive view of their
post-prison neighborhoods, families, employment, and contact with
the parole system. On the Outside delivers a powerful combination
of hard data and personal narrative that shows why our country
continues to struggle with the social and economic reintegration of
the formerly incarcerated.
One of the key requirements for the design of buildings is the
specification of the actions that structures need to carry. This
volume will cover the actions that need to be taken into account
for the design of buildings. The book will explain the Eurocode
clauses on densities, self-weight and imposed loads; snow loads;
thermal actions; actions during execution and accidental actions
(including impact loads and explosions). Wind actions and actions
due to fire are covered by other volumes in the series. The purpose
of this handbook is to help the designer to acquire a good
knowledge of the appropriate Eurocodes parts of EN 1991, which they
can use in design. Background information is given for each clause
and relevant worked examples are provided.
Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or
consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that
define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the
first collection of essays to critically examine the profound
contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a
discipline.
For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter
less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be
irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. "Living the Drama"
takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the
many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily
lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys.
David J. Harding studied sixty adolescent boys growing up in two
very poor areas and one working-class area. In the first two,
violence and neighborhood identification are inextricably linked as
rivalries divide the city into spaces safe, neutral, or dangerous.
Consequently, Harding discovers, social relationships are
determined by residential space. Older boys who can navigate the
dangers of the streets serve as role models, and friendships
between peers grow out of mutual protection. The impact of
community goes beyond the realm of same-sex bonding, Harding
reveals, affecting the boys' experiences in school and with the
opposite sex. A unique glimpse into the world of urban adolescent
boys, "Living the Drama" paints a detailed, insightful portrait of
life in the inner city.
This volume presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of
Cerro Juanaquena and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua,
Mexico. These remarkable terraced hilltop settlements represent a
series of watershed developments, including substantial dependence
on agriculture and early experiments with village living, fortified
settlements, collective labor, and communal architecture. Part of a
larger, regional development, they parallel changes in northern
Sonora and southern Arizona. The emergence of large fortified
agricultural villages at 1300 BC before the use of ceramics was an
unexpected discovery that changed how archaeologists view early
agriculture in this region. The authors place their work in a
regional and theoretical context, providing detailed analyses of
radiocarbon dates, structures, features, and artifacts. Authors
Hard and Roney, and their contributors, present innovative analyses
of plant and animal remains, ground stone, chipped stone, and
landscape evolution. Through comparisons with a global
cross-cultural probe of hilltop sites and a detailed examination of
the features and artifacts of Cerro Juanaquen a, Hard and Roney
argue that these cerros de trincheras sites are the earliest
fortified defensive sites in the region. Readers with interests in
ancient agriculture, warfare, village formation, and material
culture will find this to be a foundational volume.
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Red Lakes (Paperback)
Ava Harding; Joshua J Harding
bundle available
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R412
Discovery Miles 4 120
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WINNER OF THE CANADA COUNCIL OF THE ARTS AWARD FOR RESEARCH AND
NOMINATED BY AMAZON BOOKS FOR THE AMAZON/PENGUIN BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL
AWARD. 'There is a Season' is an original work of historical
fiction, that jumps about in space and time, taking the reader from
tank battles on the bloody streets of revolution-torn 1956
Budapest, to drunken shenanigans on the back roads of 1972 Yukon
Territory. It tells the story of a Hungarian family broken by the
Russian occupation of Hungary, and an American family broken by the
war in Vietnam. 'There is a Season' is sometimes funny, sometimes
graphically violent and always entertaining. It can make you laugh,
then wonder why you're laughing. Something happens on every page.
Historically famous not only for the Klondike Gold Rush, the Yukon
Territory has always been a place for people from around the world
to 'hide-out'. In the words of one character, "this territory is
safe ground for misfits, cast-offs, fuck-ups, black sheep, and
every other kind of poor soul who can't or won't fit in anywhere
else. It's home for the run-aways and refugees of the world." The
story: The only son of Hungarian refugees from the failed revolt of
1956 breaks his parents hearts by dropping out of university and
heading to the Yukon, seeking his fortune in the gold mines; a
decorated Vietnam Vet breaks family tradition and honor, by
shooting his naive kid brother in the foot, saving him from Vietnam
but sentencing him to public shame. The Vietnam Vet then turns his
back on his home and family, deserts the Marine Corps and goes as
far as the road will let him, then hides out in the Yukon, making
his living as a wood cutter. The unlikely pair hit the road and
'There is a Season' tells the gritty story of where they came from
and why, and how, together, they mend their broken families. Takes
the reader into the AVO, the hated Hungarian Secret Police, and
shows how any country's civil war can divide a family. From the
Author: I wrote this novel because I lived it. In 1970, like a
couple of my characters, I abandoned my family's tradition of
military service and became a miner in the Yukon. In the mining
camps I taught Basic English to refugees from Eastern Europe, many
of them veterans of the Second War and the revolts in Warsaw,
Berlin, Budapest and Prague. Some, then in their late forties and
early fifties, had been child slave miners and survived the death
camps of Hitler and Stalin. Others were low-grade war criminals,
and among them, unrepentant Nazis. Feuds were common and there were
suspicious deaths. The other common thing among them was their
hatred of communists. Helping me teach the European refugees were
members of the latest generation of refugees to Canada: military
draft dodgers and deserters from the U.S.A. As they refused to
participate in the war in Vietnam, this made them, in the eyes of
some of the European refugees, communist sympathizers, and targets
for their hostility. As my own ancestry is American (my father left
California to serve in the Canadian First Division during WW 2),
many of the Europeans' looked well upon him, but poorly upon
myself. I was not in Vietnam where "I belonged." I explained to
them that I was Canadian and not subject to the draft. To them,
this was meaningless. My father was American and served in the
Canadian Army, therefore I, as a Canadian, should serve in the
American Army. We never settled that.
Gary Hard looks back over the past 60 years of his life and shares
nuggets of wisdom learned over the years. He spent half his life in
Charleston S.C. and half in Kansas City, MO. His insight is
predicated on a "Southern Mindset" coupled with an "Ah shucks" kind
of Midwest values attitude. Many of his observations are pretty
much common sense stuff and you probably already know common sense
is not that common now a days. Gary's hope is to entertain and
enlighten. You will find yourself agreeing many times with his
observations. He recommends to remember the stuff you like and let
go of the stuff you don't care for. Focus only on positive thoughts
and you'll be a whole bunch happier as life goes by. This book is
great to read while having a cup of coffee or hot tea. It also
reads well with an adult beverage or two. If you like quotes,
you'll enjoy this book. If you're looking for real deep thinking,
heavy duty analysis kind of stuff you may be disappointed. It's a
have fun, enjoy life kind of book.
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