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Snowbound (Hardcover)
S.T. Kimbrough; Foreword by J Richard Watson
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R693
R612
Discovery Miles 6 120
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Of Death and Grief (Hardcover)
S.T. Kimbrough; Foreword by J Richard Watson
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R672
R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
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For many years, J. Richard Andrews's Introduction to Classical
Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for scholars and
students of Nahuatl, the language used by the ancient Aztecs and
the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. Andrews's work was the first
book to make Nahuatl accessible as a coherent language system and
to recognize such crucial linguistic features as vowel length and
the glottal stop. Accompanied by a workbook, this long-awaited new
edition is extensively revised, enlarged, and updated with the
latest research.
The revised edition is guided by the same intentions as those
behind the first. Andrews's approach is "anthropological," teaching
us to understand Nahuatl according to its own distinctive grammar
and to reject translationalist descriptions based on English or
Spanish notions of grammar. In particular, Andrews emphasizes the
nonexistence of words in Nahuatl (except for the few so-called
particles) and stresses the nuclear clause as the basis for Nahuatl
linguistic organization. Besides an increase in the number of
chapters (from forty-eight to fifty-seven, including a more
detailed treatment of place names), the new edition contains an
innovative approach to personal names and the introduction of the
square zero to indicate irregular morphological silence. The
accompanying workbook provides exercises linked to the text, a key
to the exercises, and an extensive vocabulary list.
Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary
field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial,
and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of
health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Recent years
have witnessed an enormous diversification of behavioral medicine,
with new sciences (such as genetics, life course epidemiology) and
new technologies (such as neuroimaging) coming into play. This book
brings together such new developments by providing an up-to-date
compendium of methods and applications drawn from the broad range
of behavioral medicine research and practice. The book is divided
into 10 sections that address key fields in behavioral medicine.
Each section begins with one or two methodological or conceptual
chapters, followed by contributions that address substantive topics
within that field. Major health problems such as cardiovascular
disease, cancer, HIV/AIDs, and obesity are explored from multiple
perspectives. The aim is to present behavioral medicine as an
integrative discipline, involving diverse methodologies and
paradigms that converge on health and well being."
The Book of Mormon is an influential and controversial book. It
launched a religious movement, has been believed by millions to be
scripture, and has been derided by others as fraudulent. Despite
this (or perhaps as a result), the book's contents have been
subject to both academic neglect and popular myth. This book
challenges some of that neglect by examining the Book of Mormon
through the lens of its relationship with the Bible: a work which
the Book of Mormon openly quotes and expects to be read alongside,
and the only text which everyone agrees is connected to the Book of
Mormon. Through close examination of the Book of Mormon text and
biblical parallels, including three substantial case studies, this
book examines the ways in which the Book of Mormon draws upon and
interprets the biblical text. This book demonstrates the complexity
with which the Book of Mormon handles biblical material, and the
close correlation between its reading of the Bible and the Book of
Mormon's own core themes.
On their return to New Mexico from El Paso after the 1680 Pueblo
Revolt, the New Mexican settlers were confronted with continuous
raids by hostile Indians tribes, disease and an inhospitable
landscape. In spite of this, in the early and mid-eighteenth
century, the New Mexicans went about their daily lives as best they
could, as shown in original documents from the time. The documents
show them making deals, traveling around the countryside and to and
from El Paso and Mexico City, complaining about and arguing with
each other, holding festivals, and making plans for the future of
their children. It also shows them interacting with the presidio
soldiers, the Franciscan friars and Inquisition officials, El Paso
and Chihuahua merchants, the occasional Frenchman, and their Pueblo
Indian allies. Because many of the documents include oral
testimony, we are able to read what they had to say, sometimes
angry, asking for help, or giving excuses for their behavior, as
written down by a scribe at the time. This book includes fifty-four
original handwritten documents from the early and mid-eighteenth
century. Most of the original documents are located in the Spanish
Archives of New Mexico, although some are from the Bancroft Library
at the University of California at Berkeley, the Archivo General de
la Nacion in Mexico City, and elsewhere. They were selected for
their description of Spanish Colonial life, of interest to the many
descendants of the characters that appear in them, and because they
tell a good story. A translation and transcription of each document
is included as well as a synopsis, background notes, and
biographical notes. They can be considered a companion, in part, to
Ralph Emerson Twitchell's 1914 two volumes, "The Spanish Archives
of New Mexico," summarizing the documents of the Spanish Archives
of New Mexico, now available in new editions from Sunstone Press.
LINDA TIGGES, PhD, is a retired land planner. While working in the
City of Santa Fe in the 1980s and 1990s, she assisted in drafting
and staffing the City's Archaeological Review ordinance, prepared
and worked on State Historic Preservation grants and prepared City
publications on architectural history and Spanish Colonial Santa
Fe. She is a New Mexico certified historian with the New Mexico
Historic Preservation Division. Written material includes archival
research on historic properties, published work on the Santa Fe
presidio in "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, An Anthology
Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe,
New Mexico in 1610," from Sunstone Press, as well as articles for
the "New Mexico Historical Review" and the "New Mexico Genealogical
Society Journal." Her special interest is early and mid-eighteenth
century Spanish Colonial documents. She has bachelor's and master's
degrees in history from Iowa State University and the University of
North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Administration from
Iowa State University. J. RICHARD SALAZAR retired from the New
Mexico State Records Center and Archives in 1996 as Director of the
Archival Services Division of that agency. Since that time he has
been conducting historical research for the various acequia
associations of northern New Mexico in their attempt to determine
their acequia priority dates. He has worked with New Mexico's
archival documents, including the land grant records, for over
forty years.
Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity program in the
1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with
limited access to welfare, education, and health services. New
Brunswick's social services framework was similar to that of
nineteenth-century England, and many people experienced the
patronizing attitudes inherent in these laws. New Brunswick before
the Equal Opportunity Program examines the observations and
experiences of New Brunswick's early social workers, who operated
under this system, and illuminates how Premier Louis J. Robichaud's
Equal Opportunity program transformed the province's social
services. Authors Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner,
describe more than a century of social work history, including the
work of the earliest Acadian social workers. They also address the
fact that the federal government did not take responsibility for
social welfare of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people, planning for
assimilation instead. Clan structures continued to be relied on
while subsisting upon inadequate relief provisions.
When contrasted with the miners' dramatic strike victories in 1972
and 1974, the shattering industrial defeat suffered by British
miners in 1985 has been seen as evidence of the further weakening
of working-class solidarity. Undertaken with complete unity, the
strikes of 1972 and 1974 brought the miners substantial material
gains, contributed to the downfall of a government, and reinforced
the National Union of Mineworkers' position at the core of the
British labour movement. In contrast, the strike in Britain in
1984/85 was marked by internal division and by the miners' attempt
to resist the pit closure programme of the Thatcher government, and
it ended in bitter defeat.
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Pitman (Hardcover)
Michael D Batten, Ralph J Richards
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R719
R638
Discovery Miles 6 380
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This the first sustained study of the interest of John Ruskin in
the theatre of his time. It examines Ruskin's active engagement
with and influence on the Victorian popular theatre. Ruskin was an
enthusiastic and catholic theatre-goer, enjoying pantomime as much
as Shakespeare. Through the lens of Ruskin's discussions of
pantomime, melodrama, Shakespearean tragedy, and painting and the
stage, Newey and Richards offer a new view of the late Victorian
stage focusing on London's West End in its heyday.
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Rigid (Hardcover)
Eric J. Richard
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R723
Discovery Miles 7 230
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Recent advances in the imaging technique electron microscopy (EM)
have improved the method, making it more reliable and rewarding,
particularly in its description of three-dimensional detail. This
book will help biologists from many disciplines understand modern
EM and the value it might bring to their own work. The book's five
sections deal with all major issues in EM of cells: specimen
preparation, imaging in 3-D, imaging and understanding
frozen-hydrated samples, labeling macromolecules, and analyzing EM
data. Each chapter was written by scientists who are among the best
in their field, and some chapters provide multiple points of view
on the issues they discuss. Each section of the book is preceded by
an introduction, which should help newcomers understand the
subject. The book shows why many biologists believe that modern EM
will forge the link between light microscopy of live cells and
atomic resolution studies of isolated macromolecules, helping us
toward the goal of an atomic resolution understanding of living
systems.
* Updates the numerous technological innovations that have improved
the capabilities of electron microscopy
* Provides timely coverage of the subject given the significant
rise in the number of biologists using light microscopy to answer
their questions and the natural limitations of this kind of
imaging
* Chapters include a balance of "how to," "so what" and "where
next," providing the reader with both practical information, which
is necessary to use these methods, and a sense of where the field
is going
For over fifty years, Eli Schwartz has inspired generations of
economists through his prolific publications and dedicated in
teaching. In 2008, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private
Enterprise at Lehigh University invited prominent academics and
practitioners-including Nobel Prize recipients, Robert Solow and
Harry Markowitz, and former Chairman of the Economic Advisers to
Ronald Reagan, Murray Weidenbaum-to contribute pieces that reflect
their own approaches to issues that Schwartz has explored over the
long span of his career. The twelve original essays cover a range
of topics, including tax reform, corporate finance, fiscal policy,
banking, economic growth, and globalization, representing a variety
of methodologies, including economic theory, econometrics, and case
analysis. The collection emphasizes the underlying connections
among seemingly disparate facets of economic activity, and
underscores the tremendous influence of Schwartz on economic
analysis, policy, and leadership today.
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