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Auerbach, Annie. Rango: The new sheriff in town. New York, N.Y: Sterling Pub., 2011.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Conveyance of certain lands to the town of Taos, New Mexico: Report (to accompany H.R. 5548) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.
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Lampropoulos, Andreas, ed. Case Studies on Conservation and Seismic Strengthening/Retrofitting of Existing Structures. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/cs002.
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<p>Recent earthquakes have demonstrated that despite the continuous developments of novel materials and new strengthening techniques, the majority of the existing structures are still unprotected and at high seismic risk. The repair and strengthening framework is a complex process and there are often barriers in the preventative upgrade of the existing structures related to the cost of the applications and the limited expertise of the engineers. The engineers need to consider various options thoroughly and the selection of the appropriate strategy is a crucial parameter for the success of these applications.</p><p>The main aim of this collection is to present a number of different approaches applied to a wide range of structures with different characteristics and demands acting as a practical guide for the main repair and strengthening approaches used worldwide. This document contains a collection of nine case studies from six different countries with different seismicity (i.e. Austria, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nepal and New Zealand). Various types of structures have been selected with different structural peculiarities such as buildings used for different purposes (i.e. school buildings, town hall, 30 storey office tower), a bridge, and a wharf. Most of the examined structures are Reinforced Concrete structures while there is also an application on a Masonry building. For each of the examined studies, the local conditions are described followed by the main deficiencies which are addressed. The methods used for the assessment of the in-situ conditions also presented and alternative strategies for the repair and strengthening are considered.</p>
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Ternovaya, Lyudmila. Onomastics of international relations. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2076787.
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The monograph introduces readers not just into a complex, but into an exceptionally complicated history of international communication through a very simple and understandable entrance, which is torn off by the science of onomastics, which studies proper names. This knowledge, concerning the names of those personalities who have left their mark in the history of international relations, becomes a kind of anthroponymic guide to international relations. Toponymy, which explains the names of geographical objects, is the part of geopolitics that will help to identify the edges of agreement and conflict. Since not only things, phenomena, processes have their own names, but also symbols, including those that permeate the space of international interaction, the state of the world, its stability and security may depend on the accuracy of the use of such names.
It is addressed to specialists in the field of geopolitics, history, sociology, and cultural studies. A narrative about the history and peculiarities of modern international relations, in which the main facts are taken from the world of proper names, will be interesting to a wide range of readers.
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Dibazar, Pedram, and Judith Naeff, eds. Visualizing the Street. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984356.
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
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DeMaria, Rusel, and Tom Stratton. Sega Genesis Secrets, Volume 6. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1994.
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Mcdermott, Leeanne. GamePro Presents: Sega Genesis Games Secrets: Greatest Tips. Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992.
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Inc, Game Counselor. Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo Players. Redmond, USA: Microsoft Pr, 1991.
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Inc, Game Counsellor, ed. The Game Counsellor's answer book for Nintendo Game players: Hundredsof questions -and answers - about more than 250 popular Nintendo Games. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1991.
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Ranger Rides to Town. Random House Audio, 2004.
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Gardner, Jessica, Aqib Ali, and Claire Rushbrook. Dark Ranger Arc 1: Redhill Town. Independently Published, 2019.
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Lone Ranger: Outlaw's Town/Cassette (Radio Reruns). Metacom, 1985.
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Boyle, Doe. Big Town Trees (Adventures of Ranger Rick). Soundprints, 1993.
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Boyle, Doe. Big Town Trees (Adventures of Ranger Rick/Book and Cassette). Soundprints, 1993.
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L'Amour, Louis. A Ranger Rides to Town/Rain on a Mountain Fork. RH Audio, 2006.
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Ranger for the Twins: A Clean Romance. Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2020.
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Agler, Tanya. Ranger for the Twins: A Clean Romance. Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2020.
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A Ranger Rides to Town / Rain on the Mountain Fork / Down Sonora Way. Random House Audio, 2010.
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Adams, Savannah. Love Comes for the Army Ranger: A Sweet and Clean Small Town Contemporary Romance. Independently published, 2019.
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Fye, W. Bruce. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Mayo Practice. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199982356.003.0001.
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The Mayo Clinic had its origins in a small town medical practice. William Worrall Mayo, a British immigrant, arrived in America in 1846 and settled in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1864. The general medical practice that he launched in that town of 3,000 thrived. After a deadly tornado struck in 1883, the leader of an order of Catholic sisters offered to build a hospital in the town if Doctor Mayo would take charge of it. By the time St. Mary’s Hospital opened in 1889, Mayo’s sons, William J. (Will) and Charles H. (Charlie), had joined his practice. Will and Charlie Mayo learned surgery by watching prominent urban surgeons operate using antiseptic techniques. They began performing a range of procedures at the hospital in Rochester. The Mayo brothers and the Sisters of Saint Francis collaborated in providing care to patients who were attracted by reports of excellent surgical results and compassionate care.
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Schmidt, Christopher A., ed. Bürgerbegehren und Bürgerentscheid in Freiberg - 1999 bis 2008. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748905707.
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Saxony is one of Germany’s pioneering states when it comes to direct democracy, introducing public petitions and referendums as early as during the Weimar Republic. After 1990, there was another spate of citizens’ initiatives in a vast number of towns, cities and local communities. Between 1990 and 2008, the university town of Freiberg had vastly differing experiences of a number of public petitions which related to a diverse range of subjects. The groups that initiated these petitions were also equally as diverse: political parties, groups of voters with no strong ties to one political party, lobby groups and citizens’ action groups. In some instances, the petitions were initiated by ordinary citizens and market traders, but in others also by local politicians. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr Christopher Schmidt, students from the University of Esslingen have now embarked on in-depth research into this fascinating chapter in Freiberg’s history, the results of which are published in this book. In addition to depicting the individual public petitions that were initiated, it examines the legal foundations of citizens’ initiatives and referendums in Saxony. With contributions by Christopher A. Schmidt, Juliane de Pay, Janine Lebküchner, Vanessa Mayer and Hanife Tozman
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Fair, Alistair. ‘A New Image of the Town Centre’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807476.003.0006.
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This chapter locates key theatres of the 1960s and early 1970s in a series of urban contexts. The first part of the chapter discusses the idea of civic pride, and shows how this idea—often associated with the nineteenth century—persisted in the post-war period. It discusses how theatres could be invoked in discussions of civic pride and urban identity, and the range of individuals and organizations who did so. The second part of the chapter considers a series of examples whose location was discussed at some length. Some of these examples were located in civic centres as demonstrations of their role as a civic amenity, but others were built in shopping areas to suggest accessibility. Key examples discussed in the chapter include Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre, Derby Playhouse, Billingham Forum, and the unbuilt Glasgow Cultural Centre.
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Special Ops Seduction: An Alaska Force Novel - 5. Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.
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Can't Hardly Breathe. Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2017.
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Can't Hardly Breathe: Original Heartbreakers - 4. HQN Books, 2017.
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Showalter, Gena. Can't Let Go: Original Heartbreakers - 5. HQN Books, 2017.
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Showalter, Gena. Can't Let Go: Original Heartbreakers - 5. HQN Books, 2017.
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Pokémon: Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. VIZ Media LLC, 2008.
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Sergeant's Christmas Siege: An Alaska Force Novel - 3. Berkley, 2019.
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d’Orgeix, Emilie. French Military Engineers in the American Colonies, 1635–1776. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781845861209.003.0011.
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The first French military engineers in the American colonies between 1635 and 1670 did not belong to a professional corps, being officers with expertise to do military land-surveying and construct emergency defences. Between 1670 and 1691 engineers were under the discipline of Vauban who chose them for missions in Canada or the French Antilles. After 1691, until 1776, they were all ingénieurs du roi. They ranged across citadel and fort construction, cartography and town planning (especially in Louisiana and Saint Domingue).They promoted the urban grid plan, as well as harbours and road construction. With incorporation in a royal Genie corps in 1776 they became much more strictly military.
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Can't Let Go: Original Heartbreakers - 5. HQN Books, 2017.
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Richardson, Amanda, and Mark Allen, eds. Building on the Past: Medieval and postmedieval essays in honour of Tom Beaumont James. BAR Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30861/9781407357812.
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This engaging volume highlights the scholarship of Tom Beaumont James in advancing the study of medieval and early modern artefacts, buildings, gardens and towns. It largely focuses on the history and archaeology of central Southern England and its seventeen papers range from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century.
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Iyengar, Radhika, and Pooja Iyengar. Grassroots Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350320093.
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This book showcases and compares grassroots environmental education initiatives and actions in Millburn, New Jersey in the USA, and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in India. Across the two towns the collective actions discussed include the Fridays For Future strikes, activism through school’s ‘green team’, plastic clean-up missions, conducting workshops, conferences, and organizing green fairs. The authors discuss a range of concepts and ideas that have a broader relevance to local and global environmental education such as global citizenship, climate activism, national and municipal policies, gender, and ecofeminism. They show how the stories of the two towns are connected with sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development. Ultimately the book demonstrates how education can be used as a tool to promote climate change solutions and how this can benefit schools, communities and the planet.
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Roy, Goode, Kronke Herbert, and McKendrick Ewan, eds. Part II A View Through Illustrative Contracts and Harmonizing Instruments, 14 International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol: Adding a New Dimension to International Lawmaking. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198735441.003.0015.
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This chapter is devoted to the 2001 Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment and its associated Aircraft Protocol sponsored by UNIDROIT and ICAO. Both instruments have secured a large number of ratifications. Their 99 provisions cover a wide range of issues relating to security and quasi-security interests in aircraft objects, railway rolling stock and space assets. The chapter examines the principles underlying the Convention, its sphere of application, the default remedies, the provisions relating to the International Registry for the registration of international interests and sales and the priority rules based on the order of registration. Key features of the overriding provisions of the Aircraft Protocol are also identified, including strong creditors' remedies in the event of the debtor's insolvency, remedies which are considered a key features in reducing the risks and costs of aviation finance.
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Schmidt, Christopher A., ed. Bürgerbegehren und Bürgerentscheid in Tübingen – 1972 bis 2020. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748909361.
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After local referendums were first introduced in Baden-Württemberg in 1956, there were 17 applications to initiate them in the university town of Tübingen. The issues voted on were as varied as the discussions in the municipal council: they range from the development of a site on the banks of the Neckar to the prevention of traffic projects or the construction of a department store, right up to the ‘Radentscheid’ (an initiative to promote cycling in Tübingen), which is currently being carried out. Many years of practice have contributed to a participatory understanding of local politics and have had a lasting impact on the composition of the local council. In this book, students from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences under the guidance of Prof. Dr Christopher Schmidt examine this exciting chapter of Tübingen’s history. With contributions by Christopher A. Schmidt (Ed.), Roberto Fietz, Justyna Golenia, Judith Hain, Angela Parussis, Marius Scheinert
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Soghomonyan, Amalya. Historical and Real Time in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini. YSU press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/ysuph/9785808426382.
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The book features novels by contemporary Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini. The main goal of the work is to show the significance of Hosseini’s literary heritage in the context of emigrant literature. The work includes the author’s novels “The Kite Runner”, “And the Mountains Echoed,” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. The monograph can be useful both to literary scholars and a wide range of readers. Khaled Hosseini manages to use his talent and create three heartbreaking novels at once. Hosseini's novels are as beautiful as they are tragic. They are, of course, sentimental, but the reader sympathizes with all the characters and at the same time reflects on the questions raised by the author. Hosseini writes about Afghanistan but does not fill the pages with historical allusions. In the novels, there are evil and kind, happy and unhappy, cowardly and brave, successful and unsuccessful characters who experience the war in different ways. It should be noted that Hosseini, in his search for an ideological homeland, presents both Afghan and American cultures. Khaled Hosseini's characters first leave their homeland, move to America and, isolating themselves from their native environment, become one of thousands of emigrants. The presented realities of alienation and self-estrangement in the context of emigrant literature prove that both spatial and psychological distance can lead not only to alienation from society but also to internal isolation. The fate of the homeland does not leave the author alone and through his characters he tries to express the pain and suffering that the Afghans experienced during and after the war. Hosseini's works are always accompanied by broken images of Afghan families. The author knows the layers of the characters' lives inside and out. Through intermittent stories, he takes us to the dusty villages and towns of war-torn Afghanistan and shows the feelings of the people.
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Nathanson, Mitchell. A Game of Their Own. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036804.003.0001.
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This chapter discusses how baseball and America have been, in a symbolic sense, virtually synonymous. Very quickly, it felt natural to speak of baseball and America interchangeably, using one as a metaphor for the other, ascribing values to the game and the men who played and administered it that seemingly rang true on the larger canvas of the expanding nation as well. Baseball achieved this status on behalf of a group of status-conscious Americans who attempted to emulate the small-town values of the Protestant (WASP) establishment of the early and mid-nineteenth century, in an effort to increase their societal standing. For these men, who would eventually be known as baseball club owners, the goal was acculturation into the closed world of the respected WASP elites, a club they otherwise could never hope to join merely through accumulation of wealth alone.
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Tamura, Eileen H. A Yank in France, a Jap in America. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037788.003.0003.
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This chapter looks at Kurihara's enlistment in the U.S. Army during the war on Germany. On October 29, 1918, Kurihara's 328th Field Artillery arrived at the front, just southeast of the major Allied offensive between the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest. Once at the front, Kurihara's unit prepared for an offensive aimed at the strategically important town of Metz, which served as a German hub, a heavily fortified railroad center “entirely surrounded by a chain of permanent forts mounting heavy long-range guns.” On November 11, 1918, as the men were preparing the assault, the Armistice was declared, bringing “joy and relief” to the soldiers. However, ignoring the patriotism he and other Nisei veterans had demonstrated in the war, the government now treated them and other Nisei who lived on the West Coast as “alien citizens.” As the chapters to follow demonstrate, Kurihara did not take this affront quietly, and while incarcerated, he became a vociferous and impassioned dissident.
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Marais, Lochner, Phillippe Burger, Maléne Campbell, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, and Deidré van Rooyen, eds. Coal and Energy in South Africa. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487054.001.0001.
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This book forms part of a larger research project at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa that is investigating the consequences of mining for local communities and mining towns. The book analyses the current situation in Emalahleni and considers the likelihood of a just transition across a range of fields. The case study of the mining city of Emalahleni (‘place of coal’) in South Africa, formerly Witbank, both exemplifies and illuminates how the energy scenario plays out in one major mining city and in turn casts light on that scenario. The authors did not understand the inequalities and social stratification that appear to permeate the mining industry and mining towns. Furthermore, the authors did not understand how changes in the mining environment and government policy affect mineworkers and mining towns. In addition, there is the potential effect of mine closure. Sometimes closure is the result of resource depletion or changes in the market. In other cases, such as Emalahleni, it is the result of an economic transition. Whatever the reason, mining seldom results in long-term prosperity. The problem is that virtually nobody plans for closure or economic decline. In many cases, communities and local governments ignore closure. Therefore, this book investigates the current situation in Emalahleni and considers the implications of possible mine closure. Finally, the book assesses the notion of power in decision-making. The power of capital and its effects on local settlements and communities are crucial to understanding local responses to economic transitions.
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Fisher, Elizabeth, Bettina Lange, and Eloise Scotford. Environmental Law. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198811077.001.0001.
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All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials provides students with a deep understanding of environmental law while also encouraging critical reflection of legal reasoning and pointing out areas of controversy and debate. The authors present a wide range of extracts from UK, EU, and international cases, legislation, and articles to help support learning and demonstrate both how the law works in practice and how it should or could work, clearly guiding students through key areas while providing insightful explanations and analysis. Topics have been carefully selected to support a wide range of environmental law courses, within law school and beyond. These include pollution control, nature conservation, climate change regulation, town planning, and water regulation, all incorporating aspects of law from local, UK, EU and international legal cultures. With its unique combination of extracts and author discussion, this new edition provides a wide-ranging, stimulating, and fresh approach to environmental law, which can be relied upon throughout your course and career. This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre that features updates to the law, further reading suggestions, and useful weblinks.
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Brison, Susan J., and Katharine Gelber, eds. Free Speech in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883591.001.0001.
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This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of government and private organizations in monitoring and regulating the digital world, give rise to new questions, including: How do philosophical defenses of the right to freedom of expression, developed in the age of the town square and the printing press, apply in the digital age? Should search engines be covered by free speech principles? How should international conflicts over online speech regulations be resolved? Is there a right to be forgotten that is at odds with the right to free speech? How has the Internet facilitated new speech-based harms such as cyber-stalking, twitter-trolling, and “revenge” porn, and how should these harms be addressed? The contributors to this groundbreaking volume include philosophers, legal theorists, political scientists, communications scholars, public policy makers, and activists.
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Woodard, J. David. Ronald Reagan. An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216009931.
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Ronald Reagan's story reads like a Hollywood script complete with a small-town boyhood, movie stardom, financial success, and unmatched political popularity. This book tells Reagan's true-life tale in an engaging and easily accessible manner. The trajectory of his life was remarkable: from Midwestern schoolboy, sports announcer, and Hollywood actor to governor of California and two-term President of the United States. There is no doubt that Ronald Reagan was one of the most complex and fascinating personalities of our time. Ronald Reagan: A Biography captures all the varied aspects of Reagan's life and career, portraying him as a politician, a husband, a father—and as a human being with a unique brand of charisma. Anchored by Reagan's memorable personality and appeal, this lively, concise biography explores the full range of the former president's humor, character, and faith in a book that is also a study of history and political science. Students and general readers alike will come away understanding why Ronald Reagan's hold on America was so potent, and why it becomes more so with time.
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Baber, Katherine. Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042379.001.0001.
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For Leonard Bernstein, music was a language capable of communicating more directly than in words, and jazz was a crucial part of his musical vocabulary. As an idiom made up of a range of styles--whether stride, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop, or cool--jazz was central to Bernstein’s compositional aesthetic, particularly in his approach to tonality and to defining American music. The blues, as a special part of this jazz idiom, also helped Bernstein articulate a personal identity, expressing everything from sensuality to humor to loss and isolation. This book will examine the shifting meanings of Bernstein’s jazz language in theatrical and symphonic works from across his career. His commitment to jazz in works like On the Town, West Side Story, and Mass also demonstrates Bernstein’s conviction that music could be socially engaged and that jazz was one of the most effective means of engagement. The plurality of jazz styles in Bernstein’s music resonates with many of America’s most significant political and cultural questions, including shifts in the relationship between African American and Jewish American identities. The language of jazz helped Bernstein find a voice in the political and musical senses and continually rearticulate his own American musical identity.
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Adhikari, Mohamed. Burdened by race: Coloured identities in southern Africa. UCT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/1-92051-660-4.
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Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern African societies. The nature of colouredness has always been a highly emotive and controversial issue because it embodies many of the racial antagonisms, ambiguities, and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Throughout their existence coloured communities have had to contend with the predicament of being marginal minorities stigmatised as the insalubrious by-products of miscegenation. This book showcases recent innovative research and writing on coloured identity in southern Africa. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and applying fresh theoretical insights, Burdened by Race brings new levels of understanding to processes of coloured self-identification. This collection breaks virgin ground by examining diverse manifestations of colouredness across the region using interlinking themes and case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi to present analyses that both challenge and overturn much of the conventional wisdom around the identity in the current literature. Mohamed Adhikari teaches in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and has published widely on coloured identity in South Africa. His books include ‘Let Us Live for Our Children’: The Teachers’ League of South Africa, 1913–1940 and Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in South Africa’s Coloured Community.
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Hulme, Peter. The Dinner at Gonfarone's. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942005.001.0001.
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The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated. De la Selva’s range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selva’s own poetry – his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection – The Dinner at Gonfarone’s highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, all of whom were part of de la Selva’s extensive network.
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Aldrete, Gregory S. Daily Life in the Roman City. www.greenwood.com, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400637193.
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Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers, there is no denying the fact that the core of Roman civilization—its essential culture and politics—was based in cities. Even at the furthest boundaries of the Empire, Roman cities shared a remarkable and consistent similarity in terms of architecture, art, infrastructure, and organization which was modeled after the greatest city of all, Rome itself. In Gregory Aldrete's exhaustive account, readers will have the opportunity to peer into the inner workings of daily life in ancient Rome, to witness the full range of glory, cruelty, sophistication, and deprivation that characterized Roman cities, and will perhaps even gain new insight into the nature and history of urban existence in America today. Included are accounts of Rome's history, infrastructure, government, and inhabitants, as well as chapters on life and death, the dangers and pleasures of urban living, entertainment, religion, the emperors, and the economy. Additional sections explore two other important Roman cities: Ostia, an industrial port town, and Pompeii, the doomed playground of the rich. This volume is ideal for high school and college students, as well as for anyone interested in examining the realities of life in ancient Rome. A chronology of the time period, maps, illustrations, a bibliography, and an index are also included.
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Brooks, James. The Southwest. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858897.013.11.
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Few traveling between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Rio Grande valley realize that they are traversing one of the most significant American Indian migration and settlement corridors in the Southwest, a well-watered and fertile floodplain that served to link peoples of the southern Rocky Mountains and the San Juan River to those of the Jemez range and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and the Rio Grande, across some 300 miles. This chapter gives an overview of Pueblo (Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Keres, Hopi, and Zuni), Apache, Navajo, and O’odham histories, and reveals a dual process of migration and place making across a millennium. The Southwest has a high variability in seasonal precipitation, and its peoples have demonstrated creative and adaptable cultures that allowed for movement to new locations and the creation of new homelands as a crucial aspect of their survival.
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McAtackney, Laura, and Krysta Ryzewski, eds. Contemporary Archaeology and the City. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803607.001.0001.
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belem, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.
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Mayisela, Tabisa, Shanali C. Govender, and Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams. Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa. African Minds, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425.
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This volume investigates the uptake of ‘open learning’ in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to promote a better understanding of open learning practices across the Post-School Education and Training (PSET) sector, including issues such as: recognition of prior learning, access for students with disabilities, work integrated learning, professional development, novel student funding mechanisms, leadership for open educational practices, institutional culture, student support, blended and online learning, flexible learning, online assessment, open educational resource development models and funding, and micro-credentials. This collection of peer-reviewed chapters contributes to understanding the ways in which South African PSET institutions and educators are interpreting ‘open learning’ as a means of advancing social justice. It includes a historical and contemporary understanding of the economic, cultural and political obstacles facing PSET, drawing on Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice as ‘participatory parity’ to better understand the ways in which ‘open learning’ may address systemic social injustices in order to allow South African students and educators to thrive. This volume emerges from research conducted by the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project, an initiative by the Department of Higher Education and Training in partnership with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
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Fachard, Sylvian, and Edward M. Harris, eds. The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108850292.
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From the Trojan War to the sack of Rome, from the fall of Constantinople to the bombings of World War II and the recent devastation of Syrian towns, the destruction of cities and the slaughter of civilian populations are among the most dramatic events in world history. But how reliable are literary sources for these events? Did ancient authors exaggerate the scale of destruction to create sensational narratives? This volume reassesses the impact of physical destruction on ancient Greek cities and its demographic and economic implications. Addressing methodological issues of interpreting the archaeological evidence for destructions, the volume examines the evidence for the destruction, survival, and recovery of Greek cities. The studies, written by an international group of specialists in archaeology, ancient history, and numismatic, range from Sicily to Asia Minor and Aegean Thrace, and include Athens, Corinth, and Eretria. They highlight the resilience of ancient populations and the recovery of cities in the long term.