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Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca...

This book constitutes an attempt to theorize the process of the emergence, in eighteenth-century New Spain, of a position of intellectual subjectivity differentiated from that established by the...

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RAF Wings Over Florida: Memories of World War II British Air Cadets

In the early 1940s, prior to the United States' entry into World War II, through the joint efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British soldiers were sent...

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A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World

Business and industry leaders are eager to find ways to spark the creative instinct in their work forces. This newly translated work examines the multi-layered environment of innovation by melding the...

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Reinterpreting Modern Culture: An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) presents himself several times as a physician of culture. He considers it his task to make a diagnosis of the culture of his age, to point to the latent or patent...

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Hard Water: Politics and Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995

Hard Water: Politics And Water Supply In Milwaukee, 1870-1995 by educator and urban studies specialist Kate Foss-Mollan is the documented and historical account of the water supply of Milwaukee,...

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Program Management: A Comprehensive Overview of the Discipline

Although many might argue that program management is magic or luck, and at times this might be the case, Springer instead describes program management as both an art and a science. The art of program...

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Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines

Ample evidence has been provided that women historically have suffered numerous social, political, and institutional barriers to their entrance and success in the sciences. The articles in this...

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Applied Ethics in Animal Research: Philosophy, Regulation, and Laboratory...

This volume is a collection of chapters all contributed by individuals who have presented their ideas at conferences and who take moderate stands with the use of animals in research. Specifically the...

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A Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans

Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans (formerly titled, Touched by the Dragon) details wartime accounts of average servicemen and women-some heroic, some frightening, some amusing,...

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The Arguments of Agriculture: A Casebook in Contemporary Agricultural...

The Arguments of Agriculture presents the major issues, questions, and conflicting opinions of influential policymakers and critics concerning the role and future of modern agriculture. The author...

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Vietnam, Four American Perspectives: Lectures

This collection of speeches delivered in 1987 presents the widely diverging opinions of four men: an eminent politician, a professional soldier, a government consultant, and a distinguished scholar....

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To The Other: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Note About the Online Edition Nearly two decades ago, To the Other: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas was published, and as its title declared, its purpose was to introduce the...

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Literary Skinheads? Writing from the Right in Reunified Germany

"Literary Skinheads? is a very nuanced, meticulously researched and vividly written study of a series of important debates in German literary circles since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid...

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Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change

This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied....

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Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report...

This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success" project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a...

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Borges and Mathematics

BORGES AND MATHEMATICS is a short book of essays that explores the scientific thinking of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899 to 1986). Around half of the book consists of two "lectures"...

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Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative (Second Edition)

It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a...

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Understanding the Global Energy Crisis

We are facing a global energy crisis caused by world population growth, an escalating increase in demand, and continued dependence on fossil-based fuels for generation. It is widely accepted that...

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Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and...

This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the...

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Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process

Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses...

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