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Shatterzone of Empires

Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...

Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

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"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to
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Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations

by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, Michael J. Tierney, Amanda Murdie, Sarah E. Mendelson, Jessica F. Green0, Thomas Hale1, Marc A. Levy2, Christina J. Schneider3, Steven Radelet4, Edward D. Mansfield5, Jon C. W. Pevehouse6, Robert B. Zoellick7, Thomas B. Pepinsky8, David A. Steinberg9, Dimitri G. Demekas0, Sarah Kreps1, Jessica Weeks2, Peter D. Feaver3, Michael G. Findley4, Joseph K. Young5, Scott Edwards6, Paul C. Avey7, Michael C. Desch8, John R. Harvey9 ...

There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data ... Read more

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There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data
... Read more
Livestock Handling and Transport

by Temple Grandin, John Abizaid, Faith Reyes, Adrian Barber, Donald Broom, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo, Dana L. M. Campbell, John Church, Michael Cockram, Lorna Coppinger0, Raymond Coppinger1, Roger Ewbank2, Luigi Faucitano3, Robert B. Freeman4, Wendy K Fulwider5, Carmen Gallo6, Arlene Garcia-Marquez7, Peter Goddard8, Paul Hemsworth9, Katherine A. Houpt0, Dr Stella Maris Huertas Canén1, Geoffrey D. Hutson2, Anna Johnson3, Meagan King4, Bert Lambooij5, Pol Llonch Obiols6, Edmond A. Pajor7, Mateus J.R. Paranhos da Costa8, Genaro C. Miranda-de la Lama9, Miriam Parker0, Clive Phillips1, Matthew J. Ritter2, Emma Fabreger I Romans3, Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein4, Antonio Velarde5, Kurt Vogel6, Claire A Weeks7, Carissa L. Wickens8, S. Wilhelmsson9, Trevor DeVries0, Gabriel Dallago1, Ashlyn Scott2, Juliana Ribas3, J. Gooding4, S. Carr5, C. Yoder6, C. Jones7, A. K. Johnson8, A. Garcia9, Jayson Galbraith0 ...

Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms ... Read more

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Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms
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Up All Night

by Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Sarah Weeks, Patricia McCormick, Gene Luen Yang ...

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Livestock Handling and Transport

by Adrian Barber, Faith Baier, Keith Belk, Donald Broom, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo, Michael Cockram, Lorna Coppinger, Raymond Coppinger, Trevor DeVries, Roger Ewbank, Luigi Faucitano, Robert B. Freeman, Carmen Gallo, Arlene Garcia-Marquez, Paul Hemsworth, Stella Maris Huertas, Anna Johnson, Katherine A. Houpt, Geoffrey D. Hutson, Mateus J.R. Paranhos da Costa, Miriam Parker, Clive Phillips, Matthew J. Ritter, Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, Meagan King, E. (Bert) Lambooij, Genaro C. Miranda-de la Lama, Pol Llonch Obiols, Edmond A. Pajor, Emma Fabreger I Romans, Frank Tuyttens, Antonio Velarde, Kurt Vogel, Carissa L. Wickens, Wendy K Fulwider, Peter Goddard, Claire A Weeks ...

Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this practical book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities ... Read more

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Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this practical book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities
... Read more
Interaction and Everyday Life

Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas

by Hisashi Nasu, Frances Chaput Waksler, Christina Papadimitriou, David Rehorick, Ilja Srubar, Martin Endress, Jochen Dreher, Kwang-ki Kim, Thomas Wilson0, Lenore Langsdorf1, Kenneth Liberman2, Tim Berard3, Lorenza Mondada4, Aug Nishizaka5, Peter Weeks6, Michael Barber7, Hwa Yol Jung8, Lester Embree9, Thomas S. Eberle0 ...

Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States who contributed to this collection. Together they exemplify the kinds of theoretical and research issues that arise ... Read more

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Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States who contributed to this collection. Together they exemplify the kinds of theoretical and research issues that arise
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Grant's Tomb

The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon

by Louis L. Picone ...

The moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroesThe final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, is a colossal neoclassical tomb located in the most dynamic city in the country. It is larger than the ... Read more

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The moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroesThe final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, is a colossal neoclassical tomb located in the most dynamic city in the country. It is larger than the
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John Keats

Poetry, Life & Landscapes

by Suzie Grogan ...

"This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart ... Read more

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"This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart
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Voices of Our Republic

Exploring the Constitution with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Dershowitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ron Chernow, and Many More

Edited by Douglas H. Ginsburg ...

This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes, ... Read more

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This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes,
... Read more
The Beginning or the End

How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Greg Mitchell ...

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

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The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon
... Read more

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Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine

Two Worlds Collide

by Alan Dowty ...

The historian and expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations offers "a well-written, well-balanced" account of cultural conflicts in the region before WWI (Anita Shapira, author of Israel: A History).When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in ... Read more

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The historian and expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations offers "a well-written, well-balanced" account of cultural conflicts in the region before WWI (Anita Shapira, author of Israel: A History).When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in
... Read more
Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

by Peter Harmsen ...

Series Book 2 - War in the Far East
The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... Read more

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The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians
... Read more

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