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Decontamination of Toxic Industrial Chemicals and Chemical Warfare Agents on Building Materials Using Chlorine Dioxide Fumigant and Liquid Oxidant Tec - Paperback

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by U S Environmental Protection Agency (Created by)The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, docum...

New Design and Improvement of Planetary Gear Trains - Paperback

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by Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) (Created by), Et Al (Created by), Robert Handschuh (Author)The development of new types of planetary and planetary face-gear drives is proposed. The new designs are based on regulating backlash between the gears and modifying the tooth surfaces to improve the design. The goal of this work is to obtain a nearly uniform distribution of load between the planet gears. In addition, a new type of planetary face-gear drive was developed in this project. Number...

Unmanned Spacecraft of the United States - Paperback

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by E. M. Cortright (Author), Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) (Created by)The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) houses half a million publications that are a valuable means of information to researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These documents are all aerospace related with much scientific and technical information created or funded by NASA. Some types of documents include conference papers, research reports, meeting papers, journal articles and more. This is one of...

Freshwater Amphipod Crustaceans (Gammaridae) of North America - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by U S Environmental Protection Agency (Created by) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. Thi...

Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture - Paperback

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by G. Diment (Editor), Y. Slezkine (Editor)Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego, as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening...

New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater - Hardcover

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by I. Saal (Author)New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to ...

One Who Survived: The Life Story Of A Russian Under The Soviets - Paperback

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by Alexander Barmine (Author), Max Eastman (Introduction by)One Who Survived: The Life Story Of A Russian Under The Soviets is a memoir written by Alexander Barmine, a Russian who lived through the tumultuous period of Soviet history. The book tells the story of Barmine's life, from his childhood in Russia to his experiences as a soldier in World War I and his subsequent involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution. The book also details Barmine's time as a diplomat for the Soviet Union, including...

Sociocultural Intelligence: A New Discipline in Intelligence Studies - Paperback

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by Kerry Patton (Author)This new discipline proposes a systematic understanding of the customs, moral attitudes, and cultures of foreign populations to enhance the efficacy of national security initiatives. >Author BiographyKerry E. Patton is an internationally recognized security, terrorism, and intelligence expert. He has served in the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security within multiple capacities, from human intelligence to dignitary protection of Afghan President Kar...

Making and Remaking the Balkans: Nations and States Since 1878 - Hardcover

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by Robert Clegg Austin (Author)With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans studies the region's history combined with observations based on more than twenty years of field experience.Primarily concerned wit...

The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 3 - Paperback

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by Roger Williams (Author), Edwin Gaustad (Author)Ten years after the U. S. Civil War, a group of men in Rhode Island made a conserted effort to rescue the widely scattered writings of Roger Williams. Few sets were printed though, and under the guidance of Perry Miller, The Complete Writings of Roger Williams were brought back in 1963, but still in short numbers. The present collection now makes these volumes available to readers in their original orthography. The theme of religious liberty i...

Understanding Disability Policy - Paperback

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by Alan Roulstone (Author), Simon Prideaux (Author)In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding disability policy locates disabilit...

The Origins of War in Mozambique. a History of Unity and Division - Paperback

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by Sayaka Funada-Classen (Author)The independence of Mozambique in 1975 and its decolonisation process attracted worldwide attention as a successful example of "national unity". Yet, the armed conflict that broke out between the government and the guerrilla force in 1977 lasted for sixteen years and resulted in over a million deaths and several million refugees, placing this concept of "national unity" into doubt. For nearly twenty years, Sayaka Funada-Classen interviewed people in rural comm...

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by Bob Drake (Editor), German Lema (Translator), Henry George (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.67 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 17, 2012

Rise and Resist: Essays on Love, Courage, Politics and Resistance from The Dandelion Insurrection - Paperback

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by Rivera Sun (Author)Fiery. Evocative. Uplifting.Fiction meets reality in these impassioned and hard-hitting essays on love, courage, politics, and resistance. Rise and Resist brings to life the essays of the underground resistance writer Charlie Rider from The Dandelion Insurrection. The words are a rallying cry, a balm to the soul, and fuel or the fire of social change. In a printed collection for the first time ever, here are the essays that ignited a mass movement for change in a fiction...

Why I Tried to Die: A Story of Trauma, Resilience and Restoration - Paperback

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by Lisa Kessler-Peters (Author)Come walk with Lisa as she takes you on a journey from death to life. Her testimony of how she was delivered from a life of addiction and trauma will inspire you to seek a deeper relationship with God. Why I Tried to Die will grip you from the beginning through the end. Lisa's courageous transparency throughout the pages of this book reveal the glory of God and His redemptive healing and restorative powers. It is a must- read for all who are currently going thro...

Policy and Governance in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Relational Equity Approach - Paperback

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by Anastasia Koulouri (Editor), Nikolai Mouraviev (Editor)This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies. Due to increasing demands for natural resources, the WEF nexus has emerged as a response to the numerous global challenges. Addressing WEF challenges often...

Presidential Power: the Politics of Leadership - Hardcover

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by Richard E. Neustadt (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, r...

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by Eleanor Roosevelt (Author)The newspapers these days are becoming more and more painful. I was reading my morning papers on the train not so long ago, and looked up with a feeling of desperation. Up and down the car people were reading, yet no one seemed excited. To me the whole situation seems intolerable. We face today a world filled with suspicion and hatred. Some time we must begin, for where there is no beginning there is no end, and if we hope to see the preservation of our civilizat...

NATO, the U.S., and Cold War 2.0: Transformation of the Transatlantic Alliance and Collective Defense - Hardcover

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by Chris J. Dolan (Author)The book assesses the extent to which the Russian invasion of Ukraine pushed both the U.S. and NATO into making necessary changes to contend with a multipolar world structured in terms of Cold War 2.0 great power competition.Author BiographyChris Dolan (PhD, University of South Carolina) is Professor and Director of the Master's of Science in Intelligence and Security Studies at Lebanon Valley College. He is a two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Kosovo; North Macedonia)...

The Internet Left: Ideology in the Age of Social Media - Paperback

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by Graham Harrison (Author)Defying the current pessimistic narrative, this book challenges the prevailing assumptions that the political Left is spent, hopeful ideological discourse has collapsed and social media has corroded public debates about politics. Instead, the book argues that ideological activism remains vibrant on the Left, but there is currently no clear way of recognising and analysing this phenomenon. The book fills this gap by first defining what political social media is and t...

Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism - Paperback

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by Rebecca Selberg (Editor), Marta Kolankiewicz (Editor), Diana Mulinari (Editor)Back JacketThis open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested a...

Guerrilla Warfare Large Print - Paperback

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by Che Guevara (Author)Guerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a military handbook written by Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. Published in 1961 following the Cuban Revolution, it became a reference for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. The book draws upon Guevara's personal experience as a guerrilla soldier during the Cuban Revolution, generalizing for readers who would undertake guerrilla warfare in their own countries. The boo...

With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice - Hardcover

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by Maeve McKeown (Author)What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today's world. Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the ...

Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society - Paperback

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by Adam Simpson (Editor), Nicholas Farrelly (Editor)This new edition provides a sophisticated overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar. It will be of interest to scholars of SEA politics, economics and society. Author BiographyAdam Simpson is a senior lecturer in international studies within Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. His research adopts a critical perspective and is focused on the politics of the environment, dev...

Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 - Paperback

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by Ashley C. Rondini (Contribution by), Ashley N. Gwathney (Contribution by), Blake R. Silver (Contribution by)The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and t...

Like-Minded Allies?: Indo-Pacific Partners' Views on Possible Changes in the U.S. Relationship with Taiwan - Paperback

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by Jeffrey W. Hornung (Author), Miranda Priebe (Author), Bryan Rooney (Author)Debates about options for future U.S. policy toward Taiwan tend to focus on how each would affect China's calculus on invading the island, but another important consideration is how U.S. allies in the region would respond. The authors of this report examine how Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippines would react to the United States signaling either an increase or a decrease in its support of Taiwan. Numbe...

Feminismos en América Latina - Hardcover

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by Gisela Zaremberg (Author), Debora Rezende de Almeida (Author)Este Element analiza las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras. Para ello, nos enfocamos específicamente en el movimiento proaborto frente al contramovimiento antiaborto en México y Brasil. Para analizar los efectos potenciales de los movimientos ofrecemos un enfoque relacional que abarca tanto la dinámica dentro del propio campo feminista, como en...

Turkey's Violent Formation: New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire - Hardcover

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by Hans-Lukas Kieser (Author)The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe's diplomacy and appeasement. Yet the currents that gave rise to the defining events of the period - ultranationalism, imperial proto-fascism, and pan-Islamism - have yet to be definitively integrated into historiography. The case studies in this book reappraise key events, concepts, and individuals in late Ottoman and...

Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis - Paperback

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by Masahiko Aoki (Author)A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change. Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impact on economic performance. Examples include the demise of the communist s...

Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections - Hardcover

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by Robert G. Boatright (Author)The direct primary, in which voters rather than party leaders or convention delegates select party nominees for state and federal offices, was one of the most widely adopted political reforms of the early twentieth century. Yet after decades of practice and study, scholars have found little clear evidence that direct primaries changed the outcomes of party nominations. The conventional wisdom has always been that once the Progressive movement declined and voters...

Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory - Paperback

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by Ola Olsson (Author)This accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory. By presenting a chronological account of the beginnings of economics and human society, it charts the key developments in early human history, from the evolution of social norms and colonizing of unknown continents, to the development of early technology and the transition to agricultural food production. Particular attention is given to how human capital, the na...

Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide - Paperback

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by Alexis Herr (Editor)This important reference work offers students a comprehensive overview of the Darfur Genocide, with roughly 100 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and more than a dozen key primary source documents. Stretching beyond Darfur to situate Sudan within the scope of its African, colonial, human rights, and genocidal history, this reference work explores every aspect of the Darfur Genocide. Covering hundreds of years, this book explores the ...