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  • IMAGINING AMERICA
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    IMAGINING AMERICA
    PETER CONRAD
    In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize. For Mrs Trollope, Americans are unkempt brutes, throwbacks to savagery; for H. G. Wells, they are a future race of cerebral ...

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  • PERFORMING THE NONHUMAN
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    PERFORMING THE NONHUMAN
    CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ
    This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its conventional object, the human narrative, broadly considered. In order to respond ...

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  • A SAVAGE AND ROMANTIC WAR
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    A SAVAGE AND ROMANTIC WAR
    CONRAD CAINS
    In the quarter-century after the fall of Napoleon, there were several wars in Europe, and this Spanish civil war was the lengthiest, and most varied. It was the first of a set of conflicts that split the nation and would continue to do so for a century and more. A Savage and Romantic War gives the wargamer all the information needed to play games set in Spain in these tumultuou...

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  • CONFLICT AND HOSTILITY IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, AND BARS
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    CONFLICT AND HOSTILITY IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, AND BARS
    CONRAD LASHLEY
    This book critically explores conflict and hostility in a range of hospitality settings and from a broad stakeholder perspective. The provision of accommodation, food, and drink in commercial settings has conflict at its core because the commercial transaction between hosts and guests can result in a clash of expectations between the server and served. These service encounters ...

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  • SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2024
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    SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2024
    CONRAD WATERS
    For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships, and looks at wider issues of significance to navies such as aviation and weaponry. The contributors come from around the globe and ...

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  • PUT THINKING TO THE TEST
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    PUT THINKING TO THE TEST
    LORI CONRAD / MISSY MATTHEWS / CHERYL ZIMMERMAN / PATRICK A. ALLEN
    How can teachers use the comprehension strategies put forward in books like Strategies That Work and Mosaic of Thought to help students become not just better readers and thinkers but also better test takers? The four authors of Put Thinking to the Test have spent years pursuing that question and have developed a groundbreaking approach, as their colleague Ellin Keene writes in...

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  • IDENTITY-NATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
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    IDENTITY-NATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
    EV KONTSEVOY / SAKSHYAM SHAH / PETER CONRAD
    Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack vectors and protocols to consider. How can you secure access to diverse infrastruc...

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  • TORE GODAL AND THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL HEALTH
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    TORE GODAL AND THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL HEALTH
    CONRAD KEATING
    This book is an interconnected history of the evolution of global health in the decades before 2019, told through the prism of six decisive moments in which individuals from the World Health Organization (WHO), philanthropic foundations, academia and bilateral agencies came together to shape the world. These critical junctures are accessed via the life and work of Norwegian imm...

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  • SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2023
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    SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2023
    CONRAD WATERS
    For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, combining regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of significance to navies, such as aviation and weaponry,...

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  • PROPORTIONATE SHARE IMPACT FEES AND DEVELOPMENT MITIGATION
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    PROPORTIONATE SHARE IMPACT FEES AND DEVELOPMENT MITIGATION
    ARTHUR C. NELSON / JAMES C. NICHOLAS / JULIAN CONRAD JUERGENSMEYER / CLANCY MULLEN
    After decades of evolving practice often tested in court, development impact fees have become institutionalized in the American planning and local government finance systems. But, they remain contentious, especially as they continue to evolve. This book is the third in a series of impact fee guidebooks for practitioners, following A Practitioner’s Guide to Development Impact Fe...

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  • STREET-LEVEL ARCHITECTURE
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    STREET-LEVEL ARCHITECTURE
    CONRAD KICKERT / HANS KARSSENBERG
    This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This book demonstrates why even our best intentions for interactive frontages are currently unable to turn a swelling tide of econ...

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  • PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND BARS
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    PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND BARS
    CONRAD LASHLEY
    Presenting expert-led discussion of a range of themes and topics, Prejudice and Discrimination in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars explores the rigidities that restrict recruitment into frontline job roles in hotels restaurants and bars. Despite decades of legislation banning gender and racial discrimination in most service economies, selecting the ‘right person for the job’ in pra...

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  • A HANDBOOK OF COOKERY FOR A SMALL HOUSE
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    A HANDBOOK OF COOKERY FOR A SMALL HOUSE
    JESSIE CONRAD
    Excerpt: "Cooking ought not to take too much of one’s time. One hour and a half to two hours for lunch, and two and a half for dinner is sufficient, providing that the servant knows how to make up the fire in order to get the stove ready for use. Most girls will quickly learn to do that and how to put a joint properly in the oven. For my part I never went into the kitchen befor...

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  • THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK REFERENCE TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
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    THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK REFERENCE TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
    ROBYN CONRAD HANSEN / FRANK D. DAVIDSON
    With the ever-changing, complex role of the principalship, school leaders are thirsty for a useful desk reference that aligns with professional standards. This actionable book brings the PSEL standards to life, providing leaders with support, mentorship, and practical advice. This book provides solutions to challenges and answers the hard questions associated with educational l...

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  • GUERRILLA MARKETING
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    GUERRILLA MARKETING
    JASON MYERS / JAY CONRAD LEVINSON / MERRILEE KIMBLE
    Focused on low-cost, strategic marketing concepts that will creatively promote a compelling product or service, Guerrilla Marketing's winning approach relies on knowledge, time, energy, and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. Now, the winning continues with Guerrilla Marketing Volume 2. ...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
    CONRAD HEILMANN / JULIAN REISS
    The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosop...

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  • JOSEPH CONRAD
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    JOSEPH CONRAD
    JOSEPH CONRAD / ALLAN INGRAM
    First Published in 1986. On 22 January 1910, after two years’ work on what he had intended as a break from Chance, Conrad finally finished the manuscript of Under Western Eyes. It had been begun, like many of his novels, as a short story, to be called simply ‘Razumov’, in which he would try ‘to capture the very soul of things Russian’ (Jean-Aubry, 1927, II, p. 64). Some 130,000...

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  • TO-MORROW
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    TO-MORROW
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. One of Conrad’s most powerful, gripping stories. (Goodreads) ...

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  • DAS ENDE VOM LIED
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    DAS ENDE VOM LIED
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Kapitän Whalley, der durch einen Bankencrash sein Vermögen verloren hat, muss sein Schiff verkaufen, um seine Tochter in Australien unterstützen zu können. Um selbst über die Runden zu kommen, beteiligt er sich mit seinen letzten Mitteln an einem Dampfer, der einmal im Monat die Handelsroute flussaufwärts befährt, und übernimmt das Kommando. Der erste Maschinist Massy ist zugle...

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  • AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
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    AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughte...

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  • THE ARROW OF GOLD A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES
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    THE ARROW OF GOLD A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de B...

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  • GASPAR RUIZ
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    GASPAR RUIZ
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Auszug: "Ein Revolutionskrieg reißt so manche absonderliche Gestalten aus der Verborgenheit, die bei geordneten bürgerlichen Verhältnissen das gewöhnliche Los schlichter Leute ist. Gewisse Persönlichkeiten werden berühmt durch ihre Laster und Tugenden, oder einfach durch ihre Taten, die eine zeitweilige Bedeutung haben mögen; und dann vergißt man sie. Nur die Namen einiger weni...

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  • DIE
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    DIE "TREMOLINO"
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Die Titelerzählung "Die Tremolino" schildert ein Abenteuer, das Conrad als junger Seemann, in einen Waffenschmuggel zugunsten spanischer Royalisten verstrickt, auf einer Zweimastbark erlebte. ...

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  • IM TAIFUN
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    IM TAIFUN
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Auszug: "Die Gesichtszüge des Herrn Mac Whirr, Kapitäns des Dampfers Nan-Shan, schienen das vollkommene Widerspiel seines Charakters zu sein: sie boten keine bestimmten Merkmale weder von Festigkeit noch von Beschränktheit; sie drückten überhaupt keinerlei Eigentümlichkeit aus; sie waren einfach gewöhnlich, ausdruckslos und unbeweglich. Das Einzige, was sich in seinem Aussehen ...

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  • NOTES ON MY BOOKS
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    NOTES ON MY BOOKS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    In Notes on My Books (1920), Joseph Conrad recounts his experiences with the writing process. He recounts in detail his intentions and aspirations for each of his major works. ...

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  • THE RESCUE A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS
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    THE RESCUE A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel pr...

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  • SUSPENSE A NAPOLEONIC NOVEL
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    SUSPENSE A NAPOLEONIC NOVEL
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Conrad's last novel set in Genoa in early 1815. This is the story of Cosmo Latham, an Englishman and veteran of the late war against Napoleon, looking to see what he was unable to see earlier and perhaps even get a glimpse of the Emperor himself. But when he finds a girl from his youth, he finds that his emotions can get the better of him. (Google) ...

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  • WITHIN THE TIDES
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    WITHIN THE TIDES
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the T...

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  • DER GEHEIMAGENT EINE EINFACHE GESCHICHTE
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    DER GEHEIMAGENT EINE EINFACHE GESCHICHTE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Der Geheimagent: Eine einfache Geschichte (The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale) ist ein Roman von Joseph Conrad aus dem Jahr 1907. Der Roman gehört mit Nostromo und Mit den Augen des Westens zu den politischen Romanen Conrads. Hinter der Ebene des Spionageromans verbirgt sich eine komplexe und ironische Auseinandersetzung mit dem kleinbürgerlichen Leben in der modernen Großstadt. C...

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  • YOUTH, A NARRATIVE
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    YOUTH, A NARRATIVE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Youth is an 1898 autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. "Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim, Chance, and Heart of Darkness. The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works. ...

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