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  • A TEST OF MORALS
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    A TEST OF MORALS
    L. ALLEN FURR
    While transplanting human heads is not a new concept, the idea has largely been relegated to religious lore or as a plot device in science fiction. But now, a surgical plan to perform the complex procedure exists, and though most physicians question head transplantation’s medical veracity, bioethicists have challenged the surgery on moral grounds. A Test of Morals compiles and ...

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  • AUGUSTINE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
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    AUGUSTINE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
    PAUL L. ALLEN
    This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent 21st-century socio-political issues. Drawing together Augustinian ideas such as concupiscence, virtue, vice, habit, and sin through social and textual analysis, it provides fresh Augustinian perspectives on new—yet somehow familiar—quandaries. The volume addresses the themes of fallen...

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  • ECOLOGY OF FIRE-DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS
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    ECOLOGY OF FIRE-DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS
    DEVAN ALLEN MCGRANAHAN / CARISSA L. WONKKA
    Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover, the book places itself as a communication between students, fire scientists, and fire fighters, and each of these groups will find some familiar ground, and some challenging aspec...

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  • CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE RELIGIONS
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    CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE RELIGIONS
    E. L. ALLEN
    Originally published in 1961, Christianity Among the Religions examines whether it is possible to learn from other religions without compromising on personal religious loyalties. The book traces from the thirteenth century the gradual awakening of the West to the spiritual qualities of other religions and the various efforts made to place them in relation to Christianity. It ex...

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  • APPLIED SPATIAL COGNITION
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    APPLIED SPATIAL COGNITION
    GARY L. ALLEN
    Applied Spatial Cognition illustrates the vital link between research and application in spatial cognition. With an impressive vista ranging from applied research to applications of cognitive technology, this volume presents the work of individuals from a wide range of disciplines and research areas, including psychologists, geographers, information scientists, computer scienti...

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  • EXISTENTIALISM FROM WITHIN
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    EXISTENTIALISM FROM WITHIN
    E.L. ALLEN
    This book, first published in 1953, was one of the first written in English that attempted to provide a sympathetic analysis of the new movement of Existentialism. In the attempt to bring out what is of permanent value in what was at the time a study yet to gain academic recognition, it is a valuable work that presents a clear-eyed analysis from the ground up. ...

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  • DISCIPLINE WITH DIGNITY
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    DISCIPLINE WITH DIGNITY
    RICHARD L. CURWIN / ALLEN N. MENDLER / BRIAN D. MENDLER
    In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective. Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and self-control, the authors offer specific strategies and techniques for building strong relationships with...

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  • ESSENTIALS OF LASERS
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    ESSENTIALS OF LASERS
    L. ALLEN
    Essentials of Lasers outlines the essential principles upon which laser action depends. This book is organized into two parts encompassing 18 chapters that specifically discuss the basic theory of lasers and resonator theory. The first part deals with the principles and application of several types of lasers, including crystalline solid, gas, and semiconductor lasers. The sec...

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  • ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCE PROCESSES
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    ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCE PROCESSES
    ROBERT W. ALLEN / LYMAN W. PORTER / H.L. ANGLE
    With more than two-thirds fresh material, this new updated edition of Organizational Influence Processes provides an overview of the most important scholarly work on topics related to the exercise of influence by individuals and groups within organizations. In selecting articles for inclusion the editors were guided by the conviction that the most useful and interesting way to ...

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  • ERNAN MCMULLIN AND CRITICAL REALISM IN THE SCIENCE-THEOLOGY DIALOGUE
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    ERNAN MCMULLIN AND CRITICAL REALISM IN THE SCIENCE-THEOLOGY DIALOGUE
    PAUL L. ALLEN
    Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne and Arthur Peacocke, remains widely credible. Relying on the lifetime wor...

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  • OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM
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    OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM
    L. ALLEN / STEPHEN M. BARNETT / MILES J. PADGETT
    Spin angular momentum of photons and the associated polarization of light has been known for many years. However, it is only over the last decade or so that physically realizable laboratory light beams have been used to study the orbital angular momentum of light. In many respects, orbital and spin angular momentum behave in a similar manner, but t ...

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  • BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS
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    BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS
    ROBERT L ALLEN
    The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters created a sea of change in labour and race relations in the US. For the first time in US history, a black labour union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and archival research, this new book tells the story of the union and its charismatic leader C.L. Dellums, starting from the BSCP's origi...

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  • METROPOLITANIZATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES
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    METROPOLITANIZATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES
    CHARLES M. HAAR / JOHN G. WOFFORD / DAVID L. KIRP / DAVID K. COHEN / LEONARD J. DUHL / ALLEN V. HAEFELE
    Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within a metropolitan area by looking at political reform as well as presenting ideas o...

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  • VOICE REHABILITATION: TESTING HYPOTHESES AND REFRAMING THERAPY (BOOK)
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    VOICE REHABILITATION: TESTING HYPOTHESES AND REFRAMING THERAPY (BOOK)
    CELIA F STEWART / IRENE F KLING / ELIZABETH L ALLEN
    Voice Rehabilitation: Testing Hypotheses and Reframing Therapy offers a patient-centered, hypothesis-driven framework for clinicians beginning to practice voice rehabilitation as well as practicing clinicians who continue to develop their skills. This valuable resource integrates motor learning theory with the physiological underpinnings of voice production to make the rehabili...

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  • CONCEPTS OF QUANTUM OPTICS
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    CONCEPTS OF QUANTUM OPTICS
    P. L. KNIGHT / L. ALLEN
    Concepts of Quantum Optics is a coherent and sequential coverage of some real insight into quantum physics. This book is divided into six chapters, and begins with an overview of the principles and concepts of radiation and quanta, with an emphasis on the significance of the Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The next chapter describes first the properties of the radia...

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  • SELF VERSUS OTHERS
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    SELF VERSUS OTHERS
    JULIE L. ANDSAGER / H. ALLEN WHITE
    Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages—such as persuaded to engage in risky behaviors or encouraged to be violent—but they beli...

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  • SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES, THEIR CHARACTER AND PHYSICAL BASIS VOLUME 1
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    SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES, THEIR CHARACTER AND PHYSICAL BASIS VOLUME 1
    JOHN R. L., ALLEN
    Sedimentary structures, their character and physical basis Volume 1 ...

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  • NMR FOR LIQUID FOSSIL FUELS
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    NMR FOR LIQUID FOSSIL FUELS
    PETRAKIS, L. / ALLEN, D.
    High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of liquid fuels has provided valuable information on the molecular structures present in these fuels. The chemical insight gained through NMR studies has the potential to enhance significantly the development of processes for the utilization of fossil energy. For this potential to be fully realized, users of NMR information mus...

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  • ADVENTURES IN THE ARCHAIC
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    ADVENTURES IN THE ARCHAIC
    RYAN L. ALLEN
    Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975. We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic idealization of origins, often aimed at parts of the world that are viewed as closer to that idealized past than modern post-industrial society. Primitivist impulses still exist in popular cu...

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  • EVERY BOY SHOULD HAVE A MAN
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    EVERY BOY SHOULD HAVE A MAN
    PRESTON L. ALLEN
    "James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley" in this "highly original" speculative fable ( Chicago Tribune).   Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction   In a post-human world, creatures called oafs keep humanlike "mans" as beloved pets. One day, a poor boy oaf brings home a man, whom he hides under his bed in the hopes his parents won't find out . . .   "Much like Pierr...

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  • JESUS BOY
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    JESUS BOY
    PRESTON L. ALLEN
    "A consummate tragicomedy of African American family secrets and sorrows, and of faith under duress . . . a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace." — Booklist Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is a member of the austere community of Christian believers at the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who learns too late...

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  • ALL OR NOTHING
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    ALL OR NOTHING
    PRESTON L. ALLEN
    A "funny, relentless, haunting, and highly readable" novel about one man's desperate gambling addiction ( ForeWord Magazine).   P is a school bus driver in Florida, and six month ago he won a hundred grand at the casino. What his wife and family don't realize is that the money is long gone. To keep them fooled—and feed his ongoing compulsion—he indulges in bigger and bigger bet...

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