FW: Oath of Swords

 

 

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Bahzell Bahnakson, one of the hradani, who are despised for their rages, thirst for blood, and generally uncivilized behavior, runs afoul of the War God and ends up in trouble involving sorcery, demons, and a great deal more. Read more...

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FW: Crusade

 

 

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In the period of peace following the Human-Orion War, a ship from a half-forgotten history emerges from a warp point notorious for devouring ships and opens fire on the Orions. Read more...

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FW: Changer of Worlds

 

 

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Lady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest . . . and also a national bestseller (Ashes of Victory: #7, The Wall Street Journal). But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her—a lesson "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" learns years before rising to command rank when a desperate battle against "pirates" who aren't quite what they seem begins her brilliant career. Closer to home, in "Changer of Worlds," a secret that the alien treecats have kept from their human friends for hundreds of years is about to come out . . . and completely change the relationship between the two species forever. Read more...

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FW: Global Environmental Change and Human Security

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:41 PM
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security By Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald, Karen L. O'Brien, Geoffrey D. Dabelko * Publisher: The MIT Press * Number Of Pages: 328 * Publication Date: 2009-12-31 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0262513080 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780262513081 Product Description: In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vulnerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the complex social, health, and economic consequences of environmental change across the globe. In chapters that are both academically rigorous and policy relevant, the book discusses the connections of global environmental change to urban poverty, natural disasters (with a case study of Hurricane Katrina), violent conflict (with a study of the decade-long Nepalese civil war), population, gender, and development. The book makes clear the inadequacy of traditional understandings of security and shows how global environmental change is raising new, unavoidable questions of human insecurity, conflict, cooperation, and sustainable development. Contributors: W. Neil Read more...

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FW: Annual Plant Reviews, Root Development (Volume 37)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:41 PM
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Annual Plant Reviews, Root Development (Volume 37) By Tom Beeckman * Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell * Number Of Pages: 384 * Publication Date: 2009-12-14 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405161507 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405161503 Product Description Root Development is an extremely exciting new title in Blackwell Publishing?s Annual Plant Reviews Series (Series Editor Profesor Jeremy Roberts). The book consists of contributions from author groups based at many of the World?s formeost laboratories working in the root development area. The book?s editor Tom Beeckman, himself very well known and respected for his work in this area, has drawn together an exceptional set of core cutting edge reviews of the subject, providing a state of the art reference tool for all those researching in this area. From the Back Cover The development of a plant?s roots is of fundamental importance to the success of a plant, its growth and level of yield, particularly important in commercially exploited crop plants. A full understanding of this most important subject is core to the work of most plant and crop scientists. Root Development is an extremely exciting new title in Blackwell Publishing?s Annual Plant Reviews Series(Series Editor Profesor Jeremy Roberts). The book consists of contributions from author groups based at many of the World?s formeost laboratories working in the root development area. The book?s editor Tom Beeckman, himself very well known and Read more...

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FW: Earthweb

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:41 PM
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Twenty years ago, "Shiva I" swept aside Earth's defenses and rained down destruction until a suicide squad boarded it and blew it to smithereens. Now "Shiva V" has entered the Solar System and there's only one way to defeat it: get inside and kill it. "An intriguing look at what the world wide web may become".--Vernor Vinge. Read more...

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FW: Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths

 

 

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Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths By Steven M. Gorelick * Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell * Number Of Pages: 256 * Publication Date: 2009-12-09 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405195487 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405195485 Product Description: Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then challenged. Facts about oil supply, production, and consumption are made accessible using concise and simple graphics. Concepts of resource depletion, end-use needs, technology leap-frogging, efficiency, and substitution are used to evaluate historical patterns of exploitation of non-renewable resources and to explore what history suggests about our future dependence on oil. This book is aimed at a broad range of readers,from undergraduate students studying resource science and economics to anyone interested in understanding the context of the controversy over global oil depletion. Read more...

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FW: ABC of Rheumatology, Fourth Edition

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:41 PM
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ABC of Rheumatology (ABC Series) By Ade Adebajo * Publisher: BMJ Books * Number Of Pages: 192 * Publication Date: 2009-11-16 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405170689 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405170680 Product Description: Musculoskeletal diseases are the most widespread chronic illness in the UK and one of the top 3 reasons why the over 45s visit their GP. The ABC of Rheumatology is a practical, introductory guide to the diagnosis, management and treatment of rheumatology and rheumatic diseases for the non-specialist. Providing detailed overviews of all major areas of rheumatology this fully revised fourth edition includes updated information on new treatments, therapies, evidence and guidelines. An informative and practical source of knowledge, with highly illustrated chapters including boxed summaries, links to further information, reading and resources, this well established ABC title is an accessible reference for all primary care health professionals, GPs, junior doctors, medical students and nurses. Read more...

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FW: Complications in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Avoidance and Treatment,Second Edition

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:41 PM
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Complications in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Avoidance and Treatment By Alex G. Little MD, Walter H. Merrill MD * Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell * Number Of Pages: 496 * Publication Date: 2009-11-16 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405181036 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405181037 Product Description: Drs. Little and Merrill draw on their expertise in general thoracic and cardiac surgery to review tracheobronchial operations, lung volume reduction operations, lung transplantation, minimally invasive esophagectomy, pleural operations, revascularizations, myocardial operations, and aortic and great vessel operations. For each operation, leading practitioners provide specific advice on what to be aware of to prevent complications -- and how to manage them if they do occur. Read more...

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FW: Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn

 

 

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Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn By R. Larry Todd * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 456 * Publication Date: 2009-11-25 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195180801 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195180800 Product Description: Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer. Read more...

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FW: Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction

 

 

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Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) By Walter Nugent * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 160 * Publication Date: 2009-12-16 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 019531106X * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195311068 Product Description: After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child l Read more...

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FW: Sugata Saurabha An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya

 

 

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Sugata Saurabha An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya By Todd T. Lewis, Subarna Man Tuladhar * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 416 * Publication Date: 2009-12-21 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195341821 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195341829 Product Description: The Sugata Saurabha is an epic poem that retells the story of the Buddha's life. It was published in 1947 in the Nepalese language, Newari, by Chittadhar Hridaya, one of the greatest literary figures of 20th-century Nepal. The text is remarkable for its comprehensiveness, artistry, and nuance. It covers the Buddha's life from birth to death and conveys his basic teachings with simple clarity. It is also of interest because, where the classical sources are silent, Hridaya inserts details of personal life and cultural context that are Nepalese. The effect is to humanize the founder and add the texture of real life. A third point of interest is the modernist perspective that underlies the author's manner of retelling this great spiritual narrative. This rendering, in a long line of accounts of the Buddha's life dating back almost 2,000 years, may be the last ever to be produced that conforms to the traditions of Indic classic poetry. It will not only appeal to scholars of Buddhism but will find use in courses that introduce students to the life of the Buddha. Read more...

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FW: Liberalism and Prostitution

 

 

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Liberalism and Prostitution (Oxford Political Philosophy) By Peter de Marneffe * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 208 * Publication Date: 2009-12-08 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195383249 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195383249 Product Description: Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "victimless crime," and argue that it ought to be legalized. Feminist critics counter that prostitution is not victimless, since it harms the people who do it. Civil libertarians respond that most women freely choose to do this work, and that it is paternalistic for the government to limit a person's liberty for her own good. In this book Peter de Marneffe argues that although most prostitution is voluntary, paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are nonetheless morally justifiable. If prostitution is commonly harmful in the way that feminist critics maintain, then this argument for prostitution laws is not objectionably moralistic and some prostitution laws violate no one's rights. Paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are therefore consistent with the fundamental principles of contemporary liberalism. Read more...

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FW: The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship

 

 

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The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship By Jeffrey Edward Green * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 296 * Publication Date: 2009-12-31 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195372646 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195372649 Product Description: For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green makes the case for considering the People as an ocular entity rather than a vocal one. Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand democracy in terms of what the People gets to see instead of the traditional focus on what it gets to say. The Eyes of the People examines democracy from the perspective of everyday citizens in their everyday lives. While it is customary to understand the citizen as a decision-maker, in fact most citizens rarely engage in decision-making and do not even have clear views on most political issues. The ordinary citizen is not a decision-maker but a spectator who watches and listens to the select few empowered to decide. Grounded on this everyday phenomenon of spectatorship, The Eyes of the People constructs a democratic theory applicable to the way democracy is actually experienced by most people most of the time. In approaching democracy from the perspective of the People's eyes, Green rediscovers and rehabilitates a forgotten "plebiscitarian" alternative within the history Read more...

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FW: Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965

 

 

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Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965 By John P. Herron * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 288 * Publication Date: 2009-11-25 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195383540 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195383546 Product Description: From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good. As such, many natural scientists throughout American history have understood their work as a cultural activity contributing to social stability and their field as a powerful tool for enhancing the quality of American life. In the late Victorian era, interwar period, and post-war decades, massive social change, economic collapse and recovery, and the aftermath of war prompted natural scientists to offer up a civic-minded natural science concerned with the political well-being of American society. In Science and the Social Good, John P. Herron explores the evolving internal and external forces influencing the design and purpose of American natural science, by focusing on three representative scientists-geologist Clarence King, forester Robert Marshall, and biologist Rachel Carson-who purposefully considered the social outcomes of their work. As comfortable in the royal courts of Europe as the remote field camps of the American West, Clarence King was the founding director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and used hi Read more...

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FW: The Hub: Dangerous Territory

 

 

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The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of interstellar governments holding them all together. Stable at last after centuries of war, the Hub is now prime real estate ... making it a merciless arena for the conflicting schemes of criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond the edges of Federation space. But the Hub is well-defended, and not only by professional heroes such as Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee. In Hub Space a citizen is expected to stand up for herself, blaster in hand, as needs must; so when Trouble comes Hubward in large doses, there are an awful lot of armed citizens waiting for it.... Read more...

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FW: Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward

 

 

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Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward By Mark Freeman * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 264 * Publication Date: 2009-12-31 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 019538993X * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195389937 Product Description: Although the idea of hindsight is frequently associated with the biases, distortions, and outright lies of memory--as in the infamous "20-20" scenario or the conviction that one "knew it all along"--Mark Freeman maintains that this process of looking backward over the terrain of the past can also serve as a profound source of insight, understanding, and self-knowledge. Consider Tolstoy's harrowing tale of Ivan Ilych, revisiting his past on the eve of his death, only to realize that the life he had been living was a lie. Consider as well the many times in our own lives when, upon reviewing the past, we are able to see what we could not, or would not, see earlier on. Hindsight is also intimately connected to what Freeman calls narrative reflection: Through the distance conferred by time, we can look back on past experiences and see them anew, as episodes in an evolving story. As important as "being in the now" and "living in the moment" are, it is no less important to pause at times and, by looking backward, seek to discern those aspects of experience that might otherwise escape our notice. Far from necessarily leading to deception and lies, therefore, hindsight can lead to wisdom and Read more...

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FW: Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy

 

 

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Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy By Gregory A. Staley * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA * Number Of Pages: 200 * Publication Date: 2009-12-14 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195387430 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195387438 Product Description: As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Plato famously banned tragedians from his ideal community because he believed that their representations of vicious behavior could deform minds. Aristotle set out to answer Plato's objections, arguing that fiction offers a faithful image of the truth and that it promotes emotional health through the mechanism of catharsis. Aristotle's definition of tragedy actually had its greatest impact not on Greek tragedy itself but on later Latin literature, beginning with the tragedies of the Roman poet and Stoic philosopher Seneca (4 BC - AD 65). Scholarship over the last fifty years, however, has increasingly sought to identify in Seneca's prose writings a Platonic poetics which is antagonistic toward tragedy and which might therefore explain why Seneca's plays seem so often to present the failure of Stoicism. As Gregory Staley argues in this book, when Senecan tragedy fails to stage virtue we should see in this not the failure of Stoicism but a Stoic conception of tragedy as the right vehicle for imaging Seneca's familiar world of madmen and fools. Senecan tragedy enacts Aristotle Read more...

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