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Mademoiselle Mori : a tale of modern Rome..
NE Sunday evening in October, the English congregation were pouring out of the room which served them as a church, outside the Porta del Popolo. The English season at Rome had just begun. A long file of carriages was waiting, and they successively came up to the door, and drove off, either to various residences, or to the Pincian Hill. The walkers turned into the gardens of Villa Borghese, the …
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Chelsea [London] : Printed by J.B. Shears
It feels since Ive taken the letters I wrote to Cett and Surd and what I wrote to you to be printed that Im reaching nearer a place where I shall be able to make things reach you more by ways that arent through spoken or written words than before, but Im not sure of that, and I cant understand it clearly with my mind, I can understand theyre often only like a trail or scent, perhaps theyre alwa…
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The black heart
THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CHANCES CHERTSEY, as he left the place, did not notice the slim form of the man who came gliding out of the shadows. Such thoughts as he had were still with the feverish and hectic scene from which he had departed. He recalled the mock-commiserative look on the face of the croupier, as the man raked in his last throw: "Monsieur is unlucky to-night. To-morrow . . . …
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Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon
J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his …
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- 9780262276023
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- 1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) :illustrations
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Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269292
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those of their secular rivals. In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question …
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- 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban De…
An overview of the localist movement in the United States, from “buy local” campaigns to urban agriculture, and its potential for addressing global problems of sustainability and justice. The internationalization of economies and other changes that accompany globalization have brought about a paradoxical reemergence of the local. A significant but largely unstudied aspect of new local-gl…
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The View from Above: The Science of Social Space
The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also …
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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise
Holly Fernandez Lynch presents a balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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