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简介：Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political, and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s-1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu, and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.

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简介：Presenting both the histories and the prevalent worldviews of the major world religions, Matthews' WORLD RELIGIONS methodically introduces students to the richness and diversity of these traditions. The "Worldview" sections in particular make this textbook the most helpful textbook when it comes to comparative analyses of the religions. In these sections students can see how the different religions understand a common set of ten themes that are fundamental to all traditions, including the nature of the Absolute, the place of humans in the world, rituals and symbols, and the prospects for life after death. Furthermore, this text combines insightful, engaging prose with maps, photographs, timelines, excerpts from sacred texts, and other helpful pedagogical aids, to employ a scholarly approach that neither shields students from current research nor encumbers them with it. Students are encouraged, individually and collectively, to pursue their own dialogues with the voices and nuances of these religions.

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简介：Depend on Software and Internet Law for complete coverage of all aspects of computer law including hardware, software, The internet, and e-commerce. Fully updated for its Second Edition, this efficient and effective casebook offers a distinctive focus on intellectual property, licensing, and antitrust law. the authors capture and hold students attention through: a combination of original text, significant cases, challenging problems, and exemplary questions insights based on their cumulative scholarship and classroom experience broad coverage, ranging from commercial issues to constitutional topics, such as free speech careful consideration of economic issues in computer law, particularly those derived from network effects a review of technical terms For The novice the Second Edition presents a wide range of new materials, reflecting the dynamism of the subject: comprehensive coverage of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and theUniform Dispute Resolution Policy domain name proceedings expanded and update discussions of online privacy, digital music copyright issues, and internet jurisdiction an all-new section on the internet trepass cases updated treatment of software patents and shrinkwrap, clickwrap, and browsewrap licenses coverage of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-Sign) And The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) new cases including A&M Records v. Napster, United States v. Microsoft, Softman v. Adobe, Shields v. Zuccarini, Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, and Bartnicki v. Vopper

Carol Shields, narrative hunger, and the possibilities of fiction /

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Incentives for Joint Forest Management in India : analytical methods and case studies /

作者：  I. Hill, D. Shields.

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简介：The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns. Why do candidates use such divisive appeals? Who in the electorate is persuaded by these controversial issues? And what are the consequences for American democracy? In this provocative and engaging analysis of presidential campaigns, Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields identify the types of citizens responsive to campaign information, the reasons they are responsive, and the tactics candidates use to sway these pivotal voters. The Persuadable Voter shows how emerging information technologies have changed the way candidates communicate, who they target, and what issues they talk about. As Hillygus and Shields explore the complex relationships between candidates, voters, and technology, they reveal potentially troubling results for political equality and democratic governance. The Persuadable Voter examines recent and historical campaigns using a wealth of data from national surveys, experimental research, campaign advertising, archival work, and interviews with campaign practitioners. With its rigorous multimethod approach and broad theoretical perspective, the book offers a timely and thorough understanding of voter decision making, candidate strategy, and the dynamics of presidential campaigns. - Dust jacket.

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出版社：HarperCollins 2010年08月

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He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court -- but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him. Now, in his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by such conflicts. Agassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven-year-old in Las Vegas, practicing all day under the obsessive gaze of his violent father. We see him at thirteen, banished to a Florida tennis camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning fast return. And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world's best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target. Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match, and every public relationship. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals, Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He reveals the depression that shatters his confidence, and the mistake that nearly costs him everything. Finally, he recounts his spectacular resurrection and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one. In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, his gentle trainer, all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, Open will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi's game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed and power.

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简介：　　America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame-their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy's brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito's capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before-from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command-the invasion's success is suddenly in doubt. As America's streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all. Praise for Robert Conroy's 1901 "Likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs . . . The writing . . . keeps us turning the pages."-Booklist "Fascinating . . . skillfully crafted."-Oakland Press "Packed with action."-Detroit News　　

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简介：The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiographyabout my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battleagainst the infirmities of time. The author offers a meditation on mortality as he chronicles his own life and that of his family from cradle to grave, integrating biological details with cultural history and criticism to furnish a portrait of human existence as revealed through a single family.

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简介：　　?Don?t be surprised, Pussycat, ? said Helen Gurley Brown, still flirtatious at eighty-four, ?We?re all survivors and proud of it. We want to talk about it.? And they do. Eighty of America's most famous eighty year-olds reflect on their journeys to the big 8-0 and describe the passions that keep them young. They all have opinions about today's world what is good about being eighty and what keeps them vital. The members of this generation have spent eighty-plus years honing the art of living and they have secrets to share. Their personal stories are truly inspirational. ?My answer to growing old at any age, whether you?re growing to be twenty, or forty, or sixty or eighty, is to fall in love and stay in love.? --Ray Bradbury, 86, author ?It's interesting to me--my career has taken off now that I?m ninety-five. It's totally taken off. I had to wait ?til I was ninety-five to be this popular.? --Kitty Carlisle Hart, 95, singer ?I say quite sincerely that this is the best time of my life.? --Hugh Hefner, 80, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy Contributors to the book include: Mike Wallace, Helen Thomas, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Lena Horne, Kitty Carlyle Hart, Ray Bradbury, Art Buchwald, Norman Lear, Robert Byrd, George McGovern, and Jack Valenti. Advanced Praise for 80: ?Everyone from 9-90 needs this book, because save for the two or three mad people in the world, everyone wants to live and never die. The selected people in ?80? have with, charm and ensusiance revealed how they have survived, with passion, compassion, humor and style. I hope Gardner and Bellows will do another one on 90 - I am in for the long run.?--Maya Angelou ?80 is the new young These inspiring stories of vibrant, active octogenarians are the best kind of tonic for warding off worries about old age.?--Tom Brokaw ?Once, almost nobody was eighty. Now many of us are and more of us are going to be soon. So Gerald Gardner and Jim Bellows give us a wonderful book about being eighty and more.?--Jimmy Breslin ?A joy to read and a guaranteed attitude adjustment. These people are hope And Gerald Gardner and Jim Bellows know how to edit down their famous lives to the fearless truths.?--Gail Sheehy, author of Passages and Sex and the Seasoned Woman ?Jim Bellows? and Gerald Gardner's 80 made me laugh, 80 made me think, and 80 actually made me look forward to reaching and to enjoying that Grand Age?--Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and PBS commentator ?80 is the most heartening book on old age I've read since De Senectute (Cicero, you callow sub-octogenarians, Cicero). The 80 old folks in 80 make 80 sound so fascinating, I feel short-changed by being forced to wait until 2010 to be among their number.?--Tom Wolfe "I love this book.??What?? a pleasure: great interviews, lovely wise people."--??nnie Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Shields (Deloitte & Touche) describes an approach designed to foster a rapid implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and packaged e-business applications. The text explains how to select application systems, design business processes, and implement them quickly. Coverage includes project management, supporting the IT aspects of these projects, dealing with people issues, prerequisites for a rapid-implementation project, and industry trends. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Proven strategies for companies seeking to accelerate an ERP implementationAlmost all large and midsize corporations worldwide will be involved in implementing enterprise resource planning and/or e-business applications over the next two to three years. This is the only book that discusses how to implement a rapid ERP system and shows how e-business is impacted by the implementation of an ERP system. This book also provides valuable tried and true methods of keeping the project under or within budget. A quality ERP transaction foundation is a prerequisite for taking advantage of many of the new e-business opportunities that executives have placed high on their list of priorities. This valuable guide examines the strengths and weaknesses of ERP and shows when rapid implementation is not appropriate. The book also provides outsourcing alternatives and the use of application service alternatives, and shows how e-business is impacted by the implementation of an ERP system.Murrell G. Shields(McLean, VA) is the Director of Management Solutions and Services and National Leader of Technology and Infrastructure Services at Deloitte & Touche.  

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简介：　　The bestselling "offbeat, down-to- earth love story"("The Observer," London)- now available in the United States An international sensation, this addictively readable tale asks the question: Why is it so impossible to get a relationship between two middle-aged misfits to work? The answer lies in the story of Shrimp, a young widowed librarian with a sharp intellect and a home so tidy that her jam jars are in alphabetical order; Benny, a gentle, overworked milk farmer who fears becoming the village's Old Bachelor; and an unlikely love that should not be as complicated as it seems. Reminiscent of the works of Carol Shields, this quirky, humorous, beautifully told novel breathes new life into the age-old conundrum that is love.　　

Arms and Armor CD-ROM and Book武器与装甲

作者：  Dover 著

出版社： 2004-5-1

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This extensive archive featuring offensive and defensive weapons of battle includes a vast array of armor and other ancient, protective devices. Artists, illustrators, and craftworkers can draw on the collection for detailed depictions of chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, and a host of other implements of battle. The set contains:
One CD-ROM containing 366 high-quality, permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF)
A large-format 64-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly and numbered for easy reference
Suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these drawings reproduce extremely well and will fill a host of needs for battle-related art.
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简介：In this extensively revised and expanded introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics and the arts. The second edition includes five new sections on key issues such as Luck, Perception, and Mimesis; as well an expanded treatment of Aristotle's historical legacy. Beginning with a brief biography, Christopher Shields carefully explains the fundamental elements of Aristotle's thought: his explanatory framework, his philosophical methodology and his four-causal explanatory scheme. Subsequently he discusses Aristotle's metaphysics and the theory of categories and logical theory and his conception of the human being and soul and body. In the last part, Shield's concentrates on Aristotle's value theory as applied to ethics and politics, and assesses his approach to happiness, virtues and the best life for human beings. He concludes with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today.

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简介：Donskoi, M. A. Shashkina (both: Institute of Aviation Materials, Moscow) and G. E. Zaikov (biochemical physics, Russian Academy of Sciences) take advantage of the relatively freer publishing climate in post-Soviet Russia to present data on the development of polymeric materials with reduced combustibility that can be used for heat shields in aviation. They focus on chlorinated polyolefins as organic polymers. The study might interest graduate students, engineers, and scientists working in material science and engineering, especially those dealing with new polymeric materials for aircraft, ships, or automobiles. Distributed in the US by Brill. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Forrest Gump is not a "smart" man. But the young Alabamanwith an IQ of 75 is a thoroughly decent man, who manages to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them all with only honesty and niceness as his shields. Thanks to his where-there's-a-will-there's-a-way Mama, Forrest believes in himself. This sees him through being taunted by bullies, playing college football, the army, a business, and -- amazingly -- many of the touchstone events of the Sixties and Seventies: civil rights battles, the Vietnam War, anti-warprotests, opening relations with China. The story's extraordinary conceit is that this man, equal parts Candide and Winnie-the-Pooh, was there whenever something big happened to America in those years, meeting Presidentsand pop stars, influencing thinkers and trends, his story being our story as a nation.

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简介：For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one paperback volume.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fictionaddresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre.The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism. While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology.Containing several essays on Swannand The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.  

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简介：The cost of capital concept is widely used in business decision-making. The current theory and estimates for measurement of cost of capital are derived from the seminal Modigliani-Miller analyses. This book generalizes this framework to include non-debt tax shields (e.g., depreciation) and default considerations. It develops several new results and shows how better cost of capital and marginal tax rate estimates can be generated. The unified cost of capital theory presented in the book is illustrated graphically and with comprehensive numerical examples. This book will be of great interest to practicing managers, academics, governmental agencies and private companies that generate cost of capital estimates for public consumption.

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简介：From the Publisher: In 1991, President George H. W. Bush called Ambassador Joseph Wilson a "True American Hero." In 2003, senior officials in President George W. Bush's White House tried to intimidate critics and punish Wilson for what he knew (and finally made public) about the administration's lies before the invasion of Iraq. The disclosure of the undercover identity of Wilson's wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, was an unprecedented and potentially criminal act. The Politics of Truth tells therevealing story of this courageous American diplomat and his pivotal career in foreign policy, from telling Saddam Hussein to leave Kuwait to confronting the White House leaks that have breached national security. With fearlessinsight and disarming candor, Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more than two decades in the U. S. Foreign Service under presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton-from Angola to Iraq to Bosnia to Niger-here isan unprecedented look at the career of an American diplomat as well as an unvarnished account of our nation'sforeign policy. Whether fostering peaceful democratization in African nations or facing down Saddam Hussein just days before the first Gulf War or accompanying Bill Clinton on his historic 1998 African tour, Wilson vividly chronicles history in the making. And on page after compellingly narrated page, he demonstrates the courage of his convictions in the face ofvolatile situations, violent conflicts, and vindictive governments. As the acting ambassador to Iraq, Wilson wasthe last American official to meet with Saddam before Desert Storm in 1990. He successfully parried the dictator箂 threats to use American hostages as human shields against U.S. bombing and was given a patriot's welcome by President George H. W. Bush on his homecoming. Yet today he finds himself in a battle with his own government. Why? Because he called a lie a lie. When President George W. Bush claimed in the now notorious sixteen words in his 2003 State of the Union address that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," Wilson could not stand by silently. For at the request of the CIA he himself had traveled to Niger the previous year and found no evidence to support the rumor of a uranium deal. In a New York Times op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," he told the nation about that trip and his findings. The White House retaliated viciously. Seeking revenge against Wilson and trying to intimidate intelligence professionals who had begun telling reporters of prewar pressure to skew their analyses of the threat posed by Iraq, senior administration officials did the unthinkable: They disclosed the undercover status of Wilson's wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, to members of the press. Columnist Robert Novak then published the leak, blew Plame's cover, and abetted the administration's possible violation of federal law. But Wilson still wouldn't back down. He withstood the personal attacks and called on theWhite House to acknowledge the truth about the sixteen words. In televised interviews and newspaper commentarieshe argued that the administration had fabricated much morethan the uranium claim, indeed had manipulated intelligence to bolster its case for invading Iraq. Now he continues his fight in this groundbreaking book as he reveals the dangers to the nation bred by officials in a war-hungry White House (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, PaulWolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, and George W. Bush himself) in an alarming attempt to impose their will. Yet Wilson maintains faith in his fellow citizens and the American ideals he represented fortwo decades abroad. With inspiring fervor he urges all Americans to become involved in the vigorous process of democracy, for ultimately, he argues, the strength of the nation lies in the will of its people.