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Short History: Thumbnail Sketches of 50 Little Giants
Celebrating short people and offering proof that height has no bearing on success, this volume features lighthearted biographical profiles and caricatures of 50 towering personas. A Short History cheers on short people and gives proof that height has no bearing on success. Featuring fifty lighthearted biographical profiles and caricatures showing their towering personas, this is the perfect gift for anyone who is short of stature. Importance is often equated with height in our society. Author Joan Slomanson aims to do away with such misguided thinking and pays homage to those who have achieved greatness in spite of, or perhaps because of, their shortness. Fifty celebrities and personalities from all walks of life-business and industry, philanthropy, politics, sports, and the arts-are featured in this entertaining celebration of the short among us. Clever biographical profiles highlight the achievements and careers, as well as the heights, of such notables as Ludwig van Beethoven, Queen Victoria, Tyrone (Muggsy) Bogues, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mother Teresa, Truman Capote, Auguste Rodin, Danny DeVito, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Playful and attractive black-and-white caricatures further illustrate these people and their mighty endeavors. If you are short of stature or if you know someone who is, you can't afford to pass up this homage to the accomplishments of the "vertically challenged"!
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Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, living arrangements of the elderly, the development of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics. "[Costa's] major contribution is to show that, even without Social Security and Medicare, retirement would have expanded dramatically."--Robert J. Samuelson, New Republic "An important book on a topic which has become popular with historians and is of major significance to politicians and economists."--Margaret Walsh, Business History
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Environmental Contaminant Reference Databook, Volume 1 (Volume 1)
Covering environmental effects of regulated chemicals, this text identifies regulated chemicals and chemicals of special interest to environmental and safety professionals due to widespread contamination or considerable hazard. A reference compendium of physical, chemical and biological dangers of environmental chemicals and selected simple and complex mixtures. Listings include CAS numbers; sampling analysis and detection limits; environmental transport, fate and effects; structural formula; molecular formula; common uses; manufacturers; odour thresholds; regulatory jurisdictions and authorities; standards; reactions; monitoring methods; international data; synonym index.
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Environmental Contaminant Reference Databook, Volume 2 (Volume 2)
This volume concentrates on regulated chemicals and chemicals of special interest due to widespread contamination or considerable hazard, ranging from a high probability of widespread, low environmental impact to low probability of local high environmental impact. It is a reference of physical, chemical and biological dangers of mixtures. Listings include: CAS number; SAX number - sampling, analysis and detection limits; environmental transport, fate and effects; structural formula drawing; molecular formula; common uses; manufacturers; odour thresholds; regulatory jurisdictions and authorities; standards; reactions; monitoring methods; international data; and synonym index.
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Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 1881-1896
Based on original sources, this study charts the development of modern Irish socialism from the influence of William Thompson, Marx and the First International, challenging the myth that socialism emerged with James Connolly and the struggle for independence. The author explores the land war, the challenging position of Irish socialists in relation to Irish independence and the impact of British socialism on Ireland.
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Wendigo
Young readers will learn about these monsters that are part of the folklore of the Algonquin people. The wendigo was historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behavior.
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Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends (2 Vols.)
We live in a time unparalleled in human history: a time of fundamental cultural, political, social, and economic change marked by an exponential growth in human powers to electronically collect, process, store, retrieve and disseminate information and create new knowledge. The Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends focuses on the latest explosion of Internet-based collaboration tools and platforms reaching end-users; it explores their origins, structures, purposes, and functions; and it muses over how SIT can expand human abilities and powers. This broad spectrum of applications and services includes: online social networking, blogs, wikis, podcasts, web feeds, folksonomies, social bookmaking, photo and video sharing, discussion forums, virtual worlds, and mashups intended to advance interaction, collaboration, and sharing online.
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Energy Mix
Highlighting the opportunities available in the area of biofuels, energy mixing, and resource management, this series uses consistent pro/con features to illustrate the need for thoughtful policy-making and responsible management.
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Opposition Years: Winston S. Churchill and the Conservative Party, 1945-1951
The Opposition Years offers a unique analysis of Winston Churchill's leadership of the Conservative Party, from the Tory's crushing defeat in the 1945 General Election to its triumphant return to government office in 1951. This study focuses on the crucial significance of Churchill's leadership style that enabled the Tories to restructure the party's organization and rethink conservative approaches to the welfare state.
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Harold Pinter: Towards a Poetics of His Plays
Pinter's dramatic figures are curiously perspectival creatures who exist on several levels at once, and who by virtue of the deliberate distortion that went into their creation show close affinities with Mannerism. Harold Pinter: Towards a Poetics of His Plays examines Pinter's stage plays from The Room to One for the Road, as well as several plays for radio and television, by focusing on their Mannerist traits; it presents its conclusions within the larger context of an inquiry into the principles and rules that can be said to inform Pinter's «open» drama.
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Solar Power
The Obama administration has given high priority to development of alternative energy sources. Many energy experts say that the suns vast potential has barely begun to be tapped, and that solar power is the energy of the future. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full-color illustrations, this title examines, Is Solar Power a Viable Energy Source? Could Solar Power Replace Fossil Fuels? Could Solar Power Help Stop Global Warming? What Is the Future of Solar Power?
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