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  • Sal and Amanda Take Morgan's Victory March to the Battle of Cowpens

    Illustrated by Tony Waters ...
    "You must tell my "real" story " That's the challenge General Daniel Morgan, hero of the American Revolution, gives Ben when he meets the general's spirit in an abandoned house near the Pee Dee River. Ben is frightened. "How did this happen?" "I was just trying to help my cousins and my friend Jennifer get ready for the Morgan Victory March to celebrate the Battle of Cowpens. We were all going to ... Read more

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  • Process Gas Chromatographs

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    by Tony Waters ...
    A guide to the fundamentals of applied gas chromatography and the process gas chromatograph, with practical procedures for design and troubleshootingThis comprehensive resource provides the theory that underpins a full understanding of the fundamental techniques of gas chromatography and the process analyzer. Without relying on complex mathematics, the book addresses hands-on applications of gas ... Read more

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  • Process Gas Chromatography

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    by Tony Waters ...
    Understand a key tool for optimizing an industrial processProcess gas chromatography is a method used to separate and analyze chemical compounds in an industrial process. First established in the middle of the twentieth century, it aims to return analytical results rapidly enough that they can be used to optimized a fluid processing plant. It is a complex process which demands meticulous training ... Read more

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  • General Ne Win’s Legacy of Burmanization in Myanmar

    The Challenge to Peace in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on how Burmanization created and reinforced ethnic divides since the 1962 coup d’etat. when General Ne Win concentrated all authority in the Burmese speaking army. Background research for the book includes Burmese language materials from the Burmese Socialist Party (BSP) and others that describe with what the BSP believed in their own terms. This is unique from previous works on ... Read more

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  • Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline

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    Max Weber believed that discipline underpins modern rationalized society. For Weber, modern discipline is the quality that gives a population the capacity to coordinate action across vast expanses. But modern discipline also requires individuals to shape their very psychobiological being to fit the larger socioeconomic system, be it a military unit, factory, bureaucracy, or other unit of modern ... Read more

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  • Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

    A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? ... Read more

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  • Bureaucratizing The Good Samaritan

    The Limitations Of Humanitarian Relief Operations

    by Tony Waters ...
    Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the ?international refugee relief regime.? Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for ?victims? ... Read more

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  • The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture

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    The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given ... Read more

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    No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the ... Read more

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