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The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

Mark W. Chase; Maarten J. M. Christenhusz; Tom Mirenda

University of Chicago Press
2017
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One in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery--and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an astonishing array of colors, forms, and smells that captivate growers from all walks of life across the globe. Though undeniably elegant, the popular moth orchid--a grocery store standard--is a bland stand-in when compared with its thousands of more complex and fascinating brethren, such as the Demon Queller, which grows in dark forests where its lovely blooms are believed to chase evil forces away. There is the Fetid Sun-God, an orchid that lures female flies to lay their eggs on its flowers by emitting a scent of rancid cheese. Or the rare, delicate Lizard Orchid, which mimics the appearance of lizards but smells distinctly of goat. The Book of Orchids revels in the diversity and oddity of these beguiling plants. Six hundred of the world's most intriguing orchids are displayed, along with life-size photographs that capture botanical detail, as well as information about distribution, peak flowering period, and each species' unique attributes, both natural and cultural. With over 28,000 known species--and more being discovered each year--the orchid family is arguably the largest and most geographically widespread of the flowering plant families. Including the most up-to-date science and accessibly written by botanists Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz, and Tom Mirenda, each entry in The Book of Orchids will entice researchers and orchid enthusiasts alike. With stunning full-color images, The Book of Orchids is sure to become the go-to reference for these complex, alluring, and extraordinarily adaptable plants.
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The Rankin Street Raiders

The Rankin Street Raiders

Mark W MacMillan

Tellwell Talent
2021
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Welcome to the world of the Rankin Street Raiders, or Tom Sawyer times five. Their exploits and misadventures took place in a time when guys driving flashy candy-coloured muscle cars ruled the roads, girls wore frilly polka-dotted party dresses to school, dogs ran free and drug store soda fountains sold root beer floats stacked with ice cream, and yes, there was always a cherry on top.The Raiders practiced their artful piracy in Detroit, Windsor and their home town of Amherstburg, or A'burg. It was where and when CKLW brought a brand-new beat to the airwaves with hit after hit from the Motown song factory. Newly minted Great Lakes Freighters parted the waters like 747s preparing for takeoff. Boblo, an island amusement park, drew merrymakers from around North America. Fort Malden stood strong, still a bastion of the War of 1812. Point Pelee, the southernmost tip of Canada, became a migratory bird sanctuary and the guardian of countless plant species.Embracing this rich environment, the Raiders pulled off escapade after escapade that were created in a combined spirit of friendship and glee.So climb aboard their good ship, unfurl the Rankin Street Raider flag and sail into a past that contains unbridled fun with some lessons for the future."The Rankin Street Raiders is an absolute pleasure to read. The book is a warm, inspiring story, rife with the kind of adventure, mischief, and even melancholy that only a pack of young teenagers could manifest and share with us. The author has chosen to pull the Raiders closer and closer to our hearts with each sentence. By the end, we feel like closing the book is like saying goodbye to friends."-Jessica Kirby, Editor
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The Rankin Street Raiders

The Rankin Street Raiders

Mark W MacMillan

Tellwell Talent
2021
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Welcome to the world of the Rankin Street Raiders, or Tom Sawyer times five. Their exploits and misadventures took place in a time when guys driving flashy candy-coloured muscle cars ruled the roads, girls wore frilly polka-dotted party dresses to school, dogs ran free and drug store soda fountains sold root beer floats stacked with ice cream, and yes, there was always a cherry on top.The Raiders practiced their artful piracy in Detroit, Windsor and their home town of Amherstburg, or A'burg. It was where and when CKLW brought a brand-new beat to the airwaves with hit after hit from the Motown song factory. Newly minted Great Lakes Freighters parted the waters like 747s preparing for takeoff. Boblo, an island amusement park, drew merrymakers from around North America. Fort Malden stood strong, still a bastion of the War of 1812. Point Pelee, the southernmost tip of Canada, became a migratory bird sanctuary and the guardian of countless plant species.Embracing this rich environment, the Raiders pulled off escapade after escapade that were created in a combined spirit of friendship and glee.So climb aboard their good ship, unfurl the Rankin Street Raider flag and sail into a past that contains unbridled fun with some lessons for the future."The Rankin Street Raiders is an absolute pleasure to read. The book is a warm, inspiring story, rife with the kind of adventure, mischief, and even melancholy that only a pack of young teenagers could manifest and share with us. The author has chosen to pull the Raiders closer and closer to our hearts with each sentence. By the end, we feel like closing the book is like saying goodbye to friends."-Jessica Kirby, Editor
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A Light Amongst the Stars

A Light Amongst the Stars

Mark W Burns

Tellwell Talent
2023
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What if humanity has passed an important milestone and the message of doom, proposed by so many for so long, is now wrong? What if humanity is now heading for an amazing and harmonious outcome where war will have no place? And what if we are far more powerful than we think and that we have a part of God within us that has helped us create this future? This is the message of hope coming through the veil from those who have passed over, and from the Divine Spirit who is guiding us into this new future. Around the world mediums such as Amelia and those channelling high vibration Light Beings are getting the same message: there is hope and the light will win over darkness
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A Light Amongst the Stars

A Light Amongst the Stars

Mark W Burns

Tellwell Talent
2023
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What if humanity has passed an important milestone and the message of doom, proposed by so many for so long, is now wrong? What if humanity is now heading for an amazing and harmonious outcome where war will have no place? And what if we are far more powerful than we think and that we have a part of God within us that has helped us create this future? This is the message of hope coming through the veil from those who have passed over, and from the Divine Spirit who is guiding us into this new future. Around the world mediums such as Amelia and those channelling high vibration Light Beings are getting the same message: there is hope and the light will win over darkness
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The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874

The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874

Mark W. McLeod

Praeger Publishers Inc
1991
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This is one of the very few scholarly Western-language studies of the Vietnamese reaction to the French colonial conquest of Vietnam during the nineteenth century. Utilizing Vietnamese primary sources to examine the reaction of scholars and the Vietnamese court to the French conquests, Mark McLeod goes beyond studies that only analyze the conflict from primarily French sources. As he states in the introduction, the dynamic force behind Vietnamese historical development was usually seen to be the activity of colonial enterprises. The Vietnamese people themselves enter these histories only insofar as they hinder or advance colonial policies, to be blamed or praised accordingly. McLeod studies the renaissance of historical writing that followed the political independence of Vietnam and presents the Vietnamese view of the nineteenth century colonization.The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 focuses on a period that has been generally neglected by Vietnam scholars, the crucial early years of the French conquest. It then analyzes the role of Catholic missionaries and the Vietnamese reaction to their presence during the conquest. Providing historical background to the period of French colonization, McLeod explores the significance of the long Nguyen Dynasty as well as the Franco-Spanish invasion prior to French occupation. Students and scholars of Southeast Asian history and colonization, as well as the general reader interested in Vietnamese ideology and thought, will find this book a valuable resource.
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Electric Utility Mergers

Electric Utility Mergers

Mark W. Frankena; Bruce M. Owen

Praeger Publishers Inc
1994
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Competition in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity is of increasing interest to policy makers as well as to buyers and sellers of power. The use of competition as a social policy tool to benefit consumers carries the necessity of preserving competition when it is threatened by mergers or other structural changes. The work explains central principles of antitrust economics and applies them to mergers in the electric power industry. This work focuses on mergers, but the economic principles explained here will be useful in analyzing many important issues flowing from growth of competition in electric power. For example, proper definition of markets and analysis of market power will be useful in decisions on whether to continue regulation.
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The Context of Youth Violence

The Context of Youth Violence

Mark W. Fraser; Jack Richman

Praeger Publishers Inc
2000
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Leading scholars summarize the current research on risk, protection, and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families. It describes an emerging framework for understanding social and health problems and for developing more effective programs for interventions. This book describes resilient children by examining risk factors for violence and explores the factors that lead some children to resist or adapt to risk.The concept of resilience has been applied to family, school, neighborhood, and organizational contexts. Educational, family, and community resilience are used as the framework to describe social systems that possess risk factors. By understanding why some systems with risk factors are adaptable, information for assessment can be applied to service plans, that will be more effective in treating children at risk of antisocial, aggressive behavior.
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Learn About . . . Texas Birds

Learn About . . . Texas Birds

Mark W. Lockwood

University of Texas Press
2007
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Children from six to twelve are introduced to the most frequently seen and interesting Texas birds. Youngsters can color eye-catching line drawings of various birds in typical habitats, while an easy-to-read text gives important facts about the birds, and several fun games are instructive and challenging.
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Mapping Water in Dominica

Mapping Water in Dominica

Mark W. Hauser; K. Sivaramakrishnan

University of Washington Press
2021
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How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves.Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water.Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.
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Mapping Water in Dominica

Mapping Water in Dominica

Mark W. Hauser; K. Sivaramakrishnan

University of Washington Press
2021
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How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves.Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water.Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.
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A Symbol of Wilderness

A Symbol of Wilderness

Mark W. T. Harvey; William Cronon

University of Washington Press
2000
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Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.
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Wilderness Forever

Wilderness Forever

Mark W. T. Harvey; William Cronon

University of Washington Press
2007
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Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book AwardAs a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the earlyenvironmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser strove to bring conservation's concerns into the public eye and the preservationists' plans to fruition. In many fights to save besieged wild lands, he pulled together fractious coalitions, built grassroots support networks, wooed skittish and truculent politicians, and generated streams of eloquent prose celebrating wilderness.Zahniser worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (a precursor to the Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of the Interior, wrote for Nature magazine, and eventually managed the Wilderness Society and edited its magazine, Living Wilderness. The culmination of his wilderness writing and political lobbying was the Wilderness Act of 1964. All of its drafts included his eloquent definition of wilderness, which still serves as a central tenet for the Wilderness Society: "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." The bill was finally signed into law shortly after his death.Pervading his tireless work was a deeply held belief in the healing powers of nature for a humanity ground down by the mechanized hustle-bustle of modern, urban life. Zahniser grew up in a family of Methodist ministers, and although he moved away from any specific denomination, a spiritual outlook informed his thinking about wilderness. His love of nature was not so much a result of scientific curiosity as a sense of wonder at its beauty and majesty, and a wish to exist in harmony with all other living things. In this deeply researched and affectionate portrait, Mark Harvey brings to life this great leader of environmental activism.
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A Symbol of Wilderness

A Symbol of Wilderness

Mark W. T. Harvey; William Cronon

University of Washington Press
2015
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Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.
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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Mark W. Geiger

Yale University Press
2010
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Winner of the 2011 Tom Watson Brown Book AwardAn award-winning exploration of a Civil War financial conspiracy in Missouri—and its reverberations today In this original work, Mark W. Geiger explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy in Civil War–era Missouri, a sham-loan scheme that devastated the state’s planter elite, caused a revolution in land ownership, and fueled a ferocious insurgency in the state. Geiger’s book—the first detailed study of the grassroots nature of financing for military mobilization in the American Civil War—shows how Missouri’s ill-conceived plan has affected the political direction of the state to this day.
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Floor Rules

Floor Rules

Mark W. Geiger

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2025
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A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders One of the reasons many people believe financial markets are lawless and irrational—and rigged—is that they follow two sets of rules. The official rules, set by law or by the heads of the exchanges, exist alongside the unofficial rules, or floor rules—which are the ones that actually govern. Break the official rules and you may be fined or jailed; break the floor rules and you’ll suffer worse: you will be ostracized. Regulations vary across markets, but the floor rules are remarkably consistent. This book, offering compelling stories of market disturbances in which insider rules played a key role, shows readers, without excessive moralizing, how markets really govern themselves. It is a study of the norms, customs, values, and operating modes of the insiders at the center of the financial markets that trade money, stocks, bonds, futures, and other financial derivatives. The core insiders who rule trading markets are a relatively small group who exert disproportionate influence on financial systems. Mark W. Geiger examines the historical roots of the culture of financial markets, describes the role insiders play in today’s high finance, and suggests where this peculiar, ingrown culture is heading in an era of constant technological change.
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Revelation

Revelation

Mark W. Wilson

Zondervan
2015
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Brimming with photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous meaning when you view them in their ancient context. You'll deepen your understanding of the teachings of Jesus. You'll discover the close, sometimes startling interplay between God's kingdom and the practical affairs of the church. Best of all, you'll gain a deepened awareness of the Bible’s relevance for your life. Written in a clear, engaging style, this beautiful set provides a new and accessible approach that more technical expository and exegetical commentaries don't offer.
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Handbook of Political Science Research on Sub-Saharan Africa

Handbook of Political Science Research on Sub-Saharan Africa

Mark W. Delancey

Greenwood Press
1992
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The last 30 years of African political history has followed a cycle from the euphoria of independence to the depression of economic recession and autocracy to the new era of euphoria as the democracy movement sweeps the continent. This reference handbook offers an analytical survey of research on African political history for this period, 1960-1990. Fifteen leading scholars address overall patterns, changing perspectives, and areas requiring additional research from nine different national and regional viewpoints. This expert assessment of the significant literature on African political affairs should be of great value to political scientists, historians, and specialists in African affairs.The handbook is divided into three parts. The first presents continent-wide responses to political and social change highlighting the work of the first generation of African political scientists. Analyses of studies of development administration and international relations are included in this section. The second part contains five regional surveys covering political history, colonialism, nationalism, the post-colonial state, war, and foreign relations. The regions are Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Equatorial Africa, Portuguese-speaking Africa, and the Horn. Four country studies make up the third part: Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa. An appendix listing social science research centers in the sub-Saharan area and a general bibliography on African politics complete this fully indexed volume.
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Culture and Customs of Vietnam

Culture and Customs of Vietnam

Mark W. McLeod; Nguyen Thi Dieu

Greenwood Press
2001
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Vietnam is increasingly opening up to the West, and society is in flux between tradition and modernity, and capitalism and socialism. Americans have distanced themselves from the Vietnam War now, and Culture and Customs of Vietnam fills a need to learn about the country, which has also evolved. Readers will find that this is the only general book on Vietnamese culture in English written by specialists. McLeod and Nguyen, historians specializing in Vietnam engagingly show the various forces of Vietnamese culture in narrative chapters on the land, people, and language; history and institutions; thought and religion; literature; art and architecture; cuisine; family, marriage, gender, and youth culture; festivals and leisure activities, and performing arts. Culture and Customs of Vietnam is a comprehensive, one-stop source, providing the most useful and intriguing information for students and general readers. Some of the highlights include the discussion of the Chinese influence in writing, thought, and religion; eating habits; the changing family; and water puppetry. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos complement the text.
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