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America in the Twentieth Century

America in the Twentieth Century

D. K. Adams

Cambridge University Press
1967
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This book, originally published in 1967, traces the development of the United States in the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the years after 1917. At the time Dr Adams was already one of the leading British scholars in American studies and had done much to encourage interest in the subject. The book follows two main themes. One traces the change in America's place in the world from a position of isolation, and one suspicion of foreign entanglements, to its present role as leader of the western world. The second is the increasing initiative taken by the Federal Government in improving social conditions and ensuring civil rights for all citizens. There is a wide-ranging introductory chapter covering the period up to 1918, and accounts of the cultural and social background are included.
Tar Baby: Summer of 55

Tar Baby: Summer of 55

D. K. Adams

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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A country boy who didn't know, before that summer, that he was poor. He gives an account of his early life, one room school house, dirt roads, an eight party phone line and a life filled with farming chores and coal mines. He gets a rare opportunity to step outside his blue color, farming community roots and spend a summer with relatives who had recently moved to upper middle class. This sometimes humorous, sometimes serious adventure is a true account of the "Summer of 55', the events leading up to that time and the events that follow which take him from a "Return to innocences" and into "The coming of ace".
Temporarily Open/Closed Estuaries in South Africa

Temporarily Open/Closed Estuaries in South Africa

R Perissinotto; D D Stretch; A K Whitfield; J B Adams; A T Forbes; N T Demetriades

Nova Science Publishers Inc
2010
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South African temporarily open/closed estuaries (TOCEs) and similar systems along the coastlines of other regions of the world, especially Australia, are amongst the most productive aquatic ecosystems. They shift seasonally from mostly open mouth states during rainy seasons to mostly closed mouth states during the dry part of the year. This allows a whole range of juvenile forms of estuarine-dependent and estuarine-associated marine species to be recruited inside their sheltered and productive reaches, where they complete their growth to maturity. This book covers topics such as the structure and function of open/closed estuaries in South Africa, as well as outlining the future management decisions that need to be made in order to ensure the longevity of these productive ecosystems.
The Death of Adam / The Life of Christ: Determining the Nature of the Resurrection
The eschatological resurrection is posited as the solution to the "Death of Adam" i.e. the Death that came into the world the very day that Adam sinned. So, what was that death? The majority of believers say it was physical death. But, there is a massive and fatal problem here. God said "In the day that you eat...you shall surely die." Did Adam die physically the very day he sinned? Clearly not So, did God lie? Was God unable to carry through with the threat? No, Adam and Eve did die, and they died the very day they ate the forbidden fruit. How so? They died spiritually, by losing the precious fellowship with God and living in the Garden. They were separated from a loving God. This is the essence, the reality, of the Death of Adam
Stratégies d'implantation des Assemblées de Dieu sur le marché religieux d'Abidjan

Stratégies d'implantation des Assemblées de Dieu sur le marché religieux d'Abidjan

Dominique K Boko; Ouédraogo Adama; Axel Désiré Dabié Nassa

Editions L'Harmattan
2025
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Ce livre est le r sultat d'une recherche scientifique qui retrace la dynamique spatiale et temporelle de l'implantation des Assembl es de Dieu de 1958 2018 dans la ville d'Abidjan. Ce mouvement pentec tiste, issu du r veil de 1906 aux tats-Unis, a connu une croissance rapide, surpassant d'autres d nominations comme l' glise catholique et m thodiste en termes de rayonnement sur le march religieux abidjanais. L'accent est mis sur les strat gies d'implantation et le circuit de diffusion spatiale suivi, partant de son picentre Adjam jusqu' son point d'ancrage la p riph rie de la ville. Les effets spatiaux et socio conomiques sur les zones d'accueil des lieux de culte sont galement expos s, illustrant l'impact profond de cette d nomination sur le tissu urbain. Ce livre se veut une r f rence pour les pouvoirs publics dans leur lutte contre le d sordre urbain. Pour les leaders religieux, il est un outil pr cieux en mati re de r flexion strat gique et op rationnelle pour une implantation harmonieuse des lieux de culte en milieu urbain dans le contexte des villes intelligentes.
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals

Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals

Adam D. K. Abelkop; John D. Graham; Todd V. Royer

CRC Press
2017
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Developed from the efforts of a multiyear, international project examining how persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals are evaluated and managed, Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals: Technical Aspects, Policies, and Practices focuses on improving the processes that govern PBTs. Incorporating science and policy literature—as well as interviews and panel discussions featuring experts from around the world—this book provides you with an international perspective of PBT policies (centering on Europe, Asia, and North America), and reveals major findings and recommendations for improving PBT science, laws, and policies. It includes case studies of specific chemicals, provides an introduction to the overall subject of toxic chemicals, and weighs in on science and policy expansion for PBTs. It also provides summary tables of important PBTs, and discussions on the number of PBTs in commerce, weight of evidence approaches, market deselection, and international management.The text: Assesses the history, current practice, and future of PBT managementConsiders the roles scientific data, modeling, and conventions play in identifying and regulating PBTsExplores the number of PBTs in commerce and the growing role of weight of evidence (WOE) in the making of PBT determinationsIdentifies issues that are likely to come up in WOE judgmentsExamines international, national, subnational, and regional PBT policiesIncludes a comprehensive and easy-to-understand analysis of PBT science and policyThis book reviews the current science, policies, and practices surrounding the regulation of PBTs. It also provides relevant research, recommendations, and suggestions for improving the management and oversight of PBTs.
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals

Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals

Adam D. K. Abelkop; John D. Graham; Todd V. Royer

Apple Academic Press Inc.
2015
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Developed from the efforts of a multiyear, international project examining how persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals are evaluated and managed, Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals: Technical Aspects, Policies, and Practices focuses on improving the processes that govern PBTs. Incorporating science and policy literature—as well as interviews and panel discussions featuring experts from around the world—this book provides you with an international perspective of PBT policies (centering on Europe, Asia, and North America), and reveals major findings and recommendations for improving PBT science, laws, and policies. It includes case studies of specific chemicals, provides an introduction to the overall subject of toxic chemicals, and weighs in on science and policy expansion for PBTs. It also provides summary tables of important PBTs, and discussions on the number of PBTs in commerce, weight of evidence approaches, market deselection, and international management.The text: Assesses the history, current practice, and future of PBT managementConsiders the roles scientific data, modeling, and conventions play in identifying and regulating PBTsExplores the number of PBTs in commerce and the growing role of weight of evidence (WOE) in the making of PBT determinationsIdentifies issues that are likely to come up in WOE judgmentsExamines international, national, subnational, and regional PBT policiesIncludes a comprehensive and easy-to-understand analysis of PBT science and policyThis book reviews the current science, policies, and practices surrounding the regulation of PBTs. It also provides relevant research, recommendations, and suggestions for improving the management and oversight of PBTs.
How Deployments Affect the Capacity and Utilization of Army Treatment Facilities

How Deployments Affect the Capacity and Utilization of Army Treatment Facilities

Adam C. Resnick; Mireille Jacobson; Srikanth Kadiyala; Nicole K. Eberhart; Susan D. Hosek

RAND
2014
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The Army wished to understand whether the Army s Force Generation (ARFORGEN) cycle created ebbs and flows in the ability of military treatment facilities to provide care and respond to changing family needs as soldiers and care providers deploy and return home. This study examines how the cycle affects capability and soldier health care utilization at Army military treatment facilities and how it affects family health care utilization."
Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Gettysburg

Gian Gentile; David E Johnson; Yvonne K Crane; D Sean Barnett; John Gordon; Mark Hvizda; Adam Givens

RAND Corporation
2023
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The authors of this report examine what happened in the crucial 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and create an alternative history by examining what could have happened if a few key technologies that were available for military use had been used in this battle. Would the outcome have been different if the Union and Confederate armies had deployed these technologies?
The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

David G. Anderson; Derek T. Anderson; Katherine McMillan Barry; Kara Bridgman Sweeney; Samuel O. Brookes; Adam M. Burke; Stephen B. Carmody; Philip J. Carr; William A. Childress; I. Randolph Daniel; Ryan Duggins; Grayal E. Farr; Michael K. Faught; Brendan Fenerty; Jay D. Franklin; Lauren M. Franklin; J. Christopher Gillam; Joseph A. M. Gingerich; Jessi J. Halligan; Kandace D. Hollenbach; Vance T. Holliday; Thomas A. Jennings; K. C. Jones; Shawn A. Joy; Jerald Ledbetter; Greg J. Maggard; Steven M. Meredith; D. Shane Miller

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
2022
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The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast The 1996 benchmark volume The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman, was the first study to summarize what was known of the peoples who lived in the Southeast when ice sheets covered the northern part of the continent and mammals such as mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and ground sloths roamed the landscape.The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age provides an updated, definitive synthesis of current archaeological research gleaned from an array of experts in the region. It is organized in three parts: state records, the regional perspective, and reflections and future directions. Chapters survey a diversity of topics including the distribution of the earliest archaeological sites in the region, chipped-stone tool technology, the expanding role of submerged archaeology, hunter-gatherer lifeways, past climate changes and the extinction of megafauna on the transitional landscape, and evidence of demographic changes at the end of the Ice Age. Discussion of the ethical responsibilities regarding the use of private collections and the relationship of archaeologists and the avocational community, insight from outside the Southeast, and considerations for future research round out the volume.