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The second book in the threevolume reference that covers all aspects of UFOs including cases theories organizations personalities government and media responses effects on popular culture hoaxes flyingsaucer religious movements and debunkers Volume 2 surveys UFO phenomena from its somewhat nebulous origins through 1959 by which time definitions had been made lines had been drawn and the stage had been set for all that would come after In the 113 entries that comprise this book no aspect of pre1960 ufology is skipped
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The second book in the threevolume reference that covers all aspects of UFOs including cases theories organizations personalities government and media responses effects on popular culture hoaxes flyingsaucer religious movements and debunkers Volume 2 surveys UFO phenomena from its somewhat nebulous origins through 1959 by which time definitions had been made lines had been drawn and the stage had been set for all that would come after In the 113 entries that comprise this book no aspect of pre1960 ufology is skipped
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A work of major importance for science and philosophy This book attempts to provide a coherent vision of the process of evolution starting from the formation of our planet through the emergence of life and later thought to an imagined end state or Omega Point Its greatest merit is in providing an overall pattern of high plausibility rendering the past more intelligible and the future in some measure predictable
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After being relegated to the realm of childrens literature for the first 25 years of its history the comic book industry experienced an unexpected flowering in the early 1960s A celebration of that emergence Marvel Comics in the 1960s An IssuebyIssue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon presents a stepbystep look at how a company that had the reputation of being one of the least creative in a generally moribund industry emerged as one of the most dynamic slightly irreverent and downright original contributions to an era when popculture from Tom Wolfe to Andy Warhol emerged as the dominant force in the artistic life of America In scores of handy easytoreference entries Marvel Comics in the 1960s takes the reader from the legendary companys first fumbling beginnings as helmed by savvy editorwriter Stan Lee aided by such artists as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko to the full maturity of its wild colorful offbeat grandiosity With the history of Marvel Comics in the 1960s divided into four distinct phases author Pierre Comtois explains just how Lee Kirby Ditko et al created a line of comic books that while grounded in the traditional elements of paneltopanel storytelling broke through the juvenile mindset of a low brow industry and provided a tapestry of fullblown popculture icons
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After being relegated to the realm of childrens literature for the first 25 years of its history the comic book industry experienced an unexpected flowering in the early 1960s A celebration of that emergence Marvel Comics in the 1960s An IssuebyIssue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon presents a stepbystep look at how a company that had the reputation of being one of the least creative in a generally moribund industry emerged as one of the most dynamic slightly irreverent and downright original contributions to an era when popculture from Tom Wolfe to Andy Warhol emerged as the dominant force in the artistic life of America In scores of handy easytoreference entries Marvel Comics in the 1960s takes the reader from the legendary companys first fumbling beginnings as helmed by savvy editorwriter Stan Lee aided by such artists as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko to the full maturity of its wild colorful offbeat grandiosity With the history of Marvel Comics in the 1960s divided into four distinct phases author Pierre Comtois explains just how Lee Kirby Ditko et al created a line of comic books that while grounded in the traditional elements of paneltopanel storytelling broke through the juvenile mindset of a low brow industry and provided a tapestry of fullblown popculture icons
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 18811955 was a priest paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN attracted worldwide attention when it was first published He wrote of the beginnings of our planet the emergence of life the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardins vision Sarah AppletonWeber has based her new translation which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation Paris on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text Poet and scholar AppletonWeber who has closely studied Teilhards essays letters and other writing gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhards book
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In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history David R Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600s to the present day From the late seventeenth centurythe era in which DuBois located the emergence of whitenessthrough the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history from democracy and economic development to migration and globalizationExploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority nonwhite nation in the next fifty years this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twentyfirst century
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 18811955 was a priest paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN attracted worldwide attention when it was first published He wrote of the beginnings of our planet the emergence of life the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardins vision Sarah AppletonWeber has based her new translation which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation Paris on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text Poet and scholar AppletonWeber who has closely studied Teilhards essays letters and other writing gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhards book
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Hardcover The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chavin de Huantar holds an iconic place in the archaeology of preColumbian Peru and is crucial to understanding the emergence of Andean civilization during the early first millennium BCE Best known for its elaborate religious architecture and distinctive stone sculpture Chavin de Huantar was the center of a much wider Andean world and the synchronicity of widespread socioeconomic changes coupled with intrusive Chavin material culture and iconography at distant centers suggests that Chavin de Huantar influenced a vast region through the expansion of religious ideology and intensified longdistance interactionReconsidering the Chavin Phenomenon in the TwentyFirst Century builds upon a surge of archaeological research over the last twenty years bringing together the work of scholars researching Chavin de Huantar and its neighbors on the coast highlands and ceja de selva This volume offers a cohesive vision of the Chavin Phenomenon at both the local and interregional level one which recognizes the high degree of socioeconomic and cultural diversity that existed and the active role of centers outside the Chavin heartland in shaping the radical transformations that occurred within the Chavin Interaction Sphere between 1000 and 400 BCE Reconsidering the Chavin Phenomenon in the TwentyFirst Century builds upon a surge of archaeological research over the last twenty years at Chavin de Huantar bringing together the work of scholars researching the UNESCO World Heritage Site and offering a cohesive vision of the Chavin Phenomenon at both the local and interregional level Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK depending on stock availability
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The current shift in demographics aging and shrinking populations in many countries around the world presents a major challenge to companies and societies alike One particularly essential implication is the emergence and constant growth of the socalled silver market the market segment more or less broadly defined as those people aged 55 and older Increasing in number and share of the total population while at the same time being relatively welloff this market segment can be seen as very attractive and promising although still very underdeveloped in terms of product and service offerings This book offers a thorough and uptodate analysis of the challenges and opportunities in leveraging innovation technology product development and marketing for elder consumers and employees Key lessons are drawn from the Japanese lead market as well as other select countries
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The authors explore the late Precambrian and earliest Cambrian fossil record to explain the Cambrian phenomenon and discuss the possibility of a major turnover in marine ecology at the beginning of the Cambrian period or whether a new improved type of animal appeared at this time They support their often controversial conclusions with photos and illustrations of fossils some never before published
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States versus Markets shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon but a recurrent process whereby markets have since the sixteenth century periodically redistributed economic activity This revised and updated new edition takes account of the new rise of Asia and the global financial crisis originating in the US housing finance system
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The authors explore the late Precambrian and earliest Cambrian fossil record to explain the Cambrian phenomenon and discuss the possibility of a major turnover in marine ecology at the beginning of the Cambrian period or whether a new improved type of animal appeared at this time They support their often controversial conclusions with photos and illustrations of fossils some never before published
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When the whole is greater than the sum of the partsindeed so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and differentwe call that phenomenon emergence When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell that was emergence When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind that too is emergence In The Emergence of Everything one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity Harold J Morowitz takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe a tour with 28 stops each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence For instance Morowitz illuminates the emergence of the stars the birth of the elements and of the periodic table and the appearance of solar systems and planets We look at the emergence of living cells animals vertebrates reptiles and mammals leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity He also examines tool making the evolution of language the invention of agriculture and technology and the birth of cities And as he offers these insights into the evolutionary unfolding of our universe our solar system and life itself Morowitz also seeks out the nature of God in the emergent universe the God posited by Spinoza Bruno and Einstein a God Morowitz argues we can know through a study of the laws of nature Written by one of our wisest scientists The Emergence of Everything offers a fascinating new way to look at the universe and the natural world and it makes an important contribution to the dialogue between science and religion
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Gun violence is a growing problem among teens in America One of the most frightening trends over the last several years has been the rise of gunrelated violence at school A number of reasons have been cited for the emergence of this disturbing phenomenon Some of these include the widespread availability of guns escalating levels of violence in video games and media violence and rising levels of teen alienation and rage This program discusses the causes of violence in schools gun contr
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Bluegrass has found an unlikely home and avid following in the Czech Republic The musics emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that merges intimate immersion in the music with ontheground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician Drawing on his own close personal and professional interactions Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice He also reflects on Americanist musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities Bidgood sees these acts of construction as a response to the Czech Republics postsocialist environment but also to US cultural prominence within our global mediascape
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The first comparative history of one of the most dynamic popular religious movements in recent times Evangelicalism offers a uniquely comprehensive survey of this complex phenomenon from its emergence in the mideighteenth century to the present International in scope the book includes essays by leading American Canadian English Irish Scottish and Australian scholars and compares developments in every major region in the Englishspeaking world The contributors examine the many ways that evangelicalism has been shaped by its popular nature and explore the international networks of communication that have given it much of its distinctive character from transAtlantic publishing networks in the eighteenth century to massmarketing campaigns in the twentieth and covering a wide range of other influences and trends including Methodism the legacy of George Whitefield the American Civil War antiCatholicism religious and civil revolution and Pentecostalism Based on pathbreaking scholarship this book is vital to students of religion who wish to grasp the breadth and complexity of evangelicalism as a social and political force as well as an irreducibly religious phenomenon
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This foundational anthology maps the emergence of a dynamic new global phenomenon contemporary Asian artIn 2008 Asia stormed the citadel of the New York art world when two major museums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporary artists Cai GuoQiang at the Guggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum Meanwhile in Hong Kong a painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for 95 million setting a new world auction record for Chinese contemporary art The Western art world is still coming to grips with the challenge it is all about Asia now This book is the first anthology of critical writings to map the shift in both the nature and the reception of Asian art over the past twenty years Offering texts by leading figures in the field mostly Asian and including more than fifty illustrations in color and black and white it covers developments in East Asia including China Korea and Japan South Asia including India and Pakistan and Southeast Asia including Vietnam Indonesia and Thailand Together the twentythree texts posit an historical and panAsian response to the question What is Asian contemporary art Considering such topics as Asian modernism productive mistranslation of the European original Asian cubism and the curating collecting and criticism of Asian contemporary art this book promises to be a foundational reference for many years to come
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The first comprehensive analytical treatment of warlordism in twentiethcentury China this book approaches regional militarism as a generic phenomenon of Chinese politics in the most complex and chaotic era of recent Chinese historyAfter describing the emergence of militarist regimes after the death of Yuan Shihkai in 1916 the author analyzes their membership goals capabilities and sources of cohesion in the process presenting new information on their organization methods of recruitment quality of training types of weapons tactical and strategic concepts and means of financing On the strength of this information he offers a convincing explanation I balanceofpower terms for the baffling advances retreats clashes and changes of allegiance that have puzzled students of the eraHis analysis makes clear how the leading warlords viewed the state themselves and each other A concluding chapter presents an explanation based on systems theory for the Kuomintangs triumph over the warlords who had sought to confine its domain to KwangtungIncluded as appendixes are a chronology of events and lists of national leaders and provincial military authorities from 1916 to 1928
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Beginning by examining its roots in early Gothic and Romantic literature Goth The Dark Subculture presents a decadebydecade analysis of the pivotal Goth milestones as they occurred Starting with the forms emergence as a 1970s counterculture phenomenon defined by classic clubs like the Batcave the book moves through Goths 1980s invasion of the arenarock scene via bands such as the Cult and the Sisters of Mercy It then concludes with the subcultures enormous impact on film music and television during the 1990s as epitomized by the creative output of musicians and filmmakers from Marilyn Manson to Tim Burton Author Gavin Baddeley even gives a glimpse of Goths ongoing metamorphosis into Cybergoth He also documents the widely attended Goth festivals including Treffen Mera Luna Carnival of Souls and the Whitby Gothic Weekend examines the exciting evolution of Goth fashions and footwear and explores the scenes decadent philosophy of style over substance All in all this illuminating book offers a guided tour of one of the worlds most influential and provocative youth subcultures
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