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Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
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Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded AgeWho Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age

Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. 
 
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Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction
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Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist FictionRitual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction

This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, including The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse. It argues that these novels reenact a process that achieved its seminal expression in the Genesis story of "The Binding of Isaac," in which Abraham, having been prevented from sacrificing Isaac, offers up a ram in his place.
 
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Perspective Drawing Handbook
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Perspective Drawing HandbookPerspective Drawing Handbook

Joseph D'Amelio, "Perspective Drawing Handbook" Dover Publications | 2004 | ISBN: 0486432084 | 96 pages | PDF | 43,8 MB Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.
 
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Orthopaedic Physical Therapy
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Orthopaedic Physical TherapyOrthopaedic Physical Therapy

Provide the best care for your patients by improving your technical and decision-making skills with this all-inclusive text. From basic sciences to detailed information on specific technologies and surgeries, this comprehensive resource has the content you need to expand your expertise in the treatment of musculoskeletal dysfunction.
 
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Better Than Conscious?: Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications For Institutions
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Better Than Conscious?: Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications For InstitutionsBetter Than Conscious?: Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications For Institutions

Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the ability to process information consciously is severely limited and conscious decision makers are liable to hundreds of biases.
 
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