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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum
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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum

In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description.
 
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Innovations in Educational Psychology: Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Human Development
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Innovations in Educational Psychology: Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Human DevelopmentInnovations in Educational Psychology: Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Human Development

"[This book] is solid in its topic coverage and delivery Readers will glean a multitude of new ideas from the theories and approaches presented in this book, ranging from cultural aspects of teaching to Sternberg's WICS model."

 
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Basic Civil Engineering
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Basic Civil EngineeringBasic Civil Engineering

This book is specially written for the use of students of RGPV, Bhopal. It covers the entire syllabus on Basic Civil Engineering as per RGPV, Bhopal. It is divided into five sections and each section is further divided into a suitable number of chapters. Care has been taken to see that entire syllabus is covered to the required extent. Simple language has been used, neat sketches are presented and problems are solved in detail.
 
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The Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for Amateurs
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The Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for AmateursThe Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for Amateurs

For the experienced amateur astronomer who is wondering if there is something useful, valuable, and permanent that can be done with his or her observational skills, the answer is, "Yes, you can!" This is the book for the experienced amateur astronomer who is ready to take a new step in his or her astronomical journey. Unfortunately, there is no modern text that points curious amateur astronomers to the research possibilities that are open to them. 

 
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Pattern Asterisms: A New Way to Chart the Stars
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Pattern Asterisms: A New Way to Chart the StarsPattern Asterisms: A New Way to Chart the Stars

Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns the constellations out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used today reflects not their historical origins, but their usefulness in identifying bright stars in the rotating dome of the sky.
 
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