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Examining how electronic publication of theses and dissertations might enhance graduate education, this text clarifies the composition, evaluation, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)—providing a conceptual framework for the development of effective ETD programs and identifying the main technical concerns related to the adoption of ETD initiatives. ... Read more

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The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries.Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country.Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields.The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war. ... Read more

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Self Testing And Evaluation Are Among Important Topics Covered
"..... We wrote this book for the coach, the athlete, and the person who desires to condition himself for health purposes.
Elementary physiology of exercise, designing the ITP for athlete and business executive alike, as well as
SELF TESTING AND EVALUATION ARE AMONG IMPORTANT TOPICS COVERED.

Based on experience as well as scientific knowledge, mass calisthenics and continuous exercise routines are "older than antiquity.".....

[from the book of the preface,
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, held in Shanghai, China in December 2004.

The 44 revised full papers, 15 revised short papers, and 37 posters presented together with 14 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 359 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaboration and localization, knowledge processing and knowledge discovery, information retrieval techniques, personalization issues in digital libraries, and service and management.

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Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox's brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served -- a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Palestine and the West Bank.On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock -- US citizen, archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was murdered by an assassin. Two bullets to the heart. The witness statements were confused, the autopsy inadequate. The police took three hours to arrive at the scene, from their HQ ten minutes away.Who killed Albert Glock? The Palestinians blamed the Israelis, the Israelis blamed an inter-departmental feud at the university, or extreme Palestinian groups. But those close to Bir Zeit, to the political situation on the West Bank, had a simple line of advice: 'Look to the archaeology,' they repeated. 'Look to the archaeology.'For Albert Glock had started to uncover truths about the distant Palestinian past which Israel found uncomfortable. For Israel, Palestine was a country without a people -- for a people without a country.Now Glock, through his archaeological finds, was showing that their version was flawed. He was publishing papers about the ancient traditions and settlements throughout Palestine, and discovering hugely significant facts about the ancient Palestinian way of life. Glock had given up a glittering career to teach at Palestine's beleaguered, besieged and underfunded university which faced closure at worst, and curfew at best -- daily.Edward Fox's extraordinary book weaves together the story of Glock's murder with the history of biblical archaeology and the brutal, Byzantine politics of the intifada. It is written as a true-life thriller which opens up the Palestine in which Glock lived and worked, the people he knew and the turbulent politics of the middle east. This is brilliantly original writing and compelling storytelling quite unlike any other work yet published on the Middle East. ... Read more

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archaeology as a postcolonial text
This book reads at first like a not very skillful journalistic whodunnit about the unsolved murder of an archaeologist during the final, more violent stages of the first Palestinian uprising (1987-1993)against the Israeli occupation (1967 to the present). As I read on, however, Fox's choice of archaeology as a prism through which to view the conflict became increasingly more revealing. In addition to exhibiting quite a good grasp of both Palestinian and Israeli everyday life, Fox also explains how archaeology has been used both by Christian colonial or orientalist projects and by the Zionist movement to justify their influence or rule over Israel-Palestine. Even the name, the Holy Land, transforms the region into a symbol connected more to its past and to its textual existence than to its living present. Whereas Christian pilgrims and biblical scholars were more interested in the Christian and biblical past of the area, Zionists, and, later, the Israeli administration, were anxious to expose as much archaeological evidence as possible for the ancient presence and continuous existence of Jewish communities in what is present-day Israel, as well as in the occupied Palestinian territories. Moslem and Arab heritage and remains, abundant in the region, have been consistently marginalised by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Fox explains why it is that many of Israel's most famous archeologists were also generals. And it is no coincidence that the IAA official responsible for archaological excavations in the Occupied Territories is an acting army officer.When Palestinians decided not only to research and record the lives of Palestinians who had lived in the same region prior to the founding of the state of Israel (1948), but also to name that research 'archaeology', they were recognising and challenging a deeply ideologised field in Israel.
In postcolonial studies, archaeology has been used as a metaphor for the attempt to unearth, retrieve and partially regain the lost marks of a culture destroyed by colonialism. In this context, Palestine Twilight reads Palestinian resistance as an anti- or post-colonial project in more ways than one.
However, the book is not a propaganda text for the Palestinian cause. An extensive part of the book describes the mistrust fostered within Palestinian society during the uprising and the widening circles of murder based on accusations of collaboration, coupled with a tightening of conservative norms, expecially dangerous for young Palestinian women.
I learned alot from this book, and recommend it not so much for its literary merits as for its social and political insights. ... Read more

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Describes the series of air battles which successfully repelled the attempted German invasion of Great Britain in the summer of 1940. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Smith, Elder; Publication date: 1874; Subjects: Central nervous system; Nervous system; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Neuroscience; Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : McBride, Nast ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian Digitial Libraries, ICADL 2002, held in Singapore in December 2002.The 34 revised full papers, 20 revised short papers, and 14 posters presented together with 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 170 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on information retrieval, multimedia digital libraries, data mining in digital libraries, special purpose digital libraries, digital library services, digital libraries for community building, information retrieval and Asian languages, building and using digital libraries, metadata issues, algorithms and protocols, human-computer interaction, and digital library infrastructure. ... Read more