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Designed for junior- and senior-level courses in plant and facilities planning and manufacturing systems and procedures, this textbook also is suitable for graduate-level and two-year college courses.
The very mention of Afghanistan conjures images of war, international power politics, the opium trade, and widespread corruption. Yet the untold story of Afghanistan's seemingly endless misfortune is
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Juxtaposes male- and female-authored poetry in order to explore the reciprocal influences of dominant and marginal poetic traditions. The author argues that 19th-century critics and poets rebuffed wom
Butler (philosophy, Indiana U.-Purdue U. Fort Wayne) brings together a group of philosophy, education, psychology, political science, and other scholars from the US, Canada, and the UK who examine the
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From
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Methods of IT Project Management(Third Edition) is built around the latest versionof the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and covers best practicesunique to the IT field. It is designed fo
Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualiz
This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to teaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduate courses. Contributors to the volume describe cross-disc
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