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Author: Stephen Bly Publisher: Center Street ISBN: 159995320X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 344
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Award-winning author Stephen Bly weaves the tale of a pair of contemporary cowboys on a quest across the West. As a boy in Wyoming, Hap Bowman fell in love with a girl named Juanita. Ever since, he's experienced nothing but failure and misfortune. Laramie Majors -- quiet, reserved, and patient to a fault -- hasn't left Hap's side since they became rodeo partners right out of college. Now, after spending most of his adult life looking for Juanita, Hap wants to do one last big search that will take them all over the Southwest before he admits defeat. Together these two cowpokes find themselves reluctant heroes in a series of misadventures as they travel the West, all the while thinking that Hap's -- or Laramie's -- true love may be in the next town.
Author: Stephen Bly Publisher: Center Street ISBN: 159995320X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Award-winning author Stephen Bly weaves the tale of a pair of contemporary cowboys on a quest across the West. As a boy in Wyoming, Hap Bowman fell in love with a girl named Juanita. Ever since, he's experienced nothing but failure and misfortune. Laramie Majors -- quiet, reserved, and patient to a fault -- hasn't left Hap's side since they became rodeo partners right out of college. Now, after spending most of his adult life looking for Juanita, Hap wants to do one last big search that will take them all over the Southwest before he admits defeat. Together these two cowpokes find themselves reluctant heroes in a series of misadventures as they travel the West, all the while thinking that Hap's -- or Laramie's -- true love may be in the next town.
Author: Kyle Conway Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773588639 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 285
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The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "fly-over" country is a mistake. In the post-9/11 era, politicians and policy-makers are paying more attention to the region, especially where border enforcement is concerned. Beyond the Border provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the region's increasing importance. Drawing inspiration from Habermas's observation that certain modern phenomena - from ecological degradation and organized crime to increased capital mobility - challenge a state's ability to retain sovereignty over a fixed geographical region, contributors to this book question the ontological status of the Canada-US border. They look at how entertainment media represents the border for their viewers, how Canada and the US enforce the line that separates the two countries, and how the border appears from the viewpoint of Native communities where it was imposed through their traditional lands. Under this scrutiny, the border ceases to appear as self-evident, its status more fragile than otherwise imagined. At a time when the importance of border security is increasingly stressed and the Great Plains and Prairies are becoming more economically and politically prominent, Beyond the Border offers necessary context for understanding decisions by politicians and policy-makers along the forty-ninth parallel. Contributors include Phil Bellfy (Michigan State University), Christopher Cwynar (University of Wisconsin), Brandon Dimmel (Western University), Zalfa Feghali (University of Nottingham), Joshua Miner (University of Iowa), Paul Moore (Toronto Metropolitan University), Michelle Morris (University of Waterloo), Paul Sando (Minnesota State University Moorhead), and Serra Tinic (University of Alberta).
Author: Nick Huntington-Klein Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1000509222 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 612
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The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is separated into two halves, each with different approaches to that subject. The first half goes through the concepts of causality, with very little in the way of estimation. It introduces the concept of identification thoroughly and clearly and discusses it as a process of trying to isolate variation that has a causal interpretation. Subjects include heavy emphasis on data-generating processes and causal diagrams. Concepts are demonstrated with a heavy emphasis on graphical intuition and the question of what we do to data. When we “add a control variable” what does that actually do? Key Features: • Extensive code examples in R, Stata, and Python • Chapters on overlooked topics in econometrics classes: heterogeneous treatment effects, simulation and power analysis, new cutting-edge methods, and uncomfortable ignored assumptions • An easy-to-read conversational tone • Up-to-date coverage of methods with fast-moving literatures like difference-in-differences
Author: Francis R. McNulty Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595192203 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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TRIANGULATION is a carefully constructed blend of science and human nature; a bold saga that traces man’s journey through the third millennium in a stark, realistic manner. Outlandish gadgets have no place in this book. In fact, the technologies used in McNulty’s work will be commonplace appliances in the lives of our grandchildren. There is absolutely nothiong standing in our path that can hinder this burst of evolution. Whether good or evil, the author has lovingly crafted the characters populating his adventure. The diorama of their individual lives flows as easily as any romance novel, yet their impact on the overall theme of the book is intense and unforgettable. They are as real as the science that serves them. It should be added that the last half of the story is played out on the continent of Australia. The author could find no more compelling piece of real estate on which to draw the loose threads of the Triangulation together and satisfy the expectations of his readers. If you have discovered this book, we urge you to buckle up and prepare for the ride of your life.
Author: Cinda Gault Publisher: Brindle and Glass ISBN: 1927366429 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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The year is 1885 and Abigail Peacock is resisting what seems to be an inevitable future—a sensible career as a teacher and marriage to the earnestly attentive local storeowner. But then she buys a rifle, and everything changes. This Godforsaken Place is the absorbing tale of one tenacious woman’s journey set against the dramatic backdrop of the Canadian Wilderness and American Wild West. Told by four narrators—including Annie Oakley and Gabriel Dumont—Abigail’s story brings the high stakes of the New World into startling focus.
Author: Chen Deming（陈德明) Publisher: World Chinese Publishing ISBN: 1940266661 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 307
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This is the collection of Chen Deming (pen name Chen Rolei)'s traveling articles that he wrote when he traveled around the world as a translator for the agency he worked. As a translator, he has opportunities to see what we do not have chance to see in the early 80's of last century. Not a few articles in his collection of works are initially seen from his blog. They are written by the author for his friends & his “fans” to read. He writes very sincerely and in a very relaxed state, too. People often say “The writing mirrors the writer”. By reading Ruolei’s collection of works, we as if see Chen Ruolei himself; we seemly follow his footsteps walking around the world. We would feel his ardent love for all good things in the world, feel his sincerity, feel his historical romanticism, feel his sagacity and wide range of studies, and of course feel his wit and humor.
Author: Cynthia Kadohata Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497620163 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
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Mariska could not be happier. Living an almost fairy‐tale life, she is popular, adored by her parents, and is engaged to be married to the most attractive man in her village. But her world is torn when war approaches the peaceful village of Bakshami. Mariska risks everything she has in order to search for her parents who left to negotiate and find peace. With a young warrior as her companion, she travels beyond the safety of her village. Together they search for Mariska’s parents and peace for their village in a time of terrible uncertainty.
Author: Sarah Deutsch Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 149622955X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 523
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To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression's end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region--the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders--Deutsch attends to the region's role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a "white man's country." While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.
Author: Timothy P. Bowman Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623495695 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 490
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Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach. Sterling Evans has curated nineteen essays to explore the contours of “big” agricultural history. Crops and commodities discussed include wheat, cattle, citrus, pecans, chiles, tomatoes, sugar beets, hops, henequen, and more. Toiling over such crops, of course, were the people of the North American West, and as such, the contributing authors investigate the role of agricultural labor, from braceros and Hutterites to women working in the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between. As Evans concludes, “society as a whole (no matter in what country) often ignores the role of agriculture in the past and the present.” Farming across Borders takes an important step toward cultivating awareness and understanding of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West regardless of lines on a map. In the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”
Author: Stephen Bly
Author: Stephen Bly
Author: Kyle Conway
Author: Nick Huntington-Klein
Author: Francis R. McNulty
Author: Cinda Gault
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Author: Chen Deming（陈德明)
Author: Cynthia Kadohata
Author: Sarah Deutsch
Author: Timothy P. Bowman