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Air Conditioning Filter An Important Part Of A Air Conditioning System
You want to enjoy a cool summer with your family, want to breathe fresh air inside, be relax and comfortable ,install an air conditioning system with good quality air-conditioning filters. It is so important that if it starts malfunctioning, you are like to inhale air which is polluted. To get the very best out of a air conditioning system, all air conditioning parts from the ductwork to the air conditioning refrigerant, require the air conditioning filter to be clean and replace whenever the need arises. No doubt about it that it is the critical element of air conditioning system as without it your air conditioning system would be prone to dirt and you are likely to breath the air filled with pollutants.
There are many instances where it is seem that the air conditioning filters is left dirty and in the process it leads to higher energy costs So not to complain later about the cost but to clean the air conditioning filter as and when needed..
There are other air conditioning parts which depends on the air conditioning filters,, so when there is a problem it affects the other parts which rely on the filter for its functioning. So the result is short life of the equipment. In other words one is dependent on another and cannot work individually better. In the course of time your heating and cooling of the air conditi9onersystem will not be that effective as you might be thinking of getting the results. So what you do then if it so happens. you are investing more in air conditioning maintenance which is I think a expense you could have avoided if a little care about the filter was taken at the right time.
For home air conditioning system air conditioning filters should be charged every month and for industrial air conditioning system air conditioning filters should be charged every couple of week to ensure the system smooth working, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.. The dust gathered on the air filters should be cleaned as it will give you and your family the very best of health.
There are a variety of air conditioning filters and how quickly it gets blocked depends on the make and the brand. You can judge filter ability to clean by using Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value. The higher the ratings the more effective it is at removing particles like dust, mold pollen etc. Most of the air conditioning filters screen out particles measuring from 3 to9 microns in size.
The common types of air conditioning filters are- conventional fiber glass disposable filters, Pleated fiber glass disposable filters Electrostatic filters, Carbon filters.
Conventional fiber glass disposable filters----are common in residential home and in small industrial and commercial air conditioning system installed. These type of filters need no be cleaned as they are disposable and with an adhesive coating that traps the dust. Cleaning may damage the adhesive coating.
Pleated fiber glass disposable filters----These type of filters have a large surface area which lead to increase trapping of particles compared to the conventional one. But it must be specified and not mismatch, which then can be counterproductive on the condition of the air conditioning system .Electrostatic filters----These filters are of various kinds and are mostly projected as allergy-free air conditioning filters and come in1' and2' sizes. Air moving through the filter creates a static charge that collects the dust. This type of filters require more cleaning. Carbon filters-These type of filters has carbon that can control any type of smell problems. You might be facing within th3e air conditioning system
Lastly while installing the filters it should be in the proper direction which will give the filters to perform its work more efficiently.. The filter should also be fit tightly. Remember a filter without a perfect sizing and a seal of the company certifying its efficiency is useless Before installing check out all the above facts with the air conditioning company. You have come across to make your air conditioning system an effective one..
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On the Human Condition $22.68 The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate films, art and popular culture. On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today. Given the damage human beings have inflicted on each other and their environment throughout history, should we embrace humanism or try and overcome it? Dominique Janicaud explores these urgent questions and more. He argues that whilst we need to avoid apocalyptic talk of a post human condition, as embodied in technology such as cloning, we should neither fall back on a conservative humanism nor become technophobic. Drawing on illuminating examples such as genetic engineering, the novel Frankenstein, the legendary debate between Sartre and Heidegger over humanism, and the work of Primo Levi, Domnique Janicaud also explores the role of fantasy in understanding the human condition and asks where the line lies between the human, inhuman and the superhuman. |
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The Posthuman Condition $10 Synthetic creativity, organic computers, genetic modification, intelligent machines &endash; such ideas are deeply challenging to many of our traditional assumptions about human uniqueness and superiority. But, ironically, it is our very capacity for technological invention that has secured us so dominant a position in the world which may lead ultimately to (as some have put it) 'The End of Man'. If we are really capable of creating entities that exceed our own skills and intellect then the consequences for humanity are almost inconceivable. Nevertheless, we must now face up to the possibility that attributes like intelligence and consciousness may be synthesised in non-human entities &endash; perhaps within our lifetime. Would such entities have human-like emotions; would they have a sense of their own being? The Posthuman Condition argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained. New theories about nature and the operation of the universe arising from sophisticated computer modelling are starting to demonstrate the profound interconnections between all things in reality where previously we had seen only separations. This has implications for traditional views of the human condition, consciousness, the way we look at art, and for some of the oldest problems in philosophy. |
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Critical Condition $7.99 In the heat of a passionate encounter, ecstasy suddenly turns to terror for renowned geneticist and TV personality Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. Stricken by a brain hemorrhage, she is rendered completely paralyzed and speechless . . . but still utterly aware; a prisoner inside her own body. Kathleen is rushed to a Manhattan hospital, her chances of survival slim. Even if she pulls through, the likelihood that she’ll sustain permanent brain damage is near one hundred percent. But neither outcome can compare to the insidious fate in store for her masterminded by the very people entrusted with saving her life. As her lover, ER chief Richard Steele, watches and waits for a miracle, Kathleen becomes a pawn in a clandestine plot that runs deeper than medical politics–and reaches into the highest echelons of power at New York City Hospital. Placed in the hands, and at the mercy, of revered Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Tony Hamlin, Kathleen descends into a waking nightmare. Powerless to resist the sinister experiments she is subjected to, and unable to cry out for help, she must fight desperately to communicate her tortured, trapped thoughts to Steele–before her tormentors can carry their bizarre and potentially lethal work to its completion. Ruthlessly determined to achieve their goals, the secret cabal of ambitious physicians will go to any length to avoid discovery, defy the law, and make medical history at all costs . . . even the human life they are sworn to preserve. For anyone who has ever had a mortal fear of hospitals, and the sense of powerlessness that often transpires within their cold, sterile corridors, Peter Clement’s Critical Condition will provide chilling new nightmares–along with infectious suspense. From the Hardcover edition. |
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History and the Human Condition (Hardcover) $31.37 In what is likely to be the final word from one of the most accomplished historians of our time, History and the Human Condition presents John Lukacs`s profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more. Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far and wide over the past two centuries. The pursuit takes us from Alexis de Tocqueville to the atomic bomb, from the American frontier to the Cold War, from Hitler to Heisenberg. As an added bonus, this book features a complete bibliography of Lukacs`s writings.Readers of History and the Human Condition will cherish this fascinating work by the man the Washington Times calls ?one of the more incisive historians of the twentieth century.? |
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition $8.33 Humans have long turned to gardens--both real and imaginary--for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.With "Gardens," Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt--all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, "Gardens" is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, "Forests" and "The Dominion of the Dead." Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility--and its enduring importance to humanity. "I find myself completely besotted by a new book titled "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition," by Robert Pogue Harrison. The author . . . is one of the very best cultural critics at work today. He is a man of deep learning, immense generosity of spirit, passionate curiosity and manifold rhetorical gifts."--Julia Keller, "Chicago"" Tribune" "This book is about gardens as a metaphor for the human condition. . . . Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5,000 years of Western literature and criticism, including works on philosophy and garden history. . . . He is a careful as well as an inspiring scholar."--Tom Turner, "Times Higher Education" "When I was a student, my Cambridge supervisor said, in the Olympian tone characteristic of his kind, that the only living literary critics for whom he would sell his shirt were William Empson and G. Wilson Knight. Having spent the subsequent 30 years in the febrile world of academic Lit. Crit. . . . I'm not sure that I'd sell my shirt for any living critic. But if there had to be one, it would unquestionably be Robert Pogue Harrison, whose study "Forests: The Shadow of Civ |
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The One-state Condition (Hardcover) $135.34 Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel`s domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule?both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates?as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief.Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatus?the technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied Territories?Azoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights.Though many Israelis, on both political right and left, agree that the occupation constitutes a problem for Israeli democracy, few ultimately admit that Israel is no democracy or question the very structure of the Israeli regime itself. Too frequently ignored are the lasting effects of the deceptive denial of the events of 1948 and 1967, and the ways in which the resulting occupation has reinforced the sweeping militarization and recent racialization of Israeli society. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgment of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma. |
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The One-state Condition (Paperback) $53.55 Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel`s domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule?both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates?as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief.Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatus?the technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied Territories?Azoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights.Though many Israelis, on both political right and left, agree that the occupation constitutes a problem for Israeli democracy, few ultimately admit that Israel is no democracy or question the very structure of the Israeli regime itself. Too frequently ignored are the lasting effects of the deceptive denial of the events of 1948 and 1967, and the ways in which the resulting occupation has reinforced the sweeping militarization and recent racialization of Israeli society. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgment of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma. |
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The Condition $9.99 In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child—eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen—bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally aloof—spurns all social interaction until, well into her thirties, she falls in love for the first time. With compassion and almost painful astuteness, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies—the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings. |
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Society, History, and the Global Human Condition $84.99 This book highlights the continuing relevance of classical sociological theories and concepts in making sense of the contemporary globalized world. Covering a very wide historical and geographical range and topics that include: classical sociological theory, genocide, resistance, the intifada, street gangs, democracy, bureaucracy, war literature, ethnic diversity, national culture, and science, the distinguished contributors to this volume affirm the contemporary relevance of the classical sociological tradition for making sense of the global human condition. |
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Very! Very! Sweet, Volume 8 $7.93 Luckily, Be-Ri's timely discovery of the forgotten Doki saves the cat's life. But while Doki is well on his way to a full recovery, his master back in Japan is struggling with losing his grandfather and having to rethink his identity. With only snatches of news from Erica's brother, the uncertainty about Tsuyoshi's condition weighs heavily on Be-Ri's mind and heart. Given the physical distance between them, Be-Ri will have to take decisive action if she wants to help her friend. Is she ready to make a bold move in the name of love? There's no turning back in the final volume of Very Very Sweet |
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 $3.99 This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and footnote. ******************. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels'' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle. Prior to the introduction of mills (1779-1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five. After the introduction of mills the figure rose to 4,738. Prior to the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old. After the introduction of mills the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000. It is considered by many to be a classic account of the condition of the industrial working class. It was originally addressed to a German audience. The eldest son of a successful German textile industrialist, Engels became involved in radical journalism as a teenager. Sent to England, what he saw made him even more radical. About this time he formed his life-long intellectual partnership with Karl Marx. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (PS3) $9.99 Ugly monsters! Giant robots! Charming tin hats! Welcome to the frozen wastes of Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Set in the brutal, frozen tundra of a hostile planet, the game pits players against giant, ugly indigenous creatures and invading nasties. You take on the role of Wayne Holden, rescued from a veil of ice with only fragments of his memory remaining. What he does remember is the slaying of his father at the hands of the monstrous beings. With only the Snow Pirates, the native Akrid, and the mysterious NEVEC corporation left on the planet, you must work out who to trust and battle for survival. Working on foot and with your VS (Vital Suit, a giant mechanical armour-type-thing) you must navigate the world hunting for answers. In addition to fighting the assorted giant monsters and other nastiness, players must also battle the cold. By killing the Akrid, players can extract minerals from their bodies in order to stay alive. Lost Planet producer Keiji Inafune has claimed the game is his answer to Halo. Big words indeed, but with the development team behind Onimusha and Devil May Cry working on the game, Lost Planet might just prove Inafune right. The game attracted a lot of heat ahead of its original 360 release, with the demo hitting the one million download mark, and now it's been around for a year or so on the Microsoft console, finally the Sony faithful can see what all the fuss was about. Players get the opportunity to 'chill out' online with a multiplayer mode that will allow up to 16 players to duke it out. There are four modes to choose from: Elimination (a deathmatch); Team Elimination (you guessed it - a deathmatch in teams); Post Grab (grab as many posts as possible); and Fugitive Hunt (which pits one player against the others). All very chilling stuff. |
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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood $23.37 Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, "The Empire of Trauma" provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world. |
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Socio Economic Condition of Santal Tribe $138.61 Many studies have been conducted on the household expenditure pattern in Bangladesh. But only a very few of those have considered the household expenditure pattern of Santals in Bangladesh. In this study the information of income and expenditure on different item are collected by direct interview. Here an effort is made to introduce some models, which can provide the significance of relationship between the income and expenditure on different item like food and nonfood. The main objectives of the study are 1] To examine the social and anthropological aspect of Santal tribe 2] To over view the social structure and tradition of Santal tribe 3] To obtain information related to household expenditure and consumption patterns 4] To estimate the expenditure elasticity with respect to income for consumer items based on six alternative forms of equation by E. Engel. Author: Ahamed, Mohammad Tanvir/ Pk MD Motiur Rahman, Dr Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2011/04/28 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.30 inches |
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Very Best Of $4.99 Track Listing: 1. On the Inside (New Recording) - (new recording), 2. Blind Revolution Mad, 3. Down Incognito, 4. Spell I'm Under, 5. Who's the One, 6. Junkyard Dog (Tears on Stone), 7. Hell to Pay - (outtake), 8. Can't Get Enuff, 9. Under One Condition, 10. Easy Come Easy Go, 11. Rainbow in the Rose, 12. Miles Away, 13. Seventeen, 14. Madalaine, 15. Hungry, 16. Headed for a Heartbreak |
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The Jewish Condition: Challenges and Responses: 1938-2008 $27.82 This brilliant set of essays poses the paradigmatic question: are Jews in grave danger today or not? Concern is rooted in the storm clouds of 1938, when the same question arose just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War and the Holocaust.A The contributors do not presume that the events of seventy years ago are identical with those today, or that they emanate from the same sources. However, the shared feeling is that Jewish communities worldwide are very much, once again at risk. In post-1938 Germany, the Nazi state began its march toward world conquest, with the destruction of European Jewry as its centerpiece. In an act of willful blindness, Western democratic leaders chose to negotiate and appease the Hitler regime. Many Jewish leaders also chose to minimize the risks. Seven years later, over 50 million people, including six million Jews had been killed. In 2008, extremist Islamic forces have spawned a global Jihad. State-sponsored terrorism, a war against the West as well as against moderate Islamic states, once again holds the destruction of the Jewish people, and in particular the State of Israel, as a critical goal. The Iranian leadership proclaims that "a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible." Against such a diplomatic and historical background a conference was organized resulting in these essays written by Alan Dershowitz, Norman Podhoretz, Michael Walzer, Leonard Fein, and David Pryce-Jones among others. The results are varied at the policy level, but unified in apprehending a disturbing revival of inherited hatred and anti-Semitic outbreaks against Jews both within and outside of Europe. The is a compelling effort that merits the attention of social scientists, policy makers, and those interested in international relations. |
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Xbox 360) $9.99 Ugly monsters! Giant robots! Charming tin hats! Hooargh! Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is the first big release of 2007. If you were wondering, the ‘extreme’ part of the title refers to the very, very cold environment in which the game is set. Quite apt for a January release, really. Set in the brutal frozen tundra of a hostile planet, the game pits players against giant, ugly indigenous creatures and invading nasties. You take on the role of Wayne Holden, rescued from a veil of ice with only fragments of his memory remaining. What he does remember is the slaying of his father at the hands of the monstrous beings. With only the Snow Pirates, the native Akrid, and the mysterious NEVEC corporation left on the planet, you must work out who to trust and battle for survival. Working on foot and with your VS (Vital Suit, or giant mechanical armour-type-thing if you prefer) you must navigate the world hunting for answers. In addition to fighting the assorted giant monsters and other nastiness, players must also battle the cold. By killing the Akrid, players can extract minerals from their bodies in order to stay alive. Lost Planet producer Keiji Inafune has claimed the game is his answer to Halo. Big words indeed, but with the development team behind Onimusha and Devil May Cry working on the game, Lost Planet might just prove a winner for Capcom. Lost Planet attracted a lot of heat ahead of its release, with the demo having hit the 1million download mark. Players will also get the opportunity to chill out online with a multiplayer mode that will allow up to 16 players to duke it out. There are four modes to choose from: Elimination (a deathmatch); Team Elimination (you guessed it - a deathmatch in teams); Post Grab (grab as many posts as possible); and Fugitive Hunt (which pits one player against the others). All very chilling stuff. |
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Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage $15.88 "Go on a date with a soldier turned police officer? Me? And discuss Gandhi's experiments with truth with a gun-toting Republican?""" The last thing Berkeley-dwelling peace activist Sophia Raday expected was to fall in love with a straightlaced Oakland police officer. As someone who had run away from cops dressed in riot gear at protests, Sophia was ambivalent, to say the least, at the prospect of dating Barrett, who was not only a cop but also a West Point graduate, an Airborne Ranger, and a major in the Army Reserve. During their courtship the two argued about many of the matters that divide the United States, things like drug policy and race relations. Startled by the freedom she found in a relationship of differences, by the challenge of sparring with Barrett, and by his steadfast acceptance of her, Sophia unwittingly fell in love. Then, just when Sophia believed her family was starting a new chapter with the birth of their son, came September 11. Barrett's belief that he must always stay in Condition Yellow--the terminology coined by his favorite Guns & Ammo writer for a state of alert in which you realize your life is in danger and you may need to shoot someone--was suddenly in the forefront of their lives. Sophia and Barrett began to confront, on a very personal level, their differing viewpoints on polarizing values like fear, duty, family, and patriotism. When Barrett's military duties escalated along with the country's, Sophia found herself in the surprising position of military wife, living on an army base during the 2004 elections, and struggling to find peace with herself and her husband in this new world. It was a struggle that would continue up to the point of Barrett's deployment to Iraq. "Love in Condition Yellow" not only provides a vivid, poignant portrait of this unusual union, but also tells the larger story of how love doesn't necessarily come from sameness, and peace doesn't necessarily come from agreement. |
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The Great Condition by James, Henry, Jr. [Paperback] $20.24 He did at last fix a day, none the less, and went down; but there, on the spot, his imagination was, to his surprise, freshly excited by the very fact that there were no apparent signs of a drama. It was as if he could see, after all, even face to face with her, what had stirred within the man she had for a time only imperfectly subdued. Why should she have tried to be so simple too simple? She overdid it, she ignored too much. Author: James, Henry, Jr. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 52 Publication Date: 2004/06/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.24 x 7.54 x 0.16 inches |
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The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII $16.89 Economist HENRY GEORGE (18391897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. Here, in this 1891 work, George issues a passionate call to Pope Leo XXI to reconsider his public denunciation of the very notions of egalitarianism and opportunity that George had championed throughout his career as an economist. This edition also includes the encyclical letter that inspired Georges anger. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Georges Progress and Poverty, The Science of Political Economy, A Perplexed Philosopher, and Protection or Free Trade. Author: George, Henry Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 164 Publication Date: 2006/10/01 Language: English Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.00 x 0.38 inches |
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction $11.95 "Steve Bruce conveys the essence of the field of sociology in this fascinating volume. A well-known populizer of the discipline, Bruce presents here an introduction to a way of thinking that will appeal to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of modern society.> Bruce reasserts the value of sociology as a social science, as a framework of understanding the human condition that grounds its explanations in reliable observations of the real world. Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, Bruce explores the tension between the individual's role in society and society's role in shaping the individual. Sociology: A Very Short Introduction demonstrates the value of sociology as a perspective for understanding the modern world." |
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Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction $12.21 In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy. Balancing lively details with intriguing topics, it sheds light on such subjects as the "Sensibility" movement, which preceded Romanticism; the rising prestige of the poet as inspired prophet; the suffering and neglect of the poet; the rather different figure of the "poetess"; Romanticism as a religious trend; Romantic philosophy and science; and Romantic responses to the French Revolution, the Orient, gypsies, and the condition of women. Ferber offers a definition and several general propositions about this very diverse movement, as well as a discussion of the word "Romantic" and where it came from. Finally, some two hundred authors or artists are cited or quoted, many at length, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, Hugo, Goethe, Pushkin, Beethoven, Berlioz, Chopin, and Delacroix. |
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Mint Condition $114 Mint Condition |
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Human Condition $12.49 Human Condition |
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Blue Condition $5.99 Blue Condition |