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Modest goals

To all those who have had the misfortune of sharing a planet with Donald J. Trump, and to those who shall someday get rid of him and everything for which he stands.

Trump: anatomy of a monstrosity / Nathan J. Robinson

Al Gore: Inventor of the internet

Emerging trends in transportation planning / Andy Boenau Momentum Press, 2017

To Dad, my no. 1 fan long before I realized it. To modernist transportation experts, for giving me endless material to lampoon. And to Al Gore, for inventing the internet. I’m forever grateful.

Arsonist of the spirit

For Aimee, who, with her own divine presence, set my world alight at a riverside bonfire so long ago.

Black Prometheus : race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery / Jared Hickman

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

#OUP #Mythology Greek in literature #Prometheus (Greek deity)#fire

Giant bottle of asprins

This book is dedicated to the meory of Leo Liepmann, co-founder of Oxfam and at one time our landlord in Oxford. Jewish in origin, Quaker in belief, Professor of economics in Breslau, he left Germany in 1933, as soon as Hitler came to power, carrying with him a giant bottle of asprins which I remember admiring in his kitchen.

God's armies : crusade and Jihad: origins, history, aftermath / Malcolm Lambert

New York : Pegasus books, 2016

#asprins #kitchen adornments #was it a magnum?#Or a jeroboam?

Normal Organizational Wrongdoing, D. Palmer, Oxford (2012)

“For Kim, I promise to take off more time to ski next winter”

#Kim #promises #skiing #organization

From Stone, D (2012) Policy Paradox. Norton, New York.

For Jim

somewhere always,

alone among the noise and policies of summer

#Jim #Policy #politics?

Dedicated to the resiliency of the futures industry, the city of Chicago, whose capitalistic drive opened the door for success and loyal DeCarley Trading clients

#twats

Basics of Financial Econometrics

‘To my son, Francesco, who I hope reads this book.’

#econometrics #finance #nopressure #son

“I would like to dedicate this to book to my wonderful mother in law…”

#unknown source #unknown subject

Thanks gramps!

This book is dedicated to our granddaughters, Caitlin Elizabeth and Scarlett Josephine, with the hope that their futures will be enhanced by more effective interpersonal health communication, collaborative decision making, reduced health risks, and a patient-centered focus on wellness.

Health communication for health care professionals / Michael P. Pagano

New York: Springer, 2017

“To my wife, Bridget, who dreamed as a little girl of having a book about managerial analytics dedicated to her J”

#Managerial analytics #Bridget

In: Lave, J. and E. Wenger. 1991. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. CUL: Cambridge.

“It occurred to us at the same moment to dedicate this book to each other. We do so as a celebration of an extraordinarily happy collaboration, in which we experienced many of the things we were writing about”

#learning #education #I'm unsure about the subject...#collaboration

Bauman, Robert W. (2011) Microbiology with diseases by taxonomy. Pearson: San Francisco.

“To Michelle: my best friend, my closest confidant, my cheerleader, my partner, my love. I treasure my life with you. – Robert”

#microbiology #cheerleaders #taxonomy

Levenson, Michael (1991) Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character & Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf. CUP: Cambridge.

“For Karen, My Fate”

#Modernism #fate #the long view

From Lesk, A.M. (2014) ‘Introduction to Bioinformatics’.

4th ed. Oxford: OUP

“Dedicated to Eda, with whom I have merged my genes”

#get a room #bioinformatics #Eda

From: Organic chemistry,