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Confessional Poetry in the Cold War

The Poetics of Doublespeak

By: Adam Beardsworth

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Confessional Poetry in the Cold War

The Poetics of Doublespeak

By: Adam Beardsworth

This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb’s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.

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Springer Nature

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3030931153

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9783030931155

The Distracted Mind

Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

By: Adam Gazzaley,Larry D. Rosen

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The Distracted Mind

Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

By: Adam Gazzaley,Larry D. Rosen

A “brilliant and practical” study of why our brains aren’t built for media multitasking—and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way (Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart) Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask—read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on the phone, send a text, drive a car. Enjoy family dinner with a glowing smartphone next to our plates. We can do it all, 24/7! Never mind the errors in the email, the near-miss on the road, and the unheard conversation at the table. In The Distracted Mind, Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen—a neuroscientist and a psychologist—explain why our brains aren't built for multitasking, and suggest better ways to live in a high-tech world without giving up our modern technology. The authors explain that our brains are limited in their ability to pay attention. We don't really multitask but rather switch rapidly between tasks. Distractions and interruptions, often technology-related—referred to by the authors as “interference”—collide with our goal-setting abilities. We want to finish this paper/spreadsheet/sentence, but our phone signals an incoming message and we drop everything. Even without an alert, we decide that we “must” check in on social media immediately. Gazzaley and Rosen offer practical strategies, backed by science, to fight distraction. We can change our brains with meditation, video games, and physical exercise; we can change our behavior by planning our accessibility and recognizing our anxiety about being out of touch even briefly. They don't suggest that we give up our devices, but that we use them in a more balanced way.

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MIT Press

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0262534436

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9780262534437

The Typic in Kant’s "Critique of Practical Reason"

Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation

By: Adam Westra

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The Typic in Kant’s "Critique of Practical Reason"

Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation

By: Adam Westra

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled “On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment,” Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can we represent the supersensible moral law so as to apply it to actions in the sensible world? Despite its importance to Kant's project, previous studies of the Typic have been fragmentary, disparate, and contradictory. This book provides a detailed commentary on the Typic, elucidating how it enables moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or analogue, of the moral law. In addition, the book situates the Typic, both historically and conceptually, within Kant's theory of symbolic representation. While many commentators have assimilated the Typic to the aesthetic notion of 'symbolic hypotyposis' in the third Critique, the author contends that it has greater continuities with the theoretical notion of 'symbolic anthropomorphism' in the Prolegomena. As the first comprehensive, book-length study of the Typic that critically engages with the secondary literature, this monograph fills an important gap in the research on Kant's ethics and aesthetics and provides a starting point for further inquiry and debate.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110455935

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9783110455939

The Political Economy of J.H.G. Justi

By: Ulrich Adam

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The Political Economy of J.H.G. Justi

By: Ulrich Adam

This study provides a first comprehensive introduction to the political and economic thought of Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717-1771). While previous scholarship saw Justi as quintessentially a German thinker, this analysis argues that his thought was a by-product of the broader European intellectual discourse on the political implications of modern trade. Writing between the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession (1748) and the end of the Seven Years War (1763) - when competition among European powers was sharply on the increase - Justi's aim was to create modern commercial monarchies in the larger states of the Holy Roman Empire that could equal the military strength, political standing and economic performance of England and France. Shedding fresh light on Justi's tortuous biography and complex oeuvre this study unveils the critical impact that French thinkers such as Fénelon, Saint-Pierre, d'Argenson and Montesquieu exerted on Justi's ideas and demonstrates that his economic thought was part and parcel of an innovative and comprehensive political reform plan for the entire European state system.

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Peter Lang

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3039102788

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9783039102785

Mobilizing Hope

Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation

By: Adam Taylor

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Mobilizing Hope

Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation

By: Adam Taylor

In Martin Luther King's day the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws from that movement for the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same. See what today's new nonconformists are doing to keep in step with the God of justice and love, and find ways you can join them in an activism of hope.

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InterVarsity Press

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083086802X

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Netter's Essential Physiology - E-Book

By: Susan Mulroney,Adam Myers

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Netter's Essential Physiology - E-Book

By: Susan Mulroney,Adam Myers

Clear, focused, and highly visual, Netter's Essential Physiology, 3rd Edition, uses a concise, clinical approach to help you grasp key concepts quickly and easily. Illustrated by the world-renowned Frank H. Netter, MD, and artists working in his tradition, this readable text combines easy-to-understand prose with clinical correlations, "light bulb side notes, end-of-chapter questions, and helpful videos to ensure a complete understanding of complex content. It's an ideal text for a basic understanding of physiology, as an overview of the subject, or as a supplement to lectures. - Uses beautifully clear drawings and diagrams from the Netter collection to teach key points quickly, effectively, and memorably. - Contains "light bulb" boxes that use memorable details or examples to foster "a-ha learning moments. - Includes expanded pathophysiology content with more clinical correlates, including the fallacy of race-dependent differences in normal GFR values and pulmonary function. - Features new illustrations for GI physiology, and updated figures throughout to better reflect the diversity in human populations. - Contains more practice questions per section. - Provides video tutorials that explain challenging but essential physiology concepts. - An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, plus videos and additional self-assessment questions, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Evolve Instructor site with image bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve.elsevier.com.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443114560

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9780443114564

Hidden Truth

Young Men Navigating Lives in and Out of Juvenile Prison

By: Adam Dalton Reich

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Hidden Truth

Young Men Navigating Lives in and Out of Juvenile Prison

By: Adam Dalton Reich

Adam D. Reich draws on his experiences working with juvenile prison inmates to examine how poor and disenfranchised young men learn about masculinity and identity.

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Univ of California Press

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0520262662

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9780520262669

Before Infallibility

Liberal Catholicism in Biedermeier Vienna

By: Adam Bunnell

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Before Infallibility

Liberal Catholicism in Biedermeier Vienna

By: Adam Bunnell

The study of two nineteenth-century priests who tried to transform their church through a new formulations of ancient Truth. Systematic theologian Anton Gunther challenged the pantheistic idealism dominant in the German intellectual world of his day, and Johann Emanuel Veith found in Gunther's system of contrapositional dualism the basis of his theological expression.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838633447

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9780838633441

Thirteen Secret Letters

By: Adam Friedrich Boehme

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Thirteen Secret Letters

By: Adam Friedrich Boehme

Those interested in the Western hermetic tradition may know that the 18th century Golden and Rosicrucian Order was a high degree Masonic Order with a strong emphasis on laboratory alchemy. This work was considered a preparation for the theurgical work which they taught in their higher degrees, where the final aim of their system was to become a Biblical type of prophet. This compilation of the 13 letters, now in print for the first time in modern type, as well as translated into English, is distinguished among the many other books of its time, some of which also claim origin with said order but fail to deliver. For all who take an interest in Fulcanelli, along with the classics, Cyliani, Philalethes, or Sendivogius, this is a must-read and a perfect companion to the "Hermes Trismegistus Old and True Natural Path," also available from Lulu. Language: English + Deutsch

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Lulu.com

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1312657154

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9781312657151

Conrad's Decentered Fiction

By: Johan Adam Warodell

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Conrad's Decentered Fiction

By: Johan Adam Warodell

Brings the vibrant details of Conrad's writing to the forefront for study and analyzes newly-discovered artworks, maps, and manuscript pages.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316512193

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A More Perfect Union

A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

By: Adam Russell Taylor

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A More Perfect Union

A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

By: Adam Russell Taylor

America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of healing and creating a more perfect union in our nation must start now. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful way forward. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506464548

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9781506464541

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Encounters with Touch Technology

By: Rhonda McEwen,Adam Dubé

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Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Encounters with Touch Technology

By: Rhonda McEwen,Adam Dubé

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood offers an alternative to dominant and populist narratives that young people are intuitively able to successfully use tablet devices. Adopting a research-driven approach, the book contests the ideology that touch-technologies are easier to understand, and identifies the factors that contribute to communicative encounters between users and tablets. Communication theory and cognitive psychology concepts and methods are employed to offer an epistemological exploration of user-tablet interaction with a focus on the use of these technologies in educational settings.

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Routledge

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1315389460

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9781315389462

Ghostworkers and Greens

The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform

By: Adam Tompkins

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Ghostworkers and Greens

The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform

By: Adam Tompkins

In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health.

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Cornell University Press

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1501704214

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Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders

Empowering Schools and Communities

By: Jennifer Perry Cheatham,Rodney Thomas,Adam Parrott-Sheffer

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Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders

Empowering Schools and Communities

By: Jennifer Perry Cheatham,Rodney Thomas,Adam Parrott-Sheffer

A vital resource for educational leaders, Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders introduces an equity-minded process for intentional entry planning that sets the stage for sustainable change within organizations. In this practitioner-focused and action-oriented work, Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer consolidate their extensive experience centering equity in leadership. They affirm that the entry of a new leader, or the pivot of an established one, affords an unparalleled opportunity to garner the insight, trust, and commitment that will establish a basis for positive, equitable transformation within a system. This essential work provides a flexible framework for leadership entry that is customized to fit the complex social, political, and economic demands of a given organization and the community it serves. It highlights how such an approach prepares leaders to begin addressing one of the most entrenched and persistent issues in education: structural and systemic racism. Appealing to community and school leadership at all levels—superintendents, principals, project managers, and nonprofit partners, among others—the book presents seven components needed to enact an entry plan, from understanding context, to establishing transparency, to galvanizing partners for action. Through case studies and interviews, the authors explore the key skills necessary for each component. They then offer a wide range of supplementary tools and exercises to help leaders begin or recast their tenures and advance their agendas successfully. The process outlined here encourages readers to reflect, take calculated risks, and chart new paths. This book gives leaders the means to make necessary, meaningful progress.

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Harvard Education Press

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1682537668

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9781682537664

Advances in Nitrate Therapy

By: Adam Schneeweiss,Marija Weiss

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Advances in Nitrate Therapy

By: Adam Schneeweiss,Marija Weiss

All aspects of nitrate therapy, including conventional and new formulations and delivery systems, are covered in this book. For each drug the formulation, mechanism of action, indications, effects, adverse reactions and special problems are systematically described. The use of nitrates in specific population groups, such as infants, children and the elderly, is dealt with separately. The book is updated, based not only on the world literature but also on the most recent conference presentations, and provides the reader with thorough and practice-oriented coverage.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642970664

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With God on Our Side

The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital

By: Adam D. Reich

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With God on Our Side

The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital

By: Adam D. Reich

When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his own work as a volunteer organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Reich explores how both union leaders and hospital leaders sought to show they were upholding the Catholic "mission" of the hospital against a market represented by the other. Ultimately, workers and union leaders were able to reinterpret Catholic values in ways that supported their efforts to organize. More generally, Reich argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. In addition to advocating for workers' economic interests, unions must engage with workers' emotional investments in their work, must contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, and must connect labor's project to broader conceptions of the public good.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464188

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9780801464188

Collaborate Now!

How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life

By: Adam Seth Levine

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Collaborate Now!

How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life

By: Adam Seth Levine

In civic life, collaboration people would value often doesn't arise. Why not, and what can we do about it?

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Cambridge University Press

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100941190X

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9781009411905

Observation, Hypothesis, Introspection

By: Adam Wiegner

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Observation, Hypothesis, Introspection

By: Adam Wiegner

Adam Wiegner's work belongs to Polish analytical philosophy, but it falls outside of its main current, the Lvov-Warsaw School, which was influenced by Hume's ideas. Wiegner, influenced by neo-Kantianism, developed a non-Humean conception of "holistic empiricism," which anticipates some of the ideas of K. R. Popper and W. V. O. Quine. Some of his ideas remain original to this day. His main research interests included epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science especially philosophy of psychology, analytical history of philosophy, and interpretation of traditional logic in terms of mathematical logic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rodopi

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9042017260

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9789042017269

Modernity's Wager

Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

By: Adam B. Seligman

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Modernity's Wager

Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

By: Adam B. Seligman

In this work of social philosophy, Adam Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority.

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Princeton University Press

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0691116369

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9780691116365

Beetle

By: Adam Dodd

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Beetle

By: Adam Dodd

Ancient and strange, beetles call to mind a lost world of Egyptian magic and belief—a reminder of the fascination they’ve long held for human culture. In Beetle, Adam Dodd offers a richly illustrated, engaging account of the natural and cultural history of the beetle, from its origins more than two hundred and fifty million years ago to the present, when its anatomy is inspiring cutting-edge developments in cybernetics. Along the way, Dodd explores the incredible variety of beetles on earth—there are more than 350,000 species—and their amazing ability to exploit nature’s niches. He also takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the countless ways that beetles have infiltrated our art, folklore, literature, and religious beliefs. Stolid, secretive, and still-mysterious, beetles continue to exert a powerful pull on naturalists and collectors today, and no beetle fanatic will want to miss Dodd’s winning appreciation of their history.

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Reaktion Books

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1780235348

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9781780235349

Orthopedic Imaging

A Practical Approach

By: Adam Greenspan

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Orthopedic Imaging

A Practical Approach

By: Adam Greenspan

Featuring over 4,000 large-size illustrations and unique, effective pedagogy, the Fifth Edition of Dr. Greenspan's best-seller is the ideal teaching text on musculoskeletal imaging for radiologists and orthopedists at every level of training. Orthopedic Imaging: A Practical Approach covers all orthopedic problems and imaging modalities and offers indispensable guidance on selecting cost-effective imaging techniques. The Fifth Edition has a new full-color design, with colorized tables and schematics and full-color illustrations including PET-CT. All conventional tomography has been replaced by CT. Coverage of MRI—the scan of choice for more clinical situations than ever—has been greatly expanded, especially in areas related to arthritis. More three-dimensional CT scans have been added, particularly to areas covering trauma. Musculoskeletal ultrasound coverage has been increased. Practical Points to Remember appear at the end of each chapter to outline salient points. A companion website will offer the fully searchable text and images.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451148658

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9781451148657

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

The Thorny Path from Political to Economic Integration

By: Adam Zwass

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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

The Thorny Path from Political to Economic Integration

By: Adam Zwass

From the John Holmes Library collection.

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M.E. Sharpe

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087332496X

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ABC of Tubes, Drains, Lines and Frames

By: Adam Brooks,Peter F. Mahoney,Brian Rowlands

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ABC of Tubes, Drains, Lines and Frames

By: Adam Brooks,Peter F. Mahoney,Brian Rowlands

Surgical patients are increasingly undergoing operative proceduresthat require complex post-operative care followed by prolongedrehabilitation in the community, and few leave surgery without awound, tube, line or drain. The care of these surgical adjuncts isundertaken either in hospital by ward staff or away from thehospital in the community, where GPs and practice nurses areexpected to take over the day-to-day management of this care. The ABC of Tubes, Drains, Lines and Frames is a practicalguide that provides a clear account of the key issues involved inthe assessment and management of surgical wounds, tubes, drains,lines and stomas – from the operating theatre to the CriticalCare unit and from the ward into the community. It highlightscommon pitfalls and includes ‘trouble shooting’sections that provide an understanding of the issues at all stagesof post-operative care. This new ABC is an invaluable resource for all GPs,practice nurses, surgical nurses, junior doctors, and communityparamedics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444312456

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The Blueprint

How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)

By: Adam Schrager

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The Blueprint

How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)

By: Adam Schrager

Through the microcosm of Colorado's stunning political transformation, this is an inside look at the rapidly-changing business of campaigns and elections. The techniques pioneered in Colorado have been recognized by both parties and pundits as the future of American politics.

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1936218100

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In Praise of Nepotism

A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush

By: Adam Bellow

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In Praise of Nepotism

A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush

By: Adam Bellow

A wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book that offers a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotism—from ancient Chinese clans to families like the Gores, Kennedys, and Bushes. • “Fascinating and well-researched.” —Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker and Steve Jobs Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families whose sons and daughters have gone on to accomplish objectively great things, even if they got a little help from their parents. Bellow explores how nepotism has produced both positive and negative effects throughout history. As he argues, nepotism practiced badly or haphazardly is an embarrassment to all (including the incompetent beneficiary), but nepotism practiced well can satisfy a deep biological urge to provide for our children and even benefit society as a whole. In Praise of Nepotism is a judicious look at a controversial but timeless subject that has never been explored with such depth or candor, and a fascinating natural history of how families work.

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0385493894

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Modernizing Tradition

Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany

By: Adam C. Stanley

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Modernizing Tradition

Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany

By: Adam C. Stanley

In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women necessarily filled men's roles in factories and other jobs during the war, those who continued to lead active working lives after World War I risked being called "modern women." Far from a compliment, this derogatory label encompassed everything society found threatening about women's new place in public life: smoking, working women who preferred independence and sexual freedom to a traditional role in the home. Society felt threatened by the image of the "modern woman," yet also realized that conceptions of femininity needed to accommodate the cultural changes brought about by the Great War. In Modernizing Tradition, Adam C. Stanley explores how interwar French and German popular culture used commercial images to redefine femininity in a way that granted women some access to modern life without encouraging the assertion of female independence. Examining advertisements, articles, and cartoons, as well as department store publicity materials from the popular press of each nation, Stanley reveals how the media attempted to convince women that--with the help of newly available consumer goods such as washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners--being a mother or a housewife could be empowering, even liberating. A life devoted to the home, these images promised, need not be an unmitigated return to old-fashioned tradition but could offer a rewarding lifestyle based on the wonders and benefits of modern technology. Stanley shows that the media carefully limited women's association with modernity to those activities that reinforced women's traditional roles or highlighted their continued dependence on masculine guidance, expertise, and authority. In this cross-national study, Stanley brings into sharp relief issues of gender and consumerism and reveals that, despite the larger political differences between France and Germany, gender ideals in the two countries remained virtually identical between the world wars. That these concepts of gender stayed static over the course of two decades--years when nearly every other aspect of society and culture seemed to be in constant flux--attests to their extraordinary power as a force in French and German society.

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0807134899

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