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Night of the Republic

By: Alan Shapiro

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Night of the Republic

By: Alan Shapiro

The tenth collection of poems from Alan Shapiro, author of SONG AND DANCE and OLD WAR

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547329709

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9780547329703

Reel to Reel

By: Alan Shapiro

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Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate mysteries. In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.

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University of Chicago Press

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022611077X

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9780226110776

The Dead Alive and Busy

By: Alan Shapiro

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The Dead Alive and Busy

By: Alan Shapiro

In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed through examining the intimate bonds of family life. The poems explore these familial relations in terms of the religious, social, and literary contexts that inform them, delving into such universal themes as human frailty, illness and death, bereavement, and thwarted desires. By turns lyrical and narrative, slangy and elevated, analytical and visionary, this collection showcases one of America's most important poets in his top form. Praise for Alan Shapiro: "Shapiro is a shrewd and sympathetic moralist. He never trivializes his subjects with high-minded flourishes or stylistic gimmicks."—J. D. McClatchy, New York Times Book Review

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0226750515

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9780226750514

Mixed Company

By: Alan Shapiro

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Mixed Company

By: Alan Shapiro

AcknowledgmentsThe Letter My Mother and a Few FriendsMother: Sun Bathing Widows Matriarchs Wife: Labor Isabel Night Terrors Hecuba Single Mother Sylvia Wife: The Good Daughter Wife: The Mirror Pleasure Lethe Ex-Wife: Infatuation Ex-Wife: Homesickness Sisters Soul Lover Girlfriend Woman Friend The Friend In the Land of the Inheritance Manufacturing The Basement Black Maid The Fight Cabbie Pick Up Game Between Assassinations Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226750302

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9780226750309

Proceed to Check Out

By: Alan Shapiro

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Proceed to Check Out

By: Alan Shapiro

In this book from award-winning poet Alan Shapiro, the poet, in many ways, is coming to terms not only with his own mortality but also with the finite nature inherent in all human existence. Like the universe, it is full of strange, dark matter in its unflinching look at the unmaking of the self facilitated by our growing reliance on dehumanizing technology, something to which we can all attest in our viral-inflected era of remote living and working, and with so much of our energies focused on screens and keyboards. So much of what we are is being dumped into databases, into collective technological, medical, religious, political, and commercial languages, yet the poet continues to remind us of what's behind all of these technologies: humanity in all its frailties and virtues. Shapiro continues to evolve formally as a poet, as evidenced by the wide variety of prose poems, traditional lyrics, and experimental forms in this book, and although his abiding themes--family, human connection, and relationships--seem to come under a kind of assault in Proceed to Check Out, yet he continues to find the worth and vitality of the human endeavor and the pursuit of art. He remains committed to facing the hypocrisies and denials we'd much prefer to hide, and to exploring the social and psychological ties that bind all of us together in fully lived experience"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226817547

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9780226817545

Broadway Baby

By: Alan Shapiro

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Broadway Baby

By: Alan Shapiro

As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family—sure, maybe she’d do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and three demanding children, one of whom, Ethan, shows real talent for the stage. It is through Ethan that Miriam strives to realize her dreams. As she pushes him to make the most of his talent, the rest of her life gradually comes undone, with her husband becoming increasingly frustrated and her other two children—Sam, a mass of quirks and idiosyncrasies, and Julie, hostile and bitter—withdrawing into their own worlds. Still Miriam dreams, praying for that big finale, which, when it comes, is nothing that she ever could have imagined. Broadway Baby marks the fiction debut of a nationally acclaimed award-winning memoirist and poet, “an acute observer of moments, people, art and language [who] packs even seemingly simple stories with many layers of meaning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Algonquin Books

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1616201134

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9781616201135

Vigil

By: Alan Shapiro

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Vigil

By: Alan Shapiro

Chronicling the final four weeks of his sister Beth's life, as she dies in a hospice from breast cancer, Shapiro reveals fragments of the personal history of the family members who come to visit her, bringing to life a troubled and poignant past.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226750345

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9780226750347

Against Translation

By: Alan Shapiro

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Against Translation

By: Alan Shapiro

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and drift”—Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn’t yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking “girly”; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss—moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.

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University of Chicago Press

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022661350X

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9780226613505

Life Pig

By: Alan Shapiro

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Life Pig

By: Alan Shapiro

“In deft, quiet language,” the Pulitzer Prize finalist “recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts” in his latest poetry collection (Library Journal). Alan Shapiro’s newest book of poetry explores the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social—both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.

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022640420X

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9780226404202

Covenant

By: Alan Shapiro

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Covenant

By: Alan Shapiro

The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human happenstance and estrangement. . . .In Covenant, sympathy grounds itself in worldly particulars, and subjectivity begets responsibilities. Hardnosed yet tenderly attentive, Shapiro's acute self-consciousness distills an exacting conscientiousness."—David Barber, Poetry "At forty-years-old and already the author of four superbly written books of poems, Shapiro has produced a work of such authority and originality that he has permanently enlarged my hopes and expectations for contemporary poetry. His risk-loving swiftness of perception and his affinity for stories that up-end convention and taboo have enabled him to reclaim, for poets of my generation, areas of feeling and linguistic virtuosity that originated with William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, J. V. Cunningham, and Ivor Winters. It is hard for me to see how an ideal anthologist of the future will be able to include their names without gratefully including his."—Tom Sleigh, Boston Phoenix

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University of Chicago Press

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0226750442

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9780226750446

That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

By: Alan Shapiro

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That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

By: Alan Shapiro

The words "self-forgetful" were intentionally printed with a line through them on the title page.

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University of Chicago Press

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022641695X

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9780226416953

After the Digging

By: Alan Shapiro

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After the Digging

By: Alan Shapiro

AFTER THE DIGGING provides an exceptional look at the early work of acclaimed poet Alan Shapiro. His first collection of poems reveals his strong sense of historical narrative. The book is divided into two parts: a sequence on the Irish Famine in the mid-19th century and a series on demonic possession in late 17th-century New England.

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0226750418

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9780226750415

The Courtesy

By: Alan Shapiro

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The Courtesy

By: Alan Shapiro

In this, his first book, Alan Shapiro vividly recreates some of the more memorable and poignant moments from his Jewish-American childhood, and in the process reveals his compassionate interest in the forgotten, the alienated, and the infirm. The Courtesy is an intelligent, reflective examination of the poet's own psychological history. "The Courtesy is really an admirable book: it shows up the unreality of a lot of the other poetry one reads, dealing honestly and with that perversity which is a sign of thoughfulness, with the slight but heavy matter of our everyday defeats."—Michael Hoffman, Poetry Nation Review

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0226750264

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9780226750262

Happy Hour

By: Alan Shapiro

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Happy Hour

By: Alan Shapiro

A nominee for the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, this new collection contains poems that use their calm surfaces to restrain difficult and unshapely material. The longer poems, narratives of considerable power, display a generosity of detail and insight and seem more like versified short stories than poems. The character studies like "Extra," "Anatomy Lesson," and the title poem recall the bitterness in similar poems by Randall Jarrell or Anthony Hecht. The chilling poem "Neighbors" tells the story of a young couple, whose downstairs neighbor, a crone who sings old love songs, becomes a crazed menace.

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0226750299

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9780226750293

In Praise of the Impure

Poetry and the Ethical Imagination : Essays, 1980-1991

By: Alan Shapiro

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In Praise of the Impure

Poetry and the Ethical Imagination : Essays, 1980-1991

By: Alan Shapiro

A collection of essays on the situation of poetry in contemporary American culture, from Shapiro's multiple perspectives as poet (four volumes), teacher of poetry (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), and reader. A TriQuarterly book. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Northwestern University Press

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081015028X

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9780810150287

The Last Happy Occasion

By: Alan Shapiro

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The Last Happy Occasion

By: Alan Shapiro

A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him make sense of his own and other people's lives.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226750361

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9780226750361

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology

A Contextual Approach

By: Alan Carr

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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology

A Contextual Approach

By: Alan Carr

Alan Carr provides a comprehensive, thorough and practical guide to modern child and adolescent psychology. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology covers all central concerns for practitioners in a single manual, including: conduct problems, emotional problems, learning disabilities, child protection, somatic illness, major depression, suicide, drug abuse, schizophrenia, divorce, foster care and bereavement. It will be essential reading for child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and valuable to many professionals in training, including educational psychologists, counselling psychologists, health psychologists, child psychotherapists, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, counsellors and child care workers.

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1004

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Routledge

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1134647549

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9781134647545

Rheumatology

By: Marc C. Hochberg,Alan J. Silman,Josef S. Smolen,Michael E. Weinblatt,Michael H. Weisman

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Rheumatology

By: Marc C. Hochberg,Alan J. Silman,Josef S. Smolen,Michael E. Weinblatt,Michael H. Weisman

Consistently lauded for its comprehensiveness and full-color color presentation, the latest edition of Rheumatology by Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MPH et al. continues the tradition of excellence of previous editions. Designed to meet the needs of the practicing clinician, it provides extensive, authoritative coverage of rheumatic disease from basic scientific principles to practical points of clinical management in a lucid, logical, user-friendly manner. Find the critical answers you need quickly and easily thanks to a consistent, highly user-friendly format covering all major disorders of the musculoskeletal system in complete, self-contained chapters. Get trusted perspectives and insights from chapters co-authored by internationally renowned leaders in the field, 25% of whom are new to this edition. Track disease progression and treat patients more effectively with the most current information, including 22 new chapters on genetic findings, imaging outcomes, and cell and biologic therapies as well as rheumatoid arthritis and SLE. Incorporate the latest findings about pathogenesis of disease; imaging outcomes for specific diseases like RA, osteoarthritis, and spondyloarthropathies; cell and biologic therapies; and other timely topics.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323086322

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9780323086325

Persistent Object Systems

9th International Workshop, POS-9, Lillehammer, Norway, September 6-8, 2000, Revised Papers

By: Graham N.C. Kirby,Alan Dearle

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Persistent Object Systems

9th International Workshop, POS-9, Lillehammer, Norway, September 6-8, 2000, Revised Papers

By: Graham N.C. Kirby,Alan Dearle

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, POS-9, held in Lillehammer, Norway, in September 2001. The 19 revised full papers presented together with seven session overviews and an epilogue were selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the topics addressed are persistence-enabled optimization, Java applications, JVM, systems architecture, persistent GIS, data sharing middleware, polylingual persistence, transactions, distributed object systems, object stores, garbage collectors, WWW and persistence, persistent computation implementation, orthogonally persistent Java, and personal information devices.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354042735X

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9783540427353

Probability and Statistics with R

By: Maria Dolores Ugarte,Ana F. Militino,Alan T. Arnholt

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Probability and Statistics with R

By: Maria Dolores Ugarte,Ana F. Militino,Alan T. Arnholt

Since the publication of the popular first edition, the contributed R packages on CRAN have increased from around 1,000 to over 6,000. This second edition explores how some of these new packages make analysis easier and more intuitive as well as create more visually pleasing graphs. Along with adding new examples and exercises, this edition improves the existing examples, problems, concepts, data, and functions. Data sets, R functions, and more are available online.

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1466504404

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International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy

By: Alan S. Bellack,Michel Hersen,Alan E. Kazdin

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International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy

By: Alan S. Bellack,Michel Hersen,Alan E. Kazdin

The rapid growth of behavior therapy over the past 20 years has been well doc umented. Yet the geometric expansion of the field has been so great that it deserves to be recounted. We all received our graduate training in the mid to late 1960s. Courses in behavior therapy were then a rarity. Behavioral training was based more on informal tutorials than on systematic programs of study. The behavioral literature was so circumscribed that it could be easily mastered in a few months of study. A mere half-dozen books (by Wolpe, Lazarus, Eysenck, Ullmann, and Krasner) more-or-Iess comprised the behavioral library in the mid- 1960s. Semirial works by Ayllon and Azrin, Bandura, Franks, and Kanfer in 1968 and 1969 made it only slightly more difficult to survey the field. Keeping abreast of new developments was not very difficult, as Behaviour Research and Therapy and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis were the only regular outlets for behavioral articles until the end of the decade, when Behavior Therapy and Be havior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry first appeared. We are too young to be maudlin, but "Oh for the good old days!" One of us did a quick survey of his bookshelves and stopped counting books with behavior or behavioral in the titles when he reached 100. There were at least half again as many behavioral books without those words in the title.

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1461572754

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Medical Humanities and Medical Education

How the medical humanities can shape better doctors

By: Alan Bleakley

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Medical Humanities and Medical Education

How the medical humanities can shape better doctors

By: Alan Bleakley

The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing questions, describes the contemporary territory comprising the medical humanities in medical education, and explains how this field may be developed as a key medical education component for the future. Bleakley, a driving force of the international movement to establish the medical humanities as a core and integrated provision in the medical curriculum, proposes a model that requires collaboration between patients, artists, humanities scholars, doctors and other health professionals, in developing medical students’ sensibility (clinical acumen based on close noticing) and sensitivity (ethical, professional and humane practice). In particular, this text focuses upon how medical humanities input into the curriculum can help to shape the identities of medical students as future doctors who are humane, caring, expressive and creative – whose work will be technically sound but considerably enhanced by their abilities to communicate well with patients and colleagues, to empathise, to be adaptive and innovative, and to act as ‘medical citizens’ in shaping a future medical culture as a model democracy where social justice is a key aspect of medicine. Making sense of the new wave of medical humanities in medical education scholarship that calls for a ‘critical medical humanities’, Medical Humanities and Medical Education incorporates a range of case studies and illustrative and practical examples to aid integrating medical humanities into the medical curriculum. It will be important reading for medical educators and others working with the medical education community, and all those interested in the medical humanities.

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Routledge

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1317676254

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The Wealth of Choices

Use the New Economy to Put Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pockets

By: Alan Murray

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The Wealth of Choices

Use the New Economy to Put Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pockets

By: Alan Murray

The world has been turned upside down. The economy is unpredictable. And it’s time for you to take control. There’s no better guide to being a savvy buyer and a smart investor than Alan Murray, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. A clear and confident voice in times of chaotic change, Murray combines the big picture and street-smart tactics that will help you profit and live well. He begins with a perceptive overview of a rapidly changing economy, pointing out that even with the stock market zigging and zagging, the American economy is opening up more and more power to the individual consumer and investor. There is indeed a wealth of choices. Alan Murray doesn’t just talk about the new economic landscape—he shows you how to live in it. Health care: The most potentially traumatic change will be in the relationship between you and your doctor. Murray explains what you need to know to be an effective consumer. Education: The price of a good education has gone sky high. But your mind is your most important investment. Murray shows how to cut costs and cut deals that will help you grow. Your job: The revolution in the workplace means that you have to think of yourself as a brand. Murray shows you how to compete and excel. Investing: “Professional money manager” is an oxymoron. Money managers don’t know much more than you do. Murray provides easy-to-use rules that will let you get great returns on your own. Retirement: Old age isn’t what it used to be. Murray explains why the traditional three-legged stool (social security, private pension, personal saving) is rickety—and what to do about it.

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0676806600

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Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences

By: Albert Vexler,Alan D. Hutson,Xiwei Chen

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Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences

By: Albert Vexler,Alan D. Hutson,Xiwei Chen

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques. It bridges the gap between theoretical statistical methods and practical procedures applied to the planning and analysis of health-related experiments. The book is organized primarily based on the type of questions to be answered by inference procedures or according to the general type of mathematical derivation. It establishes the theoretical framework for each method, with a substantial amount of chapter notes included for additional reference. It then focuses on the practical application for each concept, providing real-world examples that can be easily implemented using corresponding statistical software code in R and SAS. The book also explains the basic elements and methods for constructing correct and powerful statistical decision-making processes to be adapted for complex statistical applications. With techniques spanning robust statistical methods to more computationally intensive approaches, this book shows how to apply correct and efficient testing mechanisms to various problems encountered in medical and epidemiological studies, including clinical trials. Theoretical statisticians, medical researchers, and other practitioners in epidemiology and clinical research will appreciate the book’s novel theoretical and applied results. The book is also suitable for graduate students in biostatistics, epidemiology, health-related sciences, and areas pertaining to formal decision-making mechanisms.

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CRC Press

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1315353016

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Covenant of Care

Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

By: Alan M. Kraut,Deborah A. Kraut

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Covenant of Care

Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

By: Alan M. Kraut,Deborah A. Kraut

Trouble in the Beth Israel Hospital Association"--The formative years -- From little house on the hill to modern institution -- A modern hospital surviving depression and war -- Medicine at the Beth, 1928-1947 -- The modern institution at midcentury -- Medical research at midcentury -- Redefining the Beth's community -- The changing shape of health care.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813539102

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East Side-West Side

Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50

By: Alan Block

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East Side-West Side

Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50

By: Alan Block

Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetrating look at one of the most misunderstood aspects of American society, important for historians, criminologists and sociologists.

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1351312588

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Practical Rules

When We Need Them and When We Don't

By: Alan H. Goldman

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Practical Rules

When We Need Them and When We Don't

By: Alan H. Goldman

Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? The two dominant models in the literature on rules are the particularist account and that which sees the application of rules as normative. Taking a position that falls between these two extremes, Alan Goldman provides a systematic framework to clarify when we need to follow rules in our moral, legal and prudential decisions, and when we ought not to do so. The book distinguishes among various types of rules; it illuminates concepts such as integrity, self-interest and self-deception; and finally, it provides an account of ordinary moral reasoning without rules. This book will be of great interest to advanced students and professionals working in philosophy, law, decision theory and the social sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139430874

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Reading, Writing, and Murder

By: Alan Druckman

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Reading, Writing, and Murder

By: Alan Druckman

What novel presents a realistic, comprehensive, laugh-until-you-almost-pee look at an urban elementary school in a middle-class neighborhood in New York City through the eyes of a retiring principal? The answer is Reading, Writing, and Murder. Here are some of the subjects in the school curriculum: How to Murder a Teacher in School How to Conduct an Adulterous Affair How to Deal with Disruptive Pupils How to Deal with Complaining Parents and Teachers How to Dissuade a Pupil Threatening to Commit Suicide How to Save a Parent Having a Heart Attack How to be Classified as a Pedophile How to Celebrate a Principal's Retirement How to Reminisce on the Good, the Bad, the Ugly How to Solve a School Murder Only someone with thirty-five-and-a-half years as teacher, assistant principal, and principal in New York City elementary schools could tell it like it is.

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1643509071

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Counter-revolution of the Word

The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

By: Alan Filreis

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Counter-revolution of the Word

The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

By: Alan Filreis

During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry and poetics. Although the antimodernists expressed their disapproval through ideological language, their hatred of experimental poetry was ultimately not political but aesthetic, Filreis argues. By analyzing correspondence, decoding pseudonyms, drawing new connections through the archives, and conducting interviews, Filreis shows that an informal network of antimodernists was effective in suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose work had appeared regularly in the 1930s. Insofar as modernism had consorted with radicalism in the Red Decade, antimodernists in the 1950s worked to sever those connections, fantasized a formal and unpolitical pre-Depression High Modern moment, and assiduously sought to de-radicalize the remnant avant-garde. Filreis's analysis provides new insight into why experimental poetry has aroused such fear and alarm among American conservatives.

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Bud, Sweat & Tees

Rich Beem's Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour

By: Alan Shipnuck

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Bud, Sweat & Tees

Rich Beem's Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour

By: Alan Shipnuck

It's 1999 and although Rich Beem has just been nominated for Rookie of the Year following his first ever victory, he's still just another golfer on the PGA Tour desperately trying to break out from Tiger's shadow. Alan Shipnuck takes us inside Beem's world, exploring the complex relationship with his faithful caddie, Steve Duplantis, from being arrested together for drink-driving at Carnoustie, all the way to glorious and unexpected victory at the 2002 PGA Championship. In BUD, SWEAT & TEES Alan Shipnuck takes a no-holds-barred look at modern professional golf. Through the unlikely partnership of golfer Rick Beem and his caddie Steve Duplantis, Shipnuck shows all the highs and lows, temptations and pitfalls that await all players on the Tour. Reminiscent of Lawrence Donegan's bestselling FOUR-IRON IN THE SOUL (Penguin), BUD, SWEAT & TEES is an exciting and often poignant book that will leave readers with an unforgettable insight into a unique relationship.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471108678

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9781471108679

Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients

A Clinician's Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals

By: Daniel Rudofossi,Dale A. Lund,Alan W. Benner

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Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients

A Clinician's Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals

By: Daniel Rudofossi,Dale A. Lund,Alan W. Benner

An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job,' this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. In reading this book, you are led through an understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma. "Doc Dan" initiates you into an original cultural competence of how and why his theory works in practice. You will leave the journey with a practical sense of how the ecological context and ethological motivation are part of the psychological presentation of almost all officers suffering from complex trauma and loss.This guide is crucial reading, original in its breadth and scope of perspective on how to intervene with the traumatized officer. Toward that end, Rudofossi presents his Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis of Police and Public Safety Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Emotive, affective, cognitive, behavioral, and existential ranges of expression of trauma are vast, diverse, and often intense in police officers. This book delivers applied theory with clinical examples, including practical interventions for the clinician and handouts for the officer-patient. The clinician will be assisted in encountering officers' existential suffering from the edge of despair to the precipice of meaning. The guide is at once stimulating, exciting, and very serious in its potential for clinical interventions.

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Routledge

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1351840517

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, reviews the illusions of rationalism in politics, and explores the way values are implicated throughout the democratic process, from voter choice to policy decisions. It argues that our understanding of public policy is enhanced by recognizing its intrinsically political and value-laden nature.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1784710083

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Quantity and Quality in Social Research

By: Alan Bryman

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Quantity and Quality in Social Research

By: Alan Bryman

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134897375

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Hollywood and Anti-Semitism

A Cultural History Up to World War II

By: Steven Alan Carr

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Hollywood and Anti-Semitism

A Cultural History Up to World War II

By: Steven Alan Carr

This book examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry, from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with building a film industry during the first decade of the twentieth century that they dominated by the 1920s. In this study, Steven Carr reconceptualizes Jewish involvement in Hollywood by examining prevalent attitudes towards Jews among American audiences. Analogous to the Jewish Question of the nineteenth century, which was concerned with the full participation of Jews within public life, the Hollywood Question of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s addressed the Jewish population within mass media. This study reveals the powerful set of assumptions concerning ethnicity and media influence as related to the role of the Jew in the motion picture industry.

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Cambridge University Press

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052179854X

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9780521798549

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