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Porkopolis

American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

By: Alex Blanchette

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Porkopolis

American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

By: Alex Blanchette

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig--one that can yield materials for over 1000 products--creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.

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1478007893

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Porkopolis

American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

By: Alex Blanchette

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Porkopolis

American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

By: Alex Blanchette

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig—one that can yield materials for over 1000 products—creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.

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Duke University Press

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1478012048

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Legends of the American Desert

Sojourns in the Greater Southwest

By: Alex Shoumatoff

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Legends of the American Desert

Sojourns in the Greater Southwest

By: Alex Shoumatoff

For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres--history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few--he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert is a superbly rich epic of fact and reflection destined to take its place among such classics of regional portraiture as Ian Frazier's Great Plains. Alex Shoumatoff has created an exuberant celebration of a singularly American reality.

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Knopf

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0307831817

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Rest

Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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Rest

Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers—from Darwin to Stephen King—to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.

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Basic Books

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046509659X

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Medical Speech-Language Pathology Across the Care Continuum

An Introduction

By: Alex F. Johnson,Barbara H. Jacobson,Megan E. Schliep,Bridget J. Perry

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Medical Speech-Language Pathology Across the Care Continuum

An Introduction

By: Alex F. Johnson,Barbara H. Jacobson,Megan E. Schliep,Bridget J. Perry

This exciting new text offers a comprehensive, engaging, and readable overview to the dynamic field of medical speech-language pathology. It is the first medical speech-language pathology textbook that is not focused on the various disorders, but instead examines the scope and key concepts of the profession, such as clinical reasoning, interprofessional practice, and the continuum of care. The book provides an in-depth overview of health care workplace settings (acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, outpatient care, pediatric service delivery, pharmacology, and neuroimaging). The text also includes numerous case studies that instructors and students can use to explore application of both clinical- and setting-specific principles as a primer for practice in “the real world.” Key Features: * Chapters are authored by respected experts within both academia and medical speech-language pathology * Numerous figures, tables, and photos enhance readers’ visual learning experience * Boxed focal points highlight areas of emphasis, special practice considerations, competencies, and cases * Case studies, where students are introduced to patient assessment, treatment, and management examples across the care continuum * An Appendix listing common medical test procedures and reference values. Medical Speech-Language Pathology Across the Care Continuum: An Introduction is also helpful for speech-language pathologists transitioning from a school-based or private practice setting into health care.

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Plural Publishing

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163550452X

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Monitoring with Ganglia

Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale

By: Matt Massie,Bernard Li,Brad Nicholes,Vladimir Vuksan,Robert Alexander,Jeff Buchbinder,Frederiko Costa,Alex Dean,Dave Josephsen,Peter Phaal,Daniel Pocock

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Monitoring with Ganglia

Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale

By: Matt Massie,Bernard Li,Brad Nicholes,Vladimir Vuksan,Robert Alexander,Jeff Buchbinder,Frederiko Costa,Alex Dean,Dave Josephsen,Peter Phaal,Daniel Pocock

Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x. Learn how to extend the base set of metrics you collect, fetch current values, see aggregate views of metrics, and observe time-series trends in your data. You’ll also examine real-world case studies of Ganglia installs that feature challenging monitoring requirements. Determine whether Ganglia is a good fit for your environment Learn how Ganglia’s gmond and gmetad daemons build a metric collection overlay Plan for scalability early in your Ganglia deployment, with valuable tips and advice Take data visualization to a new level with gweb, Ganglia’s web frontend Write plugins to extend gmond’s metric-collection capability Troubleshoot issues you may encounter with a Ganglia installation Integrate Ganglia with the sFlow and Nagios monitoring systems Contributors include: Robert Alexander, Jeff Buchbinder, Frederiko Costa, Alex Dean, Dave Josephsen, Peter Phaal, and Daniel Pocock. Case study writers include: John Allspaw, Ramon Bastiaans, Adam Compton, Andrew Dibble, and Jonah Horowitz.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449330657

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9781449330651

Liver Disorders in Childhood

By: Alex P. Mowat

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Liver Disorders in Childhood

By: Alex P. Mowat

Liver Disorders in Childhood, Third Edition presents the diagnosis, categorization, and treatment of liver disease in childhood. The book provides a comprehensive account of disorders of the liver and biliary system in childhood. The major objective of this edition is to assist the clinician in earlier diagnosis and to highlight developments which allow better management of hepatobiliary disorders. The text begins with the discussion of the anatomy and physiology of the liver and the biliary tract. Subsequent chapters present liver disorders such as unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia, intrahepatic disorders, viral infections of the liver, congenital or neonatal ascites, and liver tumors. Pediatric hepatologists, pediatricians, physicians, clinicians, and medical researchers will find the book very useful.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483162583

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100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Alex Halsted

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100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Alex Halsted

With more than a half century of Twins history, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Minnesota fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls. This guide to all things Twins covers Cretin-Derham Hall, the origin of Homer Hanky, and memorabilia collecting tips from Clyde "the Collector" Doepner. Updated for 2015, author Alex Halsted includes new chapters on manager Paul Molitor, star pitcher Kyle Gibson, All-Star Brian Dozier, and more!

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Triumph Books

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1633194809

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The Power of Partnership in Open Government

Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform

By: Suzanne J. Piotrowski,Daniel Berliner,Alex Ingrams

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The Power of Partnership in Open Government

Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform

By: Suzanne J. Piotrowski,Daniel Berliner,Alex Ingrams

What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform. At the 2011 meeting of the UN General Assembly, the governments of eight nations—Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States—launched the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative aimed at promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. At the time, many were concerned that the Open Government Partnership would end up toothless, offering only lip service to vague ideals and misguided cyber-optimism. The Power of Partnership in Open Government offers a close look, and a surprising affirmation, of the Open Government Partnership as an example of a successful transnational multistakeholder initiative that has indeed impacted policy and helped to produce progressive reform. By 2019 the Open Government Partnership had grown to 78 member countries and 20 subnational governments. Through a variety of methods—document analysis, interviews, process tracing, and quantitative analysis of secondary data—Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, and Alex Ingrams chart the Open Government Partnership’s effectiveness and evaluate what this reveals about the potential of international reform initiatives in general. Their work calls upon scholars and policymakers to reconsider the role of international institutions and, in doing so, to differentiate between direct and indirect pathways to transnational impact on domestic policy. The more nuanced and complex processes of the indirect pathway, they suggest, have considerable but often overlooked potential to shape policy norms and models, alter resources and opportunities, and forge new linkages and coalitions—in short, to drive the substantial changes that inspire initiatives like the Open Government Partnership.

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MIT Press

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0262544598

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9780262544597

The Community of the Beautiful

A Theological Aesthetics

By: Alex García-Rivera

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The Community of the Beautiful

A Theological Aesthetics

By: Alex García-Rivera

With the publication of The Community of the Beautiful, Professor Garcia-rivera joins the ranks of major theologians in the United States; and in the true spirit of mestizaje, his work not only endows Hispanic-American theology with new depth of insight, but it also enriches theologically the entire Church. It simultaneously advances both Hispanic American and Euro-American theology by setting those two cultural and theological traditions into a remarkable creative and speculative dialogue.

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Liturgical Press

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0814659233

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9780814659236

Programming Scala

Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects

By: Dean Wampler,Alex Payne

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Programming Scala

Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects

By: Dean Wampler,Alex Payne

Get up to speed on Scala, the JVM language that offers all the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system. Packed with code examples, this comprehensive book shows you how to be productive with the language and ecosystem right away, and explains why Scala is ideal for today's highly scalable, data-centric applications that support concurrency and distribution. This second edition covers recent language features, with new chapters on pattern matching, comprehensions, and advanced functional programming. You’ll also learn about Scala’s command-line tools, third-party tools, libraries, and language-aware plugins for editors and IDEs. This book is ideal for beginning and advanced Scala developers alike. Program faster with Scala’s succinct and flexible syntax Dive into basic and advanced functional programming (FP) techniques Build killer big-data apps, using Scala’s functional combinators Use traits for mixin composition and pattern matching for data extraction Learn the sophisticated type system that combines FP and object-oriented programming concepts Explore Scala-specific concurrency tools, including Akka Understand how to develop rich domain-specific languages Learn good design techniques for building scalable and robust Scala applications

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1491950153

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Porkopolis

Porkopolis

Porkopolis

Porkopolis

Legends of the American Desert

Legends of the American Desert

Rest

Rest

Medical Speech-Language Pathology Across the Care Continuum

Medical Speech-Language Pathology Across the Care Continuum

Monitoring with Ganglia

Monitoring with Ganglia

Liver Disorders in Childhood

Liver Disorders in Childhood

100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

The Power of Partnership in Open Government

The Power of Partnership in Open Government

The Community of the Beautiful

The Community of the Beautiful

Programming Scala

Programming Scala

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