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Distributed Leadership Matters

By: Alma Harris

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Distributed Leadership Matters

By: Alma Harris

This text explores the practical application of distributed school leadership, combining theory and practice to demonstrate how this approach can result in better learner outcomes.

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Corwin Press

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1412981182

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Uplifting Leadership

How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance

By: Andy Hargreaves,Alan Boyle,Alma Harris

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Uplifting Leadership

How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance

By: Andy Hargreaves,Alan Boyle,Alma Harris

What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees' passions, intellects, and commitments produce remarkable results. Based on original research from a seven-year global study, Uplifting Leadership reveals how leaders from diverse organizations inspired and uplifted their teams' performance. Distilling the six common characteristics of leaders at high-performing organizations across business, sports, and education, authors Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle, and Alma Harris explore the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it within and beyond an organization's walls, revealing how leaders: Identify and articulate an inspiring dream that is coherently connected to the best of what the organization has been before Pursue that dream at a sustainable pace without squandering resources, incurring excessive debt, or burning people out Forge paths of innovation and improvement that others have overlooked or rejected Monitor progress by using metrics and indicators in a mindful and meaningful way Build teams that naturally pull people into change rather than pushing them through it Featuring case studies of organizations as diverse as Shoebuy.com, Fiat, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Marks & Spencer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, and the Vancouver Giants, as well as world-leading educational systems, Uplifting Leadership provides tools for leaders to incorporate these performance-driving strategies into their own. For leaders who want their people to try harder, transform what they do, reach for a higher purpose, and stay resolute and resilient when opposing forces threaten to defeat them, Uplifting Leadership provides a path to better performance across any organization.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118921321

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9781118921326

Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird

Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography

By: Alma Rubens

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Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird

Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography

By: Alma Rubens

Dark-eyed and distant Alma Rubens was one of the first female stars of the early feature film industry in the 1910s. She was a major star by 1920, but before the decade was over her screen career was marked and marred by cocaine abuse. She died in 1931 at age 33--a Hollywood beauty, a casualty of Hollywood "snow," yet much more. As an actress she was versatile, demonstrating a talent that was ahead of its time with her gentle and subtle expressions. This book contains Rubens's autobiography, a text titled This Bright World Again that was serialized in newspapers in 1931. Ghost-written or not or somewhere in between, this long forgotten document deals with Rubens's addiction and despair. In addition, a new biography of Rubens takes the reader from her birth in San Francisco through an impoverished upbringing, three short-lived marriages, and her career in pictures for Triangle Film, Cosmopolitan, Fox and other production companies. The story of her film career mingles with a tale of desperate drug addiction that led to hospital stays, violence and deception. A filmography lists her credits from 1913 to 1929.

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McFarland

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1476616671

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Dei Sub Numine Viget

Under God's Spirit, She Flourishes

By: Alma Jones

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Dei Sub Numine Viget

Under God's Spirit, She Flourishes

By: Alma Jones

Mrs Alma" has had the privilege of having one of her poems published in 2011(The Work That You Have Done, Stars in Our Hearts - Destiny, World Poetry Movement)and of having another poem of hers published in May 2012 (Different, The Best Poets and Poems of 2011, World Poetry Movement). Other publications include: Brag on GOD Look for more from this up and coming poet/author, as she has plans for publishing her memoirs, a ladies inspiration book, a manual for preachers' wives, and a short story anthology. Her motto of: "Doing What You Can While You Can" seems to keep "Mrs. Alma", as she is affectionately referred to by her former students, thoroughly engaged. She says that when there is a poem or article inside of her, she has to get it out or bust. Welcome to the writing world and we eagerly await your next work, "Mrs. Alma.

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1481744593

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Dei Sub Numine Viget

By: Alma L. Jones

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Dei Sub Numine Viget

By: Alma L. Jones

Mrs Alma has had the privilege of having one of her poems published in 2011(The Work That You Have Done, Stars in Our Hearts - Destiny, World Poetry Movement)and of having another poem of hers published in May 2012 (Different, The Best Poets and Poems of 2011, World Poetry Movement). Other publications include: Brag on GOD Look for more from this up and coming poet/author, as she has plans for publishing her memoirs, a ladies inspiration book, a manual for preachers' wives, and a short story anthology. Her motto of: "Doing What You Can While You Can" seems to keep "Mrs. Alma" as she is affectionately referred to by her former students, thoroughly engaged. She says that when there is a poem or article inside of her, she has to get it out or bust. Welcome to the writing world and we eagerly await your next work, "Mrs. Alma

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479716758

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Crossing Borders Through Folklore

African American Women's Fiction and Art

By: Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown

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Crossing Borders Through Folklore

African American Women's Fiction and Art

By: Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown

Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826260098

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9780826260093

Scientifically Speaking

A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition

By: C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

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Scientifically Speaking

A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition

By: C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of science. Entertaining and informative, Scientifically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academics. The largest compilation of published sci

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CRC Press

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1420033557

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Power Performance for Singers

Transcending the Barriers

By: Shirlee Emmons,Alma Thomas

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Power Performance for Singers

Transcending the Barriers

By: Shirlee Emmons,Alma Thomas

To perform well in today's highly competitive world where technical skills have been advanced to an unprecedented degree, a singer must be able to handle incredible pressure within the performing arena; his or her ability to deal with this stress will often determine whether he or she will succeed. Why, then, do singers with less technical skill sometimes out-perform stars? Why do some stars suddenly stop performing? What is that mysterious factor that makes an electric performance? Consistent, competent performances do not depend solely upon superior vocal skills, nor are they a matter of luck. On the contrary, the best performances result from a combination of mental attitude, concrete performing skills, and excellent technical skills in that order. Yet most singers have never had the opportunity to acquire the essential skills that make for a successful career. Written as a self-help manual for singers at all levels of expertise, Power Performance for Singers is designed to teach performing artists, and especially singers, how to experience elite performance at their level. The skills outlined in this book will help singers use what they have, to enjoy their voices during performance, and to perform consistently to the best of their present ability.

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Oxford University Press

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0199761787

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Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

By: Carl C. Gaither,Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither

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Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

By: Carl C. Gaither,Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither

Scientists and other keen observers of the natural world sometimes make or write a statement pertaining to scientific activity that is destined to live on beyond the brief period of time for which it was intended. This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought–influencers of science, past and present. It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations. Organized thematically and indexed alphabetically by author, this work makes readily available an unprecedented collection of approximately 18,000 quotations related to a broad range of scientific topics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387495770

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9780387495774

Eunice

By: Alma Brunson Reed,Van Rodney Reed

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Eunice

By: Alma Brunson Reed,Van Rodney Reed

Beginning as a real estate venture on the isolated prairie of southwestern Louisiana in 1894, Eunice is now a progressive small city due to its traditions of volunteerism, community spirit, and resourcefulness. In the late 1980s, the city enjoyed a renaissance when a far-sighted mayor capitalized on the dominant Cajun culture to pull Eunice out of the economic crevasse of the decade's "oil bust." It emerged as a picturesque community with an emphasis on its rich history and its newly recognized heritage tourism. The city's unique Frenchness lures tourists and locals to the live Cajun music shows at the Liberty Center and to experience the joie de vivre at a rural Mardi Gras. The historic images found in Images of America: Eunice feature the day-to-day activities of Eunice's people through good times and lean days from 1894 to the late 1980s.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738567892

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9780738567891

Environmental Marketing

Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: William Winston,Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt

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Environmental Marketing

Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: William Winston,Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt

Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve your organization's objectives but preserve and protect the environment as well. Environmental Marketing clearly defines the potential roles of organizations, consumers, and governments and examines how these groups impact environmental factors through the marketing process. The book helps you understand alternative perspectives to green marketing issues and, in turn, enables you to make clearer, more conscious decisions toward improving your environmental marketing performance. This resourceful text begins by defining the concept of environmental or “green” marketing and how the idea of a healthy planet and successful marketing strategies can co-exist. It discusses the consumer's behavior toward environmental products and how marketers can effectively educate them, the guidelines involved in doing so, and the consequences of failing to do so. The marketer's position on environmental changes in industry is examined along with alternatives for striking a balance between marketing objectives and environmental concerns. Finally, the book discusses the global response to environmental marketing and where multi-national organizations belong within this balance. Environmental Marketing is a book for all managers involved in decisions impacting the environment. It is also of great interest to public policymakers and academics who wish for quick insight into environmental marketing issues.

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Routledge

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1136590331

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9781136590337

Sustainable Development Goals

Harnessing Business to Achieve the SDGs through Finance, Technology and Law Reform

By: Julia Walker,Alma Pekmezovic,Gordon Walker

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Sustainable Development Goals

Harnessing Business to Achieve the SDGs through Finance, Technology and Law Reform

By: Julia Walker,Alma Pekmezovic,Gordon Walker

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars need to be harnessed to mobilise finance and accelerate progress towards the SDGs. Bringing together leaders from the World Bank, the financial and business sectors, the startup community and academia, this important, topically relevant volume explains what the SDGs are, how they came about and how they can be accelerated. Real-world case studies and authoritative insights address how to direct investment of existing financial resources and re-align the global financial system to reflect the SDGs. In depth chapters discuss how financial institutions, such as UBS Wealth Management, Manulife Asset Management and Moody’s Rating Agency are supporting the SDGs. The opportunities arising from Blockchain, Big Data, Digital Identity and cutting-edge FinTech and RegTech applications are explored, whilst the relevance of sustainable and transparent global supply chains is underscored. Significant attention is paid to law reform which can accelerate progress of the SDGs through SME Financing, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer Lending and tax restructuring. To achieve the ‘World We Want’, much needs to be done. The recommendations contained within this book are critical for supporting a fundamental shift in thinking from business and governments around the world, and for building a more just and prosperous future for all.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119541840

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9781119541844

Worldweavers: Spellspam

By: Alma Alexander

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Worldweavers: Spellspam

By: Alma Alexander

Thea begins to realize that great things are expected of her and her abilities.

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Harper Collins

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0060839589

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9780060839581

Murder on the Streetcar

By: Alma H. Bond Ph. D.,Alma Bond

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Murder on the Streetcar

By: Alma H. Bond Ph. D.,Alma Bond

Dr. Mary Wells is a psychoanalyst, whose patient, Cecily Johnson, is playing the part of Stella in a new production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." Cecily gives the doctor two tickets to see a performance of the play. She invites Lt. John Franklin, a detective who is her lover, to accompany her. During a particularly rowdy scene, the sound of a shot is heard. The audience thinks it is part of the play, until the stage manager comes out and announces that a person has been shot back stage and the performance cannot continue. The murdered man is the actor playing Stanley Kowalski. Lt. Franklin takes on the case. After checking out the ballistics and interrogating the cast, he and Dr. Wells conclude that one of the actors in the play was the killer. They consider possible motives for the murder by each actor. Utilizing Dr. Wells' psychological expertise and Lt. Franklin's experience and perceptiveness, they are able to eliminate some performers, while others remain under suspicion. Through an idea of Dr. Wells to have the cast reenact the death scene, she and the Lieutenant are able to discover and apprehend the killer.

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iUniverse

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0595312071

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9780595312078

The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

By: Alma Gottlieb

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The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

By: Alma Gottlieb

When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children? In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting. Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture matters to the way we all rear our children. All parents and anyone interested in the place of culture in the lives of infants, and vice versa, will enjoy The Afterlife Is Where We Come From. "This wonderfully reflective text should provide the impetus for formulating research possibilities about infancy and toddlerhood for this century." — Caren J. Frost, Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Alma Gottlieb’s careful and thought-provoking account of infancy sheds spectacular light upon a much neglected topic. . . . [It] makes a strong case for the central place of babies in anthropological accounts of religion. Gottlieb’s remarkably rich account, delivered after a long and reflective period of gestation, deserves a wide audience across a range of disciplines.”—Anthony Simpson, Critique of Anthropology

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University of Chicago Press

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022633063X

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9780226330631

Recent Metaheuristic Computation Schemes in Engineering

By: Erik Cuevas,Alma Rodríguez,Avelina Alejo-Reyes,Carolina Del-Valle-Soto

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Recent Metaheuristic Computation Schemes in Engineering

By: Erik Cuevas,Alma Rodríguez,Avelina Alejo-Reyes,Carolina Del-Valle-Soto

This book includes two objectives. The first goal is to present advances and developments which have proved to be effective in their application to several complex problems. The second objective is to present the performance comparison of various metaheuristic techniques when they face complex optimization problems. The material has been compiled from a teaching perspective. Most of the problems in science, engineering, economics, and other areas can be translated as an optimization or a search problem. According to their characteristics, some problems can be simple that can be solved by traditional optimization methods based on mathematical analysis. However, most of the problems of practical importance in engineering represent complex scenarios so that they are very hard to be solved by using traditional approaches. Under such circumstances, metaheuristic has emerged as the best alternative to solve this kind of complex formulations. This book is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Engineers and application developers can also benefit from the book contents since it has been structured so that each chapter can be read independently from the others, and therefore, only potential interesting information can be quickly available for solving an industrial problem at hand.

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Springer Nature

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3030660079

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9783030660079

Discrete-Time High Order Neural Control

Trained with Kalman Filtering

By: Edgar N. Sanchez,Alma Y. Alanís,Alexander G. Loukianov

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Discrete-Time High Order Neural Control

Trained with Kalman Filtering

By: Edgar N. Sanchez,Alma Y. Alanís,Alexander G. Loukianov

Neural networks have become a well-established methodology as exempli?ed by their applications to identi?cation and control of general nonlinear and complex systems; the use of high order neural networks for modeling and learning has recently increased. Usingneuralnetworks,controlalgorithmscanbedevelopedtoberobustto uncertainties and modeling errors. The most used NN structures are Feedf- ward networks and Recurrent networks. The latter type o?ers a better suited tool to model and control of nonlinear systems. There exist di?erent training algorithms for neural networks, which, h- ever, normally encounter some technical problems such as local minima, slow learning, and high sensitivity to initial conditions, among others. As a viable alternative, new training algorithms, for example, those based on Kalman ?ltering, have been proposed. There already exists publications about trajectory tracking using neural networks; however, most of those works were developed for continuous-time systems. On the other hand, while extensive literature is available for linear discrete-timecontrolsystem,nonlineardiscrete-timecontroldesigntechniques have not been discussed to the same degree. Besides, discrete-time neural networks are better ?tted for real-time implementations.

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3540782893

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9783540782896

North from Mexico

The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States

By: Carey McWilliams,Matt S. Meier,Alma M. García

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North from Mexico

The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States

By: Carey McWilliams,Matt S. Meier,Alma M. García

This single-volume book provides students, educators, and politicians with an update to the classic Carey McWilliams work North From Mexico. It provides up-to-date information on the Chicano experience and the emergent social dynamics in the United States as a result of Mexican immigration. Carey McWilliam's North From Mexico, first published in 1948, is a classic survey of Chicano history. Now fully updated by Alma M. García to cover the period from 1990 to the present, McWilliams's quintessential book explores all aspects of Chicano/a experiences in the United States, including employment, family, immigration policy, language issues, and other cultural, political, and social issues. The volume builds on the landmark work and also provides relevant up-to-date content to the 1990 edition revised by Matt S. Meier, which added coverage of the key period in Chicano history from the postwar period through to the late 1980s. As the largest group of immigrants in the United States, representing more than a quarter of foreign-born individuals in the United States, Mexican immigrants have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the culture and society of the United States as a whole. This freshly updated edition of North from Mexico addresses the changing demographic trends within Mexican immigrant communities and their implications for the country; analyzes key immigration policies such as the Immigration Act of 1990 and California's Proposition 187, with specific emphasis on the political mobilization that has developed within Mexican American immigrant communities; and describes the development of immigration reform as well as community organizations and electoral politics. The book contains new chapters that examine recent trends in Mexican immigration to the United States and identify the impact on politics and society of Mexican immigrants and later generations of U.S.-born Mexican Americans. The appendices provide readers and researchers with current immigration figures and information regarding today's socieconomic conditions for Mexican Americans.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216123705

The Sultan's Communists

Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

By: Alma Rachel Heckman

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The Sultan's Communists

Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

By: Alma Rachel Heckman

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.

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Stanford University Press

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150361414X

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9781503614147

Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity

By: Alma Power-Waters

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Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity

By: Alma Power-Waters

A biography of the first American saint, focusing on her deeds and contributions to American Catholicism.

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Ignatius Press

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0898707668

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9780898707663

Image Processing and Machine Learning, Volume 1

Foundations of Image Processing

By: Erik Cuevas,Alma Nayeli Rodríguez

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Image Processing and Machine Learning, Volume 1

Foundations of Image Processing

By: Erik Cuevas,Alma Nayeli Rodríguez

Image processing and machine learning are used in conjunction to analyze and understand images. Where image processing is used to pre-process images using techniques such as filtering, segmentation, and feature extraction, machine learning algorithms are used to interpret the processed data through classification, clustering, and object detection. This book serves as a textbook for students and instructors of image processing, covering the theoretical foundations and practical applications of some of the most prevalent image processing methods and approaches. Divided into two volumes, this first installment explores the fundamental concepts and techniques in image processing, starting with pixel operations and their properties and exploring spatial filtering, edge detection, image segmentation, corner detection, and geometric transformations. It provides a solid foundation for readers interested in understanding the core principles and practical applications of image processing, establishing the essential groundwork necessary for further explorations covered in Volume 2. Written with instructors and students of image processing in mind, this book’s intuitive organization also contains appeal for app developers and engineers.

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CRC Press

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1003829112

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9781003829119

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

Defining Iran's Military Doctrine

By: Alma Keshavarz

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

Defining Iran's Military Doctrine

By: Alma Keshavarz

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular war that challenges the US and the West. Chapters detail the birth of the IRGC, its political development and influence within Iran, its relationship to militias and terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, and involvement in Yemen and Iraq. Keshavarz brings first-hand knowledge of what government institutions are looking for with respect to the IRGC, outlining Iran's hybrid war capabilities that the US and West often misunderstand or miss altogether, in order to provide a foreign policy analysis that identifies the challenges of Iran's irregular capabilities and what measures are needed to combat it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135025567X

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9781350255678

Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty

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Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty

In Chingona, Mexican American activist Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish term for badass woman. Badassery can be an asset, especially when we face personal and collective trauma. Unleashing our inner chingona will help us imagine a just and healed world from the inside out.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506483186

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9781506483184

Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Alma Mahler

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Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Alma Mahler

Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship spanning a half century (1903-1951) and two continents.

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0195381963

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9780195381962

Mathematically Speaking

A Dictionary of Quotations

By: C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

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Mathematically Speaking

A Dictionary of Quotations

By: C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

For the first time, a book has brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of mathematics. Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations provides profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. You may not find all the quoted "jewels" that exist, but you will definitely a great many of them here. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from addition to zero. This book will be a handy reference for the mathematician or scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on mathematics.

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1420050303

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Music in Medieval Europe

Studies in Honour of Bryan Gillingham

By: Alma Santosuosso

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Music in Medieval Europe

Studies in Honour of Bryan Gillingham

By: Alma Santosuosso

This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Wide too is the range of the subject matter: included are essays on ecclesiastical chant, early and late (and on the earliest and latest of its supernumerary tropes, monophonic and polyphonic); on the innovative and seminal polyphony of Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Latin poetry associated with the great cathedral; on the liturgy of Paris, Rome and Milan; on musical theory; on the emotional reception of music near the end of the medieval period and the emergence of modern sensibilities; even on methods of encoding the melodies that survive from the Middle Ages, encoding that makes it practical to apply computer-assisted analysis to their vast number. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.

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Routledge

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1351557378

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Private Higher Education

An International Bibliography

By: Alma Maldonado-Maldonado,Yingxia Cao,Hong Zhu,Daniel C. Levy,Philip G. Altbach

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Private Higher Education

An International Bibliography

By: Alma Maldonado-Maldonado,Yingxia Cao,Hong Zhu,Daniel C. Levy,Philip G. Altbach

This research project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and the Program of Research on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany.

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IAP

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1607529343

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New Demographics New Workspace

Office Design for the Changing Workforce

By: Alma Erlich,Mr Jeremy Myerson,Ms Jo-Anne Bichard

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New Demographics New Workspace

Office Design for the Changing Workforce

By: Alma Erlich,Mr Jeremy Myerson,Ms Jo-Anne Bichard

Offices shape the lives of millions of people. How we plan, design and equip them says a great deal about the culture of organisations, the mentality of managers and the motivations of staff. But getting the right balance between management efficiency and individual wellbeing is as elusive as ever. New Demographics New Workspace looks for answers in some new places. The authors address ways in which the office environment can be redesigned to offer greater levels of comfort, flexibility and fitness for purpose in the new age of the older knowledge worker. Based on the findings of the authors 'Welcoming Workplace' research project at the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, New Demographics New Workspace examines the impact of two of the most significant shifts in the workplace: the ageing of the workforce and the changing nature of work itself in the knowledge economy. By examining the movements and motivations of older knowledge workers in the UK, Japan and Australia, the authors have generated new conceptual approaches to office design that offer an alternative to the current outdated model derived from the factory floor. In particular they question the value of open-plan offices that favour collaboration over concentration and contemplation. Given the growing pensions crisis and anticipated knowledge gap in the workforce in many developed countries, this book has real political, economic and social resonance. If we are all going to have extended working lives in the 21st century, the places in which we work will need to flex and adapt to make us want to keep on working.

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1409458784

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