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Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain

The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness

By: Bradley Bale,Amy Doneen

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Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain

The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness

By: Bradley Bale,Amy Doneen

Boost your cardiovascular health, optimize your mental strength, and prevent and reverse arterial disease with this personalized plan from the founders of the renowned Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center –– “you’ll want to read every page” (Amen). Did you know that every forty seconds, someone in the US suffers a heart attack or stroke, and every sixty-five seconds someone develops dementia? The culprit is cardiovascular disease—and rates are soaring in younger, seemingly healthy people. Busting every myth we have about cardiovascular health, including that women are less likely to suffer from heart attacks and strokes, world-renowned cardiovascular specialists Bradley Bale, MD, and Amy Doneen, DNP, have pioneered a lifesaving method to prevent these devastating events—and reverse the disease that causes them. The BaleDoneen Method transcends the medical silos of cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, and others with a holistic approach designed to protect and optimize the health of the heart, brain, and other vital organs, as well as the blood vessels that supply them. With laser-sharp focus, Bale and Doneen provide the latest research on how your oral health is contributing to the decline of your heart. Captivating and revolutionary, Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain is a unique and comprehensive program to prevent chronic diseases and memory loss in people of all ages regardless of their body type, medical history, or genes. Offering a roadmap to lifelong arterial wellness, it includes: Precision medical methods to prevent diseases of aging The best and worst supplements and foods for your heart Ten lifestyle moves that lower dementia risk by 35 percent Information about genes that raise cardiovascular risk as much as smoking The top ten heart attack prevention tips for women Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain will equip you with the knowledge you need to approach your healthcare as an empowered and informed patient.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316705578

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Democracy Now!

Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America

By: Amy Goodman

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Democracy Now!

Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America

By: Amy Goodman

A celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary movements and heroes who have moved our democracy forward. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today Democracy Now! is the largest public media collaboration in the US, broadcasting on over 1,400 public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at DemocracyNow.org. Now Amy, along with her journalist brother, David, and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the heroes -- the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters -- who have brought about remarkable change. This important book looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes the reader along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson to Staten Island, Wall Street, South Carolina to East Timor -- and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience."--

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Simon and Schuster

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1501123599

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Essentials for Nursing Practice - E-Book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

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Essentials for Nursing Practice - E-Book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

Get a solid foundation in essential nursing principles, concepts, and skills! Essentials for Nursing Practice, 9th Edition combines everything you need from your fundamentals course and streamlines it into a format that's perfect for busy nursing students. The ninth edition retains many classic features, including chapter case studies, procedural guidelines, and special considerations for various age groups, along with new content including a chapter on Complementary and Alternative Therapies, interactive clinical case studies on Evolve, a new Reflective Learning section, and QSEN activities to encourage active learning. Thoroughly reviewed by nursing clinical experts and educators, this new edition ensures you learn nursing Essentials with the most accurate, up-to-date, and easy-to-understand book on the market. - Progressive case studies are introduced at the beginning of the chapter and are then used to tie together the care plan, concept map, and clinical decision-making exercises. - Focused Patient Assessment tables include actual questions to help you learn how to effectively phrase questions to patients as well as target physical assessment techniques. - Nursing skills at the end of each chapter feature full-bleed coloring on the edge of the page to make them easy to locate. - Safety guidelines for nursing skills sections precede each skills section to help you focus on safe and effective skills performance. - Detailed care plans in the text and on Evolve demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help you understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care. - Unexpected outcomes and related interventions for skills alert you to possible problems and appropriate nursing action. - Patient Teaching boxes help you plan effective teaching by first identifying an outcome, then developing strategies on how to teach, and finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning. - Care of the Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this growing population. - Key points neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help you review and evaluate learning. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes include a PICO question, summary of the results of a research study, and a F description of how the study has affected nursing practice — in every chapter. - Patient-Centered Care boxes address racial and ethnic diversity along with the cultural differences that impact socioeconomic status, values, geography, and religion. - 65 Skills and procedural guidelines provide clear, step-by-step instructions for providing safe nursing care. - 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters. - Concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for patients with multiple diagnoses. - NOC outcomes, NIC interventions, and NANDA diagnoses are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323554717

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Macrophages & Cancer

By: Gloria H. Heppner,Amy M. Fulton

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Macrophages & Cancer

By: Gloria H. Heppner,Amy M. Fulton

First Published in 1988, this book offers a full, comprehensive guide into the relationship between macrophages and Cancer. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes and references this book serves as a useful reference for Students of Medicine, Oncology and other practitioners in their respective fields.

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CRC Press

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1000012972

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Consuming Identities

Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

By: Amy DeFalco Lippert

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Consuming Identities

Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

By: Amy DeFalco Lippert

Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, and its legacy was as significant as the print revolution that preceded it. Consuming Identities explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush. In their correspondence, diaries, portraits, and reminiscences, thousands of migrants to the city by the Bay demonstrated that visual media constituted a central means by which people navigated the bewildering host of changes taking hold around them in the second half of the nineteenth century, from the spread of capitalism and class formation to immigration and urbanization. Images themselves were inextricably associated with these world-changing forces; they were commodities, but as representations of people, they also possessed special cultural qualities that gave them new meaning and significance. Visual media transcended traditional boundaries of language and culture that divided diverse groups within the same urban space. From the 1848 conquest of California and the gold discovery to the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906, San Francisco anticipated broader cultural transformations in the commodification, implementation, and popularity of images. For the city's inhabitants and sojourners, an array of imagery came to mediate, intersect with, and even constitute social interaction in a world where virtual reality was becoming normative.

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Oxford University Press

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0190268999

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Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl

By: Amy Chan Zhou

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Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl

By: Amy Chan Zhou

Amy Chan Zhou’s searing memoir about growing up in rural Communist China features descriptions of pastoral beauty and tales of the simple joys of raising farm animals or catching fish in a local river. However, her childhood is scarred by the primitive conditions, her family’s everyday struggle to obtain food, and the horror of witnessing relatives being tortured on a stage during “public denouncing” meetings. As the Communists take control of China in 1949, we follow the harrowing experiences of Chan Zhou’s great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and mother during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s when landlords, business owners, artists, and scholars were branded as “bad elements” and “class enemies.” As a teenager in the 1970s, while selling vegetables on the black market, Chan Zhou is accused of being a “little capitalist trader.” The death of Mao ultimately saves Chan Zhou from being sent to a detention center, and her family’s destiny is forever altered by Deng Xiaoping’s reform that allows her family to reunite in Hong Kong, and subsequently emigrate to the United States. A blend of Wild Swans and The Red Scarf Girl, Flowing with the Pearl River is a vividly accurate portrayal of one family’s painful experiences during Communism and the Cultural Revolution in China, and their eventual escape to freedom.

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Santa Monica Press

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1595807829

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Generations and Collective Memory

By: Amy Corning,Howard Schuman

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Generations and Collective Memory

By: Amy Corning,Howard Schuman

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.

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University of Chicago Press

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022628283X

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Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

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Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

Learn the concepts and skills you need to provide excellent nursing care! Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th Edition prepares you to succeed as a nurse by providing a solid foundation in critical thinking, clinical reasoning, nursing theory, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care in all settings. With illustrated, step-by-step guidelines, this book makes it easy to learn important skills and procedures. Care plans are presented within a nursing process framework, and case studies show how to apply concepts to nursing practice. From an expert author team led by Patricia Potter and Anne Perry, this bestselling nursing textbook helps you develop the understanding and clinical reasoning you need to succeed in the classroom and in your career.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323677738

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Cultures of United States Imperialism

By: Amy Kaplan,Donald E. Pease

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Cultures of United States Imperialism

By: Amy Kaplan,Donald E. Pease

Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States. Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home. Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson

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Duke University Press

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0822314134

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Paller and Mancini - Hurwitz Clinical Pediatric Dermatology E-Book

A Textbook of Skin Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence

By: Amy S Paller,Anthony J. Mancini

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Paller and Mancini - Hurwitz Clinical Pediatric Dermatology E-Book

A Textbook of Skin Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence

By: Amy S Paller,Anthony J. Mancini

Written by two leaders in the field of pediatric dermatology, this classic text provides both detailed content for the specialist and easily accessible information for the non-dermatologist and less experienced clinician. Paller and Mancini – Hurwitz Clinical Pediatric Dermatology, 6th Edition, comprehensively covers the full range of skin disorders in children, offering authoritative, practical guidance on diagnosis and treatment in a single volume. This award-winning, evidence-based text has been fully revised and updated, and is an essential resource for anyone who sees children with skin disorders. - Features new content outline boxes for faster navigation, hundreds more clinical images, and authors' tips for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric skin diseases. - Contains updated, evidence-based guidance and the latest drug developments and disease classifications. - Provides a careful balance of narrative text, useful tables, and 1,300 high-quality clinical photographs, helping you recognize virtually any skin condition you're likely to see. - Includes a greatly expanded discussion of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis and new therapeutic approaches for treating genetic disorders and systemic diseases such as ichthyoses and rheumatologic disorders. - Discusses new tests for subclassifying disease, such as the myositis-specific antibodies of juvenile dermatomyositis, genotyping, and immunophenotypes of inflammatory skin disorders. - Contains new and updated tables on psoriasis co-morbidities, genetic syndrome classifications, acne therapies, pediatric histiocytoses, PHACE syndrome criteria, HSV therapies and juvenile dermatomyositis. - Features updated sections on infections, exanthems, vascular disorders, dermatoses and genodermatoses. - Discusses hot topics such as the use of stem cell and cell therapy, as well as recombinant protein, for treating epidermolysis bullosa; the resurgence of measles; congenital Zika virus infections; and much more.

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0323549896

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Science at the Borders

Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force

By: Amy L. Fairchild

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Science at the Borders

Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force

By: Amy L. Fairchild

Fairchild has unearthed a curious fact about this ubiquitous rite of immigration - it was rarely undertaken to exclude immigrants.".

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0801870801

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Sexy Doctors Box Set 1

An Anthology

By: Carol Marinelli,Tina Beckett,Amy Andrews

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Sexy Doctors Box Set 1

An Anthology

By: Carol Marinelli,Tina Beckett,Amy Andrews

Hot Docs! They're gorgeous, passionate and deliciously seductive! Give in to the temptation of this collection of three sexy doctors. Hers for One Night Only by Carol Marinelli For pediatrician Dominic Mansfield, flings never last more than one night—no matter how hot!— yet the shadows in Nurse Bridgette's eyes intrigue him and the next day he finds himself knocking on Bridgette's door…! Doctor's Guide to Dating in the Jungle – Tina Beckett Rule #1—Don't flirt with your boss! Rule #2—Never fall for a man who's heart is buried deep in the Amazon jungle…. Dr. Stevie Wilson knows the rules but confined to a medical boat in Brazil, it's impossible to resist her lethally attractive boss, Dr. Matt Palermo! Waking Up with Dr. off-Limits – Amy Andrews Jess's Diary: At least catching my housemate, Dr. Adam Carmichael—my secret crush—in my bed(!) means he finally knows my name! For years, Adam's been one hundred percent off-limits, but there's no harm in dreaming of more…is there?

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Harlequin

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1460334507

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Autism in the Workplace

Creating Positive Employment and Career Outcomes for Generation A

By: Amy E. Hurley-Hanson,Cristina M. Giannantonio,Amy Jane Griffiths

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Autism in the Workplace

Creating Positive Employment and Career Outcomes for Generation A

By: Amy E. Hurley-Hanson,Cristina M. Giannantonio,Amy Jane Griffiths

This book explores the career experiences of Generation A, the half-million individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who will reach adulthood in the next decade. With Generation A eligible to enter the workforce in unprecedented numbers, research is needed to help individuals, organizations, and educational institutions to work together to create successful work experiences and career outcomes for individuals with ASD. Issues surrounding ASD in the workplace are discussed from individual, organizational, and societal perspectives. This book also examines the stigma of autism and how it may affect the employment and career experiences of individuals with ASD. This timely book provides researchers, practitioners, and employers with empirical data that examines the work and career experiences of individuals with ASD. It offers a framework for organizations committed to hiring individuals with ASD and enhancing their work experiences and career outcomes now and in the future.

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Springer Nature

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3030290492

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The Predatory Paradox

Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

By: Amy Koerber,Jesse C. Starkey,Karin Ardon-Dryer,R. Glenn Cummins,Lyombe Eko,Kerk F. Kee

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The Predatory Paradox

Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

By: Amy Koerber,Jesse C. Starkey,Karin Ardon-Dryer,R. Glenn Cummins,Lyombe Eko,Kerk F. Kee

In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition of ‘predatory’ itself becomes slippery, evading neat boxes or lists which might seek to easily define and guard against it. This volume serves to foreground a nuanced representation of this multifaceted issue. In such a rapidly evolving landscape, this book becomes a field guide to its historical, political, and economic aspects, presenting thoughtful interviews, legal analysis and original research. Case studies from both European-American and non-European-American stakeholders emphasize the worldwide nature of the challenge faced by researchers of all levels. This coauthored book is structured into both textual and supplemental materials. Key takeaways, discussion questions, and complete classroom activities accompanying each chapter provide opportunities for engagement and real-world applications of these concepts. Crucially relevant to early career researchers and the senior faculty, library scholars, and administrators who mentor and support them, 'The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing' offers practical recommendations for navigating the complex and often contradictory advice currently available. University instructors and teaching faculty will also find the reading essential in order to properly prepare both graduate and undergraduate students for the potential pitfalls endemic to scholarly publishing.

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Open Book Publishers

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180511137X

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Women, Men and News

Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape

By: Paula Poindexter,Sharon Meraz,Amy Schmitz Weiss

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Women, Men and News

Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape

By: Paula Poindexter,Sharon Meraz,Amy Schmitz Weiss

This multi-authored scholarly volume explores the divide between men and women in their consumption of news media, looking at how the sexes read and use news, historically and currently, how they use technology to access their news, and how today’s news pertains to and is used by women. The volume also addresses diversity issues among women’s use of news, considering racial, ethnic, international and feminist perspectives. The volume is intended to help readers understand adult news use behavior--a critical and timely issue considering the state of newspapers and television news in today’s multi-media news environment.

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Routledge

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1135595720

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Lonely Planet Eastern USA

By: Lonely Planet,Benedict Walker,Kate Armstrong,Carolyn Bain,Amy C Balfour,Ray Bartlett,Gregor Clark,Michael Grosberg,Adam Karlin,Brian Kluepfel

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Lonely Planet Eastern USA

By: Lonely Planet,Benedict Walker,Kate Armstrong,Carolyn Bain,Amy C Balfour,Ray Bartlett,Gregor Clark,Michael Grosberg,Adam Karlin,Brian Kluepfel

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get active underwater in Florida Keys, hit the streets of New York City, or watch leaves change color in New England; all with your trusted travel companion. Begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Eastern USA Travel Guide: Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience – history, arts, architecture, music, wildlife, landscapes, lifestyle, sports, cuisine Covers New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New England, Washington DC, Florida, the Great Lakes, North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Eastern USA, our most comprehensive guide to Eastern USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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1787019586

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Potter & Perry's Essentials of Nursing Practice, SAE, E book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

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Potter & Perry's Essentials of Nursing Practice, SAE, E book

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall

Potter and Perry's Essentials of Nursing Foundation is a widely appreciated textbook for the teaching–learning of nursing foundations. Its comprehensive coverage provides fundamental concepts, skills, and techniques of nursing practice in the areas of nursing foundation. This South Asian Edition of Potter and Perry's Essentials of Nursing Foundation not only provides the well-established authentic content of international standard but also caters to the specific curricular needs of nursing students and faculty of the region, as the content is exactly tailored according to the Indian Nursing Council curriculum. • Most Comprehensive: Content is presented comprehensively so that the textbook is very easy to read and comprehend. • Most Lucid: Content is very simple for non-English speaking Indian students. It is an easy to read, interesting, and involving disposition, which leads the reader through various facts of nursing foundation. • Indian Student friendly: Exactly as per syllabus prescribed by INC for B.Sc Nursing course and also useful for Diploma Nursing course. It has improved layout, design, and presentation through addition of images and illustrations. Many images have been replaced with Indian ones to provide regional feel of the content. • Region-specific content: There is inclusion of region-specific content, such as: o Nursing education, nursing cadres, registration, licensing, Indian medico-legal laws, health care delivery system, new trends of nursing in India o Updated detailed history of nursing in India o Major recent health policies in India, such as National Health Policy-2017 and Biomedical Waste Management rules-2016 o Code of Ethics for Nurses in India • Additional chapters: o Hospital admission and discharge o Equipment and linen o Diagnostic testing o First aid and emergencies "A complete and student friendly text in Nursing Foundation of Global standards with local appeal" Additional chapters: o Hospital admission and discharge o Equipment and linen o Diagnostic testing o First aid and emergencies

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8131257819

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9788131257814

Program Evaluation Theory and Practice

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Donna M. Mertens,Amy T. Wilson

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Program Evaluation Theory and Practice

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Donna M. Mertens,Amy T. Wilson

The leading text that covers both the theory and practice of evaluation in one engaging volume has now been revised and updated with additional evaluation approaches (such as mixed methods and principles-focused evaluation) and new methods (such as technologically based strategies). The book features examples of small- and large-scale evaluations from a range of fields, many with reflective commentary from the evaluators; helpful checklists; and carefully crafted learning activities. Major theoretical paradigms in evaluation--and the ways they inform methodological choices--are explained. Readers learn effective strategies for clarifying their own theoretical assumptions; working with stakeholders; developing questions; using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs; selecting data collection and sampling strategies; analyzing data; and communicating and utilizing findings. The new companion website provides extensive recommended online resources and tools, organized by chapter. New to This Edition *Additional evaluation approaches: collaborative evaluation, principles-focused evaluation, and desk reviews. *Coverage of new data collection technologies and methods of qualitative coding. *Expanded discussions of logic models, cost–benefit analysis, and mixed methods designs. *Many new and updated sample studies. Pedagogical Features *Reflection questions that prepare students to read each chapter. *"Extending Your Thinking" questions and practical activities. *Boxes delving into key concepts and example studies. *End-of-book Glossary, and highlighted key terms throughout. *Companion website with links to helpful resources on all aspects of evaluation.

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Guilford Publications

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1462539874

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Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists

Three Plays by Women from the Global Majority

By: Mojisola Adebayo,Hannah Khalil,Amy Ng

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Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists

Three Plays by Women from the Global Majority

By: Mojisola Adebayo,Hannah Khalil,Amy Ng

Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education Awards A first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism. With award-winning plays from the UK's most revolutionary female writers of colour, as well as bespoke multimedia learning guides, this collection offers young global activists aged 16+, as well as teachers and creatives at any level, the opportunity to diversify their education and enhance their understanding of politically driven plays, world politics and social justice. Unique in how it amplifies these selected award-winning plays by incorporating learning guides that accommodate different learning styles (be they visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinaesthetic), Beyond The Canon dares readers to take a deeper dive into the world of the play, be inspired by the themes and provocations and use the anthology to evolve into the ultimate activist. The plays include: Muhammad Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil Acceptance by Amy Ng With resources like top tips on creating a safe space, practical drama challenges and games, interviews with the writers, research guides and activism test sheets, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists will spark the imagination of any and all readers, likely inspiring the next Mojisola Adebayo, Hannah Khalil and Amy Ng.

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Gendered Vulnerability

How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office

By: Jeffrey Lazarus,Amy Steigerwalt

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Gendered Vulnerability

How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office

By: Jeffrey Lazarus,Amy Steigerwalt

Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections—a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term “gendered vulnerability.” Since women feel constant pressure to make sure they can win reelection, they devote more of their time and energy to winning their constituents’ favor. Lazarus and Steigerwalt examine different facets of legislative behavior, finding that female members do a better job of representing their constituents than male members.

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0472123599

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A Field Guide to the Huángdì Nèijing Sùwèn

A Clinical Introduction to the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, Plain Questions

By: Amy Chang

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A Field Guide to the Huángdì Nèijing Sùwèn

A Clinical Introduction to the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, Plain Questions

By: Amy Chang

The most important classical text of Chinese Medicine, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Chinese Medicine is often seen as daunting by students who are faced with a variety of different translations, of which some may not be reliable. This introductory guide makes it accessible to all, providing a summary of each chapter which emphasises the clinical relevance of the text. The author draws out how the text can be used to inform and improve clinical practice. It avoids overly scholarly discussions, and does not dwell on the minutiae of translation, making this book an easy and enlightening read.

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Singing Dragon

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0857013742

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The Best American Short Stories 2018

By: Maria Anderson (Fiction author),Jamel Brinkley,Yoon Choi,Emma Cline,Alicia Elliott,Danielle Evans,Carolyn Ferrell,Ann Glaviano,Jacob Guajardo,Cristina Henríquez,Kristen Iskandrian,Jocelyn Nicole Johnson,Matthew Lyons (Short story writer),Dina Nayeri,Téa Obreht,Amy Silverberg,Curtis Sittenfeld,Rivers Solomon,Esmé Weijun Wang

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Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

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Beyond Li-ion Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage

By: Garrett P. Wheeler,Lei Wang,Amy C. Marschilok

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Beyond Li-ion Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage

By: Garrett P. Wheeler,Lei Wang,Amy C. Marschilok

In order to improve the resiliency of the grid and to enable integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, the utilization of battery systems to store energy for later demand is of the utmost importance. The implementation of grid-scale electrical energy storage systems can aid in peak shaving and load leveling, voltage and frequency regulation, as well as emergency power supply. Although the predominant battery chemistry currently used is Li-ion; due to cost, safety and sourcing concerns, incorporation of other battery technologies is of interest for expanding the breadth and depth of battery storage system installations. This Element discusses existing technologies beyond Li-ion battery storage chemistries that have seen grid-scale deployment, as well as several other promising battery technologies, and analyzes their chemistry mechanisms, battery construction and design, and corresponding advantages and disadvantages.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009034596

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Emergency Medicine Board Review E-Book

By: Amy Kaji,Ryan A. Pedigo

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Emergency Medicine Board Review E-Book

By: Amy Kaji,Ryan A. Pedigo

Increase your opportunity for first-time success on the challenging emergency medicine board exam with this authoritative, highly illustrated review tool! Written and edited by contributors from the UCLA-affiliated residency programs, Emergency Medicine Board Review covers the full range of disorders, procedures, skills, and other core competencies that the emergency medicine physician needs to know. A bulleted, easy-to-read format supported by hundreds of high-quality images and questions make it the most efficient and effective way to study for certification and MOC exams and prepare for clinical practice. - Contains approximately 500 board-style, multiple-choice questions with full, discursive answers, and more than 300 clinical photos for effective visual learning. - Features up-to-date content in a streamlined, highly focused format with questions directly related to the board exam, both in print and online. - Covers all areas of the Emergency Medicine Model for certification and in-service exams, including devices (AICD, LVAD, pacemakers), infectious disease, pediatrics, rashes, toxicology, trauma, and more. - Includes key procedures such as airway management; neonatal, pediatric, adult cardiac arrest; vascular access; wound management; ultrasound; and procedural sedation.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323679714

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Simply Hot Pots

A Complete Course in Japanese Nabemono and Other Asian One-Pot Meals

By: Amy Kimoto-Kahn

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Simply Hot Pots

A Complete Course in Japanese Nabemono and Other Asian One-Pot Meals

By: Amy Kimoto-Kahn

In Japan, hot pot cooking is called nabemono, or nabe, and cooked in donabe, traditional clay pots. Comforting, healthy, affordable, easy, and quick—especially when you make your broth bases in advance—these satisfying one-pot meals can be customized for anyone (including kids!). Simply Hot Pots brings hot pot cooking to your table with a complete course of 75 recipes, including 15 base broths (from shabu-shabu to bone broths to creamy corn and tomato broths); pork, chicken, beef, seafood, spicy, vegetable, and specialty hot pot meals; dipping sauces; sides; and desserts. Amy Kimoto-Kahn, the best-selling author of Simply Ramen, shares recipes of traditional and non-traditional Japanese hot pots, along with East Asian hot pots with flavors from Mongolia, Thailand, and Malaysia. You and your guests will love quickly cooking shabu-shabu–style meats, greens, mushrooms, onions, root and other vegetables, and tofu in the piping hot, savory broths, followed by a shime (end-of-meal course), when plump udon noodles, tender ramen noodles, or fluffy rice are placed into the leftover broth and simmered until warm and bursting with its delicious flavor. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and stunning photos, Simply Hot Pots will not only have your dinner table brimming with great food, but also great conversation.

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Race Point Publishing

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163106567X

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Shu Chien

Tributes on His 70th Birthday

By: Lanping Amy Sung,Kuang-Chung Hu Chien

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Shu Chien

Tributes on His 70th Birthday

By: Lanping Amy Sung,Kuang-Chung Hu Chien

This book consists of tributes written by friends, colleagues, teachers, students and family members of Professor Shu Chien on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which was celebrated in San Diego, California on 23 June 2001, and in Taipei, Taiwan on 12 August 2001. Following those events, a collection of articles was submitted. Together with the precious, memorable photographs, these articles provide a valuable summary of the life and deeds of this internationally acclaimed scientist who has made major impacts in the United States, mainland China and Taiwan -- indeed, the whole world. In response to these excellent, moving articles, Professor Shu Chien has written a piece that encompasses his entire life, from early childhood to the present. This book constitutes a most valuable biography, full of sentiment and inspiration. Researchers, academics, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates in bioengineering, physiology, biophysics, molecular and cellular biology, and related fields.

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World Scientific

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9812383832

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Posthuman research playspaces

Climate child imaginaries

By: David Rousell,Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

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Posthuman research playspaces

Climate child imaginaries

By: David Rousell,Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries addresses the need for new forms of climate change education that are responsive to the rapidly changing material conditions of children’s socioecological worlds. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of how posthumanist concepts and methods can be creatively developed and deployed in collaboration with children and young people. It connects climate change education with posthumanist studies of childhood in the social sciences and environmental humanities. It also offers opportunities for readers to encounter new theoretical and methodological approaches for collaborative art, inquiry, and learning with children. Drawing on three years of participatory research undertaken with 135 children in the Climate Change and Me (CC+Me) project, it takes children’s creative and affective responses to climate change as the starting point for the co-production of knowledge, community engagement, and the transformation of pedagogy and curriculum in schools. Thinking through process philosophy, and in particular, the works of Whitehead and Deleuze, the book develops new concepts and methods of creative inquiry which situate children’s learning, aesthetic production, and theory-building within a more-than-human ecology of experience. The book presents a series of generative openings and propositions for future research in the field of climate change education, while also offering wide-ranging applications for graduate students and researchers in childhood and youth studies, the environmental arts and humanities, cultural studies of science and technology, educational philosophy, and environmental education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000816664

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Airborne Occupational Hazards in Sewer Systems

By: Amy Forsgren,Kristina Brinck

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Airborne Occupational Hazards in Sewer Systems

By: Amy Forsgren,Kristina Brinck

Sewer systems fall into the category "out of sight, out of mind" – they seldom excite interest. But when things go wrong with the air in the sewer system, they go very wrong. Consequences can be dramatic and devastating: sewer workers killed instantly by poisonous gas when they lift a sewer lid, or entire suburban blocks levelled by explosions. This book describes the atmospheric dangers commonly found in the sewer system. It provides easily-understood explanations of the science behind the hazards, combined with real-life examples of when things went dramatically wrong.

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CRC Press

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149875788X

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The Drunken Botanist

By: Amy Stewart

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The Drunken Botanist

By: Amy Stewart

The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition─now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright bizarre, and one is as ancient as dinosaurs—but each represents a unique cultural contribution to our global drinking traditions and our history. This charming concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and mixology—with delightful drawings, tasty cocktail recipes, and fun factoids throughout—will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party. “A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.”—NPR's Morning Edition “Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little dangerous.” —The New York Times

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Algonquin Books

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1616201045

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Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

By: Amy Koritz,George J. Sanchez

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Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

By: Amy Koritz,George J. Sanchez

Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced." ---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University "This profound and eloquent collection describes and assesses the new coalitions bringing a city back to life. It's a powerful call to expand our notions of culture, social justice, and engaged scholarship. I'd put this on my 'must read' list." ---Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University "Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina is a rich and compelling text for thinking about universities and the arts amid social crisis. Americans need to hear the voices of colleagues who were caught in Katrina's wake and who responded with commitment, creativity, and skill." ---Peter Levine, CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement) This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. While firmly rooted in concrete projects, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina also addresses the larger issues raised by committed public scholarship. How can higher education institutions engage with their surrounding communities? What are the pros and cons of "asset-based" and "outreach" models of civic engagement? Is it appropriate for the private sector to play a direct role in promoting civic engagement? How does public scholarship impact traditional standards of academic evaluation? Throughout the volume, this diverse collection of essays paints a remarkably consistent and persuasive account of arts-based initiatives' ability to foster social and civic renewal. Amy Koritz is Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Professor of English at Drew University. George J. Sanchez is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. Front and rear cover designs, photographs, and satellite imagery processing by Richard Campanella. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

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0472024485

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Measurements in Distance Education

A Compendium of Instruments, Scales, and Measures for Evaluating Online Learning

By: Amy J. Catalano

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Measurements in Distance Education

A Compendium of Instruments, Scales, and Measures for Evaluating Online Learning

By: Amy J. Catalano

As more postsecondary faculty become engaged in designing online learning environments, research conducted on distance education program quality becomes increasingly important. Measurements in Distance Education is a concise, well-organized guide to some of the many instruments, scales, and methods that have been created to assess distance education environments, learners, and teachers. Entries are organized according to the qualities these measures attempt to gauge—such as engagement and information retention—and provide summaries of each instrument, usage information, the history of its development, and validation, including any reported psychometric properties. Offering more than 50 different surveys, tests, and other metrics, this book is an essential reference for anyone interested in understanding distance education assessment.

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Routledge

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1351859099

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Our Stories, Our Voices

21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

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Our Stories, Our Voices

21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

“Truthful and empowering.” —Booklist From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Nina LaCour, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an “outstanding anthology” (School Library Connection) of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman’s shelf. This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.

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Simon and Schuster

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1534409017

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Passionate Detachments

Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974

By: Amy Rust

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Passionate Detachments

Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974

By: Amy Rust

Investigates the cultural value of film violence. Passionate Detachments investigates the rise of graphic violence in American films of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the popular aesthetics and critical responses this violence inspired. Amy Rust examines four technologies adopted by commercial American cinema after the fall of the Hollywood Production Code: multiple-camera montage, squibs (small explosive devices) and artificial blood, freeze-frames, and zooms. Approaching these technologies as figures, as opposed to mere tools, Rust traces the encounters they mediate between perception (what one sees, hears, and feels) and representation (how those sights, sounds, and feelings make meaning). These technologies, she argues, lend shape to film violence while organizing viewers on- and off-screen relationships to it. The result proves meaningful for an era self-consciously and perilously preoccupied with bloodshed. The post-Code period found Americans across the political spectrum demanding visualand increasingly violentdemonstrations of presumably authentic realities. Corroborating fantasies of authenticity from military to counterculture, these technologies challenge them as well, pointing, however unwittingly, to the violently classed, gendered, and racialized blind spots such fantasies harbor. More broadly, the technologies answer concerns that films control violence too much or too little. Offering neither mere discoursenor mere thrills, they recover sense and sensation for all, not some, or even most, depictions of bloodshed. As figures, the devices also remediate vision and violence for film theory, which exhibits distrust for each in spite of the complexities phenomenology and psychoanalysis have brought to cinematic perception and pleasure.

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1438465394

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