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Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients

By: Brent C. Williams,Preeti N. Malani,David H. Wesorick

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Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients

By: Brent C. Williams,Preeti N. Malani,David H. Wesorick

The first book designed specifically for hospitalists and other hospital-based staff who need concise, evidence-based guidance on the vital topic of caring for older hospitalized patients Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients is an up-to-date, practical reference in geriatric medicine for hospitalists, as well as other physicians and nurses working in the hospital setting. The book uses numerous tables, figures, and images to highlight the areas of geriatric medicine that are most relevant to hospitalists. Written by nationally recognized experts, chapters broadly follow the course of hospitalization, from admission through daily care and active management of the transition to post-hospital settings, providing practical, evidence-based guidance at each point. Contents include: A systematic approach to the care of older patients, emphasizing clinical skills and daily activities that can be implemented in today's hospital environment Techniques for effective communication with patients and their caregivers Tools and "pearls" for quickly and accurately assessing the whole patient, including risk for in-hospital complications, function, decision-making capacity, and home support Best practices for prevention and management of the complications of hospitalization, including delirium, falls, pressure ulcers, and hip fractures Specific recommendations in areas with wide practice variation, such as psychopharmacology and nutrition in older hospitalized patients Practical guidance on complex issues, such as establishing goals of care, managing patients who lack decision-making capacity, and managing the discharge transition Methods to improve the daily work and communication of the whole hospital team, including physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers As the population ages, hospitalists are caring for an increasing number of older patients. This book helps hospitalists expand their knowledge, incorporate key clinical skills into daily practice, build more efficient patient care teams, and teach more effectively in today's fast-paced, complex hospital environment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118674901

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9781118674901

A Saga of the New South

Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

By: Brent Tarter

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A Saga of the New South

Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

By: Brent Tarter

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over the repayment of that debt. The result is a major reinterpretation of late-nineteenth-century Virginia political history. The post–Civil War public debt controversy in Virginia reshaped the state’s political landscape twice. First it created the conditions under which the Readjuster Party, a biracial coalition of radical reformers, seized control of the state government in 1879 and successfully refinanced the debt; then it gave rise to a counterrevolution that led the elitist Democratic Party to eighty years of dominance in the state's politics. Despite the Readjusters’ victory in refinancing the debt and their increased spending for the popular new system of free public schools, the debt controversy generated a long train of legal disputes—at least eighty-five cases reached the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and twenty-nine reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Through an in-depth look at these political and legal contests, A Saga of the New South sheds new light on the many obstacles that reformers faced in Virginia and the South after the Civil War.

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276

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University of Virginia Press

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0813938767

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9780813938769

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

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Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

Bute County was discontinued in 1779. Franklin and Warren counties were formed from the area of Bute County.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806313013

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9780806313016

This Is Not Dixie

Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927

By: Brent M.S. Campney

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This Is Not Dixie

Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927

By: Brent M.S. Campney

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097610

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9780252097614

Defacing Power

The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics

By: Brent J Steele

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Defacing Power

The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics

By: Brent J Steele

How do nations create and maintain images of power?

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247

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University of Michigan Press

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0472034960

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9780472034963

The Practice of Diaspora

literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism

By: Brent Hayes EDWARDS,Brent Hayes Edwards

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The Practice of Diaspora

literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism

By: Brent Hayes EDWARDS,Brent Hayes Edwards

Edwards revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between the intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. He suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices through which black intellectuals pursue international alliances.

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Harvard University Press

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0674034422

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9780674034426

1977

A Cultural Moment in Composition

By: Brent Henze,Jack Selzer

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1977

A Cultural Moment in Composition

By: Brent Henze,Jack Selzer

A product of extensive archival research and numerous interviews, 1977: A Cultural Moment In Composition examines the local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural, and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year composition program at one representative site, Penn State University, in the late 1970s.

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165

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Parlor Press LLC

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1602357463

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9781602357464

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By: Brent J. Steele

In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form's continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resistance in the near future.

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210

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Routledge

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0415632692

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9780415632690

Applied Affective Computing

By: Leimin Tian,Sharon Oviatt,Michal Muszynski,Brent Chamberlain,Jennifer Healey,Akane Sano

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Applied Affective Computing

By: Leimin Tian,Sharon Oviatt,Michal Muszynski,Brent Chamberlain,Jennifer Healey,Akane Sano

Affective computing is a nascent field situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence with social and behavioral science. It studies how human emotions are perceived and expressed, which then informs the design of intelligent agents and systems that can either mimic this behavior to improve their intelligence or incorporate such knowledge to effectively understand and communicate with their human collaborators. Affective computing research has recently seen significant advances and is making a critical transformation from exploratory studies to real-world applications in the emerging research area known as applied affective computing. This book offers readers an overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches to affective computing systems and social signal processing. It provides in-depth case studies of applied affective computing in various domains, such as social robotics and mental well-being. It also addresses ethical concerns related to affective computing and how to prevent misuse of the technology in research and applications. Further, this book identifies future directions for the field and summarizes a set of guidelines for developing next-generation affective computing systems that are effective, safe, and human-centered. For researchers and practitioners new to affective computing, this book will serve as an introduction to the field to help them in identifying new research topics or developing novel applications. For more experienced researchers and practitioners, the discussions in this book provide guidance for adopting a human-centered design and development approach to advance affective computing.

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308

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Morgan & Claypool

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1450395937

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9781450395939

Common Wealth Dividends

History and Theory

By: Brent Ranalli

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Common Wealth Dividends

History and Theory

By: Brent Ranalli

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink. Thomas Paine’s 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice and Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend are staples in the literature on Basic Income, but there is much more to common wealth dividends beyond these highlights, and common wealth dividends have a distinctive ethical justification and distinctive policy implications that merit discussion. This monograph, the most comprehensive study of common wealth dividends to date, will be of interest to students, teachers, and advocates of Basic Income and those in the field of environmental studies, including sustainable development, natural resource management, and climate policy.

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Springer Nature

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3030724166

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9783030724160

Restraint in International Politics

By: Brent J. Steele

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Restraint in International Politics

By: Brent J. Steele

Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486088

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The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945

By: Brent Mueggenberg

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The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945

By: Brent Mueggenberg

The downfall of tsarism in 1917 left the peoples of Russia facing an uncertain future. Nowhere were those anxieties felt more than among the Cossacks. The steppe horsemen had famously guarded the empire's frontiers, stampeded demonstrators in its cities, suppressed peasant revolts in the countryside and served as bodyguards to its rulers. Their way of life, intricately bound to the old order, seemed imperiled by the revolution and especially by the Bolshevik seizure of power. Many Cossacks took up arms against the Soviet regime, providing the anticommunist cause with some of its best warriors--as well as its most notorious bandits. This book chronicles their decades-long campaign against the Bolsheviks, from the tumultuous days of the Russian Civil War through the doldrums of foreign exile and finally to their fateful collaboration with the Third Reich.

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McFarland

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1476638020

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9781476638027

Book's by Brent C. Williams

Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients

Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients

A Saga of the New South

A Saga of the New South

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

This Is Not Dixie

This Is Not Dixie

Defacing Power

Defacing Power

The Practice of Diaspora

The Practice of Diaspora

1977

1977

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

Applied Affective Computing

Applied Affective Computing

Common Wealth Dividends

Common Wealth Dividends

Restraint in International Politics

Restraint in International Politics

The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945

The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945

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