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Reach for the Stars

The Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament

By: Dan McCool

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Reach for the Stars

The Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament

By: Dan McCool

Wrestling is as much a part of winter in Iowa as is snow and cold. Dreams of state championships begin in elementary school and, since 1972, come to fruitionor heartbreakingly fall shortat an arena in Des Moines in February or March. The tournament finals sell out, and individuals and teams carve their names on the sports history tree each year. Some champions were deaf, some were amputees, but all earn the respect of thousands for their work ethica hallmark of the states populace. Is this heaven? No, its better than that. Its high school wrestling in Iowa!

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1496961811

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Crucible of Beliefs

Learning, Alliances, and World Wars

By: Dan Reiter

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Crucible of Beliefs

Learning, Alliances, and World Wars

By: Dan Reiter

Reiter addresses a striking empirical puzzle: Why, in this century, have some small powers chosen to enter alliances when faced with international instability whereas others have stayed neutral? Specifically, why did Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway join NATO, while Sweden, Switzerland, and Ireland did not? Employing quantitative and case study methods, Reiter finds that peacetime decisions about alliance and neutrality stem from states' experiences during world wars. Tested against balance-of-threat theory, the leading realist explanation of alliance behavior, Reiter's formative-events model of learning emerges as a far better predictor of states' decisions. Crucible of Beliefs' findings show that, contrary to balance-of-threat theory, state leaders ignore the level of international threat and focus instead on avoiding past mistakes and repeating past successes. A serious blow to realism, these findings demonstrate that to understand the dynamics of world politics, it is essential to know how leaders learn from history.

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Cornell University Press

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0801431883

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9780801431883

How Wars End

By: Dan Reiter

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How Wars End

By: Dan Reiter

Dan Reiter explains how information about combat outcomes and other factors may persuade a warring nation to demand more or less in peace negotiations, and why a country might refuse to negotiate limited terms and instead tenaciously pursue absolute victory if it fears that its enemy might renege on a peace deal. He fully lays out the theory and then tests it on more than twenty cases of war-termination behavior, including decisions during the American Civil War, the two world wars, and the Korean War. Reiter helps solve some of the most enduring puzzles in military history, such as why Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, why Germany in 1918 renewed its attack in the West after securing peace with Russia in the East, and why Britain refused to seek peace terms with Germany after France fell in 1940.".

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Princeton University Press

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069114060X

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9780691140605

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

By: Dan Berger,Toussaint Losier

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Rethinking the American Prison Movement

By: Dan Berger,Toussaint Losier

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.

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Routledge

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1317662229

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9781317662228

Nuclear Acoustic Resonance

By: Dan Bolef

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Nuclear Acoustic Resonance

By: Dan Bolef

Nuclear Acoustic Resonance serves as an introduction to the field of nuclear acoustic resonance and highlights its differences from nuclear magnetic resonance. Topics covered range from the nature of the coupling mechanisms, including dynamic electric quadrupole coupling and dynamic Alpher-Rubin coupling, to experimental techniques. The application of nuclear acoustic resonance to the study of conducting media is given consideration. This book consists of 10 chapters and begins with a description of nuclear acoustic resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance, and combination acoustic-electromagnetic spin resonance. A detailed treatment of nuclear electrostatic multipole interactions is presented, with emphasis on the irreducible tensor operators and their application to the calculation of nuclear acoustic resonance absorption and dispersion, as well as of line width and relaxation effects. An alternative approach that builds on the concepts of acoustic impedance and susceptibility for calculating absorption and dispersion in nuclear acoustic resonance is also presented. In an extension of the usual treatment of nuclear dipolar and nuclear quadrupolar interactions, the reader is introduced to appropriate expressions for nuclear acoustic coupling in solids via the dynamic hexadecapole moment. The final chapter explores the use of the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) in the detection of nuclear acoustic resonance. This book will be helpful to students and practitioners of physics and those interested in nuclear acoustic resonance.

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Academic Press

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0323140823

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9780323140829

Dead Run

The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

By: Dan Schultz

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Dead Run

The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

By: Dan Schultz

Evoking Krakauer's Into the Wild, Dan Schultz tells the extraordinary true story of desperado survivalists, a brutal murder, and vigilante justice set against the harsh backdrop of the Colorado wilderness On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than seventy-five local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of swat teams, U.S. Army Special Forces, and more than five hundred officers from across the country. Dead Run is the first in-depth account of this sensational case, replete with overbearing local sheriffs, Native American trackers, posses on horseback, suspicion of vigilante justice and police cover-ups, and the blunders of the nation's most exalted crime-fighters pursuing outlaws into territory in which only they could survive.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250023424

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Executive Ownershift

Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams

By: Dan Norenberg

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Executive Ownershift

Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams

By: Dan Norenberg

When leadership teams do not perform at their best, everyone suffers. Low employee engagement levels, failure to meet strategic targets and inconsistent company growth are signs that leadership teams are not highly effective. Executive Ownershift is a transformative growth program that enables leadership teams to deliver peak performance: When leadership teams perform at their best, so can everyone else. This book introduces a top-down team approach that enables leadership teams to dramatically improve their performance. It highlights how leadership teams can transform their own businesses and how they can master what must go right and what can go wrong on their path to high performance. With examples and cases provide evidence that results come fast to leadership teams that recognize that they are the starting point for improvement and growth, the book is an excellent guide that allows struggling leadership teams to become good, and good leadership teams to become great.

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Springer Nature

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3030358283

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9783030358280

Munich

By: Dan Colwell

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Munich

By: Dan Colwell

Home to the world's biggest beer festival and some of its greatest art galleries and museums, the Bavarian capital has many sides to its nature. Cosmopolitan, yet deeply attached to its traditions, a high-tech dynamo that still loves its oompah bands, the centre of German haute couture where you may well see men proudly sporting lederhosen -- Munich will constantly surprise and delight. From raucous beer gardens to the castles of Ludwig II's fanciful dreams, this guide explores the city and surrounding Upper Bavarian countryside. Includes many addresses for sightseeing, dining out and entertainment.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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2884522123

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Overlooking Nazareth

The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee

By: Dan Rabinowitz

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Overlooking Nazareth

The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee

By: Dan Rabinowitz

A sophisticated and engaging ethnographic account of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the first since the 1970s, Overlooking Nazareth examines specific situations of friction, conflict and co-operation in Natzerat Illit. This Israeli new town is built on formerly Palestinian land, just outside the biblical town of Nazareth, and has a population of 25,000 Jewish Israelis and 3,500 Palestinians. Dr Rabinowitz has written widely on the current political situation in Israel and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Galilee, and he describes his study as a guided walk along a border, a sketch of interfaces 'where the complex, often paradoxical aspects of the border situation are negotiated and acted out most vividly'. He highlights the extent to which anti-Palestinian sentiments for which the town is known actually reflect widespread views of most Israelis. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians. It offers powerful critique of reflexive anthropology and offers fresh insights into notions of ethnicity and identity, nationalism and liberalism.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521564956

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Securing AI Model Weights

Preventing Theft and Misuse of Frontier Models

By: Sella Nevo,Dan Lahav,Ajay Karpur,Yogev Bar-On,Henry Alexander Bradley

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Securing AI Model Weights

Preventing Theft and Misuse of Frontier Models

By: Sella Nevo,Dan Lahav,Ajay Karpur,Yogev Bar-On,Henry Alexander Bradley

The authors describe how to secure the weights of frontier artificial intelligence and machine learning models (that is, models that match or exceed the capabilities of the most advanced models at the time of their development).

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Rand Corporation

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1977413374

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When Good Drugs Go Bad

Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws

By: Dan Malleck

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When Good Drugs Go Bad

Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws

By: Dan Malleck

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen? Dan Malleck examines the conditions that led to Canada’s current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association files, asylum documents, physicians’ case books, and pharmacy records, Malleck demonstrates how a number of social, economic, and cultural forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and criminalize addiction. His research exposes how social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, a growing pharmaceutical industry, and concern about the morality and future of the nation.

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0774829222

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Macon County

By: Dan Guillory

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Macon County

By: Dan Guillory

Macon County occupies nearly 600 square miles of fertile farmland in the geographic center of Illinois. Abraham Lincoln made his first Illinois home here, on a pleasant bluff overlooking the Sangamon River, near presentday Harristown. On May 10, 1860, he was first nominated for the presidency in Decatur, the county seat. During the World War I era, Macon County boasted over a dozen hamlets and villages, including Warrensburg and Maroa, which both enjoyed opera houses and busy train stations. Maroa was home to John Crocker, who became a famous banker, while nearby Forsyth produced Black Bart, the infamous bank robber. After World War II, Decatur became known as the soybean capital of the world. And today, agricultural and industrial workers depend on one another, growing and processing the corn and soybeans that have made Macon County a self-sustaining economic engine.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143963324X

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Bicycle City

Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

By: Dan Piatkowski

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Bicycle City

Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

By: Dan Piatkowski

It took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realize that they simply couldn ́t afford to live without bicycles, and today the Dutch lead the world in urban cycling. Fifty years later, another crisis, the pandemic, has led to a boom in bicycling and a radical rethinking of the future of urban mobility, demonstrating the possibility of a car-free urban future. The pandemic “bikeboom” is one of the very few bright spots in an otherwise terrible time – and an opportunity we cannot waste. The climate crisis is all too real, the inequities in our cities too severe, to allow the US to backslide to the status quo of car-dependence. In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban future—where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by—may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting Americans out of cars. Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes. Piatkowski offers a vision for the car-free urban future that so many Americans are trying to create, with no shortage of pragmatic lessons to get there. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes, with electric assistance, are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities. Bicycle City brings together the latest research with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world to show readers how to harness the post-pandemic bikeboom. Piatkowski illustrates how the future of bicycling will facilitate the necessary urban transitions to mitigate the impending climate crisis and support just and equitable transport systems.

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Island Press

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1642833088

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Signal Processing and Networking for Big Data Applications

By: Zhu Han,Mingyi Hong,Dan Wang

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Signal Processing and Networking for Big Data Applications

By: Zhu Han,Mingyi Hong,Dan Wang

This unique text helps make sense of big data in engineering applications using tools and techniques from signal processing. It presents fundamental signal processing theories and software implementations, reviews current research trends and challenges, and describes the techniques used for analysis, design and optimization. Readers will learn about key theoretical issues such as data modelling and representation, scalable and low-complexity information processing and optimization, tensor and sublinear algorithms, and deep learning and software architecture, and their application to a wide range of engineering scenarios. Applications discussed in detail include wireless networking, smart grid systems, and sensor networks and cloud computing. This is the ideal text for researchers and practising engineers wanting to solve practical problems involving large amounts of data, and for students looking to grasp the fundamentals of big data analytics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108155944

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Unveiling Shadows: Nurturing Maternal Mental Health

By: Niken Bayu Argaheni, Nur Yanayirah, Ahmad Guntur Alfianto, Anisa Cahya Ningrum, Gina Anindyajati [dan 8 lainnya]

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Unveiling Shadows: Nurturing Maternal Mental Health

By: Niken Bayu Argaheni, Nur Yanayirah, Ahmad Guntur Alfianto, Anisa Cahya Ningrum, Gina Anindyajati [dan 8 lainnya]

In "Unveiling Shadows: Nurturing Maternal Mental Health," embark on a transformative journey through the complexities of motherhood, exploring the profound impact of mental health on women during the transformative stage of becoming a mother. This book draws from personal narratives, scientific research, and expert insights. This poignant book unveils the shadows that often accompany the joyous journey of motherhood. From the moment of conception to the early years of parenting, it candidly explores the spectrum of emotions experienced by mothers and exposes the silent struggles they face. Through sensitive exploration, "Unveiling Shadows" challenges the societal expectations placed upon women, dismantles the stigma surrounding maternal mental health, and illuminates the path toward healing and self-discovery. It delves into the multifaceted nature of perinatal mental health conditions, such as postpartum depression and anxiety, while shedding light on lesser-known conditions that can emerge during vulnerable times. "Unveiling Shadows" serves as a clarion call to healthcare providers, policymakers, and society, emphasizing the urgent need for improved awareness, education, and support surrounding maternal mental health. It inspires a collective effort to foster a nurturing environment where every mother can thrive mentally, emotionally, and physically.

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CV Jejak (Jejak Publisher)

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6234984126

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9786234984125

Promoting Peace with Information

Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes

By: Dan Lindley

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Promoting Peace with Information

Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes

By: Dan Lindley

It is normally assumed that international security can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversial nations. But how is transparency provided, how does it actually work, and how effective is it in preserving or restoring peace? This text provides answer to these questions". --Publisher's description.

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Princeton University Press

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0691129436

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The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals

By: Dan Dietz

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The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals

By: Dan Dietz

The debut of Oklahoma! in 1943 ushered in the modern era of Broadway musicals and was followed by a number of successes that have become beloved classics. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, On the Town, and South Pacific. Among the major performers of the decade were Alfred Drake, Gene Kelly, Mary Martin, and Ethel Merman, while other talents who contributed to shows include Irving Berlin, Gower Champion, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Agnes de Mille, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. In The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines every musical and revue that opened on Broadway during the 1940s. In addition to providing details on every hit and flop, this book includes revivals and one-man and one-woman shows. Each entry contains the following information: Opening and closing dates Plot summary Cast members Number of performances Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Musical numbers and the names of performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Critical commentary Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, such as a discography, film versions, published scripts, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and non-musical productions that utilized songs, dances, or background music. A treasure trove of information, The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals provides readers with a complete view of each show. This significant resource will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144224528X

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Integer Linear Programming in Computational and Systems Biology

An Entry-Level Text and Course

By: Dan Gusfield

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Integer Linear Programming in Computational and Systems Biology

An Entry-Level Text and Course

By: Dan Gusfield

Integer linear programming (ILP) is a versatile modeling and optimization technique that is increasingly used in non-traditional ways in biology, with the potential to transform biological computation. However, few biologists know about it. This how-to and why-do text introduces ILP through the lens of computational and systems biology. It uses in-depth examples from genomics, phylogenetics, RNA, protein folding, network analysis, cancer, ecology, co-evolution, DNA sequencing, sequence analysis, pedigree and sibling inference, haplotyping, and more, to establish the power of ILP. This book aims to teach the logic of modeling and solving problems with ILP, and to teach the practical 'work flow' involved in using ILP in biology. Written for a wide audience, with no biological or computational prerequisites, this book is appropriate for entry-level and advanced courses aimed at biological and computational students, and as a source for specialists. Numerous exercises and accompanying software (in Python and Perl) demonstrate the concepts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108386253

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Dollars and Votes

How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy

By: Dan Clawson,Alan Neustadtl,Mark Weller

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Dollars and Votes

How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy

By: Dan Clawson,Alan Neustadtl,Mark Weller

Recent scandals, including questionable fund-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront of the news and the public consciousness. Dollars and Votes goes beyond the partial, often misleading, news stories and official records to explain how our campaign system operates. The authors conducted thorough interviews with corporate "government relations" officials about what they do and why they do it. The results provide some of the most damning evidence imaginable. What donors, especially business donors, expect for their money is "access" and access means a lot more than a chance to meet and talk. They count on secret behind-the-scenes deals, like a tax provision that applies only to a "corporation incorporated on June 13, 1917, which has its principal place of business in Bartlesville, Oklahoma." After a deal is worked out behind closed doors, one executive explains, "it doesn't much matter how people vote afterwards." Ordinary contributions give access to Congress; megabuck "soft money" contributions ensure access to the President and top leaders. The striking truth revealed by these authors is that half the soft money comes from fewer than five hundred big donors, and that most contributions come, directly or indirectly, from business. Reform is possible, they argue, by turning away from the temptation of looking at specific scandals and developing a new system that removes the influence of big money campaign contributors. Author note: Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of Bureaucracy and the Labor Process and past editor of Contemporary Sociology. Alan Neustadtl, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, is the co-author (with Dan Clawson and Denise Scott) of Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Infuence. Mark Weller teaches sociology at San Jose State.

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Temple University Press

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1566396263

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The Republican Vision of John Tyler

By: Dan Monroe

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The Republican Vision of John Tyler

By: Dan Monroe

Historians have generally ranked John Tyler as one of the least successful chief executives, despite achievements such as the WebsterAshburton treaty, which heralded improved relations with Great Britain, and the annexation of Texas. Why did Tyler pursue what appears to have been a politically selfdestructive course with regard to both his first party, the Democrats, and his later political alliance, the Whigs? Monroe has set out to explain the beliefs that led to Tyler=s resigning his Senate seat and exercising politically suicidal presidential vetoes as well as examines the crises Tyler faced during his term in the House: the Panic of 1819, the financially tottering national bank, and the Missouri debate.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603447253

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The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

By: Dan Stone

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The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

By: Dan Stone

This book is timely and necessary and often extremely challenging. It brings together an impressive cast of scholars, spanning several academic generations. Anyone interested in writing about the Holocaust should read this book and consider the implications of what is written here for their own work. There seems to me little doubt that Holocaust history writing stands at something of a cross roads, and the ways forward that this volume points to are extremely thought provoking. -- Tom Lawson, University of Winchester.

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Berghahn Books

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0857454927

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The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

By: Stephen Watt,Dan Hassler-Forest,Erik Bohman,Stephen Shapiro,Jack Raglin,Atia Sattar,Seth Morton,Andrea Ruthven,Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe,John Gibson,Jonathan P. Eburne,Stephen Schneider

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The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

By: Stephen Watt,Dan Hassler-Forest,Erik Bohman,Stephen Shapiro,Jack Raglin,Atia Sattar,Seth Morton,Andrea Ruthven,Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe,John Gibson,Jonathan P. Eburne,Stephen Schneider

“Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails.”—Times Literary Supplement They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society’s fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more disturbing work. They exhume “zombie theory” and decaying historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie culture today “lives” in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde—and is often just as violent. “An intelligent and highly engaging collection that will appeal to legions of zombie fans, to students in the humanities, and to scholars working in fields that have already been affected by or are now preparing for the zombie apocalypse. It blends entertaining, illuminating, and accessible readings of zombies and zombie culture with unique interventions made from authoritative positions of expertise.”—Julian Murphet, author of Faulkner’s Media Romance

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Indiana University Press

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0253013925

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A Speaker's Guidebook

Text and Reference

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

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A Speaker's Guidebook

Text and Reference

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

A Speaker’s Guidebook is the best resource in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use and keep it year after year, this tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available. In every edition, hundreds of instructors have helped us focus on the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. Improving on this tradition, the fifth edition does even more to address these challenges with stronger coverage of overcoming speech anxiety, organizing and outlining, and more. And as the realties of public speaking change, so does A Speaker’s Guidebook; the new edition also focuses on presentational speaking in a digital world — from finding credible sources online to delivering presentations in a variety of mediated formats. Read the preface.

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Macmillan

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0312642865

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The Book of Beer Pong

The Official Guide to the Sport of Champions

By: Ben Applebaum,Dan DiSorbo

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The Book of Beer Pong

The Official Guide to the Sport of Champions

By: Ben Applebaum,Dan DiSorbo

As any discriminating player will tell you, Beer Pong is not a fad—it's a True Sport of Champions. What is beer pong? Mash together ping pong, basketball, and darts, add copious amounts of cold beer and heated competition, and you're getting close. The creators of CollegeStories.com, GetBombed.com, and the Official Bombed Beer Pong Kit have written the first and only guide to the worldwide craze. Featuring everything from basic etiquette to expert techniques, tactics for smack talk, cutting-edge ball grips and flight paths, and tips for hosting a tournament, this invaluable tome will make anyone a champion of this burgeoning sport. So, drink up and game on!

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1452122318

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We the Media

Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People

By: Dan Gillmor

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We the Media

Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People

By: Dan Gillmor

Looks at the emerging phenomenon of online journalism, including Weblogs, Internet chat groups, and email, and how anyone can produce news.

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Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Handbook for Clinicians

By: Dan I. Lebovic,John David Gordon,Robert N. Taylor

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Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Handbook for Clinicians

By: Dan I. Lebovic,John David Gordon,Robert N. Taylor

Offers information on reproductive medicine. This handbook includes tables, figures and flowcharts.

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Scrub Hill Press, Inc.

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0964546701

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Cleaning Up

How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients

By: Dan Zuberi

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Cleaning Up

How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients

By: Dan Zuberi

To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitals—leading to an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections, a leading cause of severe illness and death—as well as for the effective delivery of other hospital services and the workers themselves. Zuberi’s interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about the quality of the work due to understaffing, high turnover, poor training and experience, inadequate cleaning supplies, and on-the-job injuries. Zuberi also presents policy recommendations for improving patient safety by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection and ameliorating the work conditions and quality of life of hospital support workers. He makes the case that hospital outsourcing exemplifies the trend towards “low-road” service-sector jobs that threatens to undermine society’s social health, as well as the physical health and well-being of patients in health care settings globally.

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Cornell University Press

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0801469821

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Try to Control Yourself

The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44

By: Dan Malleck

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Try to Control Yourself

The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44

By: Dan Malleck

The prohibition era of gangsters and bootleggers has captured our imagination. But what happened when the government turned the taps back on? Dan Malleck shows that, contrary to popular belief, post-prohibition Ontario was an age when the government struggled to please both the “wets” and the “dries.” Rather than pandering to temperance groups, officials sought to define and promote manageable drinking spaces in which citizens would follow the rules of proper drinking and foster self-control. Post-prohibition liquor control was not a restrictive regulatory force but rather something more pragmatic – a bureaucratic attempt to balance temperance with recognition that prohibition was unsustainable.

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UBC Press

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0774822228

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Geriatric Psychiatry

A Companion to the American Pyschiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fourth Edition

By: Robert E. Hales,Narriman C. Shahrokh,Dan G. Blazer,David C. Steffens

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Geriatric Psychiatry

A Companion to the American Pyschiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fourth Edition

By: Robert E. Hales,Narriman C. Shahrokh,Dan G. Blazer,David C. Steffens

Study Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter as you progress through The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fourth Edition. The Study Guide is made up of 203 questions divided into 34 individual quizzes of 5-10 questions each that correspond to chapters in the Textbook. Questions are followed by an Answer Guide that references relevant text (including the page number) in the Textbook to allow quick access to needed information. Each answer is accompanied by a discussion that not only addresses the correct response but also explains why other responses are not correct. The Study Guide's companion, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry has been revised and updated while continuing the tradition of providing both scholar and clinician with the practical skills and knowledge required for understanding mental disorders in later life. It offers an authoritative review of a wide range of topics written by leaders in geriatric psychiatry, gerontology, geriatric medicine, and geriatric nursing, offering a solid grounding in both basic science and clinical applications. It is enhanced by a wide array of quick-reference tables and charts, lists of key points, and extensive references and suggested readings that can help clinicians and students at all levels learn more about individual topics.

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1585623520

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Changing Planet, Changing Health

How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It

By: Paul R. Epstein,Dan Ferber

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Changing Planet, Changing Health

How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It

By: Paul R. Epstein,Dan Ferber

Spotlights the threats of global warming and offers a systems approach for possible treatments. Decades spent as a physician and public health scientist have allowed Dr. Epstein to examine and now comment on the dynamics of global politics, climate change, and global health. Together with journalist Dan Ferber, he expresses a fundamental need for communities (of all scales) and industries (of all kinds) to reach together for a low-carbon economy. They make their argument by combining personal accounts with accurate histories and industry case studies. What enfolds is a prescriptive narrative for repairing an ailing planet"--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520272633

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The Person

An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology

By: Dan P. McAdams

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The Person

An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology

By: Dan P. McAdams

Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research, classic personality theories, and stirring examples from biography and literature, The Person presents a lively and integrative introduction to the science of personality psychology. Author, Dan McAdams, organizes the field according to a broad conceptual perspective that has emerged in personality psychology over the past 10 years. According to this perspective, personality is made up of three levels of psychological individuality - dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations (such as motives and goals), and integrative life stories. Traits, adaptations, and stories comprise the three most recognizable variations on psychological human nature, grounded in the human evolutionary heritage and situated in cultural and historical context. The fifth edition of this beautifully written text expands and updates research on the neuroscience of personality traits and introduces new material on personality disorders, evolution and religion, attachment in adulthood, continuity and change in personality over the life course, and the development of narrative identity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470129131

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Botanical Medicine

A European Professional Perspective

By: Dan Kenner,Yves Requena

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Botanical Medicine

A European Professional Perspective

By: Dan Kenner,Yves Requena

Provides an important resource for herbal practitioners who seek creative, innovative and sophisticated clinical models to enhance their practice. This book is designed to provide the herbal practitioner with tools for the development of clinical insights.

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Paradigm Publications

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0912111666

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Fergus

The Soccer-Playing Colt

By: Dan A. Peterson

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Fergus

The Soccer-Playing Colt

By: Dan A. Peterson

The story of a horse who dares to be different.

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Raven Publishing

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0971416176

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The Battle for America

The Story of an Extraordinary Election

By: Dan Balz,Haynes Johnson

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The Battle for America

The Story of an Extraordinary Election

By: Dan Balz,Haynes Johnson

The bestselling, truly gripping account of 2008's landmark election, updated through 2009 The election of 2008 shattered political barriers and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency. Now, Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of America's most respected journalists, offer the first complete picture of the strategies-and singular personalities- that accompanied the candidates' first forays into Iowa and New Hampshire through Obama's historic victory on Election Night. Filled with insider details, this riveting, wholly nonpartisan account of the historic election will capture the attention of everyone who witnessed it, as well as future generations who wished they had. A Washington Post and L.A. Times Best Book of the Year.

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Penguin

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1101429577

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Pleading Out

How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

By: Dan Canon

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Pleading Out

How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

By: Dan Canon

A blistering critique of America’s assembly-line approach to criminal justice and the shameful practice at its core: the plea bargain Most Americans believe that the jury trial is the backbone of our criminal justice system. But in fact, the vast majority of cases never make it to trial: almost all criminal convictions are the result of a plea bargain, a deal made entirely out of the public eye. Law professor and civil rights lawyer Dan Canon argues that plea bargaining may swiftly dispose of cases, but it also fuels an unjust system. This practice produces a massive underclass of people who are restricted from voting, working, and otherwise participating in society. And while innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit in exchange for lesser sentences, the truly guilty can get away with murder. With heart-wrenching stories, fierce urgency, and an insider’s perspective, Pleading Out exposes the ugly truth about what’s wrong with America’s criminal justice system today—and offers a prescription for meaningful change.

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Basic Books

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1541674685

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Evidence-Based Neonatal Pharmacotherapy, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

By: Alan R. Spitzer,Dan Ellsbury

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Evidence-Based Neonatal Pharmacotherapy, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

By: Alan R. Spitzer,Dan Ellsbury

Dr. Spitzer has created an issue devoted to the evidence-based pharmacologic care of the neonate. The issue opens with an important article on A Quality Improvement Approach to Modifying Medication Use in the NICU. The expert authors he has secured have contributed articles in the areas of therapeutic drug monitoring, off-label use of medications in the NICU, antenatal and post-natal corticosteroids, antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals, as well as bronchodilators and nitric oxide. Other articles also present evidence-based use of oxygen, dopamine, anesthetics and analgesics, and erythropoetin.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455743038

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Beginning Microsoft Power BI

A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics

By: Dan Clark

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Beginning Microsoft Power BI

A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics

By: Dan Clark

Analyze company data quickly and easily using Microsoft’s powerful data tools. Learn to build scalable and robust data models, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling and professional visuals. Beginning Power BI is a hands-on, activity-based guide that takes you through the process of analyzing your data using the tools that that encompass the core of Microsoft’s self-service BI offering. Starting with Power Query, you will learn how to get data from a variety of sources, and see just how easy it is to clean and shape the data prior to importing it into a data model. Using Power BI tabular and the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), you will learn to create robust scalable data models which will serve as the foundation of your data analysis. From there you will enter the world of compelling interactive visualizations to analyze and gain insight into your data. You will wrap up your Power BI journey by learning how to package and share your reports and dashboards with your colleagues. Author Dan Clark takes you through each topic using step-by-step activities and plenty of screen shots to help familiarize you with the tools. This third edition covers the new and evolving features in the Power BI platform and new chapters on data flows and composite models. This book is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight. What You Will Learn Simplify data discovery, association, and cleansingBuild solid analytical data models Create robust interactive data presentations Combine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizations Publish and share dashboards and reports Who This Book Is For Business analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data

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1484256204

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