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A History of Madison

By: Daniel Durrie

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A History of Madison

By: Daniel Durrie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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Infectious Inequalities

Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

By: Qijun Han,Daniel R. Curtis

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Infectious Inequalities

Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

By: Qijun Han,Daniel R. Curtis

This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic experiences down the lines of expertise, gender, and wealth; and the difficulties in visualizing the invisible pathogen on screen. The authors argue that epidemics have long been presented in cinema as forming a point of cohesion for the communities portrayed, as individuals and groups “from below” represented as characters in these films find solidarity in battling a common enemy of elite institutions and authority figures. Throughout the book, a central question is also posed: “cohesion for whom?”, which sheds light on the fortunes of those characters that are excluded from these expressions of collective solidarity. This book is a valuable reference for scholars and students of film studies and visual studies as well as academic and general readers interested in topics of films and history, and disease and society. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Routledge

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1000540804

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Dewey & the Dilemma of Race

An Intellectual History, 1895-1922

By: Thomas Daniel Fallace

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Dewey & the Dilemma of Race

An Intellectual History, 1895-1922

By: Thomas Daniel Fallace

This historical study traces how John Dewey, as did most of his contemporaries, struggled with the major dilemma of how to reconcile evolution, pedagogy, democracy, and race. In an original and provocative presentation, the author seeks to capture Dewey's original meaning by placing him in his own intellectual and cultural context. Fallace argues that Dewey created an ethnocentric curriculum at the famous University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896–1904) that traced the linear development of Western civilization and pointed to it as the cultural endpoint of all human progress. However, in the years following the First World War, Dewey reconstructed his orientation into an interactionist-pluralist view that recognized how a diversity of cultures was a necessity for democratic living and intellectual growth. Dewey and the Dilemma of Race is the first comprehensive intellectual biography to trace the development of Dewey's educational views. Filling an important gap in our understanding of Dewey's thinking on culture and race, this book will be of interest to a broad range of educators, historians, philosophers, and scholars.

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Teachers College Press

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0807751642

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A Secession Crisis Enigma

William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man"

By: Daniel W. Crofts

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A Secession Crisis Enigma

William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man"

By: Daniel W. Crofts

The Diary of a Public Man," published anonymously in several installments in the North American Review in 1879, claimed to offer verbatim accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas -- among others -- in the desperate weeks just before the start of the Civil War. Despite repeated attempts to decipher the Diary, historians never have been able to pinpoint its author or determine its authenticity. In A Secession Crisis Enigma, Daniel W. Crofts solves these longstanding mysteries. He identifies the author, unravels the intriguing story behind the Diary, and deftly establishes its contents as largely genuine. According to Crofts, the Diary was not a diary at all but a memoir, probably written shortly before it appeared in print. The mastermind who created it, New York journalist William Henry Hurlbert (1827--1895), successfully perpetrated one of the most difficult feats of historical license -- he pretended to have been a diarist who never existed. Crofts contends, however, that Hurlbert's work was far from fictional. Time after time, the Diary introduces material virtually impossible to fabricate along with previously concealed information that was corroborated only after its publication. The Diary bristles with precise details regarding the struggle to shape Lincoln's cabinet and the composition of his inaugural address. Crofts's careful analysis, accompanied by the full text of the Diary in an appendix, offers a bold new perspective on the frantic scramble to reverse southern secession while avoiding the abyss of war. Hurlbert, a long-forgotten eccentric genius, emerges vividly here. Part detective story, part biography, and part a detailed narrative of events in early 1861, A Secession Crisis Enigma presents a compelling answer to an enduring mystery and brings "The Diary of a Public Man" back into the historical lexicon.

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LSU Press

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080714701X

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A Whisper in the Wind

By: Daniel Snow

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A Whisper in the Wind

By: Daniel Snow

Sara Whitecliff has it all. A handsome all-American husband who is the heir apparent to a 150-year-old family fortune, a mansion that is the envy of everyone in town, the promise of a life of leisure, and a family that accepts her humble roots. Sara quietly asks her husband to take her to visit her mother, a hundred miles away, for a Mother's Day celebration. A tragic accident changes everything. Although Sara emerges from the accident unscathed, her husband, Todd Whitecliff, suffers serious brain injuries and is in the intensive care ward in a coma. Twelve thousand miles away, at the exact same time, a young soldier, Sergeant Phil Ward, on a special operations assignment, comes face-to-face with an enemy that has overrun his base camp. During the chaos of the battle, Phil struggles to find the courage to face the fear that his life might soon end. His life is spared when another soldier comes between him and a mortar round explosion. Phil uses the recall of his father's WWII war stories to help him find the courage to fight on and survive the night. A chance meeting one year later brings Sara and Phil together, and a friendship emerges. When the two discover the coincidence of the timing of their individual traumatic events, a bond is developed that builds into a passionate romance. When Sara's mother-in-law discovers the romance, she applies the full force of the Whitecliff family fortune to destroy the lives of both Sara and Phil. The couple is viciously torn apart and must face their many individual life lessons with an empty longing in their hearts. They embark on separate missions to find meaning in their lives, right the wrongs of the past, and maintain hope for a second chance to keep their life stories from becoming a whisper in the wind. After thirty years, a second chance emerges, and the fireworks begin.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1635681995

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Numerical Ecology with R

By: Daniel Borcard,François Gillet,Pierre Legendre

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Numerical Ecology with R

By: Daniel Borcard,François Gillet,Pierre Legendre

This new edition of Numerical Ecology with R guides readers through an applied exploration of the major methods of multivariate data analysis, as seen through the eyes of three ecologists. It provides a bridge between a textbook of numerical ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. The book begins by examining some exploratory approaches. It proceeds logically with the construction of the key building blocks of most methods, i.e. association measures and matrices, and then submits example data to three families of approaches: clustering, ordination and canonical ordination. The last two chapters make use of these methods to explore important and contemporary issues in ecology: the analysis of spatial structures and of community diversity. The aims of methods thus range from descriptive to explanatory and predictive and encompass a wide variety of approaches that should provide readers with an extensive toolbox that can address a wide palette of questions arising in contemporary multivariate ecological analysis. The second edition of this book features a complete revision to the R code and offers improved procedures and more diverse applications of the major methods. It also highlights important changes in the methods and expands upon topics such as multiple correspondence analysis, principal response curves and co-correspondence analysis. New features include the study of relationships between species traits and the environment, and community diversity analysis. This book is aimed at professional researchers, practitioners, graduate students and teachers in ecology, environmental science and engineering, and in related fields such as oceanography, molecular ecology, agriculture and soil science, who already have a background in general and multivariate statistics and wish to apply this knowledge to their data using the R language, as well as people willing to accompany their disciplinary learning with practical applications. People from other fields (e.g. geology, geography, paleoecology, phylogenetics, anthropology, the social and education sciences, etc.) may also benefit from the materials presented in this book. Users are invited to use this book as a teaching companion at the computer. All the necessary data files, the scripts used in the chapters, as well as extra R functions and packages written by the authors of the book, are available online (URL: http://adn.biol.umontreal.ca/~numericalecology/numecolR/).

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Springer

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331971404X

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Pay the Piper

A Novel

By: George A. Romero,Daniel Kraus

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Pay the Piper

A Novel

By: George A. Romero,Daniel Kraus

A terrifying tale of supernatural horror set in a cursed Louisiana bayou, from the minds of legendary director George Romero and bestselling author Daniel Kraus. In 2019, while sifting through University of Pittsburgh Library’s System’s George A. Romero Archival Collection, novelist Daniel Kraus turned up a surprise: a half-finished novel called Pay the Piper, a project few had ever heard of. In the years since, Kraus has worked with Romero’s estate to bring this unfinished masterwork to light. Alligator Point, Louisiana, population 141: Young Renée Pontiac has heard stories of “the Piper”—a murderous swamp entity haunting the bayou—her entire life. But now the legend feels horrifically real: children are being taken and gruesomely slain. To resist, Pontiac and the town’s desperate denizens will need to acknowledge the sins of their ancestors—the infamous slave traders, the Pirates Lafitte. If they don’t . . . it’s time to pay the piper.

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1454950900

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Scandal and Civility

Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy

By: Marcus Daniel,Marcus Leonard Daniel

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Scandal and Civility

Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy

By: Marcus Daniel,Marcus Leonard Daniel

A compelling account of how passionately partisan editors in the early Republic overthrew impartial journalism and sparked the birth of democracy in America

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0199764816

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Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849

By: Daniel Fred Johnson

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Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849

By: Daniel Fred Johnson

Recollections of Ohio County, Kentucky, replete with genealogical data on early families and 2,500 marriage records before 1840.

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0806347082

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The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball

The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy

By: Daniel R. Levitt

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The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball

The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy

By: Daniel R. Levitt

Chronicles the 1913-1915 battle between baseball's newly-formed Federal League versus the established National and American leagues, and discusses the short- and long-term impact on the game.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566638690

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American Abyss

Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry

By: Daniel E. Bender

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American Abyss

Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry

By: Daniel E. Bender

At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources—eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen—to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization.Their discussions, he notes, are echoed today by the use of such terms as the "developed" and "developing" worlds. American industry was contrasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who made those claims worried that industrialization, by encouraging immigration, child and women's labor, and large families, was reversing natural selection. Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to favor eugenicist "remedies."Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy and society, this book offers an alarming and pointed historical perspective on contemporary fears of immigrant laborers.

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Cornell University Press

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0801457130

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Understanding Canadian Law Three-Book Bundle

Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations

By: Daniel J. Baum

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Understanding Canadian Law Three-Book Bundle

Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations

By: Daniel J. Baum

Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first three instalments of the series are available in an ebook-exclusive bundle. Includes Youth and the Law What's the law? What does it mean? If the law is broken, especially criminal law, there may be a penalty. But who makes the law? How can the government draw lines in imposing individual responsibility? This book examines these questions in the context of dealing with youth, with case studies and analysis. Freedom and Expression This book detailing the protections, limits, and interpretation of freedom of expression in Canada is the second in a series exploring key topics pertaining to Canadian law. Crime Scene Investigations Police investigations can become legal minefields. Crime Scene Investigations is a clear guide to the powers and limitations of law enforcement officials. From the right to a lawyer's advice, to privacy law in search and seizures, to stop-and-frisk-style "carding" operations, this book covers the key topics in depth.

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Dundurn

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1459731387

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Understanding Canadian Law Four-Book Bundle

Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations / Life or Death

By: Daniel J. Baum

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Understanding Canadian Law Four-Book Bundle

Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations / Life or Death

By: Daniel J. Baum

In this special four-book bundle, legal expert Daniel J. Baum explains Canadian law in a clear and understandable way. Includes: Youth and the Law Laws, as they relate to youth and youth issues, can be difficult to understand for those they are intended to serve. Baum breaks down the Supreme Court of Canada’s decisions relating to youth in plain language intended for readers of all ages. Freedom of Expression Freedom of Expression details the protections, limits, and interpretation of freedom of expression in Canada. Crime Scene Investigations A clear guide to the powers and limitations of law enforcement officials. From the right to a lawyer’s advice, to privacy law in search and seizures, to stop-and-frisk-style “carding” operations, this book covers the key topics in depth. Life or Death (New!) Our bodies are ours to control, free from state interference — or so it would seem from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But how is this principle really applied?

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1459733851

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The Social Sciences Since the Second World War

By: Daniel Bell

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The Social Sciences Since the Second World War

By: Daniel Bell

Organizing his work thematically to explore important ideas and trends that have influenced the social sciences since World War II, Bell charts the rise and fall of major developments in the field and presents a comprehensive survey of the progress of the social sciences over this thirty-five year period.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412834503

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Baseball in 1889

Players Vs. Owners

By: Daniel Merle Pearson

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Baseball in 1889

Players Vs. Owners

By: Daniel Merle Pearson

National League players planned revolt as the crowds swelled, hoping to take advantage of baseball's growing popularity. The season became, as one sportswriter said, something approaching a Lobster-Frankenstein nightmare."--BOOK JACKET.

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0879726199

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The Americans: The Democratic Experience

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

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The Americans: The Democratic Experience

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

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Vintage

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0307756491

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As Seen in Vogue

A Century of American Fashion in Advertising

By: Daniel Delis Hill

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As Seen in Vogue

A Century of American Fashion in Advertising

By: Daniel Delis Hill

Documents the history of "Vogue" magazine over the course of the twentieth century, and features more than six hundred advertising images that provide insights into the evolution in American fashion, society, and culture since the magazine's debut in 1893.

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Texas Tech University Press

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0896726169

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Postmodernity and Univocity

A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus

By: Daniel P. Horan

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Postmodernity and Univocity

A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus

By: Daniel P. Horan

Nearly twenty-five years ago, John Milbank inaugurated Radical Orthodoxy, one of the most significant and influential theological movements of the last two decades. In Milbanks Theology and Social Theory, he constructed a sweeping theological genealogy of the origins of modernity and the emergence of the secular, counterposed by a robust retrieval of traditional orthodoxy as the critical philosophical and theological mode of being in the postmodern world. That genealogy turns upon a critical pointthe work of John Duns Scotus as the starting point of modernity and progenitor of a raft of philosophical and theological ills that have prevailed since. Milbanks account has been disseminated proliferously through Radical Orthodoxy and even beyond and is largely uncontested in contemporary theology. The present volume conducts a comprehensive examination and critical analysis of Radical Orthodoxys use and interpretation of John Duns Scotus. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M. offers a substantial challenge to the narrative of Radical Orthodoxys idiosyncratic take on Scotus and his role in ushering in the philosophical age of the modern. This volume not only corrects the received account of Scotus but opens a constructive way forward toward a positive assessment and appropriation of Scotuss work for contemporary theology.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1451465726

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The Charleston Shuffle

By: Daniel West

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The Charleston Shuffle

By: Daniel West

The Charleston Shuffle Life is a slow, sensual dance Some dances just happen to be deadlier than others Brent is a top rated criminal investigator from Cincinnati, Ohio His life starts to unravel after he learns that his wife is having an affair Brent relocates to Charleston, South Carolina, to rebuild his life While pursuing his new job, and courting a new relationship with Megan. Brent makes a profound discovery, the string of older businessmen dying while on vacation at the local five star hotel, are not the "natural causes" deaths that the local homicide detectives think they are A local woman posing as a high price escort, is taking their money and poisoning them with a transient, and almost untraceable, drug. Brent has a chance to reclaim everything in life, if only he can find a way to prove his theory to the local police, and help them catch this serial killer Brent can have everything he has always wanted in life If only he can learn to master the Charleston shuffle

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Lulu.com

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1304696987

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Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

By: Louise Ackers,Gavin Ackers-Johnson,Joanne Welsh,Daniel Kibombo,Samuel Opio

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Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

By: Louise Ackers,Gavin Ackers-Johnson,Joanne Welsh,Daniel Kibombo,Samuel Opio

‘The Maternal Sepsis Intervention has had a profound impact on maternal mortality and antibiotic use whilst also reducing hospital costs. The Ministry of Health is keen to explore opportunities to extending the lessons learnt and integrate them in national policy-making.' -Dr. Richard Mugahi, Ministry of Health, Uganda. This open access book provides an accessible introduction to the mechanics of international development and global health text for policy-makers and students across a wide range of disciplines. Antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to the well-being of patients and health systems the world over. In fragile health systems so challenged, on a day-today basis, by the overwhelming burden of both infectious and non-communicable disease, it is easy to overlook the impacts of AMR. The Maternal Sepsis Intervention, focusing on a primary cause of maternal death in Uganda, demonstrates the systemic nature of AMR and the gains that can be made through improved Infection Prevention Control and direct engagement of laboratory testing in antibiotic prescribing.

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Springer Nature

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3030626628

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Welfare for Markets

A Global History of Basic Income

By: Anton Jäger,Daniel Zamora Vargas

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Welfare for Markets

A Global History of Basic Income

By: Anton Jäger,Daniel Zamora Vargas

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain capitalism. By appealing differently to different political sensibilities, basic income has persisted in the political imagination for centuries. In this deeply erudite and original work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora offer the first historical examination of basic income as a policy of convenience--and, critically, as an intellectual backstop for the shortcomings of capitalism. With modern origins in works of neoliberals like Friedrich Hayek, basic income was conceived as a form of market-friendly welfare state-a safety net around capitalism that wouldn't impinge on capitalism. Although neoliberals failed to make the idea a reality, they succeeded in seeding a fascination that would permeate all corners of late-century capitalism, from supply-side Democrats to neoclassical economists and barons of Silicon Valley. Basic income, Jäger and Zamora show, is no mere political sideshow. Amid societies' ongoing search for market-friendly utopianism, it may be a policy whose time has finally come"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823687

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Participatory Budgeting in the United States

A Guide for Local Governments

By: Victoria Gordon,Jeffery L. Osgood, Jr.,Daniel Boden

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Participatory Budgeting in the United States

A Guide for Local Governments

By: Victoria Gordon,Jeffery L. Osgood, Jr.,Daniel Boden

Although citizen engagement is a core public service value, few public administrators receive training on how to share leadership with people outside the government. Participatory Budgeting in the United States serves as a primer for those looking to understand a classic example of participatory governance, engaging local citizens in examining budgetary constraints and priorities before making recommendations to local government. Utilizing case studies and an original set of interviews with community members, elected officials, and city employees, this book provides a rare window onto the participatory budgeting process through the words and experiences of the very individuals involved. The central themes that emerge from these fascinating and detailed cases focus on three core areas: creating the participatory budgeting infrastructure; increasing citizen participation in participatory budgeting; and assessing and increasing the impact of participatory budgeting. This book provides students, local government elected officials, practitioners, and citizens with a comprehensive understanding of participatory budgeting and straightforward guidelines to enhance the process of civic engagement and democratic values in local communities.

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1315535270

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Social Theory

Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance

By: Daniel W. Rossides

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Social Theory

Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance

By: Daniel W. Rossides

Social Theory: Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance analyzes the tradition of social theory in terms of its origins and changes in kind of societies. Rossides provides a full discussion of the sociohistorical environments that generated Western social theory with a focus on the contemporary modern world. While employing a sociology of knowledge approach that identifies theories as aristocratic versus democratic, liberal versus socialist and also liberal feminist versus radical feminist; it attempts to construct a scientific, unified social theory in the West. Additionally, it also features African American theory, American culture studies, political and legal philosophy, and environmental theory.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1882289501

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Bohemian Los Angeles

and the Making of Modern Politics

By: Daniel Hurewitz

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Bohemian Los Angeles

and the Making of Modern Politics

By: Daniel Hurewitz

Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation’s first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party’s intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. In this vividly written narrative, he discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations. Bohemian Los Angeles, incorporating fascinating oral histories, personal letters, police records, and rare photographs, shifts our focus from gay and bohemian New York to the west coast with significant implications for twentieth-century U.S. history and politics.

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Univ of California Press

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0520941691

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.

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Ancient Israel in Egypt

Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Daniel Tompsett

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Ancient Israel in Egypt

Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Daniel Tompsett

This book looks back over thousands of years to explore the period in Egyptian history when the Bible identifies that Ancient Israel was resident in Egypt. It asks and answers one very simple question: What new things can we learn about this period of history if we treat the Bible as a valid historical document? Whereas this topic is often approached from either the perspective of the Bible or Egyptology, this work genuinely attempts to occupy the ground between the two. It uses Scripture like a torch carried into the deepest recesses of the established historical facts and theories concerning the late Middle Kingdom period, the Second Intermediate period, and the early New Kingdom period in Egyptian history. Along the way, it considers some of the latest discoveries, innovations, and theories from the world of Egyptology and unearths a trove of tangible points of connection. As such, the narrative forms a two-way perspective, where the biblical account illuminates stubbornly opaque moments in Egyptian history and chronology and where the meticulous work of Egyptologists provides appropriate additional background to the Bible. The result is a sharper perspective of an ancient account that has a surprisingly current application for us all.

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1666741566

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