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Narratology beyond the Human

Storytelling and Animal Life

By: David Herman

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Narratology beyond the Human

Storytelling and Animal Life

By: David Herman

To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices accommodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience, and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies interactions and entanglements? In Narratology beyond the Human, David Herman addresses these questions through a cross-disciplinary approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and human-animal relationships. Herman considers the enabling and constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print, comics and graphic novels, and film. In focusing on techniques such as the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and nonhuman perspectives, the embedding of stories within stories, and others, the book explores how specific strategies for portraying nonhuman agents both emerge from and contribute to broader attitudes toward animal life. Herman argues that existing frameworks for narrative inquiry must be modified to take into account how stories are interwoven with cultural ontologies, or understandings of what sorts of beings populate the world and how they relate to humans. Showing how questions of narrative bear on ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds, Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action in a more-than-human world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190850418

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The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

By: Richard K. Ries,David A. Fiellin,Shannon C. Miller,Richard Saitz

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The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

By: Richard K. Ries,David A. Fiellin,Shannon C. Miller,Richard Saitz

In the midst of an addiction epidemic, this newly updated edition of The American Society of Addiction Medicine Principles of Addiction Medicine, 5th edition is the sought-after text every addiction researcher and care provider needs. This comprehensive reference text dedicates itself to both the science and treatment of addiction. You’ll receive a thorough grounding in both the scientific principles behind the causes of addiction and the practical aspects of clinical care. Chapters are written by recognized experts, covering areas such as the basic science of addiction medicine; diagnosis, assessment and early intervention; pharmacologic and behavioral interventions; mutual help and twelve-step; and co-occurring addiction, medical and psychiatric disorders—backed by the latest research data and successful treatment methods. Features: Numerous figures, tables and diagrams elucidate the text Chapters include case examples List of data research reports provided at end of each chapter NEW material on Prescription Drug Abuse, Club Drugs, Nursing Roles in Addressing Addiction, Conceptual and Treatment Issues in Behavioral Addictions, Rehabilitation Approaches to Pain Management, Comorbid Pain and Addiction, Pharmacotherapy for Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders, Preventing and Treating Substance Use Disorders in Military Personnel, and more.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469883791

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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

By: David Bellos,Alexandre Montagu

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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

By: David Bellos,Alexandre Montagu

A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn’t always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers’ control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright’s metastasis can’t be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger. Who Owns This Sentence? is an often-humorous and always-enlightening cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a persuasive case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324073721

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Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District

By: Bruce J. Dierenfield,David A. Gerber

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Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District

By: Bruce J. Dierenfield,David A. Gerber

In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests' story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family's effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court's ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052080

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9780252052088

A World History of Tax Rebellions

An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present

By: David F. Burg

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A World History of Tax Rebellions

An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present

By: David F. Burg

A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context.

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Routledge

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1135959994

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Regression Diagnostics

Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

By: David A. Belsley,Edwin Kuh,Roy E. Welsch

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Regression Diagnostics

Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

By: David A. Belsley,Edwin Kuh,Roy E. Welsch

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected booksthat have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort toincrease global appeal and general circulation. With these newunabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives ofthese works by making them available to future generations ofstatisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "The title of the book more or less sums up the contents. Itappears to me to represent a real breakthrough in the art ofdealing in ‘unconventional’ data. . . . I found thewhole book both readable and enjoyable. It is suitable for dataanalysts, academic statisticians, and professional softwarewriters." –Journal of the Royal Statistical Society "The book assumes a working knowledge of all of the principalresults and techniques used in least squares multiple regression,as expressed in vector and matrix notation. Given this background,the book is clear and easy to use. . . . The techniques areillustrated in great detail with practical data sets fromeconometrics." –Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sourcesof Collinearity provides practicing statisticians andeconometricians with new tools for assessing quality andreliability of regression estimates. Diagnostic techniques aredeveloped that aid in the systematic location of data points thatare unusual or inordinately influential; measure the presence andintensity of collinear relations among the regression data; andhelp to identify variables involved in each and pinpoint estimatedcoefficients potentially most adversely affected. The bookemphasizes diagnostics and includes suggestions for remedialaction

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471725145

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9780471725145

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

By: David M. Turner

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Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

By: David M. Turner

This study examines physical disability in 18th century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences.

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Routledge

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0415886449

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9780415886444

Manchester City Greatest Games

By: David Clayton

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Manchester City Greatest Games

By: David Clayton

The Sky Blues' 50 finest matchesFrom the thousands of matches ever played by Manchester City, stretching from the early days of the 20th century to the new millennium and Premier League triumph, here are the most glorious, epochal, and thrilling games of all. Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail, this book offers a terrace ticket back in time, taking in everything from the first game ever played at Maine Road in 1923 to the last in 2003, plus belters at the Etihad Stadium and Wembley classics. An irresistible cast list of club legends-Francis Lee and Billy Meredith, Bert Trautmann, Georgi Kinkladze and Ernie Brook-springs to life in a thrilling selection of last-day dramas, unforgettable derbies, relegation deciders, European nights, and cup crackers. This journey through the highlights of City's history is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with pride.

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eBook Partnership

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1909626147

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A World Art History and Its Objects

By: David Carrier

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A World Art History and Its Objects

By: David Carrier

Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? Is it possible to consider the history of art in a way that is not fundamentally Eurocentric? In this highly readable and provocative book, David Carrier, a philosopher and art historian, does not attempt to write a world art history himself. Rather, he asks the question of how an art history of all cultures could be written—or whether it is even possible to do so. He also engages the political and moral issues raised by the idea of a multicultural art history. Focusing on a consideration of intersecting artistic traditions, Carrier negotiates the way meaning and understanding shift or are altered when a visual object from one culture, for example, is inserted into the visual tradition of another culture. A World Art History and Its Objects proposes the use of temporal narrative as a way to begin to understand a multicultural art history.

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Penn State Press

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0271036060

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Mark Rothko

The Works on Canvas

By: David Anfam

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Mark Rothko

The Works on Canvas

By: David Anfam

This is the first volume of the catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, the abstract artist. It documents Rothko's entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in colour. An introductory text investigates the essential features of Rothko's art.

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Yale University Press

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0300074891

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9780300074895

Procedures in Gastrointestinal Radiology

By: Julian Dobranowski,David A. Stringer,Sat Somers,Giles W. Stevenson

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Procedures in Gastrointestinal Radiology

By: Julian Dobranowski,David A. Stringer,Sat Somers,Giles W. Stevenson

Dr. Dobranowski and his associates are to be highly commended for this excellent manual. I am not aware of a similar text covering the subject. Although all of us perform gastrointestinal studies in a differ ent manner, this text provides an excellent overview. The reader will discover that the text is especially well written and focuses on the important issues relating to GI contrast studies. Because Dr. Steven son's group performs endoscopic procedures, they are included in the manual. These authors are recognized scholars and leaders in gastrointesti nal radiology. Thus, it is easy to understand why the manual is so well done. I am particularly impressed with the emphasis placed on the patient-radiologist relationship before, during, and after completion of a study. All of us who teach gastrointestinal radiology are concerned about the decline in the number of gastrointestinal contrast studies. We are not sure how we can continue to teach our residents the proper tech niques and maintain high-quality teaching programs in gastrointesti nal radiology. A manual of this type is thus timely and appropriate. The manual will be a valuable addition to the library of all radiologists. It will be particularly useful for residents who are learning how to per form GI contrast studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461233089

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9781461233084

Care in Mental Health-Substance Use

By: David B. Cooper

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Care in Mental Health-Substance Use

By: David B. Cooper

The Mental Health-Substance Use series provides clear guidance for professionals on this complex and increasingly recognised field. It concentrates on the concerns, dilemmas and concepts that impact on the life and well-being of affected individuals and those close to them, as well as the future direction of practice, education, research, services, intervention, and treatment. This volume is primarily about caring for individuals and families who turn to professionals at a time when their lives are unmanageable alone, but is also concerned with the care that these professions extend to their own members. It contends that these issues are closely interrelated, with appropriate communication and support being key to both. Its chapters draw from a variety of theories and treatments to provide practical advice on the challenge of providing appropriate care tailored to a wide scope of individuals and families. The volumes in this series are designed to challenge concepts and stimulate debate, exploring all aspects of the development in treatment, intervention and care response, and the adoption of research-led best practice. They are essential reading for mental health and substance use professionals, students and educators.

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CRC Press

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1315342944

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Education and Society in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham

By: David Wardle

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Education and Society in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham

By: David Wardle

An account of the progress made in the provision of education in Nottingham in the nineteenth century. Dr Wardle makes full use of the evidence of newpapers, contemporary accounts and statistics relating to population, child employment, public health, welfare agencies, and charitable organisations to produce an integrated study of the educational, social and economic aspects of a town's growth over 100 years. The experience of Nottingham is compared (generally favourably) with that of other cities. The full use of newspapers means that areas of the educational picture usually overlooked are here given due prominence; for example, the numerically significant private schools, and the lending libraries organised by groups of workmen. This book gives a vivid picture of the growth of our educational system, not only as it was seen by the administrators, but also as it was seen by the parents, and pupils for whom it was intended.

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Cambridge University Press

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052114387X

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9780521143875

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Narratology beyond the Human

Narratology beyond the Human

The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

A World History of Tax Rebellions

A World History of Tax Rebellions

Regression Diagnostics

Regression Diagnostics

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Manchester City Greatest Games

Manchester City Greatest Games

A World Art History and Its Objects

A World Art History and Its Objects

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Procedures in Gastrointestinal Radiology

Procedures in Gastrointestinal Radiology

Care in Mental Health-Substance Use

Care in Mental Health-Substance Use

Education and Society in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham

Education and Society in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham

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