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JFK, Conservative

By: Ira Stoll

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JFK, Conservative

By: Ira Stoll

For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes a sure-to-be-controversial argument that by virtually any standard, JFK was far more conservative than liberal.

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Samuel Adams

A Life

By: Ira Stoll

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Samuel Adams

A Life

By: Ira Stoll

A biography of one of the most influential patriots during the Revolutionary War.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743299116

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Samuel Adams

A Life

By: Ira Stoll

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In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." In a role that many Americans have not fully appreciated until now, Adams played a pivotal role in the events leading up to the bloody confrontation with the British. Believing that God had willed a free American nation, he was among the first patriot leaders to call for independence from England. He was ever the man of action: He saw the opportunity to stir things up after the Boston Massacre and helped plan and instigate the Boston Tea Party, though he did not actually participate in it. A fiery newspaper editor, he railed ceaselessly against "taxation without representation." In a relentless blizzard of articles and speeches, Adams, a man of New England, argued the urgency of revolution. When the top British general in America, Thomas Gage, offered a general amnesty in June 1775 to all revolutionaries who would lay down their arms, he excepted only two men, John Hancock and Samuel Adams: These two were destined for the gallows. It was this pair, author Ira Stoll argues, whom the British were pursuing in their fateful march on Lexington and Concord. In the tradition of David McCullough's John Adams, Joseph Ellis's The Founding Brothers, and Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin, Ira Stoll's Samuel Adams vividly re-creates a world of ideas and action, reminding us that none of these men of courage knew what we know today: that they would prevail and make history anew. The idea that especially inspired Adams was religious in nature: He believed that God had intervened on behalf of the United States and would do so as long asits citizens maintained civic virtue. "We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection," Adams insisted. A central thesis of this biography is that religion in large part motivated the founding of America. A gifted young historian and newspaperman, Ira Stoll has written a gripping story about the man who was the revolution's moral conscience. Sure to be discussed widely, this book reminds us who Samuel Adams was, why he has been slighted by history, and why he must be remembered.

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1416594566

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JFK, Conservative

By: Ira Stoll

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JFK, Conservative

By: Ira Stoll

For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes a sure-to-be-controversial argument that by virtually any standard, JFK was far more conservative than liberal.

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Broken Roads

Returning to My Amish Father

By: Ira Wagler

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Broken Roads

Returning to My Amish Father

By: Ira Wagler

In this insightful memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of Growing Up Amish tries to reconcile his father, family, and heritage after leaving his faith behind. In Broken Roads, Ira Wagler uses his singular voice to unapologetically, but compassionately, illuminate the inner world of the Amish community through his story of life after leaving, what feels like his inevitable return to his Amish father, and how they might mend the relationship between them before it's too late. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Wagler explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Wagler, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future.

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FaithWords

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1546012052

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David Mamet

A Life in the Theatre

By: Ira Nadel

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David Mamet

A Life in the Theatre

By: Ira Nadel

The definitive biography of David Mamet

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Macmillan

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0312293445

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Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of the NICU Graduate, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

By: Ira Adams Chapman,Sara B Demauro

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Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of the NICU Graduate, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

By: Ira Adams Chapman,Sara B Demauro

With collaboration of Consulting Editor, Dr. Lucky Jain, Drs. Adams Chapman and DeMauro have put together a state-of-the art issue devoted to long-term outcomes for the NICU graduate. Top authors in the field provide clinical reviews in the following areas: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Early Childhood; Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at School Age and Adult Outcomes; Behavioral Sequela of Prematurity; Changing Prevalence of Cerebral Palsy in Extremely Preterm Infants; Medical Morbidity and its Impact on Neurodevelopmental Outcome; NEC and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes; Biological and Social Influences Over Time/Chronic lung disease and neurodevelopmental outcomes; Intracranial hemorrhage and neurodevelopmental outcomes; Public health implications of extremely preterm birth: What are we measuring; Looking beyond neurodevelopmental impairment; Long-Term Functioning and Participation Across the Life Course for NICU Graduates; Early diagnosis of treatment of CP; Psychiatric Sequelae of Prematurity and Prevention of prematurity. Readers will come away with the information they need to imporove outcomes for the NICU infant.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323641466

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The Business of Ballet

Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

By: Ira Nadel

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The Business of Ballet

Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

By: Ira Nadel

The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for twenty years without stable funding. Focusing on Ballets Russes’s founder, Serge Diaghilev, and his talent for discovering monies through an uncanny ability to secure funds from aristocrats, industrialists, artists, and swindlers, Ira Nadel offers new insight into the financial life of modern ballet. Throughout [his] analysis, Nadel reveals that Diaghilev was able to attract not only financial support but also the most innovative artistic and musical talents and choreographers of the period, who collectively changed the nature of ballet from the conventional to the contemporary. Through it all, Diaghilev never sacrificed the essential Russianness of his enterprise, transforming Russian traditions by incorporating new and original musical and choreographic stagings. In doing so, Nadel argues, Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes revised the idea of ballet as an art form, causing audiences throughout Europe and North America to riot and artists to create revolutionary compositions in art and music.

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Lexington Books

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1666945811

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Principles of Biomedical Informatics

By: Ira J. Kalet

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Principles of Biomedical Informatics

By: Ira J. Kalet

This second edition of a pioneering technical work in biomedical informatics provides a very readable treatment of the deep computational ideas at the foundation of the field. Principles of Biomedical Informatics, 2nd Edition is radically reorganized to make it especially useable as a textbook for courses that move beyond the standard introductory material. It includes exercises at the end of each chapter, ideas for student projects, and a number of new topics, such as:• tree structured data, interval trees, and time-oriented medical data and their use• On Line Application Processing (OLAP), an old database idea that is only recently coming of age and finding surprising importance in biomedical informatics• a discussion of nursing knowledge and an example of encoding nursing advice in a rule-based system• X-ray physics and algorithms for cross-sectional medical image reconstruction, recognizing that this area was one of the most central to the origin of biomedical computing• an introduction to Markov processes, and• an outline of the elements of a hospital IT security program, focusing on fundamental ideas rather than specifics of system vulnerabilities or specific technologies. It is simultaneously a unified description of the core research concept areas of biomedical data and knowledge representation, biomedical information access, biomedical decision-making, and information and technology use in biomedical contexts, and a pre-eminent teaching reference for the growing number of healthcare and computing professionals embracing computation in health-related fields. As in the first edition, it includes many worked example programs in Common LISP, the most powerful and accessible modern language for advanced biomedical concept representation and manipulation. The text also includes humor, history, and anecdotal material to balance the mathematically and computationally intensive development in many of the topic areas. The emphasis, as in the first edition, is on ideas and methods that are likely to be of lasting value, not just the popular topics of the day. Ira Kalet is Professor Emeritus of Radiation Oncology, and of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, at the University of Washington. Until retiring in 2011 he was also an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, and Biological Structure. From 2005 to 2010 he served as IT Security Director for the University of Washington School of Medicine and its major teaching hospitals. He has been a member of the American Medical Informatics Association since 1990, and an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics since 2011. His research interests include simulation systems for design of radiation treatment for cancer, software development methodology, and artificial intelligence applications to medicine, particularly expert systems, ontologies and modeling. - Develops principles and methods for representing biomedical data, using information in context and in decision making, and accessing information to assist the medical community in using data to its full potential - Provides a series of principles for expressing biomedical data and ideas in a computable form to integrate biological, clinical, and public health applications - Includes a discussion of user interfaces, interactive graphics, and knowledge resources and reference material on programming languages to provide medical informatics programmers with the technical tools to develop systems

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Academic Press

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0123914620

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Prufer Domains

By: Marco Fontana,James Huckaba,Ira Papick

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Prufer Domains

By: Marco Fontana,James Huckaba,Ira Papick

Provides a picture of the research that has occurred and the techniques that have been involved in studying Prufer domains since about 1970. The text covers generating ideals in Prufer domains, particular overrings of Prufer domains, applications of the theory of overrings, generalized dedekind domains, polynomial extensions and quasi-Prufer domains, and more.

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CRC Press

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0824798163

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Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

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Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

Collection of scholarly essays and primary documents exploring the significance of the 1893 World's Fair and the history of American anthropology"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803268386

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Varney's Midwifery

By: Julia Phillippi,Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon

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Varney's Midwifery

By: Julia Phillippi,Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon

Varney's Midwifery reflects current evidence-based guidelines. The Seventh Edition addresses care of women throughout the lifespan, including primary care, gynecology, maternity care in a variety of settings, and newborn care. It also provides new content on social determinants of health, the changing face of the population, and the population that midwives serve. It is known as the gold standard for midwifery practice"--

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284250563

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9781284250565

Capsule Calculus

By: Ira Ritow

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Capsule Calculus

By: Ira Ritow

This brief introductory text presents the basic principles of calculus from the engineering viewpoint. Excellent either as a refresher or as an introductory course, it focuses on developing familiarity with the basic principles rather than presenting detailed proofs. Topics include differential calculus, in terms of differentiation and elementary differential equations; integral calculus, in simple and multiple integration forms; time calculus; equations of motion and their solution; complex variables; complex algebra; complex functions; complex and operational calculus; and simple and inverse transformations. Advanced subjects comprise integrations and differentiation techniques, in addition to a more sophisticated variety of differential equations than those previously discussed. It is assumed that the reader possesses an acquaintance with algebra and trigonometry as well as some familiarity with graphs. Additional background material is presented as needed.

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Courier Corporation

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0486174514

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9780486174518

You CAN Stop Stupid

Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions

By: Ira Winkler,Tracy Celaya Brown

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You CAN Stop Stupid

Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions

By: Ira Winkler,Tracy Celaya Brown

Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions Around the world, users cost organizations billions of dollars due to simple errors and malicious actions. They believe that there is some deficiency in the users. In response, organizations believe that they have to improve their awareness efforts and making more secure users. This is like saying that coalmines should get healthier canaries. The reality is that it takes a multilayered approach that acknowledges that users will inevitably make mistakes or have malicious intent, and the failure is in not planning for that. It takes a holistic approach to assessing risk combined with technical defenses and countermeasures layered with a security culture and continuous improvement. Only with this kind of defense in depth can organizations hope to prevent the worst of the cybersecurity breaches and other user-initiated losses. Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety programs, and more, Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya's You CAN Stop Stupid provides a methodology to analyze potential losses and determine appropriate countermeasures to implement. Minimize business losses associated with user failings Proactively plan to prevent and mitigate data breaches Optimize your security spending Cost justify your security and loss reduction efforts Improve your organization’s culture Business technology and security professionals will benefit from the information provided by these two well-known and influential cybersecurity speakers and experts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119621984

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9781119621980

Restructuring the Philadelphia Region

Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality

By: Carolyn Adams,David Bartelt,David Elesh,Ira Goldstein

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Restructuring the Philadelphia Region

Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality

By: Carolyn Adams,David Bartelt,David Elesh,Ira Goldstein

Looking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housing.

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Temple University Press

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1592138985

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Zen and the Art of Information Security

By: Ira Winkler

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Zen and the Art of Information Security

By: Ira Winkler

While security is generally perceived to be a complicated and expensive process, Zen and the Art of Information Security makes security understandable to the average person in a completely non-technical, concise, and entertaining format. Through the use of analogies and just plain common sense, readers see through the hype and become comfortable taking very simple actions to secure themselves. Even highly technical people have misperceptions about security concerns and will also benefit from Ira Winkler's experiences making security understandable to the business world. Mr. Winkler is one of the most popular and highly rated speakers in the field of security, and lectures to tens of thousands of people a year. Zen and the Art of Information Security is based on one of his most well received international presentations. - Written by an internationally renowned author of Spies Among Us who travels the world making security presentations to tens of thousands of people a year - This short and concise book is specifically for the business, consumer, and technical user short on time but looking for the latest information along with reader friendly analogies - Describes the REAL security threats that you have to worry about, and more importantly, what to do about them

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Elsevier

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0080554741

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9780080554747

Bibliography on Land-locked States, Economic Development and International Law

By: Martin Ira Glassner

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Bibliography on Land-locked States, Economic Development and International Law

By: Martin Ira Glassner

Now fully revised and expanded, this is the only available bibliography on the subject of "land-lockedness" and its effects on economic development. Reflecting its expanded title, this new edition includes not only updated information on the plight of land-locked countries, but also their current levels of economic development and their role in international law, such as the International Law of the Sea, Kyoto Protocol on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and international pipeline agreements. The volume lists thousands of primary and secondary source materials for research, including books, monographs, journals, governmental reports, NGO publications, and unpublished materials. The book is truly international in scope, with listings in 29 languages.

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Routledge

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1315499835

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9781315499833

The Making of African America

The Four Great Migrations

By: Ira Berlin

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The Making of African America

The Four Great Migrations

By: Ira Berlin

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. Ira Berlin's magisterial new account of these passages evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. In effect, Berlin rewrites the master narrative of African America, challenging the traditional presentation of a linear path of progress. He finds instead a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos. Certain to garner widespread media attention, The Making of African America is a bold new account of a long and crucial chapter of American history.

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Penguin

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1101189894

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Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine

A Problem-Based Learning Approach

By: Kirk Lalwani,Ira Todd Cohen,Ellen Y. Choi,Berklee Robins,Jeffrey Kirsch

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Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine

A Problem-Based Learning Approach

By: Kirk Lalwani,Ira Todd Cohen,Ellen Y. Choi,Berklee Robins,Jeffrey Kirsch

With a diverse set of over 70 cases, quizzes, and a problem-based learning approach, this volume expertly provides an interactive and in-depth learning experience for any medical professional.

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Oxford University Press

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0197655971

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