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Machines in Our Hearts

The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care

By: Kirk Jeffrey

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Machines in Our Hearts

The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care

By: Kirk Jeffrey

Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices. Numerous small manufacturing firms jumped into pacemaker production but eventually fell by the wayside, leaving only three American companies in the business today. Jeffrey profiles pioneering heart surgeons, inventors from the realms of engineering and medical research, and business leaders who built heart-rhythm management into an industry with thousands of employees and annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.

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JHU Press

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0801876168

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American Genesis

The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science

By: Jeffrey P. Moran

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American Genesis

The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science

By: Jeffrey P. Moran

Evolution has been a perennial flash-point in American politics. But it is not merely a political issue. In American Genesis, Jeffrey P. Moran explores the ways in which the evolution debate has reverberated beyond the confines of state legislatures and courthouses. Moran shows that social forces such as gender, regionalism, and race have intersected with the debate over evolution in ways that shed light on modern American culture. He investigates, for instance, how antievolutionism deepened the cultural divisions between North and South - as when northern elites embraced evolution as a sign of sectional enlightenment while southern opponents defined themselves as the standard bearers of true Christianity. Evolution debates also exposed a deep gulf between conservative Black Christians and secular intellectuals such as W. E. B. DuBois. In addition, Moran explores the motives and methods of antievolutionism, and the ways in which the struggle has played out in the universities, on the internet, and even within the evangelical community. Throughout, Moran shows that evolution has served as a weapon, as an enforcer of identity, and as a polarizing force both within and without the churches.

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211

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195183495

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9780195183498

Freedom's Seekers

Essays on Comparative Emancipation

By: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

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Freedom's Seekers

Essays on Comparative Emancipation

By: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to show how the first free-born generation helped to shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery world. Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.

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256

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LSU Press

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0807154725

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9780807154724

Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism

Taking the Kingdom by Force

By: Jeffrey Williams

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Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism

Taking the Kingdom by Force

By: Jeffrey Williams

Early American Methodists commonly described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. Carefully examining a range of sources, including sermons, letters, autobiographies, journals, and hymns, Jeffrey Williams explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. Williams exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life and necessary for any person who sought God's redemption. He reveals a complex relationship between religion and violence, showing how violent expression helped to provide context and meaning to Methodist thought and practice, even as Methodist religious life was shaped by both peaceful and violent social action.

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248

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Indiana University Press

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0253004233

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9780253004239

Queer Trades, Sex and Society

Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland

By: Jeffrey Meek

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Queer Trades, Sex and Society

Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland

By: Jeffrey Meek

This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested position within interwar society – depending on the perspective he was representative of a descent into turpitude, of tenacious organised criminality or of exploitation. The book explores connections between male prostitution and criminal gangs prevalent during the interwar period, by detailing the emergence and activities of Glasgow’s notorious ‘Whitehats’, a gang composed of a number of queer male prostitutes and led by William Paton. This book discovers that although Paton’s activities were representative of a career criminal, the young men who joined the ‘Whitehats’ were often driven by poverty and social isolation. This book explores the experiences of Edinburgh police detective William Merrilees and his war on homosexuality in Edinburgh during the 1930s through examining the tactics used to regulate homosexual trade and the implications this held for the men involved. The book not only explores the attitudes, opinions and actions of police officers, politicians and the legal process but also uncovers fragments from the lives of the men involved, through personal reflections and letters. The book explores the anxieties that the trade in homosexual sex provoked, not just for understandings of sexuality but also of gender and nationhood, and offers a comparative perspective of the forms of homosexual trade in Scotland, England and major foreign cities. This book will have broad appeal to academics and students in the field of social, sexual and gender history as well as the social and criminal histories of Scotland and Britain.

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193

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Taylor & Francis

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1000888924

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9781000888928

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Rhythms in Drosophila and Other Insects

By: Jeffrey C. Hall

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Genetics and Molecular Biology of Rhythms in Drosophila and Other Insects

By: Jeffrey C. Hall

Biological rhythms, such as the sleep-wake cycle or circadian clock, are an intriguing aspect of biology. This book describes and evaluates studies in this field and discusses the investigations done on rhythmic biology, including genetic and molecular approaches used on other insect species. It highlights the mystery of the "clock mechanism.

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308

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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0120176483

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9780120176489

Atlanta Underground

History from Below

By: Jeffrey Morrison

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Atlanta Underground

History from Below

By: Jeffrey Morrison

Atlanta Underground presents a city history through the lens of its buried and paved-over urban landscape. Atlanta has been built, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt so many times that it has created an artificial surface dozens of feet above the original ground plane, leaving room to explore the stories that lie below. Clues and paved-over evidence of the original streetscape are still accessible, but only to those who know where to look. The story begins with the railroads that brought people and business to Atlanta, and the intersections of transportation that Atlanta eventually outgrew. This tour of the city's history include the former sites of Union Station, Underground Atlanta and the Zero Milepost, and the unusual attempts to fill the void they left behind (a wax museum, musical instrument museum, a skating rink). Contemporary photos of this urban spelunking landscape will illustrate this telling of Atlanta’s history: how it came to be where it is, how it acquired its unique name, and how its colliding street grids were established. The rapid growth and change of Atlanta’s many lives has led to some downright interesting hidden locations and architectural curiosities, and AtlantaUnderground will reveal them one by one.

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177

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493043714

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9781493043712

Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures

By: George A. Jeffrey,Wolfram Saenger

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Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures

By: George A. Jeffrey,Wolfram Saenger

Hydrogen bonds are weak attractions, with a binding strength less than one-tenth that of a normal covalent bond. However, hydrogen bonds are of extraordinary importance; without them all wooden structures would collapse, cement would crumble, oceans would vaporize, and all living things would disintegrate into random dispersions of inert matter. Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures is informative and eminently usable. It is, in a sense, a Rosetta stone that unlocks a wealth of information from the language of crystallography and makes it accessible to all scientists. (From a book review of Kenneth M. Harmon, Science 1992)

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575

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642851355

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9783642851353

Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Jeffrey W. Hunter

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Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Jeffrey W. Hunter

Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

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Contemporary Literary Criticis

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0787679631

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9780787679637

Thomson Handbook

By: David Blakesley,Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen

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Thomson Handbook

By: David Blakesley,Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen

THE THOMSON HANDBOOK, PREVIEW EDITION is an early look at the rhetorical handbook for the digital age. THE THOMSON HANDBOOK puts students' writing front and center with an innovative page format that keeps students' attention focused on their own writing and on activities, checklists, projects, and visual aids that help them write. The page design and innovative visuals make information about writing, reading, research, documentation, technology, and grammar easy for students to access and understand. To accomplish their writing tasks, students are taught to ground their rhetorical decisions in the specific context in which they are writing. As a further aid to writing and research, THE THOMSON HANDBOOK gives students more and better information on using technology than any other handbook. Technology Toolboxes throughout, as well as two dedicated parts of the book (Parts 5 and 6), teach students how to apply technology to their writing tasks, whether the task is to write a personal essay, a persuasive essay, a critical review, a photographic essay, a technology autobiography, a blog, a website, or more than twenty other different kinds of writing projects.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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141303232X

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9781413032321

Book's by Jeffrey W. Hunter

Machines in Our Hearts

Machines in Our Hearts

American Genesis

American Genesis

Freedom's Seekers

Freedom's Seekers

Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism

Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism

Queer Trades, Sex and Society

Queer Trades, Sex and Society

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Rhythms in Drosophila and Other Insects

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Rhythms in Drosophila and Other Insects

Atlanta Underground

Atlanta Underground

Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures

Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Thomson Handbook

Thomson Handbook

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