John C. Mayer's Books

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813128838

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9780813128832

Principles of Financial Regulation

By: John Armour,Dan Awrey,Paul Davies,Luca Enriques,Jeffrey N. Gordon,Colin Mayer,Jennifer Payne

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Principles of Financial Regulation

By: John Armour,Dan Awrey,Paul Davies,Luca Enriques,Jeffrey N. Gordon,Colin Mayer,Jennifer Payne

The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As the financial system has become ever-more complex and interconnected, the pace of evolution continues to accelerate. It is now clear that regulation must focus on the financial system as a whole, but this poses significant challenges for regulators. Principles of Financial Regulation describes how to address those challenges. Examining the subject from a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective, Principles of Financial Regulation considers the underlying policies and the objectives of regulation by drawing on economics, finance, and law methodologies. The volume examines regulation in a purposive and dynamic way by framing the book in terms of what the financial system does, rather than what financial regulation is. By analysing specific regulatory measures, the book provides readers to the opportunity to assess regulatory choices on specific policy issues and encourages critical reflection on the design of regulation.

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Oxford University Press

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0191090050

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9780191090059

Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications

By: Alexander M. Blokh,Robbert J. Fokkink,John C. Mayer,Lex G. Oversteegen,E. D. Tymchatyn

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Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications

By: Alexander M. Blokh,Robbert J. Fokkink,John C. Mayer,Lex G. Oversteegen,E. D. Tymchatyn

In this memoir the authors present proofs of basic results, including those developed so far by Harold Bell, for the plane fixed point problem: Does every map of a non-separating plane continuum have a fixed point? Some of these results had been announced much earlier by Bell but without accessible proofs. The authors define the concept of the variation of a map on a simple closed curve and relate it to the index of the map on that curve: Index = Variation + 1. A prime end theory is developed through hyperbolic chords in maximal round balls contained in the complement of a non-separating plane continuum $X$. They define the concept of an outchannel for a fixed point free map which carries the boundary of $X$ minimally into itself and prove that such a map has a unique outchannel, and that outchannel must have variation $-1$. Also Bell's Linchpin Theorem for a foliation of a simply connected domain, by closed convex subsets, is extended to arbitrary domains in the sphere. The authors introduce the notion of an oriented map of the plane and show that the perfect oriented maps of the plane coincide with confluent (that is composition of monotone and open) perfect maps of the plane. A fixed point theorem for positively oriented, perfect maps of the plane is obtained. This generalizes results announced by Bell in 1982.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821884883

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9780821884881

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

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Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference. This up-to-date volume was inspired by the need for a combination of the material in both references, together with the large number of research publications and the continued interest in the fate, transport, and remediation of hazardous substances. Much new data has been added to this unique edition, including global legislation (REACH) and sustainability, thereby reflecting the wealth of literature in the field. Featured are environmental and physical/chemical data on more than 200 compounds, including pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

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CRC Press

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1351687700

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9781351687706

Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery

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Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery

Building on the foundation set by its best-selling predecessors, the Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference, Fourth Edition is both a broad, comprehensive desk reference and a guide for field research. This fourth edition contains more than 1,700 additional references, including adsorption data for more than 800 organic compounds and metals, s

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1420009133

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Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

By: John R. Burch, Jr.

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Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

By: John R. Burch, Jr.

Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.

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McFarland

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1476606943

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9781476606941

The Camphor Flame

Popular Hinduism and Society in India

By: Christopher John Fuller

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The Camphor Flame

Popular Hinduism and Society in India

By: Christopher John Fuller

Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.

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Princeton University Press

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069112048X

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Strategic Science Communication

A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for More Effective Public Engagement

By: John C. Besley,Anthony Dudo

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Strategic Science Communication

A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for More Effective Public Engagement

By: John C. Besley,Anthony Dudo

What tactics can effective science communicators use to reach a wide audience and achieve their goals? Effective science communication—the type that can drive behavior change while boosting the likelihood that people will turn to science when faced with challenges—is not simply a matter of utilizing social media or employing innovative tactics like nudges. Even more important for success is building long-term strategic paths to achieve well-articulated goals. Smart science communicators also want to create communication opportunities to improve their own thinking and behavior. In this guidebook, John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo encapsulate their practical expertise in 11 evidence-based principles of strategic science communication. Among other things, science communicators, they argue, should strive to seem competent, warm, honest, and willing to listen. Their work should also convey a desire to make the world a better place. Highlighting time-tested methods for building rapport with an audience through several modes of communication, Besley and Dudo explain how to achieve each strategic objective. All scientific communication is goal-oriented, and Besley and Dudo discuss the importance of recognizing the right goals, then employing strategic and tactical communication in order to achieve them. Finally, they offer specific suggestions for how practitioners can evaluate the effectiveness of their communications (and in fact, build evaluation into their plans from the beginning). Strategic Science Communication is the first book to use social science to help scientists and professional science communicators become more evidence-based. Besley and Dudo draw on insightful research into the science of science communication to provide readers with an opportunity to think more deeply about how to make communication choices. This guidebook is essential reading for all professionals in the field.

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JHU Press

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1421444216

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9781421444215

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Gordon Gribble,John A. Joule

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Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Gordon Gribble,John A. Joule

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC), Volume 28 is an annual review series commissioned by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC). Volumes in the series contain both highlights of the previous year's literature on heterocyclic chemistry and articles on new and developing topics of particular interest to heterocyclic chemists. The highlight chapters in Volume 28 are all written by leading researchers and constitute a systematic survey of the important original material reported in the literature of heterocyclic chemistry during 2015. Additional articles in this volume include Semi-conjugated Heteroaromatic Rings and beta-Lactam Chemistry. As with previous volumes in the series, Volume 28 will enable academic and industrial chemists, and advanced students, to keep abreast of developments in heterocyclic chemistry in a convenient way. - Recognized as the premiere review of heterocyclic chemistry - Includes contributions from leading researchers in the field - Provides a systematic survey of the important 2015 heterocyclic chemistry literature - Presents articles on new and developing topics of interest to heterocyclic chemists

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Elsevier

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0081007612

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9780081007617

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book

By: John E. Bennett,Raphael Dolin,Martin J. Blaser

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Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book

By: John E. Bennett,Raphael Dolin,Martin J. Blaser

After thirty five years, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition is still the reference of choice for comprehensive, global guidance on diagnosing and treating the most challenging infectious diseases. Drs. John E. Bennett and Raphael Dolin along with new editorial team member Dr. Martin Blaser have meticulously updated this latest edition to save you time and to ensure you have the latest clinical and scientific knowledge at your fingertips. With new chapters, expanded and updated coverage, increased worldwide perspectives, and many new contributors, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition helps you identify and treat whatever infectious disease you see. Get the answers to any questions you have with more in-depth coverage of epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents than you’ll find in any other ID resource. Apply the latest knowledge with updated diagnoses and treatments for currently recognized and newly emerging infectious diseases, such as those caused by avian and swine influenza viruses. Put the latest knowledge to work in your practice with new or completely revised chapters on Influenza (new pandemic strains); New Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Virus; Probiotics; Antibiotics for resistant bacteria; Antifungal drugs; New Antivirals for hepatitis B and C; Clostridium difficile treatment; Sepsis; Advances in HIV prevention and treatment; Viral gastroenteritis; Lyme Disease; Helicobacter pylori; Malaria; Infections in immunocompromised hosts; Immunization (new vaccines and new recommendations); and Microbiome. Benefit from fresh perspectives and expanded global insights from an expanded team of American and International contributors. Martin Blaser, MD, a leading expert and Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professional of Translational Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, joins veteran PPID editors John E. Bennett, MD, and Raphael Dolin, MD to continue a legacy of excellence. Find and grasp the information you need easily and rapidly with newly added chapter summaries.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323263739

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9780323263733

Tamoxifen

Beyond the Antiestrogen

By: John A. Kellen

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Tamoxifen

Beyond the Antiestrogen

By: John A. Kellen

Tamoxifen has persisted as a widely accepted and administered drug for almost 25 years. Following the many scientific papers and books on the subject, it has remained a very intriguing substance. This, perhaps, is the reason for another monograph on Tamoxifen. It is regrettably true that overviews, even when up to date after exhaustive research - the shibboleth of our cultures -, rapidly lose relevance with the passage of time. Scientists can sometimes be pictured as deep sea divers, who plunge into the unknown in search of a hitherto unknown world. Their descent is exciting, but eventually they must come up for air and integrate their experiences with others who also had to resurface. This book intends to collect and, where possible, to collate recent, but sometimes seemingly unrelated information. To quote Stephane Mallarme: "Everything in the world exists to end up in a book". Even if this is a tad cynical, it might not be far from the truth. If a little knowledge is a dangerous commodity, one can also add - tongue in cheek - that a vast amount of knowledge can be truly hazardous. It is likely that what might seem as entangled data is confusing, especially for those satisfied with the comfortable interpretation of Tamoxifen as an antiestrogen which has long been found insufficient. The complexity of its mechanisms and effects defies simple explanations and may even seem capricious, but only because of our ignorance.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461240921

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9781461240921

Equal Shares

Making Market Socialism Work

By: John E. Roemer,Richard J. Arneson

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Making Market Socialism Work

By: John E. Roemer,Richard J. Arneson

How is it possible to translate egalitarian ideals into practical policy? In this second volume of the Real Utopias Project, John Roemer proposes the creation of an economy which combines a functioning market with a commitment to equality. Roemer's novel mechanism for achieving this end is the creation of two kinds of money: one used for the purchase of goods and the other, referred to as "coupons," for buying shares in companies. All citizens, on reaching the age of majority, are given an equal number of coupons from which they derive ownership rights in companies, including dividends and a vote in board elections. Firms raise finance capital through the state which converts shareholders' coupons into money. At death, all shares and unspent coupons revert to the state for redistribution. This scheme, Roomer argues, allows for a significant degree of government planning and equal distribution of property in the framework of a free market. it is, in short, a working system of market socialism. In the series of critiques which follow, a range of distinguished thinkers engage in lively polemic concerning the practicality and effectiveness of Roemer's scheme. The contributors are Richard Arneson, Fred Block, Harry Brighouse, Michael Burawoy, Joshua Cohen, Nancy Folbre, Andrew Levine, Mieke Meurs, Louis Putterman, Joel Rogers, Debra Satz, Julius Sensat, William Simon, Frank Thompson, Thomas Weisskopf, and Erik Olin Wright.

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1859849334

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Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

By: Megan Bydder,Alexander Clark,Nicholas Coupe,John Pattison

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Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

By: Megan Bydder,Alexander Clark,Nicholas Coupe,John Pattison

Reflecting the latest change to the exam, the introduction of single best answer questions (SBAs), this book is completely up to date and offers a valuable insight into the new exam format. Providing candidates with a wealth of practice questions and organized by subject matter into the modular format, this comprehensive collection of practice SBAs is designed to help candidates assess their own knowledge, aiding thorough preparation for the exam. The book opens with an introduction to the exam, which includes advice on how to prepare for it and information on what to expect. It also offers helpful advice on question comprehension and answer strategies to help candidates achieve exam success. Written by practising Specialist Registrars and Junior Consultants in radiology, and supplemented with detailed explanatory text referenced to major radiology journals and specialist textbooks, Get Through Final FRCR Part A is the essential revision tool for all Specialist Registrars taking the Final FRCR exam.

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1853158496

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Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

Essays in Political Theory

By: John Dunn

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Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

Essays in Political Theory

By: John Dunn

Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.

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Personal Intelligence

The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives

By: John D. Mayer

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Personal Intelligence

The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives

By: John D. Mayer

John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of cognitive psychology research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence—which he calls personal intelligence—to understand our own personality and the personalities of the people around us. In Personal Intelligence, Mayer explains that we are naturally curious about the motivations and inner worlds of the people we interact with every day. Some of us are talented at perceiving what makes our friends, family, and coworkers tick. Some of us are less so. Mayer reveals why, and shows how the most gifted "readers" among us have developed "high personal intelligence." Mayer's theory of personal intelligence brings together a diverse set of findings—previously regarded as unrelated—that show how much variety there is in our ability to read other people's faces; to accurately weigh the choices we are presented with in relationships, work, and family life; and to judge whether our personal life goals conflict or go together well. He persuasively argues that our capacity to problem-solve in these varied areas forms a unitary skill. Illustrating his points with examples drawn from the lives of successful college athletes, police detectives, and musicians, Mayer shows how people who are high in personal intelligence (open to their inner experiences, inquisitive about people, and willing to change themselves) are able to anticipate their own desires and actions, predict the behavior of others, and—using such knowledge—motivate themselves over the long term and make better life decisions. And in outlining the many ways we can benefit from nurturing these skills, Mayer puts forward an essential message about selfhood, sociability, and contentment. Personal Intelligence is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to better comprehend how we make sense of our world.

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Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374708991

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9780374708993

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

Principles of Financial Regulation

Principles of Financial Regulation

Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications

Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference

Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

The Camphor Flame

The Camphor Flame

Strategic Science Communication

Strategic Science Communication

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book

Tamoxifen

Tamoxifen

Equal Shares

Equal Shares

Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

Personal Intelligence

Personal Intelligence

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