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Introductory Biophysics

Perspectives on the Living State

By: James R. Claycomb,Jonathan Tran

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Introductory Biophysics

Perspectives on the Living State

By: James R. Claycomb,Jonathan Tran

Designed for biology, physics, and medical students, Introductory Biophysics: Perspectives on the Living State, provides a comprehensive overview of the complex subject of biological physics. The companion CD-ROM, with MATLAB examples and the student version of QuickFieldTM, allows the student to perform biophysical simulations and modify the textbook example files. Included in the text are computer simulations of thermodynamics, astrobiology, the response of living cells to external fields, chaos in population dynamics, numerical models of evolution, electrical circuit models of cell suspension, gap junctions, and neuronal action potentials. With this text students will be able to perform biophysical simulations within hours. MATLAB examples include; the Hodgkin Huxley equations; the FitzHugh-Nagumo model of action potentials; fractal structures in biology; chaos in population dynamics; the cellular automaton model (the game of life); pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. QuickFieldTM tutorials and examples include; calculation of currents in biological tissue; cells under electrical stimulation; induced membrane potentials; heat transfer and analysis of stress in biomaterials.

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0763779989

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The Development of Russian Environmental Thought

Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment

By: Jonathan Oldfield,Denis J B Shaw

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The Development of Russian Environmental Thought

Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment

By: Jonathan Oldfield,Denis J B Shaw

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. It shows how in the late nineteenth century there emerged in Russia distinct and strongly articulated representations of the earth’s physical systems within many branches of the natural sciences, representations which typically emphasised the completely integrated nature of natural systems. It stresses the importance in these developments of V V Dokuchaev who significantly advanced the field of soil science. It goes on to discuss how this distinctly Russian approach to the environment developed further through the work of geographers and other environmental scientists down to the late Soviet period.

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Routledge

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1317366328

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9781317366324

Electronic Materials and Devices

By: David K. Ferry,Jonathan Bird

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Electronic Materials and Devices

By: David K. Ferry,Jonathan Bird

This book provides the knowledge and understanding necessary to comprehend the operation of individual electronic devices that are found in modern micro-electronics. As a textbook, it is aimed at the third-year undergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering, in which the physical electronic properties are used to develop an introductory understanding to the semiconductor devices used in modern micro-electronics. The emphasis of the book is on providing detailed physical insight into the microscopic mechanisms that form the cornerstone for these technologies. Mathematical treatments are therefore kept to the minimum level necessary to achieve suitable rigor. * Covers crystalline structure * Thorough introduction to the key principles of quantum mechanics * Semiconductor statistics, impurities, and controlled doping * Detailed analysis of the operation of semiconductor devices, including p-n junctions, field-effect transistors, metal-semiconductor junctions and bipolar junction transistors * Discussion of optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers * Chapters on the device applications of dielectrics, magnetic materials, and superconductors

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Academic Press

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0122541618

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9780122541612

Public Service Ethics

Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

By: James S. Bowman,Jonathan P. West

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Public Service Ethics

Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

By: James S. Bowman,Jonathan P. West

Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the necessity of ethics, intriguing human behavior experiments, the role of ethics codes, whistleblowing incidents, corruption exposés, and the grandeur and decay of morality—there is no shortage of controversy. The book enables readers to: appreciate why ethics is essential to leadership; understand and apply moral development theory at the individual and organizational levels of analysis; differentiate between ethical problems and ethical dilemmas, and design creative ways to deal with them; develop abilities to use moral imagination and ethical reasoning—to appraise, argue, and defend an ethical position, and cultivate individual and institutional initiatives to improve ethical climate and infrastructure. Authors James Bowman and Jonathan West capture reader interest by featuring learning objectives, skill-building material, discussion questions, and exercises in each chapter. The authors’ narrative is user-friendly and accessible, highlighting dilemmas and challenging readers to "own" the book by annotating the pages with one’s own ideas and insights, then interacting with others in a live or virtual classroom to stretch one’s thinking about the management of ethics and ethics of management. The ultimate goal is to bolster students’ confidence and prepare them for the ethical problems they will face in the future, equipping them with the conceptual frameworks and context to approach thorny questions and behave ethically.

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Routledge

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1351265105

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The Vital Few

The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress

By: Jonathan Hughes

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The Vital Few

The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress

By: Jonathan Hughes

The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary figures as William Penn, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and J. Pierpont Morgan in their social and economic environment, Jonathan Hughes illuminates each period of American economic history and provides insights into the workings of American business and the special qualities required of its super-achievers. Taking into account such dramatic changes in the economy as the explosive growth of government and the puzzling effects of "stagflation," Hughes has now expanded his original volume. The new edition includes two additional biographies and a short essay on the nature of bureaucracy in both the government and the private sector. Both biographies are of "bureaucratic entrepreneurs", whose work in the federal government represents the two most prominent trends in government economics. Mary Switzer's 48-year career demonstrates the ways in which the modern welfare state has developed. First a catalyst then a major force in establishing social programs and institutions, she is in large part responsible for the existence of the American welfare state. Marriner Eccles's career, on the other hand, shows the evolution of "compensatory" fiscal and monetary policies from the New Deal to the Korean War. A self-made millionaire who was appointed to a high-level job in the federal government, Eccles quit his post after 1950, convinced that American economic policy was hopelessly inflationary and economically destructive. With these new additions, The Vital Few, long a source of inspiration and economic interest, is more accessible and useful than ever.

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Oxford University Press

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0199923248

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Seven Deadly Tens

A Sinful Collection of Short Plays

By: Jonathan Josephson

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Seven Deadly Tens

A Sinful Collection of Short Plays

By: Jonathan Josephson

1. Lust This Hungry Churchyard Three days after the star-crossed lovers met their untimely end, Benvolio and Rosaline confront their innermost desires.(2 M, 2 F) 2. Pride Dave's Epic 40th Birthday Party Is revenge a dish best served cold? Or steaming, sweltering hot… (2 M) 3. Greed The Tale of Dakota Dawson A comic riff on a Wild West shoot out, set in a San Francisco ad agency. (1 M, 1 F, 2 Any) 4. Envy Dostoevsky Bros-turned-frenemies finally clash when office politics get personal. (3 M) 5. Gluttony The Cautionary Tale of "Big Ed" Delahanty The true story of the mysterious death of a 19th century Hall of Fame baseball player. (1 M, 2 F, 3 Any) 6. Wrath Runed Can Bunning and his hapless sidekicks survive a dire curse by pulling a fast one on a crazed literary rival? (4 Any) 7. Sloth Tupperware Zeke hasn’t been paying attention. His life is falling apart all around him and his friends are the only ones who see it. (4 M)

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Original Works Publishing

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1630921289

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The Nature of Creative Development

By: Jonathan S. Feinstein

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The Nature of Creative Development

By: Jonathan S. Feinstein

The Nature of Creative Development presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, the author shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main conributions. The book is filled with case studies that analyze creative developments across a wide range of fields. The individuals examined range from Virginia Woolf and Albert Einstein to Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc. The text also considers contemporary creatives interviewed by the author. Feinstein provides a useful framework for those engaged in creative work or in managing such individuals. This text will help the reader understand the nature of creativity, including the difficulties that one may encounter in working creatively and ways to overcome them.

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Stanford University Press

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0804784493

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The Enlightenment that Failed

Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

By: Jonathan Israel

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The Enlightenment that Failed

Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

By: Jonathan Israel

Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole came to be almost defeated by ideas buttressing the interests of the privileged few.

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0198738404

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Prozac on the Couch

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

By: Jonathan Metzl

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Prozac on the Couch

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

By: Jonathan Metzl

Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric history, showing that there’s a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Providing a cultural history of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three “wonder drugs”—Miltown, Valium, and Prozac—Metzl explains the surprising ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understandings of these drugs. Prozac on the Couch traces the notion of “pills for everyday worries” from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century, through psychiatric and medical journals, popular magazine articles, pharmaceutical advertisements, and popular autobiographical "Prozac narratives.” Metzl shows how clinical and popular talk about these medications often reproduces all the cultural and social baggage associated with psychoanalytic paradigms—whether in a 1956 Cosmopolitan article about research into tranquilizers to “cure” frigid women; a 1970s American Journal of Psychiatry ad introducing Jan, a lesbian who “needs” Valium to find a man; or Peter Kramer’s description of how his patient “Mrs. Prozac” meets her husband after beginning treatment. Prozac on the Couch locates the origins of psychiatry’s “biological revolution” not in the Valiumania of the 1970s but in American popular culture of the 1950s. It was in the 1950s, Metzl points out, that traditional psychoanalysis had the most sway over the American imagination. As the number of Miltown prescriptions soared (reaching 35 million, or nearly one per second, in 1957), advertisements featuring uncertain brides and unfaithful wives miraculously cured by the “new” psychiatric medicines filled popular magazines. Metzl writes without nostalgia for the bygone days of Freudian psychoanalysis and without contempt for psychotropic drugs, which he himself regularly prescribes to his patients. What he urges is an increased self-awareness within the psychiatric community of the ways that Freudian ideas about gender are entangled in Prozac and each new generation of wonder drugs. He encourages, too, an understanding of how ideas about psychotropic medications have suffused popular culture and profoundly altered the relationship between doctors and patients.

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Duke University Press

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0822386704

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Chronic Headaches

Biology, Psychology, and Behavioral Treatment

By: Jonathan M. Borkum

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Chronic Headaches

Biology, Psychology, and Behavioral Treatment

By: Jonathan M. Borkum

This is the first new book in many years to provide a comprehensive review of the latest theory, research, and treatment of chronic headaches from a biopsychological perspective. It is designed to make the tools of assessment and therapy widely accessible, while placing them in the context of how the disorders arise. The physiology and psychology o

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1135594392

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American Public Service

Radical Reform and the Merit System

By: James S. Bowman,Jonathan P. West

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American Public Service

Radical Reform and the Merit System

By: James S. Bowman,Jonathan P. West

Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy. Civil service reform is occurring at all levels of government both in the United States and abroad. American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System is a collection of papers that examine the innovations, strategies, and issues found in the contemporary civil service reform debate. Offering diverse perspectives from expert contributors, this book presents matters concerning radical reform and the merit system at the federal, state, and local levels of government. This volume offers fresh insight into the effects of merit system changes on employees. Divided into four sections, this book... · Examines a portrait of contemporary reforms from across the country and concepts to interpret those data · Addresses whether the relaxation of civil service protections against partisan intrusion will result in corruption · Provides examples of ongoing changes and analyzes survey data from state managers · Discusses a variety of key issues, such as the impact on racial inequality of moving from a protected class employment status to an unprotected at-will relationship The book provides a baseline of data on reforms as well as an account of their current promises and pitfalls. Covering topics ripped from the headlines, this text also identifies pressing issues and makes suggestions for the future. Offering a variety of methodological approaches, it is ideal for all those interested in effective governance.

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Routledge

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135157678X

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring

By: Jonathan Passmore,David Peterson,Teresa Freire

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring

By: Jonathan Passmore,David Peterson,Teresa Freire

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring. Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly research Thematic chapters cover theoretical models, efficacy, ethics, training, the influence of emerging fields such as neuroscience and mindfulness, virtual coaching and mentoring and more Contributors include Anthony Grant, David Clutterbuck, Susan David, Robert Garvey, Stephen Palmer, Reinhard Stelter, Robert Lee, David Lane, Tatiana Bachkirova and Carol Kauffman With a Foreword by Sir John Whitmore

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119237904

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An Afterlife for the Khan

Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia

By: Jonathan Z. Brack,Jonathan Brack

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An Afterlife for the Khan

Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia

By: Jonathan Z. Brack,Jonathan Brack

In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler’s sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist monks, and Christian clergy all attempted to sway their imperial overlords, arguing fiercely over the proper role of the king and his government, with momentous and far-reaching consequences. Focusing on the famous but understudied figure of the grand vizier Rashid al-Din, a Persian Jew who converted to Islam, Jonathan Z. Brack explores the myriad ways Rashid al-Din and his fellow courtiers investigated, reformulated, and transformed long-standing ideas of authority and power. Out of this intellectual ferment of accommodation, resistance, and experimentation, they developed a completely new understanding of sacred kingship. This new ideal, and the political theology it subtends, would go on to become a central justification in imperial projects across Eurasia in the centuries that followed. An Afterlife for the Khan offers a powerful cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal moment for Islam and empire in the Middle East and Asia.

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Univ of California Press

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0520392906

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9780520392908

The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

Their Lives and Times

By: Jonathan Dowson

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The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

Their Lives and Times

By: Jonathan Dowson

Queens' College, part of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of the inept and ill-fated Henry VI. The first of its 40 Presidents to date was Andrew Doket, an ambitious Catholic priest, while the latest, the eminent economist Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, was installed in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. This account traces the history of the College through the lives and times of each of the 40 Presidents in chronological order. Their varied careers, (which encompass the martyrdom of Saint John Fisher, incarceration in a prison ship in the Civil War and preaching at the burning of heretics on Cathedral Green at Ely), illustrate the interactions between the academic community and the social, religious, cultural and political life in Britain, over five and a half centuries.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1839759488

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Jonathan Smele

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Jonathan Smele

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.

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A&C Black

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1441119922

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Near and Distant Neighbours

A New History of Soviet Intelligence

By: Jonathan Haslam

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Near and Distant Neighbours

A New History of Soviet Intelligence

By: Jonathan Haslam

Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous 'Cambridge Five' in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain's code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign 'friends' so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery - and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been more effective than when the Soviet Union began to collapse from within.

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OUP Oxford

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0191018120

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Coming to Terms with America

Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

By: Jonathan D. Sarna

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Coming to Terms with America

Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

By: Jonathan D. Sarna

Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0827615116

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The Rise of Western Power

A Comparative History of Western Civilization

By: Jonathan Daly

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The Rise of Western Power

A Comparative History of Western Civilization

By: Jonathan Daly

The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.

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1441144757

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Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure

A Practical Approach

By: David L. Hayes,Paul J. Wang,Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein,Samuel Asirvatham

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Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure

A Practical Approach

By: David L. Hayes,Paul J. Wang,Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein,Samuel Asirvatham

Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure: A Practical Approach is one of the first texts to provide caregivers with information about the background and application of this new and rapidly expanding discipline. Its four authors are cardiologists who have expertise in device management, electrophysiology, and heart failure management. The text integrates the approach and management experience of the authors’ three institutions. The aim is to bring together information from subspecialists in device management, electrophysiology, and heart failure management in an effort to facilitate the care of the patient with CRT.

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047075771X

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Reshaping Health Systems

What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It

By: Joshua M. Liao,Jonathan A. Staloff,Joseph H. Joo

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Reshaping Health Systems

What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It

By: Joshua M. Liao,Jonathan A. Staloff,Joseph H. Joo

Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It illuminates how forces in the health care system (“systems factors”) impact patient care before outlining strategies (“systems solutions”) to enact change and improve care delivery. Using a case-based format that mirrors real-world scenarios involving patients and clinicians, Drs. Liao, Staloff, and Joo impart foundational health systems knowledge and skills in ways that are intuitive, enjoyable, and accessible for clinicians and health system leaders alike. The book is divided into two parts. Part I follows the journey of a patient navigating systems factors that influence her care across care settings. Part II follows the journey of a clinician working to improve care delivery using “systems solutions” from fields such as quality improvement, design thinking, change management, and implementation science. Together, the book provides foundational and actionable training in health systems for a wide range of clinical and non-clinical team members and leaders in health care. Readers will not only understand how our health care system works; they will be equipped to improve it.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975221249

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Living On The Edge

By: Jonathan Burke

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Living On The Edge

By: Jonathan Burke

This book addresses common doubts and concerns Christians have concerning God and the Bible, including: claims from the 'New Atheism'; disputes over Bible archaeology; questions about the historical accuracy of the Bible; questions about the original texts of the Old and New Testament; questions about what the Bible really teaches concerning topics such as baptism, heaven and hell, satan and demons; questions about the value and relevance of the Bible's moral and ethical teachings.

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1304842533

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Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression

Assessing the Scientific Evidence

By: Jonathan L. Freedman

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Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression

Assessing the Scientific Evidence

By: Jonathan L. Freedman

Freedman argues that scientific evidence does not support the notion that TV and film violence causes aggression in children or in anyone else. A provocative challenge to the accepted norms in media studies and psychology.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084257

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Practical Guide to Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

By: Jonathan S. Steinberg,Pierre Jais,Hugh Calkins

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Practical Guide to Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

By: Jonathan S. Steinberg,Pierre Jais,Hugh Calkins

Now in its second edition, this practical guide offers clear-headed guidance to the successful application of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. This book concentrates on clinically-relevant information that providers can put to immediate use caring for patients. Takes a clear-headed practical approach to ablation of atrial fibrillation – long on actionable, clinically-relevant guidance, succinct and to-the-point on the theory behind the procedure Edited by three leading, internationally-known electrophysiologists with extensive experience in ablation for atrial fibrillation Written by international team of experts reflecting global best practices from centers with considerable experience in the use of catheter ablation Format designed to serve the needs of electrophysiologists regardless of experience, electrophysiology fellows, electrophysiology nurses and lab technical staff Covers hot topics such as new noninvasive imaging techniques, the treatment of challenging left atrial flutters, options for persistent atrial fibrillation and when a redo ablation is needed; and novel application of ablation targeting the autonomic nervous system

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1118658507

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Russian Nature

Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change

By: Jonathan D. Oldfield

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Russian Nature

Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change

By: Jonathan D. Oldfield

Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. Through this, he highlights the need to critically evaluate assumptions regarding the post-Soviet environment, in order to move beyond generalization and engage meaningfully with the particularities of Russia's contemporary environmental situation. The book begins by focusing on the nature of Soviet environmental legacies as a necessary backdrop to the remainder of the study. This is followed by a general examination of the relationship between economic change and pollution output during the course of the 1990s. Further chapters provide in depth analysis of recent legislative and policy developments in the area of environmental protection and an exploration of emerging pollution and environmental quality trends at both the national and regional level. In addition, the book highlights pressures that are related to Russia's engagement with the global economy.

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1351902326

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Aligning for Advantage

Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas

By: Thomas C. Lawton,Jonathan P. Doh,Tazeeb Rajwani

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Aligning for Advantage

Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas

By: Thomas C. Lawton,Jonathan P. Doh,Tazeeb Rajwani

The book outlines how companies should synchronize competitive strategies with extant strategies for social engagement and political and regulatory activism in order to build and sustain business success.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199604754

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The Myth of Capitalism

Monopolies and the Death of Competition

By: Jonathan Tepper

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The Myth of Capitalism

Monopolies and the Death of Competition

By: Jonathan Tepper

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high speed Internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, social networks, Internet searches, or even consumer goods like toothpaste. Every day, the average American transfers a little of their pay check to monopolists and oligopolists. The solution is vigorous anti-trust enforcement to return America to a period where competition created higher economic growth, more jobs, higher wages and a level playing field for all. The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394184069

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The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change

Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction

By: Jonathan D. Oldfield

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The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change

Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction

By: Jonathan D. Oldfield

This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind’s capacity to affect physical and biological systems at a global scale was acknowledged and studied by Soviet scientists, discusses how the interaction between Soviet and Western scientists stimulated the development of new technologies and insights, which simultaneously facilitated a more profound understanding of the Earth’s physical and biological systems, and explores how Soviet scientists drew upon pre-revolutionary intellectual traditions in order to make sense of society-nature interaction and did so in collaboration with a range of international initiatives. Overall, the book provides a deep analysis of how Soviet scientists conceptualized society-nature interaction and influenced the understanding of global physical and biological systems. Furthermore, it is argued that this intellectual legacy remains of importance today with respect to the activities of Russian science and contemporary global environmental challenges.

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Routledge

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1000393348

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The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition

A Century of Japanese Animation

By: Jonathan Clements,Helen McCarthy

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The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition

A Century of Japanese Animation

By: Jonathan Clements,Helen McCarthy

Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive—The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work."—Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over one million words. . . This third edition of the landmark reference work has six additional years of information on Japanese animation, its practitioners and products, plus incisive thematic entries on anime history and culture. With credits, links, cross-references, and content advisories for parents and libraries. Jonathan Clements has been an editor of Manga Max and a contributing editor of Newtype USA. Helen McCarthy was founding editor of Anime UK and editor of Manga Mania.

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Stone Bridge Press

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1611729092

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Capital as Power

A Study of Order and Creorder

By: Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler

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Capital as Power

A Study of Order and Creorder

By: Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler

The book presents a radically new framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, it articulates a new theory of accumulation, develops new empirical methods of research and offers a new history of capitalism.

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Routledge

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1134022301

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Macey on Corporation Laws

Model Business Corporation Act, Delaware General Corporation Law, ALI Principles of Corporate Governance

By: Jonathan R. Macey

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Macey on Corporation Laws

Model Business Corporation Act, Delaware General Corporation Law, ALI Principles of Corporate Governance

By: Jonathan R. Macey

Macey on Corporation Laws brings together three major resources for analyzing and comprehending modern corporation law The American Bar Association's Model Business Corporation Act, The American Law Institute's Principles of Corporate Governance, and Delaware's highly sophisticated and respected General Corporation Law. Clear, expertly analyzed, authoritative, and uniquely insightful, this resource covers every vital area of corporate law, including: The process of incorporation Corporate powers and corporate purposes Rules relating to the structure of the Board of Directors Shares and distributions Voting trusts and voting agreements among shareholders Mergers Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws Changes to Model Business Corporation Act Amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law And much more Logically organized around the pertinent topics found in a standard state corporation statute, Macey on Corporation Laws is the ideal reference to consult when researching statutory construction, applicability, interpretation, and scope. Plus Macey on Corporation Law accompanying CD-ROM information package is the ideal research companion to your print volumes.

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Wolters Kluwer

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1567063462

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The Death of Corporate Reputation

How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street

By: Jonathan Macey

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The Death of Corporate Reputation

How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street

By: Jonathan Macey

Why did the financial scandals really happen? Why are they continuing to happen? In The Death of Corporate Reputation, Yale's Jonathan Macey reveals the real, non-intuitive reason, and offers a new path forward. For over a century law firms, investment banks, accounting firms, credit rating agencies and companies seeking regular access to U.S. capital markets made large investments in their reputations. They treated customers well and sometimes endured losses in transactions or business deals in order to sustain and nurture their reputations as faithful brokers and “gate-keepers.” This has changed completely . The existing business model among leading participants in today’s capital markets no longer treats customers as valued clients whose trust must be earned and nurtured, but as one-off “counter-parties” to whom no duties are owed and no loyalty is required . The rough and tumble norms of the market-place have replaced the long-standing reputational model in U.S. finance. This book describes the transformation in American finance from the old reputational model to the existing laissez faire model and argues that the change came as a result of three factors: (1) the growth of reliance on regulation rather than reputation as the primary mechanism for protecting customers and (2) the increasing complexity of regulation, which made technical expertise rather than reputation the primary criterion on which customers choose who to do business with in today’s markets; and (3) the rise of the “cult of personality” on Wall Street, which has led to a secular demise in the relevance of companies’ reputations and the concomitant rise of individual “rain-makers” reputation as the basis for premium pricing of financial services. This compelling book will drive the debate about the financial crisis and financial regulation for years to come -- both inside and outside the industry.

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FT Press

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0133039714

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How Google Works

By: Eric Schmidt,Jonathan Rosenberg

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How Google Works

By: Eric Schmidt,Jonathan Rosenberg

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious. Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted "smart creatives." Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time. In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455582336

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The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time

William James's Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment

By: Jonathan Bricklin

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The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time

William James's Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment

By: Jonathan Bricklin

Discusses how William Jamess work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality? James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers Jamess question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with Jamess psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist.

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SUNY Press

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1438456271

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Gantz's Manual of Clinical Problems in Infectious Disease

By: James W. Myers,Jonathan P. Moorman,Cassandra D. Salgado

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Gantz's Manual of Clinical Problems in Infectious Disease

By: James W. Myers,Jonathan P. Moorman,Cassandra D. Salgado

Since publication of the First Edition in 1979, much has changed in the way we view, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases. The Sixth Edition of this respected reference focuses on challenging clinical situations faced by practitioners of all levels who deal with infectious diseases. The latest advances in the field are covered—from descriptions of newly recognized infectious agents, to the latest diagnostic tests and emerging treatments. Topics of interest include: diagnostic and resistance testing in patients with AIDS, management of West Nile virus, malaria in travelers, pacemaker-related infections, needlestick injuries in healthcare workers, antibiotic dosing of obese patients, interpretation of MICs, and planning for bioterrorism defense. Actionable information from respected authors focuses on the areas that trainees most often find challenging. Virtually all chapters are new to this edition. Selected annotated references focus on papers that provide clinical guidance. The book’s problem-oriented approach promotes critical thinking.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451177860

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