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The Mind of a Murderer

Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme Violence

By: Katherine Ramsland

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The Mind of a Murderer

Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme Violence

By: Katherine Ramsland

This unique history of the last 100 years of criminal psychology shares insights about infamous murderers from the psychiatrists and other trained psychological professionals who analyzed and treated them. The Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme Violence presents a series of cases in which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor gained privileged access to a mass or serial murderer, going beyond the typical mental assessment to learn more about criminal behavior. Through their work, readers are granted a unique view of criminology and a better understanding of the criminal mind. The book opens with the earliest professional observations of criminals in the late 19th century and goes on to explore the rudimentary behavioral profiling and case analysis of the early 20th century. It shows how, by the 1960s and 1970s, behavioral professionals recognized the need for intense study of extreme offenders and got close to the likes of Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy to gain a fuller picture of their psychological development. Finally, readers learn how today's behavioral professionals rely on neurobiological correlates to assess predatory, impulsive, and addictive behavior.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313386730

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The Psychology of Death Investigations

Behavioral Analysis for Psychological Autopsy and Criminal Profiling

By: Katherine Ramsland

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The Psychology of Death Investigations

Behavioral Analysis for Psychological Autopsy and Criminal Profiling

By: Katherine Ramsland

The Psychology of Death Investigations outlines definitively how behavioral evidence can often provide the necessary components and "missing pieces" to complement physical evidence as an essential tool for incident reconstruction. In order to determine the direction of an investigation and to prioritize leads, if necessary, death investigators must establish the manner of a death: natural, accident, homicide or suicide. The most overlooked aspect of death investigation is the psychological dimension, which can provide unique leads, correct false assumptions, enhance investigative awareness, and solve cases in surprising ways. In an estimated 10–20% of cases, the manner of death cannot be determined, or worse, has been erroneously categorized. Since many jurisdictions can’t afford behavioral consultants, this book has been written to provide practical information for a basic psychological analysis. If the circumstances surrounding a death are equivocal, psychological consultants can compile information retrospectively about a deceased person’s mental state and possible motive to assist with unravelling ambiguity about the manner of death. This is the primary function of a psychological autopsy, and, as such, this is the first book of its kind dedicated solely to the topic. In the event that the manner of death is determined to be a homicide, behavioral profiling can help to focus the potential pool of suspects. Professionals and students alike will benefit from the exercise of cognitive awareness and the application of psychological logic presented. Psychologists, medical examiners, coroners, attorneys, fraud examiners, law enforcement personnel, death and homicide investigators, and students enrolled in criminal profiling, forensic psychology, and criminal justice programs will find this text to be a compelling and insightful reference to add to their professional toolkit.

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CRC Press

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1351737562

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Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists

By: Katherine A. Houpt

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Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists

By: Katherine A. Houpt

Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists, Sixth Edition is a fully updated revision of this popular, classic text offering a thorough understanding of the normal behavior of domestic animals. Provides a complete understanding of the normal behavior of domestic animals Covers dogs, cats, horses, pigs, sheep, cattle, and goats Describes all key aspects of animal behavior, with images to support the concepts Revised and updated to cover the latest thinking, with enhanced coverage of behavioral genetics, animal cognition, and learning Includes access to a companion website with review questions and answers and the figures from the book in PowerPoint

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119232791

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Human Factors on the Flight Deck

A Practical Guide for Design, Modelling and Evaluation

By: Katie J. Parnell,Victoria A. Banks,Rachael A. Wynne,Neville A. Stanton,Katherine L. Plant

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Human Factors on the Flight Deck

A Practical Guide for Design, Modelling and Evaluation

By: Katie J. Parnell,Victoria A. Banks,Rachael A. Wynne,Neville A. Stanton,Katherine L. Plant

This book presents the Human Factors methodologies and applications thereof that can be utilised across the design, modelling and evaluation stages of the design lifecycle of new technologies entering future commercial aircraft. As advances are made to the architecture of commercial aircraft cockpits, Human Factors on the Flight Deck argues that it is vitally important that these new interfaces are safely incorporated and designed in a way that is usable to the pilot. Incorporation of Human Factors is essential to ensuring that engineering developments to avionic systems are integrated such that pilots can maintain safe interactions while gaining information of value. Case study examples of various technological advancements during their early conceptual stages are given throughout to highlight how the methods and processes can be applied across each stage. The text will be useful for professionals, graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of aviation, Human Factors and ergonomics.

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1000867757

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Ground States of the Two-Dimensional Electron System at Half-Filling under Hydrostatic Pressure

By: Katherine A. Schreiber

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Ground States of the Two-Dimensional Electron System at Half-Filling under Hydrostatic Pressure

By: Katherine A. Schreiber

This thesis presents the discovery of a surprising phase transition between a topological and a broken symmetry phase. Phase transitions between broken symmetry phases involve a change in symmetry and those between topological phases require a change in topological order; in rare cases, however, transitions may occur between these two broad classes of phases in which the vanishing of the topological order is accompanied by the emergence of a broken symmetry. This thesis describes observations of such a special phase transition in the two-dimensional electron gas confined in the GaAs/AlGaAs structures. When tuned by hydrostatic pressure, the ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/2 fractional quantum Hall states, believed to be prototypical non-Abelian topological phases of the Pfaffian universality class, give way to an electronic nematic phase. Remarkably, the fractional quantum Hall states involved are due to pairing of emergent particles called composite fermions. The findings reported here, therefore, provide an interesting example of competition of pairing and nematicity. This thesis provides an introduction to quantum Hall physics of the two-dimensional electron gas, contains details of the high pressure experiments, and offers a discussion of the ramifications and of the origins of the newly reported phase transition.

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Springer Nature

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3030263223

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Unfinished Utopia

Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56

By: Katherine A. Lebow

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Unfinished Utopia

Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56

By: Katherine A. Lebow

Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta's construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow explores their various encounters with the ideology and practice of Stalinist mobilization by seeking out their voices in memoirs, oral history interviews, and archival records, juxtaposing these against both the official and unofficial transcripts of Stalinism. Far from the gray and regimented landscape we imagine Stalinism to have been, the fledgling city was a colorful and anarchic place where the formerly disenfranchised (peasants, youth, women) hastened to assert their leading role in "building socialism"—but rarely in ways that authorities had anticipated.

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Cornell University Press

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080146885X

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9780801468858

The Vanishing Hectare

Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

By: Katherine Verdery

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The Vanishing Hectare

Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

By: Katherine Verdery

In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism meant individuals could acquire land. Based on fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, the author explores the importance of land and land ownership in one Transylvanian community.

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0801441978

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Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989

Transformation and Tragedy

By: Katherine E. Graney

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Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989

Transformation and Tragedy

By: Katherine E. Graney

Nearly three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, early hopes for the integration of the post-Soviet states into a "Europe whole and free" seem to have been decisively dashed. Europe itself is in the midst of a multifaceted crisis that threatens the considerable gains of the post-war liberal European experiment. In Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989, Katherine Graney provides a panoramic and historically-rooted overview of the process of "Europeanization" in Russia and all fourteen of the former Soviet republics since 1989. Graney argues that deeply rooted ideas about Europe's cultural-civilizational primacy and concerns about both ideological and institutional alignment with Europe continue to influence both internal politics in contemporary Europe and the processes of Europeanization in the post-Soviet world. By comparing the effect of the phenomenon across Russia and the ex-republics, Graney provides a theoretically grounded and empirically rich window into how we should study politics in the former USSR.

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0190055081

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Writing Well and Being Well for Your PhD and Beyond

How to Cultivate a Strong and Sustainable Writing Practice for Life

By: Katherine Firth

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Writing Well and Being Well for Your PhD and Beyond

How to Cultivate a Strong and Sustainable Writing Practice for Life

By: Katherine Firth

Prioritizing wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career. In this unique book, Katherine Firth offers expert guidance on developing a writing practice and avoiding burnout, providing strategies and insights for developing a sustainable writing career beyond the PhD thesis. The book covers every stage of the academic writing process, from planning and researching, through getting words on the page, to the often unexpectedly time-consuming editing and polishing. Readers are reminded that writing a thesis is hard work, but it needn’t be damaging work. Each chapter includes a toolbox of strategies and techniques, such as meditations, writing exercises and tips to maintain physical wellbeing, that will help doctoral candidates start writing and keep writing, without sacrificing their health, wellbeing or relationships. Relevant at any stage of the writing process, this book will help doctoral students and early career researchers to produce great words that people want to read, examiners want to pass and editors want to publish.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000936120

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The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

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The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

An Indie Next Pick In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings. On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief; Daniel, a philandering violinist forced to confront the wreckage of his past; and Alma, the love of Daniel’s life, a Korean American cello prodigy long adored for her beauty, passion, and talent, but who spends her final days examining if she was ever, truly, loved. An exuberant, provocative story that confronts race, complicity, visibility, and ideals of femininity, The Fetishist was written before the celebrated author’s untimely death in 2019. Startlingly prescient, as wise and powerful as it is utterly delightful, this novel cements Katherine Min’s legacy as a writer with a singular voice for our times.

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Penguin

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0593713664

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Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

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Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

Drawing together theoretical ideas from across the social sciences, Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class examines how the fashion-class association has developed and, using the experiences of middle-and-working class British women, demonstrates how this relationship operates today. Though increasingly academics argue that contemporary class distinctions are made through cultural practices and tastes, few have fully explored just how individual’s fashion choices mobilise class and are used in class evaluations. Yet, an individual’s everyday dress is perhaps the most immediate marker of taste, and thus an important means of class distinction. This is particularly true for women, as their performances of respectability, femininity and motherhood are embodied by fashion and shaped by class. In unpacking this fashion-class relationship, the book explores how fashion is used by British women to talk about class. It offers important insights into the ways fashion mobilises class differences in understandings of dressing up, performance and public space. It considers how class identity shapes women’s attitudes concerning fashion trends and classic styles, and it draws attention to the pivotal role mothers play in cultivating these class distinctions. The book will be of interest to students in sociology, fashion studies, cultural studies, human geography and consumer behaviour.

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Routledge

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1351856464

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Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research

By: Vern L. Bengtson,Alan C. Acock,Katherine R. Allen,Peggye Dilworth-Anderson,David M. Klein

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Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research

By: Vern L. Bengtson,Alan C. Acock,Katherine R. Allen,Peggye Dilworth-Anderson,David M. Klein

Sponsored by the National Council on Family Relations, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is the reference work on theory and methods for family scholars and students around the world. This volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research. The Sourcebook reflects an interactive approach that focuses on the process of theory building and designing research, thereby engaging readers in "doing" theory rather than simply reading about it. An accompanying Web site, http://www.ncfr.org/sourcebook, offers additional participation and interaction in the process of doing theory and making science.

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SAGE

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1452210942

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Equality on Trial

Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace

By: Katherine Turk

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Equality on Trial

Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace

By: Katherine Turk

In 1964, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act outlawed workplace sex discrimination, but its practical meaning was uncertain. Equality on Trial examines how a generation of workers and feminists fought to infuse the law with broad notions of sex equality, reshaping workplaces, activist channels, state agencies, and courts along the way.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812248201

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9780812248203

The Iraqw of Tanzania

Negotiating Rural Development

By: Katherine A. Snyder

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The Iraqw of Tanzania

Negotiating Rural Development

By: Katherine A. Snyder

In The Iraqiv of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development author Katherine Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. Snyder explores how the ideology of development affects people’s actions, from what crops to plant, to what to wear and do at their weddings, and also considers how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and women, and wealthy and poor. She shows the creativity of local actors in adapting to new ideological shifts and using the rhetoric of development to pursue their own goals. Presenting the author’s own fieldwork, avoiding jargon, and making extensive use of vignettes—stories of peoples’ lives and incidents—The Iraqiv of Tanzania illustrates its themes in a manner useful and fascinating to students.

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042997602X

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Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants

State of the Art

By: Winston Chow,Katherine Connor

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Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants

State of the Art

By: Winston Chow,Katherine Connor

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants presents a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art in the management of air pollutants ("air toxics"). This important new volume focuses on the latest research, regulatory perspectives, modeling, environmental and human risk assessments, new control strategies, monitoring programs, risk communication, and risk management. Key chapters in the book are devoted to these timely subjects:

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1000724336

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Stolen Honor

Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

By: Katherine Ewing

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Stolen Honor

Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

By: Katherine Ewing

An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.

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Stanford University Press

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0804759006

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After Freedom

The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

By: Katherine S. Newman,Ariane De Lannoy

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After Freedom

The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

By: Katherine S. Newman,Ariane De Lannoy

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict. The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election, reminding the world of the promise he represented as the nation’s first Black president. Despite significant progress since the early days of this new democracy, frustration is growing as inequalities that once divided the races now grow within them as well. In After Freedom, award-winning sociologist Katherine S. Newman and South African expert Ariane De Lannoy bring alive the voices of the “freedom generation,” who came of age after the end of apartheid. Through the stories of seven ordinary individuals who will inherit the richest, and yet most unequal, country in Africa, Newman and De Lannoy explore how young South Africans, whether Black, White, mixed race, or immigrant, confront the lingering consequences of racial oppression. These intimate portraits illuminate the erosion of old loyalties, the eruption of class divides, and the heated debate over policies designed to redress the evils of apartheid. Even so, the freedom generation remains committed to a united South Africa and is struggling to find its way toward that vision.

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Beacon Press

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0807047503

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9780807047507

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Rosanne Burson,Dianne Conrad

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Rosanne Burson,Dianne Conrad

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project, A Framework for Success, Fourth Edition guides students and faculty in the DNP project process. With a primary focus on delivering key information on planning, implementing, and evaluating a project, the text also emphasizes the impact that DNP-prepared nurses and well-developed DNP projects have in shaping the future of nursing. The Fourth Edition focuses on the evolution of the DNP degree by featuring AACN taskforce updates and reorganized content about the clinical scholar and practice scholarship. With chapters devoted to formulating a meaningful DNP project, from selecting appropriate project team members to the importance of communicating and disseminating the results of the project appropriately, it serves as a comprehensive guide for students and faculty alike.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284255441

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Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Jerry Stannard,Katherine E. Stannard

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Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Jerry Stannard,Katherine E. Stannard

Jerry Stannard assembled a legendary collection of materials on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus, and his mastery of the field was acknowledged as incomparable. However, his work was sadly cut short by his death, and so did not result in the ultimate synthesis he envisioned; this volume, and its companion, Pristina Medicamenta, bring together his important output in articles and studies.

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1040238742

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Creole Economics

Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag

By: Katherine E. Browne

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Creole Economics

Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag

By: Katherine E. Browne

What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today. Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French. This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.

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University of Texas Press

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029278337X

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Structural Knowledge

Techniques for Representing, Conveying, and Acquiring Structural Knowledge

By: David H. Jonassen,Katherine Beissner,Michael Yacci

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Structural Knowledge

Techniques for Representing, Conveying, and Acquiring Structural Knowledge

By: David H. Jonassen,Katherine Beissner,Michael Yacci

This book introduces the concept of a hypothetical type of knowledge construction -- referred to as structural knowledge -- that goes beyond traditional forms of information recall to provide the bases for knowledge application. Assuming that the validity of the concept is accepted, the volume functions as a handbook for supporting the assessment and use of structural knowledge in learning and instructional settings. It's descriptions are direct and short, and its structure is consistent. Almost all of the chapters describe a technique for representing and assessing structural knowledge acquisition, conveying knowledge structures through direct instruction, or providing learners with strategies that they may use to acquire structural knowledge. These chapters include the following sections in the same sequence: * description of the technique and its theoretical or conceptual rationale * examples and applications * procedures for development and use * effectiveness -- learner interactions and differences, and advantages and disadvantages * references to the literature. The chapters are structured to facilitate access to information as well as to illuminate comparisons and contrasts among the techniques.

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Routledge

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1136474412

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Working with Female Offenders

A Gender-Sensitive Approach

By: Katherine van Wormer

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Working with Female Offenders

A Gender-Sensitive Approach

By: Katherine van Wormer

Praise for Working with Female Offenders "Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working with girl and women offenders." —Meda Chesney-Lind, Professor, Women's Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa "In this timely and thoughtful book, van Wormer provides a gender-sensitive lens through which the reader can examine pathways to female criminality, a global perspective on female crime and punishment, and innovative treatment approaches. This book is a must-have for any student or professional who wishes to truly impact and empower the lives of female offenders." —David W. Springer, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Social Work The University of Texas at Austin "This book is timely in light of promising developments that are taking place at every level of the criminal justice system. It is a must-read for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and students in criminal justice, social work, and other related fields." —Barbara E. Bloom, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Sonoma State University, California The first book to combine elements from the social work, counseling, and crimi- nology fields to create a framework tailored to working with female offenders Taking into account the special needs of girls and women within a system designed by men for male offenders, Working with Female Offenders offers counselors, correctional officers, lawyers, probation officers—in short, anyone who works in some capacity with female offenders–an evidence-based, gentler approach for working effectively and successfully with girls and women in trouble with the law. Working with Female Offenders provides coverage devoted to the nature of female crime and to the institutional settings in which much of the female-specific programming is designed to take place. This timely volume equips professionals with proven counseling strategies tailored to fit this population. Practical guidelines are included for case management interventions, teaching skills of communication and assertiveness, and anger and stress management for female offender populations, as well as: A strengths/empowerment/restorative framework for counseling women in crisis Narratives from personal interviews with female offenders and correctional counselors Discussion of controversial topics such as prison homosexuality, AIDS in prison, girls in gangs, and women on death row Examples of successful, innovative programs for female offenders from the United States and abroad Working with Female Offenders addresses the unique challenges of female offenders and those who treat them, and provides a much needed addition to the literature on innovative programming for female offenders.

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0470581530

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Anatomy of Steampunk

The Fashion of Victorian Futurism

By: Katherine Gleason

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Anatomy of Steampunk

The Fashion of Victorian Futurism

By: Katherine Gleason

DIVFrom formal outfits to costumescrafted for the stage,from ensemblessuited to adventure to casualstreet styles,steampunk fashionhas come to encompass quite a fewdifferent looks. But what exactlyissteampunk? Originally conceivedas a literary genre,the term“steampunk”described stories setin a steam-powered,science fiction-infused,VictorianLondon. Todaysteampunk has grown to become anaesthetic that fuels many varied artforms. Steampunk has also widenedits cultural scope. Many steampunkpractitioners,rather than confiningtheir vision to oneEuropean city,imagine steam-driven societies allover the world. /divDIVToday the vibrance of steampunkinspires a wide range of individuals,including designers of high fashion,home sewers, crafters, and ordinaryfolks who just want to have fun.Steampunk fashion is not onlyentertaining, dynamic, and irreverent;it can also be colorful, sexy, andprovocative. Most of all, steampunkfashion is accessible to everyone. /divDIVIllustrated throughout with colorphotographs of the dazzling creationsof numerous steampunk fashiondesigners, Anatomy of Steampunk is aninspirational sourcebook. In addition topresenting the looks and stories of thesecreative fashion artists, the book alsodetails ten steampunk projects for thereader to try at home. Allow steam topower your imagination!/divDIVDesigners and steampunk groups featured in the book include--Airship Isabella,Ali Fateh,Berít New York,Black Garden,Blasphemina’s Closet,Brute Force Studios,Clockwork Couture.DASOWL,Dawnamatrix,The Extraordinary Contraptions,Festooned Butterfly,Harvash,Hi Tek by Alexander,House of Canney, KMKDesigns,Kristi Smart,Kristin Costa,KvO Design,Lastwear,The League of S.T.E.A.M.,Marquis of Vaudeville,Megan Maude,Michael Salerno,Morrigan New York,Ms. Purdy’s,Muses Well,Redfield Design,RockLove,Sidharta Aryan,SkinzNhydez,Spyder Designs,Tokyo Inventors Society,Tom Banwell, andThe Uprising of the Gin Rebellion. /divDIVA longtime admirer of steampunk style, Katherine Gleason is the/divDIVauthor of more than thirty books for adults and young people, including Alexander McQueen: Evolution (Race Point Publishing, 2012). Her short stories have appeared in Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Cream City Review, Mississippi Review Online, River Styx, and Southeast Review.She has also written articles for a number of periodicals, including the Boston Globe, Connoisseur, and Women’s Feature Service./divDIV/divDIVK. W. Jeter is the author of Morlock Night,Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, Noir, and othervisionary science fiction and dark fantasy.In 1987, when discussing his novel InfernalDevices, he coined the term “steampunk.”The sequel to that book is Fiendish Schemes(Tor Books, 2013). A native of Los Angeles,he currently lives in Ecuador./divDIV/divDIVDiana M. Pho possesses a deep-seated love of science fiction and/divDIVfantasy literature. Known as Ay-leen the Peacemaker in the steampunk community, she has written academically about steampunk and lectures professionally across the United States. Diana also runs the multicultural steampunk blog Beyond Victoriana (www.beyondvictoriana.com). Shecurrently lives and works in NewYork City./div

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The Trickster in Ginsberg

A Critical Reading

By: Katherine Campbell Mead-Brewer

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The Trickster in Ginsberg

A Critical Reading

By: Katherine Campbell Mead-Brewer

This scholarly close reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" considers the iconic poem through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power and a proclivity for setting and falling victim to tricks and traps. The book pursues various different narratives of the trickster Coyote and the historical and biographical contexts of "Howl" from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. This study seeks to contribute to the current literature on the poetry of the Beats and of Allen Ginsberg, specifically his "Howl," and the ways it continues to expand in meaning, depth and significance today.

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Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era

By: Katherine Aaslestad

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Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era

By: Katherine Aaslestad

This study examines North Germany during the transformative era of the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, and Wars of Liberation; it reveals international exploitation, military occupation, economic destruction of the city-state Hamburg as well as the republic’s liberation and post-Napoleonic autonomy.

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Practices of Proximity

The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature

By: Katherine E. Russo

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Practices of Proximity

The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature

By: Katherine E. Russo

Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official ‘white’ Australia—the apparent owners of both the land and the English language—and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations—the ‘empty’ Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin—it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhabit the intersubjective space of literature, rendering the inherited authority of who ‘owns’ meaning problematical and ethically suspect. Documenting the complex practices of bricolage and re-lexification of a multi-accentuated Australia, the book invites readers to consider Australian Indigenous literature as a space from which a re-routing of issues of co-habitation, sovereignty, and being and becoming Australian might begin. This interdisciplinary study of Australian Indigenous practices of appropriation ranges from texts produced during the first encounters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to the work of established and rising authors, such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Jack Davis, Lionel Fogarty, Romaine Moreton and Kim Scott.

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The Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men

By: Katherine Chloe Cahoon

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The Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men

By: Katherine Chloe Cahoon

A one-of-a-kind guide packed with road-tested tips for meeting European men—whether you’re looking for love, lust, or anything in between. In The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men, Katherine Chloé Cahoon offers forty proven tips for meeting and interacting with European men, and then guides readers through the hottest man-meeting spots in Europe, country by country—including addresses, phone numbers, and websites of establishments where single girls have the best chance of meeting Europe’s hottest males. Whether prowling for a spontaneous European fling or scouting for Mr. Love-of-Your-Life, you’ll find that Cahoon’s tips—which work on men at home, too—take into account the various approaches, boundaries, and goals you may have for dating during your European foray. She also outlines the traits of men from various European countries, and gives advice ranging from how to stay safe while meeting them to how to deal with beaus back home who may complicate an amorous European getaway. Filled with sexy and often hilarious real-life stories from each country, The Single Girl’s Guide will make your time in Europe an exciting, man-filled adventure.

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Aleut Identities

Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery

By: Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner

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Aleut Identities

Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery

By: Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner

The first Aleut ethnography in over three decades, Aleut Identities provides a contemporary view of indigenous Alaskans and is the first major work to emphasize the importance of commercial labour and economies to maintain traditional means of survival. Examining the ways in which social relations and the status formation are affected by environmental concerns, government policies, and market forces, the author highlights how communities have responded to worldwide pressures. An informative work that challenges conventional notions of "traditional," Aleut Identities demonstrates possible methods by which Indigenous communities can maintain and adapt their identity in the face of unrelenting change.

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Censored

A Literary History of Subversion and Control

By: Matthew Fellion,Katherine Inglis

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A Literary History of Subversion and Control

By: Matthew Fellion,Katherine Inglis

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, comic books, and Chicana/o literature, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis chart the forces that have driven censorship in the United Kingdom and the United States for over six hundred years, from fears of civil unrest and corruptible youth to the oppression of various groups – religious and political dissidents, same-sex lovers, the working class, immigrants, women, racialized people, and those who have been incarcerated or enslaved. The authors also consider the weight of speech, and when restraints might be justified. Rich with illustrations that bring to life the personalities and the books that feature in its stories, Censored takes readers behind the scenes into the courtroom battles, legislative debates, public campaigns, and private exchanges that have shaped the course of literature. A vital reminder that the freedom of speech has always been fragile and never enjoyed equally by all, Censored offers lessons from the past to guard against threats to literature in a new political era.

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Globalization, Consumption And Popular Culture In East Asia

By: Tai Wei Lim,Wen Xin Lim,Xiaojuan Ping,Katherine Hui-yi Tseng

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Globalization, Consumption And Popular Culture In East Asia

By: Tai Wei Lim,Wen Xin Lim,Xiaojuan Ping,Katherine Hui-yi Tseng

This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies, political science, international relations concepts and history, this book focuses on a few research objectives. In terms of methodology, it is an area studies approach based on interpretative work, observation studies, policy and textual analysis. First, it aims to examine the closely intertwined relationship between the three major stakeholders in the iron triangle of production companies, consumers and states (i.e., role of government in policy promotion). Second, it studies the interpenetration, adaptation, innovation and hybridization of exogenous Western culture with traditional popular cultures in (North) East Asia. Third, it studies the influence of popular cultures and how cultural products resonate with a regional audience through collective consumption, contents reflective of normative values, the emotive and cognitive appeal of familiar images and social learning as well as peer effect found in fan communities. It then examines how consumption contributes to soft cultural influence and how governments leverage on its comparative advantages and cultural assets for commercial success and in the process augment national (cultural) influence. These questions will be discussed and analyzed and contextualized through the case studies of J-pop (Japanese popular culture), K-pop (Korean popular culture or Hallyu) and Chinese popular culture (including Mando-pop and Taiwanese popular culture).

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981467821X

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Listening

A Framework for Teaching Across Differences

By: Katherine Schultz

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Listening

A Framework for Teaching Across Differences

By: Katherine Schultz

How can new and experienced teachers rethink the ways of teaching and learn to embrace and learn from the diversity they encounter among their students? Rather than preparing teachers to follow prescriptions or blueprints, Katherine Schultz suggests that we show them how to attend to and respond to the students they teach. In this book, she offers a conceptual framework for "deep listening," illustrating how successful teachers listen for the particularities of individual students, listen for the rhythm and balance of the whole class, listen for the broader contexts of students' lives, and listen for silence and acts of silence. Listening in this manner brings together knowledge of individual students, an understanding of a student's place within the classroom, and mastery of subject matter and pedagogy. This volume features compelling case studies that reveal the classroom lives of teachers who are exemplary listeners.

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