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The Great Wedding Giveaway

By: Sarah Mayberry,Kelly Hunter,Megan Crane,Trish Morey,Katherine Garbera,Anne McAllister,Kathleen O'Brien,Joanne Walsh

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The Great Wedding Giveaway

By: Sarah Mayberry,Kelly Hunter,Megan Crane,Trish Morey,Katherine Garbera,Anne McAllister,Kathleen O'Brien,Joanne Walsh

The complete Montana Born Brides series Available for the first time! All nine stories of The Montana Born Brides series, The Great Wedding Giveaway, brought to you by NY Times, USA Today and national bestselling authors! When a few of Marietta's long standing bachelors start walking down the aisle they vowed to avoid, the town's residents are speculating there must be something magical in the water. Be our wedding guest during The Great Wedding Giveaway as these chiseled, brooding cowboys, sexy business owners, and local bad boys return to town to prove a point and say "I do" to the women of their dreams. Titles included: What a Bride Wants by Kelly Hunter Second Chance Bride by Trish Morey Almost a Bride by Sarah Mayberry The Cowboy's Reluctant Bride by Katherine Garbera The Unexpected Bride by Joanne Walsh A Game of Brides by Megan Crane The Substitute Bride by Kathleen O'Brien Last Year's Bride by Anne McAllister Make-Believe Wedding by Sarah Mayberry

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Tule Publishing

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1942240503

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The Impact Agenda

Controversies, Consequences and Challenges

By: Katherine E. Smith,Justyna Bandola-Gill,Nasar Meer,Ellen Stewart,Richard Watermeyer

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The Impact Agenda

Controversies, Consequences and Challenges

By: Katherine E. Smith,Justyna Bandola-Gill,Nasar Meer,Ellen Stewart,Richard Watermeyer

Measuring research impact and engagement is a much debated topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation. Using empirical data, it discusses research impact tools and processes for key groups such as academics, research funders, ‘knowledge brokers’ and research users, and considers the challenges and consequences of incentivising and rewarding particular articulations of research impact. It draws on wide ranging qualitative data, combined with theories about the science-policy interplay and audit regimes to suggest ways to improve research impact.

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Policy Press

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1447339851

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9781447339854

Understanding Marriage

A Hong Kong Case Study

By: Katherine Young

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Understanding Marriage

A Hong Kong Case Study

By: Katherine Young

Based on a marital study in Hong Kong, this book examines changes that occur in the marital relationship today. The author concludes that as 'affective individualism' is used to characterize modern marriages in the West, 'affective familism' is a more appropriate character of marriages among the Chinese in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622093663

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Causality and Psychopathology

Finding the Determinants of Disorders and their Cures

By: Patrick Shrout PhD,Katherine Keyes MPH,Katherine Ornstein MPH

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Causality and Psychopathology

Finding the Determinants of Disorders and their Cures

By: Patrick Shrout PhD,Katherine Keyes MPH,Katherine Ornstein MPH

Part of the new American Pyschopathological Association Series. Containing contributions from leading scholars of causal thinking in epidemiology and psychopathology research, this volume is based on presentations at the ground-breaking 2008 meeting of the American Psychopathological Association. The authors explore the meaning of causal statements that are made from statistical and experimental evidence; then, they suggest novel approaches to analyze these statements and thus make them more informative and medically rigorous. The collection of chapters uniquely includes both methodological contributions and detailed assessments of how causal inferences can be made when considering research results on developmental psychopathology, clinical psychopharmacology, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric genetics. In analyzing causal references, the authors examine controversies surrounding various disorders and their treatment.

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Oxford University Press

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0199842507

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Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators

The History of an Allegation, 400-1700

By: Katherine Aron-Beller

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Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators

The History of an Allegation, 400-1700

By: Katherine Aron-Beller

In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe. Through an analysis of folk tales, myths, legal proceedings, and religious art, Aron-Beller finds that narratives alleging that Jews committed violence against images of Christ, Mary, and the disciples flourished in Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. She then explores how these narratives manifested differently across the continent and the centuries, finding that their potency reflected not Jewish actions per se, but Christians’ own concerns about slipping into idolatry when viewing depictions of religious figures. In addition, Aron-Beller considers Jews’ own attitudes toward Christian imagery and the ways in which they responded to and rejected—or embraced—such allegations. By examining how desecration allegations affected Jewish individuals and communities spanning Byzantium, medieval England, France, Germany, and early modern Spain and Italy, Aron-Beller demonstrates that this charge was a powerful expression of the Christian majority’s anxiety around committing idolatry and their eagerness to participate in practices of veneration that revolved around visual images—an anxiety that evolved through the centuries and persists to this day.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512824119

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Family Empowerment

One Outcome of Parental Participation in Cooperative Preschool Education

By: Katherine Dunlap

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Family Empowerment

One Outcome of Parental Participation in Cooperative Preschool Education

By: Katherine Dunlap

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Positive effects of preschool education on children have been well documented (Berrueta-Clement et al., 1984; Consortium for Longitudinal Studies, 1983, Deutsch, Jordan, & Deutsch, 1985; Lazar & Darlington, 1982). This study considers positive benefits for caregivers who participate in cooperative preschool education. Since not all caregivers are parents, the study includes grandparents who have custody of children, and kin with responsibility for kith.

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Routledge

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1317733517

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Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics

By: Susan Loucks-Horsley,Katherine E. Stiles,Susan Mundry,Nancy Love,Peter W. Hewson

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Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics

By: Susan Loucks-Horsley,Katherine E. Stiles,Susan Mundry,Nancy Love,Peter W. Hewson

This third edition represents the gold standard of resources for those working in the field of professional development. My staff and I highly recommend this book as a primary resource for designing and continuously improving professional development programs for teachers of science and mathematics. Unlike other resources, this unique and important book provides current research, an updated strategic planning framework, and access to a portfolio of best practices for informing your work." —Sally Goetz Shuler, Executive Director National Science Resources Center "In the 21st century when STEM education has become vital for our students and our nation and the importance of quality professional development has increased at least tenfold, this seminal work should be required reading for every education leader. It is both practical and scholarly in guiding a school toward a culture of continuous learning and improvement." —Harold Pratt, President, Science Curriculum Inc. Former President, National Science Teachers Association The classic guide for designing robust science and mathematics professional development programs! This expanded edition of one of the most widely cited resources in the field of professional learning for mathematics and science educators demonstrates how to design professional development for teachers that is directly linked to improving student learning. Presenting an updated professional development (PD) planning framework, the third edition of the bestseller reflects current research on PD design, underscores how beliefs and local factors can influence the PD design, illustrates a wide range of PD strategies, and emphasizes the importance of: Continuous program monitoring Combining strategies to address diverse needs Building cultures that sustain learning An inspiring blend of theory and practical wisdom, Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics remains a highly regarded reference for improving professional practice and student achievement.

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Corwin Press

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1452272557

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Vicissitudes

By: Katherine X. Rylien

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Vicissitudes

By: Katherine X. Rylien

Renee set out to be an artist, not a warrior. She’s the consort of a vampire lord, while her former best friend has become a vampire hunter. Awkward. Not even death can stop Renee from using her teleportation ability to protect her community. But her cousin Gil, who has access to their grandfather’s temporal and spatial technology, has also joined the ranks of her enemies. As Renee struggles to accept a profound change in her existence, she finds her family targeted by two separate groups of vampire hunters, as well as enemies of their own kind. Gil and his compatriots vanish by making use of a backwater in the stream of time, only to be replaced by hunters who plunge the already divided vampire enclave of Abbey Keep into chaos through abduction and murder. Meanwhile, Gil is poised to pop back into existence just when he’s not expected, bringing with him a crew of killers determined to turn Abbey Keep into a pile of radioactive rubble.

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Katherine Rylien

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1005178615

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Starting with Merleau-Ponty

By: Katherine J. Morris

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Starting with Merleau-Ponty

By: Katherine J. Morris

Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. Clearly and thematically structured, covering all Merleau-Ponty's key works and focussing particularly on the hugely important The Phenomenology of Perception, Starting with Merleau-Ponty leads the reader through a thorough overview of the development of his thought, resulting in a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns. Offering coverage of the full range of Merleau-Ponty's ideas, the book firmly sets his work in the context of the 20th century intellectual landscape and explores his contributions to phenomenology, existentialism, empiricism, objective thought and his vision of human reality. Crucially the book introduces the major thinkers and events that proved influential in the development of Merleau-Ponty's work, including Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger and those philosophers and psychologists whom he labelled 'intellectualists' and 'empiricists'. This is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of this hugely important thinker for the first time.

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A&C Black

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1441118985

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9781441118981

The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

By: Katherine Ryan,J. Bradley Cousins

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The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

By: Katherine Ryan,J. Bradley Cousins

Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation addresses methods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches. Key Features Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation; Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches; Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres; Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization; Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization. Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.

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SAGE Publications

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1483343456

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9781483343457

Beach Blondes

June Dreams, July's Promise, August Magic

By: Katherine Applegate

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Beach Blondes

June Dreams, July's Promise, August Magic

By: Katherine Applegate

Three months. Three guys. One amazing summer. Summer Smith is in for the best summer of her life. Between the cold weather and her boyfriendless existence in Minnesota, Summer is ready for sun, sand, and boys in the Florida Keys. And by the end of the first day, she has more than enough to keep her busy: Adam, the senator's son, has looks, power, and all the money in the world. Diver, the mystery man, is mellow, intriguing, and definitely unique. And Seth, the perfect guy...only he has a girlfriend. But with new friends, cute guys, and miles of hot white sand, Summer's in for more trouble than she thinks....

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Simon and Schuster

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1416975691

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9781416975694

Religion and Profit

Moravians in Early America

By: Katherine Carté Engel

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Religion and Profit

Moravians in Early America

By: Katherine Carté Engel

The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in order to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists and Native Americans. In time, the Moravians became some of early America's most successful missionaries. Such vast projects demanded vast sums. Bethlehem's Moravians supported their work through financial savvy and an efficient brand of communalism. Moravian commercial networks, stretching from the Pennsylvania backcountry to Europe's financial capitals, also facilitated their efforts. Missionary outreach and commerce went hand in hand for this group, making it impossible to understand the Moravians' religious work without appreciating their sophisticated economic practices as well. Of course, making money in a manner that be fitted a Christian organization required considerable effort, but it was a balancing act that Moravian leaders embraced with vigor. Religion and Profit traces the Moravians' evolving mission projects, their strategies for supporting those missions, and their gradual integration into the society of eighteenth-century North America. Katherine Carté Engel demonstrates the complex influence Moravian religious life had on the group's economic practices, and argues that the imperial conflict between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, and not the growth of capitalism or a process of secularization, ultimately reconfigured the circumstances of missionary work for the Moravians, altering their religious lives and economic practices.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081220185X

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9780812201857

Alzheimer Disease: The Changing View

The Changing View

By: Robert Katzman,Katherine Bick

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Alzheimer Disease: The Changing View

The Changing View

By: Robert Katzman,Katherine Bick

This book details how "Alzheimer Disease" went from being an obscure neurologic diagnosis to a household word. The words of those responsible for this revolution are the heart of this book. Dr. Robert Katzman and Dr. Katherine Bick, leaders in Alzheimer research and policy making, interview the people responsible for this awakening of public consciousness about AlzheimerDisease from 1960 to 1980. They speak with the scientists, public health officials, government regulators, and concerned relatives and activists responsible for taking this neurodegenerative disease out of the "back wards" through the halls of Congress, and on to the front page. The reader will learn how the explosive increase in research funding and public awareness came about, how physicians and psychiatrists established diagnostic criteria, how drugs were developed that offer hope for sufferers, and how the Alzheimer's Association was born.* Written in the words of those responsible for the widespread recognition of this neurodegenerative disease* The authors are recognised as leaders in Alzheimer research and policy making

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Elsevier

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0080527086

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Blood Relations

By: Katherine X. Rylien

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Blood Relations

By: Katherine X. Rylien

Renee lives in a house where ghosts are the norm. Although they're really technological artifacts, according to her cousin Gil, who's not really there. Renee leads an unusual life, and develops a unique talent for moving through time and space. When the local vampires face a deadly threat, she uses her abilities in their defense, while finding it difficult to resist their seductive allure. Fair warning: Although this is a coming-of-age story with some erotic elements, it is not a romance.

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Katherine Rylien

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1005566178

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Good Governance

By: Katherine N. Falconer

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Good Governance

By: Katherine N. Falconer

Gale Researcher Guide for: Good Governance is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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1535857692

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9781535857697

Introduction to Law for Paralegals

A Critical Thinking Approach

By: Katherine A. Currier,Thomas E. Eimermann,Marisa S. Campbell

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Introduction to Law for Paralegals

A Critical Thinking Approach

By: Katherine A. Currier,Thomas E. Eimermann,Marisa S. Campbell

A thoughtful new edition of the leading Introduction to Law for Paralegals text Introduction to Law for Paralegals: A Critical Thinking Approach explores high-interest topics and cases within the framework of the authors’ acclaimed critical thinking approach. Hypotheticals, examples, and incisive questions shed light on both the principle and application of the law. In a thoroughly updated new edition, this leading text in the field continues to provide innovation and excellence. The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. New to the Eighth Edition: Updated with changes in the law, new NetNotes, and additional Discussion Questions and Legal Reasoning Exercises. Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure are now directly after the chapter on Torts so that instructors can better compare and contrast civil litigation and criminal law. Streamlined chapter introducing the Study of Law and the Paralegal Profession. Professors and students will benefit from: Comprehensive coverage of key legal concepts. Hypotheticals, questions, and exercises that engage students in critical thinking. A logical three-part organization: Part I, Paralegals and the American Legal System; Part II, Finding and Analyzing the Law and Part III, Legal Ethics and Substantive Law. Student-friendly skill development for basic statutory and case analysis. Text is readable without talking down to students. Structure of chapters ensures that students understand and learn the material. Ethics Alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises. Appendices on writing style and citation, the U.S. Constitution, Ethical Codes, and additional Net Notes.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543858481

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Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents - E-Book

By: Katherine Quesenberry,Christoph Mans,Connie Orcutt

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Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents - E-Book

By: Katherine Quesenberry,Christoph Mans,Connie Orcutt

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine** Learn to treat a wide variety of small mammals and pocket pets with Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 4th Edition. Covering the conditions most often seen in veterinary practice, this highly readable and easy-to-navigate text covers preventative medicine along with disease management, ophthalmology, dentistry, and zoonosis. More than 700 full-color photographs and illustrations highlight radiographic interpretation as well as diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. This fourth edition also features new coverage of degus (large rodent species); new coverage of prairie dogs; and expanded coverage of surgical procedures, physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits, neoplasia in rabbits, and zoonotic disease. With expert contributors from around the globe, Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents is the authoritative, single point of reference for small mammal care that is hard to find elsewhere. - Logical organization lays out sections by different animals and organizes parts within chapters by body system — making it quick and easy to access important information. - Drug formulary provides dosage instructions for a wealth of species including ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats/mice, prairie dogs, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders. - More than 700 photographs and illustrations highlight key concepts such as radiographic interpretation and the main points of diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. - Chapter on ophthalmology provides an area of study that is difficult to find for ferrets, rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals. - Chapter outlines offer an at-a-glance overview of the chapter contents at the beginning of the chapter. - Access to Expert Consult site provides an excellent comprehensive reference and a fully searchable eBook. - NEW! Coverage of surgical procedures has been further expanded in this edition. Surgical procedures are presented in a separate section and shown step by step through color photographs and radiographs, accompanied by line drawings. - NEW! Additional information on physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits includes chiropractic care and acupuncture. - NEW! Expanded content on neoplasia in rabbits incorporates lymphoreticular disorders, thymoma, and other neoplastic diseases of rabbits. - NEW! All new chapter on prairie dogs has been added. - NEW! All new chapter on degus (large rodent species) has been added. - UPDATED! Chapter on zoonotic disease has been updated to further cover specific zoonotic diseases in addition to addressing the increased potential for disease transmission from animals to humans. - NEW! Global author perspective incorporates the expertise of authors practicing outside of North America. - UPDATED! Photographs show the diseases and disorders that are more commonly seen in practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323484344

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9780323484343

The Forces of Economic Globalization

Challenges to the Regime of International Commercial Arbitration

By: Katherine Lynch,Katherine L. Lynch

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The Forces of Economic Globalization

Challenges to the Regime of International Commercial Arbitration

By: Katherine Lynch,Katherine L. Lynch

Increased economic interdependencies and trade flows between states, innovations in information technology and computer networks, a global shift toward market economies and regional and multilateral trade arrangements, have all led to an increasingly globalized world economy. The Forces of Economic Globalization: Challenges to the Regime of International Commercial Arbitration examines some of the challenges facing the regime of international commercial arbitration in the contemporary global economy. It considers the debates concerning the transformation of the global order and the role of nation states within the context of international commercial arbitration. Issues discussed include the transformative effect of economic globalization, the role of the epistemic community and the increased institutionalization within the international arbitral regime, the nationalization of international commercial arbitration and the denationalization and harmonization trends, the competitive nature of legislative reform, convergence and divergence in the international arbitral process, multilateralism and regionalism, market modernization and transnationalism, globalization and lex mercatoria, and the development of online arbitration schemes in cyberspace. This book seeks to analyze the inner penetration of a form of world polity or transnational order ? comprised of part epistemic community, institutional networks, national laws and multilateral conventions, norms, rules, principles and transnational ideology ? on the traditional notion of state sovereignty within the international arbitral regime. The book will interest practitioners and academics with an interest in international commercial arbitration.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041119949

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9789041119940

The Earth Mourns

Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic

By: Katherine Murphey Hayes

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The Earth Mourns

Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic

By: Katherine Murphey Hayes

This book applies current research on oral traditional poetry to the biblical metaphor of the mourning earth as expressed in nine texts, illustrating an oral aesthetic within the biblical prophetic traditions over a range of historical settings and prophetic genres. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

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BRILL

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9004126988

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9789004126985

How We Became Posthuman

Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By: N. Katherine Hayles

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How We Became Posthuman

Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By: N. Katherine Hayles

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226321398

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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

By: Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont

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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

By: Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

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Yale University Press

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0300099606

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Simply Beckett

By: Katherine Weiss

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Simply Beckett

By: Katherine Weiss

“Katherine Weiss’ Simply Beckett is a beautifully written book, one brimming with fresh critical insights. What is obvious is her utter command of her material. As part of the Simply Charly series, the book is designed for university students and theatergoers, but, in fact, it also appeals to scholars long familiar with Beckett’s work. Drawing on history, politics, trauma, and memory, Weiss leads the reader through Beckett’s plays in clear, engaging prose. In sum, Weiss’ book has the reach and depth to make it one of the more important coordinates in Beckett scholarship.” —Matthew Roudané, Regents’ Professor of English and Theater, Georgia State University Born in Dublin on Good Friday, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) attended Trinity College and taught briefly in Belfast before moving to Paris, where he lived for most of his adult life. Deeply influenced by James Joyce, who became a close friend and mentor, he published poetry, novels, essays, and reviews before stunning Paris, and eventually the rest of the world, with his play Waiting for Godot in 1953. Famously described by one critic as “a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats,” Godot redefined dramatic structure and showcased Beckett’s commitment to an art based on the ideas of “non-knowing” and powerlessness. In Simply Beckett, professor Katherine Weiss provides a highly accessible and insightful introduction to the award-winning author and his paradoxical works, with a particular focus on Beckett’s theater activities, both as a writer and director. Through discussion of the written texts, significant productions of the plays, and audience and critical reactions to Beckett’s work, Weiss helps the reader understand the groundbreaking nature of his achievements and points the way toward a greater appreciation of his oeuvre. Combining admirable erudition with reader-friendly style, Simply Beckett is a fascinating journey into the world of an author whose work went to the heart of the human condition.

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The Language of Belonging

A Rhetorical Analysis of Kinship Language in First Corinthians

By: Mary Katherine Birge

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The Language of Belonging

A Rhetorical Analysis of Kinship Language in First Corinthians

By: Mary Katherine Birge

By employing a rigorous historio-rhetorical exegesis of each unit in chaps. 3-6 and 14, Birge explores how Paul, in his First Letter to the Corinthians, used the same kinship images and language in different pastoral situations to address the situation of disharmony and division among the Corinthians (1:10). She investigates the possible sources for Paul's 'ideas' about kinship images and language by examining likely influences on him from his social and historical matrix: Jewish literature and the practice of Hellenistic rhetoric. After concluding that Paul drew on these two cultural and religious resources to craft his argument for unity, she asserts that what was 'new' for him was finding the 'genetic material' of kinship 'in Christ' rather than in fidelity to God and the Torah. She also claims that what was new for Early Christianity was the notion that the state of being in Christ dissolved all boundaries of status and privilege that Greco-Roman society had established among people who were not 'kin'.

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9042911026

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Precious

Identity, Adaptation and the African-American Youth Film

By: Katherine Whitehurst

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Precious

Identity, Adaptation and the African-American Youth Film

By: Katherine Whitehurst

Examining how the discourses of youth, race, poverty and identity take shape when Push is adapted to the big screen, this book brings together valuable research to delve into representations of African-American girlhood. The book draws attention to how Black girlhood takes shape in the film under the dominant White discourses that racialise non-White bodies, and examines how these discourses inform a critical reception of the film and Precious, as a Black girl. Through a consideration of Black culture and heritage, it questions what narratives of girlhood, growth and development are afforded to the main character, in a film that is informed by neoliberal and colour-blind discourses. Highlighting the social context in which Precious was received, the book draws attention to how a discussion of Precious in the critical press gives insight into the racial politics that were dominant at the time of the film’s release. It considers whether race impacts how the film engages with, reflects and moves beyond conventions within the genre of youth film. Concise and engaging, this vital book sheds light on underrepresented areas of film studies that make it an invaluable resource for students and scholars of film, race and youth cultures.

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Routledge

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113481321X

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The World Bank

From Reconstruction to Development to Equity

By: Katherine Marshall

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The World Bank

From Reconstruction to Development to Equity

By: Katherine Marshall

The World Bank is one of the most important and least understood major international institutions. This book provides a concise, accessible and comprehensive overview of the World Bank's history, development, structure, functionality and activities. These themes are illustrated with a wide variety of case studies drawn from the Bank's international activities. Also discussed are the controversial challenges that the Bank now faces in the light of the criticism from campaigners and NGOs.

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Sources and Methods of Historical Demography

Studies in Social Discontinuity

By: J. Dennis Willigan,Katherine A. Lynch

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Sources and Methods of Historical Demography

Studies in Social Discontinuity

By: J. Dennis Willigan,Katherine A. Lynch

Sources and Methods of Historical Demography covers the fundamental sources, methods, and approaches to explanatory modeling for describing, analyzing, and understanding demographic features of past societies. The book discusses the intellectual ancestry of historical demographic research, beginning in the 17th century; as well as the logic of basic techniques for reconstructing and analyzing information from fundamental source materials. The text also describes the full range of disciplines that have made major contributions to historical demography, and examples of empirical research. The book concludes by arguing the case for conducting historical demographic research with a broad, interdisciplinary ideal in mind. Historians and sociologists will find the book invaluable.

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1483220656

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Urologic Disorders

Adult and Pediatric Care

By: Mikel Gray,Katherine Moore

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Urologic Disorders

Adult and Pediatric Care

By: Mikel Gray,Katherine Moore

This comprehensive text provides complete details on caring for patients with urologic disorders in any setting: acute adult or pediatric care, long-term care, outpatient, and home care settings. Inside you’ll find balanced coverage of urologic conditions affecting infants, children, adults and the elderly along with practical information on assessment, diagnostic procedures and pharmacology specifically aimed at advanced practice urologic nurses. It is also a valuable reference for Wound, Ostomy, and Continence (WOC) nurses and enterostomal therapists because of its emphasis on urologic cancers and the continent and incontinent urinary diversions frequently used to treat specific urologic cancers. Detailed chapters on urinary incontinence will also be appealing to neurologic nurses, continence advisers and physical therapists. UNIQUE! Provides balanced coverage of urologic conditions affecting infants, children, adults and the elderly. UNIQUE! Features atlases of genitourinary embryology, anatomy and physiology with useful illustrations and clear, accessible explanations of complex concepts. UNIQUE! Offers multiple symptom assessment tools in the assessment chapter. UNIQUE! Provides a diagnostic test review including information on interpreting results to identify individual disorders. Presents practical information on assessment, diagnostic procedures, and pharmacology specifically for urologic nurses, including expert and advanced practice nurses. Features detailed chapters on urinary incontinence, urologic cancers, and the continent and incontinent urinary diversions frequently used to treat specific cancers.

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0323079539

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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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1000716511

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Unfixable Forms

Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

By: Katherine Schaap Williams

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Unfixable Forms

Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

By: Katherine Schaap Williams

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes—and is in turn remade by—early modern disability. Figures described as "deformed," "lame," "crippled," "ugly," "sick," and "monstrous" crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In each case, such a description distills cultural expectations about how a body should look and what a body should do—yet, crucially, demands the actor's embodied performance. In the early modern theater, concepts of disability collide with the deforming, vulnerable body of the actor. Reading dramatic texts alongside a diverse array of sources, ranging from physic manuals to philosophical essays to monster pamphlets, Katherine Schaap Williams excavates an archive of formal innovation to argue that disability is at the heart of the early modern theater's exploration of what it means to put the body of an actor on the stage. Offering new interpretations of canonical works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, and close readings of little-known plays such as The Fair Maid of the Exchange and A Larum For London, Williams demonstrates how disability cuts across foundational distinctions between nature and art, form and matter, and being and seeming. Situated at the intersections of early modern drama, disability studies, and performance theory, Unfixable Forms locates disability on the early modern stage as both a product of cultural constraints and a spark for performance's unsettling demands and electrifying eventfulness.

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1501753517

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