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My Mother Was a Computer

Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

By: N. Katherine Hayles

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My Mother Was a Computer

Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

By: N. Katherine Hayles

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices. My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age. We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226321495

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Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

By: Katherine Paterson

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Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

By: Katherine Paterson

Mei Lin, a woman warrior, and pigboy Wang Lee find love, intrigue, adventure, and danger as rebels seeking to overthrow the Chinese emperor during the 1850s amid the Taiping Rebellion.

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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0888998856

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Women of Spirit

Stories of Courage from the Women Who Lived Them

By: Katherine Martin

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Women of Spirit

Stories of Courage from the Women Who Lived Them

By: Katherine Martin

These stories reveal the way the world has always been made better — by individuals who courageously follow their heart’s inner wisdom. At a moment in history when the tide of events seems determined by faceless governments and corporations, we need these examples of individual action more than ever.

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New World Library

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1577318234

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9781577318231

Survival Vocabulary Stories

Learning Words in Context

By: Katherine Whitten

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Survival Vocabulary Stories

Learning Words in Context

By: Katherine Whitten

This book will expand your students word instruction to real-life situations. It will develop students' thinking skills through probing questions and writing activities and allows for flexible instruction to meet students' individual needs.

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Walch Publishing

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0825128633

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9780825128639

The Young Investor

Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow

By: Katherine R. Bateman

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The Young Investor

Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow

By: Katherine R. Bateman

A young person who saves $2,000 each year between the ages of 9 and 14, at an interest rate of 9 percent, will have one million dollars at age 65. And that is just by saving! This guide explains the language of business and the skill of investing, so that children can grow up business-literate and get an early start at making their money grow. The concepts of money and simple and compound interest show how saving works; then children learn where Wall Street is, what stocks and bonds do, and, with the help of an adult, the right way to buy or sell a stock, mutual fund, or savings bond. Dozens of activities teach how to balance a checkbook, read stock tables, and know what people are talking about when they mention inflation, recession, and the Federal Reserve Board.

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Chicago Review Press

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1556523963

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Explaining Suicide

Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal

By: Cheryl L. Meyer,Taronish Irani,Katherine A. Hermes,Betty Yung

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Explaining Suicide

Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal

By: Cheryl L. Meyer,Taronish Irani,Katherine A. Hermes,Betty Yung

The rate of suicides is at its highest level in nearly 30 years. Suicide notes have long been thought to be valuable resources for understanding suicide motivation, but up to now the small sample sizes available have made an in-depth analysis difficult. Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal represents a large-scale analysis of suicide motivation across multiple ages during the same time period. This was made possible via a unique dataset of all suicide notes collected by the coroner's office in southwestern Ohio 2000–2009. Based on an analysis of this dataset, the book identifies top motivations for suicide, how these differ between note writers and non-note writers, and what this can tell us about better suicide prevention. The book reveals the extent to which suicide is motivated by interpersonal violence, substance abuse, physical pain, grief, feelings of failure, and mental illness. Additionally, it discusses other risk factors, what differentiates suicide attempters from suicide completers, and lastly what might serve as protective factors toward resilience. - Analyzes 1200+ suicide cases from one coroner's office - Identifies the top motivations for suicide that are based on suicide notes - Discusses the extent to which suicides are impulsive vs. planned - Leads to a better understanding on how to prevent suicide - Emphasizes resilience factors over risk factors

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Academic Press

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0128095792

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Citizens of Fear

Urban Violence in Latin America

By: Katherine Goldman

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Citizens of Fear

Urban Violence in Latin America

By: Katherine Goldman

Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813530350

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9780813530352

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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Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health

A Whole School Approach

By: Katherine Weare

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Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health

A Whole School Approach

By: Katherine Weare

Schools are now seen as being one of the key agents which can help redress society's most fundamental problems, create more cohesive communities and promote citizenship and a sense of social conscience in the young. Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach provides a clear and practical overview of ways in which mainstream schools can promote the health of all those who work and learn in them. Supported by the latest new evidence from the UK and Europe as well as findings from the USA, it outlines and examines: * evidence that social and emotional learning and academic achievement can go hand in hand and that the same key factors underlie both happy and effective schools * the areas of school life that are the key to promoting social and affective health, including relationships with families and the community, management and the curriculum * the competencies that we all need to become more emotionally literate and relate to more effectively.

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Routledge

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1134702620

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The Evolution of Hazardous Waste Programs

By: Katherine N. Probst,Thomas C. Beierle

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The Evolution of Hazardous Waste Programs

By: Katherine N. Probst,Thomas C. Beierle

In most countries, the development of environmental programs follows a similar pattern. Early efforts concentrate on direct threats to public health, such as contaminated drinking water and air pollution. Only after these problems are addressed does the need to improve day-to-day management of hazardous wastes reach the top of the environmental agenda. In this new report, RFF‘s Katherine Probst and Thomas Beierle compare the development of hazardous waste management programs in eight countries---the United States, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand---and discuss steps taken to foster proper hazardous waste management. The authors focus on two questions: What were the major steps in the evolution of a successful hazardous waste program? What role, if any, did the public sector play in financing modern treatment and disposal facilities? Based on interviews and secondary sources, this report includes country-specific profiles that detail the steps in the evolution of each country‘s hazardous waste management program and describe the role of the public sector in facility financing.

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Routledge

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1134271972

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9781134271979

Easy Indonesian

Learn to Speak Indonesian Quickly (Downloadable Audio Included)

By: Thomas G. Oey, Ph.D.,Katherine Davidsen

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Easy Indonesian

Learn to Speak Indonesian Quickly (Downloadable Audio Included)

By: Thomas G. Oey, Ph.D.,Katherine Davidsen

This practical and concise self-study guide will help you learn Indonesian in a very short time Indonesia is the hot new Asian destination, a country where lively conversation, good humor and warm human interaction are integral parts of daily life. In addition, the Indonesian language is widely considered to be one of the easiest Asian languages for Westerners to learn. Easy Indonesian brings Indonesian language and culture alive, giving you all the basics you need to start speaking Indonesian immediately. The opening chapters introduce the essentials of pronunciation and sentence construction, with each subsequent chapter moving you forward in gradually building up your knowledge for specific situations and activities, such as making new acquaintances, going shopping, traveling around, and much more. Every chapter contains helpful information on the customs and culture of this warm and friendly country, so that you'll soon be able to read Indonesian, speak Indonesian and talk about everything from the weather to your job and home and family with ease. An extensive glossary at the back and a section on verb and noun forms are included to help you build your vocabulary and understand the different forms that Indonesian words take. The accompanying downloadable audio gives you a solid foundation in correct pronunciation and helps you get a feel for the spoken language, so you'll be able to understand what people are saying--and participate in conversations!

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462913717

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A Group of Their Own

College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940

By: Katherine H. Adams

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A Group of Their Own

College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940

By: Katherine H. Adams

A Group of Their Own is the fascinating story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose. This unprecedented group included Elizabeth Bishop, Ruby Black, Pearl Buck, Emma Bugbee, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, Mildred Gilman, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary McCarthy, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker. This group was all about firsts. These women were among the first to attend college where they took a new array of writing classes in which students worked together in a workshop environment and extended this model of collaboration to campus clubs and publications. When they left college, they continued their new working methods by initiating and joining in a variety of activities such as mentorships, clubs, community theaters, and summer writing workshops. This expanded experience enabled them to move outside the restricted definitions of women's career paths and writing projects, ultimately changing the definition of American writer and American writing.

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State University of New York Press

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0791490815

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9780791490815

Food Is Love

Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America

By: Katherine J. Parkin

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Food Is Love

Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America

By: Katherine J. Parkin

Modern advertising has changed dramatically since the early twentieth century, but when it comes to food, Katherine Parkin writes, the message has remained consistent. Advertisers have historically promoted food in distinctly gendered terms, returning repeatedly to themes that associated shopping and cooking with women. Foremost among them was that, regardless of the actual work involved, women should serve food to demonstrate love for their families. In identifying shopping and cooking as an expression of love, ads helped to both establish and reinforce the belief that kitchen work was women's work, even as women's participation in the labor force dramatically increased. Alternately flattering her skills as a homemaker and preying on her insecurities, advertisers suggested that using their products would give a woman irresistible sexual allure, a happy marriage, and healthy children. Ads also promised that by buying and making the right foods, a woman could help her family achieve social status, maintain its racial or ethnic identity, and assimilate into the American mainstream. Advertisers clung tenaciously to this paradigm throughout great upheavals in the patterns of American work, diet, and gender roles. To discover why, Food Is Love draws on thousands of ads that appeared in the most popular magazines of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including the Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Ebony, and the Saturday Evening Post. The book also cites the records of one of the nation's preeminent advertising firms, as well as the motivational research advertisers utilized to reach their customers.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204077

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9780812204070

More Than Title IX

How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation

By: Katherine Hanson,Vivian Guilfoy,Sarita Pillai

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More Than Title IX

How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation

By: Katherine Hanson,Vivian Guilfoy,Sarita Pillai

Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742566420

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9780742566422

With The Empress Dowager Of Chin

By: Katherine Augusta Carl

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With The Empress Dowager Of Chin

By: Katherine Augusta Carl

Published in the year 1986, With The Empress Dowager Of Chin is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

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Routledge

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113614434X

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Coping in Crisis

A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge

By: Katherine K.P. Young

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Coping in Crisis

A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge

By: Katherine K.P. Young

COPING IN CRISIS attempts to examine 'crisis resolution' processes in the light of the time honoured Chinese perspective that crisis 危機 is a time of danger and a time of opportunity. It presents a specific approach to crisis intervention - designed to turn the dangers, demands and deprivations inherent in crisis situations along positive lines - and provides an impetus for" growth. The Hong Kong crisis study, reported in this book, examines the nature of personal, and family, crises; over which people in Hong Kong seek help from the family service centres of the Social Welfare Department and Caritas. It also seeks to discover whether opportunities for growth and learning are present, despite the risks to which the person-in-crisis is exposed.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622090583

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Manual of Travel Medicine

By: Joseph Torresi,Sarah McGuinness,Karin Leder,Daniel O’Brien,Tilman Ruff,Mike Starr,Katherine Gibney

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Manual of Travel Medicine

By: Joseph Torresi,Sarah McGuinness,Karin Leder,Daniel O’Brien,Tilman Ruff,Mike Starr,Katherine Gibney

The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel medicine, a field that has evolved substantially in recent years. Concretely, there has been intensified monitoring of health problems among travelers, as well as extensive research efforts, which have led to the development of evidence-based approaches to the field. The book includes expert recommendations regarding e.g. immunizations, malaria prophylaxis, travelers’ diarrhea, altitude sickness, emerging infections, and non-infectious health issues encountered by travelers. It provides a practical approach to the pre-travel consultation and management of most issues that arise in medical care for travelers. In addition, it provides expert advice for high-risk travelers, e.g. those with immunosuppression, the elderly, pregnant women and young children. The text offers a user-friendly, practical handbook for healthcare practitioners during their clinical consultations, as well as nurses and pharmacists.

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Springer Nature

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9811372527

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9789811372520

Psychology in Action

By: Karen R. Huffman,Katherine Dowdell,Catherine A. Sanderson

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Psychology in Action

By: Karen R. Huffman,Katherine Dowdell,Catherine A. Sanderson

Psychology in Action, 12e is a comprehensive introductory Psychology product that fosters active learning and provides a wealth of tools that empower students to master and make connections between the key concepts. Students will leave the classroom with a solid foundation in basic psychology that will serve them in their daily lives no matter what their chosen field of study and career path.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119364639

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9781119364634

San Francisco's Nob Hill

By: Katherine Powell Cohen

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San Francisco's Nob Hill

By: Katherine Powell Cohen

More than a neighborhood, San Francisco's Nob Hill encapsulates some of the major elements of the city's history. Early European settlers' cattle grazed on the windy hill, and with the Gold Rush of 1849, it became a lookout point as ships arrived daily, bringing thousands to San Francisco. Within the next 40 years, the moguls of the Central Pacific Railroad, along with other magnates, built spectacular residences atop Nob Hill, which became a focal point of San Francisco. Today Nob Hill is home to elegant hotels, a cathedral, and a variety of residents. It remains a center of activity in a legendary city.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738581283

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Shot In The Head A Sister's Memoir, A Brother's Struggle

By: Katherine Flannery Dering

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Shot In The Head A Sister's Memoir, A Brother's Struggle

By: Katherine Flannery Dering

This true story brings to life the experiences of one large family before and after the onset of mental illness. Using a mix of narrative, photographs, emails and pictures of various cherished objects, the book takes the reader into the author's world of caring for her younger brother Paul, who suffered from schizophrenia and then lung cancer. "So powerful and emotional" Ann Cloonan, Director, Bedford Free Library, Bedford, NY

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Bridgeross Communications

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192763721X

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Tumor Suppressor Genes

By: Katherine R. Polinsky

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Tumor Suppressor Genes

By: Katherine R. Polinsky

A tumour suppressor gene is a gene that reduces the probability that a cell in a multicellular organism will turn into a tumor cell. A mutation or deletion of such a gene will increase the probability of the formation of a tumor. Unlike oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes generally follow the 'two-hit hypothesis', which implies that both alleles that code for a particular gene must be affected before an effect is manifested. This is due to the fact that if only one allele for the gene is damaged, the second can still produce the correct protein. However, there are cases where mutations in only one allele will cause an effect. A notable example is the gene that codes for p53. Tumor suppressor genes, or more precisely, the proteins for which they code, either have a dampening or repressive effect on the regulation of the cell cycle or promote apoptosis, and sometimes do both. This book presents new and important research from throughout the world.

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Nova Publishers

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1600216935

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Intellectual Property Litigation

Pretrial Practice

By: Eric M. Dobrusin,Katherine Elizabeth White

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Intellectual Property Litigation

Pretrial Practice

By: Eric M. Dobrusin,Katherine Elizabeth White

Intellectual Property Litigation: Pretrial Practice, Third Edition offers up-to-date, comprehensive case analysis and a clear framework for streamlining the procedural requirements and issues involved in resolving patent disputes. You'll find unparalleled analysis of crucial procedures and guiding case law on key phases of pretrial litigation practice including: preliminary injunction, bifurcation, discovery, summary judgment, and more. With Intellectual Property Litigation, youand’ll learn cutting-edge, evidence-based practices to establish facts, test the sufficiency of your opponentand’s case, commit your opponent to a position, and focus the issues toward your advantage. This must-have resource provides expert guidance and in-depth case analysis to pave your way through complex intellectual property litigation, including: How to use injunctive relief, bifurcation, discovery, and summary judgment to resolve disputes The best methods for protecting sensitive information from discovery Recognizing and using the claims and defenses commonly encountered in patent litigation Recent Federal Circuit and Supreme Court cases on the evolving standards for invalidating patents And much more!

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Aspen Publishers Online

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0735567832

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Opera on the Road

Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60

By: Katherine K. Preston

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Opera on the Road

Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60

By: Katherine K. Preston

Leads the reader on an operatic tour of pre-Civil War America in this cultural study of what was an almost ubiquitous art form. It covers orchestral and choral musicians as well as stars, impresarios, business methods, repertories, advertising techniques, itineraries, sizes of companies, and methods of travel." -- Publisher's description

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University of Illinois Press

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025207002X

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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

By: Katherine Baber

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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

By: Katherine Baber

Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051211

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The Rankins of Montana

Risk Takers, History Makers, American Dreamers

By: Katherine H. Adams

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The Rankins of Montana

Risk Takers, History Makers, American Dreamers

By: Katherine H. Adams

This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. John and Olive's children continued to demonstrate their parent's ambition and nerve. Their son became one of the biggest landowners in the country, one of the first personal injury lawyers, and a crusader against railroads and mining. Jeannette became the first woman in a national legislature, voted against two world wars and led marches protesting the Vietnam War. As a dean, Harriet helped develop the modern co-educational university. Edna traveled the world advocating for birth control. The Rankins faced both national adulation and condemnation for the choices they made. Their family story concerns independence and education, activism, the boundaries created by gender, religious choices, and the changing meaning of the West.

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McFarland

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1476643806

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9781476643809

Real World Instructional Design

An Iterative Approach to Designing Learning Experiences

By: Katherine Cennamo,Debby Kalk

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Real World Instructional Design

An Iterative Approach to Designing Learning Experiences

By: Katherine Cennamo,Debby Kalk

An ideal textbook for instructional designers in training, Real World Instructional Design emphasizes the collaborative, iterative nature of instructional design. Positing instructional design as a process of simultaneous rather than sequential tasks with learner-centered outcomes, this volume engages with the essential building blocks of systematically designed instruction: learner needs and characteristics, goals and objectives, instructional activities, assessments, and formative evaluations. Key features include a Designer’s Toolkit that includes tips and approaches that practitioners use in their work; vignettes and narrative case studies that illustrate the complexities and iterative nature of instructional design; and forms, templates, and questionnaires to support students in applying the chapter content. With updated examples, this streamlined second edition presents a timeless approach to instructional design.

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Routledge

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1351362259

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Awakening the Hermit Kingdom

By: Katherine H. Lee Ahn

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Awakening the Hermit Kingdom

By: Katherine H. Lee Ahn

Awakening the Hermit Kingdom: Pioneer American Women Missionaries in Korea gives a focused look at the long-ignored subject, the pioneer women missionaries to the Hermit Kingdom, as the early missionaries often called Korea. Based largely on private papers and mission reports of the missionaries, the author explores the life and work of the American women missionaries in the first quarter century of the Protestant mission in Korea. This book brings a new light to the history of Protestantism in Korea by revealing the identity and activities of the women missionaries, as well as the level of religious and social impact made by their presence and work in Korea.

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William Carey Publishing

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087808827X

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Matrix Metalloproteinases In The Central Nervous System

By: Katherine Conant,Paul E Gottschall

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Matrix Metalloproteinases In The Central Nervous System

By: Katherine Conant,Paul E Gottschall

This book presents the reader with an understanding of the role played by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the normal and diseased central nervous system (CNS). These enzymes may be important to brain development, and may also contribute to tissue destruction, which is observed with inflammatory and degenerative conditions of the brain. The book provides a background on the biology of MMPs, and on the stimuli and conditions that are linked to an increase in their production and activity. It describes the targets of MMPs, which include matrix proteins such as collagen, soluble cytokines and chemokines, and cell surface receptors. Studies implicating MMPs in neuronal process outgrowth and cell migration in CNS development are covered. The book also touches on studies suggesting that, in certain situations, dysregulated MMP activity and/or production may be critical to blood-brain barrier breakdown and neuronal damage./a

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World Scientific

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1783260289

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Essential Case Studies in Public Health

By: Katherine Hunting,Brenda Gleason

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Essential Case Studies in Public Health

By: Katherine Hunting,Brenda Gleason

Designed as a supplement to Public Health 101, this collection of 21 engaging case studies provides your students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply each of the five components of the Public Health 101 curriculum framework: the public health approach; tools of population health; disease: determinants, impacts, and interventions; healthcare and public health systems; and special areas of public health focus.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763761311

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9780763761318

Animal Motifs in Asian Art

An Illustrated Guide to Their Meanings and Aesthetics

By: Katherine M. Ball

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Animal Motifs in Asian Art

An Illustrated Guide to Their Meanings and Aesthetics

By: Katherine M. Ball

Highly readable authoritative reference, rich with sidelights from literature and legend, explains animal symbolism in art of the Far East. The 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, butterflies, elephants, and other creatures.

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Courier Corporation

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0486147304

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Corporeal Politics

Dancing East Asia

By: Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox

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Corporeal Politics

Dancing East Asia

By: Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox

In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472054554

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Advertising and Societies

Global Issues

By: Katherine Toland Frith,Barbara Mueller

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Advertising and Societies

Global Issues

By: Katherine Toland Frith,Barbara Mueller

Now in its second edition, Advertising and Societies: Global Issues provides an international perspective on the practice of advertising while examining some of the ethical and social ramifications of advertising in global societies. The book illustrates how issues such as the representation of women and minorities in ads, advertising and children, and advertising in the digital era have relevance to a wider global community. This new edition has been updated to reflect the dramatic changes impacting the field of advertising that have taken place since publication of the first edition. The growing importance of emerging markets is discussed, and new photos are included. The book provides students and scholars with a comprehensive review of the literature on advertising and society and uses practical examples from international media to document how global advertising and global consumer culture operate, making it an indispensable research tool and invaluable for classroom use.

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Peter Lang

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1433103850

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9781433103858

Potluck Paradise

Favorite Fare from Church & Community Cookbooks

By: Rae Katherine Eighmey,Debbie Miller

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Favorite Fare from Church & Community Cookbooks

By: Rae Katherine Eighmey,Debbie Miller

Here is the book that answers the age-old question: What should I bring? Foodies Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller combed through hundreds of folksy cookbooks--often spiral-bound or homemade --compiled by groups around the Midwest. Then they tested hundreds of the most popular recipes before winnowing the list to 125 of the tastiest crowd-pleasing dishes: treats such as Swedish Tea Ring, Oven Barbecue Spareribs, Blueberry Buckle, and Party Punch. Recipes are organized by course, so it's as easy as pie for the reader to find the perfect dish for the long community table. Seven 1950s menus-with-recipes for gatherings such as a Card Party and a Ladies Club Luncheon will help today's savvy host create memorable retro gatherings for friends and family. Food and entertaining lore gleaned from the cookbooks and the authors' recollections of growing up in the Fabulous Fifties transport readers back to a time when shared food and hospitality reigned supreme. Rae Katherine Eighmey is a food historian who has written several books of recipes and lore, including Hearts and Homes and A Prairie Kitchen (MHS Press). Debbie Miller is a historian and aficionado of community cookbooks who works as a reference specialist at the Minnesota Historical Society. Dave Wood is the author of numerous books about midwestern culture.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873516257

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9780873516259

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