Kirk Forbes's Books

Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy

By: Jan Kirk Carney

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Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy

By: Jan Kirk Carney

From the obesity epidemic to antibiotic resistance, firearm injuries, and health disparities, many health issues surface to the public domain in the form of controversies. In this innovative new text, author Jan Kirk Carney engages the reader in understanding public health and health policy through a study of current controversies. Many issues connect public health and health care, an important perspective given the Affordable Care Act and health system changes at the state level. To get to the root of the controversy—and gain insight as to what must be done to advance the health issue—learners must grasp the breadth and scope of the issue and evidence-base for prevention, dissect root causes and barriers, then propose strategies for progress. Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy uses a structured format to carefully examine each controversy, with background, evidence-base, discussion questions, and additional learning resources. Some of the topics covered include the acceptance of obesity as a cultural norm, e-cigarettes, binge drinking on college campuses, prescription drug abuse, antibiotic resistance, gun control, preventing concussions, climate change, and more.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284107361

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Data Visualization: Representing Information on Modern Web

By: Andy Kirk,Simon Timms,Ǯdrew Rininsland,Swizec Teller

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Data Visualization: Representing Information on Modern Web

By: Andy Kirk,Simon Timms,Ǯdrew Rininsland,Swizec Teller

Unleash the power of data by creating interactive, engaging, and compelling visualizations for the web About This Book Get a portable, versatile, and flexible data visualization design approach that will help you navigate the complex path towards success Get thorough explanation of the many visual variables and visualization taxonomy to provide you with a menu of creative options A comprehensive and contemporary introduction to data-driven visualization design and the most effective approaches to designing impact-maximizing and cognition-amplifying visualizations Who This Book Is For This course is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others and it will be handy for the web developers or data scientists who want to create interactive visualizations for the web. Prior knowledge of developing web applications is required. You should have a working knowledge of both JavaScript and HTML. What You Will Learn Harness the power of D3 by building interactive and real-time data-driven web visualizations Find out how to use JavaScript to create compelling visualizations of social data Identify the purpose of your visualization and your project's parameters to determine overriding design considerations across your project's execution Apply critical thinking to visualization design and get intimate with your dataset to identify its potential visual characteristics Explore the various features of HTML5 to design creative visualizations Discover what data is available on Stack Overflow, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ Gain a solid understanding of the common D3 development idioms Find out how to write basic D3 code for server using Node.js In Detail Do you want to create more attractive charts? Or do you have huge data sets and need to unearth the key insights in a visual manner? Data visualization is the representation and presentation of data, using proven design techniques to bring alive the patterns, stories, and key insights that are locked away. This learning path is divided into three modules. The first module will equip you with the key techniques required to overcome contemporary data visualization challenges. After getting familiar with key concepts of data visualization, it's time to incorporate it with various technologies. In the second module, Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, it teaches you how to leverage HTML5 techniques through JavaScript to build visualizations. It also clears up how the often complicated OAuth protocol works to help you unlock a universe of social media data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Once you are familiar with the concepts of incorporating data visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, third module, Learning d3.js Data Visualization, will lead you to D3, which has emerged as one of the leading platforms to develop beautiful, interactive visualizations over the web. This module provides a strong foundation in designing compelling web visualizations with D3.js. By the end of this course, you will have unlocked the mystery behind successful data visualizations. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Data Visualization: a successful design process by Andy Kirk Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript by Simon Timms Learning d3.js Data Visualization, Second Edition by Ǯdrew Rininsland and Swizec Teller Style and approach This course includes all the resources that will help you jump into creating interactive and engaging visualizations for the web. Through this comprehensive course, you'll learn how to create engaging visualizations for the web to represent your data from start to finish!

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1787125076

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Demystifying AI for the Enterprise

A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation

By: Prashant Natarajan,Bob Rogers,Edward Dixon,Jonas Christensen,Kirk Borne,Leland Wilkinson,Shantha Mohan

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Demystifying AI for the Enterprise

A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation

By: Prashant Natarajan,Bob Rogers,Edward Dixon,Jonas Christensen,Kirk Borne,Leland Wilkinson,Shantha Mohan

Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms –– machine learning, chatbots, robots, agents, etc. –– is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors, academic research projects, and startups. However, we posit that the greatest promise and potential for AI lies in the enterprise with its applications touching all organizational facets. With increasing business process and workflow maturity, coupled with recent trends in cloud computing, datafication, IoT, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics, there is an understanding that the challenges of tomorrow cannot be solely addressed by today’s people, processes, and products. There is still considerable mystery, hype, and fear about AI in today’s world. A considerable amount of current discourse focuses on a dystopian future that could adversely affect humanity. Such opinions, with understandable fear of the unknown, don’t consider the history of human innovation, the current state of business and technology, or the primarily augmentative nature of tomorrow’s AI. This book demystifies AI for the enterprise. It takes readers from the basics (definitions, state-of-the-art, etc.) to a multi-industry journey, and concludes with expert advice on everything an organization must do to succeed. Along the way, we debunk myths, provide practical pointers, and include best practices with applicable vignettes. AI brings to enterprise the capabilities that promise new ways by which professionals can address both mundane and interesting challenges more efficiently, effectively, and collaboratively (with humans). The opportunity for tomorrow’s enterprise is to augment existing teams and resources with the power of AI in order to gain competitive advantage, discover new business models, establish or optimize new revenues, and achieve better customer and user satisfaction.

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CRC Press

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1351032933

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Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith

An Evangelism Made Easy

By: Ray Comfort,Kirk Cameron

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Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith

An Evangelism Made Easy

By: Ray Comfort,Kirk Cameron

The co - hosts of The Way of the Master TV series and radio program, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort; offer this simple and flexible curriculum for churches and small groups who want to obey the Bible's command to tell others about Jesus. Kirk and Ray guide participants step by step through their straightforward method of evangelism, made popular through their award winning show. Those who complete the course will have every tool they need to overcome their fear and talk about their faith with friends, neighbors, coworkers and even strangers! Four complete lessons can be presented in a one - day crash course or offered in four weekly sessions.

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1459625617

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Reimagining Global Philanthropy

The Community Bank Model of Social Development

By: Kirk Bowman,Jon Wilcox

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Reimagining Global Philanthropy

The Community Bank Model of Social Development

By: Kirk Bowman,Jon Wilcox

Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate. Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative. However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping others, and too many projects cause more harm than good. Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a conservative banker and a progressive professor to find a better way forward. Kirk S. Bowman and Jon R. Wilcox explain the boom in the global compassion industry, revealing the incentives that produce inefficient practices and poor outcomes. Instead of supporting start-up projects with long-shot hopes for success, they argue, we can dramatically improve results by empowering local leaders. Applying lessons from the success of community banks, Bowman and Wilcox develop and implement a new model that significantly raises philanthropic efficacy. Their straightforward and rigorously tested approach calls for community members to take the lead while outside partners play a supporting role. Bowman and Wilcox recount how they tested the model in Brazil, demonstrating the value of giving people in marginalized communities the opportunity to innovate. In a time of widespread social reckoning, this book shows how global philanthropy can confront its blind spots and failures in order to achieve truly transformative outcomes. Readers can access five of the documentary films discussed in the book on a companion website. In addition to the films, chapter discussion questions and other supplemental materials are also available at the site.

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Columbia University Press

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0231553439

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9780231553438

The Politics of India Under Modi

An Introduction to India's Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy

By: Vikash Yadav,Jason A. Kirk

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The Politics of India Under Modi

An Introduction to India's Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy

By: Vikash Yadav,Jason A. Kirk

Since the right-wing, Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power at the national level in 2014, and with its consolidation of power in the 2019 general election, India has witnessed a significant realignment of its national politics and a shift toward the right of the political spectrum. The Politics of India under Modi: An Introduction to India's Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy by Vikash Yadav and Jason A. Kirk provides a detailed overview of India's political trends, economic prospects, and international relations in the twenty-first century. The book grew out of questions and concerns expressed by students about India's political economy in the contemporary moment--and responds to this pedagogical need. In five chapters, the authors seek to answer these questions through explorations of India's democracy and elections, emerging market economy, and complex foreign policy. Chapter one provides a political overview, including a brief biography of Narendra Modi. Chapter two outlines India's subnational politics, with detailed case studies of Bihar, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh. Chapter three tackles the economy, with a focus on demographics, poverty, employment, growth, and lastly, corruption. Chapters four and five discuss India's economic and foreign policy specifically under Modi, covering topics like the economic boom, India-China relations, the "Act East" policy, and military modernization. The Politics of India under Modi is designed as a supplement and update for existing syllabi that trace India's political economy from the birth of the republic to the quest for economic liberalization and great power status. Undergraduates and scholars interested in India's foreign policy and political reform will find value in this timely book.

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University of Michigan Press

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1643150537

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Time for a Turning Point

Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

By: Charlie Kirk,Brent Hamachek

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Time for a Turning Point

Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

By: Charlie Kirk,Brent Hamachek

From the bestselling author of The MAGA Doctrine! Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shares a vision for America’s future embracing first principles, free markets, and small government. Kirk provides a roadmap on how to return to a free America, with an emphasis on reaching our youth and engaging them in the process. During the 2016 Presidential election cycle, it has become clear that there is growing frustration on the part of many Americans with the general direction of the nation. There has been an abandonment of the principles of free markets and limited government upon which America was founded. We didn't get to this point over just the last eight years and it’s going to take more than one or two election cycles to reverse it. In Time for a Turning Point Charlie Kirk shows exactly what needs to be done and how it needs to be done to restore America's freedom. This is a book of hope, not despair—book of action, not condolences.

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Simon and Schuster

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1682612473

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Lessons from Latin America

Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development

By: Kirk Bowman,Felipe Arocena

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Lessons from Latin America

Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development

By: Kirk Bowman,Felipe Arocena

Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of both the history of "looking down" at Latin America and the political, economic, and cultural "lessons" (including successes, failures, and unintended consequences) that should inform important policy discussions around the world.

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1442605510

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Taken by Speed

Fallen Heroes of Motor Sport and Their Legacies

By: Connie Ann Kirk

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Taken by Speed

Fallen Heroes of Motor Sport and Their Legacies

By: Connie Ann Kirk

The number of athletes who have died competing in the sport of motor racing, including amateurs and professionals around the world, stretches into the thousands. Despite the danger, drivers continue to compete day in and day out for the thrill and joy of the race. In Taken by Speed: Fallen Heroes of Motor Sport and Their Legacies, Connie Ann Kirk pays tribute to professional racing drivers who died while competing in the sport they loved. Covering tragedies from 1955 to the present, Kirk carefully reflects on the legacies of the racers and the impact of the tragic events, including on safety regulations, innovations, and on society as a whole. Drivers and incidents covered in this book include the 24 Heures du Mans race of 1955 where over 80 people died; the 1964 crash at the Indianapolis 500 that stopped the race for the first time in history; and the tragic losses of racers Ayrton Senna, Dale Earnhardt, Alberto Ascari, Jim Clark, Bruce McLaren, Gilles Villeneuve, Francois Cevert, Dan Wheldon, Justin Wilson, and Jules Bianchi. Taken by Speed features exclusive interviews with legends of motor sport—Mario Andretti, Derek Bell, Sir Stirling Moss, Bobby Rahal, Brian Redman, and Sir Jackie Stewart—who raced in the sport’s most dangerous era. It also includes timelines of safety improvements in the sport and key moments in motor sport history. Using motor sports as its lens, this book explores moving stories of what it means to pursue a life’s passion with unwavering drive, commitment, and courage.

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1442277629

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Thinking Inside the Box

The 12 Timeless Rules for Managing a Successful Business

By: Kirk Cheyfitz

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Thinking Inside the Box

The 12 Timeless Rules for Managing a Successful Business

By: Kirk Cheyfitz

A guide to avoiding economic turbulence urges managers to return to core business fundamentals, identifying twelve principles for building, expanding, and maintaining a healthy company.

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0743235754

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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves

Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

By: Kirk Savage

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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves

Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

By: Kirk Savage

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.

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Princeton University Press

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0691184526

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9780691184524

Near Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy

By: Taryl Leaton Kirk

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Near Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy

By: Taryl Leaton Kirk

Low beam energies have been implemented in a simplified SEM technique; where the electron source, remote in standard SEMs, is brought within tens of nanometers to the object. This method, known as the "near field emission scanning electron microscopy" (NFESEM), is capable of imaging conducting surfaces with nanometer resolution using beam energies less than 60 eV. The terminology "near" refers to the locality of the field-emitted electron source; which is to distinguish itself from the "remote" field emission gun sources used in standard SEMs. The main aim of this instrument is the realization of some kind of surface topography image due to the exposure of a primary beam of electrons, as it is rastered along the sample surface. This will be achieved by two distinct (although related) experiments: measuring the field emission (FE) current while scanning and detecting the secondary electrons (SE)s generated when the electron beam impinges on the surface. Here, the FE properties, in accordance with the tip-sample separation, will be emphasized, since the variations in SE yield are directly proportional to the impinging primary electron beam. We observe a direct correlation between the image contrast and the FE current, where the image is enhanced with increasing FE current. Moreover, simple electrostatic measurements can be used to define the performance of the device.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832525181

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9783832525187

Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent

By: D. Kirk

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Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent

By: D. Kirk

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, in ferment over historic US bases; Jeju embroiled over a new South Korean naval base. The people of Okinawa and Jeju share a common fear of bloody conflict again erupting around them and suspect their governments would sacrifice their interests in a much larger war in a fight for regional control between the US, Japan, and China.

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Springer

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113737909X

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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier

The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson

By: Alice Kirk Grierson

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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier

The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson

By: Alice Kirk Grierson

Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803279299

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9780803279292

The Bravest You

Five Steps to Fight Your Biggest Fears, Find Your Passion, and Unlock Your Extraordinary Life

By: Adam Kirk Smith

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The Bravest You

Five Steps to Fight Your Biggest Fears, Find Your Passion, and Unlock Your Extraordinary Life

By: Adam Kirk Smith

A Breakthrough Bravery System to Confront Your Greatest Fears, Find Your Purpose, and Create the Successful Life You Want Feeling directionless, or perhaps too intimidated to make a necessary change in your life? Tired of letting your fears keep you from achieving your goals or becoming healthier, happier, or more successful? If so, this book is for you. Popular life coach and consultant Adam Smith has created a powerful method to help you harness your inner passion and drive to overcome whatever is holding you back. The Bravest You presents the five-step Bravery Process™, an easy and highly effective way to master our biggest fears. Offering inspiring and helpful advice, Smith guides you through each of stage of the process—Complacency, Inspiration, Fear, Passion, Bravery—showing how to identify goals and passions and apply the Bravery Process to any circumstance. These proven techniques will empower you to conquer your doubts once and for all and become your bravest self. Covering the ten most common fears all successful people face, from the fears of inadequacy and being judged, to rejection, failure, loss of control, and loneliness, The Bravest You arms you with the necessary tools to tackle any fear-inducing situation head-on and lead the braver, happier, and more successful life you’ve always imagined.

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Penguin

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1101993472

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9781101993477

The Provider's Guide to Leveraging Obamacare

To Help You Survive And Even Prosper Through This New Healthcare Reform

By: Shaun Kirk, MHS, PT, MTC

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The Provider's Guide to Leveraging Obamacare

To Help You Survive And Even Prosper Through This New Healthcare Reform

By: Shaun Kirk, MHS, PT, MTC

The Provider's Guide to Leveraging Obamacare With all of the news reports, continued political debates, threats of lawsuits and numerous "expert" opinions about Obamacare, many healthcare providers believe that they may have to sell their practices early or bite the bullet and start all over. · Patients are going to have to pay more out of their own pockets because of higher insurance premiums and the much higher deductibles offered at the Healthcare Exchanges so it may be much harder to keep patients on their schedules to complete their full treatment programs. Reimbursements were already going down before this healthcare reform took hold so most practitioners expected to get even less return for treatments in the future and also realize there will be much more paperwork to collect it. The Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Obamacare will open your eyes regarding the opportunities possible and through even this healthcare reform. This new book explains Obamacare in simple, but detailed language. Non-political and completely unbiased, the book provides healthcare practitioners with strategic options and specific steps that can be easily and readily incorporated into their existing operation to not only survive Obamacare, but continue to provide the best level of treatment and care to each of their patients and even expand their practice. A "must read" for every Healthcare Provider.

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HealthNet Publishing

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0692290524

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9780692290521

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece

By: Kirk Ormand

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The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece

By: Kirk Ormand

This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epics. Through literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue reflects political and social tensions in the archaic period regarding the production of elite status. In particular, Ormand argues that the Catalogue reacts against the 'middling ideology' that came to the fore during the archaic period in Greece, championing traditional aristocratic modes of status. Ormand maintains that the poem's presentation of the end of the heroic age is a reflection of a declining emphasis on nobility of birth in the structures of authority in the emerging sixth century polis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139952412

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9781139952415

African American Tea Party Supporters

Explaining a Political Paradox

By: Kirk A. Johnson

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African American Tea Party Supporters

Explaining a Political Paradox

By: Kirk A. Johnson

To their critics who celebrated the election of America’s first African American president, black Tea Party supporters are self-loathing race traitors. In African American Tea Party Supporters: Explaining A Political Paradox, Kirk A. Johnson interviews thirty elected officials, radio personalities, military veterans, and other black Tea Partyers to reveal a group with deep regard for African Americans—and even for Barack Obama—but also divergent perspectives on race, religion, government, and Tea Party racism. Johnson argues when viewed in the context of their family structures and life experiences, black Tea Partyers’ unusual political choices are knowable, understandable, and largely rational.

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1498590896

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Richard Cumberland and Natural Law

Secularisation of Thought in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Linda Kirk

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Richard Cumberland and Natural Law

Secularisation of Thought in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Linda Kirk

No study in the history of seventeenth century thought is completed without some mention of Richard Cumberland, one of the many writers who aimed to refute Hobbes. Cumberland remains on of the few important writers of his century on whom, until now, nothing of substance has been written In the past Cumberland has been somewhat unfairly overshadowed by his fellow anti-Hobbists. His one important work, De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in Latin in 1672 and has never been satisfactorily translated into English. That he published so little in such a prolific age was unusual, but his influence through his work continued to be felt well into the nineteenth century. It is now clear that he went further than both Grotius and Pufendorf in devising a system which prefigured classical utilitarianism, propounding a cosmology based upon the reconciliation of charity and self-interest. In this study, Cumberland is placed for the first time, in his intellectual and historical setting. The author describes Cumberland's life, his work as Bishop of Peterborough, his book and above all his position in the development of natural law theory.

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022790656X

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9780227906569

Medical Stigmata

Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation

By: Kirk A. Johnson

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Medical Stigmata

Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation

By: Kirk A. Johnson

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a “starter group” led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil’s approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church’s response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

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Springer

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9811329923

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9789811329920

Winthrop Rockefeller

From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956

By: John A. Kirk

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Winthrop Rockefeller

From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956

By: John A. Kirk

Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. Kirk pursues clues threaded throughout Rockefeller’s life, tracing his family background, childhood, and education; his rise in the oil industry from roustabout to junior executive; his military service in the Pacific during World War II, including his involvement in the battles of Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa; his postwar work in race relations, health, education, and philanthropy; his marriage to and divorce from Barbara “Bobo” Sears; and the birth of his only child, future Arkansas lieutenant governor Win Paul Rockefeller. This careful examination of Winthrop Rockefeller’s first forty-four years casts a powerful new light on his relationship with his adopted state, where his legacy continues to be felt more than half a century after his governorship.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261956

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9781682261958

Data Visualisation

A Handbook for Data Driven Design

By: Andy Kirk

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Data Visualisation

A Handbook for Data Driven Design

By: Andy Kirk

One of the "six best books for data geeks" - Financial Times With over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, this new edition has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations. Combining ‘how to think’ instruction with a ‘how to produce’ mentality, this book takes readers step-by-step through analysing, designing, and curating information into useful, impactful tools of communication. With this book and its extensive collection of online support, readers can: Decide what visualisations work best for their data and their audience using the chart gallery See data visualisation in action and learn the tools to try it themselves Follow online checklists, tutorials, and exercises to build skills and confidence Get advice from the UK’s leading data visualisation trainer on everything from getting started to honing the craft.

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1526482886

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9781526482884

Intellectual Capital

Measuring the Immeasurable?

By: Anthony Wall,Robert Kirk,Gary Martin

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Intellectual Capital

Measuring the Immeasurable?

By: Anthony Wall,Robert Kirk,Gary Martin

Intellectual Capital investigates how companies throughout Ireland are measuring their intellectual capital assets and how their efforts compare to those of the leading exponents of intellectual capital. This report: * includes a survey of twenty-eight Irish companies * highlights the importance of intellectual capital within the new economy * defines the role of the management accountant in the area of intellectual capital The authors conclude there is a recognition of intellectual capital and its measurement in Irish companies, but acknowledge the masurement and practices appear to be taking place in isolation rather than forming part of an overall intellectual capital management strategy.* includes a survey of twenty-eight Irish companies * highlights the importance of intellectual capital within the new economy * defines the role of the management accountant in the area of intellectual capital

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Elsevier

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0080522106

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9780080522104

Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland

By: John Kirk

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Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland

By: John Kirk

This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.

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Routledge

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1317320646

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9781317320647

Flying for the Air Service

The Hughes Brothers in World War I

By: David Kirk Vaughan

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Flying for the Air Service

The Hughes Brothers in World War I

By: David Kirk Vaughan

Draws on letters and other sources to trace the experience of Bostonians George and Gerard Hughes as they progressed from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots in the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. George was sent to France where he flew observation planes over the front lines. Gerard spent the war in Texas as an instructor, but joined his brother in France as the war ended. About a dozen photographs are included, and short sketches of people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Popular Press

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0879727624

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9780879727628

Rising Star

The Meaning of Nikki Haley, Trump’s Unlikely Ambassador

By: Jason A. Kirk

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Rising Star

The Meaning of Nikki Haley, Trump’s Unlikely Ambassador

By: Jason A. Kirk

Nikki Haley has been an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move from the national spotlight to the global stage. In Rising Star, political scientist Jason A. Kirk analyzes her ascendance in the Republican Party, from her governorship of South Carolina—during which she faced extraordinary challenges in a state reckoning with tragedy, race, and its own history—to her elevated profile as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, where, as the daughter of immigrants and a woman of color, she became the face of his America First policy to the world. In considering a wide range of perspectives, Kirk illuminates how the combination of Haley’s political talents and her identity as an Indian American, Christian, southern woman has made her an unlikely bridge between the Trump years and the GOP’s embattled path forward.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610757564

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9781610757560

Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America

A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory

By: Harold W. Borns, Jr.,Kirk Allen Maasch

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Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America

A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory

By: Harold W. Borns, Jr.,Kirk Allen Maasch

John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He published these very critical field observations and inferences in numerous articles in local newspapers and magazines, and in the American Journal of Science in 1864. His work put him on the “team” of Benjamin Silliman, James D. Dana and Louis Agassiz as an advocate for glaciation as the regional land shaping force opposed to that of the Biblical Deluge, a major scientific conflict of the day both in North America and Europe. He remained a shadowy player, in the background, but clearly contributed critical observations to the argument through personal interactions with Agassiz and other prominent naturalists. They incorporated DeLaski’s observations into their own presentations, often without giving him credit. John DeLaski’s summary work, a 400 page handwritten manuscript for the book, “The Ancient Great Glacier of North America”, was dated 1869. He died in 1874 and the book was not published. The historic significance of DeLaski’s unpublished book is based upon its startling contribution to one of the major scientific questions of the day of whether the surficial geology of northern U.S. and Canada was caused by the actions of the Biblical Flood or by continental glaciation. If published, this would have been the first book on this continent, at least, to present a holistic discussion of the controversy in which he presented his critical observations of the surficial geology in Maine, southern New England and New Brunswick, Canada and concluded that these depositional and erosional features must be of glacial origin. DeLaski then incorporated other evidence into the book for glaciation reported by others from the region during a decade or two, and from the mid and far west and Canada to advocate that the entire region was covered by an ice sheet that was at least 5,000 feet and probably much thicker over interior northern U.S. and Canada and which terminated along a glacial margin which extended from southern new England as far westward along the courses of the Ohio, and Missouri Rivers. All this was done while most “naturalists” still advocated the Biblical Flood to explain the major components of the surficial geology in North America and abroad. DeLaski’s book containing his critical observations of clearly so many landscape features of glacial origin, if published would have been a pivotal document that would have strongly supported those arguing for glaciations in the glaciations vs. flood international argument.

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Springer

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3319132008

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9783319132006

Korean Dynasty

Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung

By: Donald Kirk

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Korean Dynasty

Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung

By: Donald Kirk

This study focuses on a single Korean "chaebol", the business conglomerate which dominates the Korean economy. Hyundai, the largest chaebol, is examined in the context of Korean history, ancient and modern, and the Confucian value system that permeates all Korean life.

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Routledge

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131548319X

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9781315483191

Love, Kristen

One Young Woman’S Courageous Battle Against Cancer

By: Kirk Forbes

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Love, Kristen

One Young Woman’S Courageous Battle Against Cancer

By: Kirk Forbes

Kristen Forbes had just opened a new, exciting chapter in her life fresh out of college, a promising career and then advanced cancer. Her father and author of her story documents his daughters uncommon bravery. She never lost her faith, her sense of humor or the will to fight. Both of them have become activists to share her story to help the world eradicate cancer. Kristens own journal entries provided the framework to tell her story. Walk along with Kristen now and experience her final year and marvel at all the miracles that happened along the way. A portion of the proceeds for this book will go to fight HPV and cervical cancer.

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iUniverse

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1462083943

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9781462083947

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