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The Battle for the Court

Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy

By: Lawrence Baum,David Klein,Matthew J. Streb

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The Battle for the Court

Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy

By: Lawrence Baum,David Klein,Matthew J. Streb

Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary concerns is interest group involvement in elections to state supreme courts, which they see as having negative effects on both the courts themselves and public perceptions of these judicial bodies. In The Battle for the Court, Lawrence Baum, David Klein, and Matthew Streb present a systematic investigation into the effects of interest group involvement in the election of judges. Focusing on personal-injury law, the issue that has played the most substantial role in spurring interest group activity in judicial elections, the authors detail how interest groups mobilize in response to unfavorable rulings by state supreme courts, how their efforts influence the outcomes of supreme court elections, and how those outcomes in turn effectively reshape public policies. The authors employ several decades’ worth of new data on campaign activity, voter behavior, and judicial policy-making in one particularly colorful, important, and representative state—Ohio—to explore these connections among interest groups, elections, and judicial policy in a way that has not been possible until now.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813940354

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The Clinician’s Vaccine Safety Resource Guide

Optimizing Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Across the Lifespan

By: Matthew Z. Dudley,Daniel A. Salmon,Neal A. Halsey,Walter A. Orenstein,Rupali J. Limaye,Sean T. O'Leary,Saad B. Omer

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The Clinician’s Vaccine Safety Resource Guide

Optimizing Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Across the Lifespan

By: Matthew Z. Dudley,Daniel A. Salmon,Neal A. Halsey,Walter A. Orenstein,Rupali J. Limaye,Sean T. O'Leary,Saad B. Omer

This book provides clinicians and their staff with essential information on the vaccines that are recommended and not recommended for their patients, the diseases these vaccines prevent, and a broad range of potential vaccine safety issues that may be brought up by their patients. Each topic, from specific vaccines to safety concerns, is covered succinctly, based upon systematic reviews of the scientific literature, with talking points to be used with patients. The organization of the information makes it easy to reference specific topics and quickly find pertinent information, with the most practical details (such as recommendations and causality conclusions) highlighted at the very beginning of the respective sections. There are also sections outlining the vaccine safety system and evidence-based strategies for how to talk with patients about vaccines. This book aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical vaccine discussions with patients, leading to more informed patients and timely vaccination. This is an ideal resource for all clinicians administering vaccines and their healthcare teams.

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3319946943

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How College Affects Students

21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works

By: Matthew J. Mayhew,Alyssa N. Rockenbach,Nicholas A. Bowman,Tricia A. D. Seifert,Gregory C. Wolniak

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How College Affects Students

21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works

By: Matthew J. Mayhew,Alyssa N. Rockenbach,Nicholas A. Bowman,Tricia A. D. Seifert,Gregory C. Wolniak

The bestselling analysis of higher education's impact, updated with the latest data How College Affects Students synthesizes over 1,800 individual research investigations to provide a deeper understanding of how the undergraduate experience affects student populations. Volume 3 contains the findings accumulated between 2002 and 2013, covering diverse aspects of college impact, including cognitive and moral development, attitudes and values, psychosocial change, educational attainment, and the economic, career, and quality of life outcomes after college. Each chapter compares current findings with those of Volumes 1 and 2 (covering 1967 to 2001) and highlights the extent of agreement and disagreement in research findings over the past 45 years. The structure of each chapter allows readers to understand if and how college works and, of equal importance, for whom does it work. This book is an invaluable resource for administrators, faculty, policymakers, and student affairs practitioners, and provides key insight into the impact of their work. Higher education is under more intense scrutiny than ever before, and understanding its impact on students is critical for shaping the way forward. This book distills important research on a broad array of topics to provide a cohesive picture of student experiences and outcomes by: Reviewing a decade's worth of research; Comparing current findings with those of past decades; Examining a multifaceted analysis of higher education's impact; and Informing policy and practice with empirical evidence Amidst the current introspection and skepticism surrounding higher education, there is a massive body of research that must be synthesized to enhance understanding of college's effects. How College Affects Students compiles, organizes, and distills this information in one place, and makes it available to research and practitioner audiences; Volume 3 provides insight on the past decade, with the expert analysis characteristic of this seminal work.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119101972

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Legendary Locals of Dover

By: Matthew S. Lautzenheiser

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Legendary Locals of Dover

By: Matthew S. Lautzenheiser

In 1807, Dover's founders, Christian Deardorff and Jesse Slingluff, carved their dream out of Ohio's rugged wilderness. Their choice of location on the Tuscarawas River would prove wise as local industry benefited from the proximity to a water source. Progress was slow at first, but the advent of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1827 and the steel industry, helped the small town on the river grow into a thriving city. Over time, the city developed its own niche with an opera house, community theater, great museums, and wonderful schools. Out of this uniquely American setting came a cast of interesting and enterprising characters. These include industrialist Jeremiah Reeves, Rear Adm. Herald Stout, Broadway actors Elliot and J.C. Nugent, and Pixar Animation Studios writer and director Bob Peterson. Inspired, yet not defined by their small-town roots, the men and women chronicled in this book represent true Americana and the American dream realized.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100994

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Coastside Detectives

Foundations

By: Matthew F. O’Malley

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Coastside Detectives

Foundations

By: Matthew F. O’Malley

Following the fiery attacks that decimated the offices and homes of the Coastside Detectives, Mike Mason finds himself in the unusual positon of being on unsteady ground. Searching for a place to call home and for a purpose in life while struggling with his own paranoia, Mike Mason is lured back onto the streets of San Francisco where he explores new income opportunities as detective Marilyn Jackson pieces together a fresh clue to an old crime. Investigations into missing persons unexpectedly point to Mike’s nemesis while a call from an old friend sends Mike onto a high seas chase that ends in gunfire and his interrogation by government officials. In Coastside Detectives: Foundations, Mike Mason is hunted by government agencies as he chases his nemesis and the groundwork is set for a new level of global terror. This is the fifth book in the Coastside Detectives series.

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172832209X

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Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

By: Matthew Hodes,Susan Shur-Fen Gau,Petrus J. De Vries

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Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

By: Matthew Hodes,Susan Shur-Fen Gau,Petrus J. De Vries

Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, along with the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services can be developed and shaped to address individual differences amongst children. Topics cover the influence of economic adversities and gender differences on child development and life course, as well as the range of risk and protective factors associated with the onset and persistence of problems, including sections on anxiety disorders in infants, bipolar disorder, and tics and Tourette's. Additional sections focus on the potential for individualizing treatments as illustrated by pharmacogenomics, with another highlighting ways in which services can be adapted for specific environments, such as the needs of refugee children and systems of service delivery that can be enhanced by the use of telemedicine. - Emphasizes the social and environmental influences on child and adolescent mental health - Focuses on early developmental and infancy processes - Addresses the training of child and adolescent psychiatrists across Europe - Covers a range of illustrative psychiatric disorders and problems - Forwards a goal of producing a mental health workforce with internationally recognized competencies

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0128153113

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A Handbook for Genealogy United States Edition

By: Matthew C. F. Wander

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A Handbook for Genealogy United States Edition

By: Matthew C. F. Wander

The Handbook for Genealogists provides genealogists at every level with the tools they need to find they ancestors, including: 1.A complete gazetteer of cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and CDPs (census designated places) in the United States. 2.A timeline of historical events to provide context for the times in which your ancestors lived. 3.Demographic tables, including rates of immigrant return. 4.Full color maps of population densities, railroads, shipping routes, tribal lands, voting detracts, and more. 5.Dates for when states took over collecting vital records from churches. 6.Tables that help the genealogist determine maternal and paternal ages based on the ages of their children. 7.Complete origin information for every county in the United States. Genealogy isn't just the search for your ancestors, it's family history. The Handbook for Genealogy will provide you with the tools to write your family's story.

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Lulu.com

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The Annals of West Coker

By: Matthew Nathan

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The Annals of West Coker

By: Matthew Nathan

Sir Matthew Nathan's account of the history of West Coker was originally published in 1957.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521057922

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The Krebiozen Hoax

How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine

By: Matthew C. Ehrlich

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The Krebiozen Hoax

How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine

By: Matthew C. Ehrlich

The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice president and a famed physiologist dubbed “the conscience of U.S. science,” wholeheartedly embraced Krebiozen. Ivy’s impeccable credentials and reputation made the treatment seem like another midcentury medical miracle. But after years of controversy, the improbable saga ended with Krebiozen proved a sham, its inventor fleeing the country, and Ivy’s reputation and legacy in ruins. Matthew C. Ehrlich’s history of Krebiozen tells a quintessential story of quackery. Though most experts dismissed the treatment, it found passionate public support not only among cancer patients but also people in good health. The treatment’s rise and fall took place against the backdrop of America’s never-ending suspicion of educational, scientific, and medical expertise. In addition, Ehrlich examines why people readily believe misinformation and struggle to maintain hope in the face of grave threats to well-being. A dramatic account of fraud and misplaced trust, The Krebiozen Hoax shines a light on a forgotten medical scandal and its all-too-familiar relevance in the twenty-first century.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252047192

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A Geography of Infection

Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics

By: Matthew R. Smallman-Raynor,Andrew D. Cliff,J. Keith Ord,Peter Haggett

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A Geography of Infection

Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics

By: Matthew R. Smallman-Raynor,Andrew D. Cliff,J. Keith Ord,Peter Haggett

The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history. The 1970s saw euphoria about the defeat of one of humankind's oldest disease scourges with the global eradication of smallpox. To set against this, the 2020s are experiencing the pandemic ravages of new viral diseases, of which COVID-19 is currently the most potent. But it is only the latest of a succession of threats. A Geography of Infection explores the distinctive spatial patterns and processes by which such infectious diseases spread from place to place and can grow from local and regional epidemics into global pandemics. This resource focuses initially on the local scale of doctors' practices and small islands where epidemic outbreaks are slight in the numbers infected and in geographical extent. Such local area studies raise two questions. First, how and where do epidemic diseases emerge and second, why do more diseases appear to be emerging now? To approach such questions implies a shift in spatial gear from painting epidemics with a fine-tipped local brush to an expanded palette on which doctors' practices and small islands are replaced by regional and global populations. Simultaneously, time bands are extended backwards to the origins of civilization and forwards into the twenty-first century. It eventually leads to a consideration of global pandemics - both historical (for example, plague, cholera and influenza) and contemporary (HIV/AIDS and COVID-19) and examines the ways the spread of infection can be prevented. All chapters are extensively illustrated with full-colour diagrams and maps - some of which are in colour for the first time. Bringing together the authors' collective 150 years of experience in research, mapping, and writing on spatial aspects of medical history, this is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the spread, control, and eradication of epidemic and pandemic diseases.

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Oxford University Press

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0192664514

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Forensic Child Psychology

Working in the Courts and Clinic

By: Matthew Fanetti,William T. O'Donohue,Rachel Fondren-Happel,Kresta N. Daly

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Forensic Child Psychology

Working in the Courts and Clinic

By: Matthew Fanetti,William T. O'Donohue,Rachel Fondren-Happel,Kresta N. Daly

A guide to working effectively with children in the criminal justice system Uniquely designed to train psychology, criminology, and social work students to work with children in the criminal justice system—both in the courtroom and as clinical clients—Forensic Child Psychology presents current research and practice-based knowledge to improve the judicial and child welfare systems. Authors Matthew Fanetti, William T. O'Donohue, Rachel N. Happel, and Kresta N. Daly bring their combined expertise in child psychology, forensic interviewing, and criminal prosecution to bear on the process of obtaining accurate information from children involved in legal proceedings, preparing professionals to work with: Children who are victims of crime Children who are perpetrators of crime Children who are witnesses of crime The book also covers related topics, including mandated reporting, the structure of juvenile justice and advocacy systems, and contains sidebars, summaries, glossaries, and study questions to assist with material mastery. This is an excellent resource for students of child psychopathology in psychology, social work, nursing, and criminal justice at the graduate and late undergraduate stage of their educations.

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1118273206

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Economics of Wildfire Management

The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models

By: Michael S. Hand,Krista M. Gebert,Jingjing Liang,David E. Calkin,Matthew P. Thompson,Mo Zhou

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Economics of Wildfire Management

The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models

By: Michael S. Hand,Krista M. Gebert,Jingjing Liang,David E. Calkin,Matthew P. Thompson,Mo Zhou

In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase in fire management costs has consumed higher portions of budgets of public entities involved in wildfire management, challenging their ability to fulfill other responsibilities. Increased public scrutiny highlights the need to improve wildland fire management for cost effectiveness. This book closely examines the development of basic wildfire suppression cost models for the United States and their application to a wide range of settings from informing incident decision making to programmatic review. The book also explores emerging trends in suppression costs and introduces new spatially explicit cost models to account for characteristics of the burned landscape. Finally, it discusses how emerging risk assessment tools can be better informed by integrating management cost models with wildfire simulation models and values at risk. Economics of Wildfire Management is intended for practitioners as a reference guide. Advanced-level students and researchers will also find the book invaluable.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1493905783

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The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture

Vol. 1

By: Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

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The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture

Vol. 1

By: Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385407079

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The Harriet Lane Handbook, 23 Edition: South Asia Edition - E-Book

By: The Johns Hopkins Hospital,Keith Kleinman,Lauren McDaniel,Matthew Molloy

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The Harriet Lane Handbook, 23 Edition: South Asia Edition - E-Book

By: The Johns Hopkins Hospital,Keith Kleinman,Lauren McDaniel,Matthew Molloy

The Harriet Lane Handbook, 23 Edition: South Asia Edition - E-Book

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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8131268705

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I Love My Bike

By: Matthew Finkle,Brittain Sullivan

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I Love My Bike

By: Matthew Finkle,Brittain Sullivan

A collection of several dozen photographic portraits of (mostly) young bicycle enthusiasts and their mounts.

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1452100489

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Engineers for Change

Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

By: Matthew H. Wisnioski

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Engineers for Change

Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

By: Matthew H. Wisnioski

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society—influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford—began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature—and not from engineering's failures. “Sociotechnologists” were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

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MIT Press

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0262018268

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A Coffin of Stars

By: Matthew Ewald

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A Coffin of Stars

By: Matthew Ewald

In rural Virginia, Liam Bishop, a former Army Ranger with a troubled past, unwittingly discovers a mysterious cosmic force that begins haunting not only the woods beyond his property, but the very starlit skies above. What begins as neighborly concern over a series of bizarre occurrences, becomes an investigation into an endless nightmare in which Liam will not only have to confront the darkness within himself, but dig into the inhuman truths that lie beyond anything he could have ever imagined. As the world braces against the growing fears of extraterrestrial phenomenon, Liam Bishop will come to realize that this isn't an abduction he's facing...it's revenge. Based on the motion picture from star/producer/director Matthew Ewald (Author, Human Nature, Whispers in the Cries, The Coffin Clock)

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Black Bed Sheet Books

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1946874426

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Living on the Razor's Edge

Solution-oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-harming Adolescents

By: Matthew D. Selekman

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Living on the Razor's Edge

Solution-oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-harming Adolescents

By: Matthew D. Selekman

Employing a multifaceted, flexible approach based on solution-focused therapy, the author offers clear and sensible ideas for working with the difficult and disturbing problem of adolescent self-harm.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393703355

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Living-Learning Communities That Work

A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment

By: Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody E. Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski

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Living-Learning Communities That Work

A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment

By: Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody E. Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski

Co-published with In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education. Institutional leaders have demonstrated a commitment to providing LLCs, but they currently do so primarily with anecdotal information to guide their work. As a result, there is substantial variation in organizational structure, collaboration, academic and social environments, programmatic integration, student outcomes, and overall quality related to LLC participation. To establish a stronger, more unified basis for designing and delivering effective LLCs, the authors of Living-Learning Communities that Work collaborated on the development of a comprehensive empirical framework for achieving the integrating potential of LLCs. This framework is designed to help practitioners guide the design, delivery, and assessment of LLCs. This book thoughtfully combines research and field-tested practice to document the essential components for best practices in living learning communities and presents them as a clear blueprint – the LLC best practices model – for LLC design. Practitioners, researchers, and institutional leaders can use the book as a guide to more effectively allocate resources to create and sustain LLCs and to realize the potential of these communities to improve undergraduate education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000979660

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Island Epidemics

By: Andrew David Cliff,Peter Haggett,Matthew Smallman-Raynor

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Island Epidemics

By: Andrew David Cliff,Peter Haggett,Matthew Smallman-Raynor

In Island Epidemics, the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies with equal force to human diseases. A world picture is presented of diseases, which range from the familiar (influenza and German measles) to the exotic (kuru and tsutsugamushi), and islands which range in remoteness, from the accessible United Kingdom to the inaccessible Tristan da Cunha and Easter Island.

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0198288956

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Running for Judge

The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections

By: Matthew J Streb

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Running for Judge

The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections

By: Matthew J Streb

Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a timely, insightful analysis of judicial elections. The book ties together the current state of the judicial elections literature, and presents new evidence on a wide range of important topics, including: the history of judicial elections; an understanding of the types of judicial elections; electoral competition during races; the increasing importance of campaign financing; voting in judicial elections; the role interest groups play in supporting candidates; party organizing in supposedly non-partisan elections; judicial accountability; media coverage; and judicial reform of elections. Running for Judge is an engaging, accessible, empirical analysis of the major issues surrounding judicial elections, with contributions from prominent scholars in the fields of judicial politics, political behavior, and law. Contributors: Lawrence Baum, Chris W. Bonneau, Brent D. Boyea, Paul Brace, Rachel P. Caufield, Jennifer Segal Diascro, Brian Frederick, Deborah Goldberg, Melinda Gann Hall, Richard L. Hasen, David Klein, Brian F. Schaffner, and Matthew J. Streb.

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NYU Press

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0814786928

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Diagnostic Pathology: Soft Tissue Tumors E-Book

By: Matthew R. Lindberg

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Diagnostic Pathology: Soft Tissue Tumors E-Book

By: Matthew R. Lindberg

This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering the wide range of often difficult-to-diagnose variants and subtypes in soft tissue tumors, it incorporates the most recent scientific and technical knowledge in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today's practice. Richly illustrated and easy to use, the fourth edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Soft Tissue Tumors is a visually stunning, one-stop resource for every practicing pathologist, oncologist, resident, student, or fellow as an ideal day-to-day reference or as a reliable training resource. - Provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of soft tissue pathology combined with accurate, concise clinicopathologic descriptions, helping you quickly identify tumors and establish actionable diagnoses - Contains hundreds of chapters with separate Benign, Intermediate, and Malignant sections to provide the fullest diagnostic picture possible - Contains new chapters covering the recently recognized EWSR1::SMAD3 fibroblastic tumor, plexiform myofibroblastoma, anastomosing hemangioma, myxoid pleomorphic liposarcoma, and more - Includes details throughout on new immunostains and molecular genetics and testing - Features an image-rich layout with more than 4,500 print and online-only images—including high-quality photomicrographs, gross photographs, radiologic images, and detailed medical illustrations—to make tumor identification and diagnosis faster and easier - Provides an organized framework that includes "Approach to Diagnosis" chapters designed to help you successfully recognize and diagnose challenging soft tissue tumors with the availability of common patterns and histologic features - Includes updates based on the most recent WHO Classification of Tumors: Soft Tissue and Bone Tumors - Employs consistently templated chapters, bulleted content, key facts, a variety of tables, annotated images, pertinent references, and an extensive index for quick, expert reference at the point of care - Includes an eBook version that enables you to access all text, figures, and references with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443109559

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Network Science in Archaeology

By: Tom Brughmans,Matthew A. Peeples

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Network Science in Archaeology

By: Tom Brughmans,Matthew A. Peeples

The Cambridge Manual to Archaeological Network Science provides the first comprehensive guide to a field of research that has firmly established itself within archaeological practice in recent years. Network science methods are commonly used to explore big archaeological datasets and are essential for the formal study of past relational phenomena: social networks, transport systems, communication, and exchange. The volume offers a step-by-step description of network science methods and explores its theoretical foundations and applications in archaeological research, which are elaborately illustrated with archaeological examples. It also covers a vast range of network science techniques that can enhance archaeological research, including network data collection and management, exploratory network analysis, sampling issues and sensitivity analysis, spatial networks, and network visualisation. An essential reference handbook for both beginning and experienced archaeological network researchers, the volume includes boxes with definitions, boxed examples, exercises, and online supplementary learning and teaching materials.

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1009186140

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A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War

By: Brian Matthew Jordan

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A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War

By: Brian Matthew Jordan

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at once representative and exceptional. Its ranks weathered the human ordeal of war in painstakingly routine ways, fighting in two defining battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, each time in the thick of the killing. But the men of the 107th were not lauded as heroes for their bravery and their suffering. Most of them were ethnic Germans, set apart by language and identity, and their loyalties were regularly questioned by a nativist Northern press. We so often assume that the Civil War was a uniquely American conflict, yet Jordan emphasizes the forgotten contributions made by immigrants to the Union cause. An incredible one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, he shows, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to save their adopted homeland and prove their patriotism. In the course of its service, the 107th Ohio was decimated five times over, and although one of its members earned the Medal of Honor for his daring performance in a skirmish in South Carolina, few others achieved any lasting distinction. Reclaiming these men for posterity, Jordan reveals that even as they endured the horrible extremes of war, the Ohioans contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict at every turn—from personal questions of citizenship and belonging to the overriding matter of slavery and emancipation. Based on prodigious new research, including diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs, A Thousand May Fall is a pioneering, revelatory history that restores the common man and the immigrant striver to the center of the Civil War. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation’s history.

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That's The Way It Crumbles

The American Conquest of the English Language

By: Matthew Engel

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That's The Way It Crumbles

The American Conquest of the English Language

By: Matthew Engel

Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now. In That's The Way It Crumbles Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another. With dismay and wry amusement, he traces the American invasion of our language from the early days of the New World, via the influence of Edison, the dance hall and the talkies, right up to the Apple and Microsoft-dominated present day, and explores the fate of other languages trying to fend off linguistic takeover bids. It is not the Americans' fault, more the result of their talent for innovation and our own indifference. He explains how America's cultural supremacy affects British gestures, celebrations and way of life, and how every paragraph and conversation includes words the British no longer even think of as Americanisms. Part battle cry, part love song, part elegy, this book celebrates the strange, the banal, the precious and the endangered parts of our uncommon common language.

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Profile Books

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Virtually Criminal

Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online

By: Matthew Williams

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Virtually Criminal

Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online

By: Matthew Williams

Amidst the sensationalist claims about the dangers of the Internet, Virtually Criminal provides an empirically grounded criminological analysis of deviance and regulation within an online community. It integrates theory and empiricism to forge an explanation of cybercrime whilst offering new insights into online regulation. One of the first studies to further our understanding of the causes of cyber deviance, crime and its control, this groundbreaking study from Matthew Williams takes the Internet as a site of social and cultural (re)production, and acknowledges the importance of online social/cultural formations in the genesis and regulation of cyber deviance and crime. A blend of criminological, sociological and linguistic theory, this book provides a unique understanding of the aetiology of cybercrime and deviance. Focus group and offence data are analyzed and an interrelationship between online community, deviance and regulation is established. The subject matter of the book is inherently transnational. It makes extensive use of a number of international case studies, ensuring it is relevant to readers in multiple countries (especially the US, the UK and Australasia). Pioneering and innovative, this fascinating book will be of interest to students and researchers across the disciplines of sociology, criminology, law and media and communication studies.

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Routledge

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Introduction to Metal-Nanoparticle Plasmonics

By: Matthew Pelton,Garnett W. Bryant

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Introduction to Metal-Nanoparticle Plasmonics

By: Matthew Pelton,Garnett W. Bryant

Based on a popular article in Laser and Photonics Reviews, this book provides an explanation and overview of the techniques used to model, make, and measure metal nanoparticles, detailing results obtained and what they mean. It covers the properties of coupled metal nanoparticles, the nonlinear optical response of metal nanoparticles, and the phenomena that arise when light-emitting materials are coupled to metal nanoparticles. It also provides an overview of key potential applications and offers explanations of computational and experimental techniques giving readers a solid grounding in the field.

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Branding Hoover's FBI

How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

By: Matthew Cecil

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Branding Hoover's FBI

How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

By: Matthew Cecil

Hunting down America's public enemies was just one of the FBI's jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover's FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image. Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term “public relations,” the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoover's FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBI's law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era.

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