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The Story of the Century

By: Patrick Carroll

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The Story of the Century is an exciting piece of fiction about two Bohemian immigrants struggling to make their way in world at the start of the industrial revolution in Chicago. The two eventually become entrepreneurs in the burgeoning bicycle industry.Years later, secrets from the cold war begin to leak out including information from the immigrants' families causing major national security issues. The author, the son of an American engineer assigned to the Manhattan project during World War II gives a rather poignant viewpoint regarding nuclear weapons, designed to make the reader really stop and think.

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Lulu.com

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0557643112

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The Joy of Twins and Other Multiple Births

Having, Raising, and Loving Babies Who Arrive in Groups

By: Pamela Patrick Novotny

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The Joy of Twins and Other Multiple Births

Having, Raising, and Loving Babies Who Arrive in Groups

By: Pamela Patrick Novotny

A revised edition of the encouraging and comprehensive guide to the latest medical, psychological, and sociological finding on all aspects of caring for two or more infants at a time. "...A vital, practical guide detailing the care of infant twins and methods for parent survival."--Booklist Black-and-white photographs.

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Harmony

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0307797716

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The Rise of Communism

History, Documents, and Key Questions

By: Patrick G. Zander

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The Rise of Communism

History, Documents, and Key Questions

By: Patrick G. Zander

This book investigates the Communist political phenomenon, including the origins and development of Communism as well as the revolutions that led to the rise of the major Communist states around the world. Written for high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this book surveys the global rise of Communism. It begins with a timeline and narrative overview, which are followed by reference entries, primary source documents, and original argumentative essays on enduring issues related to Communism. The book first covers the earliest phases of the "Utopian Socialist" movement and the beginnings of Marxist theory. It then discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917; the creation of the Soviet Union; the regime of terror instituted by Stalin; the expansion of Communism during the years of the Cold War, particularly in Asia; and the Cuban Revolution and the regime of Fidel Castro. It also discusses the progression toward revolution among the European Satellite countries as it included the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Czech revolution of 1968, and the multiple revolutions from 1989–1991 that saw the collapse of the Soviet system and the Cold War.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440847061

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9781440847066

This Georgia Rising

Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s

By: Patrick Novotny

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This Georgia Rising

Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s

By: Patrick Novotny

This Georgia Rising is a study of Georgia's political changes in the decade of the Second World War and in the postwar years of the 1940s. Georgia's political establishment underwent challenges in the 1940s in everything from Georgians defending the state's university system from attacks by Governor Eugene Talmadge to challenges by Georgia's larger cities and towns to the state's county unit system to the early postwar stirrings of the modern civil rights movement. An array of progressive forces--including Georgia's veterans of the Second World War, college and university students, newspaper editors and reporters in the state's larger circulating newspapers and smaller town newspapers--fought for change in some of the state's political institutions, culminating in the 1942 election of Governor Ellis Arnall and in 1945 the changes to the state constitution. This Georgia Rising is a detailed study of the gubernatorial races of the 1940s as they are interwoven with the larger political and social changes of wartime and then postwar Georgia. This book draws not only from Georgia's larger circulation newspapers but also focuses on its smaller circulation newspapers and especially its African-American newspapers, including The Atlanta Daily World and The Savannah Tribune. This Georgia Rising offers a detailed and rich narrative of a decade of far-reaching change in twentieth-century Georgia. --Publisher description.

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Mercer University Press

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0881460885

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9780881460889

Two at a Time

Having Twins: The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth

By: Jane Seymour,Pamela Patrick Novotny,Sheryl Ross

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Two at a Time

Having Twins: The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth

By: Jane Seymour,Pamela Patrick Novotny,Sheryl Ross

Two mothers of twins guide parents along the road of twin pregnancy and newborn care with sound advice and personal anecdotes in this comprehensive and insightful resource. Photos.

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Beyond Words/Atria Books

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0671036777

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The Reluctant Rogue, Or, Mother's Day

A Play

By: John Patrick

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The Reluctant Rogue, Or, Mother's Day

A Play

By: John Patrick

THE STORY: Reed Dolan would seem to be living in the best of all possible worlds: he is young, attractive and a professor of drama at a small college teeming with toothsome coeds anxious for good grades. Reed's specialty is inviting his better-looking stu

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Nanofluidics

By: Patrick Abgrall,Nam-Trung Nguyen

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Nanofluidics

By: Patrick Abgrall,Nam-Trung Nguyen

Taking you to the forefront of the emerging field of Nanofluidics, this cutting-edge book details the physics and applications of fluid flow in nanometer scale channels. You gain a solid understanding of the fundamental aspects of transport processes and force interactions in microscale. Moreover, this unique resource presents the latest research on nanoscale transport phenomena. You find a comprehensive overview of fabrication technologies for nanotechnologies, including detailed technology recipes and parameters. The book concludes with a look at future trends and the possible directions this new field could take.

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Artech House

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1596933518

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9781596933514

Deleuze and Law

Forensic Futures

By: Rosi Braidotti,Claire Colebrook,Patrick Hanafin

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Deleuze and Law

Forensic Futures

By: Rosi Braidotti,Claire Colebrook,Patrick Hanafin

Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on key legal cases (such as the Terri Schiavo case in the US), political events (such as the post 9/11 internment camp) and new cultural phenomena.

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Springer

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0230244777

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Mechatronic Systems and Process Automation

Model-Driven Approach and Practical Design Guidelines

By: Patrick O.J. Kaltjob

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Mechatronic Systems and Process Automation

Model-Driven Approach and Practical Design Guidelines

By: Patrick O.J. Kaltjob

The book discusses the concept of process automation and mechatronic system design, while offering a unified approach and methodology for the modeling, analysis, automation and control, networking, monitoring, and sensing of various machines and processes from single electrical-driven machines to large-scale industrial process operations. This step-by-step guide covers design applications from various engineering disciplines (mechanical, chemical, electrical, computer, biomedical) through real-life mechatronics problems and industrial automation case studies with topics such as manufacturing, power grid, cement production, wind generator, oil refining, incubator, etc. Provides step-by-step procedures for the modeling, analysis, control and automation, networking, monitoring, and sensing of single electrical-driven machines to large-scale industrial process operations. Presents model-based theory and practice guidelines for mechatronics system and process automation design. Includes worked examples in every chapter and numerous end-of-chapter real-life exercises, problems, and case studies.

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CRC Press

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1351248588

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Micro- and Nanophotonic Technologies

By: Patrick Meyrueis,Kazuaki Sakoda,Marcel Van de Voorde

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Micro- and Nanophotonic Technologies

By: Patrick Meyrueis,Kazuaki Sakoda,Marcel Van de Voorde

Edited and authored by leading experts from top institutions in Europe, the US and Asia, this comprehensive overview of micro- and nanophotonics covers the physical and chemical fundamentals, while clearly focusing on the technologies and applications in industrial R&D. As such, the book reports on the four main areas of telecommunications and display technologies; light conversion and energy generation; light-based fabrication of materials; and micro- and nanophotonic devices in metrology and control.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527699953

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Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II

Domination and Retaliation

By: Patrick Crowhurst

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Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II

Domination and Retaliation

By: Patrick Crowhurst

The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939 helped to precipitate Europe's descent into World War II sis months later. The move, supposedly to protect the Sudeten Germans, shocked many in Europe, who saw it as a clear statement of intent by Hitler. Here, Patrick Crowhurst argues that occupation of the Sudetenland and the Czech lands was also crucial to the Nazi war machine. The armaments, factories and raw materials that Hitler seized accelerated Germany's capabilities; Czech tanks would prove crucial in the Ardennes and, as the Wehrmacht fought at Stalingrad, Armaments Minister Albert Speer was corralling Czech industrial machinery to produce engines, aircraft and equipment in support. In addition, new Slovakian and Czech primary material are used to give a new in-depth account of the German reaction to the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich on the streets of Prague in June 1942. The recriminations were brutal, and dovetailed with Hitler's plans for the genocide of Czech Jewry. This is a new side of the History of Nazi Europe, and argues for the centrality of the Czech occupation in the overall narrative of World War II.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857723049

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Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science

By: Patrick A. Heelan

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Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science

By: Patrick A. Heelan

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

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Univ of California Press

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0520908090

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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

England and Central Europe, 1350-1434

By: Patrick Outhwaite

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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

England and Central Europe, 1350-1434

By: Patrick Outhwaite

A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an example of this intersection: it appears frequently in both medical and religious writings as a powerful figure of healing and salvation, and was invoked by dissidents and reformists in religious controversies. Drawing on previously unexplored manuscript material, this book examines the use of the Christus Medicus tradition during a period of religious turbulence. Via an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, sermons, and medical texts, it shows that Wycliffites in England and Hussites in Bohemia used concepts developed in hospital settings to press for increased lay access to Scripture and the sacraments against the strictures of the Church hierarchy. Tracing a story of reform and controversy from localised institutional contexts to two of the most important pan-European councils of the fifteenth century, Constance and Basel, it argues that at a point when the body of the Church was strained by multiple popes, heretics and schismatics, the allegory came into increasing use to restore health and order.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1914049268

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9781914049262

What It Is to Exist

The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate

By: Patrick Zoll

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What It Is to Exist

The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate

By: Patrick Zoll

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate has reached an impasse because none of the considered views is able to formulate a satisfactory answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The second part reconstructs Thomas Aquinas’s view on existence (esse) and argues that it contributes a new perspective which allows us to see why the contemporary debate has reached this impasse. It has come to this point because it has taken a premise for granted which Aquinas’s view rejects, namely, that the existence of an object consists in something’s having a property. A decisive contribution of Aquinas’s theory of esse is that it makes use of the ideas of metaphysical participation and composition. In this way, it can be explained how an object can have esse without being the case that esse is a property of it. This book brings together a reconstruction from the history of philosophy with a systematic study on existence and is therefore relevant for scholars interested in contemporary or medieval theories of existence.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110980126

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9783110980127

Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources

A Guide for Library and Information Professionals

By: Maria D. D. Collins,Patrick L. Carr

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Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources

A Guide for Library and Information Professionals

By: Maria D. D. Collins,Patrick L. Carr

This guide discusses the knowledge needed by every librarian who has e-resource management and access responsibilities and who wants to forge their own path in the transition from collecting print resources to providing online access to e-resources.

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Psychology Press

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0789033364

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Le Risque Technologique Majeur

Politique, Risque et Processus de Développement

By: Patrick Lagadec

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Le Risque Technologique Majeur

Politique, Risque et Processus de Développement

By: Patrick Lagadec

Le Risque Technologique Majeur

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Elsevier

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148315629X

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9781483156293

Beyond the Checklist

What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety

By: Suzanne Gordon,Patrick Mendenhall,Bonnie Blair O'toole

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Beyond the Checklist

What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety

By: Suzanne Gordon,Patrick Mendenhall,Bonnie Blair O'toole

The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal? Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork. In response to a series of human-error caused crashes, the airline industry developed the system of job training and information sharing known as Crew Resource Management (CRM). Under the new industry-wide system of CRM, pilots, flight attendants, and ground crews now communicate and cooperate in ways that have greatly reduced the hazards of commercial air travel. The coauthors of this book sought out the aviation professionals who made this transformation possible. Beyond the Checklist gives us an inside look at CRM training and shows how airline staff interaction that once suffered from the same dysfunction that too often undermines real teamwork in health care today has dramatically improved. Drawing on the experience of doctors, nurses, medical educators, and administrators, this book demonstrates how CRM can be adapted, more widely and effectively, to health care delivery. The authors provide case studies of three institutions that have successfully incorporated CRM-like principles into the fabric of their clinical culture by embracing practices that promote common patient safety knowledge and skills.They infuse this study with their own diverse experience and collaborative spirit: Patrick Mendenhall is a commercial airline pilot who teaches CRM; Suzanne Gordon is a nationally known health care journalist, training consultant, and speaker on issues related to nursing; and Bonnie Blair O'Connor is an ethnographer and medical educator who has spent more than two decades observing medical training and teamwork from the inside.

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Cornell University Press

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0801465346

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Immune and Receptor Assays in Theory and Practice

By: Patrick Englebienne

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Immune and Receptor Assays in Theory and Practice

By: Patrick Englebienne

In the past ten years, employment of immuno- and receptor- assays has grown dramatically. Now used in the pharmaceutical industry for automated screening programs, in the agro-food industry for on-line processing control and food adulteration detection, and in clinical laboratories, they are fully integrated analytical tools. However, the literature often covers only one type of assay or just one of the many systems available. Immune and Receptor Assays in Theory and Practice gathers and organizes the available information to help you establish the best assay for your application. This composite presents the fundamentals of both techniques and introduces practical examples of equation use, antibody and receptor purification, antigen labeling, immunization, and establishment of antibodies for long-term storage. It contrasts the many different assay designs and addresses market trends as the context for developing immuno-assay goals. In addition, this volume summarizes the biochemical and physical properties involved in antibody- and receptor-ligand interactions and reagent manufacture. This is the first, single-volume synthesis of both immuno- and receptor-assays. With theoretical background and practical examples, Immune and Receptor Assays in Theory and Practice allows you to base your experiment on proven techniques, components, and applications for the most reliable results.

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CRC Press

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0849300614

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9780849300615

Neurologic Complications of Cancer Therapy

By: Eudocia Quant Lee, MD, MPH,David Schiff, MD,Patrick Y. Wen, MD

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Neurologic Complications of Cancer Therapy

By: Eudocia Quant Lee, MD, MPH,David Schiff, MD,Patrick Y. Wen, MD

Neurologic side effects of cancer therapy can inhibit treatment, can be dose-limiting and can diminish quality-of-life. Neurotoxicity related to cancer therapy is a common problem in oncology practice and in clinical neurology. Recognition of neurologic complications of anticancer therapy is necessary due to potential confusion with metastatic disease, paraneoplastic syndromes or comorbid neurologic disorders that do not require reduction or discontinuation of therapy. Neurologic Complications of Cancer Therapy provides comprehensive coverage of the recognition and management of neurologic symptoms related to cancer therapy. The book includes sections on systemic therapy discussed by both agent and adverse event. The section on adverse events is particularly valuable to clinicians, allowing them to consult by symptom in cases where multiple agents have been administered and the source of the complication is uncertain. The systemic therapy section includes coverage of immunologic agents, biologics, and targeted therapies. The book also features sections on the complications of radiation therapy, complications of surgery and high-dose chemotherapy, and stem cell transplantation. Neurologic Complications of Cancer Therapy Features: A widely recognized team of editors Systemic therapy covered by therapeutic agent and by adverse event, enabling a "problem-oriented" approach for the clinician Coverage of newer modalities including immunologic agents, biologics, and targeted therapies Complete sections on complications of radiation therapy, surgery, high-dose chemotherapy, and stem-call transplantion

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1617050199

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9781617050190

How to Design and Enforce Tobacco Excises?

By: Patrick Petit,Mr.Janos Nagy

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How to Design and Enforce Tobacco Excises?

By: Patrick Petit,Mr.Janos Nagy

Taxing tobacco can help raise much needed revenue and save lives, but it needs to be done well. This “How-to” note provides guidance on the basics of tobacco taxation. How high should tobacco taxes be? Should we use ad valorem or specific taxes? What are the key elements of an efficient tax administration that will secure the tax base and prevent illegal trade? These are important questions that need to be addressed and this note provide a sound first step towards solid policy decisions.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475550685

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The Ceramic Sequence of Tikal

Tikal Report 25B

By: T. Patrick Culbert,Laura J. Kosakowsky

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The Ceramic Sequence of Tikal

Tikal Report 25B

By: T. Patrick Culbert,Laura J. Kosakowsky

The two volumes of the central Tikal ceramic reports (Tikal Reports 25A and 25B) present the information gathered from the analysis of all ceramics recovered by the University of Pennsylvania research project at Tikal between 1956 and 1970. Tikal Report 25A (Culbert 1993) contains illustrations and brief descriptive captions for all whole vessels recovered from burials, caches, and problematical deposits. Because Tikal Report 25A illustrates the often-spectacular decorated vessels from major burials, it is of the most general interest for comparative purposes. This volume, Tikal Report 25B, presents the Tikal sequence of nine ceramic complexes (the analysis of the small sample of Postclassic Caban ceramics was not completed), describes the ceramics from each complex, presents the data for all counted lots, and illustrates the material from sherd collections. It is a specialist volume, primarily of interest to those actively involved in research with Maya ceramics. The material is complemented by data in the Tikal Reports devoted to excavations and by the analysis of nonceramic artifactual material in Tikal Reports 27A and 27B (Moholy-Nagy and Coe 2008; Moholy-Nagy 2003).

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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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1949057038

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Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care E-Book

By: Clifford S. Deutschman,Patrick J. Neligan

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Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care E-Book

By: Clifford S. Deutschman,Patrick J. Neligan

Approach any critical care challenge using a practical, consistent strategy based on best practices with Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, 3rd Edition. Unique, question-based chapters cover the wide variety of clinical options in critical care, examine the relevant research, and provide recommendations based on a thorough analysis of available evidence. Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman and Patrick J. Nelligan, along with nearly 200 critical-care experts, provide a comprehensive framework for translating evidence into practice, helping both residents and practitioners obtain the best possible outcomes for critically ill patients. - Covers a full range of critical care challenges, from routine care to complicated and special situations. - Helps you think through each question in a logical, efficient manner, using a practical, consistent approach to available management options and guidelines. - Features revised and updated information based on current research, and includes all-new cases on key topics and controversies such as the use/overuse of antibiotics, drug resistance in the ICU, non-invasive mechanical ventilation, frequency of transfusions, and duration of renal replacement therapies. - Provides numerous quick-reference tables that summarize the available literature and recommended clinical approaches. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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0323640699

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Management 4.0

Handbook for Agile Practices, Release 3

By: Patrick Balve,Frank Edelkraut,Jens Köhler,Helge F. R. Nuhn,Steve Raue,Norbert Schaffitzel,Marcel Schwarzenberger,Hubertus Tuczek

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Management 4.0

Handbook for Agile Practices, Release 3

By: Patrick Balve,Frank Edelkraut,Jens Köhler,Helge F. R. Nuhn,Steve Raue,Norbert Schaffitzel,Marcel Schwarzenberger,Hubertus Tuczek

Who should read this Book? This book is written for anyone who is interested in agility or needs to be agile. It is for those who seek deeper knowledge about what keeps the agile world together. You can read it from the perspective of a top manager or decision maker who feels the urge to be more agile. But you can also take the book and just follow it from the perspective of a user. What do you get? - A systemic picture of agility - to enable you to analyse your system (your team, your department, your company or your business network) and identify fields of agile application and the specific need for agility. - The ingredients of an Agile Mindset - this allows you to transform your organization and develop an agile culture for your organization. - The theoretical foundation of agile principles - so that you can really understand and assess the value of all the expert ideas for you and your organization. You will get the necessary skills to tailor organization specific agile frameworks without losing essential ingredients. - Input for your own reflections - you will be capable of innovating agility and be ahead of the main stream.

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3749430977

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Avoiding Attack

The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

By: Graeme D. Ruxton,Tom N. Sherratt,Michael Patrick Speed

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Avoiding Attack

The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

By: Graeme D. Ruxton,Tom N. Sherratt,Michael Patrick Speed

This book discusses the evolution of the mechanisms by which prey avoid attack by their potential predators and questions how such defences are maintained through natural selection. Topics covered include camouflage, warning signals and mimicry.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198528590

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Iron Curtain

From Stage to Cold War

By: Patrick Wright

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Iron Curtain

From Stage to Cold War

By: Patrick Wright

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both sides of the division have assumed that the story of the Iron Curtain began with Churchill's 1946 speech. In this fascinating investigation, Patrick Wright shows that this was decidedly not the case. Starting with its original use to describe an anti-fire device fitted into theatres, Iron Curtain tells the story of how the term evolved into such a powerful metaphor and the myriad ways in which it shaped the world for decades before the onset of the Cold War. Along the way, it offers fascinating perspectives on a rich array of historical characters and developments, from the lofty aspirations and disappointed fate of early twentieth century internationalists, through the topsy-turvy experiences of the first travellers to Soviet Russia, to the theatricalization of modern politics and international relations. And, as Wright poignantly suggests, the term captures a particular way of thinking about the world that long pre-dates the Cold War - and did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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0191622842

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9780191622847

Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1

North and South America

By: Patrick Lo,Robert Sutherland,Wei-En Hsu,Russ Girsberger

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Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1

North and South America

By: Patrick Lo,Robert Sutherland,Wei-En Hsu,Russ Girsberger

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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180117654X

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Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

By: Patrick Roberts

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Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

By: Patrick Roberts

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time. Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century. Rather, such a long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these habitats.

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Essentials of Functional MRI

Basic Concepts to Advanced Applications

By: Patrick W. Stroman

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Essentials of Functional MRI

Basic Concepts to Advanced Applications

By: Patrick W. Stroman

Essentials of Functional MRI is explained from the basic theory underlying magnetic resonance imaging. This includes how it can be used to detect dynamic variations in neural activity to become “functional” MRI, and how fMRI can be used for a variety of applications. The reader will gain an understanding of how fMRI is currently used, its limitations, and how it is still developing. This is achieved by explaining the core concepts and building on them to explain how fMRI data are acquired and what physiological information they provide. These ideas are the key to understanding how the data are analyzed to detect physiological changes that are related to neural activity. With an understanding of the basic underlying concepts, the way that fMRI is used, and its limitations, are much easier to understand. This 2nd edition includes explanations of new advances in MRI techniques and fMRI data analysis methods, and updated examples of applications of fMRI, including current or future clinical applications. This book is intended for students, researchers, and clinicians, who want to understand the theory and practice of fMRI in sufficient detail to use it for neuroscience research, clinical research, and for clinical practice.

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Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts

By: Patrick L. Osborne

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By: Patrick L. Osborne

Introductory textbook using the entire range of tropical ecosystems - terrestrial, freshwater and marine - to illustrate and explain major ecological concepts.

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The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy

Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)

By: Joseph Patrick Huffman

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The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy

Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)

By: Joseph Patrick Huffman

Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that while England and France built nation-states during the medieval era, Germany--lacking a unified nation-state--remained uniquely backward and undeveloped. Employing a comparative social history, Huffman reassesses traditional national historiographies of medieval diplomacy and political life. Germany is integrated into Anglo-French notions of western Europe and shown to be both an integral player in western European political history as well as a political community that was as fully developed as those of medieval England or France. The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy offers a study of the social dynamics of relations between political communities. In particular, the Anglo-French political communities do not appear as state and constitution builders, while the German political community is not as a state and constitution destroyer. The book concludes by encouraging medievalists to integrate the German kingdom into their intellectual constructs of medieval Europe. This book is an essential history of medieval Germany. It bridges the gaps between Anglo-French and German scholarship and political and social history. Joseph Huffman makes available German-language scholarship. Both English and German history is integrated in an accessible and interesting way. The historiographical implications of this study will be far-reaching. Joseph P. Huffman is Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Messiah College.

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0472024183

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Molecular Basis of Resilience

Adapting to a Changing Environment

By: Patrick L. Iversen

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Molecular Basis of Resilience

Adapting to a Changing Environment

By: Patrick L. Iversen

This book illuminates mechanisms of resilience. Threats and defense systems lead to adaptive changes in gene expression. Environmental conditions may dampen adaptive responses at the level of RNA expression. The first seven chapters elaborate threats to human health. Human populations spontaneously invade niche boundaries exposing us to threats that drive the resilience process. Emerging RNA viruses are a significant threat to human health. Antiviral drugs are reviewed and how viral genomes respond to the environment driving genome sequence plasticity. Limitations in predicting the human outcome are described in “nonlinear anomalies.” An example includes medical countermeasures for Ebola and Marburg viruses under the “Animal Rule.” Bacterial infections and a review of antibacterial drugs and bacterial resilience mediated by horizontal gene transfer follow. Chapter 6 shifts focus to cancer and discovery of novel therapeutics for leukemia. The spontaneous resolution of AML in children with Down syndrome highlights human resilience. Chapter 7 explores chemicals in the environment. Examples of chemical carcinogenesis illustrate how chemicals disrupt genomes. Historic research ignored RNA damage from chemically induced nucleic acid damage. The emergence of important forms of RNA and their possible role in resilience is proposed. Chapters 8-10 discuss threat recognition and defense systems responding to improve resilience. Chapter 8 describes the immune response as a threat recognition system and response via diverse RNA expression. Oligonucleotides designed to suppress specific RNA to manipulate the immune response including exon-skipping strategies are described. Threat recognition and response by the cytochrome P450 enzymes parallels immune responses. The author proposes metabolic clearance of small molecules is a companion to the immune system. Chapter 10 highlights RNA diversity expressed from a single gene. Molecular Resilience lists paths to RNA transcriptome plasticity forms the molecular basis for resilience. Chapter 11 is an account of ExonDys 51, an approved drug for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Chapter 12 addresses the question “what informs molecular mechanisms of resilience?” that drives the limits to adaptation and boundaries for molecular resilience. He speculates that radical oxygen, epigenetic modifications, and ligands to nuclear hormone receptors play critical roles in regulating molecular resilience.

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Drawing Distinctions

The Varieties of Graphic Expression

By: Patrick Maynard

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Drawing Distinctions

The Varieties of Graphic Expression

By: Patrick Maynard

If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so often find) beginning from examples of such art, where shall we begin? One attractive possibility is to begin at the beginning—not the beginning in prehistory, which is already wonderful art, but with our personal beginnings as children. From there it will be the ambitious project of this book to investigate 'the course of drawing,' from the first marks children make to the greatest graphic arts of different cultures."—from the IntroductionPatrick Maynard surveys the rich and varied practices of drawing, from the earliest markings on cave walls to the complex technical schematics that make the modern world possible, from cartoons and the first efforts of preschoolers to the works of skilled draftspeople and the greatest artists, East and West.Despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity, drawing as such has provoked remarkably little philosophical reflection. Nonphilosophical writing on the topic tends to be divided between specialties such as art history and mechanics. In this engagingly written and well-illustrated book, Maynard reveals the interconnections and developments that unite this fundamental autonomous human activity in all its diversity. Informed by close discussion of work in art history, art criticism, cognitive and developmental psychology, and aesthetics, Drawing Distinctions presents a theoretically sophisticated yet approachable argument that will improve comprehension and appreciation of drawing in its many forms, uses, and meanings.

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1501728628

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Pesticides and Groundwater Quality

Issues and Problems in Four States

By: National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Patrick W. Holden

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Pesticides and Groundwater Quality

Issues and Problems in Four States

By: National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Patrick W. Holden

Pesticides in groundwater can contaminate drinking water and threaten the health of communities. How does this contamination occur and what should be done about this pressing problem? This new book uses a case-study approach to describe the discovery of the problem in four major agricultural states, to summarize the most recent data on the problem, and to review the status of the problem from both technological and policy perspectives. It also addresses the controversial questions of what levels of residues are acceptable, who should bear the costs of drinking water that is already contaminated, and how federal scientific resources can best be used to aid state initiatives in addressing this problem.

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0309036763

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Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

By: Alan Charles Hamilton,Patrick Hamilton

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Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

By: Alan Charles Hamilton,Patrick Hamilton

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Relief from PMS

By: Pamela Patrick Novotny

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Relief from PMS

By: Pamela Patrick Novotny

For many women, the emotional and cognitive effects of recurring Premenstrual Syndrome can be debilitating, even frightening. This comprehensive, action-oriented guide includes detailed definitions of PMS symptoms, up-to-date treatments, as well as alternative therapies such as accupressure, herbal remedies, and dream analysis.

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