Working-class Providence, Rhode Island, is poised on the eve of a new political millennium. Of the city's fifteen districts, ward eleven is the most impoverished and racially diverse. As the year 2000 looms, local politics are complicated by: a secret society of heroin dealers, a Dominican Republic-based doomsday cult, an Ivy League journalism student, and a taxicab driver. City Council candidate Hector Lucian is predicted to win by a landslide, but will his past and possible nefarious connections ultimately destroy him and his neighborhood? Cab driver Leonardo Santoro becomes his sole confidant, while Brown University student, Eli Silverman, pieces together the mysterious candidate's murky background.
There is no such thing as a "diabetic diet." Sugar is not the villain it was once thought to be, and even fats aren't all bad. Read about the secret ingedients in eat-to-beat-diabetes plan.
Provides conditioning programs for various lifestyles and interests; discusses nutrition, sleep, and time management; and offers advice on buying equipment and workout gear
A step-by-step resource shares the latest information in conventional and alternative medicines, diet, exercise, and mind-body imagery to discuss the twenty foremost causes of pain, the most complementary therapies, and the recommendations of top physicians.
Stopping Diabetes In Its Tracks is filled with practical tips for better health - and better living. You'll learn how to battle 'diabetes burnout', what to do on sick days, how to choose a glucose monitor, simple weight-loss strategies, information on medicines and insulin - everything you need to know to take control of diabetes. Packed with information, this authoritative guide will explain why there is no such thing as a 'diabetic diet': sugar is not the villain it was once thought to be and even fats aren't all bad. Read about the secret ingredients in our eat-to-beat diabetes diet and enjoy our tasty and healthy recipes. Learn how your attitude makes a difference: the way you view your diabetes has a significant impact on the course of your condition. Discover how to stay focussed - and guard against diabetes-related complications - without becoming obsessed or feeling defeated. Stopping Diabetes In Its Tracks is the definitive guide to taking charge of diabetes and your life
Research is proving that the best way to beat arthritis is by taking charge yourself and not relying on endless painkillers and other medications. This book will help you to find the motivation, wisdom and advice you need to take charge of your condition and lead life as fully as you would wish. It discusses the current methods of medication and how they work. It features 22 targeted exercise programs, each under 20 minutes; 37 proven tricks for hassle-free weight loss; 56 arthritis-fighting recipes; 130 gentle exercises, stretches and massages.
Take charge of diabetes and lower your blood glucose simply and safely. Based on remarkable research findings, this all-natural approach has been proven effective. In six simple steps, this book will help you lose 10 per cent of your current body weight and significantly lower your blood glucose level. Youll cut kilojoules while still eating the foods you love. Youll stimulate your metabolism and boost your sensitivity to insulin with the quick and easy exercise routines. Youll learn to relax...and help bring your blood glucose down...with simple stress-busting techniques.This book is filled with practical tips for better health and better living. Best of all, it will put you firmly in control of your condition.
This is a high-quality, hardbound edition of the official GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, from the current Emacs Version 24.5 distribution. It is printed on acid free and lignin free paper, that meets all ANSI standards for archival quality paper. *** The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is also available for free within GNU Emacs itself, via the help system, or online. Professional users may find this hardbound edition convenient for frequent consultation, and an excellent copy for desktop reference. *** For each copy of this manual sold, 10% of its gross sale revenue is donated to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and install it as an extension to the editor. However, Emacs Lisp is more than a mere "extension language"; it is a full computer programming language in its own right. You can use it as you would any other programming language. Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on. Emacs Lisp is closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands are functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs, and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables. This manual attempts to be a full description of Emacs Lisp. For a beginner's introduction to Emacs Lisp, see An Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming, by Bob Chassell, also published by the Free Software Foundation. This manual presumes considerable familiarity with the use of Emacs for editing; see The GNU Emacs Manual for this basic information. Generally speaking, the earlier chapters describe features of Emacs Lisp that have counterparts in many programming languages, and later chapters describe features that are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate specifically to editing. This is the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, corresponding to Emacs version 24.5. As Emacs Lisp became such a big project over the years, we had to split this reference manual in two parts that are two separate physical books. To keep it consistent with our digital manual, the references and page numbers cover both physical books as it were one. Therefore please note that you probably want to have both parts.
Presents the most up to date, empowering advice to help understand, manage and protect against diabetes. This volume is full of practical tips and expert advice about nutrition, weight loss strategies, medications, choosing a blood-glucose moniter and handling mood swings.
Presents the most up to date, empowering advice to help understand, manage and protect against diabetes. This volume is full of practical tips and expert advice about nutrition, weight loss strategies, medications, choosing a blood-glucose moniter and handling mood swings.
A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire As the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, Britain’s crimes unspool from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia. Capturing events from the perspective of the colonised, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream histories.
The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair—explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers a stunningly original account of these outbursts, concluding that recourse to political violence was not occasional and abnormal, but rather the usual pattern, in French history. Instead of adhering to conventional chronological lines, Blood in the City is structured topologically around a number of major Parisian "sites of memory," including Place de la Concorde, Sacré Coeur, and the Eiffel Tower. For thirty years Burton has visited and revisited Paris, criss-crossing the streets on foot, and lived with great nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary depictions of the city. Drawing on historical, literary, visual, anthropological, and psychological sources, he develops a wide-ranging account of violence in modern French politics. In so doing, he provides powerful insights into political violence, scapegoating, the idea of sacrifice, and the widespread French obsession with conspiracy. Burton demonstrates that time and again the same basic scenario has been acted out on the streets of Paris: one or more people would be singled out from the community and imprisoned, exiled, or, more often, subjected to violence by the crowd or the state. In particular, he explores how Catholicism—in its extreme, ultrareactionary form—shaped the worldviews of Parisians and how the killing of a sacrificial victim came to be seen as a reenactment of the crucifixion of Christ.
Achille Nicolas Isnard (1749-1803) an engineer with a keen interest in political economy, is best known for demonstrating the concept of market equilibrium using a system of simultaneous equations. The breadth and depth of his work undoubtedly established him as one of the forerunners of modern mathematical economics, yet his seminal contributions to the study of economics remained largely unrecognized until the latter half of the twentieth century. This pioneering new book, the first in English, examines Isnard’s life and illuminates his major contributions to political economy. It contains substantial extracts from a number of his publications presented both in English translation and in the original French so Isnard can now finally achieve his place at the heart of discussion on the origins of mathematical economics. The diverse issues covered here will ensure that this book appeals not only to economists with an interest in the history of mathematical economics, but to anyone interested in the emergence of political economy and in wider social thought during the Enlightenment.
Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives.these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes while offering an authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. From the early cinema of Griffith and René Clair, to the work of Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Lizzie Borden and Ken Loach, Porton analyzes portrayals of anarchism in film, presenting commentaries and critiques of such classics as Zéro de Conduite, Tout Va Bien, and Love and Anarchy. In addition, he provides an excellent guide to the complex traditions of anarchist thought, from Bakunin and Kropotkin to Emma Goldman and Murray Bookchin, disclosing a rich historical legacy that encompasses the Paris Commune, the Haymarket martyrs, the anarcho-syndicalists of the Spanish Civil War, as well as more familiar contemporary avatars like the Situationists and the enragés of May 1968.
This is a general study of politics and society in the Fourth Republic founded on extensive primary research. It approaches the period in terms of successful conservatism rather than thwarted reform.
French Film History, 1895–1946 addresses the creative and often unexpected trajectory of French cinema, which continues to be one of the most provocative and engaging cinemas in the world. Tracing French film and its developments from the earliest days, when France dominated world cinema, up through the Occupation and Liberation, Neupert outlines major players and films that made it so influential. Paris held a privileged position as one of the world’s hubs of scientific, social, and cultural experimentation; it is no wonder that the cinema as we know it was born there in the nineteenth century. This book presents French cinema’s most significant creative filmmakers and movies but also details the intricate relations between technology, economics, and government that helped shape the unique conditions for cinematic experimentation in the country. Neupert explains the contexts behind the rise of cinema in France, including groundbreaking work by the Lumière family, Georges Méliès, and Alice Guy; the powerhouse studios of Pathé and Gaumont; directors such as René Clair, Germaine Dulac, Marcel Pagnol, and Jean Renoir; and an array of stars, including Max Linder, Jean Gabin, Josephine Baker, and Michèle Morgan. The first fifty years of French film practice established cinema’s cultural and artistic potential, setting the stage for the global post–World War II explosion in commercial movies and art cinema alike. French film and its rich history remain at the heart of cinematic storytelling and our moviegoing pleasure.
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