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If Gold Is Our Destiny

How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory

By: Sean P. Murray

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If Gold Is Our Destiny

How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory

By: Sean P. Murray

The true story of how a group of talented volleyball players learned to put their egos aside, became a team, and changed the sport of volleyball forever. In the early 1980s, a golden generation of volleyball players joined the U.S. men’s national team. With the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 1984, the pressure was on to build a winning program around these exceptional athletes. But could a group of individuals put aside their egos and play as a true team to achieve Olympic gold in their home country? In If Gold Is Our Destiny: How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory, Sean P. Murray shares the incredible story of how a group of free-spirited players and their demanding coach captured the heart of a nation and became one of the greatest indoor volleyball teams of all time. As the team struggled leading up to the Olympics, head coach Doug Beal mandated a highly controversial three-week Outward Bound hike across one hundred miles in the Canyonlands and Abajo Mountains in Utah. Murray details all the internal strife and heartwarming triumphs from this unprecedented trip, as players and coaches learned to cooperate and trust one another. He reveals how the team used this newfound trust to implement an innovative approach to volleyball that changed not only their success on the court but the sport itself on a global scale. Featuring original interviews with players, coaches, and staff, along with a foreword by three-time gold medal champion Karch Kiraly, If Gold Is Our Destiny delivers an inside look at what it takes for a group of talented individuals to overcome their differences, build a culture of excellence, and become the best in the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538154862

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The Irish in Illinois

By: Mathieu W. Billings,Sean Farrell

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The Irish in Illinois

By: Mathieu W. Billings,Sean Farrell

The first statewide history of the Irish in the Prairie State Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In this concise narrative history, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State. Short biographies and twenty-eight photographs vividly illustrate the significance and diversity of Irish contributions to Illinois. Billings and Farrell remind us of the countless ways Irish men and women have shaped the history and culture of the state. They fought in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and two world wars; built the state’s infrastructure and worked in its factories; taught Illinois children and served the poor. Irish political leaders helped to draw up the state’s first constitution, served in city, county, and state offices, and created a machine that dominated twentieth-century politics in Chicago and the state. This lively history adds to our understanding of the history of the Irish in the state over the past two hundred fifty years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Ireland will treasure this rich and important account of the state’s history.

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270

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SIU Press

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0809338009

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9780809338009

Dissonance

Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

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Dissonance

Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that “classical” Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.

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231

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823269663

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9780823269662

Marxism and Realism

A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

By: Sean Creaven

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Marxism and Realism

A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

By: Sean Creaven

This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.

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Routledge

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1134562209

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9781134562206

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Expert Consult: Online and Print

By: Nathan E Goldstein,R. Sean Morrison

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Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Expert Consult: Online and Print

By: Nathan E Goldstein,R. Sean Morrison

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R. Sean Morrison equip you to evaluate the available evidence alongside of current practice guidelines, so you can provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. Confidently navigate clinical challenges with chapters that explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations / guidelines, and available resources - all with a focus on patient and family-centered care. Build a context for best practices from high-quality evidence gathered by multiple leading authorities. Make informed decisions efficiently with treatment algorithms included throughout the book. Access the complete, fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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143773796X

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9781437737967

The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are “auditory cultures.” In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually reinforcing symbiosis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350072001

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Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine E-Book

Expert Consult: Online and Print

By: Nathan E Goldstein,R. Sean Morrison

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By: Nathan E Goldstein,R. Sean Morrison

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R. Sean Morrison equip you to evaluate the available evidence alongside of current practice guidelines, so you can provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. - Consult this title on your favorite e-reader with intuitive search tools and adjustable font sizes. Elsevier eBooks provide instant portable access to your entire library, no matter what device you're using or where you're located. - Confidently navigate clinical challenges with chapters that explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations / guidelines, and available resources - all with a focus on patient and family-centered care. - Build a context for best practices from high-quality evidence gathered by multiple leading authorities. - Make informed decisions efficiently with treatment algorithms included throughout the book.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455748331

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Goodwin and Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis

By: Carol North,Sean Yutzy

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Goodwin and Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis

By: Carol North,Sean Yutzy

With two new lead authors, the sixth edition of Psychiatric Diagnosis continues its thirty-five year tradition of providing a clear, critical and well-documented overview of major psychiatric syndromes, with minimum inclusion of unwieldy theories or clinical opinions. Medical students and psychiatric residents will continue to find this new edition to be a unique guide to the field-a volume that concisely yet comprehensively dissects major psychiatric disorders. Well-known for providing a thorough yet concise view of the natural history of basic psychiatric disorders, this popular text has been extensively updated, chapter by chapter, in this sixth edition. Terminology has been made consistent with DSM-IV-TR and updates made to include recent genetic and neurobiological findings. In the classification of psychiatric disorders, new data on follow-up and family/genetic studies, confirming and extending previous research, are provided. As in previous editions, each chapter systematically covers the definition, historical background, epidemiology, clinical picture, natural history, complications, family studies, differential diagnosis, and clinical management of each disorder. Some specific areas of new material include the long term course of mood disorders, genetics and neuro-imaging of schizophrenia and mood and other disorders, cognitive changes in relation to depression and dementia, brain stimulation techniques, outcome studies of eating disorders, and epidemiology of drug use disorders. In accordance with current medical community interest and research, entirely new chapters on posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder have been included. Additionally, a new introduction reviews the background of medical model psychiatry and the empirical approach to psychiatric nosology. With this new edition, medical students and psychiatric residents will continue to discover that no other text provides such a lucid, well-documented and critically sound overview of the major syndromes in psychiatry.

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Oxford University Press

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0190286857

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9780190286859

Designing Healthcare That Works

A Sociotechnical Approach

By: Mark Ackerman,Michael Prilla,Christian Stary,Thomas Herrmann,Sean Goggins

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Designing Healthcare That Works

A Sociotechnical Approach

By: Mark Ackerman,Michael Prilla,Christian Stary,Thomas Herrmann,Sean Goggins

Designing Healthcare That Works: A Sociotechnical Approach takes up the pragmatic, messy problems of designing and implementing sociotechnical solutions which integrate organizational and technical systems for the benefit of human health. The book helps practitioners apply principles of sociotechnical design in healthcare and consider the adoption of new theories of change. As practitioners need new processes and tools to create a more systematic alignment between technical mechanisms and social structures in healthcare, the book helps readers recognize the requirements of this alignment. The systematic understanding developed within the book's case studies includes new ways of designing and adopting sociotechnical systems in healthcare. For example, helping practitioners examine the role of exogenous factors, like CMS Systems in the U.S. Or, more globally, helping practitioners consider systems external to the boundaries drawn around a particular healthcare IT system is one key to understand the design challenge. Written by scholars in the realm of sociotechnical systems research, the book is a valuable source for medical informatics professionals, software designers and any healthcare providers who are interested in making changes in the design of the systems. - Encompasses case studies focusing on specific projects and covering an entire lifecycle of sociotechnical design in healthcare - Provides an in-depth view from established scholars in the realm of sociotechnical systems research and related domains - Brings a systematic understanding that includes ways of designing and adopting sociotechnical systems in healthcare

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Academic Press

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0128125845

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Between Reading and Seeing

By: Sean V. Leatherbury

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Between Reading and Seeing

By: Sean V. Leatherbury

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan – acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.

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Routledge

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1000023338

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If Gold Is Our Destiny

How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory

By: Sean P. Murray

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If Gold Is Our Destiny

How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory

By: Sean P. Murray

This book tells the inspiring story of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team. After many years playing as underdogs, a maverick coach would take over and push the players to their physical and emotional limits. Their journey to the Olympics reveals the value of teamwork, never giving up, and trusting in an innovative style of leadership.

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If Gold Is Our Destiny

If Gold Is Our Destiny

The Irish in Illinois

The Irish in Illinois

Dissonance

Dissonance

Marxism and Realism

Marxism and Realism

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine E-Book

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine E-Book

Goodwin and Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis

Goodwin and Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis

Designing Healthcare That Works

Designing Healthcare That Works

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

If Gold Is Our Destiny

If Gold Is Our Destiny

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