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Los Angeles Police Department

By: Thomas G. Hays,Arthur W. Sjoquist

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No police force in history has gained as much fame and notoriety as the Los Angeles Police Department. The acronym LAPD is practically synonymous with the idea of professional law enforcement. The men in blue who patrol Hollywood and the sprawling metropolis of L.A. have been investigated by screenwriters more times than vice versa. With more than 9,300 sworn officers today, the LAPD endures seemingly endless controversies and media circuses. But then there's the other side of L.A.'s protective shield--the story of the force's evolution alongside the spectacular growth of its unique melting-pot city. This book's rare and often never-before-published photographs focus on that side: the excitement, danger, tragedy, and comedy of everyday beat cops and workaday detectives--with concessions to their limelight representations, including Jack Webb's Dragnet and Adam-12.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738530255

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9780738530253

Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience,Legalism and Human Rights

An Allegory of Medical Humanities,Foundational Virtues,Ethical Principles,Law and Human Rights in Medical,Personal and Professional Development

By: Thomas Alured Faunce

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Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience,Legalism and Human Rights

An Allegory of Medical Humanities,Foundational Virtues,Ethical Principles,Law and Human Rights in Medical,Personal and Professional Development

By: Thomas Alured Faunce

This arrestingly novel work develops a normative synthesis of medical humanities, virtue ethics, medical ethics, health law and human rights. It presents an ambitious, complex and coherent argument for the reconceptualisation of the doctor-patient relationship and its regulation utilising approaches often thought of as being separate, if not opposed (virtue-based ethics and universal human rights). The case is argued gracefully, with moderation, but also with respect for opposing positions. The book's analysis of the foundational professional virtue of therapeutic loyalty is an original departure from the traditional discourse of "patient autonomy," and the ethical and legal "duties" of the medical practitioner. The central argument is not merely presented, as bookends, in the introduction and conclusion. It is cogently represented in each chapter and section and measured against the material considered. A remarkable feature is the use of aptly selected "canonical" literature to inform the argument. These references run from Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" in the abstract, to Joyce's "Ulysses" in the conclusion. They include excerpts from and discussion about Bergman, Borges, Boswell, Tolstoy, de Beauvoir, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Samuel Johnson, Aristotle, Orwell, Osler, Chaucer, Schweitzer, Shakespeare, Thorwalds, Kafka and William Carlos Williams. Such references are used not merely as an artistic and decorative leitmotif, but become a critical, narrative element and another complex and rich layer to this work. The breadth and quality of the references are testimony to the author's clear understanding of the modern law and literature movement. This work provides the basis of a medicalschool course. As many medical educators as possible should also be encouraged to read this work for the insights it will give them into using their own personal life narratives and those of their patients to inform their decision-making process. This thesis will also be of value to the judiciary, whose members are often called upon to make normatively difficult judgments about medical care and medical rules. The human rights material leads to a hopeful view of an international movement toward a universal synthesis between medical ethics and human rights in all doctor-patient relationships.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004139621

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9789004139626

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

By: V.N. Tsytovich,Gregor Morfill,Sergey V. Vladimirov,Hubertus M. Thomas

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Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

By: V.N. Tsytovich,Gregor Morfill,Sergey V. Vladimirov,Hubertus M. Thomas

Complex plasmas are dusty plasmas in which the density and electric charges of the dust grains are sufficiently high to induce long-range grain-grain interactions, as well as strong absorption of charged-plasma components. Together with the sources replenishing the plasma such systems form a highly dissipative thermodynamically open system that exhibits many features of collective behaviour generally found in complex systems. Most notably among them are self-organized patterns such as plasma crystals, plasma clusters, dust stars and further spectacular new structures. Beyond their intrinsic scientific interest, the study of complex plasmas grows in importance in a great variety of fields, ranging from space-plasma sciences to applied fields such as plasma processing, thin-film deposition and even the production of computer chips by plasma etching, in which strongly interacting clouds of complex plasmas can cause major contamination of the final product. Intended as first introductory but comprehensive survey of this rapidly emerging field, the present book addresses postgraduate students as well as specialist and nonspecialist researchers with a general background in either plasma physics, space sciences or the physics of complex systems.

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Springer

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3540290036

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9783540290032

To Intermix with Our White Brothers

Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals

By: Thomas N. Ingersoll

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To Intermix with Our White Brothers

Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals

By: Thomas N. Ingersoll

The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.

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UNM Press

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0826332870

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9780826332875

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

By: Thomas Boghardt

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U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

By: Thomas Boghardt

Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a microhistorical lens to examine such diverse topics as the slave trade, the spread of Islam, colonization, subsistence production, counter-insurgency, decolonization, civil war, ecotourism, and matriliny. Thereby, the book attempts to reflect as much as possible on the generalizability and (global) comparability of local findings by framing analyses in historiographical discussions that aim to go beyond the regional or national level. Although the chapters of the book deal with very different topics, they are united by a common interest in the social history of rural Africa in the longue durée. Contrary to persistent clichés of rural inertia in Africa, the book as a whole underscores the profound changeability of social conditions and relations in Nkholongue over the years and highlights how people’s room for maneuver kept changing as a result of the Winds of History, the frequent and often violent ruptures brought to the village from outside.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110988763

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9783110988765

Coherent Optics

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Werner Lauterborn,Thomas Kurz

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Coherent Optics

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Werner Lauterborn,Thomas Kurz

Since the advent of the laser, coherent optics has developed at an ever increasing pace. There is no doubt about the reason. Coherent light, with its properties so different from the light we are surrounded by, lends itself to numerous applications in science, technology, and life. The bandwidth of coherent optics reaches from holography and interferometry, with its gravitational wave detectors, to the CD player for music, movies, and computers; from the laser scalpel, which allows surgical cutting in the interior of the eye without destruction of the layers penetrated in front of it, to optical information and data processing with its great impact on society. According to its importance, the foundations of coherent optics should be conveyed to students of natural sciences as early as possible to better prepare them for their future careers as physicists or engineers. The present book tries to serve this need: to promote the foundations of coherent optics. Special attention is paid to a thorough presentation of the fundamentals. This should enable the reader to follow the contemporary literature from a firm basis. The wealth of material, of course, makes necessary a restriction of the topics included. Therefore, from the main areas of optics, wave optics and the classical description oflight is given most ofthe space available. The book starts with a quick trip through the history of physics from the viewpoint of optics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662052733

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9783662052730

Health Systems in Transition

USA, Second Edition

By: Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes

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Health Systems in Transition

USA, Second Edition

By: Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system's performance.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487526458

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9781487526450

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Los Angeles Police Department

Los Angeles Police Department

Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience,Legalism and Human Rights

Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience,Legalism and Human Rights

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas

To Intermix with Our White Brothers

To Intermix with Our White Brothers

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

Coherent Optics

Coherent Optics

Health Systems in Transition

Health Systems in Transition

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