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More detailed than an outlined review but less overwhelming than an
encyclopedic reference, Brenner and Stevens' Pharmacology, 6th
Edition, focuses on the essential principles you need to know in a
concise, easy-to-understand manner. Authored by Craig W. Stevens,
PhD, this highly illustrated introductory text helps you learn and
retain key information in pharmacology-taking you from course exams
and the USMLE Step 1 right through to clinical practice. New and
extensively revised content keeps you up to date with the latest
pharmacologic mechanisms and applications. Teaches the fundamental
aspects of pharmacology using full-color illustrations, detailed
explanations, and a consistent format to present classification of
drugs for each system/disease. Helps you understand both the basic
science foundations and clinical applications of pharmacology, with
useful tables, drug classifications boxes, case studies, and
self-assessments in each chapter to help you review and prepare for
course exams and Step 1. Includes the latest drugs and therapeutic
indications (more than 100 are new to this edition), along with an
entirely new chapter on recent developments of immunopharmacology
drugs, including antivirals and vaccinations. Addresses key topics
such as antiviral and monoclonal drugs to treat COVID-19, the
opioid epidemic, and gene therapy. Features more than 700 new and
updated images, with many revised figures focused on clearing
presenting the mechanism of action of drugs. Includes access to
bonus eBook content such as animations, an additional glossary,
chapter-by-chapter summaries and case studies, a full list of
featured drugs, 150 USMLE-style self-assessment questions, and
more. 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.
"Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African
societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their
origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist
culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition."
--"Book News"
"In the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum
periods, Craig Steven Wilder's "In the Company of Black Men" stands
out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last
decade."--"Journal of American Ethnic History
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New
York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early
national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in
twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a
fixture of African-American communities.
In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three
centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional
foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and
social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the
voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis
in collectivism--a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege
the group over the individual--it explores the institutions that
arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action
and mass resistance.
Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its
assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with
intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a
communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift
from previous work which has viewed African-American male
associations as derivative and imitative of white malecounterparts,
In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for
investigating antebellum black institutions.
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Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray star in this wartime aviation drama
about the research trials which attempted to eliminate the
dangerous phenomenon of pilot-blackout. The film, directed by
Michael Curtiz ('Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'), was nominated for
an Oscar for its camera work.
Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of
scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of
this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic
contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars,
activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies
of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the
presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of
the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use
of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies
of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the
post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features
broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the
regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case
studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as
Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory
University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of
Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory
University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent
findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting
developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of
thinking about racial diversity in the history and current
practices of higher education.
How many times must we repeat the mistakes of the past? This new
book describes 30 crucial historical lessons from around the world
in clear, lively, readable language.
Emphirical research and virtue ethics find a fitting match in their
respective studies of resilience and fortitude. The concept of
resilience involves personal and social capacities to cope with
difficulty, resist destruction under hardship, and construct
something positive out of an otherwise negative situation. Although
the concept is new, the human phenomenon is ancient. It has been
attested to for millennia by poets, philosophers, and spiritual
writers who have praised it in the language of the virtues. In
addition to examining empirical resilience research, this book
offers - at philosophical and theological levels - a basis for a
hearty understanding of the human person in terms of the virtues
that enable human beings to overcome difficulty when they are faced
with fear and suffering, or when they are in need of imaginative
daring and hope. The primary such virtue is fortitude. The present
study employs the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his sources on
fortitude and its related virtues, while taking his dialogal method
as a basis for critically appropriating reflections from other
perspectives as well. The book offers a renewed, classic vision of
the human person and the ordering of the sciences as read through
the complementary and, at one level, corrective insights of
empirical psychosocial studies on resilience. Such a vibrant
natural-law approach to ethical norms and moral development offers
guidelines and a framework for understanding human resilience.
Moreover, it recognizes a theological transformation of such human
capacities - a spiritual resilience - by proposing the New Law of
grace, Christ's teaching, and the infused virtues as vital bases
for Christian ethics.
Servais Pinckaers, O.P., is one of the preeminent Catholic moral
theologians of his generation. His highly acclaimed works, among
them The Sources of Christian Ethics, offer a thoroughly Thomistic
and contemporary vision of the Christian moral life. They reflect
the philosophical and spiritual prowess of a moral theologian who
is estranged neither from philosophical ethics nor from dogmatic
theology, neither from Scripture nor from spirituality.
The first collection of its kind available in any language, this
volume features the twenty most significant essays written by
Pinckaers since his highly praised Sources. The essays offer
profound reflections that are only possible by a contemporary moral
theologian who knows the thought of Aquinas from lifelong study.
Rather than taking a simply historical approach to Aquinas,
Pinckaers seeks the basis of the intelligibility of the moral life,
providing rich spiritual and theological insights along the way. He
plumbs the depths of fundamental moral theology in these essays,
where he treats Thomistic method and the renewal of moral theology,
beatitude and Christian anthropology, moral agency, and passions
and virtues, as well as law and grace. Such a detailed treatment of
key issues in fundamental moral theology and Christian
philosophical anthropology will certainly demand attention from
every theologian and advanced student interested in Aquinas and in
a virtue approach to Christian ethics.
Pinckaers's work has been an important source for the revival of
interest in virtue-oriented moral theology in recent years and will
continue to be a major source for debates over the place of
Scripture and the Holy Spirit in moraltheology.
John Berkman is Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Area
Director of Moral Theology/Ethics at The Catholic University of
America. Craig Steven Titus is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the
Department of Ethics and Moral Theology at the University of
Fribourg and Visiting Professor at the Institute for the
Psychological Sciences. The essays are translated by Sr. Mary
Thomas Noble, O.P., Craig Steven Titus, Michael Sherwin, O.P., and
Hugh Connelly.
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that
institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting
off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines
across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique.
In "Ebony and Ivy," Craig Steven Wilder, a leading historian of
race in America, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race,
slavery, and the American academy.Many of America's revered
colleges and universities--from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to
Rutgers, Williams College, and the University of North
Carolina--were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the
blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their
mission to Christianize the "savages" of North America and played a
key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher
education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery
funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors.
Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders
aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders.
Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities were
dependent on human bondage and became breeding grounds for the
racist ideas that sustained it."Ebony and Ivy" is a powerful and
propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of
oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of
liberal politics.
Designing and making a coffee table represents a unique project for
the craftperson, offering the reward and satisfaction of building a
beautiful and yet fairly simple piece of furniture. A coffee table
project requires forethought and planning. It also helps to develop
confident handskills and the attitude to do one's best, especially
for someone just beginning to explore furniture making. Creating
Coffee Tables: An Artistic Approach takes the novice as well as the
advanced woodworker through a fully illustrated step-by-step
process from design to applying a finish. Drawing from his study at
the renowned College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program,
cabinetmaker and author Craig Vandall Stevens takes the
craftsperson through the sequence of events necessary to design and
build a coffee table. 350 detailed photographs illustrate selecting
and laying out lumber, the use of woodworking machines and
handtools, sharpening, milling and preparing parts, joinery,
resawing and making sawn veneers, shaping with handtools, assembly,
and choosing and applying a finish.
Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of
scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of
this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic
contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars,
activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies
of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the
presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of
the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use
of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies
of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the
post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features
broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the
regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case
studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as
Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory
University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of
Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory
University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent
findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting
developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of
thinking about racial diversity in the history and current
practices of higher education.
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