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This book presents the theoretical background as well as best
practice examples of estimating in heavy construction. The examples
stem from practitioners in international large-scale construction
projects. As distinct from other publications on estimating, this
book presents specific numbers and costs are calculated precisely.
In this way the book helps to avoid errors in the estimating of
construction projects like roads, bridges, tunnels, and
foundations.
Principles of Veterinary Parasitology is a student-friendly
introduction to veterinary parasitology. Written primarily to meet
the immediate needs of veterinary students, this textbook outlines
the essential parasitological knowledge needed to underpin clinical
practice. Conceptual relationships between parasitic organisms,
their biology and the diseases they cause are clearly illustrated.
Help boxes and practical tips are included throughout alongside a
wealth of colour photographs, drawings and life-cycle diagrams.
Organised taxonomically with additional host-orientated chapters
and focussing on parasites that commonly cause animal or zoonotic
disease, welfare problems or economic losses, students worldwide
will benefit from this straightforward and easy to comprehend
introduction to veterinary parasitology. Key features include: * An
easy to navigate textbook, providing information essential for
clinical studies * Full colour throughout, with photographs,
diagrams, life-cycles and help boxes for visual learners * A
companion website including a pronunciation guide, self-assessment
questions and further reading lists
Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for empowerment while indebted city governments battle to maintain basic services. Such is the urban crisis of the 1990s. Fractured Cities describes the political economy of urban change and explores the future of the city.
A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of
injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts
the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent
dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation
might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and
urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of
the individuals and communities who are working together to heal
historical wounds—and reveals how much we have to gain by
learning from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the
brutal legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people
that has endured since the nation’s founding. Explaining how
early attempts at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal
nations of their land and forcing their children into abusive
boarding schools, she shows that true reconciliation must emerge
through Indigenous leadership and sustained relationships between
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific
places and histories. In the absence of an official apology and a
federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are
creating a movement for transformative reconciliation that puts
Indigenous land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront.
With historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges
us to face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to
redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One
Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in
America today, despite their troubled history, are finding
unexpected gifts in reconciliation.
This book, first published in 1986, examines the race and
immigration issues by considering the nature of the black
'constituency' and its political responses to issues related to the
crisis of Britain's inner cities. It centrally examines black
access to and integration into the public policy process and views
public policy responses and how these affect black politics.
American experience provides a 'model' against which the British
approach is viewed. The book looks at the background to the crisis,
and its roots in economic decline. It also elaborates the
historical development of government policy and legislation towards
race and immigration, and the impact of community relations
agencies, housing and education policy, and immigrant legislation.
Black political action is considered, with particular emphasis on
interest-group activity and community organisation. A concluding
chapter looks at various policy options affecting blacks in
Britain, comparing British and American approaches to community
development and participation.
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the
case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive
parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s
biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation
of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her
for adoption to the Capobiancos without Brown’s consent. Although
Brown regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child
Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the
Capobiancos, rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the
long history of removing Indigenous children from their families.
In A Generation Removed, a powerful blend of history and
family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines
how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed
thousands of American Indian children from their families and
placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late
1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian children had been
separated from their families. Jacobs also reveals the global
dimensions of the phenomenon: these practices undermined Indigenous
families and their communities in Canada and Australia as well.
Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of Indigenous
families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children,
leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national
investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and
Canada.Â
The rationalist approach to strategizing emphasizes analytical and
convergent thinking. Without denying the importance of this
approach, this book argues that strategists must learn to
complement it with a more creative approach to strategizing that
emphasizes synthetic and divergent ways of thinking. The
theoretical underpinnings of this approach include embodied
realism, interpretivism, practice theory, theory of play, design
thinking, as well as discursive approaches such as metaphorical
analysis, narrative analysis, dialogical analysis and hermeneutics.
The book includes in-depth discussions of these theories and shows
how they can be put into practice by presenting detailed analyses
of embodied metaphors built by groups of agents with step-by-step
explanations of how this process can be implemented and
facilitated. The link between theory and practice is further
supported by the inclusion of several vignettes that describe how
this approach has been successfully employed in a number of
organizations, including BASF and UNICEF.
A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice
to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh
truth that the United States was founded on the violent
dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation
might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and
urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of
the individuals and communities who are working together to heal
historical wounds-and reveals how much we have to gain by learning
from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the brutal
legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people that has
endured since the nation's founding. Explaining how early attempts
at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal nations of their
land and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools, she
shows that true reconciliation must emerge through Indigenous
leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific places and
histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are creating a
movement for transformative reconciliation that puts Indigenous
land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With
historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges us to
face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to
redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One
Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in
America today, despite their troubled history, are finding
unexpected gifts in reconciliation.
The bestselling guide to curing insomnia without drugs by "a
pioneer" of the field, now updated with the latest research ("The
Wall Street Journal")
For the past ten years, sleep-deprived Americans have found
natural, drug-free relief from insomnia with the help of Dr. Gregg
D. Jacobs's "Say Good Night to Insomnia."
Jacobs's program, developed and tested at Harvard Medical School
and based on cognitive behavioral therapy, has been shown to
improve sleep long-term in 80 percent of patients, making it the
gold standard for treatment. He provides techniques for eliminating
sleeping pills; establishing sleep-promoting behaviors and
lifestyle practices; and improving relaxation, reducing stress, and
changing negative thoughts about sleep.
In this updated edition, Jacobs surveys the limitations and
dangers of the new generation of sleeping pills, dispels misleading
and confusing claims about sleep and health, and shares
cutting-edge research on insomnia that proves his approach is more
effective than sleeping pills."
Say Good Night to Insomnia" is the definitive guide to
overcoming insomnia without drugs for the thousands of Americans
who are looking for a healthy night's rest.
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Can foreign rule be morally justified? Since the end of the First
World War, international transitional administrations have replaced
dysfunctional states to create the conditions for lasting peace and
democracy. In response to extreme state failure, the author argues,
this form of foreign rule is not only justified, but a requirement
of justice.
Can foreign rule be morally justified? Since the end of the First
World War, international transitional administrations have replaced
dysfunctional states to create the conditions for lasting peace and
democracy. In response to extreme state failure, the author argues,
this form of foreign rule is not only justified, but a requirement
of justice.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ THE ABOLITION POVERTY JACOB H. HOLLANDER, Ph.D.
Nuclear deterrence, like climate change, is a devilishly complex
issue that tends to polarize its community of experts. Disarmament
advocates talk about the catastrophic dangers posed by large
nuclear weapon stockpiles. Proponents discuss the inherent security
advantages provided by nuclear deterrence. With some notable
exceptions, attitudes among world leaders in the past 40 years tend
to support reduced weapon stockpiles and policies to prevent
proliferation. The U.S., by virtue of its large nuclear stockpile
and stature as a global superpower, remains a leader for this
issue. U.S. leadership has long stated a policy towards nuclear
disarmament that is conditional on the world environment and
preserving security of U.S. interests and allies. This policy has
generated numerous proposals by various strategists to reduce the
U.S. nuclear stockpile to levels well below the current force
structure. Inevitably, each proposal generates considerable debate
about the quantity of the reduction. This paper contends that
quantity of reductions should not be the primary focus of debate.
Rather proposals should be analyzed within the larger context of a
chronological continuum with New START as the initial point and
global zero as the end point. This approach aligns the entire
community along the same framework and permits objective analysis
of each proposal's stated deterrence objectives, how they derive
credibility for these objectives, and implications to U.S. policy.
Several proposals were examined in the paper to populate the
continuum. The end result shows that the process of reducing the
U.S. stockpile to low numbers will have profound implications to
U.S. nuclear policy that have not been adequately discussed or
tested. Debate over what the right number of weapons is must shift
to how the U.S. credibly drives to zero.
If you thought "Emotionally Unhinged" took you for an emotional
ride, wait until you get into "Emotional: A Powerful Expression of
Words." With this second poetic compilation, the author allows her
readers to take a look inside the emotional turmoil that exists
when a woman attempts to find her inner self and cope with a world
that drives her to the brink of insanity. So sit back and get ready
for the emotional roller coaster that "Emotional will definitely
take you on.
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