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Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility, Patterns of World
History, Brief Fourth Edition, offers a distinct framework for
understanding the global past through the study of origins,
interactions, and adaptations. The authors examine the full range
of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive,
evenhanded, and critical fashion. They offer a distinct
intellectual framework for the role of innovation and historical
change through patterns of origins, interactions, and adaptations.
The Brief Edition offers a streamlined narrative and the lowest
price points of any full-color world history textbook currently
available. DIGITAL RESOURCES Visit www.oup.com/he/vonsivers4e for a
wealth of digital resources for students and instructors, including
an enhanced eBook with embedded learning tools and the Oxford
Insight Study Guide, which delivers custom-built adaptive practice
sessions based on students' performance.
Disturbances of haemostasis and thromboembolic disorders still
constitute a great problem in clinical practice. Increasing insight
into the mechanism of blood coagula tion has led to more effective
therapy and prophylaxis. Particularly, the understand ing of the
biochemistry of fibrinolysis has provided possibilities for the
pharma cological interference of these processes, which has
resulted in effective haemostatic agents and useful antithrombotic
ones. The development of antifibrinolytics for interfering with
pathological fibrinolytic processes is nearly complete and has led
to the development of drugs essential to the therapy of
hyperfibrinolytic bleeding. The search for fibrinolytics for
dissolving intravascular thrombi has led to highly effective
compounds. This development is still under way and promising
results are hoped. Spontaneous dissolution of blood clots is a
phenomenon which was described a century ago. First investigations
of this process assured that there is in the organism a system
capable of removing the fibrin which is formed during blood
coagulation after it has fulfilled its physiological function. This
fibrinolytic system is specifically adapted to the degradation of
insoluble fibrin into soluble degradation products. In the past 30
years, thorough investigation of this system has clarified the
fibrinolytic process, its physiological role and its meaning as a
pathogenetic principle. A good knowledge of these processes is
required for an understanding of the effects and side effects of
fibrinolytics and antifibrinolytics, which comprise the basis of
methods for the detection of fibrinolytic processes in the organism
and of the control of therapy with these drugs."
Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the
most incisive research of current military scholars, Black
Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America:
Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil
rights struggle and political activism that was reflected in the
lives of ex-GIs throughout Twentieth Century American history. The
volume examines black veteransâ social and political activities
throughout the 20th Century, from the World Wars, through the
Korean and Vietnam War, and ends with the Persian Gulf War.
Presenting the full flesh and blood experiences of black veterans
who came from backgrounds and from all walks of life, each essay
captures how race, gender, ethnic, class, disability, generation,
and region shaped their experiences in the nationâs military
during times of war and how these issues profoundly affected the
postwar politics they embraced while trying to realize the true
meaning of equality in America. With original essays by emerging
scholars in the field of study, Closing Ranks is a foundational
text for reassessing the relationship between the ex-GI and the
modern nation state and providing readers with a vivid window into
the harsh realities that black citizen-soldiers have faced during
war and its aftermath for nearly a century.
The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly
practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in
England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work
and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status
in the 18th and 19th centuries. From Enlightenment practices of
copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the
making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official
knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific
progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement
and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a
craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context
of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England
recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this
overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life.
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 History Of Jean-Paul Choppart; Or, The Surprising
Adventures Of A Runaway by L.C.J.F. Desnoyers. Transl.]. Louis
Claude J.F. Desnoyers, Jean-Paul Choppart (fict. name.)
Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Leon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were
French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME
focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt,
who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of
Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a
Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French throne, the Duke was
kept in ignorance of his father's identity, as well as of the basic
facts of recent European history; and an attempt was also made to
debauch his morals, in order to discredit his name if he did
escape. This play traces the attempt of a French soldier to
penetrate the Austrian palace where the boy was kept, as part of a
failed attempt to free him from his "prison"; and the awakening of
the younger Napoleon to an awareness of his deadly family heritage.
First-rate political drama by two accomplished writers
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