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In December 1982, the Centers for Disease Control received the
first reports of cases of children with HIV/AIDS. Since that time,
the child welfare system, as well as other human service
organizations, have been coping with and responding to the crises
of children and families living with HIV/AIDS, including the
considerable number of children affected by AIDS through the
illness of their parents, siblings, or other family members. This
volume is intended as a resource for personnel within the child
welfare field serving children and families whose lives are touched
by HIV and AIDS. The contributors add insight to and fuel the
discussion of the fight against AIDS. They provide tools to help
better serve the children and adolescents that the current epidemic
so tragically affects. Chapters and contributors include: "Factors
Associated with Parents' Decision to Disclose Their HIV Diagnosis
to Their Children" by Lori S. Wiener, Haven B. Battles, and Nancy
E. Heilman; "Custody Planning with HIV-Affected Families" by Sally
Mason; "Correlates and Distribution of HIV Risk Behaviors Among
Homeless Youths in New York City" by Michael C. Clatts, W. Rees
Davis, J. L. Sotheran, and Aylin Attillasoy; and "HIV Prevention
for Youths in Independent Living Programs" by Wendy F. Auslander,
Vered Slonim-Nevo, Diane Elze, and Michael Sherraden. Originally
published as a special issue of 'Child Welfare', this volume
examines lessons learned from a variety of perspectives and
settings, and identifies a number of continuing challenges facing
the field. 'Children and HIV/AIDS' is an invaluable compendium that
should be read by social workers and health specialists and all
those affected by the epidemic.
First published in 1995: Clinically Applied Microcirculation
Research combines state-of-the-art microcirculation technology with
present and potential applications in clinical medicine. This
comprehensive guide unites the expertise of clinicians and basic
researchers from around the world. Many of the chapters are
authored by scientist/physician teams. The book provides a broad
overview of how microcirculation is involved in clinical research.
This is also a valuable reference source for both the history of
and latest developments in microcirculation research.
First published in 1995: Clinically Applied Microcirculation
Research combines state-of-the-art microcirculation technology with
present and potential applications in clinical medicine. This
comprehensive guide unites the expertise of clinicians and basic
researchers from around the world. Many of the chapters are
authored by scientist/physician teams. The book provides a broad
overview of how microcirculation is involved in clinical research.
This is also a valuable reference source for both the history of
and latest developments in microcirculation research.
In December 1982, the Centers for Disease Control received the
first reports of cases of children with HIV/AIDS. Since that time,
the child welfare system, as well as other human service
organizations, have been coping with and responding to the crises
of children and families living with HIV/AIDS, including the
considerable number of children affected by AIDS through the
illness of their parents, siblings, or other family members. This
volume is intended as a resource for personnel within the child
welfare field serving children and families whose lives are touched
by HIV and AIDS. The contributors add insight to and fuel the
discussion of the fight against AIDS. They provide tools to help
better serve the children and adolescents that the current epidemic
so tragically affects. Chapters and contributors include: "Factors
Associated with Parents' Decision to Disclose Their HIV Diagnosis
to Their Children" by Lori S. Wiener, Haven B. Battles, and Nancy
E. Heilman; "Custody Planning with HIV-Affected Families" by Sally
Mason; "Correlates and Distribution of HIV Risk Behaviors Among
Homeless Youths in New York City" by Michael C. Clatts, W. Rees
Davis, J. L. Sotheran, and Aylin Attillasoy; and "HIV Prevention
for Youths in Independent Living Programs" by Wendy F. Auslander,
Vered Slonim-Nevo, Diane Elze, and Michael Sherraden. Originally
published as a special issue of "Child Welfare," this volume
examines lessons learned from a variety of perspectives and
settings, and identifies a number of continuing challenges facing
the field. "Children and HIV/AIDS" is an invaluable compendium that
should be read by social workers and health specialists and all
those affected by the epidemic.
Fundamentals of Educational Research succeeds in cutting through the complexities of research to give the novice reader a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct study, while providing insights for even the accomplished reader. This best-selling book is of value to all social researchers, but in particular to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers employed in private industry, management and government agencies. Anderson discusses the research process and offers a wealth of information on how to define a research problem, plan a study, develop a research framework, collect the data, analyse it and write it into a credible paper or thesis. He has captured the essential components of the research process in a book that balances the quantitative and qualitative perspectives through both the academic and consulting research traditions.
In the past decade, a number of advances have been made in genetic
engineering as applied to farmed animals. This book has been
developed from invited presentations at a conference held in
California in August 1997, to address this issue. It is written by
representatives from the leading laboratories involved in attempts
to improve agriculturally important mammals, poultry and fish.
Current knowledge, methodology, technical improvements and
successes in the applications of transgenic technology to a range
of animals which are important in agriculture are brought together
for the first time under one cover. This book is essential reading
for research workers in animal genetics, breeding and
biotechnology.
Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to
our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the
zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical
emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also
appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including
the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost
Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as
secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans
forcibly removed from the American Southeast. To capture the
manifold forms of southern haunting and horror, Undead Souths
explores a variety of media and historical periods, establishes
cultural crossings between the South and other regions within and
outside of the U.S., and employs diverse theoretical and critical
approaches. The result is an engaging and inclusive collection that
chronicles the enduring connection between southern culture and the
refusal of the dead to stay dead.
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the
geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although
the physical environments that form its central subjects are
scattered throughout the southeastern United States, the
Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the
Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp, this evocative collection
challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which
ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global
scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical
introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks
for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis
on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism,
intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume
analyses canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale
Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary
literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts
of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from
swamp rock and zydeco to Beyonce's visual album Lemonade.
Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the
contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering
anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic
collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern
spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and
political crisis.
Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to
our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the
zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical
emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also
appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including
the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost
Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as
secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans
forcibly removed from the American Southeast. To capture the
manifold forms of southern haunting and horror, Undead Souths
explores a variety of media and historical periods, establishes
cultural crossings between the South and other regions within and
outside of the U.S., and employs diverse theoretical and critical
approaches. The result is an engaging and inclusive collection that
chronicles the enduring connection between southern culture and the
refusal of the dead to stay dead.
The momentous events of 1989-1991 marked the end of the Soviet
Union and, as a result, its threat to the interests of the free
world. One of those free-world interests was-and is-the ability to
use the planet's seas and oceans on all lawful occasions. Another
is not to be threatened by hostile seaborne forces.
Anyone who cannot decide the merits of supporting the Republican
Party should read this book before deciding This book exposes the
unseemly behavior of a couple of Tea Party Republicans, Eric Cantor
and Paul Ryan. These two have a special relationship with hedge
funds. That disturbing relationship needs to be explored in the
light of misplaced Tea Party moral demands.
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Nonphilosophy poses a challenge to philosophical thought, inspired
by the work of Francois Laruelle. It questions the idea that
philosophy, or other disciplines, can tell us what it means to
think. This edited collection brings together an internationally
known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major
new essay by Laruelle himself. Together they use nonphilosophy to
cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance.
Philosophers have been busy for centuries looking for the
foundations of truth, value, and reality. They try to say what it
all means and how it all fits together. Areas of life like science
and art have to wait for the philosopher to show up to tell them
what they are really about. Theory dictates meaning: performance
just puts it into effect. Nonphilosophy is different. It says that
reality is not an object out there that we can think and
understand. The Real is the place we stand: it is where we think
from. Crucially, nonphilosophy understands philosophy itself to be
performative. It enacts modes of thinking that do not dominate the
material of thought and do not capture the Real in concepts.
Philosophy is mutated by its performances; and performances
themselves think, are modes of theory. What happens when we bring
philosophy, art, and performance together, without hierarchy? How
can they get inside and change one another? The thinkers in this
collection answer these pressing questions.
American-German relations are in transition. A number of
explanations have been given for this fact: some focusing on the
personalities of politicians, some on political and attitudinal
disparities, still others pointing to disagreements about foreign
policy objectives since the end of the Cold War and 9/11. This
volume, written by American and German scholarly experts, while not
denying the relevance and validity of such explanations of the
transatlantic estrangement, address the extent, resilience, and the
causes of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and confrontations in
the transatlantic relationship as well as highlighting
commonalities and enduring ties between the U.S. and Germany. The
chapters analyze domestic and foreign policies, political cultures,
and compare trends in business relations, migration, culture,
education, journalism, law, and religion. The authors contend that
differences in political cultures, societal priorities, and
national interests are inevitable, perhaps even desirable and not
necessarily an obstacle to a continuous and mutually beneficial
exchange or even the development of a special relationship. But
first of all they need to be acknowledged, then understood, and
finally dealt with in an atmosphere of mutual trust recognizing
common ground. The book ends with suggestions about how to deal
with different interpretations and perceptions in order to reclaim
a strategic partnership for progressive changes in an increasingly
multipolar world.
Culture-to-culture encounters between "natives" and "aliens"
have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest--among
American Indian tribes, between American Indians and
Euro-Americans, and even, according to some, between humans and
extraterrestrials at Roswell, New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range
of cultural productions including novels, films, paintings, comic
strips, and historical studies, this groundbreaking book explores
the Southwest as both a real and a culturally constructed site of
migration and encounter, in which the very identities of "alien"
and "native" shift with each act of travel.
Eric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range
of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecraft myths,
Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Wendy Rose's poetry, the
outlaw narratives of Billy the Kid, Apache autobiographies by
Geronimo and Jason Betzinez, paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, New
West history by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Frank Norris' McTeague,
Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain, Sarah Winnemucca's Life
Among the Piutes, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, George
Herriman's modernist comic strip Krazy Kat, and A. A. Carr's
Navajo-vampire novel Eye Killers.
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