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This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern
Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying
the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped
relations in the modern era. The book captures three aspects of
change simultaneously: the events that mark the “modern” Middle
east, women’s encounters with the transition to modernity and
gendered responses to modernity. It contains both new field work
and a synthesis of secondary scholarship that highlight the role of
gender in the modernization of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, the Levant and
the Persian Gulf states. Chapters are organized chronologically to
chart the rapid developments of the modern era, but each chapter
also stands on its own, with coverage of masculinity and
femininity, sexuality, marriage and the family, labor and women’s
contributions to Arab Spring uprisings. Through this comprehensive
account, the book pushes back on stereotypes that the Middle East
is an ahistorical region and that women have not been vital actors
in the process of change. Richly illustrated and accessible for a
variety of readers, History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle
East is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate
students in gender studies and Middle Eastern history.
To ask the right question, one needs to have some idea of what the
answer might be. So it is with remediation. There is no such thing
as too much information when it comes to characterizing a site, as
information can aid in selecting the best remediation options.
Unfortunately, the collection of data for making an informed
decision is often costly, forcing professionals to make decisions
on incomplete data. The lack of accurate data can also lead to the
wrong remediation method selections, unwanted surprises, and extra
expense. Based on the author's more than 40 years of experience
working on environmental projects, Remediation Manual for
Contaminated Sites provides a practical guide to environmental
remediation and cleanups. It presents a broad overview of the
environmental remediation process, distilled into what one needs to
know to evaluate a specific challenge or solve a remediation
problem. The text offers guidance on tasks that range from managing
consultants and contractors to gathering data, selecting a suitable
remediation technology, and calculating remediation costs. The book
includes remediation strategies for a variety of contaminants and
examines a wide range of technologies for the remediation of water
and soil, including excavation, wells, drainage, soil venting,
vapor stripping, incineration, bioremediation, containment,
solidification, vitrification, and phytoremediation. Written as a
down-to-earth reference for professionals faced with the challenges
of remediating a contaminated site, this book is also useful as a
primer for students and those new to the field. It includes
numerous figures, photographs, tables, and helpful checklists.
Although not much is known about the three Stuart plays in this
edition, which was first published in 1987, we can ascribe them to
one of the English universities, and each is indicative of a
distinctly different influence on the Renaissance academic drama.
Heteroclitanomalonomia is part of a minor subgenre referred to as
the academic play. It demonstrates the predominance of language or
rhetoric studies in the period and its very subject is of purely
academic interest. Gigantomachia displays the continuing interest
of the Renaissance in classical mythology. And A Christmas Messe
follows a more homely tradition, a farcical personification of the
mundane. This title will be of interest to students of English
Literature, Drama and Performance.
To ask the right question, one needs to have some idea of what the
answer might be. So it is with remediation. There is no such thing
as too much information when it comes to characterizing a site, as
information can aid in selecting the best remediation options.
Unfortunately, the collection of data for making an informed
decision is often costly, forcing professionals to make decisions
on incomplete data. The lack of accurate data can also lead to the
wrong remediation method selections, unwanted surprises, and extra
expense. Based on the author's more than 40 years of experience
working on environmental projects, Remediation Manual for
Contaminated Sites provides a practical guide to environmental
remediation and cleanups. It presents a broad overview of the
environmental remediation process, distilled into what one needs to
know to evaluate a specific challenge or solve a remediation
problem. The text offers guidance on tasks that range from managing
consultants and contractors to gathering data, selecting a suitable
remediation technology, and calculating remediation costs. The book
includes remediation strategies for a variety of contaminants and
examines a wide range of technologies for the remediation of water
and soil, including excavation, wells, drainage, soil venting,
vapor stripping, incineration, bioremediation, containment,
solidification, vitrification, and phytoremediation. Written as a
down-to-earth reference for professionals faced with the challenges
of remediating a contaminated site, this book is also useful as a
primer for students and those new to the field. It includes
numerous figures, photographs, tables, and helpful checklists.
This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the
proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well
as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East.
It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in
regional combat, ballistic missile warfare and defenses, as well as
Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and the likely regional reactions
should Tehran acquire a nuclear weapons inventory. This book also
discusses Chinese assistance to WMD and ballistic programs in the
Greater Middle East. Finally, this book recommends policy options
for American diplomacy to counter the challenges posed by WMD
proliferation. This essential study prepares the ground for the
challenges facing the international community. Richard Russell is a
professor at the National Defense University's Near East-South Asia
Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC. He also teaches at
the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He
previously served as a political-military analyst at the CIA.
This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the
proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well
as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East.
It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in
regional combat, ballistic missile warfare and defenses, as well as
Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and the likely regional reactions
should Tehran acquire a nuclear weapons inventory. This book also
discusses Chinese assistance to WMD and ballistic programs in the
Greater Middle East. Finally, this book recommends policy options
for American diplomacy to counter the challenges posed by WMD
proliferation. This essential study prepares the ground for the
challenges facing the international community. Richard Russell is a
professor at the National Defense University's Near East-South Asia
Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC. He also teaches at
the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He
previously served as a political-military analyst at the CIA.
Although not much is known about the three Stuart plays in this
edition, which was first published in 1987, we can ascribe them to
one of the English universities, and each is indicative of a
distinctly different influence on the Renaissance academic drama.
Heteroclitanomalonomia is part of a minor subgenre referred to as
the academic play. It demonstrates the predominance of language or
rhetoric studies in the period and its very subject is of purely
academic interest. Gigantomachia displays the continuing interest
of the Renaissance in classical mythology. And A Christmas Messe
follows a more homely tradition, a farcical personification of the
mundane. This title will be of interest to students of English
Literature, Drama and Performance.
This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern
Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying
the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped
relations in the modern era. The book captures three aspects of
change simultaneously: the events that mark the “modern” Middle
east, women’s encounters with the transition to modernity and
gendered responses to modernity. It contains both new field work
and a synthesis of secondary scholarship that highlight the role of
gender in the modernization of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, the Levant and
the Persian Gulf states. Chapters are organized chronologically to
chart the rapid developments of the modern era, but each chapter
also stands on its own, with coverage of masculinity and
femininity, sexuality, marriage and the family, labor and women’s
contributions to Arab Spring uprisings. Through this comprehensive
account, the book pushes back on stereotypes that the Middle East
is an ahistorical region and that women have not been vital actors
in the process of change. Richly illustrated and accessible for a
variety of readers, History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle
East is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate
students in gender studies and Middle Eastern history.
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of
the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age
answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of
information networks that pays close attention to the politics of
standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information
networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American
military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized
control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United
States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new
digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of
'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to
entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory
democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example,
in movements for open government, open source software, and open
access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the
Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavily on
hierarchical forms of control.
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of
the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age
answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of
information networks that pays close attention to the politics of
standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information
networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American
military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized
control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United
States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new
digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of
'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to
entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory
democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example,
in movements for open government, open source software, and open
access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the
Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavily on
hierarchical forms of control.
Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people,
this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to
provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of
participation and non-participation on the margins of education and
employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.
Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people,
this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to
provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of
participation and non-participation on the margins of education and
employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.
This book of original contributions presents investigations of
psycho therapautic interaction. While the methodological strategies
and the oretical orientations of these investigations are notably
diverse, the utterance-by-utterance analysis of client-therapist
dialogue provides a strong commonality of interest and a
particularly productive perspective from which the process of
psychotherapy can be illuminated. It is hoped that the
contributions selected, and the problems with which they are
occupied, will make evident the rich possibilities such a
perspective has to offer. It should be noted, however, that the
present volume is not a com pendium: any effort to be exhaustive
would be thwarted by considera tions of length alone. Thus, certain
omissions were inevitable. It is hoped that the interested reader
will use the extensive references to become acquainted with the
works not here included. Whatever effort I extended as editor and
contributor to this volume could not have been undertaken without
the lifelong spirit of support of my parents, Selma S. and Jay F.
Russell. I dedicate my contribution to them.
Early and accurate fault detection and diagnosis for modern
chemical plants can minimise downtime, increase the safety of plant
operations, and reduce manufacturing costs. The process-monitoring
techniques that have been most effective in practice are based on
models constructed almost entirely from process data. The goal of
the book is to present the theoretical background and practical
techniques for data-driven process monitoring. Process-monitoring
techniques presented include: Principal component analysis; Fisher
discriminant analysis; Partial least squares; Canonical variate
analysis.
The text demonstrates the application of all of the data-driven
process monitoring techniques to the Tennessee Eastman plant
simulator - demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of each
approach in detail. This aids the reader in selecting the right
method for his process application. Plant simulator and homework
problems in which students apply the process-monitoring techniques
to a nontrivial simulated process, and can compare their
performance with that obtained in the case studies in the text are
included. A number of additional homework problems encourage the
reader to implement and obtain a deeper understanding of the
techniques.
The reader will obtain a background in data-driven techniques for
fault detection and diagnosis, including the ability to implement
the techniques and to know how to select the right technique for a
particular application.
The articles in this volume focus on control theory of systems
governed by nonlinear linear partial differential equations,
identification and optimal design of such systems, and modelling of
advanced materials. Optimal design of systems governed by PDEs is a
relatively new area of study, now particularly relevant because of
interest in optimization of fluid flow in domains of variable
configuration, advanced and composite materials studies and "smart"
materials which include possibilities for built in sensing and
control actuation. The book will be of interest to both applied
mathematicians and to engineers.
This book of original contributions presents investigations of
psycho therapautic interaction. While the methodological strategies
and the oretical orientations of these investigations are notably
diverse, the utterance-by-utterance analysis of client-therapist
dialogue provides a strong commonality of interest and a
particularly productive perspective from which the process of
psychotherapy can be illuminated. It is hoped that the
contributions selected, and the problems with which they are
occupied, will make evident the rich possibilities such a
perspective has to offer. It should be noted, however, that the
present volume is not a com pendium: any effort to be exhaustive
would be thwarted by considera tions of length alone. Thus, certain
omissions were inevitable. It is hoped that the interested reader
will use the extensive references to become acquainted with the
works not here included. Whatever effort I extended as editor and
contributor to this volume could not have been undertaken without
the lifelong spirit of support of my parents, Selma S. and Jay F.
Russell. I dedicate my contribution to them."
This book critically examines the weaknesses of U.S. intelligence
led by the Central Intelligence Agency in informing presidential
decision-making on issues of war and peace. It evaluates the CIA's
strategic intelligence performance during the Cold War and
post-Cold War periods as a foundation for examining the root causes
of intelligence failures surrounding the September 11th attacks and
assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs in the
run up to the Iraq war. Intelligence expert Richard L. Russell
probes the roots causes of these failures which lie in the CIA's
poor human intelligence collection and analysis practices. Russell
argues that none of the post-9/11 intelligence reforms have
squarely addressed these root causes of strategic intelligence
failure and it recommends measures for redressing these dangerous
vulnerabilities in American security.
Teach your learners to work smarter, not harder! The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook gives you the tools you need to ensure that maximum learning and maximum retention are taking place in your training sessions, sales sessions, and classrooms. You'll learn how to: Improve your communication skills Identify the best way individual learners learn Rethink your personal beliefs that block learning Use music to create focused learning environments Measure the effectiveness of a learning session . . . and more! No other accelerated learning resource will offer you as many up-to-date tips, techniques, processes, and theories. Everything you need to create a learning organization--including a music CD to learn by--is between these covers. Enhance learning, foster a quicker grasp of the concepts you present, and ensure greater overall retention of your material with this complete, practical, and comprehensive fieldbook.
A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of
doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves
as medical practitioners in the American South from the early
nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread
that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical
vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews. This study of
four generations of Russell doctors is an historical study with a
biographical thread running through it. The authors take a
wide-ranging look at the meaning of intergenerational vocations and
the role of family, the economy, and social issues on the evolution
of medical education and practice in the United States.
Neurofeedback: The First Fifty Years features broadly recognized
pioneers in the field sharing their views and contributions on the
history of neurofeedback. With some of the pioneers of
neurofeedback already passed on or aging, this book brings together
the monumental contributions of renowned researchers and
practitioners in an unprecedented, comprehensive volume. With the
rapid and exciting advances in this dynamic field, this information
is critical for neuroscientists, neurologists, neurophysiologists,
cognitive and developmental psychologists and other practitioners,
providing a clear presentation of the frontiers of this exciting
and medically important area of physiology.
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