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MIMS' Medical Microbiology and Immunology is loved internationally
for its thorough yet easy-to-follow coverage of microbiology,
infectious diseases, and immunology as a dynamic interplay between
microbes and host. Covering the fundamentals of these closely
linked disciplines, MIMS' takes a systems approach to elaborate on
epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathogenesis, and diagnostic
approaches, as well as treatment and infection control
considerations, supplemented by case-based examples. Complex
scientific and clinical concepts are explained clearly and simply
with the help of illustrations and a range of accompanying online
content. Students will come away with a deep understanding of
topics and processes, and will return to this book for reference
time and again. Clear writing and easy-to-understand explanations -
perfect for students learning to grasp the fundamentals of both
microbiology and immunology User-friendly format with colour
coding, key concept boxes, and dynamic illustrations for easy
navigation Organised by body system - goes beyond the 'bug parade'
to help you understand clinical context Pathogen Parade (electronic
supplement) - a quick cross-referenced glossary of viruses,
bacteria, parasites, and fungi Vaccine Parade (electronic
supplement) - quick-reference coverage of the most commonly used
vaccines in current clinical practice Clinical cases and
multiple-choice self-assessments (electronic supplement) support
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Blizzard (Hardcover)
Marie Vingtras; Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
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Kaya Days (Paperback)
Carl de Souza; Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
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My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to—quote—sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and absolutely zillions of boys for miles. I absolutely had to write everything down because I heard that when you get older you forget things, and I'd be the most miserable woman in the world if I forgot all about Moondoggie and what happened this summer. I absolutely owe the world my story. (And every word is true. I swear.) This is Franzie, part Holden Caulfield, part Lolita. The guys call her Gidget—short for girl midget—and she’s a girl coming of age in the summer of 1957. Based on the experiences of his own daughter, Frederick Kohner's trend-setting novel became an international sensation and turned its irrepressible heroine into an American pop culture icon whose voice still echoes every thrill, every fear, and every hope that every teenager ever had about growing up.
With wise advice and helpful exercises from psychologist Dr. Jaime
Zuckerman, this beautifully designed, interactive workbook will
help you find a path toward a calmer, happier daily life. Stress,
worry, and anxiety can make it hard to enjoy your days, and these
feelings tend to build up over time. This enjoyable workbook is a
colorful, friendly guide that's written to be straightforward and
easily accessible, with the feel of a guided journal rather than a
dry clinical tome. Inside, you'll find a simple toolkit for
reducing your anxiety, no matter where it pops up: Learn to
separate yourself from your anxious thoughts Break unhelpful
thought patterns Practice how to confront and manage your fears
Find strategies for focusing on the present moment Practice
techniques to keep anxiety at bay for the long haul Accompanied by
engaging, inspirational illustrations, this workbook offers writing
prompts, meditations, tracking exercises, and more-giving a gentle,
eye-opening introduction to scientifically proven techniques to
reduce anxiety in everyday life. The Wellness Workbooks series from
Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and
mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful,
evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an
accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and
inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations
throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal
growth in a beautiful package.
Finalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a
groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the
environment and global health--from the James Beard Award-winning
journalist Over the past few decades, palm oil has seeped into
every corner of our lives. Worldwide, palm oil production has
nearly doubled in just the last decade: oil-palm plantations now
cover an area nearly the size of New Zealand, and some form of the
commodity lurks in half the products on U.S. grocery shelves. But
the palm oil revolution has been built on stolen land and slave
labor; it's swept away cultures and so devastated the landscapes of
Southeast Asia that iconic animals now teeter on the brink of
extinction. Fires lit to clear the way for plantations spew carbon
emissions to rival those of industrialized nations. James Beard
Award-winning journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling
the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on
the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood
plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending
history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people
whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This
groundbreaking work of first-rate journalism compels us to examine
the connections between the choices we make at the grocery store
and a planet under siege.
Originally published in 1979, this title represents a summary of
17 years of research centring around the "Sensation Seeking Scale"
(SSS) and the theory from which the test was derived. Now an
integral part of personality testing, including adaptations for use
with children, this reissue is a chance to see where it all
began.
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Nothing Belongs to You
Nathacha Appanah; Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
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It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since
her husband's death. In her, something rises and crests like a
wave. As she sits in squalor in a house that once knew love, she
hears the deafening cry of a past she thought was stifled and the
resurgence of the person she had been before. A girl with another
name, who loved to laugh and dance, who believed in the innocence
of childhood until she was overtaken by her country's demons. With
her characteristic lyricism and precision, Nathacha Appanah offers
us total immersion into a world of lost futures and hidden pasts,
in which the implacable hand of fate can only be resisted at a
price. Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Change your life step by step with this beautifully designed,
interactive workbook. Throughout the hustle and bustle of everyday
life, it can become very easy to get stuck in lifestyle patterns
and habits that we know are unhealthy, and it can become just as
difficult for us to let go of them. With encouraging guidance and
well-organized exercises from psychologist Dr. Jaime Zuckerman,
this workbook offers ways to establish new, healthier patterns and
habits that allow us to live according to our values and reach our
full potential. Inside, you'll find a comprehensive guide to
changing old habits and maintaining new ones: Identify existing
behavioral patterns and habits Align your behaviors with your
values Get out of your comfort zone to establish healthier
behaviors Start small and embrace uncertainty Learn to stay
consistent in maintaining value-based patterns and habits This
supportive, thoughtful workbook is an enriching, motivating guide
that's straightforward and accessible for those striving to
implement healthy behavioral changes in their lives. The engaging,
colorful art and motivational messages make it a fun, accessible
tool for self-improvement. The Wellness Workbooks series from
Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and
mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful,
evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an
accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and
inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations
throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal
growth in a beautiful package. Other titles include Find Your Calm,
Find Your Strength, and Find Your Peace.
Winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse An epic love story set
against a backdrop of injustice, devastating secrets, and the
painful price of independence. It's 1967 in the Chagos
Archipelago-a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean-and life is
peaceful and easy for hardworking Marie. Her fierce independence
and love for her home are quickly apparent to Gabriel, the handsome
and sophisticated Mauritian secretary to the archipelago's
administrator; it's love at first sight. As these two lovers from
neighboring islands welcome a new son, Josephin, a bright future
seems possible. But Gabriel is hiding a terrible secret. The
Mauritian government is negotiating independence from Britain, and
this deal with the devil will mean evacuating the Chagos, without
warning or mercy-a betrayal that will put their love to the test.
Inspired by a shocking travesty of justice, the repercussions of
which still reverberate more than fifty years later, bestselling
Franco-Mauritian author Caroline Laurent paints a shimmering
portrait of island life, a sensual paradise lost, and a gorgeous
star-crossed love against all odds.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes
originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include
works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget,
Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan
Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed
mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A
brochure listing each title in the "International Library of
Psychology" series is available upon request.
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My Manservant and Me (Paperback)
Herv e Guibert; Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman; Foreword by Shiv Kotecha
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A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's
most beloved French gay writers. My Manservant and Me is a story
about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet.
Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author
of extremely successful middlebrow plays, we learn about his
manservant, a young film actor who is easily moved to both delicate
gestures and terrible tantrums; who's been authorized to handle his
master's finances, who orders stock buys, dictates his master's
wardrobe, sleeps in his master's bed, and yet won't let him watch
variety television. My Manservant and Me reveals the rude
specificities of this relationship with provocative humor and
stylistic abjection. This manservant won't be going anywhere.
It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and
fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to
dominate our lives so completely? Jocelyn C. Zuckerman travels
across four continents and back two centuries to find answers about
the most widely used vegetable oil on Earth. The little oil palm
fruit has played an outsized role in world history and economic
development. But the multi-billion-dollar palm oil business has
been built on stolen land and slave labour; it spurred colonisation
and swept away lives and cultures. Today, its fires and mass
deforestation generate carbon emissions to rival those of entire
industrialized nations, and they've pushed animals like the
orangutan to the brink of extinction. Combining history, travelogue
and investigative reporting, Planet Palm offers an unsettling,
urgent look at a global industry that has become an environmental,
public health, and human rights disaster.
NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR
THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 'Reads
more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday
gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho' Bloomberg 'A
compelling read' Economist 'Captivating' New York Times book review
Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history.
His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren
Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies
are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a
look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies
and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers
the goods. After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint
breaking Soviet codes, Simons set out to conquer financial markets
with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians
and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance -
to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply
hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and
his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their
strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data
embraced by almost every industry today. As Renaissance became a
major player in the financial world, its executives began exerting
influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific
research, education and Democratic politics, funding Hilary
Clinton's presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert
Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump
presidency - he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign, funded Trump's
victorious 2016 effort and backed alt-right publication Breitbart.
Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made
significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his
prescience, Simons failed to anticipate how Mercer's activity would
impact his firm and the world. In this fast-paced narrative,
Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on
Wall Street, and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet
billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond
finance.
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of
Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the
experiences of people entangled in different historical situations.
Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or
ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural
history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness
and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted
upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical
American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a
new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the
experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of
reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future
horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and
non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly
experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as
matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these
studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually
probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and
non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal
linkages that we call history.
Originally published in 1933 Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys
and Apes gives a taxonomic and phylogenetic survey and the findings
of diverse experimental investigations of lemurs, monkeys, and
apes. The book discusses the inter-relationships of different
Primates and emphasizes seldom-used approaches to the question of
primate phylogeny. The book attempts to show how little they have
been systematically tried, and argues for a regard to the proper
place of functional investigations in the study of the
classification and evolution of Primates. This book will be of
interest to anthropologists, scientists and historians alike.
This book describes five paradigms of political explanation:
rational choice theory, political psychology, community analysis,
Marx, and Weber. It is a text for beginning students of political
science and for more advanced students who want to reflect on modes
of thought in political analysis.
Demonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is
correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwide In
the decades since its introduction, secularization theory has been
subjected to doubt and criticism from a number of leading scholars,
who have variously claimed that it is wrong, flawed, or incomplete.
In Beyond Doubt, Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T.
Cragun mount a strong defense for the theory, providing compelling
evidence that religion is indeed declining globally as a result of
modernization. Though defenses of secularization theory have been
mounted in the past, we now have many years’ worth of empirical
data to illuminate trends, and can trace changes not just at a
given point in time but over a trajectory. Drawing on extensive
survey data from nations around the world, the book demonstrates
that, in spite of its many detractors, there is robust empirical
support for secularization theory. It also engages with the most
prominent criticisms levied against the theory, showing that data
that are said to refute the narrative of religious decline are
easily explainable and in keeping with the broader tendency toward
secularization. Beyond simply defending secularization theory, the
authors endeavor to formalize it, offering clear definitions of
relevant terms and creating propositions that can be repeatedly and
accurately tested. Beyond Doubt offers the strongest argument to
date for the existence of a global secularization trend, and will
be a vital resource for students and scholars alike who study
religion and secularism.
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of
Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the
experiences of people entangled in different historical situations.
Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or
ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural
history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness
and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted
upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical
American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a
new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the
experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of
reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future
horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and
non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly
experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as
matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these
studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually
probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and
non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal
linkages that we call history.
In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces
the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He
shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions,
levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer
conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then
introduces five paradigms of polit
From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency
advocates to the #MeToo movement, citizens of democracies worldwide
are losing confidence in the system. This loss of faith has spread
beyond government to infect a broad swath of institutions-the
press, corporations, digital platforms-none of which seem capable
of holding us together. How should we encourage participation in
public life when neither elections nor protests feel like paths to
change? Drawing on work by political scientists, legal theorists
and activists in the streets, Ethan Zuckerman offers a lens for
understanding civic engagement that focuses on efficacy, the power
of seeing the change you make in the world. Mistrust is a guidebook
for those looking for new ways to make change as well as a
fascinating explanation of how we've arrived at a moment where old
ways of engagement are failing us.
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