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Feature-length animated adventure following Scooby-Doo (voice of
Frank Welker) and the Mystery, Inc. gang. Shaggy (Matthew Lillard),
Fred (also Welker), Daphne (Grey DeLisle), Velma (Mindy Cohn) and
Scooby-Doo win places on board a spaceship and head out on their
journey along with various characters including billionaire Sly
Baron (Malcolm McDowell) and astronaut Shannon Lucas (Jennifer
Hale). While they are in space they encounter an alien who wreaks
havoc with their vessel and they are forced to land on the moon.
Can the gang catch the alien and get everyone safely back to Earth?
A significant number of Americans spend their weekends at UFO
conventions hearing whispers of government cover-ups, at New Age
gatherings learning the keys to enlightenment, or ambling around
historical downtowns learning about resident ghosts in
tourist-targeted "ghost walks". They have been fed a steady diet of
fictional shows with paranormal themes such as The X-Files,
Supernatural, and Medium, shows that may seek to simply entertain,
but also serve to disseminate paranormal beliefs. The public hunger
for the paranormal seems insatiable. Paranormal America provides
the definitive portrait of Americans who believe in or have
experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic
phenomena, astrology, and the power of mediums. However, unlike
many books on the paranormal, this volume does not focus on proving
or disproving the paranormal, but rather on understanding the
people who believe and how those beliefs shape their lives. Drawing
on the Baylor Religion Survey-a multi-year national random sample
of American religious values, practices, and behaviors-as well as
extensive fieldwork including joining hunts for Bigfoot and
spending the night in a haunted house, authors Christopher Bader,
F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker shed light on what the various
types of paranormal experiences, beliefs, and activities claimed by
Americans are; whether holding an unconventional belief, such as
believing in Bigfoot, means that one is unconventional in other
attitudes and behaviors; who has such experiences and beliefs and
how they differ from other Americans; and if we can expect major
religions to emerge from the paranormal. Brimming with engaging
personal stories and provocative findings, Paranormal America is an
entertaining yet authoritative look at a growing segment of
American religious culture.
Lying-For Better or Worse
Everybody lies. Friends lie to friends. Children lie to their parents. Politicians lie to constituents. And, inevitably, husbands and wives lie to each other. Lies between lovers have tremendous potential to both nurture and destroy a relationship. It is easy to underestimate the power that lies-even seemingly harmless lies-can wield in your marriage. Tell Me No Lies explores the complexity of honesty versus deception in marriage and reveals the many reasons behind the lies we tell our partners (and ourselves).
Learn the four marital stages: * The Honeymoon * Emerging Differences * Freedom * Together as Two
Discover how to recognize how lying can lead to serious trouble at each stage. The signs include: * The Dark Side of the Honeymoon, when couples refuse to acknowledge any problems * The Stalemate, when couples fight and brutalize each other with exaggerated truths * Freedom Unhinged, when independence outweighs togetherness and marital anarchy ensues.
Offering a new way of thinking about truth and deception, this book will help you understand the dynamics of your marriage in the context of the marital stages. If you can identify your marital stage, you can overcome the barriers to honesty and move on to a happier and more fulfilling marriage!
There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's
biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more
responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana
Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the
next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed.
Christine Bader is one of those people. She worked for and loved BP
and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and
human rights--until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne's abrupt
resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony
Hayward's tenure as chief executive, which would end with the
Deepwater Horizon disaster. Bader's story of working deep inside
the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its
themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company
(accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a
corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management;
of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing
for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When
Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader's experience with BP and then with
a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses
linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves
in the stories of other "Corporate Idealists" working inside some
of the world's biggest and best-known companies.
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Papa Sartre (Hardcover)
Ali Bader; Translated by Aida Bamia
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After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home
to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his
hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's
intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by
his physical resemblance to the philosopher (except for the crossed
eyes) and by his marriage to Germaine, who he claims is the great
man's cousin. Meanwhile, his wealth and family prestige guarantee
him an idle life spent in drinking, debauchery, and frequenting a
well-known nightclub. But is his suicide an act of philosophical
despair, or a reaction to his friend's affair with Germaine? A
biographer chosen by his presumed friends narrates the story of a
somewhat bewildered young man who like other members of his
generation was searching for a meaning to his life. This parody of
the abuses and extravagances of pseudo-philosophers in the Baghdad
of the sixties throws into relief the Iraqi intellectual and
cultural life of the time and the reversal of fortune of some of
Iraq's wealthy and powerful families.
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My Own Words (Paperback)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg; As told to Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
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The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly
analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life
of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and
public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). My Own Words "showcases Ruth
Ginsburg's astonishing intellectual range" (The New Republic). In
this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the
workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in
opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting
the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been
(and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This
book's sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized
biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each
chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from
hundreds of interviews they have conducted. Witty, engaging,
serious, and playful, My Own Words is a fascinating glimpse into
the life of one of America's most influential women and "a tonic to
the current national discourse" (The Washington Post).
Feature-length animated adventure set in a Lego version of the DC
universe. When Superman (voice of Nolan North) decides he can no
longer contain his evil mirror image Bizarro (also North) in
Metropolis he decides to send him back to his home planet. Once
there the destructive clone forms his own rival group of
superheroes to fight back. But when Darkseid (Tony Todd) threatens
Bizarro's planet and the entire galaxy Superman and the rest of the
Justice League, including Batman (Troy Baker), Green Lantern
(Diedrich Bader) and Wonder Woman (Kari Wahlgren), are forced to
join forces with their polar opposites in the newly formed Bizarro
League to defeat Darkseid and restore order to their universe.
Covers the various pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of
bioactive compounds. Analyses their methods of extraction, their
phytochemistry, their pharmacological and biological activities,
their medicinal properties, and their applications for disease
management and prevention.
The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a
deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced
around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and
developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and
the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in
urgent need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a
broad range of institutional options and innovative experiments in
associative democracy in order to address the structural problems
that existing institutional arrangements are confronted with whilst
maintaining and strengthening democratic forms of government and
governance. The argument is developed against the background of a
thorough survey of empirical social scientific studies on the
crises of capitalisms and representative democracies. This book
focuses primarily on democratic alternatives, though it also works
out principles and institutions of democratic socialism as
alternatives to capitalism. After introducing the theoretical
approach, the book illustrates the ways this framework of analysis
can be of use, with particular focus on three issues that are
highly topical when it comes to the challenges our institutions are
confronted with: democratic governance in relation to ecological
crises and uncertainty; the threats to democracy raised by the
crisis of political parties and representative party-democracy, and
the challenges related to privatization and marketization of public
services, particularly in healthcare. The book concludes by
exploring opportunities to democratize the economy, locating viable
alternatives to capitalism in the tradition of democratic
socialism. This urgent and thought-provoking book will be of great
interest to academics and students in various disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences, including political science,
sociology, and economics.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of
Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a remarkable leader who
fought for women’s rights and the poor. Born in Baltimore in
1860, Henrietta Szold was driven from a young age by the mission
captured in the concept of tikkun olam, “repair of the world.”
Herself the child of immigrants, she established a night school,
open to all faiths, to teach English to Russian Jews in her
hometown. She became the first woman to study at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, and was the first editor for the Jewish
Publication Society. In 1912 she founded Hadassah, the
international women’s organization dedicated to humanitarian work
and community building. A passionate Zionist, Szold was troubled by
the Jewish–Arab conflict in Palestine, to which she sought a
peaceful and equitable solution for all. Noted Israeli historian
Dvora Hacohen captures the dramatic life of this remarkable woman.
Long before anyone had heard of intersectionality, Szold maintained
that her many political commitments were inseparable. She fought
relentlessly for women’s place in Judaism and for health and
educational networks in Mandate Palestine. As a global citizen, she
championed American pacifism. Hacohen also offers a penetrating
look into Szold’s personal world, revealing for the first time
the psychogenic blindness that afflicted her as the result of a
harrowing breakup with a famous Talmudic scholar. Based on letters
and personal diaries, many previously unpublished, as well as
thousands of archival documents scattered across three continents,
To Repair a Broken World provides a wide-ranging portrait of a
woman who devoted herself to helping the disadvantaged and building
a future free of need.
Another feature-length adventure following the Mystery Incorporated
team. This time the gang investigate at the Mega Mondo Pop
Cartoon-a-Con where the villainous Mr. Hyde (voice of John
DiMaggio) releases a horde of evil creatures. Shaggy (Matthew
Lillard) and Scooby (Frank Welker) take inspiration from their
favourite superheroes Blue Falcon and Dynomutt as they attempt to
put a stop to Mr. Hyde's wicked ways and save the convention.
Key Features: 1. Describes the development of the randomized,
controlled trial as the gold standard of proof. 2. Unravels the
meaning of "randomized," "double-blind" and "p-values" in a
simplified manner for students and clinicians. 3. Contains timeless
information on how medical evidence can be understood.
Questions related to managing people in hostile environments have
become more central on the agenda of business leaders and HR
professionals in multinational corporations (MNCs). This is due to
developments such as the increase of terrorism or the political
instability in many regions. In consequence, research on the role
of HR in hostile environments has increased, though it can still be
considered in its early stages. Danger and Risk as Challenges for
HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments adds to this emerging
field of research by investigating the management of people in
hostile environments from conceptual as well as empirical
perspectives. It delivers an essential and comprehensive overview
and gives deep insight into this highly relevant topic from leading
authors in the field. This book will be of great value to scholars
and researchers interested in the role of human resource management
(HRM) in hostile environments, people management in companies in
conflict-affected areas and to those interested in new grounds in
HR Research. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource
Management.
Features contributions from thought leaders across academia,
industry, and government Focuses on novel algorithms and practical
applications
Edited by a renowned scientist in the field with more than 200 high
profile scientific publications to his name, this is the first book
to provide a comprehensive overview of all cardiovascular hormone
systems. Clearly structured, the text covers steroid and peptide
hormones, amines, and arachidonic acid metabolites, as well as such
others as nucleotides, nitric oxide, and acetylcholine. An
essential reference for researchers working on the cardiovascular
system and related diseases.
All of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid
GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an
acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can you
expect from the college experience, and how can you get the most
out of it? This book will answer your questions and help you find
real and lasting success in college. Deans at America's top
institutions-including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and
Columbia-join John Bader to tell you what you need to know to have
a rich and rewarding college experience. With wisdom, reassurance,
and an insider's perspective, this lively and timely guide will
help you develop strategies such as: * Focus on learning, not on
grades* Build a new relationship with your parents* Explore your
academic choices* Learn from diversity at home and abroad* Cope
with failure* Plan boldly for life after college A complete
reworking, this second edition includes information on managing
workloads and faculty relationships, as well as new material
focused on first-generation challenges and international students.
Dean's List offers a thoughtful, commonsense approach to higher
education that allows students to make the most of their four years
on campus-and beyond.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her
extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender
equality and a "more perfect Union." In the fall of 2019, Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley
School of Law to honor her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with
whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based
discrimination in 1974. During Justice Ginsburg's visit, she shared
her life story with Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and
former Ginsburg law clerk. Their intimate conversation is recorded
here in Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue, along with previously
unpublished materials that detail Ginsburg's long career. These
include notable briefs and oral arguments, Ginsburg's last
speeches, and her favorite opinions that she wrote as a Supreme
Court Justice (many in dissent), along with the statements that she
read from the bench in those important cases. Each document was
carefully chosen by Ginsburg and Tyler to tell the litigation
strategy at the heart of Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to
achieve "a more perfect Union." Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate
and jurist for gender equality, ensuring that the United States
Constitution leaves no person behind and allows every individual to
achieve their full human potential. Her work transformed not just
the American legal landscape, but American society. As revealed in
these pages, Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems of
discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such
laws hold back both genders. With her death, the country lost a
hero whose incredible life and legacy made the United States a
society in which "We the People," for whom the Constitution is
written, includes everyone.
Key Features: 1. Describes the development of the randomized,
controlled trial as the gold standard of proof. 2. Unravels the
meaning of "randomized," "double-blind" and "p-values" in a
simplified manner for students and clinicians. 3. Contains timeless
information on how medical evidence can be understood.
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