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This publication provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues
related to antimicrobial resistance, including a focus on key
pathogens causing common healthcare-associated and
community-acquired infections. The epidemiology and therapeutic
considerations of these antimicrobial resistant organisms are
discussed, as well as the clinical and health economic impact of
infections caused by them. This progressive reference also provides
a dedicated section covering the clinical programmatic strategies
used to minimize the growing antimicrobial resistance problem,
including practical information related to interventional concepts
and their implementation. In addition to antimicrobial resistance
in the context of traditionally discussed problematic bacterial
pathogens, emerging data related to clinically important fungal
pathogens and Clostridium difficile are also covered.
Today, administrators must assume a different mindset if public
schools are to remain viable and functional. Changing populations
resulting in heterogeneous communities, diversity of community
values, and finite resources meeting the infinite desires of a
demanding constituency have created the necessity for political
acumen on the part of local educational leaders. The primary reason
for the upheaval occurring in schools today is not that the
instructional element is being neglected, but that the
building-level administrators have a woeful lack of proficiency in
managing the politics that impact schools. This book gives
administrators a better grasp of educational politics at the campus
level as the school interacts with the community in which it is
embedded. Through theory, application, and personal reflection, The
Impact of Politics in Local Education will show administrators how
to 'read' the political climate of a community, how to make meaning
from the information, and how to proactively manage political
issues so that a stable school environment can be maintained.
This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the
defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such
work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing
on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander
Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of
tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the
major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople,
peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and
why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist
institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an
alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed
portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers,
complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the
principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the
Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two
emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the
post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the
pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property
in land and the relationship between state regulation and private
initiative in the economy.
This book focuses on topics ranging from the economics of
drug-resistant infections and the management of antimicrobial use
to new information on methods to optimize the selection, route of
administration, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial therapies for
common infections. In addition to offering ideas on studied
programmatic approaches for judicious utilization of antimicrobial
agents, this reference discusses practical means to track
intervention outcomes through benchmarking. Authored by experts in
their respective fields, the book contains essential principles and
practical strategies to optimize the utility of antimicrobial
agents in modern inpatient health care settings.
Ruth Roosa's long-awaited study focuses on the most important
business organization in imperial Russia. the Association of
Industry and Trade, the nerve center of Russian capitalism in the
years between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The author's
comprehensive, nuanced analysis of the Association's policy
positions on Russian economic development has no peer. Of
particular interest are the insights the study affords into the
peculiarities of Russian business -- including the operation of
semi-monopolistic syndicates and the role of imported capital,
banks, and the autocratic state. It supplies historical perspective
on some of the more perplexing features of the new Russian
capitalism.
Roosa was a pioneer in the study of early twentieth-century
Russian capitalism. This volume, prepared for posthumous
publication by her friends and colleagues, makes her work available
at a time when it has new resonance and relevance.
This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the
defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such
work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing
on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander
Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of
tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the
major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople,
peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and
why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist
institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an
alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed
portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers,
complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the
principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the
Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two
emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the
post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the
pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property
in land and the relationship between state regulation and private
initiative in the economy.
Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other
historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke
morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question
guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary
academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with
essays by experts at the country's premiere centers in public
policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology,
moral philosophy, theology, and the arts, "Gambling: Mapping the
American Moral Landscape" is a tour de force of the booming
cultural and moral phenomenon that has become woven into the fabric
of American life. Both an attempt to understand and an effort to
predict its future consequences, the book will prove evocative and
critical reading for American civic and church leaders, activists,
historians and government officials.
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Dunker (Paperback)
Judith C. Owens-Lalude
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R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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