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Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and
garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership
was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and
religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple,
handpicked from the city's toughest neighborhoods: Brownsville,
Ocean Hill, Flushing. So prolific were their exploits that the
media soon dubbed this bevy of hired hands Murder, Incorporated.
The brainchild of aging mob bosses, including Meyer Lansky and
Bugsy Siegel, this ruthless hit squad quickly captured America's
attention, making headlines coast to coast for over two decades. As
for who these men were and how their partnership came to be, join
author Graham Bell as he sheds light on this dark history of the
Mafia's most notorious crime syndicate.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care
center on the public's concern that they have some say In
determining what happens to the individual in health care
institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental
questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four
selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of
Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment,
Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology.
Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an
examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision
making. The topics are not intended to exhaustively review those
areas of health care provision where conflicts of rights might be
said to be an issue. Rather they constitute an examination of the
difficulties so often encountered in these specific contexts that
we hope will illuminate similar conflicts in other problem areas by
raising the level of the reader's moral awareness. Many books in
bioethics appeal only to a limited audience in spite of the fact
that their subject matter is of deep personal concern to everyone.
In part, this is true because they are frequently written from the
perspective of a single discipline or a single profession. As a
result, one is often left with the impression that such a book
views the philosophical, historical, and! or theological problems
as essentially indifferent to clinical, legal, and! or
policy-making problems.
This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment,
current political subjects, & medieval history & culture to
investigate the intersecting & often tangled relations between
politics, aesthetics, reality & fiction, in relation to issues
of morality, identity, social values, power, & justice, both in
the past & in the present.
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Sigall K Bell
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This comprehensive review examines the biological, medical, social,
historical, and political aspects of HIV/AIDS. In AIDS, three
Harvard-educated physicians explore the evolution of the HIV
epidemic, contextualizing the disease from historical, social, and
medical perspectives. Addressing the last 25 years, the book
examines basic biological principles, including what a virus is,
how the human immune system works, and how HIV impairs these
functions. It presents an in-depth discussion of the HIV life
cycle, explores central issues pertaining to diagnosis and
treatment, and sheds light on how the treatment was developed and
implemented. The book also reviews global epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
and principles of transmission, as well as what comprises an
epidemic and the factors that determine whether an infectious
outbreak will propagate or die out. Finally, it looks at where HIV
came from; early reactions to the disease and the social stigma it
engendered; the cultural impact of HIV-positive role models; and
the global economic, population, and political effects of this
illness. Original stories about living with HIV penned by
HIV-positive patients "Thought Boxes" and questions for discussion
to challenge learners to think broadly and apply material presented
in the book to other areas Case studies from China, Africa, and
India Photographs taken by the author doing HIV work in Africa A
chronology that traces the HIV epidemic from its discovery a
quarter century ago
Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care
center on the public's concern that they have some say In
determining what happens to the individual in health care
institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental
questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four
selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of
Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment,
Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology.
Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an
examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision
making. The topics are not intended to exhaustively review those
areas of health care provision where conflicts of rights might be
said to be an issue. Rather they constitute an examination of the
difficulties so often encountered in these specific contexts that
we hope will illuminate similar conflicts in other problem areas by
raising the level of the reader's moral awareness. Many books in
bioethics appeal only to a limited audience in spite of the fact
that their subject matter is of deep personal concern to everyone.
In part, this is true because they are frequently written from the
perspective of a single discipline or a single profession. As a
result, one is often left with the impression that such a book
views the philosophical, historical, and! or theological problems
as essentially indifferent to clinical, legal, and! or
policy-making problems.
Stories of human lives can be fascinating but frequently difficult
to index well. The new, updated fourth edition of Hazel K. Bell's
Indexing Biographies is a valuable guide to the points for
consideration when indexing life histories, biographies,
autobiographies, letters and other narrative texts. Topics include
the indexing of fiction, analysis of the text before indexing,
names and their various forms, appropriate language choice for
index entries, impartiality of the indexer, and how to treat main
characters (through appropriate subheading structure) and minor
characters (where strings of locators are sometimes unavoidable).
The book also discusses more technical matters of index layout,
presentation and arrangement of entries, such as how to judge
whether alphabetical, chronological, page order or thematic
grouping is most appropriate for the text. Examples of good
practice and outstanding indexes are provided throughout. Lists of
useful reference works and relevant articles from The Indexer
journal are also suggested. There is, of course, a comprehensive
index. Indexing Biographies contains fine advice on best indexing
practices for book indexers, trainee indexers, authors, publishers
and all lovers of life histories. It is an excellent overview of
the complex, important and rewarding task of indexing such
material.
This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment,
current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to
investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between
politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of
morality, identity, social values, power, and justice, both in the
past and the present.
Hair is a feature that can be read immediately; it is ascribed
meaning. Enter the afros that emerged during the Black Power
movement (BPM) of the 1960s and '70s, which proclaimed hair as both
important and political. By challenging traditional ideals of
beauty that devalued natural black features--long, silky,
preferably blond hair--afros became part of the larger politics of
the BPM in its aims to promote transvaluation. Transvaluation is
the mental transition from subordination to self-definition. Thus,
with its cultural and historical implications, the politics of
afros reflected the BPM's transvaluative goals. However, where
"nappy" hair once denoted a transformed, self-defining mentality,
it morphed several times to denote simply a trendy hairstyle,
devoid of transvaluative import. Black female writers of the era
address these hair politics in their work. Alongside historical
implications and points of consideration, this book examines the
poetry of several BPM-era female writers, whose works reveal not
only the transvaluative messages of "nappy" hair, but also the
contradictions that resulted from a politics that ultimately
disavowed a white beauty ideal for a black one.
Whether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in
The House of the Dead or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning
a tomb robber in Mad Allen, or the taking shape of a vague
apprehension in A School Story, or a human sacrifice in Blood of
the Lamb, Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of
being afraid and that it is the reader's imagination which conjures
up the true phantoms of terror.
Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families
and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's
"Classification of Mammals" is the most comprehensive work to date
on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal
taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus.
Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, the
paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening
years have seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical
underpinnings of systematization. McKenna inherited the project
from Simpson and, with Bell, has constructed a completely updated
hierarchical system that reflects the genealogy of Mammalia.
This is a memoir detailing one man's serendipitous journey from
bachelorhood to parenthood. After his latest girlfriend becomes his
wife, and his wife becomes pregnant, Tom finds himself a first time
father at nearly 50 years old. Over the years, he has shown only a
passing interest in his nieces and nephews, and has never touched
someone else's poo. Now, with an eight month-old baby and two
toddlers, he wracks his brain for any useful cross-over skills
accumulated from a half-century of single life. "MY DAD IS A FREAK"
is the conclusion that each of his children will inevitably arrive
at, in their own good time, despite his best efforts.
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