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This book is my journey, from listening to the music my older
brother listened to in the mid-1950s to working with bands and
entertainers from the '60s to the '80s. It is filled with stories
regarding bands and entertainers I worked with, managed, and knew.
I learned a lot of lessons over the years, from some very
high-level entertainment businesspeople and artists that helped and
inspired me in today's business world. I hope you enjoy the book.
"The result is an important and horrifyingly thick anthology of
mass murders...Highly difficult to read in one sitting, but we must
not look away." --Kirkus Reviews A harrowing collection of sixty
narratives--covering over fifty years of shootings in
America--written by those most directly affected by school
shootings: the survivors. "If I Don't Make It, I Love You," a text
sent from inside the war zone like scene of a mass shooting, a text
meant for Stacy Crescitelli, whose 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, was
hiding in a closet fearing for her life in Parkland, Florida, in
2018, while a gunman sprayed her school with bullets, killing her
friends, teachers, and coaches. This scene has become too familiar.
We see the images, the children with trauma on their faces leaving
their school in ropes, connected to one another with hands on
shoulders, shaking, crying, and screaming. We mourn the dead. We
bury children. We demand change. But we are met with inaction. So,
we move forward, sadder and more jaded. But what about those who
cannot move on? These are their stories. If I Don't Make It, I Love
You collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting
survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty
years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower
shooting through May 2018's Santa Fe shooting. Through this
collection, editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman offer a vital
contribution to the surging national dialogue on gun reform by
elevating the voices of those most directly affected by school
shootings: the survivors.
Christopher M. Cheatum and Amnon Kohen, Relationship of
Femtosecond-Picosecond Dynamics to Enzyme-Catalyzed H-Transfer.
Cindy Schulenburg and Donald Hilvert, Protein Conformational
Disorder and Enzyme Catalysis. A. Joshua Wand, Veronica R. Moorman
and Kyle W. Harpole, A Surprising Role for Conformational Entropy
in Protein Function. Travis P. Schrank, James O. Wrabl and Vincent
J. Hilser, Conformational Heterogeneity Within the LID Domain
Mediates Substrate Binding to Escherichia coli Adenylate Kinase:
Function Follows Fluctuations. Buyong Ma and Ruth Nussinov,
Structured Crowding and Its Effects on Enzyme Catalysis. Michael D.
Daily, Haibo Yu, George N. Phillips Jr and Qiang Cui, Allosteric
Activation Transitions in Enzymes and Biomolecular Motors: Insights
from Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations. Karunesh Arora and
Charles L. Brooks III, Multiple Intermediates, Diverse
Conformations, and Cooperative Conformational Changes Underlie the
Catalytic Hydride Transfer Reaction of Dihydrofolate Reductase.
Steven D. Schwartz, Protein Dynamics and the Enzymatic Reaction
Coordinate.
Mark Kleinman's new book explains what has happened to housing
policy in Europe over the last two decades, and what housing policy
can tell us about welfare development more generally over the
period. Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a
divergence in housing policy between, on the one hand, the majority
of relatively affluent households and, on the other, an
impoverished minority. The legal, financial and economic concerns
of the well-housed, owner-occupier majority have preoccupied public
policy across Europe, with the impoverished minority often badly
housed or homeless. In Britain this has been particularly evident
with elections won and lost on the level of the mortgage rate
rather than the level of housing output, and still less on the
level of homelessness. Housing policy occupies a unique place in
public policy at the intersection of social with economic policy,
involving a mixed economy of welfare. Consequently, Dr Kleinman's
study offers insights into the future direction of public policy as
a whole, the balance between economic and social goals, and the
relative weighting given to free markets and state intervention in
a variety of countries.
China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three
decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal
for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at
China during these decades of transformation through the defining
theme of governance of life. With an emphasis on how to achieve an
adequate life, the contributors integrate a whole range of
life-related domains including: the death of Sun Zhigang, the peril
caused by rising tobacco consumption, the emerging suicide
intervention, the turning points in the fight against AIDS, the
intensely evolving birth policy, the emerging biological
citizenship, and so on. In doing so, they explore how biological
life has been governed differently to enhance the wellbeing of the
population instead of promoting ideological goals. This change,
dubbed "the deepening in governmentality," is one of the most
important driving forces for China's rise, and will have huge
bearings on how the Chinese will achieve an adequate life in the
21st century. This book presents works by a number of
internationally known scholars and will be of interest to students
and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science,
history, Chinese philosophy, law, and public health.
“Nearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year.
This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but
it doesn’t have to be this way.” —Gabrielle Giffords The
Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of
survivors’ visible and invisible wounds from school shootings,
attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and
domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic
experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably,
suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this
collection, editors Loren Kleinman, Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips
and Lonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the
trauma left in its wake. Through personal narratives and select
personal photos, the wounded tell a story that’s forgotten when
the cameras go away. This collection will be of interest to first
responders, officers, therapists, medical practitioners, and
educators.
Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal
narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors,
faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and
experience-based understanding of the writing support process.
Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory,
first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support
resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own
experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It
features a variety of voices that address how academic support
resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for
students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community
and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and
expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting
students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering
support in war-torn countries, and students in international
centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and
language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical
takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative
experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable
resource for student writing tutors and anyone involved with them,
including composition instructors and scholars, writing center
professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with
academic support programs.
Contents: Contents List of Figures List of Abbreviations The Authors Preface
1. Competition, Cohesion, Governance: The Urban Triangle
London and the New Urban Agenda
Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance: Issues and Debates Cities and Competitiveness Cohesion, Exclusion and Social Capital Policy Issues and Urban Governance
Conclusion: From Theory to Research
2. Spaces and People: Changing Geographies of the Region
Structures and Processes: London and Its Region since 1950 The London of 1950 An Intermediate Geography: London in 1975 The Changed Geography of London 2000
Mapping London's Geographies The Changing Geography of Employment Social Structure House Prices: An Index of Social Change Social Patterns across the Region: Households, Ethnicity and Deprivation
The Eight Localities Reading and Wokingham (East and Central Reading and Earley) Hounslow (Heston and Great West Road) Wandsworth (Battersea and Clapham) Southwark (Bankside, Bermondsey and Peckham) Newham (Stratford and Upton Park) Redbridge (Gants Hill and Ilford) Greenwich (Charlton and Eltham) Dartford and Gravesham (Kent Thames-side)
Conclusion: Unpicking the London Puzzle
3. Complex Business: Growth and Volatility in London's Economies
Assessing London's Recent Competitive Performance Employment Change Productivity International Markets Overall Competitive Performance
Instability and Volatility in the Regional Economy
Key Sectors and Clusters The Economic Base of the Regional Economy Global City Functions Capital City Functions Innovative and Knowledge-based Activities Cultural Services
The Local Economies Reading (Centre and East) Hounslow (Great West Road) Wandsworth (Battersea and Clapham) The City of London Southwark (Bankside and Bermondsey) Newham (Stratford) Redbridge (Ilford) Greenwich (Charlton) Dartford (Thames-side)
Social Influences on Business Performance Labour Supply Entrepreneurship Local Networks Crime and Other Threats Conclusion: Is London Competitive?
4. More Opportunity, More Inequality: Social Structure and Economic Change in London Population Change and Its Consequences The Changing Ethnic Composition Occupation and Social Class: Is London a 'Global City'? Earnings and Incomes in London The Role of the Housing Market Commuting Neighbourhood Change and Social Segregation Conclusion: Social and Neighbourhood Change in London
5. ''Education, Education, Education': The Role of Schooling in London
Skills and Human Capital
Educational Outcomes and School Performance in the London Region Socio-economic Influences on School Performance The School Quality Factor
The Competitive London Schools Market Parents' Educational Strategies Effects of the Quasi-Market
Further and Higher Education in the Competitive City
Ethnicity, Immigration and Schooling in London
Conclusion: Education, Economy and Society in London
6. Climbing Up, Bumping Down and Flitting Around: London's Dynamic Labour Market
Aggregate Imbalances and Adjustment Processes
Flexibility and Turbulence in the Metropolitan Labour Market
Flexibility and Job Changing in the London Labour Market
Upward Mobility
The Role of Agencies
The Costs and Benefits of Flexibility
Concentrated Unemployment and Its Causes: Discrimination, Recession and Sedimentation
Discrimination
Segregation and Unemployment
Conclusion: London's Distinctive Labour Market
7. Down But Not Out in London: Marginality and Social Exclusion
The Analytical Framework
The Spatial Pattern of Disadvantage
Forms of Poverty and Disadvantage in London Labour Market Marginality Poverty Subjective Poverty and Stress Indicators Housing Stress and Isolation The Persistence of Poverty and Other Measures of Disadvantage
Populations at Risk
The Persistence of Poverty and Other Measures of Disadvantage
Conclusion: Deprivation and Social Exclusion in London
8. How Social is the Capital? Getting By and Getting On in London
Families in London
Friends
Neighbours
Getting Ahead
Trust, Neighbourhood Affiliation and Communities
Social Capital, Civil Society and Governance
Social Capital and the Economy
Social Disorder
Crime
Conclusion: Social Relations in London
9. Things Endure, Things Change: London's Neighbourhoods
Six Kinds of Neighbourhood The New Melting Pots: Battersea and East Reading Proletarian Islands Under Pressure: Bermondsey/Peckham An Area of 'Potential': Upton Park The Suburb Challenged: Eltham, Heston The Arcadian Suburb under Shadow: Gants Hill The Dynamic Edge Suburb: Dartford, Earley
Generalities and Commonalities: Dimensions of Neighbourhood Life
Conclusion: Change and Continuity
10. Steering, Rowing, Drowning or Waving? The Modernization of London's Governance
The Modernization Agenda
The Local Authorities and the Modernization Agenda
The Local Authorities and Service Delivery
The Local Authorities: Their Agenda, Policies and Politics Newham Southwark Wandsworth Greenwich Hou nslow Redbridge Dart ford Reading and Wokingham
New Governance Organizations: the Mayor, the GLA and the RDAs
Conclusion: From Government to Governance?
11. The Name of Action: Ideas, Commitment and the Agenda for Cities
Answering the Five Key Questions
Is London Special?
Work in Progress: A New Society, A New Sociology
The Role of Policy: Obstacles and Opportunities
Governance: Structures, Operations, Collaboration
Postscript: The Mayor's London Plan
Bibliography
Index
Activists, scientists, and scholars in the social sciences and
humanities explore in productive dialogue what it means to
democratize science and technology. The contributors consider what
role lay people can have in a realm traditionally restricted to
experts, and examine the socio-economic and ideological barriers to
creating a science oriented more toward human needs. Included are
several case studies of efforts to expand the role of citizens --
including discussions of AIDS treatment activism, technology
consensus conferences in Europe and the United States, the
regulation of nuclear materials processing and disposal, and farmer
networks in sustainable agriculture -- and examinations of how the
Enlightenment premises of modern science constrain its field of
vision. Other chapters suggest how citizens can interpret differing
opinions within the scientific communities on issues of clear
public relevance.
Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an
important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment
response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of
research results has left much to be desired. Because much of this
unreliability has been attributed to variability in diagnostic
criteria, this volume focuses on efforts to identify sources of
variability in the definition and diagnosis of depressive disorders
within Western society and cross-culturally. It also explicates the
elusive role of aversive life events in the development and course
of depressive disorders, deals with the interpersonal experiences
and dispositions related to the vulnerability and maintenance of
depression, and addresses an often neglected issue: how stress and
social support affect the quality and response to treatment
received. The text concludes with the presentation of an
integrative framework for vulnerability to recurrent depressions
which emphasizes the interaction of biological and psychosocial
factors as largely mediated by personality and temperament.
Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal
narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors,
faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and
experience-based understanding of the writing support process.
Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory,
first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support
resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own
experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It
features a variety of voices that address how academic support
resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for
students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community
and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and
expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting
students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering
support in war-torn countries, and students in international
centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and
language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical
takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative
experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable
resource for student writing tutors and anyone involved with them,
including composition instructors and scholars, writing center
professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with
academic support programs.
“Nearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year.
This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but
it doesn’t have to be this way.” —Gabrielle Giffords The
Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of
survivors’ visible and invisible wounds from school shootings,
attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and
domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic
experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably,
suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this
collection, editors Loren Kleinman, Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips
and Lonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the
trauma left in its wake. Through personal narratives and select
personal photos, the wounded tell a story that’s forgotten when
the cameras go away. This collection will be of interest to first
responders, officers, therapists, medical practitioners, and
educators.
When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than
two sides to every story. Controversies in Science and Technology,
Volume 4 analyzes controversial topics in science and
technology-infrastructure, ecosystem management, food security, and
plastics and health-from multiple points of view. The editors have
compiled thought-provoking essays from a variety of experts from
academia and beyond, creating a volume that addresses many of the
issues surrounding these scientific debates. Part I of the volume
discusses infrastructure, and the real meaning behind the term in
today's society. Essays address the central issues that motivate
current discussion about infrastructure, including writing on the
vulnerability to disasters. Part II, titled "Food Policy," will
focus on the challenges of feeding an ever-growing world and the
costs of not doing so. Part III features essays on chemicals and
environmental health, and works to define "safety" as it relates to
today's scientific community. The book's final section examines
ecosystem management. In the end, Kleinman, Cloud-Hansen, and
Handelsman provide a multifaceted volume that will be appropriate
for anyone hoping to understand arguments surrounding several of
today's most important scientific controversies
Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology
studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic
interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical
perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and
relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and
political debates about the creation and use of scientific
knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for the
consideration of the place of science and technology in the world,
past and present. The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and
Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by
presenting work that pushes the reader to think about science and
technology and their intersections with social life in new ways.
The interdisciplinary contributions by international experts in
this handbook are organized around six topic areas: embodiment
consuming technoscience digitization environments science as work
rules and standards This volume highlights a range of theoretical
and empirical approaches to some of the persistent - and new -
questions in the field. It will be useful for students and scholars
throughout the social sciences and humanities, including in science
and technology studies, history, geography, critical race studies,
sociology, communications, women's and gender studies,
anthropology, and political science.
Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to
introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in
Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and
social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this
subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions
researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of
knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware
of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new
knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to
support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g.,
psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to
present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of
themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and
deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they
address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross
cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate
these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their
distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety
of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this
volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here
are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of
normal and ab normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture
that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at
least a few important aspects of that subject."
Since radiologists learn by seeing, this book 's case-based
format is ideal. The 102 cases unknown and 217 supplemental cases
throughout depict scenarios encountered in daily practice, with
emphasis on the growing area of sports injuries and traumatic
disorders in older children and adolescents. The cases are
illustrated with nearly 600 high-resolution MRI images, as well as
complementary plain films, scintigrams, and CT scans. Each case
outlines the clinical history, findings, and differential
diagnosis. Clinical pearls, questions and answers, and concluding
summaries are also included. An orthopedic surgeon provides
commentary where appropriate to share the insight gained from
sports medicine.
Social Work and the Courts is a collection of important and
cutting-edge court decisions in the field of human services, now in
its third edition. Pollack and Kleinman present an array of legal
cases in everyday language, with clear explanation of the facts and
issues, and in-depth examinations of the reasoning and implications
of each decision. This new edition includes over twenty new cases,
all of which happened between 2010 and 2014, making this one of the
most significant and timely investigations of how social work and
the law intersect. Special attention is paid to recent rulings in
child welfare and social worker liability. The dissection and
analysis of these influential cases makes this volume an excellent
teaching tool and an essential resource for both social workers and
policy makers.
Improve Your Analytical Skills Incorporating the latest R packages
as well as new case studies and applications, Using R and RStudio
for Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics, Second
Edition covers the aspects of R most often used by statistical
analysts. New users of R will find the book's simple approach easy
to understand while more sophisticated users will appreciate the
invaluable source of task-oriented information. New to the Second
Edition The use of RStudio, which increases the productivity of R
users and helps users avoid error-prone cut-and-paste workflows New
chapter of case studies illustrating examples of useful data
management tasks, reading complex files, making and annotating
maps, "scraping" data from the web, mining text files, and
generating dynamic graphics New chapter on special topics that
describes key features, such as processing by group, and explores
important areas of statistics, including Bayesian methods,
propensity scores, and bootstrapping New chapter on simulation that
includes examples of data generated from complex models and
distributions A detailed discussion of the philosophy and use of
the knitr and markdown packages for R New packages that extend the
functionality of R and facilitate sophisticated analyses
Reorganized and enhanced chapters on data input and output, data
management, statistical and mathematical functions, programming,
high-level graphics plots, and the customization of plots Easily
Find Your Desired Task Conveniently organized by short, clear
descriptive entries, this edition continues to show users how to
easily perform an analytical task in R. Users can quickly find and
implement the material they need through the extensive indexing,
cross-referencing, and worked examples in the text. Datasets and
code are available for download on a supplementary website.
Scattering theory deals with the interactions of waves with obstacles in their path, and low frequency scattering occurs when the obstacles involved are very small. This book gives an overview of the subject for graduates and researchers, for the first time unifying the theories covering acoustic, electromagnetic and elastic waves. Included is an extended bibliography covering the whole existing literature on low frequency scattering, making this an invaluable reference for researchers.
Mudpuppy's Little Artist Board Book Set is comprised of 16
colorfully illustrated portraits of visual and performing artists
who have made an historical impact on the world. This board book
set features painters, sculptors, musicians, and performers: -
Painters: Georgia O'Keeffe, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Vincent van
Gogh - Sculptors: Alexander Calder, Maya Lin, Louise Bourgeois,
Claes Oldenburg - Musicians: Madonna, Louis Armstrong, Bjork, David
Bowie - Performers: Misty Copeland, Charlie Chaplin, Josephine
Baker, Lin-Manuel Miranda Board book set, includes 4 mini board
books in box, GBP12.99, 10 x 10 x 10 cm, full-color illustrations,
ages 0-3, approx. 200 words, Spring 2019
Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army
established programs of biological warfare throughout China and
elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the
now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted
large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings,
mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex
historical factors including an American cover-up of the
atrocities, Japanese denials, and inadequate responses from
successive Chinese governments, justice has never been fully
served. This volume brings together the contributions of a group of
scholars from different countries and various academic disciplines.
It examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar
aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into
perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society
and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events. The volume's
central ethical claim is that the failure to bring justice to bear
on the systematic abuse of medical research by Japanese military
medical personnel more than six decades ago has had a profoundly
retarding influence on the development and practice of medical and
social ethics in all of East Asia. The book also includes an
extensive annotated bibliography selected from relevant
publications in Japanese, Chinese and English.
Quick and Easy Access to Key Elements of Documentation Includes
worked examples across a wide variety of applications, tasks, and
graphics A unique companion for statistical coders, Using SAS for
Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics presents an
easy way to learn how to perform an analytical task in SAS, without
having to navigate through the extensive, idiosyncratic, and
sometimes unwieldy software documentation. Organized by short,
clear descriptive entries, the book covers many common tasks, such
as data management, descriptive summaries, inferential procedures,
regression analysis, multivariate methods, and the creation of
graphics. Through the extensive indexing, cross-referencing, and
worked examples in this text, users can directly find and implement
the material they need. The text includes convenient indices
organized by topic and SAS syntax. Demonstrating the SAS code in
action and facilitating exploration, the authors present example
analyses that employ a single data set from the HELP study. They
also provide several case studies of more complex applications.
Data sets and code are available for download on the book's
website. Helping to improve your analytical skills, this book
lucidly summarizes the features of SAS most often used by
statistical analysts. New users of SAS will find the simple
approach easy to understand while more expert SAS programmers will
appreciate the invaluable source of task-oriented information.
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