Special Ed takes the reader on an autobiographical journey through the life of someone succeeding in spite of his dyslexia. Receiving little assistance in identifying and dealing with his learning difficulties, Ed perseveres to create a life he wants rather than allowing others to dictate his future based on limited assessments of his abilities. The book tells the story of an individual who although intelligent and creative consistently performs well below average academically. After high school graduation he realizes he is unable to accept the limited life choices available to him as a result of his failing grades. Ultimately, he creates his own path, and achieves the full life he envisions for himself. The book focuses not only on dyslexia but the wide range of difficulties students encounter, both academically and emotionally, throughout their education. It illustrates that no matter what challenges a person faces, they must follow their inner voice toward their own personal happiness and success. It provides encouragement for all students and insight for those who sustain them.

Imaging in Oncology will serve as an up-to-date, attractive book of oncologic imaging for radiologists, oncologists, radiation therapists and others involved in oncologic care. This volume provides pertinent clinical and research information that underpins accurate interpretation and sensible use of cancer imaging. It reviews the role of established and upcoming techniques in plain radiography, ultrasound, CT, MR nuclear medicine, PET and PET/CT for oncologic imaging as well as image-guided intervention. The book also highlights new developments and advances in oncologic imaging. Imaging in Oncology will appeal to physicians in practice and in training and to all interested in oncologic imaging.

Alabama has the largest industrial work force in the South. As a consequence, it also has the most significant labor movement in the region, a movement created in the face of an unusual combination of obstacles, yet, as this book shows, by the 1970s organized labor had established itself as a major economic and political force in Alabama.

There has been much focus on the imperial gaze at colonized peoples, cultures, and lands during and after the British empire. But what have writers from these cultures made of England, the English, and the issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and desire when they traveled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? The authors address this question through studies of representations of the English, the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman, and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie, and Dabydeen.

This monograph reports the findings of four separate but related studies of the comparative learning performance of retarded and normal children. Using intellectually retarded and normal subjects of similar mental age, the investigators examined their performance in situations involving direct learning, retention, and transfer of learning.

New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and the resulting overfamiliarity to moviegoers poses a problem for critics and filmmakers alike. Audiences often mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and bright lights for the real thing, when in fact the City is a network of clearly defined villages, each with a unique personality. Standard film depictions of New Yorkers as a rush-hour mass of undifferentiated humanity obscure the connections formed between people and places in the City's diverse neighborhoods. Street Smart examines the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The City's heterogeneous economic and ethnic districts, where people live, work, shop, worship, and go to school, often bear little relation to the image of New York City created by the movies. To these directors, their home city is as tangible as the smell of fried onions in the stairwell of an apartment building, and it is this New York, not the bustling, glittery illusion portrayed in earlier films, that shapes their sensibilities and receives expression in their films. Richard A. Blake shows how the Jewish enclaves on Manhattan's Lower East Side profoundly influence Sidney Lumet's most noted characters as they struggle to form and maintain their identities under challenging circumstances. Both Woody Allen's light comedies and his more serious cinematic fare reflect the director's origins in the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn and the displacement he felt after relocating to Manhattan. Martin Scorsese's upbringing on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan's Little Italy resonates in his gritty portraits of urban modernity. Blake also looks at the films of Spike Lee, whose adolescence in Fort Greene, a socioeconomically diverse Brooklyn neighborhood, exposed him to widely ranging views that add depth to his complicated treatises on power, culture, and race. Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee's individual identities were shaped by their neighborhoods, and in turn, their life experiences have shaped their artistic vision. In Street Smart, Richard A. Blake examines the critical influence of "place" on the films of four of America's most accomplished contemporary filmmakers.

Established on the campus of Cornell University in the fall of 1905, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity began as an organization to meet the needs of a handful of male African American college students. Founded with ideals of civic action and community uplift, Alpha Phi Alpha was established almost 40 years after the end of the Civil War and just a few years after the end of The Nadir-the period when institutional racism was worse than at any other post-bellum period. Exemplified by its founders, known as The Jewels, the first black intercollegiate fraternity represented virtues such as brotherhood, scholarship, and social progress. Important leaders such as Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Hubert Humphrey, Paul Robeson, Cornel West, W. E. B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr., Edward Brook, and Duke Ellington constitute just a small number of those who have been initiated into the ranks of Alpha. Despite the fraternity's historical prominence, a question lingers: have the organization and its members remained faithful to the precepts articulated by the founding members? In Alpha Phi Alpha: A Case Study Within Black Greekdom, Gregory S. Parks aims to answer this question through a collection of original essays, written by members of the fraternity and scholars in African American studies, education, political science, and history. Alpha Phi Alpha examines the very essence of the organization, the meaning and identity of the fraternity, and also ascertains whether and to what degree the organization has drifted from its early ideals. Drawing from Alpha's history, national magazines, and archives, as well as relying on interviews with national officers and lay members, Parks and his contributors will grapple with the growing body of empirical, critical, and historical scholarship on Black Greek-letter Organizations (BGLOs). Gregory S. Parks is coeditor of African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision (UPK). He has edited two additional books on Black Greek-letter organizations, as well as a book on diversity within college fraternities and sororities. A life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., he received his PhD in psychology from the University of Kentucky and his JD at Cornell Law School.

Much attention has focused on the imperial gaze at colonised peoples, cultures, and lands. But, during and after the British Empire, what have writers from those cultures made of England, the English, and issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity, and desire when they have travelled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? This question is addressed through studies of the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman , and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Emecheta, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie and Dabydeen.

The professional's source ... Handbooks in the Wiley Series in Mechanical Engineering Practice Handbook of Energy Systems Engineering Production and Utilization Edited by Leslie C. Wilbur Here is the essential information needed to select, compare, and evaluate energy components and systems. Handbook of Energy Systems is a rich sourcebook of reference data and formulas, performance criteria, codes and standards, and techniques used in the development and production of energy. It focuses on the major sources of energy technology: coal, hydroelectric and nuclear power, petroleum, gas, and solar energy Each section of the Handbook is a mini-primer furnishing modern methods of energy storage, conservation, and utilization, techniques for analyzing a wide range of components such as heat exchangers, pumps, fans and compressors, principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, current energy resource data and much more. 1985 (0 471-86633-4) 1,300 pp.

This pertinently illustrated and well referenced text serves as an up-to-date, attractive book of oncologic imaging for radiologists, oncologists, radiation therapists and others involved in oncologic care. This volume, with chapter contributions from world-renowned experts, provides clinical and research information that underpins accurate interpretation and sensible use of cancer imaging. The book also highlights new developments and advances in oncologic imaging.

Cursed by their gods, isolated on an island in the north Atlantic, two Viking armies fight every day to the death of the last man. Raised from the dead, night after night, they resume the slaughter with every dawn. The gods have a wager on the outcome. Freyja caught in an indiscretion with a few dwarves is trying to prove something, unclear though her premise is, about the infinite, undying purity of true love. However, fighting the same battles against the same enemies for 1200 years has left the warriors more than a little demotivated. They have begun, for the most part, to phone in their daily quota of gut-spilling mayhem. Freyja, bored and frustrated with the lack of effort, calls on Loki to help shake things up. He does. He lures a dysfunctional group of students from Blackwood University, an obscure university on the northeastern U.S. seaboard, to the island on which the endless war has been ongoing. The students along with the captain and crew of the Ferret, a for-hire oceanographic survey ship, join a 16th century Spanish conquistador, an ex-waitress from Valhalla and a trio of Wisconsin fishermen, They've been brought to the island by Loki to "spice things up"-and they do. Stylish, violent, humorous, cynical and sometimes poignant Undead Vikings in Love explores teenage angst, gay love, straight love, witchcraft, the cult of the hero and humankind's hopeless struggle to figure out what the heck the gods are up to. A great story and a great adventure with a great cast of characters and a unique perspective, Undead Vikings in Love is a very funny novel about love--undead and otherwise.

A Theological Interpretation of John's First Letter

One of the fundamental hermeneutical tenets of New Covenant Theology is that we should learn how to approach the Old Testament from Jesus and the Apostles. This basic principle needs to be worked out and demonstrated by examining text after text. This little book is offered to that end. It examines the promises given to Abraham in light of the book of Galatians. I hope and pray it is illuminating and points the reader to the marvelous work Jesus Christ has accomplished.

Blake White first shows how North America is a mission field then examines several biblical-theological images of the church to show that she is a "sent" community, called to proclaim the gospel wherever she finds herself.

What is Christian Ethics? Christian ethics is about "life under the lordship of Christ." In Luke 6:46, Jesus said, "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord, ' and not do what I tell you?" Ethics is about kingdom living. Why Study Christian Ethics? The first reason, as with the reason for all we do, is to glorify God. First Corinthians 10:31 famously says, "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." Second, we should study Christian ethics to be biblical. The Bible is full of moral teaching A third reason is to help us live distinctly Christian lives in a fallen world. We are the people of the living God. We should be different. A fourth reason the study of ethics is important is because of the nature of saving faith. A fifth reason to study ethics is to develop a moral imagination. A sixth and final reason to study ethics is mission. More reasons could be listed for why ethics is worth studying, but if you are reading this book you probably don't need any more