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Describes the systematic procedure for using process and mechanical
design information to select construction materials suitable for a
range of chemical and hydrocarbon processing plants. The volume
features tables for locating the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) product form specifications for construction
materials that have code-allowable design stresses. It analyzes
threshold values for degradation phenomena involving thermal
damage.
Any agenda for family research in the 1990s must take seriously a
contextual approach to the study of family relationships. The
editors and contributors to this volume believe that the richness
in family studies over the next decade will come from considering
the diversity of family forms -- different ethnic groups and
cultures, different stages of family life, as well as different
historical cohorts. Their goal is to make more explicit how we
think about families in order to study them and understand them. To
illustrate the need for diversity in family studies, examples are
presented from new and old families, majority and minority
families, American and Japanese families, and intact and divorcing
families. This variety is intended to push the limits of current
thinking, not only for researchers but also for all who are
struggling to live with and work with families in a time when
family life is valued but fragmented and relatively unsupported by
society's institutions. Students and researchers interested in
family development from the viewpoint of any of the social sciences
will find this book of value.
Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in
the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps
in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by
noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new
frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of
international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of
contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in
earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of
Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions
about Asian American communities and point to new directions in
Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers
of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic
studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find
this collection invaluable.
Any agenda for family research in the 1990s must take seriously a
contextual approach to the study of family relationships. The
editors and contributors to this volume believe that the richness
in family studies over the next decade will come from considering
the diversity of family forms -- different ethnic groups and
cultures, different stages of family life, as well as different
historical cohorts. Their goal is to make more explicit how we
think about families in order to study them and understand them. To
illustrate the need for diversity in family studies, examples are
presented from new and old families, majority and minority
families, American and Japanese families, and intact and divorcing
families. This variety is intended to push the limits of current
thinking, not only for researchers but also for all who are
struggling to live with and work with families in a time when
family life is valued but fragmented and relatively unsupported by
society's institutions. Students and researchers interested in
family development from the viewpoint of any of the social sciences
will find this book of value.
Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie"
Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly
called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their
complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional
policies-particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned
Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost
citizenship rights. In 1944, Omura was pushed out of his editorship
of the Japanese American newspaper Rocky Shimpo, indicted,
arrested, jailed, and forced to stand trial for unlawful conspiracy
to counsel, aid, and abet violations of the military draft. He was
among the first Nikkei to seek governmental redress and reparations
for wartime violations of civil liberties and human rights. In this
memoir, which he began writing towards the end of his life, Omura
provides a vivid account of his early years: his boyhood on
Bainbridge Island; summers spent working in the salmon canneries of
Alaska; riding the rails in search of work during the Great
Depression; honing his skills as a journalist in Los Angeles and
San Francisco. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Omura had
already developed a reputation as one of the Japanese American
Citizens League's most adamant critics, and when the JACL
leadership acquiesced to the mass incarceration of American-born
Japanese, he refused to remain silent, at great personal and
professional cost. Shunned by the Nikkei community and excluded
from the standard narrative of Japanese American wartime
incarceration until later in life, Omura seeks in this memoir to
correct the "cockeyed history to which Japanese America has been
exposed." Edited and with an introduction by historian Arthur A.
Hansen, and with contributions from Asian American activists and
writers Frank Chin, Yosh Kuromiya, and Frank Abe, Nisei Naysayer
provides an essential, firsthand account of Japanese American
wartime resistance.
Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and
emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare
and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts
of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and
emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare
and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts
of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
From the Foreword: "Predator-prey interactions are among the most
significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only
be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as
they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease
apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction
over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists
on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record,
is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating
in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which
future study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in
the fossil record will be built." (Richard K. Bambach, Professor
Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of the Botanical Museum, Harvard
University)
There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in
society, especially by young people. Although overall volumes of
alcohol consumption may be levelling off, the occurrences of
excessive or 'binge' drinking, especially among teenagers and young
adults, are increasingly commonplace. Tackling irresponsible
drinking, which is linked to other antisocial behaviour and health
problems, has focused attention on the promotion of alcohol by its
producers as an important causal factor. This has led to calls for
tougher regulation of alcohol marketing, including restrictions on
where it can occur and the form it is allowed to take. Empirical
research evidence, often emanating from government funded enquiries
and endorsed by health lobbies, has been cited in support of an
allegedly primary role played by advertising in triggering interest
in and the onset of alcohol consumption among young people and in
encouraging regular and heavy drinking. Close examination of this
evidence, however, reveals that the research is not always as cut
and dried as it may first appear. Methodological weaknesses abound
in studies of the purported effects of alcohol advertising and
other forms of marketing and the significance specifically of
advertising as an agent that shapes young people's alcohol
consumption could be weaker than often thought. This book sets out
a review and critique of the evidence on alcohol advertising and
marketing effects on young people and considers this evidence in
relation to codes of advertising and marketing practice.
This book brings fresh perspectives into the debate on aid
effectiveness and aid relationships. Asia provides a varied picture
with its combination of rapidly developing countries where aid
plays a less central role such as China, Vietnam, and Thailand as
well as more aid dependent countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Mongolia.
From the Foreword:
"Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all
organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and
evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in
the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the
tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume,
compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of
predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering
effort to collate the information now accumulating in this
important field. It will be a standard reference on which future
study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in the
fossil record will be built."
(Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate
of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)
There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in
society, especially by young people. Although overall volumes of
alcohol consumption may be levelling off, the occurrences of
excessive or 'binge' drinking, especially among teenagers and young
adults, are increasingly commonplace. Tackling irresponsible
drinking, which is linked to other antisocial behaviour and health
problems, has focused attention on the promotion of alcohol by its
producers as an important causal factor. This has led to calls for
tougher regulation of alcohol marketing, including restrictions on
where it can occur and the form it is allowed to take. Empirical
research evidence, often emanating from government funded enquiries
and endorsed by health lobbies, has been cited in support of an
allegedly primary role played by advertising in triggering interest
in and the onset of alcohol consumption among young people and in
encouraging regular and heavy drinking. Close examination of this
evidence, however, reveals that the research is not always as cut
and dried as it may first appear. Methodological weaknesses abound
in studies of the purported effects of alcohol advertising and
other forms of marketing and the significance specifically of
advertising as an agent that shapes young people's alcohol
consumption could be weaker than often thought. This book sets out
a review and critique of the evidence on alcohol advertising and
marketing effects on young people and considers this evidence in
relation to codes of advertising and marketing practice.
"Preventing Catastrophe" is written by two authors who are
experienced "Washington hands" and who understand the interplay
between intelligence and policymaking. Both have been personally
involved, in the United States and overseas, in pursuing national
and international measures to stop the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction. Their extensive experience is evident in this
book, which puts the Iraqi WMD issue in proper perspective,
explains the challenge of monitoring small clandestine programs,
and explains how the effort to prevent terrorist acquisition and
use of WMD differs from preventing their acquisition and use by
nation states. At the same time, the authors are able to make a
complex subject understandable to non-technical experts, making
this book a useful teaching tool, especially for those who have
little or no knowledge or experience in US national security
decision making.
"National intelligence and international inspections are necessary
to create confidence that violations of non-proliferation
commitments are detected in time to permit appropriate action. Both
must be pursued with professionalism and critical minds avoiding
poor intelligence or cosmetic inspections. The issues studied
thoroughly and with good judgment in this welcome volume by Graham
and Hansen were intensely controversial in the case of Iraq but
remain central to international counter-proliferation
efforts."--Hans Blix, Executive Chairman of the Weapons of Mass
Destruction Commission
Since the mid-1950s, the international community has sought to ban
all nuclear testing. In 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty emerged after three years of intense international
negotiations. However, after nearly a decade, there is no sign that
the treaty will ever enter into force. Despite the general support
for and adherence to a series of national moratoria on nuclear
explosive testing, it is important to understand why the effort to
achieve a permanent ban on nuclear testing has experienced such
difficulties and continues to travel such a problematic road. The
author of this book is neither a promoter nor a critic of the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but rather he provides a
brief historical and analytical understanding of the events
surrounding its negotiation and implementation. The author's
analysis, based on his personal involvement in the CTBT
negotiations, provides one insider's view of how the critical
events unfolded and how they are likely to affect future
nonproliferation initiatives.
Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie"
Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly
called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their
complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional
policies-particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned
Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost
citizenship rights. In 1944, Omura was pushed out of his editorship
of the Japanese American newspaper Rocky Shimpo, indicted,
arrested, jailed, and forced to stand trial for unlawful conspiracy
to counsel, aid, and abet violations of the military draft. He was
among the first Nikkei to seek governmental redress and reparations
for wartime violations of civil liberties and human rights. In this
memoir, which he began writing towards the end of his life, Omura
provides a vivid account of his early years: his boyhood on
Bainbridge Island; summers spent working in the salmon canneries of
Alaska; riding the rails in search of work during the Great
Depression; honing his skills as a journalist in Los Angeles and
San Francisco. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Omura had
already developed a reputation as one of the Japanese American
Citizens League's most adamant critics, and when the JACL
leadership acquiesced to the mass incarceration of American-born
Japanese, he refused to remain silent, at great personal and
professional cost. Shunned by the Nikkei community and excluded
from the standard narrative of Japanese American wartime
incarceration until later in life, Omura seeks in this memoir to
correct the "cockeyed history to which Japanese America has been
exposed." Edited and with an introduction by historian Arthur A.
Hansen, and with contributions from Asian American activists and
writers Frank Chin, Yosh Kuromiya, and Frank Abe, Nisei Naysayer
provides an essential, firsthand account of Japanese American
wartime resistance.
Are you disorganized, chronically late, forgetful, or impulsive? Do
you struggle to get your homework done, but never manage to turn it
in on time? It may not be your fault. You might have executive
functioning disorder (EFD), an attention disorder marked by an
inability to stay on task that is common in people with learning
disabilities. If you have tried to better manage your time and meet
deadlines with little success, you may feel like giving up. The
Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens is an easy-to-use,
practical workbook written by a licensed school counselor, and it
will provide you with the skills needed to get organized, retain
information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school
and everyday life. Based in proven effective cognitive behavioral
therapy (CBT), the book offers activities that will help you better
understand your disorder and cope with it effectively. With one
chapter for each of the ten main areas of EFD, the book also
includes tips for initiating positive action and change, improving
flexibility in thinking, sustaining attention, organizing,
planning, enhancing memory, managing emotions, and building
self-awareness. Written in a fun, engaging format, this book is
designed to motivate and inspire you to carry out and complete
tasks with ease. From handling frustration to taking notes in
class, this book will help you hone the skills you need to succeed.
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