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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by
Jews are a comparatively re-cent phenomenon. So too is the
establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins
of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting
and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting
avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews.
Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation
and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the
twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and
secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and
assimilation.
by Peter J. Roussopoulos, Director, Southern Research Station The
world and its ecosystems are repeatedly punctuated by natural
disturbances, and human societies must learn to manage this reality
Often severe and unp- dictable, dynamic natural forces disrupt
human welfare and alter the structure and composition of natural
systems Over the past century, land management ag- cies within the
United States have relied on science to improve the sustainable
management of natural resources Forest economics research can help
advance this scientifc basis by integrating knowledge of forest
disturbance processes with their economic causes and consequences
As the twenty-frst century unfolds, people increasingly seek the
goods and services provided by forest ecosystems, not only for wood
supply, clean water, and leisure pursuits, but also to establish
residential communities that are removed from the hustle and bustle
of urban life As vividly demonstrated during the past few years,
Santa Ana winds can blow wildfres down from the mountains of
California, incinerating homes as readily as vegetation in the
canyons below Hurricanes can fatten large swaths of forest land,
while associated foods create havoc for urban and rural residents
alike Less dramatic, but more insidious, trees and forest stands
are succumbing to exotic insects and diseases, causing economic
losses to private property values (including timber) as well as
scenic and recreation values As human demands on public and private
forests expand, science-based solutions need to be identifed so
that social needs can be balanced with the vagaries of forest
disturbance processes
"Humanity today is passing through an extremely important and
crucial transition toward a global society. In this process each
individual is obliged to adjust his or her psychic and spiritual
being to successfully cope with the new paradigm. This whole area
offers endless scope for a creative exploration of the relationship
between the individual and the community, between members of the
vast family, and within the crucible of each individual psyche. Dr.
Abt has made an important contribution toward articulating a
holistic approach to the process of planning for modernization. He
has touched upon some of the deeper issues involved which require
our careful and sustained attention."-Dr. Karan Singh Lays out a
new approach to worldwide economic and industrial development.
Theodor Abt, Ph.D., is a professor of agronomy and economic
planning at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and a
training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. The author
of numerous articles and works in German, he is also an
internationally known speaker and consultant on problems relating
to modernization planning.
This book draws together contributions from forest economists in
the Research Triangle of North Carolina, with co-authors from
institutions around the world. It represents our common belief that
rigorous empirical analysis in an economic framework can inform
forest policy. We intend the book as a guide to the empirical
methods that we have found most useful for addressing both
traditional and modem areas of concern in forest policy, including
timber production and markets, multiple use forestry, and valuation
of non-market benefits. 'The book editors and most chapter authors
are affiliated with three institutions in the Research Triangle:
the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service (K. Abt,
Butry, Holmes, Mercer, Moulton, Prestemon, Wear), the Department of
Forestry at North Carolina State University (R. Abt, Ahn, Cubbage,
Sills), and the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Program of Research Triangle Institute (Murray, Pattanayak). Two
other Triangle institutions are also represented among the book
authors: Duke University (Kramer) and the Forestland Group
(Zinkhan). In addition to our primary affiliations, many of us are
adjunct faculty and/or graduates of Triangle universities. Many of
our co-authors also graduated from or were previously affiliated
with Triangle institutions. Thus, the selection of topics, methods,
and case studies reflects the work of this particular network of
economists, and to some degree, our location in the southeastern
United States. However, our work and the chapters encompass other
regions of the United States and the world, including Latin America
and Asia.
This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims,
known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact
they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows
how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these
evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing
and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and
propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the
Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at
mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of
certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the
cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations
between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local
communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the
Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese
Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese
society.
Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an
important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr.
Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude
their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic
bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a
hair[1]trigger deterrent. Critical net assessments by U.S.
strategists and the effects of such a strategy on the Soviet Union
and on U.S. allies are considered, along with problems
implementation might pose. The author contends that both deterrence
and the potential for limiting damage are strengthened by pre-war
plans for a nuclear ceasefire and stalemate short of holocaust.
There has been a tremendous amount of scientific progress in our
understanding of the molecular mechanisms of transport processes in
the liver within the last few years. Cloning of various members of
organic anion and cation transporters has provided the necessary
tools to study their regulation under physiological and
pathophysiological conditions and has advanced our knowledge about
bile formation. Mutations of various hepatic organic anion
transporters have been identified in humans as hereditary defects
leading to the heterogenous syndrome of progressive familial
intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC). Various mouse models including
knockout animals have given us the opportunity to gain insight into
lipid transport by the liver and the genetics of cholesterol
gallstone formation. The physiology of bile duct cells and the
molecular mechanisms leading to various cholangiopathies have been
a main scientific focus in hepatology in recent years. Drug
targeting to the liver by hepatic organic anion transporters
represents an attractive way of selective delivery of
pharmaceutical agents in humans. Ursodeoxycholic acid is
successfully used in the treatment of patients with chronic
cholestatic liver disease and major advances have been made in
understanding its mode of action in liver and bile duct cells. This
book, the proceedings of the Falk Workshop held in Aachen, Germany,
on 25-26 January 2001, contains chapters on all important aspects
of biliary transport by well-known experts in this field. It is an
essential resource for new developments in the field of biliary
transport, both in basic science and clinical medicine.
Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an
important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr.
Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude
their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic
bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a
hair[1]trigger deterrent. Critical net assessments by U.S.
strategists and the effects of such a strategy on the Soviet Union
and on U.S. allies are considered, along with problems
implementation might pose. The author contends that both deterrence
and the potential for limiting damage are strengthened by pre-war
plans for a nuclear ceasefire and stalemate short of holocaust.
Advances in Field Theory offers a comprehensive overview and
analysis of one of the most influential theories in psychology.
Based on the pioneering work of noted social psychologist Kurt
Lewin, this impressive volume outlines the work of several
generations of international field theorists and attests to the
durability and utility of Lewin's work. A brilliant array of essays
trace the history and development of field theory, and discuss its
various applications in a number of settings. Topics addressed
include managing social conflict, self-help groups, field theory
and the construction of social problems, and academic sex
discrimination, to name only a few. This tightly-edited,
well-balanced volume is an essential resource for professionals and
students in the fields of social psychology, clinical psychology,
social work, and sociology.
The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with
culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as
researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their
backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the
complexity and difficulty in attempting to address students'
cultures, create learning experiences with relevance to their lives
and experiences, and enact pedagogies that promote academic
achievement while honoring students. At the same time, every author
shows the clashes and confrontations that can arise between and
among students, teachers, parents, administrators, and educational
policies.
The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with
culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as
researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their
backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the
complexity and difficulty in attempting to address students'
cultures, create learning experiences with relevance to their lives
and experiences, and enact pedagogies that promote academic
achievement while honoring students. At the same time, every author
shows the clashes and confrontations that can arise between and
among students, teachers, parents, administrators, and educational
policies.
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the
right level Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their
reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and
illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that
children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent
reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive
teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. During a bad
winter in Viking-age Scotland, Fari finds a polar bear cub that
drifted to shore on an ice floe. He raises the cub and teaches her
tricks. They soon become inseparable - but as the bear grows and
grows, she is no longer welcome in Fari's home. Follow Fari as he
embarks on a journey to save his friend in this beautiful historic
tale by Susan Price. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging
plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise
inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow
children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting
comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for
reading in the back of the book provide practical support and
stimulating activities.
The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct
and inform as well as provide pleasure. He uses innovative
approaches to problem solving through individualized game
techniques. Topics include: improving education with games;
educational games for the physical and social sciences; games for
the learning disadvantaged; games for occupational choice and
training; games for planning and problem solving in government and
industry; and the future of serious games. This book was originally
published in 1970 by Viking Press.
In this issue of "Parkett," Jan Verwoert describes Tomma Abt's
abstractions as "defined by a kind of retroactive temporal logic:
the movement that leads to the finished picture is a movement that
keeps flowing back on itself in the process of overpainting."
Julien Fronsacq calls Mai-Thu Perret's work "a product of a
different persona" and suggests that it revolves "around the
structure of the novel." According to Johanna Burton, Zoe Leonard
uses the predominantly male photographic lineage to "speak in
tongues," and to play with expectations--even as she expresses the
metaphysical loneliness inherent to the medium: "There is no such
thing as a truly entwined gaze," writes Burton, "only ever the
promise of one and the deep breach that results from its
impossibility." Also: Philipp Kaiser on Richard Hawkins, Josef
Strau on Ei Arakawa, Charles Bernstein on art criticism, texts by
Philip Ursprung and Jens Hoffmann, insert by John Stezaker and
spine by Paulina Olowska.
This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit
Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors
considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle
Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the
context of the social, economic, and political development of
Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the
institution, and providing a model of contextual institutional
history. Abt describes how the Detroit Institute of Arts became the
fifth largest art museum in America, from its founding as a private
non-profit corporation in 1885 to its transformation into a
municipal department in 1919, through the subsequent decades of
extraordinary collections and facilities growth coupled with the
repeated setbacks of government funding cuts during economic
downturns. Detroit's 2013 bankruptcy underscored the nearly 130
years of fiscal missteps and false assumptions that rendered the
museum particularly vulnerable to the monetary power of a global
art investment community eager to capitalize on the city's failures
and its creditors' demands. This is a remarkable and important
contribution to many fields, including non-profit management and
economics, cultural policy, museum and urban history, and the
histories of both the Detroit Institute of Arts and the city of
Detroit itself. Despite the museum's unique history, its story
offers valuable lessons for anyone concerned about the future of
art museums in the United States and abroad.
Datacenter networks provide the communication substrate for large
parallel computer systems that form the ecosystem for high
performance computing (HPC) systems and modern Internet
applications. The design of new datacenter networks is motivated by
an array of applications ranging from communication intensive
climatology, complex material simulations and molecular dynamics to
such Internet applications as Web search, language translation,
collaborative Internet applications, streaming video and
voice-over-IP. For both Supercomputing and Cloud Computing the
network enables distributed applications to communicate and
interoperate in an orchestrated and efficient way. This book
describes the design and engineering tradeoffs of datacenter
networks. It describes interconnection networks from topology and
network architecture to routing algorithms, and presents
opportunities for taking advantage of the emerging technology
trends that are influencing router microarchitecture. With the
emergence of "many-core" processor chips, it is evident that we
will also need "many-port" routing chips to provide a
bandwidth-rich network to avoid the performance limiting effects of
Amdahl's Law. We provide an overview of conventional topologies and
their routing algorithms and show how technology, signaling rates
and cost-effective optics are motivating new network topologies
that scale up to millions of hosts. The book also provides detailed
case studies of two high performance parallel computer systems and
their networks. Table of Contents: Introduction / Background /
Topology Basics / High-Radix Topologies / Routing / Scalable Switch
Microarchitecture / System Packaging / Case Studies / Closing
Remarks
by Peter J. Roussopoulos, Director, Southern Research Station The
world and its ecosystems are repeatedly punctuated by natural
disturbances, and human societies must learn to manage this reality
Often severe and unp- dictable, dynamic natural forces disrupt
human welfare and alter the structure and composition of natural
systems Over the past century, land management ag- cies within the
United States have relied on science to improve the sustainable
management of natural resources Forest economics research can help
advance this scientifc basis by integrating knowledge of forest
disturbance processes with their economic causes and consequences
As the twenty-frst century unfolds, people increasingly seek the
goods and services provided by forest ecosystems, not only for wood
supply, clean water, and leisure pursuits, but also to establish
residential communities that are removed from the hustle and bustle
of urban life As vividly demonstrated during the past few years,
Santa Ana winds can blow wildfres down from the mountains of
California, incinerating homes as readily as vegetation in the
canyons below Hurricanes can fatten large swaths of forest land,
while associated foods create havoc for urban and rural residents
alike Less dramatic, but more insidious, trees and forest stands
are succumbing to exotic insects and diseases, causing economic
losses to private property values (including timber) as well as
scenic and recreation values As human demands on public and private
forests expand, science-based solutions need to be identifed so
that social needs can be balanced with the vagaries of forest
disturbance processes
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