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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.
Frank Friedman's Practical Guide to Environmental Management, 11th
Edition (PGEM) has earned its place among the classic texts on
environmental management. PGEM provides readers with the firm
grounding in history necessary to put environmental issues in
context and a practical map to avoid the pitfalls and capitalize on
the potential rewards inherent in the field. It is rare to find a
book that combines insight with pragmatism so that it serves as
both a desk reference and a definitive treatise. The Guide now
enters its 11th edition with new material on the "new" EPA
(including enforcement priorities and environmental justice),
recent examples of practical utilization of sustainability
principles, greenhouse gas issues, the new auditing standards, and
several other areas. This edition of PGEM retains its focus on the
practical, while also surveying the developing trends in
environmental management. As Friedman notes, environmental
management systems and corporate behavior, particularly in
developing countries, increasingly serve as the de facto system of
environmental governance and are key to ensuring environmental
protection goals are met. In this new edition, Friedman does a
superb job of orienting the environmental manager in this new era.
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It
explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure
navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and
exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a
conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted herself as a
selfless public servant. This sense of servant was defined through
Dole's appeal to the transcendent moral purposes of Christianity.
She used this image to great effect in her most noteworthy public
addresses, especially her 1996 Republican National Convention
speech in support of her husband's presidential campaign. In her
2008 unsuccessful North Carolina U.S. Senate reelection campaign
Elizabeth Dole's political style unraveled in the face of a series
of effective attacks by her opponent, Kay Hagan, and her own
desperate rhetorical appeals to stave off defeat.
Polymers for Controlled Drug Delivery addresses the challenges of
designing macromolecules that deliver therapeutic agents that
function safely and in concert with living organisms. The book
primarily discusses classes of polymers and polymeric vehicles,
including particulates, such as latexes, coacervates, ion-exchange
resins, and liposomes, as well as non-particulate vehicles such as
enteric coatings, mediators, and bioadhesives. Other topics
discussed include diffusion; biodegradation-controlled delivery;
animal model studies for toxicity, metabolism, and elimination
testing; and FDA requirements for clinical studies. Drug delivery
researchers will find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.
This collection examines the ways in which women have used
political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership,
or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While
over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they
are still underrepresented in political leadership. In this text,
scholars consider the various factors that continue to restrict
political leadership opportunities for women as well as some of the
ways in which individual women have strategically sought to enact
political power and leadership for themselves. The contributors
analyze various case studies of leadership positions at the
national level, looking at women who have run, been nominated to
run, or appointed to national positions. The interdisciplinary
approach lends itself to: rhetoric; political rhetoric; political
discourse; leadership studies; women's studies; gender issues;
satire; pop culture.
This collection examines the ways in which women have used
political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership,
or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While
over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they
are still underrepresented in political leadership. In this text,
scholars consider the various factors that continue to restrict
political leadership opportunities for women as well as some of the
ways in which individual women have strategically sought to enact
political power and leadership for themselves. The contributors
analyze various case studies of leadership positions at the
national level, looking at women who have run, been nominated to
run, or appointed to national positions. The interdisciplinary
approach lends itself to: rhetoric; political rhetoric; political
discourse; leadership studies; women s studies; gender issues;
satire; pop culture."
Polymers for Controlled Drug Delivery addresses the challenges of
designing macromolecules that deliver therapeutic agents that
function safely and in concert with living organisms. The book
primarily discusses classes of polymers and polymeric vehicles,
including particulates, such as latexes, coacervates, ion-exchange
resins, and liposomes, as well as non-particulate vehicles such as
enteric coatings, mediators, and bioadhesives. Other topics
discussed include diffusion; biodegradation-controlled delivery;
animal model studies for toxicity, metabolism, and elimination
testing; and FDA requirements for clinical studies. Drug delivery
researchers will find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.
Carl Ludwig Siegel gave a course of lectures on the Geometry of
Numbers at New York University during the academic year 1945-46,
when there were hardly any books on the subject other than
Minkowski's original one. This volume stems from Siegel's
requirements of accuracy in detail, both in the text and in the
illustrations, but involving no changes in the structure and style
of the lectures as originally delivered. This book is an enticing
introduction to Minkowski's great work. It also reveals the
workings of a remarkable mind, such as Siegel's with its precision
and power and aesthetic charm. It is of interest to the aspiring as
well as the established mathematician, with its unique blend of
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and analysis, and its easy
readability.
Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to
modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central
importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary
cultural world. The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and
a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and
politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient
tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their
own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a
number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and
Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization
of the medieval WelshMabinogion by the wife of an English
ironmaster. Other articles consider the involvement of scholarship
with national and professional self-definition, whether in
Renaissance Holland or Victorian Britain. And who "discovered"
America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson? This is an issue of
vital importance to many 19th-century Americans, but one created
and determined entirely by scholarship. Simple commercial motives
for exploiting the middle ages are also represented, whether
straightforward forgery for sale, or the giant modern industry of
tourism. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English
at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at
University College, Scarborough. Contributors: SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH,
ROLF H. BREMMER JR, BETSY BOWDEN, WERNER WUNDERLICH, JUDITH
JOHNSTON, GERALDINE BARNES, RICHARD UTZ, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, STEVE
WATSON.
Carl Ludwig Siegel gave a course of lectures on the Geometry of
Numbers at New York University during the academic year 1945-46,
when there were hardly any books on the subject other than
Minkowski's original one. This volume stems from Siegel's
requirements of accuracy in detail, both in the text and in the
illustrations, but involving no changes in the structure and style
of the lectures as originally delivered. This book is an enticing
introduction to Minkowski's great work. It also reveals the
workings of a remarkable mind, such as Siegel's with its precision
and power and aesthetic charm. It is of interest to the aspiring as
well as the established mathematician, with its unique blend of
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and analysis, and its easy
readability.
An exploration of the University of South Carolina's trailblazing
approach to the first-year experienceAs an innovative educational
experiment, University 101 was designed to support students'
transition to and success in college. Now, fifty years after its
inception, the program continues to bring national recognition to
the University of South Carolina. From Educational Experiment to
Standard Bearer celebrates this milestone by exploring the course's
origins; its evolution and success at the university; its impact on
first-year students, upper-level students serving as peer leaders,
faculty and staff instructors, and the university community and
culture; and its role in launching the international first-year
experience movement. By highlighting the most significant
takeaways, lessons learned, and insights to practitioners on other
campuses, this book will serve as an inspiration and road map for
other institutions to invest in this proven concept and focus on
the ingredients that lead to a successful program. John N. Gardner,
founding director and architect of University 101, provides a
foreword.
Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide for
adult children of parents with borderline personality disorder.
Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline
personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to
overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who
suffers from BPD.
Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder
(BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and
clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it.
Symptoms of this problem include unpredictability, violence and
uncontrollable anger, deep depression and self-abuse. Parents with
BPD are often unable to provide for the basic physical and
emotional needs of their children. In an ironic and painful role
reversal, BPD parents can actually raise children to be their
caretakers. They may burden even very young children with adult
responsibilities.
If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood was a
volatile and painful time. This book, the first written
specifically for children of borderline parents, offers
step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting
effects of being raised by a person suffering from this disorder.
Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common
to children of borderline parents: low self-esteem, lack of trust,
guilt, and hypersensitivity. Make the major decision whether to
confront your parent about his or her condition.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on
reconstruction. The fourth volume of this landmark series features
a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans
in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing
meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to
Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to
Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Northern European dress and textiles are
further explored in papers on archaeological textiles from medieval
towns in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the construction of gowns
excavated at Herjolfsnes, Greenland; and references to scarlet
clothing in Icelandic sagas. Other papers focus on linen production
in medieval Russia and an enigmatic quilt of Henry VIII's that
almost certainly arrived in England as part of the dowry of
Catherine of Aragon. Also included are reviews of recent books on
clothing and textiles. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor and
a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European
dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at
the University of Manchester. Contributors: MARK CHAMBERS, CAMILLA
LUISE DAHL, LISA EVANS, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, LENA HAMMARLUND, HEINI
KIRJAVAINEN, ALEXANDRA M. LESTER, ROBIN NETHERTON, GALE R.
OWEN-CROCKER, KATHRINE VESTERGARD PEDERSEN, HEIDI M. SHERMAN, LUCIA
SINISI, ISIS STURTEWAGEN, MARIANNE VEDELER, ANNA ZANCHI
Medical qigong is one of the four main branches of Chinese
medicine, and it is the energetic foundation upon which the others
(acupuncture, herbal medicine, and medical massage) are based.
Medical qigong and tai chi exercises are becoming more popular, but
there are few books that discuss how they can be used to help
address specific disorders. This book is the first medical qigong
book that does not simply introduce a set of exercises that are a
part of a general qigong routine. Rather, the exercises provided
are those prescribed to patients at qigong hospitals in China.
Medical qigong doctors and Chinese medicine hospitals have used
these exercises for hundreds of years and yet they are relatively
unknown in this country. The first half of the book introduces
medical qigong theory from a modern Western scientific perspective
as well as from the traditional Daoist and Chinese medicine
perspectives, so that the reader will understand why and how
medical qigong exercises work. The second half is practical
exercises for self-healing. The book introduces guidelines for
selecting appropriate exercises, and then the exercises themselves.
There are general tonification (strengthening), purgation
(sedating), and regulation exercises for health maintenance,
followed by sections on specific organ and health disorders. This
book targets health care practitioners as well as "patients,"
meaning anyone interested in taking an active role in the healing
process.
THE DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL OF MISHEGAS (DMOM) is a delightful parody of
the American Psychiatric Association's "Bible of psychiatry," the
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). In
this playful send-up of the DSM, the authors-all of whom are
distinguished writers with deep roots in the field of mental
health-cut through the hundreds of categories in the 1000-page
D.S.M. by dividing all mental disorders into two realms: mishegas
major and mishegas minor. And for each of the sub-categories it
analyzes-spilkes major (and spilkes minor), yenta, kvetch, alter
kocker, shnorrer, dementia-with-benefits, etc.- it provides
light-hearted anecdotes that not only illustrate the diagnostic
category, but also make you plotz with laughter. THE DMOM will
enable readers to transform ordinary tsuris and mishegas-the
glooms, blues, angsts, and general chazzerie of their lives-into
transcendent and easy-to-understand categories. It will turn
kvetching into kvelling and guilt into gelt, so that readers will
learn to live at peace with their inner mishegas and to treasure
its precious and life-giving absurdities. A perfect gift for Mental
Health Month (May), Father's Day, or for your favorite mishugenah
friend or relative any time of the year, THE DMOM is sure to keep
readers laughing long after the last page is read.
In this work, the author brings the book of Bereshit (Genesis) to
life by his idiomatic, easily understood translation of the
Masoretic text. Dr. Friedman takes many ancient Hebrew idioms and
unfolds them and their significance for the reader. Additionally,
the reader enters into the flow of the text through his commentary,
one that is based on unique Jewish approaches to understanding this
foundational biblical book. This translation is both scholarly and
artistic; upholding the holiness of the text while casting new
looks at it, as is done when assessing the life of Yakov (Jacob).
There is a special appendix to the translation and commentary that
is found in chapter 37, when the life of Joseph is featured. In
this fresh, insightful translation and commentary, the reader will
enjoy immersing himself or herself in the Bible's classic first
book, the 'Book of the Beginning.'
Meets the need for a program of short courses involving the
essentials of a number of mathematical topics taken by physics and
engineering students. Basically applications-oriented, the courses
do include selected topics of abstract mathematics. While several
courses can be used as practical appendices to conventional
mathematics, others serve as introductions, providing motivation
for self-study in areas of conceptual math.
Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock
(1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this
exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in
the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his
relationship to his family an artist who worked hard through years
of poverty to achieve his controversial painting technique the
first American painter to gain an international reputation for
himself and for what has been variously called Action Painting or
Abstract Expressionism and a man who struggled with alcohol and the
tension between gentleness and violence.Newly illustrated with
seminal Pollock paintings, this book takes the reader inside the
art world of New York during the'40s and'50s, when Action Painting
first emerged. Friedman reveals what it meant to Pollock to
experience the invasion of his studio and of the very act of
painting by the external pressures of shows, reviews, films,
dealers, critics, hostile publicity and how, despite it all,
Pollock created many of the most graceful and powerful paintings
ever made in America.
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