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Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and
policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But
often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This
book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about
disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to
speak.
Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one
of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and
lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant
advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of
trying to locate nearby control or reference sites when studying an
ecosystem that may be degraded, a problem that bedevils traditional
approaches. Rather than using upstream reference sites in a river
system or next-bay-over reference sites in a lake, an array of
ecologically similar, least-exposed to stress sites scattered
throughout a catchment or region is used. Once the reference
condition has been established, any site suspected of being
impacted can be assessed by comparison to the reference sites, and
its status determined. The Reference Condition database, once
formed, can be used repeatedly.
Bailey examines a little-known but highly significant governmental
mechanism in eighteenth-century Virginia: the right of every
citizen to petition the Virginia assembly for redress of
grievances.
This book describes the problems encountered by UN inspection teams
assigned to find and destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological,
and missile capabilities following Desert Storm. Kathleen C. Bailey
focuses on the initial inspections-the period in which Iraq was
struggling to camouflage and conceal its weapons and production
equipment as inspectors were trying to define their role in the
process. Working from interviews with these initial inspectors,
Bailey extracts important lessons for future verification efforts.
On-site arms control inspectors in Iraq found information to be
carefully controlled by the government. Pertinent documentation was
destroyed, only selected people were allowed to interact with
inspectors, and officials refused to make full, complete
declarations. Buildings were tom down, equipment was moved, and
un-exploded ordnance was placed in the way. These and other
techniques helped Iraq to hide its past activities and to preserve
some of its weapons capabilities. In the future, arms control
inspectors will need to develop strategies for dealing more
effectively with recalcitrant inspectees and for creating the best
possible procedures and processes. Bailey concludes with concrete
suggestions for overcoming some of these obstacles with more
effective inspection practices.
Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has
presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of
letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong
engagement with books and discusses his writing from childhood
journals to his final editorial, finished just hours before his
death. His most famous book, The Rough Riders--part memoir, part
war adventure--barely begins to suggest the dynamism of his
literary output. Roosevelt read widely and deeply, and worked
tirelessly on his writing. Along with speeches, essays, reviews,
and letters, he wrote history, autobiography, and tales of
exploration and discovery. In this thoroughly original biography,
Roosevelt is revealed at his most vulnerable--and his most human.
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history,
over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler
Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the
operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before,
during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal
papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the
auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey
weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life.
Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she
includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on
the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped
people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The
Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the
most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists
today.
Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one
of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and
lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant
advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of
trying to locate nearby control or reference sites when studying an
ecosystem that may be degraded, a problem that bedevils traditional
approaches. Rather than using upstream reference sites in a river
system or next-bay-over reference sites in a lake, an array of
ecologically similar, least-exposed to stress sites scattered
throughout a catchment or region is used. Once the reference
condition has been established, any site suspected of being
impacted can be assessed by comparison to the reference sites, and
its status determined. The Reference Condition database, once
formed, can be used repeatedly.
The Reference Condition is established by standardized sampling of
both the biota and its environment at a number of reference sites.
A variety of environmental variables is measured in conjunction
with sampling the biota (usually benthic invertebrates). In this
book, we describe the basic methods involved in selecting and
sampling appropriate reference sites, comparing test sites to
appropriate reference sites using predictive modeling, and
determining whether or not test sites are in the reference
condition. This provides a rapid assessment method that can deal
with everything from large-scale, national issues to local-scale
problems with the same approach, and often parts of the same
database.
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale
Series of Younger Poets volume is a lyrical and polyvocal
exploration of what it means to fight for yourself "Bailey invites
us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman
of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery,
brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological."
-Carl Phillips, from the Foreword "Desiree C. Bailey sings true in
her debut. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it
transfiguring what a maroon might overhear-a call awaiting
response."-Yusef Komunyakaa The 115th volume of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for
belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean
folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America.
Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic
narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian
Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora,
probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood.
Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's "poems argue for
hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and
they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of
steady defiance."
Money is the number one problem area for couples because money isn't simply about dollars and cents. If you scratch the surface of almost any money issue, you'll find a relationship issue complicating if not actually driving the problem. That's why You Paid How Much For That? not only sound reveals principles of money management but also provides you with practical tools to uncover and understand the deeper, often hidden meanings of money and conquer the problems it raises in your relationship. You Paid How Much For That? can help you to - Learn how a Saver and Spender can live together-happily!
- Gain a healthy respect for what money can-and can't-do for you.
- Understand how your upbringing, culture, and gender influence how you and your partner approach relationships and money differently.
- Find out how to solve problems together in ways that promote teamwork.
- Discover practical ways to get what you both want most.
- Capture a vision for a prosperous and loving future together.
Between 1926 and 1929, thousands of Mexicans fought and died in an
attempt to overthrow the government of their country. They were the
Cristeros, so called because of their battle cry, !Viva Cristo
Rey!-Long Live Christ the King! The Cristero rebellion and the
church-state conflict remain one of the most controversial subjects
in Mexican history, and much of the writing on it is emotional
polemic. David C. Bailey, basing his study on the most important
published and unpublished sources available, strikes a balance
between objective reporting and analysis. This book depicts a
national calamity in which sincere people followed their
convictions to often tragic ends. The Cristero rebellion climaxed a
century of animosity between the Catholic church and the Mexican
state, and this background is briefly summarized here. With the
coming of the 1910 revolution the hostility intensified. The
revolutionists sought to impose severe limitations on the Church,
and Catholic anti-revolutionary militancy grew apace. When the
government in 1926 decreed strict enforcement of anticlerical
legislation, matters reached a crisis. Church authorities suspended
public worship throughout Mexico, and Catholics in various parts of
the country rose up in arms. There followed almost three years of
indecisive guerrilla warfare marked by brutal excesses on both
sides. Bailey describes the armed struggle in broad outline but
concentrates on the political and diplomatic maneuvering that
ultimately decided the issue. A de facto settlement was brought
about in 1929, based on the government's pledge to allow the Church
to perform its spiritual offices under its own internal discipline.
The pact was arranged mainly through the intercession of U.S.
Ambassador Dwight Morrow. His role in the conflict, as well as that
of other Americans who decisively influenced the course of events,
receives detailed attention in the study. The position of the
Vatican during the conflict and its role in the settlement are also
examined in detail. With the 1929 settlement the clergy returned to
the churches, whereupon the Cristeros lost public support and the
rebellion collapsed. The spirit of the settlement soon evaporated,
more strife followed, and only after another decade did permanent
religious peace come to Mexico.
Adhesives for electronic applications serve important functional
and structural purposes in electronic components and packaging, and
have developed significantly over the last few decades. Advanced
adhesives in electronics reviews recent developments in adhesive
joining technology, processing and properties. The book opens with
an introduction to adhesive joining technology for electronics.
Part one goes on to cover different types of adhesive used in
electronic systems, including thermally conductive adhesives,
isotropic and anisotropic conductive adhesives and underfill
adhesives for flip-chip applications. Part two focuses on the
properties and processing of electronic adhesives, with chapters
covering the structural integrity of metal-polymer adhesive
interfaces, modelling techniques used to assess adhesive properties
and adhesive technology for photonics. With its distinguished
editors and international team of contributors, Advanced adhesives
in electronics is a standard reference for materials scientists,
engineers and chemists using adhesives in electronics, as well as
those with an academic research interest in the field.
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history,
over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler
Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the
operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before,
during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal
papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the
auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey
weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life.
Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she
includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on
the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped
people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The
Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the
most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists
today.
Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and
policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But
often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This
book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about
disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to
speak.
For centuries, the stories of the Transatlantic Trade in Africans
has been filtered through the eyes and records of Europeans. In
this seminal work, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of
the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other
elders from the area of the former old slave coast of southeastern
Ghana, share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well
as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that like victims of trauma,
many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their
past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame
around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories handed
down through generations of storytellers, Bailey finds that
although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even
their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating
consequences on their history and identity. Bailey breaks the
deafening silence and explores the delicate and fragmented nature
of historical memory in this unprecedented and revelatory book
which is bound to spark discussion and debate.
A collection of essays exemplifying new directions in biblical
scholarship being taken by biblical scholars who use new literary,
historical and sociological critical tools in exploring issues of
concern to their communities, and pose a challenge to others in the
discipline to broaden the canons of interpretation and sources.
These essays, which are from the generation of scholars who follow
the writers of the historic "Stony the Road We Trod: African
American Biblical Interpretation (Fortress, 1991), address issues
of cultural criticism, utilization of Black religious sources such
as the Negro spirituals and sermons, histories of struggles of
Afro-diasporan peoples, and ideological criticism in interpreting
the biblical text.
Since the late 1960s the burgeoning gay rights movement has begun
to have a profound effect on the politics of many American cities.
More than 135 cities and counties have passed local ordinances that
prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and
openly gay city council members and other public officials have
been elected in urban areas from Melbourne, Iowa, to Dallas, Texas.
These are major triumphs, many would argue, for an identity
movement that has been an active presence on America's political
horizon for only several decades. In "Gay Politics, Urban
Politics," Robert W. Bailey presents the most comprehensive
exploration to date of gay and lesbian politics in urban settings.
Drawing from surveys of political attitudes and voting patterns
among gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, Bailey's study is a revealing
window into how sexual identity has fostered political alliances.
The book investigates mayoral voting patterns in America's three
largest cities--New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago--and presents
four in-depth case studies of specific urban political settings:
Birmingham, Alabama; New York City; Philadelphia; and San
Francisco. Bailey addresses such issues as how policy is swayed in
cities not known as gay centers and how specific issues are
influenced in urban areas where gays and lesbians become part of
the governing regime. Bringing together identity, queer, and social
organization theories, this book offers a rich addition to the
literature of political science and urban affairs, fields that call
for a much closer relationship with lesbian and gay studies. In a
broader sense, it seeks to reinvigorate the social science approach
to the study of urbanpolitical phenomena.
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