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High performance textiles represent one of the most dynamic sectors
of the international textile and clothing industry. With
contributions from leading experts in the field, this book provides
an important overview of key developments in the field. Chapters
cover the use of high performance textiles in such areas as
protective clothing, heat and fire protection, medicine, civil
engineering and the energy sector.
Making a key contribution to the contemporary debate about methods
in European legal research, this comprehensive book looks behind
different methodologies to explore the institutional, disciplinary,
and political conflicts that shape questions of 'method' or
'approach' in European legal scholarship. Offering a new
perspective on the underlying politics of method, it identifies
four core dimensions of methodological struggle in legal research -
the politics of questions, the politics of answers, the politics of
legal audiences, and the politics of the concept of law. Chapters
explore how methodological choices impact the questions legal
scholars ask, the answers they seek, the audiences for and to whom
they speak, and ultimately their understanding of the legal and the
social world. Leading contributors uncover the framing discourses,
institutional inertias, and political pressures that shape research
questions, while assessing the effects of importing social science
methods into legal research, and how audiences of legal research
and education shape our understanding of law. Concluding with a
reflection on the continued, if qualified, relevance of formal
doctrinal methods for European legal research, this
thought-provoking book will be a key resource for students and
scholars of law and politics, research methods and European law.
Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals--St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Guy, the Westminster, St. George, the Middlesex, and the London--were crucial sites for educating surgeons, surgeon-apothecaries and visiting physicians. Lawrence explains how charity patients became teaching objects, and how hospitals became medical schools. She demonstrates that hospital practitioners gradually gained authority within an emerging medical community, transforming the old tripartite structure into a loosely unified group of de facto general practitioners dominated by hospital men. Historians of science and medicine will want to read this book.
Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical
teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in
eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until
the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals - St
Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, Guy's, the Westminster, St George's,
the Middlesex, and the London - were crucial sites for educating
surgeons, surgeon-apothecaries, and visiting physicians. Lawrence
explains how charity patients became teaching objects, and how
hospitals became medical schools. She demonstrates that hospital
practitioners gradually gained authority within an emerging medical
community, transforming the old tripartite structure into a loosely
unified group of de facto general practitioners dominated by
hospital men. As hospital physicians and surgeons became the new
elite, they profoundly shaped what counted as 'good' knowledge
among medical men, both in the construction of clinical
observations and in the proper use of science.
While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of
the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the
nation's capital during the Civil War along with the digital
platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent
years. Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal
government's experiment in compensated emancipation, which went
into effect when all of the capital's slaves were freed in April
1862. Another essay explores the city's place as a major center of
military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other
contributors reflect on literature and the war, particularly on the
poetry published in hospital newspapers and Walt Whitman's
formative experiences with the city and its wounded. The digital
project associated with this book offers a virtual examination of
the nation's capital from multiple perspectives. Through a
collection of datasets, visual works, texts, and maps, the digital
project offers a case study of the social, political, cultural, and
scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War.
The book also provides insights into the complex and ever-shifting
nature of ongoing digital projects while encouraging others to
develop their own interpretations and participate in the larger
endeavor of digital history.
Additional Contributors Are Kenneth E. Boulding And Allan G.
Gruchy. Edited By Edward H. Buehrig, William C. Cleveland, And C.
Leonard Lundin.
The number of foreign-born people residing in the United States is
at the highest level in our history and, as a portion of the U.S.
population, has reached a percentage not seen since the early 20th
century. The actual number of unauthorised aliens in the United
States is unknown. The three main components of the unauthorised
resident alien population are aliens who overstay their
non-immigrant visas; aliens who enter the country surreptitiously
without inspection; and aliens who are admitted on the basis of
fraudulent documents. In all three instances, the aliens are in
violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and subject
to removal. This book will analyse components of the unauthorised
population and discuss policy options to provide relief to selected
subgroups of particular congressional and public interest.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
For his son, One man will reach for the impossible.
Will Smith stars in this moving tale inspired by a true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who's struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raise their 5-year old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) on his own. Chris' determination finally pays off when he lands an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the streets, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend.
When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health
information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft
of new ethical and legal challenges - even in cases where their
subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In Privacy and
the Past, medical historian Susan C. Lawrence explores the impact
of these new privacy rules, offering insight into what historians
should do when they research, write about, and name real people in
their work. Lawrence offers a wide-ranging and informative
discussion of the many issues involved. She highlights the key
points in research ethics that can affect historians, including
their ethical obligations to their research subjects, both living
and dead, and she reviews the range of federal laws that protect
various kinds of information. The book discusses how the courts
have dealt with privacy in contexts relevant to historians,
including a case in which a historian was actually sued for a
privacy violation. Lawrence also questions who gets to decide what
is revealed and what is kept hidden in decades-old records, and she
examines the privacy issues that archivists consider when acquiring
records and allowing researchers to use them. She looks at how
demands to maintain individual privacy both protect and erase the
identities of people whose stories make up the historical record,
discussing decisions that historians have made to conceal
identities that they believed needed to be protected. Finally, she
encourages historians to vigorously resist any expansion of
regulatory language that extends privacy protections to the dead.
Engagingly written and powerfully argued, Privacy and the Past is
an important first step in preventing privacy regulations from
affecting the historical record and the ways that historians write
history.
The party whips are essential components of the U.S. legislative
system, responsible for marshalling party votes and keeping House
and Senate party members in line. In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans
offers a comprehensive exploration of coalition building and
legislative strategy in the U.S. House and Senate, ranging from the
relatively bipartisan, committee-dominated chambers of the 1950s to
the highly polarized congresses of the 2000s. In addition to roll
call votes and personal interviews with lawmakers and staff, Evans
examines the personal papers of dozens of former leaders of the
House and Senate, especially former whips. These records allowed
Evans to create a database of nearly 1,500 internal leadership
polls on hundreds of significant bills across five decades of
recent congressional history. The result is a rich and sweeping
understanding of congressional party leaders at work. Since the
whips provide valuable political intelligence, they are essential
to understanding how coalitions are forged and deals are made on
Capitol Hill.
The elections of 1998 bear out the thesis of this book: so far, the
Republicans in Congress are operating more like an old minority
party than the new majority party they've become. Still, Congress
has changed under Republican leadership and the Republicans have
changed, too. This volume of original essays by leading
congressional scholars explores the impact of the Republican
majority on Congress with attention to the history of the
institution and party characteristics present and future. For
students and scholars alike, the new majority of an old minority
provides a laboratory for political analysis that demonstrates
lasting effects. As Republicans learn to govern, the country will
no doubt learn something, too.
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