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Be Still! (Hardcover)
Gordon C. Stewart; Foreword by Eric Ringham; Introduction by Wayne G. Boulton
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The Preface to the first edition of this book explained the reasons
for the publication of a comprehensive text on the rumen and rumen
microbes in 1988. The microbes of the ruminant's forestomach and
those in related organs in other animals and birds provide the
means by which herbivorous animals can digest and obtain nutriment
from vegetation. In turn, humans have relied, and still do rely, on
herbivores for much of their food, clothing and motive power.
Herbivores also form the food of carnivorous animals and birds in
the wild. The importance of the rumen microorganisms is thus
apparent. But, while a knowledge of rumen organisms is not strictly
neces sary for the normal, practical feeding of farm animals, in
recent years there has been much more emphasis on increasing the
productivity of domesti cated animals and in rearing farm animals
on unusual feedstuffs. Here, a knowledge of the reactions of the
rumen flora, and the limits to these reactions, can be invaluable.
In addition, anaerobic rumen-type microor ganisms are found in the
intestines of omnivores, including humans, and can be implicated in
diseases of humans and animals. They are also found in soils and
natural waters, where they playa part in causing pollution and also
in reducing it, while the same organisms confined in artificial
systems are essential for the purification of sewage and other
polluting and toxic wastes."
The Art of Winold Reiss brings to light the creative and
forward-thinking work of this German-born artist. Winold Reiss
(1886-1953) arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the
ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art
scene to its core and ushered in a radically new artistic
sensibility, whilst Reiss's exuberant, dynamic designs anticipated
the American passion for the new European avant-garde art. Steeped
in a German aesthetic, Reiss brought his unique brand of modernism
to the United States, and established a reputation and material
presence in New York's cultural and commercial landscape. This
vibrantly illustrated volume showcases over 140 examples of Reiss's
work, ranging from his early graphic creations for advertisements,
menus, packaging, calendars, and books, to his architectural and
interior designs. Reiss's portraits of African Americans include
leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance as well as members of the
professional and working classes. Essays by leading specialists
provide an overview of Reiss's life and artistic achievements,
examining his interior designs of iconic New York restaurants and
bars, his portraits and his decorative arts, including his work in
new 20th-century materials.
Simplifying the complex chemical reactions that take place in
everyday through the well-stated answers for more than 900 common
chemistry questions, this reference is the go-to guide for students
and professionals alike. 'The Handy Chemistry Answer Book' covers
everything from the history, major personalities and
ground-breaking reactions and equations in chemistry to laboratory
techniques throughout history and the latest developments in the
field. This reference guide breaks down the essentials into an
easily understood format.
This book, first published in 1986, analyses the lives and careers
of the founding members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Scotland. Contemporary professional accountancy owes its formal
beginnings to the nineteenth-century Scottish accountants who
formed the first professional bodies, and this book provides
valuable insights for the accounting historian on the backgrounds,
education, work styles and integrity of those early accountants.
This book, first published in 1986, analyses the lives and careers
of the founding members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Scotland. Contemporary professional accountancy owes its formal
beginnings to the nineteenth-century Scottish accountants who
formed the first professional bodies, and this book provides
valuable insights for the accounting historian on the backgrounds,
education, work styles and integrity of those early accountants.
Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all?
What do they think about elections, political parties, and
democracy? This important book by four leading scholars addresses
these questions. Using a wealth of data from the 1964-2001 British
election studies, monthly Gallup polls, and numerous other national
surveys conducted over the past four decades, the authors test the
explanatory power of rival sociological and individual rationality
models of turnout and party choice. Analyses of party choice
endorse a valence politics model that challenges the long-dominant
social class model. British voters make their political choices by
evaluating the performance of parties and party leaders in economic
and other important policy areas. Although these evaluations may be
products of events and conditions that occur long before an
election campaign officially begins, parties' national and local
campaign activities are also influential. Consistent with the
valence politics model, partisan attachments display individual-
and aggregate-level dynamics that reflect ongoing judgements about
the managerial abilities of parties and their leaders. A general
incentives model provides the best explanation of turnout.
Calculations of the costs and influence-discounted benefits of
voting and sense of civic duty are key variables in this model.
Significantly, the decline in turnout in recent elections does not
reflect more general negative trends in public attitudes about the
political system. Voters judge the performance of British democracy
in much the same way as they evaluate its parties and politicians.
Support at all levels of the system is a renewable resource, but
one that must be renewed. A command of theory, data, models, and
method ensure that Political Choice in Britain will be a major
resource for all those interested in elections, voting, and
democracy.
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The Numbered (Hardcover)
Elias Canetti; Translated by C. Stewart
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R341
R304
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This innovative study makes a major contribution to the long
scholarly discussion of the problematic geography of "Mark's
Gospel". Using both modern spatial theory and an exhaustive review
of ancient evidence, Stewart demonstrates how Mark's spatial
perceptions reflect Greek, Roman and Jewish understandings of human
geography. He addresses Mark's editorial and compositional control
over the geographic presentation of Jesus' ministry, ultimately
arguing that in Mark, Jesus offers a unique spatial practice.
Helicobacter pylori: Biology and Clinical Practice is the first
book to fully describe H. pylori and the pathogenesis of H. pylori
infections. It delineates the genome of H. pylori, discusses the
molecular biology of the unique urease enzyme, and examines the
clinical application of these discoveries. The book describes the
epidemiology of H. pylori and its relevance to gastric cancer, and
it offers clear guidance to clinicians for the diagnosis and
treatment of peptic ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia in adults and
children. Vaccine principles and possibilities are presented for
the first time. Edited by the leader of the microbiology team that
achieved the first culture of H. pylori, and named the Helicobacter
genus, this book is essential for bacteriologists,
gastroenterologists, microbiologists, infectious disease
specialists, and other researchers interested in H. pylori.
Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates
the political economy of party support for British political
parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997. Using
valence politics models of electoral choice and marshalling an
unprecedented wealth of survey data collected in the British
Election Study's monthly Continuous Monitoring Surveys, the authors
trace forces affecting support for New Labour during its thirteen
years in office. They then study how the recessionary economy has
influenced the dynamics of party support since the
Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition came to power in May 2010
and factors that shaped voting in Britain's May 2011 national
referendum on changing the electoral system. Placing Britain in
comparative perspective with cross-national survey data gathered in
the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, the authors
investigate how the economic crisis has affected support for
incumbent governments and democratic politics in over twenty
European countries.
Drawing on newspaper accounts, college yearbooks and the
recollections of veterans, this book examines the impact of World
War I on sports in the U.S. As young men entered the military in
large numbers, many colleges initially considered suspending
athletics but soon turned to the idea of using sports to build
morale and physical readiness. Recruits, mostly in their twenties,
ended up playing more baseball and football than they would have in
peacetime. Though most college athletes volunteered for military
duty, others replaced them so that the reduction of competition was
not severe. Pugilism gained participants as several million men
learned how to box.
Demons are real; they roam our world looking for opportunities to
heap destruction upon us. They are ruled by blind hatred toward
humanity, and they don't discriminate. Man, woman, or child-all are
fair game. Journey into the realm of these horrific creatures with
a real demon hunter to see the intense carnage unleashed on an
unsuspecting public. Find out how prevalent demons are in our
society outside religious persuasion, consider relevant and new
research, and read true stories of possession. Discover what these
parasites are and what they do, understand their makeup and
behaviors, and learn how to get rid of them should you become
afflicted. Through trial and error, with significant physical and
mental risk to the author, a new exorcism technique of binding
demons is unveiled here. Against all odds, the author survives to
tell his story. Consider this book a warning . . .
Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-American history? Fear not, because 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History is history at your fingertips-in a concise, accessible, easily-read format.
Jeffrey C. Stewart, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, takes the reader on an all-encompassing journey through the entirety of African-American history that is pithy, provocative, and encyclopedic in scope. Here are all the people, terms, ideas, events, and social processes that make African-American history such a fascinating and inspiring subject.
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History covers all the significant information in six broad sections: Great Migrations; Civil Rights and Politics; Science, Inventions and Medicine; Sports; Military; Culture and Religion. It will entertain as well as instruct, and it can be read from beginning to end as well as opened at random and read at any length without confusion.
A necessary addition to every family's library, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History presents African American history in a fun, engaging and intelligent way.
Fred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher,
entrepreneur, and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his
students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This
biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across
time-it examines Terman as a Stanford faculty child growing up at
an ambitious little regional university; as a young electrical
engineering professor in the heady 1920s and the doldrums of the
Depression; as an engineering manager and educator in the midst of
large-scale wartime research projects and the postwar rise of Big
Science and Big Engineering; as a university administrator on the
razor's edge of great expectations and fragile budgets; and,
finally, as a senior statesman of engineering education. The first
doctoral student of Vannevar Bush at M.I.T., Terman was himself a
prodigious teacher and adviser to many, including William Hewlett
and David Packard. Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew
talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley.
Throughout his life, Fred Terman was constant in his belief that
quality could be quantified, and he was adamant that a university's
success must, in the end, be measured by the success of its
students. Fred Terman's formula for success, both in life and for
his university, was fairly simple: hard work and persistence,
systematic dedication to clearly articulated goals, accountability,
and not settling for mediocre work in yourself or in others.
The Preface to the first edition of this book explained the reasons
for the publication of a comprehensive text on the rumen and rumen
microbes in 1988. The microbes of the ruminant's forestomach and
those in related organs in other animals and birds provide the
means by which herbivorous animals can digest and obtain nutriment
from vegetation. In turn, humans have relied, and still do rely, on
herbivores for much of their food, clothing and motive power.
Herbivores also form the food of carnivorous animals and birds in
the wild. The importance of the rumen microorganisms is thus
apparent. But, while a knowledge of rumen organisms is not strictly
neces sary for the normal, practical feeding of farm animals, in
recent years there has been much more emphasis on increasing the
productivity of domesti cated animals and in rearing farm animals
on unusual feedstuffs. Here, a knowledge of the reactions of the
rumen flora, and the limits to these reactions, can be invaluable.
In addition, anaerobic rumen-type microor ganisms are found in the
intestines of omnivores, including humans, and can be implicated in
diseases of humans and animals. They are also found in soils and
natural waters, where they playa part in causing pollution and also
in reducing it, while the same organisms confined in artificial
systems are essential for the purification of sewage and other
polluting and toxic wastes."
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