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More detailed than an outlined review but less overwhelming than an
encyclopedic reference, Brenner and Stevens' Pharmacology, 6th
Edition, focuses on the essential principles you need to know in a
concise, easy-to-understand manner. Authored by Craig W. Stevens,
PhD, this highly illustrated introductory text helps you learn and
retain key information in pharmacology-taking you from course exams
and the USMLE Step 1 right through to clinical practice. New and
extensively revised content keeps you up to date with the latest
pharmacologic mechanisms and applications. Teaches the fundamental
aspects of pharmacology using full-color illustrations, detailed
explanations, and a consistent format to present classification of
drugs for each system/disease. Helps you understand both the basic
science foundations and clinical applications of pharmacology, with
useful tables, drug classifications boxes, case studies, and
self-assessments in each chapter to help you review and prepare for
course exams and Step 1. Includes the latest drugs and therapeutic
indications (more than 100 are new to this edition), along with an
entirely new chapter on recent developments of immunopharmacology
drugs, including antivirals and vaccinations. Addresses key topics
such as antiviral and monoclonal drugs to treat COVID-19, the
opioid epidemic, and gene therapy. Features more than 700 new and
updated images, with many revised figures focused on clearing
presenting the mechanism of action of drugs. Includes access to
bonus eBook content such as animations, an additional glossary,
chapter-by-chapter summaries and case studies, a full list of
featured drugs, 150 USMLE-style self-assessment questions, and
more. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced
eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references
from the book on a variety of devices.
Designing and making a coffee table represents a unique project for
the craftperson, offering the reward and satisfaction of building a
beautiful and yet fairly simple piece of furniture. A coffee table
project requires forethought and planning. It also helps to develop
confident handskills and the attitude to do one's best, especially
for someone just beginning to explore furniture making. Creating
Coffee Tables: An Artistic Approach takes the novice as well as the
advanced woodworker through a fully illustrated step-by-step
process from design to applying a finish. Drawing from his study at
the renowned College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program,
cabinetmaker and author Craig Vandall Stevens takes the
craftsperson through the sequence of events necessary to design and
build a coffee table. 350 detailed photographs illustrate selecting
and laying out lumber, the use of woodworking machines and
handtools, sharpening, milling and preparing parts, joinery,
resawing and making sawn veneers, shaping with handtools, assembly,
and choosing and applying a finish.
"Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African
societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their
origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist
culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition."
--"Book News"
"In the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum
periods, Craig Steven Wilder's "In the Company of Black Men" stands
out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last
decade."--"Journal of American Ethnic History
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New
York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early
national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in
twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a
fixture of African-American communities.
In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three
centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional
foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and
social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the
voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis
in collectivism--a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege
the group over the individual--it explores the institutions that
arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action
and mass resistance.
Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its
assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with
intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a
communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift
from previous work which has viewed African-American male
associations as derivative and imitative of white malecounterparts,
In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for
investigating antebellum black institutions.
The distinctive contribution that Christianity makes to
investigations of culture and science is that of a coherent vision
of truth - a unifying truth that takes flight on the two wings of
faith and reason. Against methodological reductionism,
philosophical nihilism, and postmodern skepticism, such a vision
affirms that the unity of truth is ultimate and personal and that
science and culture participate therein according to their own
geniuses.""On Wings of Faith and Reason"" provides reasons for a
unified vision of truth, while giving examples of the roles that
faith and reason play in scientific activities and cultural
expressions. Contributing authors from the fields of medicine,
ethics, philosophy, and theology argue that Christianity makes a
difference, not only in providing an understanding of the ultimate
origin and end of the human person, but in contributing to
practical applications. Christianity offers assurance about the
course of scientific and cultural inquiry, while encouraging
creative expression and personal excellence in its
execution.Against fideists, it is argued that reason has a
differentiated role to play in Christian efforts and theological
investigations. Against rationalists, it is argued not only that
faith builds up reason without making it a-rational or irrational,
but also that it is a source of knowledge, the denial of which
restricts not only our passive reception and active observation of
reality, but also our creative responses to it. The image of two
wings affirms that faith and reason exercise distinct roles, not
the same role, in a unified flight of knowledge. It refutes the
idea that isolated one-dimensional theories of truth will
satisfy.The contributors are Jude Dougherty, Kevin L. Flannery,
John Haas, Peter Kreeft, Richard John Neuhaus, Edmund Pellegrino,
and Robert Sokolowski.
The contribution of Christian intelligence to western culture is
widely recognized by those committed to the scholarly pursuit of
truth, concerned for the welfare of the nation, and dedicated to
the preservation and advancement of the permanent achievements of
the West. The dignity of the human person and the place of the
human person in society, the western polis, have in large part been
developed in the context of a Christian culture that continues to
offer insights for the development of the human person. This book
addresses the place of faith and values in the secular state.
Renowned specialists in a wide range of disciplines - philosophy,
jurisprudence, psychology, and theology - discuss how the person
and the polis are guided by ethics and religion, and how liberty
and transcendence interact in human aspirations. The contributors
are Hadley Arkes, Romanus Cessario, Robert P. George, Michael
Novak, Daniel N. Robinson, Kenneth Schmitz, and Paul C. Vitz. The
authors enter into a constructive conversation in an attempt to
attain a deeper understanding of the human person through the
integration of insights from practical wisdom and Christian faith.
The book advances the cause of the human person and society by
synthesizing the genuine contributions of the human sciences with
an openness to spiritual sources of understanding and practice.
Such intelligent dialogues between the sciences, philosophy, and
religion - about human dignity and beatitude, moral responsibility
and values, law and custom, community and institutions - contribute
potent means for nourishing the person and constructing the polis
with the insights of reason strengthened by the surety of faith and
Christian intelligence.
Western culture and art were not born of unknown parents.
Christianity, while receiving its mother tongues and its first
canonical texts within Hebrew and Greco-Roman civilizations, has
provided its own major contributions to the art and culture of the
last two millennia. In this volume, scholars of international
reputation, clerics and lay, Catholic and Protestant have reflected
on how Christians have dialogued with diverse cultures and
religions, even as they forged directions unique to the Gospel.The
contributors of ""Christianity and the West"" scrutinize past
achievements in order to face the postmodern secularization of
western society and the globalization of communication, trade, and
travel that claim a right to experimentation, free from
long-standing values and detached from communities where the
quality of culture and art makes a difference. It is argued that
the creative manifestations of culture express the genius of human
agents, authors, and artists, but they find their acid test in
relationship with the flourishing of human persons and society.
However, a human social standard is assured by a divine one.
Culture risks becoming destructive when the aesthetic is severed
from sources of faith and reason about human origins and ends.In
order to face this risk, the present volume explores the
interaction between Christianity, art, and culture in the West,
especially in fine art and architecture, theatre and cinema,
literature and politics. It demonstrates that Christianity has
served as a living memory for humanity, above all, concerning the
unity of the physical and spiritual dimensions that constitute the
human person and culture.
Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial
period to the present, "A Covenant with Color" exposes the
intricate relations of dominance and subordination that have long
characterized the relative social positions of white and black
Brooklynites. Craig Steven Wilder -- examining both quantitative
and qualitative evidence and utilizing cutting-edge literature on
race theory -- demonstrates how ideas of race were born, how they
evolved, and how they were carried forth into contemporary
society.
In charting the social history of one of the nation's oldest
urban locales, Wilder contends that power relations -- in all their
complexity -- are the starting point for understanding Brooklyn's
turbulent racial dynamics. He spells out the workings of power --
its manipulation of resources, whether in the form of unfree labor,
privileges of citizenship, better jobs, housing, government aid, or
access to skilled trades. Wilder deploys an extraordinary spectrum
of evidence to illustrate the mechanics of power that have kept
African American Brooklynites in subordinate positions: from
letters and diaries to family papers of Kings County's
slaveholders, from tax records to the public archives of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation.
Wilder illustrates his points through a variety of cases,
including banking interests, the rise of Kings County's colonial
elite, industrialization and slavery, race-based distribution of
federal money in jobs, and mortgage loans during and after the
Depression. He delves into the evolution of the Brooklyn ghetto,
tracing how housing segregation corralled African Americans in
Bedford-Stuyvesant. The book explores colonial enslavement, the
rise of Jim Crow, labor discrimination and union exclusion, and
educational inequality. Throughout, Wilder uses Brooklyn as a lens
through which to view larger issues of race and power on a national
level.
One of the few recent attempts to provide a comprehensive
history of race relations in an American city, "A Covenant with
Color" is a major contribution to urban history and the history of
race and class in America.
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Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray star in this wartime aviation drama
about the research trials which attempted to eliminate the
dangerous phenomenon of pilot-blackout. The film, directed by
Michael Curtiz ('Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'), was nominated for
an Oscar for its camera work.
Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of
scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of
this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic
contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars,
activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies
of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the
presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of
the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use
of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies
of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the
post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features
broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the
regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case
studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as
Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory
University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of
Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory
University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent
findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting
developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of
thinking about racial diversity in the history and current
practices of higher education.
Emphirical research and virtue ethics find a fitting match in their
respective studies of resilience and fortitude. The concept of
resilience involves personal and social capacities to cope with
difficulty, resist destruction under hardship, and construct
something positive out of an otherwise negative situation. Although
the concept is new, the human phenomenon is ancient. It has been
attested to for millennia by poets, philosophers, and spiritual
writers who have praised it in the language of the virtues. In
addition to examining empirical resilience research, this book
offers - at philosophical and theological levels - a basis for a
hearty understanding of the human person in terms of the virtues
that enable human beings to overcome difficulty when they are faced
with fear and suffering, or when they are in need of imaginative
daring and hope. The primary such virtue is fortitude. The present
study employs the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his sources on
fortitude and its related virtues, while taking his dialogal method
as a basis for critically appropriating reflections from other
perspectives as well. The book offers a renewed, classic vision of
the human person and the ordering of the sciences as read through
the complementary and, at one level, corrective insights of
empirical psychosocial studies on resilience. Such a vibrant
natural-law approach to ethical norms and moral development offers
guidelines and a framework for understanding human resilience.
Moreover, it recognizes a theological transformation of such human
capacities - a spiritual resilience - by proposing the New Law of
grace, Christ's teaching, and the infused virtues as vital bases
for Christian ethics.
Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of
scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of
this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic
contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars,
activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies
of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the
presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of
the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use
of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies
of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the
post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features
broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the
regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case
studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as
Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory
University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of
Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory
University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent
findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting
developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of
thinking about racial diversity in the history and current
practices of higher education.
Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star
Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing
franchises in history. Yet much of the film's backstory was set in
Britain, where the original trilogy was made and where early
efforts at tie-in merchandising were spearheaded. The author
provides a detailed account of the saga's British connection,
including personal recollections of fans in the UK, exclusive
interviews with staff members of Palitoy who took on the challenge
of producing millions of toys, and the story of how a group of
writers from the underground press in London combined with Marvel
comics to produce the first Star Wars expanded universe.
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