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The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day
of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so
haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned
another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope
not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account,
historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in
American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle
of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: afterward, the
conflict could no longer be understood as a limited war to preserve
the Union, but was now clearly a conflict over slavery. Though the
battle was tactically inconclusive, Robert E. Lee withdrew first
from the battlefield, thus handing President Lincoln the political
ammunition necessary to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This
is the full story of Antietam, ranging from the opening shots of
the battle to the powerful reverberations—military, political,
and social—it sent through the armies and the nation. Based on
decades of research, this in-depth narrative sheds particular light
on the visceral experience of battle, an often misunderstood aspect
of the American Civil War, and the emotional aftermath for those
who survived. Hartwig provides an hour-by-hour tactical history of
the battle, beginning before dawn on September 17 and concluding
with the immediate aftermath, including General McClellan's fateful
decision not to pursue Lee's retreating forces back across the
Potomac to Virginia. With 21 unique maps illustrating the state of
the battle at intervals ranging from 20 to 120 minutes, this
long-awaited companion to Hartwig's To Antietam Creek will be
essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War.
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Taylor Lautner stars as a daring New York City bike messenger in
this action-packed crime drama. In desperate need of cash to clear
his mounting debts to the Chinese mafia, Cam (Lautner) has a
fateful encounter when he crashes his bike into parkour enthusiast
Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos). After teaching himself the art of the
sport, Nikki invites the athletic Cam to join her crew that uses
their free running skills to pull off heists set up by their boss
Miller (Adam Rayner). In search of bigger pay-offs, the team
continues to raise the stakes and take on increasingly risky
ventures that attract the unwanted attention of violent criminal
gangs and their dangerous enforcers.
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Alturas and Lake Garfield (Paperback)
Sherry Hielscher Maberry, Linda Smith King, Christi Voigt Adkins, Cathy Frankenburger Curtis, W Patrick Huff, …
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** This title was originally published in 2007. The version
published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The
protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected
areas is increasingly based on ecological principles.
Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become
broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades.
However, this period has also seen unprecedented rapid global
social and ecological change, which has weakened many protection
efforts.These changes have created an awareness of opportunities
for innovative approaches to managing protected areas and of the
need to integrate social and economic concerns with ecological
elements in protected areas and parks management. A rare collection
of articles that fuses academic theory, critique of practice and
practical knowledge, Transforming Parks and Protected Areas
analyzes and critiques these theories, practices, and philosophies,
looking in-detail at the emerging issues in the design and
operation of parks and protected areas. Addressing critical
dynamics and current practices in parks and protected areas
management, the excellent volume goes well beyond simple managerial
solutions and descriptions of standard practice. With contributions
from leading academics and practitioners, this book will be of
value to all those working within ecology, natural resources,
conservation and parks management as well as students and academics
across the environmental sciences and land use management.
The Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes
covers all aspects of the physical metallurgy, analytical
techniques, and processing of aluminium, including hardening,
annealing, aging, property prediction, corrosion, residual stress
and distortion, welding, casting, forging, molten metal processing,
machining, rolling, and extrusion. It also features an extensive,
chapter-length consideration of quenching.
Provides unique insight into how White college students do, and do
not, understand privilege related to their core ideas, beliefs, and
feelings. Provides concrete recommendations for ways educators can
engage students through curricular or pedagogical approaches.
Aligns with the broader scholarship and research related to
Whiteness of which there is a growing scholarly community
investigating this topic.
Provides unique insight into how White college students do, and do
not, understand privilege related to their core ideas, beliefs, and
feelings. Provides concrete recommendations for ways educators can
engage students through curricular or pedagogical approaches.
Aligns with the broader scholarship and research related to
Whiteness of which there is a growing scholarly community
investigating this topic.
High patient satisfaction, rapid recovery times, and suitability
for outpatient surgery make unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
(UKA) an increasingly popular surgical option for treatment of
isolated, medial, lateral, and patellofemoral compartment arthritis
of the knee. Drs. Richard D. Scott and Vivek Shah impart their
considerable expertise in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty,
providing orthopaedic surgeons and related clinical staff with the
comprehensive, easy-to-read information needed to make the most of
this innovative procedure in daily practice. Offers in-depth
operative and nonoperative coverage of partial knee replacement.
Presents focused information in a quick and easy-to-read format of
bulleted summaries and practical advice based on the authors'
experience. Covers key topics such as evolving technology, lateral
compartment arthroplasty, UKA in the middle-aged patient, UKA in
the octogenarian, and prosthetic design considerations. Features
high-quality figures, radiographs, and photographs, as well as
practical examples, tips, challenges, and recommendations
throughout. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your
enhanced eBook allows you to access bonus images plus all of the
text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of
devices.
Salmonella is a major pathogen that can result in deadly
foodborne illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) estimates that there are 1.4 million cases of Salmonella
poisoning each year in the United States from a variety of causes,
with undercooked poultry and eggs being the prime culprits.
Therefore, intervention strategies are vital to reducing its
occurrence. Controlling Salmonella in Poultry Production and
Processing provides a complete analysis of the challenges faced in
controlling Salmonella in this industry and keeping the public safe
from this threat.
Author Scott M. Russell, Ph.D., works closely with the poultry
industry throughout the United States and Canada and with companies
in Central and South America, Europe, and China. In this volume, he
explores:
- The origin of Salmonella in poultry
- Intervention strategies for controlling Salmonella during
breeding, hatching, grow-out, transportation, and processing
- How to design a processing plant to eliminate Salmonella
- How to verify intervention strategies to ensure they are
working
- Increasing yield during processing while controlling
Salmonella
- New regulations being proposed by USDA-FSIS and their impact on
poultry companies regarding competition and international
exportation of products
- The differences between the EU and the U.S. with regard to
Salmonella control
Providing readers with numerous examples of real-world
experiences, Dr. Russell offers knowledge gleaned from traveling to
poultry plants throughout the world over an 18-year period,
assisting processors with identifying the sources of Salmonella in
their operations, and developing successful intervention
strategies.
This book provides readers with a compelling case for the inclusion
of contextual therapy in comprehensive healthcare settings by
presenting its applications to individual and family health across
the lifespan. Part I gives an overview of contextual therapy,
including case conceptualization, assessment, intervention, and
supervision. Part II provides specific recommendations for
incorporating contextual therapy in diverse and multidisciplinary
settings. Case studies illustrate how concepts such as justice,
loyalty, and balanced giving and receiving influence families'
adjustment to chronic illnesses and mental health disorders.
Accounting for the trend toward increased collaboration between
providers in traditional mental health and medical settings, this
book will empower clinicians to expand their current range of
assessment methods, intervention techniques, and supervision
experiences
This reference provides thorough and in-depth coverage of the
latest production and processing technologies encountered in the
aluminum alloy industry, discussing current analytical methods for
aluminum alloy characterization as well as extractive metallurgy,
smelting, master alloy formation, and recycling. The Handbook of
Aluminum: Volume 2 examines environmental pollution and toxicity in
each stage of aluminum alloy production and metal processing,
illustrates microstructure evolution modeling, and describes work
hardening, recovery, recrystallization, and grain growth. The
authors cover potential applications of various aluminum
intermetallics, recent surface modification techniques, and types
and causes of aluminum alloy corrosion.
Salmonella is a major pathogen that can result in deadly foodborne
illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
estimates that there are 1.4 million cases of Salmonella poisoning
each year in the United States from a variety of causes, with
undercooked poultry and eggs being the prime culprits. Therefore,
intervention strategies are vital to reducing its occurrence.
Controlling Salmonella in Poultry Production and Processing
provides a complete analysis of the challenges faced in controlling
Salmonella in this industry and keeping the public safe from this
threat. Author Scott M. Russell, Ph.D., works closely with the
poultry industry throughout the United States and Canada and with
companies in Central and South America, Europe, and China. In this
volume, he explores: The origin of Salmonella in poultry
Intervention strategies for controlling Salmonella during breeding,
hatching, grow-out, transportation, and processing How to design a
processing plant to eliminate Salmonella How to verify intervention
strategies to ensure they are working Increasing yield during
processing while controlling Salmonella New regulations being
proposed by USDA-FSIS and their impact on poultry companies
regarding competition and international exportation of products The
differences between the EU and the U.S. with regard to Salmonella
control Providing readers with numerous examples of real-world
experiences, Dr. Russell offers knowledge gleaned from traveling to
poultry plants throughout the world over an 18-year period,
assisting processors with identifying the sources of Salmonella in
their operations, and developing successful intervention
strategies.
** This title was originally published in 2007. The version
published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The
protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected
areas is increasingly based on ecological principles.
Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become
broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades.
However, this period has also seen unprecedented rapid global
social and ecological change, which has weakened many protection
efforts.These changes have created an awareness of opportunities
for innovative approaches to managing protected areas and of the
need to integrate social and economic concerns with ecological
elements in protected areas and parks management. A rare collection
of articles that fuses academic theory, critique of practice and
practical knowledge, Transforming Parks and Protected Areas
analyzes and critiques these theories, practices, and philosophies,
looking in-detail at the emerging issues in the design and
operation of parks and protected areas. Addressing critical
dynamics and current practices in parks and protected areas
management, the excellent volume goes well beyond simple managerial
solutions and descriptions of standard practice. With contributions
from leading academics and practitioners, this book will be of
value to all those working within ecology, natural resources,
conservation and parks management as well as students and academics
across the environmental sciences and land use management.
This one-of-a-kind reference examines conventional and advanced
methodologies for the quantitative evaluation of properties and
characterization of microstructures in metals. It presents methods
for uncovering valuable information including precipitate
mechanisms, kinetics, stability, crystallographic orientation, the
effects of thermo-mechanical processing, and residual stress. The
editors of Analytical Characterization of Aluminum, Steel, and
Superalloys enlist top industry researchers and practitioners from
around the world to analyze the methodologies presented in their
areas of expertise. Following traditional metallography methods,
the book features an atlas of microstructures for aluminum, steel,
and superalloys. The text also examines several material
characterization methods rarely covered in other references,
provides the framework for using advanced laboratory techniques,
and discusses component failure identification methods and other
measurements that are crucial to components manufacturing. Enabling
the evolution of stronger and more function-specific compositions,
Analytical Characterization of Aluminum, Steel, and Superalloys
offers engineers, researchers, and materials scientists an
invaluable reference of many advanced laboratory techniques in the
context of characterization and property evaluation methodologies
for metals and alloys.
Advances in network connectivity, power consumption, and physical
size create new possibilities for using interactive computing
outdoors. However, moving computing outdoors can drastically change
the human outdoor experience. This impact is felt in many kinds of
outdoor activities such as citizen science, personal recreation,
search and rescue, informal education, and others. It is also felt
across outdoor settings that range from remote wilderness to
crowded cities. Understanding these effects can lead to ideas,
designs and systems that improve, rather than diminish, outdoor
experiences. This book represents the current results emerging from
recent workshops focused on HCI outdoors and held in conjunction
with CHI, GROUP, UbiComp, and MobileHCI conferences. Based on
feedback at those workshops, and outreach to other leaders in the
field, the chapters collected were crafted to highlight methods and
approaches for understanding how technologies such as handhelds,
wearables, and installed standalone devices impact individuals,
groups, and even communities. These findings frame new ways of
thinking about HCI outdoors, explore logistical issues associated
with moving computing outdoors, and probe new experiences created
by involving computing in outdoor pursuits. Also important are the
ways that social media has influenced preparation, experience, and
reflection related to outdoor experiences. HCI Outdoors: Theory,
Design, Methods and Applications is of interest to HCI researchers,
HCI practitioners, and outdoor enthusiasts who want to shape future
understanding and current practice related to technology in every
kind of outdoor experience.
Advances in network connectivity, power consumption, and physical
size create new possibilities for using interactive computing
outdoors. However, moving computing outdoors can drastically change
the human outdoor experience. This impact is felt in many kinds of
outdoor activities such as citizen science, personal recreation,
search and rescue, informal education, and others. It is also felt
across outdoor settings that range from remote wilderness to
crowded cities. Understanding these effects can lead to ideas,
designs and systems that improve, rather than diminish, outdoor
experiences. This book represents the current results emerging from
recent workshops focused on HCI outdoors and held in conjunction
with CHI, GROUP, UbiComp, and MobileHCI conferences. Based on
feedback at those workshops, and outreach to other leaders in the
field, the chapters collected were crafted to highlight methods and
approaches for understanding how technologies such as handhelds,
wearables, and installed standalone devices impact individuals,
groups, and even communities. These findings frame new ways of
thinking about HCI outdoors, explore logistical issues associated
with moving computing outdoors, and probe new experiences created
by involving computing in outdoor pursuits. Also important are the
ways that social media has influenced preparation, experience, and
reflection related to outdoor experiences. HCI Outdoors: Theory,
Design, Methods and Applications is of interest to HCI researchers,
HCI practitioners, and outdoor enthusiasts who want to shape future
understanding and current practice related to technology in every
kind of outdoor experience.
*Major revision of a key clinical guide and text; 75% new material
includes numerous new chapters reflecting 15 years of advances in
the field. *State-of-the-science information on specific types of
crises, plus new coverage of legal and ethical issues and clinician
self-care. *Practical--CBT strategies are brought to life by rich
case material. *From highly regarded editors and contributors.
JavaScript is the little scripting language that could. Once used
chiefly to add interactivity to web browser windows, JavaScript is
now a primary building block of powerful and robust applications.
In this practical book, new and experienced JavaScript developers
will learn how to use this language to create APIs as well as web,
mobile, and desktop applications. Author and engineering leader
Adam D. Scott covers technologies such as Node.js, GraphQL, React,
React Native, and Electron. Ideal for developers who want to build
full stack applications and ambitious web development beginners
looking to bootstrap a startup, this book shows you how to create a
single CRUD-style application that will work across several
platforms. Explore GraphQL’s simple process for querying data
Learn about shared authentication for APIs, web apps, and native
applications Build performant web applications with React and
Styled Components Use React Native to write cross-platform
applications for iOS and Android that compile to native code Learn
how to write desktop applications with Electron
An invaluable guide for orthopaedic surgeons at all levels of
experience, Total Knee Arthroplasty, 3rd Edition, takes a
practical, authoritative approach to this widely performed
procedure. Dr. Richard Scott, co-designer of the Total Knee System,
walks you step by step through a wide range of surgical scenarios,
offering consistent, readable coverage of the techniques you need
to know. A user-friendly index, hundreds of detailed, full-color
illustrations and photographs, and bulleted summaries make
information easy to find and put to use in practice. Covers all
facets of operative and non-operative knee replacement in depth,
from simple varus knees to complex valgus and more. Features new
topics such as posterior-stabilized TKA, measured resection
techniques, and gap balancing techniques, as well as new
high-quality figures and photographs, practical examples, tips,
challenges, and recommendations. Contains step-by-step coverage of
techniques and complex methods, including key tips on what to avoid
in every situation. Shares the knowledge and expertise of Dr.
Richard Scott, who highlights personal pearls and pitfalls, answers
frequently asked questions, and provides expert guidance in the
design and technique of PCL retaining TKA and Unicompartmental knee
arthroplasty. 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.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The first of its
kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the
state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature
review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of
the humanities, the nature of humanities research and the relation
between humanities and politics, amongst other issues.
This book draws on a study of student transitions in higher
education institutions to both unpack the concept of a learning
transition and develop pedagogic strategies to enable learners to
develop their learning careers. This book provides an original
perspective on teaching and learning in higher education.
Learning Transitions in Higher Education draws on a study of
student transitions in higher education institutions to both unpack
the concept of a transition and develop teaching and learning
approaches to enable learners to progress their learning careers.
Its focus is on issues which are now central to the concerns of
higher education researchers and policy-makers; those of teaching,
learning and assessment. Currently, these are not fully understood,
with the result that inadequate and inappropriate models are used
in research accounts and policy deliberations. This book theorises
the practice of student learning transitions in real-life settings
and as moments in their learning and assessment careers. It
examines five aspects of transitions: identity transformations,
literacy practices, transformational pedagogies, assessments for
learning and feedback mechanisms. As a consequence the book
provides an original perspective on teaching and learning in higher
education in the context of the increased marketisation and global
mobility of the sector.
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