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This book chronicles the creation, evolution, and multifaceted
impact of the University of Alabama HuntsvilleFoundation (UAHF). It
traces the growth of the city of Huntsville and the area
surrounding it as an internationally acclaimed center for research
and development in science, engineering, and technology. The author
describes the concurrent evolution of The University of Alabama in
Huntsville (UAH) as the pre-eminent academic center in Alabama for
research in engineering, physical science, environmental science,
and computational science. He recounts theseminal contributions
that the UAH Foundation, and the outstanding men and women who have
constituted its members, has made in helping to make some very good
things to happen in Huntsville, Alabama. The UAHF is a rarity among
university-related foundations in that the UAHF existed even before
the university it now serves was created. The books chapters detail
how Huntsville leaders came together to form the predecessor of the
UAHF as landholding operation supporting the orderly development of
Cummings Research Park, of which UAH occupies the easternmost
extremity. Later chapters describe how the UAHF gradually took on
greater and greater responsibility for the support of UAH itself,
becoming, ultimately, UAH's independent, university-related
foundation.
Managing and Leading others in the workplace today can be a very
challenging experience. With everything changing so quickly and
dramatically, the ability to make the right decisions at the right
time and for the right reasons is critically important. Employees
need and want effective, management/leadership.
Long ago I A Richards remarked that if we are to understand the
Imagination, we have to understand how the brain works. Scientists
have begun to approach this deep and complex problem in ways that
we can not ignore. Coleridge's ideas on the subject belong to
another age, but he had the knack of raising questions and
performing thought experiments which are still relevant. This book
explores the questions and discoveries raised both by Coleridge and
by recent scientific research in order to offer fresh and original
approaches to the reading of poetry and in particular the reading
of Coleridge's major poems, The Ancyent Marinere, Kubla Khan and
Christabel. This book offers an interpretation of the role of
Imagination in the development of the human consciousness and the
vital role poetry plays in our engagement with the world.
The thriller From Blue to Crimson takes readers deep into the life
and soul of the underbelly of the world of the sexual offender.
The story of a successful New York police detective who loses it
all -- family, career, money -- only to return in the most
surprising manner.
Changes in the focus of neurological practice worldwide have led to
the need for new standard texts that reflect the current state of
this expanding area of clinical expertise. The second edition of
the Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation is a major reference
source that fulfils this need, providing an invaluable resource for
all professions that work with patients suffering from neurological
disorders. It brings restorative neurology to the bedside and shows
how a reiterative, goal-oriented, problem-solving training
programme can benefit patients, sometimes on a scale not achieved
by pharmacological or surgical interventions. The book is divided
into three sections all of which have been updated. Section One
explores the clinical and biological principles underpinning
rehabilitation practice in the context of neurological disablement.
Section Two describes the assessment, treatment, and management of
the major physical, cognitive and behavioural impairments, and the
resulting functional deficits that may follow or accompany
neurological disease. The final section explores in more detail
these problems and their management in relation to the more common
specific disorders of the nervous system. The text emphasises the
fact that rehabilitation is an ongoing process involving
multidisciplinary problem-solving, goal-setting and education; in
which organised care is more effective than unorganised care; and
the breakdown of professional barriers within rehabilitation, to
facilitate the use of combined treatment techniques, improves
outcome. It describes the contribution made by neural
reorganisation and compensatory mechanisms to recovery of function,
focuses on the avoidance of secondary deficit, and explores the
physical, cognitive, affective and behavioural problems that may
occur after neurological damage. At a time when new medical
technologies threaten to fragment the integrity of medical care at
individual and societal levels, it is crucial that all those
involved in the management of chronic neurological disease have a
working knowledge of the contents of this book. Their perspective
on clinical practice will then be truly integrated and holistic and
their patients will benefit accordingly.
BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN ME (MY EGYPTIAN FANTASY CAME TRUE) is a love
story of Egypt and Egyptians. An ordinary American woman traveled
to Cairo alone to teach and had the greatest adventure of her life.
She went there to enable young Egyptians to become more fluent in
English, but she became a student again herself. She learned to
become an Egyptian woman and to survive successfully in a culture
so different from hers. What she learned, experienced, and enjoyed
in the Land of the Pharoahs is captured in her own words and
emotions. She shares her many exciting adventures, her interesting
but sometimes difficult daily life, her incredible teaching
experience, and her students and her many friendships formed there
plus her new and profound insights and understanding of Islam-once
an extremely unfamiliar faith to her-and its true meaning. The
reader will hopefully share her passion for a country that has now
become like her second home and for its people who have become like
her family.
"Fuhrer's Heart: An American Story" is a suspense thriller set in
the New Orleans academic world and inspired by the David Duke era
in Louisiana politics. Full of suspicious deaths, action,
conspiracies, and sex; the author adds to this tumultuous mix a
great dose of racial tension and political intrigue.
One of the main characters is a young and highly ambitious African
American named Michael Woods. His dreams for a better life lure him
from the working class lifestyle of his family, former cotton
pickers in the rural South. He graduates from college and upon
receiving a PhD, is fiercely recruited by New Orleans' prestigious
Institute for Public Policy. Unbeknown to Michael, the liberal
leaning Institute has recently been infiltrated by white
supremacists portraying themselves as members of the liberal
establishment.
Peter Ward, a distinguished paleontologist and author of five trade books, recreated, in dramatic and colorful language, the global environment of the end of the last great Ice Age. The last of the great woolly mammoths existed on Wrangel Island thousands of years after their extinction elsewhere on earth. Ward examines competing theories about the courses of the great extinction and considers in detail the role of human settlements on these events.
Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has
for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its
origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted
in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East-a widely accepted
narrative suggests the dance was created in response to Western
influences and desires. Drawing on an array of primary sources, the
author traces the early development of raqs sharqi in the context
of contemporary trends in Egyptian arts and entertainment. The
dance is revealed to be a hybrid cultural expression, emerging with
the formation of Egyptian national identity at the end of the 19th
century, when Egypt was occupied by the British.
The time machine is one of the classic devices of science fiction, a source of endless wonder and inventiveness. In a book that transfers that sense of wonder and inventiveness to the realm of nonfiction, Peter Ward shows that paleontologists do indeed use time machines to probe the deep geological past, and that both the machines and the people using them come in a fantastic variety of types. Sometimes the time machine is as simple as a rock hammer or as humble as a magnifying glass; other times it is an esoteric piece of equipment such as a mass spectrometer. Always, the most important element is the imagination of the scientists willing to take the scientific and creative risks of plumbing the distant past of our planet and its great bestiary. In 10 separate essays united by this common theme, Time Machines prowls the world of steamy Mesozoic days and fetid Paleozoic nights to rediscover the grace and beauty of Earth's faraway past.
Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad
compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the
time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic
'Abbasid Dynasty. This volume examines both archaeological remains
and literary sources to explain the diversity of imperial,
cultural, and religious influences on urban life. It offers several
case studies chosen from different regions of the Roman Near East,
demonstrating that Greco-Roman and Islamic culture spread unevenly
through these various cities, and that it is impossible to make
broad generalizations. It argues instead that there were different
patterns of urbanism that demonstrate a continued vitality of civic
life up to the 'Abbasid revolution. Near Eastern Cities from
Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad will be of particular
interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East, as
well as those studying ancient cities and everyday life.
Success is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a life lived
to it's fullest potential Most people realize their job is the
primary source of income that they hope will propel them into a
desirable and fulfilling future. Many people also hope their
current job will provide them with personally satisfying,
interesting and challenging opportunities for growth. And yet a
large number of workers struggle to summon up the daily motivation
to go to work. Unfortunately, many employees never utilize the
necessary tools that must be made use of in order to reach these
possible heights of personal satisfaction, accomplishment and
financial reward. The primary causes of these issues are a lack of
information, education, mentorship, planning, execution and
reinforcement. We must educate ourselves to create reasonable
opportunities and take advantage of the satisfaction and growth
possibilities we now have available. We should look to those who
continue to strive for and reach their potential and follow their
successful examples. This book contains proven powerful tools that
can help any employee, who possesses the desire, to get more out of
themselves and their work in order to achieve the levels of
happiness and success that eludes so many people.
Born in 1915, Harold Guetzkow might have been a child of the
Roaring Twenties. But in fact Professor Guetzkow is much more a
child of the depression (to use his own term). A complication of
essays by scholars who took time and energy to pen their work in
honor of Harold Guetzkow. The chapters that follow represent a real
contribution to the study of international relations and document
the influence of Harold Guetzkow in catalyzing that study over the
last thirty years.
This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to
minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between
police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and
minority groups' daily lives and success. The contributors explore
the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and
Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community
policing, police violence, and detail causes, theories, and
solutions to this important phenomenon.
Successful change in the public sector can be supported or hindered
by political and administrative leadership, individual and group
motivation, and the public's perception of the effectiveness of
public officials and government structures. But do the very
characteristics of public sector organizations present obstacles to
successful transformative change? This book assesses the current
state of the literature on leadership and change in government and
public policy, and introduces the reader to innovative new ways to
demonstrate leadership in times of change. Contributions from
accomplished scholars in the field cover the traditional public
administration areas of performance and management, as well as the
diversity of issues that surround public leadership and change,
both domestic and global. Chapters on public sector innovation,
performance leadership, governance networks, complexity in disaster
management, change initiatives in educational systems and local
government, citizen advisory bodies, and gender and race equality,
to name but a few, provide important case studies throughout the
volume. Leadership and Change in Public Sector Organizations will
be required reading for upper level undergraduate and graduate
courses in public administration/management, leadership, and public
policy analysis.
Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and
opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally,
barriers and procedures which disadvantage ethnic minority groups
are supported and maintained. It is often the direct linkage and
thus the underlying cause for the lack of diversity and cultural
competency in the workplace. Yet institutional racism, as a
research topic, has been ignored by scholars because it forces
emphasis on the unseen and unspoken, yet culturally relevant
underpinnings of the workplace and societal ethos. Studies touching
on diversity in the public administration research often address
the subject as education and training - especially with regard to
the competencies needed by professional administrators. However,
racism and discrimination, as underlying factors, are seldom
addressed. Once specific examples of institutional racism have been
identified in an organization, change agents may take prescriptive
steps to address it directly and thus have a more cogent argument
for change.
Born in 1915, Harold Guetzkow might have been a child of the
"Roaring Twenties." But in fact Professor Guetzkow is much more a
"child of the depression" (to use his own term). A complication of
essays by scholars who took time and energy to pen their work in
honor of Professor Harold Guetzkow. A representation and
contribution to the study of international relations and document
the influence of Harold Guetzkow in catalyzing that study over the
last thirty years.
The late Professor Reds Wolman in his Foreword to the award-winning
second edition said, "This is not your ordinary textbook.
Environmental Hydrology is indeed a textbook, but five elements
often found separately combine here in one text to make it
different. It is eclectic, practical, in places a handbook, a guide
to fieldwork, engagingly personal and occasionally opinionated. ...
and, perhaps most engaging to me, in places the authors offer
personal views as well as more strongly worded opinions. The former
often relate to evaluation of alternative approaches, or
formulations, of specific solutions to specific hydrologic
problems." The first and second editions were bestsellers and the
third promises to educate people new to the field of hydrology and
challenge professionals alike, with insightful solutions to
classical problems as well as trendsetting approaches important to
the evolving genre. The third edition enhances materials in the
second edition and has expanded information on many topics, in
particular, evapotranspiration, soil erosion, two-stage ditch
design and applications, and stream processes. What's New in the
Third Edition: Presents new sections on rock structures in streams,
hypoxia, harmful algal blooms, and agricultural practices to reduce
nutrient discharges into water resources Enhances the format to aid
the reader in finding tables, figures, and equations Contains more
than 370 figures, 120 tables, 260 equations, 100 worked examples,
160 problems, and more than 1000 references Collectively, the
authors have more than 130 years of international experience and
the addition of John Lyon and Suzette Burckhard as co-authors
expands the breadth of knowledge presented in this book. More than
60 scientists and engineers in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the
United States provided assistance to round out the offerings and
ensure applicability to hydrology worldwide.
Contents: Section 1: Principles of Practice. Part A: Clinical Aspects. R. Langton Hewer, A. Tennant, Epidemiology of Disabling Neurological Disorders. C.D. Ward, S. McIntosh, The Rehabilitation Process: A Neurological Perspective. M.P. Barnes, Organisation of Neurological Rehabilitation Services. R. Ll. Wood, The Rehabilitation Team. C. Collin, Measurement of Disability and Handicap. M. Saunders, Ethical Implications of Disablement. Part B: Mechanisms of Recovery. A.J. Larner, M.V. Sofroniew, Mechanisms of Cellular Damage and Recovery. L.G. Cohen, M. Hallett, Neural Plasticity and Recovery of Function. S.B. Dunnett, Neural Tissue Transplantation. L.L. Pinnington, C.D. Ward, Learning and Skill Acquisition. T. Mulder, J. Hochstenbach, Motor Control and Learning: Implications for Neurological Rehabilitation. Section 2: Assessment and Treatment of Functional Deficits. Part A: Mobility. M.P. Barnes, Spasticity. R.J. Hardie, J. Rothwell, Tremor and Ataxia. S. Edwards, S. Mawson, R.J. Greenwood, Physical Therapies. G. Yarney, R.J. Greenwood, Physical Consequences of Neurological Disablement. G.R. Johnson, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering. N.C.M. Fyfe, E.J.W. McClemont, E. Panton, L. Sandles, Assistive Technology: Mobility Aids, Environmental Control Systems and Communication Aids. D. Rushton, Functional Neurostimulation in Rehabilitation. Part B: Other Physical Disability. D.M. Justins, M. Paes, P.H. Richardson, Pain Relief in Neurological Rehabilitation. C. Kennard, A. Pambakian, A.J. Wilkins, Special Senses. J.F. Hussain, C. Haslam, C.J. Fowler, Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction and its Management. B. Chandler, Sex and Relationships in Neurological Disability. R.S. Howard, Neurogenic Respiratory Failure. S. Wessely, D. El Kabir, T. Chalder, Chronic Fatigue. J. Whittaker, A. Dunnachie, The Assessment and Management of Neurogenic Swallowing Disorders. P.M. Enderby, Dysarthria. Part C: Cognitive Function. S. Byng, E.V. Jones, Therapy for the Language Impairment in Aphasia. B.A. Wilson, L. Clare, Rehabilitation of Memory Disorders. N. Alderman, P. Burgess, Assessment and Rehabilitation of the Dysexecutive Syndrome. I.H. Robertson, The Rehabilitation of Visuospatial, Visuoperceptual and Apraxic Disorders. Part D: Personality and Behaviour. L.H. Goldstein, Behaviour Problems. A. House, Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Rehabilitation. H. Merskey, Psychosomatic Disorders. M. Oddy, Psychosocial Consequences of Brain Injury. Section 3: Specific Disorders. T.M. McMillan, R.J. Greenwood, Head Injury. D.T. Wade, Stroke Rehabilitation: The Evidence. P.J. Thompson, S.D. Shorvon, D. Heaney, The Epilepsies. B. Pentland, Parkinsonism and Dystonia. M.P. Barnes, Multiple Sclerosis. C.D. Ward, N.R. Dennis, Huntington's Disease. R.T. Woods, Rehabilitation in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. C. Murray-Leslie, P. Critchley, The Young Adult with Neurological Disabilities with Particular Reference to Cerebral Palsy and Spinal Bifida. E.A. Davies, C.R.A. Clark, Malignant Cerebral Gliomas: Rehabilitation and Care. J. Allibone, B. Taylor, F.R.I. Middleton, Spinal Injury. J.C. Chawla, D. Playford, Non-traumatic Myelopathy. P. Shaw, Motor Neurone Disease. R. Birch, Management of Brachial Plexus Injuries. M. Reilly, R.J. Greenwood, Disorders of the Peripheral Nerve. N. Davies, G. Cochrane, M. Hanna, Muscle Disorders. Index.
Between Sickness and Health is about illness rather than disease,
and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an
experience, represented by the feeling that 'I am not myself'. From
the book's phenomenological point of view, feelings of illness
cannot be 'unreal' or 'fake', whatever their biological basis, nor
need they be categorised as 'physical', 'psychosomatic' or
'psychiatric'. The book challenges the disease-centred ethos of
medicine and medical education. It demonstrates that a clearer
conception of illness, as distinct from disease, is therapeutic.
The feeling that 'I am once again myself' can return, in some
degree, whatever state the body is in. Resilience becomes more
available when it is seen as a set of personal skills that can be
developed, rather than as an inborn trait. Possibilities of
wellness are enhanced by recognising that medical and other
therapies can either support or impede recovery, as can human
relationships and the socio-political environment. The book's many
clinical examples are drawn from the author's broad experience as a
neurologist, rehabilitation physician and systemic family
therapist. Between Sickness and Health will be useful for students,
practitioners and academics, and also for anyone who has been or
might one day be ill.
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