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When Elizabeth Kaufman received the news of her husband's death at
the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863, she felt only relief. She
determined that she would never be at the mercy of any man again,
even if it meant she would never have a family of her own. Then
Aaron Zook comes home with her brother when the war ends two years
later. Despite the severity of his injuries, Aaron resolves to move
West and leave the pain of the past behind him. He never imagined
that the Amish way of life his grandfather had rejected long ago
would be so enticing. That, and a certain widow he can't get out of
his mind. Yet, even in a simple community, life has a way of
getting complicated. Aaron soon finds that while he may have left
the battlefield behind, there is another fight he must win--the one
for the heart of the woman he loves. Welcome back to the Amish
community at Weaver's Creek, where the bonds of family and faith
bind up the brokenhearted.
As the weather grows cold and the nights grow long, the cheer and
warmth of the Christmas season is one thing all readers can find
comfort in. This collection from bestselling Amish fiction
novelists Leslie Gould, Jan Drexler, and Kate Lloyd finds the
beating heart at the center of the holiday and offers three
novellas that celebrate family, faith, and especially the sights
and smells of a bustling holiday kitchen. Leslie Gould tells the
story of how, in the wake of a heartbreaking loss, a young Amish
woman finds unexpected comfort and hope in a yearly baking
tradition surrounding the local Lancaster Christmas market. Jan
Drexler offers a sweet tale of a shy Amish woman who decides to use
her gift for sweets to woo a local Amish boy with her beloved
Christmas cookies. And Kate Lloyd offers a heartwarming tale of a
woman's unexpected discovery about the truth of her past, and the
warm and welcoming Amish family table she finds herself invited to
on Christmas.
In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth Drexler argues that the
creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the
Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a legal
status, but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the
initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has
many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political,
educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always
work at once—at times some are dormant while others are
ascendant—together they can be described as a unified entity, a
dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of
impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many
responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure,
but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to
revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the
infrastructure, by countering its temporality, affect, social
stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific
actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it.
Drexler contends an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in
an established democracy.
Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and
botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present
a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this
"ex-situ" approach with practical guidance on "in-situ" management
and conservation of plant resources. The book aims to facilitate
better management of protected areas and to illustrate new
approaches to conservation of plants within their landscapes. It
draws on concepts from forestry, the agricultural sciences,
anthropology, ethnology and ethnobotany and should be useful to
practitioners, academics and policy-makers.
Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and
botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present
a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ
approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and
conservation of plant resources. The book aims to facilitate better
management of protected areas and to illustrate new approaches to
conservation of plants within their landscapes. It draws on
concepts from forestry, the agricultural sciences, anthropology,
ethnology and ethnobotany and should be useful to practitioners,
academics and policy-makers.
In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at
once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel,
Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative
fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose
significance emerged from narrative elements clustered around them.
From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders took
shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics,
race, and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the
Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution, this system could no
longer accommodate the deep anxieties about the United States as a
slave nation. Drexler and White assert that the most emblematic of
the political tensions of the time is the figure of Aaron Burr,
whose rise and fall were detailed in the literature of his time:
his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800, the accusations of
seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his
machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his
spectacular treason trial. The authors venture a
psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary
America to suggest that the figure of "Burr" was fundamentally a
displaced fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler
and White expose how the historical and literary fictions of the
nation's founding served to repress the larger issue of the slave
system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that repression.
Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles
Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets,
polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period,
the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing
illuminates the notorious gap in U.S. literary history between 1800
and 1820.
In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of our
knowledge regarding the role of the endothelium in the control of
vascular tone (and organ perfusion) in health and disease.
Physiology, pharmacology, and molecular biology have uncovered a
wealth of information on structure and function of this heretofore
largely neglected "organ". Clinical medicine is now called upon to
define the clinical significance of these observa tions that imply
the mechanisms of blood coagulation, e.g., the interaction of throm
bocytes with the endothelium, vasomotor control, and specifically,
the regulation of smooth muscle tone with consequences for vascular
resistance and conductance and organ blood flow. Finally,
metabolism of lipids with the everlasting problem of athero
sclerosis is an important aspect. In a second step, implications
regarding the improvement of current therapeutic con cepts, as well
as the development of new modalities of pharmacotherapy will have
to be discussed. The topic addressed by the 1990 Gargellen
Conference: Endothelial Mechanisms of Vasomotor Control, clearly is
of interest for both basic scientists and clinicians. It has been
the aim of the organizers, the Society for Cooperation in Medical
Science (SCMS) with this and the previous symposia to foster and
support both basic science and clinical research. Research in
medicine today shows two major directions of development: on the
one hand, increasing involvement of the basic sciences and their
methodology. On the other hand, statistical validation of concepts
and therapeutic strategies in large scale population-and
multicenter-studies.
Traditionally, cardiac hypertrophy is regarded as an adaptation of
the heart to permanent mechanical overload. Regardless of the fact
that many different and often unknown primary causes can result in
heart failure, mechanical overload and myocardial hypertrophy is
found in almost all forms of manifest chronic heart failure (apart
from failure due to extramyocardial hindrances to inflow or to
relaxation). However, the reactive enlargement of myocardial mass
in response to an enhanced hemodynamic burden appears to be a
double-edged sword. Obviously, the hypertrophy helps to reduce the
enhanced ventricular wall stress in heart failure by adding
contractile units to the overdistended chamber wall. However, in
recent years it became clear that this adaptive hypertrophic
process is rather complex and may include problematic facets. The
adaptive hypertrophy includes proliferation of the nonmyocyte
cardiac cells as well as substantial alterations in the phenotype
of the growing myocytes due to differential changes in gene
expression.
"Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: power and strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century of engineering." — Marvin Minsky MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler "Mr. Nanotechnology." For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by declaring that molecular nanotechnology will bring a sweeping technological revolution — delivering tremendous advances in miniaturization, materials, computers, and manufacturing of all kinds. Now, he’s written a detailed, top-to-bottom analysis of molecular machinery — how to design it, how to analyze it, and how to build it. Nanosystems is the first scientifically detailed description of developments that will revolutionize most of the industrial processes and products currently in use. This groundbreaking work draws on physics and chemistry to establish basic concepts and analytical tools. The book then describes nanomechanical components, devices, and systems, including parallel computers able to execute 1020 instructions per second and desktop molecular manufacturing systems able to make such products. Via chemical and biochemical techniques, proximal probe instruments, and software for computer-aided molecular design, the book charts a path from present laboratory capabilities to advanced molecular manufacturing. Bringing together physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and computer science, Nanosystems provides an indispensable introduction to the emerging field of molecular nanotechnology.
Until now there has been no single volume in which a broad and
comprehensive scope of ethical questions in neuropsychology is
discussed. These editors have sought to fill that gap, calling upon
leading thinkers in the field of neuropsychology and ethics.
Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology affords the seasoned
practitioner as well as the beginner a broad sampling of research
and commentary on the ethical dilemmas involved in the clinical
practice of Neuropsychology. Part 1 presents ethical issues that
arise in the provision of neuropsychological services irrespective
of setting, whereas Part 2 concentrates on the unique ethical
challenges that attend practice with specific populations. Each
chapter offers a rare view into the actual practice of
Neuropsychology and the examples highlight an oft-quoted
observation at Ethics Committee meetings that good clinical
practice is good ethical practice. Carefully crafted vignettes
allow the reader to apply these concepts to a myriad of situations
confronting practicing clinical neuropsychologists. The discerning
reader of Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology should have no
difficulty translating between the 1992 and the proposed ethics
code. This is a volume that will be a meaningful addition not only
to the libraries of graduate students, interns, and postdoctoral
fellows but also to the reference shelves of established
practitioners and those preparing for board certification
examinations in neuropsychology. This book will be of interest to
neuropsychologists, rehabilitation psychologists, clinical
psychologists and ethicists.
In celebration of one of science fiction's most beloved franchises,
an updated edition of the acclaimed "Ships of the Line" hardcover
collection.
They dared to risk it all in a skiff of reeds or leather, on a ship
of wood or steel, knowing the only thing between them and certain
death was their ship. To explore, to seek out what lay beyond the
close and comfortable, every explorer had to embrace danger. And as
they did so, what arose was a mystical bond, a passion for the
ships that carried them. From the very first time humans dared to
warp the fabric of space, escaping from the ashes of the third
World War, they also created ships. These vessels have become the
icons of mankind's desire to rise above the everyday, to seek out
and make the unknown known. And these ships that travel the stellar
seas have stirred the same passions as the ones that floated in the
oceans.
While every captain has wished that their starship could be
outfitted in the same manner as the sailing ship "H.M.S.
Beagle--"without weapons--that proved untenable. From the start,
Starfleet realized that each vessel, due to the limited range of
the early warp engines, must be able to stand alone against any
attack. Thus arose the idea, taken from the days of wooden sailing
ships, that every Starfleet vessel must stand as a ship of the
line. Through the actions of their captains and crews, countless
starships have taken on that role. Here we remember some of those
ships and their heroic crews.
In celebration of one of science fiction's most beloved franchises,
this updated edition of the acclaimed "Ships of the Line" hardcover
collection now includes more than seventy-five additional images
brought together for the first time in book format--spectacular
renderings featured in the highly successful "Star Trek: Ships of
the Line" calendar series. With text by "Star Trek"'s own Michael
Okuda, the story of each of these valiant starships now comes to
life.
(TM), (R), & (c) 2014 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related
marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of
French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid
account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing
provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the
Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while
fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary
novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura,
Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful
impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret
marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a
duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds
herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these
works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about
early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a
rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from
periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by
Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the
Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in
the novels.
In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth Drexler argues that the
creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the
Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a legal
status, but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the
initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has
many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political,
educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always
work at once—at times some are dormant while others are
ascendant—together they can be described as a unified entity, a
dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of
impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many
responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure,
but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to
revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the
infrastructure, by countering its temporality, affect, social
stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific
actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it.
Drexler contends an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in
an established democracy.
This book represents an essential reference manual for all of the
well-characterized leukemia-lymphoma cell lines currently
available. It provides the most important facts, using the succinct
and user-friendly format that has made the FactsBooks so popular
with scientists and clinical researchers. Introductory chapters
provide background and perspective for culturing malignant
hematopoietic (blood forming) cell lines. These chapters are
followed by over 400 comprehensive individual entries. Each cell
line entry highlights essential clinical, immunological, genetic,
and functional features and includes a comprehensive listing of
references.
Key Features
* the full spectrum of malignant cell lines from all hematopoietic
cell lineages
* sister cell lines and relevant subclones
* clinical data: patient, diagnosis, treatment status, and specimen
source
* authentication of derivation and availability
* immunophenotype
* cytogenetic karyotype
* translocations and fusion genes
* receptor gene rearrangements and genetic alterations
* cell cultures aspects: establishment, medium, doubling time,
growth
* cytochemical profile
* cytokine production and response to cytokines
* proto-oncogene and transcription factor
expression/alteration
* functional features: differentiation induction,
heterotransplantability
* special unique features
* key references
Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter’s questioning of modern/colonial
descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine
of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human
person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such
descriptions. Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland,
Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis MĂ©ndez, Andrew
Prevot, Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye
This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.
Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter's questioning of modern/colonial
descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine
of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human
person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such
descriptions. Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland,
Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Mendez, Andrew Prevot,
Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye
Rapid advances in IT that allow complex information to be presented
in high volume and density are challenging human ability to absorb
and analyze data as never before. Designing technologies and
systems to provide optimal sensory information to human users will
be increasingly important. But to do this, quantitative
relationships between brain behavior at a molecular level and
observable human behavior must be better identified. This was
previously considered to be a futuristic, and somewhat unrealistic,
goal, however, recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have
provided new opportunities for researchers. Refinements in imaging
technology and simulation tools, and the learning yielded from
them, provided the Quantifying Human Information Processing (QHIP)
research teams strong starting points from which to further assess
the ability to quantify human information processing. Led by
experts in psychology, cognitive science, and information
processing, among other fields, researchers sought to quantify the
information flow in the nervous system, the limits of that flow,
and how it is affected by emotions. The QHIP effort looked at
specific aspects of the brain's information processing ability
including measuring task-related and unrelated thought, assessing
mental workload, and finding optimal information processing. The
researchers found important indicators of both the capacity and
limits of the human brain, and offer new ways to think about the
brain. This work is a valuable contribution to the fields of
psychology, neuroscience, and cognition, and will serve as a
resource for human factors engineers designing the next generation
of information, safety, analysis, and control systems because it
starts to answer how to maximize information processing without
overloading the central nervous system.
Bringing together theologies of liberation and decolonial thought,
Decolonial Love interrogates colonial frameworks that shape
Christian thought and legitimize structures of oppression and
violence within Western modernity. In response to the historical
situation of colonial modernity, the book offers a decolonial mode
of theological reflection and names a historical instance of
salvation that stands in conflict with Western modernity. Seeking a
new starting point for theological reflection and praxis, Joseph
Drexler-Dreis turns to the work of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin.
Rejecting a politics of inclusion into the modern world-system,
Fanon and Baldwin engage reality from commitments that
Drexler-Dreis describes as orientations of decolonial love. These
orientations expose the idolatry of Western modernity, situate the
human person in relation to a reality that exceeds modern/colonial
significations, and catalyze and authenticate historical movement
in conflict with the modern world-system. The orientations of
decolonial love in the work of Fanon and Baldwin—whose work is
often perceived as violent from the perspective of Western
modernity—inform theological commitments and reflection, and
particularly the theological image of salvation. Decolonial Love
offers to theologians a foothold within the modern/colonial context
from which to commit to the sacred and, from a historical encounter
with the divine mystery, face up to and take responsibility for the
legacies of colonial domination and violence within a struggle to
transform reality.
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