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Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia, Second
Edition is a fully updated and revised version of the first
comprehensive reference on anesthetic techniques in captive and
free-ranging wildlife. Now including expanded coverage of avian and
aquatic species, this exhaustive resource presents information on
the full range of zoo and wildlife species. Covering topics ranging
from monitoring and field anesthesia to CPR and euthanasia, the
heart of the book is devoted to 53 species-specific chapters
providing a wealth of information on little-known and common zoo
and wildlife animals alike. In addition to new species chapters,
the new edition brings a new focus on pain management, including
chronic pain, and more information on species-specific physiology.
Chapters on airway management, monitoring, emergency therapeutics,
and field procedures are all significantly expanded as well. This
update to Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia is
an invaluable addition to the library of all zoo and wildlife
veterinarians.
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Outlaw (Paperback)
Charles G West
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Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good
governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and
economic institutions--courts, corporations,
nation-states--according to the transparency of their operating
procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the "mutual
veil dropping" of the post-Cold War era, many have asserted that
power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet
from the perspective of the relatively less privileged, the
operation of power often appears opaque and unpredictable. Through
vivid ethnographic analyses, "Transparency and Conspiracy" examines
a vast range of expressions of the popular suspicion of
power--including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory,
and urban legends--illuminating them as ways of making sense of the
world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of
modernization.
In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations
and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies
around the globe--in Korea, Tanzania, Mozambique, New York City,
Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Orange County, California. The
contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of
the United Nations, the state, political parties, police, courts,
international financial institutions, banks, traders and
shopkeepers, media, churches, intellectuals, and the wealthy.
Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions,
"Transparency and Conspiracy" investigates who believes what and
why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of
conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern,
irrational oversimplifications, showing how these beliefs render
the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions
and proposing alternative ways of understanding it.
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Contributors." Misty Bastian, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jean Comaroff,
John Comaroff, Susan Harding, Daniel Hellinger, Caroline Humphrey,
Laurel Kendall, Todd Sanders, Albert Schrauwers, Kathleen Stewart,
Harry G. West
Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations
of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the
life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial
and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of
Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges against Socrates
(Aristophanes' comedy Clouds).
This is the only collection of the three Platonic dialogues that
also includes Clouds, a work that is fundamental for understanding
the thought of Socrates in relation to the Athenian political
community and to Greek poetry. Thomas G. West's introduction
provides an overview of the principal themes and arguments of the
four works. There are extensive explanatory notes to the
translations.
In their translations, the Wests capture successfully the
simplicity and vigor of straightforward Greek diction. They strive
for as high a degree of accuracy as possible, subordinating
concerns for elegance and smoothness to the goal of producing the
most faithful and most reliable English versions of these texts.
For this new edition, Thomas West has revised the introduction and
updated the annotated bibliography, which includes the best of the
secondary literature on Socrates and on the texts included in this
book.
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and
post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the
contributors to this volume explore the complex and often
paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents
and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The
chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political,
and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have
found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding
revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist
past have been produced within the historical imaginary of
post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural
forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era,
despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.
Harry G. West is Reader in Social Anthropology at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His research in northern
Mozambique has examined how colonialism, revolutionary socialism,
and post-socialist political and economic liberalization have
reconfigured institutions of local authority.
Parvathi Raman is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research in
South Africa explores the historical impact of Indians in the South
African Communist Party, and their contribution to the struggle
against apartheid.
Since the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution remain a key
factor in most critiques of capitalism and individual liberty,
Education and the Industrial Revolution makes an important
contribution to a better understanding of the period. The book
provides a challenge to the educational establishment because it
contradicts the long-held view that the Industrial Revolution was a
disaster and that only government intervention and 'compulsion'
brought the joys of education to people. West's investigations
unearthed a large and growing market for education going hand in
hand with the rise of industrialism and occurring prior to
government intervention. By taking on such issues as supposed
educational deficiency, market provision, actual literacy rates,
theories of educational reform in the nineteenth century, and the
realities of educational intervention, West helps us come to a
richer understanding of liberty -- one that is little-known today
but every bit as relevant as the day it was written.
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Luke's Gold (Paperback)
Charles G West
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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to
feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming
into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO
party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and
countersorcery practices as false consciousness, but since
undertaking neoliberal reform, the party--still in power after
three electoral cycles--has "tolerated tradition," leaving
villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of
sorcery. Now when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected
sorcerers are often lynched.
In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a
decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology
and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible
authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to
overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kuplikula" sorcerers' destructive
attacks by practicing a constructive form of countersorcery
themselves. "Kupilikula "argues that, where neoliberal policies
have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity,
Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and
sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a
world transformed.
RAZED FROM CHILDHOOD
No child should have to witness what twelve year old Cord Malone
saw the day his parents were murdered and his home burned to the
ground. Rescued from the blaze by his Uncle Jesse, the terrible
image still haunts him, as does the name of the man
responsible..."Eli Creed."
Jesse had tried to track the man down, only to lose Creed's trail.
But Cord never gave up. He just waited out his young years before
setting out on a trail long gone cold to satisfy the need for
revenge that still burns inside him.
A literal translation, allowing the simplicity and vigor of the
Greek diction to shine through.
"Education and the State" first appeared in 1965 and was
immediately hailed as one of the century's most important works on
education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions
this book raised concerning state-run education have grown
immeasurably in urgency and intensity. "Education and the State"
re-examines the role of government in education and challenges the
fundamental statist assumption that the state is best able to
provide an education for the general population.West explores the
views on education of the nineteenth-century British reformers and
classical economists who argued the necessity of state education.
He demonstrates that by the Foster Act of 1870 the state system of
education was superimposed upon successful private efforts, thereby
suppressing an emerging and increasingly robust structure of
private, voluntary, and competitive education funded by families,
churches, and philanthropies.This new and expanded edition of
"Education and the State" addresses the American situation in
education, applying the lessons learned from the study of British
institutions. It also broadens their application from education to
the conduct of democracy as a political system.Edwin G. West is
Professor Emeritus of Economics at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and
post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the
contributors to this volume explore the complex and often
paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents
and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The
chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political,
and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have
found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding
revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist
past have been produced within the historical imaginary of
post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural
forms have in fact endured in a purportedly post-socialist era,
despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers. Harry West is a
lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS). His has conducted research in the northern
district of Mueda in Mozambique, where nationalist guerrillas based
themselves during the anti-colonial war (1964 1974). As part of his
project, he has studied how various social groups experienced, and
coped with, violence during and after the war for independence. He
has also taken interest in how colonialism and revolutionary
socialism reconfigured the institutions of local authority, and,
more recently, how post-socialist reforms have fostered a revival
of tradition in rural Mozambique. Parvathi Raman is a lecturer in
Social Anthropology in the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS). She has conducted research in South Africa on the role of
Indians in the South African Communist Party and has written about
the changing character of the socialist imagination in the
twentieth century. She also works on the politics of diaspora, and
multiculturalism and the neo-liberal state."
Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work
by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history
emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compact
theory. Social compact theory, the idea that government must be
based on an agreement between those who govern and those who
consent to be governed, was one of the Founders' few unifying
philosophical positions, and it transcended the partisan politics
of that era. Contributors to this volume present a comprehensive
overview of the social compact theory, discussing its European
philosophical origins, the development of the theory into the basis
of the fledgling government, and the attitudes of some of the
founders toward the theory and its traditional proponents. The
authors argue forcefully and convincingly that the political ideas
of the American Founders cannot be properly understood without
understanding social compact theory and the exalted place it held
in the construction of the American system of government.
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral
Sciences is the classic text on multiple regression. It is noted
for its non-mathematical, applied, and data-analytic approach
intended to teach the reader "how to do it." Students and
researchers profit from its verbal-conceptual exposition and
frequent use of concrete examples. The applied emphasis provides
clear illustrations of the principles and provides worked examples
of the types of applications that are possible. Researchers learn
how to specify regression models that directly address their
research questions of interest. Early in the text an overview of
the fundamental ideas of multiple regression and a review of
bivariate correlation and regression and other elementary
statistical concepts provide a strong foundation for a solid
understanding of the rest of the text. The third edition reflects
both the current and developing state-of-the-art practices in the
field: *An increased emphasis on graphics provides greater
understanding of data. *An increased emphasis on the use of
confidence intervals and effect size measures provides more
information about the size and precision of relationships. *An
accompanying CD contains data for most of the numerical examples
along with the computer code for SPSS, SAS, and SYSTAT. These
computer scripts can serve as templates for the analysis of the
student's own data. *Five entirely new chapters are included:
Assumptions of the regression model and remedies when they are not
met (Ch. 4), detection and treatment of the potential problems of
outliers and multicollinearity (Ch. 10), alternative regression
models that may be used when the dependent variable is binary,
ordered category, or count in form, including logistic, ordinal
logistic, Poisson regression, and the generalized linear model (Ch.
13), multilevel models for data collected in groups or other
clusters (Ch. 14), and the analysis of longitudinal data (Ch. 15).
*Extensively revi
According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern
Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority
of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research
among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing
discovery--for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an
ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In
"Ethnographic Sorcery," West explores the fascinating issues
provoked by this equation.
A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's
claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After
West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan
assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by
sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West
realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common.
Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from
this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the
people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they
inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.
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