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Delivers strategic, evidence-based measures for recognizing and
treating abnormal behaviors in children in the content of primary
care practice. Written for practicing Pediatric and Family Nurse
Practitioners, and PNP and FNP students, this pediatric primary
care text expands upon the crucial role of the health care provider
to assess, identify, and intercept potential behavioral health
problems. Every parent wants to see their child become a socially
and emotionally healthy adult, but this cannot be the outcome for
every family. When children miss their milestones as anticipated,
parents and the family dynamic is upset - parents question their
parenting skills and their ability to raise a socially and
emotionally healthy child. The content in this book is built upon
strategic, evidence-based measures to evaluate and treat behavioral
health during each well child visit across the pediatric lifespan
and restore order to their patients and their families. Behavioral
Pediatric Health for Nurse Practitioners is organized by
developmental stages - infancy, toddlers, preschool-age,
school-age, and adolescence. Each these stages contain common
behavioral problems and detail their assessment, screening,
intervention, and treatment. Chapters also include measurable
standards for behavioral health and special topics in pediatric
behavioral health and chronic medical conditions as they impact
development. Every section features a case study that fosters
critical thinking and demonstrates exemplary practices. Key
Features: Focuses on the intercept of development and the
assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems
Addresses early identification and treatment of disorders for best
outcome Provides proven, case-based strategies for assessment,
screening, intervention, and treatment Includes contributions from
highly qualified PNPs and PMHSs Highlights cutting-edge research
from pediatric primary care experts Presents strategies for working
with parents Fosters critical thinking for making a correct
diagnosis
This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth
engagement in research and social innovation. Youth-driven
innovation for social change is increasingly recognized as holding
potential for the development of sustainable strategies to tackle
some of the most pressing global challenges of our time. The
contributors provide additional knowledge concerning what actually
constitutes an enabling environment, as well as the most effective
approaches for engaging youth as architects of change. While
sensitive to the need for contextual appropriateness, the volume
contributes to the development of shared understandings and
frameworks for engaging and spurring youth-driven innovation for
social change worldwide. Youth-Driven Social Innovation showcases
examples of youth engagement in frugal and reverse innovation
worldwide, alongside examples which demonstrate the tremendous
potential of South-South learning, but also learning and youth
innovation in the Global North. It will be of interest to students
and scholars across a range of disciplines including education,
sociology, anthropology, public health, and politics.
Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and
Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics,
yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic
world. This collection of critical essays brings together the work
of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the United
States, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and
philosophical ethics. The chapters are broken into three main
sections - Rabbinics, Philosophy, and Contemporary Challenges. The
authors address, using a variety of research strategies, the work
of both major and lesser-known figures in historical Jewish
religious and philosophical traditions. The book discusses a wide
variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and
the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics," "Jewish historiographical
ethics," as well as the conceptual/philosophical foundations of the
law and virtues in the work of Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, and
Baruch Spinoza.The volume closes with four contributions on
present-day frontiers in Jewish ethics. As the first book to focus
on the nature, scope and ramifications of the Jewish ethics at work
in religious and philosophical contexts, this book will be of great
interest to anyone studying Jewish Studies, Philosophy and
Religion.
This book provides a close examination of Kant's and Fichte's
idealisms, as well as the positions of their predecessors and
successors, in order to isolate and evaluate various essential
elements of transcendental inquiry. The authors examine Kant's and
Fichte's contributions to transcendental idealism, transcendental
arguments as a distinctive form of reasoning, and the
metaphysically more ambitious forms of idealism developed by
philosophers such as Schelling, Hegel, and Cohen. The book also
addresses some of the most acute criticisms levelled against
transcendental philosophy and explores more recent developments of
the transcendental approach in the form of contemporary discourse
ethics, especially as represented by Habermas and Apel. The authors
also explore the contributions of a number of other important
philosophers, including Husserl, Heidegger, Logstrup, Peirce, and
Putnam.
On May 12, 1945, the 6th Marine Division was nearing Naha, capital
of Okinawa. To the division's front lay a low, loaf-shaped hill. It
looked no different from other hills seized with relative ease over
the past few days. But this hill, soon to be dubbed, Sugar Loaf,
was very different indeed. Part of a complex of three hills, Sugar
Loaf formed the western anchor of General Mitsuru Ushijima's Shuri
Line, which stretched from coast to coast across the island. Sugar
Loaf was critical to the defense of that line, preventing U.S.
forces from turning the Japanese flank. Over the next week, the
Marines made repeated attacks on the hill losing thousands of men
to death, wounds, and combat fatigue. Not until May 18 was Sugar
Loaf finally seized. Two days later, the Japanese mounted a
battalion-sized counterattack in an effort to regain their lost
position, but the Marines held. Ironically, these losses may not
have been necessary. General Lemuel Shepherd, Jr., had argued for
an amphibious assault to the rear of the Japanese defense line, but
his proposal was rejected by U.S. Tenth Army Commander General
Simon Bolivar Buckner. That refusal led to a controversy that has
continued to this day.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: AS Chemistry First teaching:
September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 Checked by AQA examiners, this
is an essential study and revision guide for the 2015 AQA AS and
A-level Year 1 Chemistry specification concentrating on organic
chemistry and related physical chemistry topics for Paper 2. Tackle
new-style written exam questions with guidance on practical and
mathematical skills Avoid common mistakes and get advice on exams
with Exam Notes Focus on just the content you need with Essential
Notes Memorise terminology for required practicals and mathematical
and Working Scientifically aspects Practise exam-style questions
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary
cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic,
cultural and period boundaries. Since the closing decades of the
twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of
energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has
focused predominantly on western European writers working within
the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of
Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example,
and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in
point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of
such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they
should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by
putting them into conversation with other literary women and their
cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures -
women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the
Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian
mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period;
women saints from across Christian Europe and those of
eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance -
much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the
drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary
activities in far broader contexts. This volume considers the
dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such
new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development
of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.
The notion of qi/gi ( ) is one of the most pervasive notions found
within the various areas of the East Asian intellectual and
cultural traditions. While the pervasiveness of the notion provides
us with an opportunity to observe the commonalities amongst the
East Asian intellectual and cultural traditions, it also allows us
to observe the differences. This book focuses more on understanding
the different meanings and logics that the notion of qi/gi has
acquired within the East Asian traditions for the purpose of
understanding the diversity of these traditions. This volume begins
to fulfill this task by inquiring into how the notion was
understood by traditional Korean philosophers, in addition to
investigating how the notion was understood by traditional Chinese
philosophers.
A definitive study guide for the AS and A Level syllabuses. This
comprehensive guide: * works through each component with
step-by-step guides * offers tips for producing and for composing,
as well as for the exam papers * includes detail on the history of
recording technology and on all relevant genres of music * contains
a clear glossary of all the key terms you need to know for your
course
Halla Kim explores the leading themes in Kant's philosophical
ethics from a structural-methodological point of view to highlight
the activities of reason vis-a-vis the blind forces of brute
nature. Basing the study on Kant's short, but monumental,
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kim also draws on other
major writings by Kant and his critics. Kim shows that
philosophical ethics, as Kant conceived it, must capture the gist
of the ineluctable, inescapable, and irreducible freedom we strive
to exemplify in our practical lives. Viewed this way, the moral law
is none other than the law of the will determining itself. It is
the law of the self-activity of the will. Contending that the
concepts and doctrines in Kant's ethics should be understood as an
ethics of the self-activity of the will, Kim argues that the
categorical imperative is the particular way this moral law is
addressed to finite rational beings. Kant and the Foundations of
Morality provides new perspective on the philosopher's thought to
benefit studies of eighteenth-century philosophy, epistemology,
modern philosophy, moral theory, moral philosophy, and ethics.
Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains
ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United
States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and
conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. The
collection begins with a set of comparative essays centered on
Kant's transcendental idealism, placing special stress on the
essentials of Kant's moral theory, the metaphysical outlook bound
up with it, and the conception of the legitimate role of religion
supported by it. The spotlight then shifts to the post-Kantian
period, in a series of essays exploring a variety of angles on
Fichte's pivotal role: his uncompromising constructivism, his
overarching conception of the philosophical project, and his
radical accounts of the nature of reason and the constitution of
meaning. In the remaining essays, the focus falls on German
idealism after Fichte, with particular attention to Jacobi's
critique of idealism as "nihilism," Schelling's development of an
idealistic philosophy of nature, and Hegel's development of an
all-encompassing idealistic "science of logic." The collection,
edited by Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel, will be of great value to
scholars interested in Kant, Fichte, German idealism, post-Kantian
philosophy, European philosophy, or the history of ideas.
This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism
in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in
dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to
which texts for children and young adults reflect current
environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic
areas: Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and
Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a
Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are
complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning
practices in preschools and schools captured through children's own
statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of
posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric
concerns within contemporary children's literature and culture, and
a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is
reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in
Culture Matrix.
Through a new look at how political, historical, and art
documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and
archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to
better understand what people do with analog and digital
photographs as material objects that enable social and political
relations through multisensory experience. Moreover, as a
time-based medium with sound, film can bring the event of
photography into fuller view, demonstrating how no single
participant in it (photographer, subject, camera, photograph, or
viewer) has sovereignty over its affect, meaning, or value. The
book thus explores the ways in which the innovative incorporation
of photography into documentary film permits us to see both of
these media otherwise. Photographs, whether professional or
vernacular, are conventionally understood to furnish documentaries
with indexical evidence and visual illustration of history, yet the
spatio-temporal and aural dimensions of film permit documentaries
to illuminate photography's wider capacities beyond the merely
representational. Combining new critical perspectives on well-known
documentary filmmakers and photographers (Agnès Varda, Rithy Panh,
Edward Burtynsky, Malick Sidibé, Vivian Maier, JR, Ken Burns,
Errol Morris, and Akram Zaatari) with analyses of lesser known, but
important, documentaries, author Roger Hallas investigates a global
range of documentary and vernacular photographic contexts,
including Lebanon, Palestine, Mali, Congo, Cambodia, Ireland,
Spain, Mexico, Chile, Canada, and the US. While authorship and
representation remain common rhetorical frameworks for
documentaries about photography, A Medium Seen Otherwise offers a
compelling account of how the intermediality between documentary
film and photography can posit far more expansive conceptions of
both media. A companion website shows clips of films discussed in
the book.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Aviation Chief Ordnanceman John
W. Finn, though wounded, continued to man his machine gun against
the waves of Japanese attacks around Pearl Harbor. Just over three
years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a
B-29 radioman named Red Erwin died to save his fellow crewman in
the skies near Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S.
Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal
of Honor for their actions against the Japanese. They included
pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive-bombers and flying
boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some
shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others
sacrificed themselves for their friends. Fly Boy Heroes is the
story of the Pacific theater of World War II through the men who
received the Medal of Honor in the air war against Japan. They
served in U.S Army air squadrons, on U.S. Navy carriers, in U.S.
Marine Corps air units. Who were these now largely forgotten men?
Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise "above and
beyond"? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had
one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a
generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie
Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost
aviator Amelia Earhart-and then they blazed their own trail during
World War II.
Bringing together an international range of scholars, as well as
filmmakers and curators, this book explores the rich variety in
form and content of the contemporary art documentary. Since their
emergence in the late 1940s as a distinct genre, documentaries
about the visual arts have made significant contributions to art
education, public television, and documentary filmmaking, yet they
have received little scholarly attention from either art history or
film studies. Documenting the Visual Arts brings that attention to
the fore. Whether considering documentaries about painting,
sculpture, photography, performance art, site-specific
installation, or fashion, the chapters of this book engage with the
key question of intermediality: how film can reframe other visual
arts through its specific audio-visual qualities, in order to
generate new ways of understanding those arts. The essays
illuminate furthermore how art documentaries raise some of the most
critical issues of the contemporary global art world, specifically
the discourse of the artist, the dynamics of documentation, and the
visuality of the museum. Contributors discuss documentaries by
filmmakers such as Frederick Wiseman, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jia
Zhangke, and Trisha Ziff, and about artists such as Michael Heizer,
Ai Weiwei, Do Ho Suh, and Marina Abramovic. This collection of new
international and interdisciplinary scholarship on visual art
documentaries is ideal for students and scholars of visual arts and
filmmaking, as well as art history, arts education, and media
studies.
In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British
activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for
today in clear, sharp prose. Includes essential writings by Hallas
about the development of Trotskyism after Trotsky's assassination
in 1940.
This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism
in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in
dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to
which texts for children and young adults reflect current
environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic
areas: Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and
Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a
Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are
complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning
practices in preschools and schools captured through children's own
statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of
posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric
concerns within contemporary children's literature and culture, and
a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is
reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in
Culture Matrix.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: AS Chemistry First teaching:
September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 Checked by AQA examiners, this
is an essential study and revision guide for the 2015 AQA AS and
A-level Year 1 Chemistry specification concentrating on inorganic
chemistry and relevant physical chemistry Paper 1. Tackle new-style
written exam questions with guidance on practical and mathematical
skills Avoid common mistakes and get advice on exams with Exam
Notes Focus on just the content you need with Essential Notes
Memorise terminology for required practicals and mathematical and
Working Scientifically aspects Practise exam-style questions
This book provides a close examination of Kant's and Fichte's
idealisms, as well as the positions of their predecessors and
successors, in order to isolate and evaluate various essential
elements of transcendental inquiry. The authors examine Kant's and
Fichte's contributions to transcendental idealism, transcendental
arguments as a distinctive form of reasoning, and the
metaphysically more ambitious forms of idealism developed by
philosophers such as Schelling, Hegel, and Cohen. The book also
addresses some of the most acute criticisms levelled against
transcendental philosophy and explores more recent developments of
the transcendental approach in the form of contemporary discourse
ethics, especially as represented by Habermas and Apel. The authors
also explore the contributions of a number of other important
philosophers, including Husserl, Heidegger, Logstrup, Peirce, and
Putnam.
Halla Kim explores the leading themes in Kant's philosophical
ethics from a structural-methodological point of view to highlight
the activities of reason vis-a-vis the blind forces of brute
nature. Basing the study on Kant's short, but monumental,
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kim also draws on other
major writings by Kant and his critics. Kim shows that
philosophical ethics, as Kant conceived it, must capture the gist
of the ineluctable, inescapable, and irreducible freedom we strive
to exemplify in our practical lives. Viewed this way, the moral law
is none other than the law of the will determining itself. It is
the law of the self-activity of the will. Contending that the
concepts and doctrines in Kant's ethics should be understood as an
ethics of the self-activity of the will, Kim argues that the
categorical imperative is the particular way this moral law is
addressed to finite rational beings. Kant and the Foundations of
Morality provides new perspective on the philosopher's thought to
benefit studies of eighteenth-century philosophy, epistemology,
modern philosophy, moral theory, moral philosophy, and ethics.
It is particularly appropriate that a volume concerned with dye
chemistry should be included in the series Topics in Applied
Chemistry. The development of the dye industry has been inexorably
linked not only with the development of the chemical industry but
also with organic chemistry itself since the middle of the last
century. The position of dye chemistry at the forefront of chemical
1945 and more markedly so during the last advance has declined
somewhat since 15 years, with pharmaceutical and medicinal
chemistry assuming an increasingly prominent position.
Nevertheless, dye production still accounts for a significant
portion of the business of most major chemical companies. The field
of dye chemistry has stimulated the publication of many books over
the years but surprisingly few have concentrated on or even
included the practical aspects of dye synthesis and application.
Thus, the present volume is designed to fulfill that need and
provide the reader with an account of advances in dye chemistry,
concentrating on more recent work and giving, in a single volume,
synthetic detail and methods of application of the most important
classes, information which will be invaluable to both student and
research chemist alike.
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