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Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas
Hauser's tribute to Ali, the greatest sporting icon the world has
ever seen. Few global personalities have commanded an
all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali.
Many have tried to interpret in words his impact and legacy. Now,
Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully
appreciate the truth and understand both the man and the ways in
which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its
transcendent figures. In this companion volume to his seminal
biography of Ali, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser
provides an updated retrospective of Ali's life. Relying on
personal insights, interviews with close associates and other
contemporaries of Ali, and memories gathered over the course of
decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores
Ali in detail inside and outside the ring. Muhammad Ali has
attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been
subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to
homogenise the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues
that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed,
said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for
advertising purposes by sanitising his legacy is a disservice to
history and to Ali himself. Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest
strips away the revisionism to reveal the true Ali, and, through
Hauser's assembled writing and hitherto unpublished essays,
recounts the life journey of a man universally recognised as a
unique and treasured world icon.
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Sci-fi thriller directed by Wally Pfister and starring Johnny Depp.
Dr. Will Caster (Depp) is one of the leading scientists in the
world due to his pioneering work in creating sentient artificial
intelligence. However, with fame and success comes the attention of
a technophobic extremist group seeking to put an end to his work
before he creates something beyond human control. When Caster is
shot by a member of the group and falls victim to radiation
poisoning, there is no hope for his survival. With the help of his
wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and friend Max (Paul Bettany) he decides
to continue his latest project by linking his mind with that of the
computer and creating technology more intelligent than the
collective capability of the entire human race. While his earthly
body dies, Caster's mind is fully embedded within the computer and
he soon begins to exercise the potential of his newly-gained power.
But with this power comes great destruction which threatens the
future of mankind...
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The Voice of Clinical Reason Harrison's Principles of Internal
Medicine is the world's most trusted clinical medicine text-and a
superb resource for learning the art and science of clinical
reasoning. Recognized by healthcare professionals worldwide as the
leading authority on applied pathophysiology and clinical medicine,
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine provides the
informational foundation you need for the best patient care
possible. This new edition is fully updated with timely new
chapters and essential updates across the spectrum of internal
medicine. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine stands as the
benchmark for authoritative, practical information on patient care
and the pathogenesis and clinical management of symptoms and signs
and specific diseases. Written and edited by the world's top
experts in their respective fields, this landmark guide provides
the comprehensive, accurate, and essential coverage of the
pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Harrison's is
world-renowned as the most authoritative source for: * Descriptions
of disease mechanisms and how the clinician can apply that
knowledge for the best patient care and optimal diagnosis and
treatment of specific diseases * Clear, concise schemas that
facilitate the generation of differential diagnoses to reason
efficiently through complex real world clinical cases * The
physiologic and epidemiologic basis of signs and symptoms, which
are covered through a wealth of unsurpassed expert guidance and
linked to the disease-specific chapters that follow * Updated
clinical trial results and recommended guidelines * Excellent and
extensive visual support, including radiographs, clinical photos,
schematics, and high-quality drawings * Coverage of both
therapeutic approaches and specific treatment regimens * Practical
clinical decision trees and algorithms * Organ-specific sections,
with clinically relevant pathophysiology and practical clinical
advice on the approach to the patient, strategies towards building
a differential diagnosis, outstanding clinical algorithms and
diagnostic schema, a wealth of clinical images and diagrams,
current clinical guidelines, general and specific approaches to
therapy Harrison's remains the most trusted resource in a world
influenced by endless sources of medical information. The most
timely and comprehensive updates from the world's top experts are
featured in the 21st edition: * Current coverage of the diagnosis
and treatment of diseases, from COVID to dementia to sepsis to
multiple sclerosis to lung cancer * Updated content that reflects
new approved therapeutics and new practice-changing guidelines and
evidence summaries * More than 1000 clinical, pathological, and
radiographic photographs, diagnostic and therapeutic decision
trees, and clear schematics and diagrams describing
pathophysiologic processes * More than a dozen atlases featuring
curated collections of visual aspects of diagnosis and management *
Complete, updated curation and synthesis of primary medical
literature which incorporates current data from major studies and
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Thirty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold medal light-heavyweight at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali is still a magical figure. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend -- the two fights with Sonny Liston, when he proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and proved he was; the three epic wars against Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire; and the shocking loss and final win that made him the first man to win back the heavyweight crown twice, fourteen years after he had first claimed it. Ali's life has been played out as much on the front pages as on the sports pages. With brilliant immediacy and unprecedented candor, bestselling author Thomas Hauser recreates this extraordinary man. In the words of more than 200 of Ali's family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali emerges: deeply religious, mercurial, generous, a showman in and out of the ring.
'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and
generous' Roxane Gay 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly
visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding,
CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After
a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed
up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funny
memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of 'how life was supposed to
be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses
internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility
clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared
with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia
Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She
writes about friends and lovers, ghosts and robots, grief and
heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more
expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is
a book for anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it
would; for anyone trying, if sometimes failing, to find joy in the
unexpected. 'What a fantastic, original, funny and touching voice!
C J Hauser is a wondrous writer. This book will give so much
happiness.' CRESSIDA CONNOLLY, author of AFTER THE PARTY 'Brilliant
and beautiful... An absolute must-read' FRANCES CHA, author of IF I
HAD YOUR FACE 'Compassionate and funny and brave. CJ is a master
story weaver. I was left wanting more, in the best way possible.'
CHARLIE GILMOUR, author of FEATHERHOOD 'A thrillingly original
deconstruction of desire and its many configurations' Publishers
Weekly 'Bold and brilliant and psychologically exquisite, CJ Hauser
is a deeply gifted and generous writer. THE CRANE WIFE is
enthralling.' CHARLOTTE FOX WEBER, author of WHAT WE WANT
'Intimate, witty and beautifully crafted' Elle
For over a century, the J.L. Hudsonas Department Store on Woodward
Avenue was more than just a storeait was a Detroit icon and a
world-class cultural treasure. At 25 stories, it was the worldas
tallest department store, and was at one time home to the most
exceptional offerings in shopping, dining, services, and
entertainment. The store prided itself on stocking everything from
grand pianos to spools of thread. In addition to departments
offering fashionable clothing and home furnishings, the original
Hudsonas store featured an auditorium, a circulating library,
dining rooms, barber shops, a photo studio, holiday exhibits, a
magnificent place called Toytown, and the worldas largest American
flag.
Japanese desserts from Mochi to Matcha, Manju, Yokan, Anpan,
Castella, Wagashi, Dorayaki, Daifuku--and everything in between!
Traditional recipes for mochi, wagashi, manju, dorayaki, anpan,
melon pan and many others meet the classic Japanese cookies, cakes,
tarts, ice creams and custards that are now popular worldwide.
Japanese flavors infuse and transform your favorite desserts and
create newfound indulgences you can easily prepare at home!
Featuring easily accessible ingredients and recipes that are
adapted with the Western baker and home cook in mind, Sweet and
Easy Japanese Desserts offers 42 delicious recipes grouped into
four tempting chapters: Traditional Japanese Desserts like Dorayaki
Red Bean Pancakes, Cherry Blossom Mochi and Castella Honey Sponge
Cake Western-style Japanese Desserts like Strawberry Matcha and
Apricot Mochi Ice Cream and Black Sesame Panna Cotta Popular
Matcha-based Desserts featuring Matcha Cake, Matcha Tiramisu,
Matcha Lemon Tarts and more Asian Desserts like Hong Kong Style Egg
Tarts, Korean Crepes and Strawberry Wontons For a dessert course
like no other, the tempting treats in Sweet and Easy Japanese
Desserts will surprise and delight you!
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized
vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical
problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for
the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization,
this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India,
where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized,
new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists
claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial
resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement
mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the
connections among these developments and many others, Julia Hauser
explores the global history of vegetarianism from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She traces personal
networks and exchanges of knowledge spanning Europe, the United
States, and South Asia, highlighting mutual influence as well as
the disconnects of cross-cultural encounters. Hauser argues that
vegetarianism in this period was motivated by expansive visions of
moral, physical, and even racial purification. Adherents were
convinced that society could be changed by transforming the body of
the individual. Hauser demonstrates that vegetarians in India and
the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only
internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism,
and violence. Finding preoccupations with race and masculinity as
well as links to colonialism and eugenics, she reveals the
implication of vegetarian movements in exclusionary, hierarchical
projects. Deeply researched and compellingly argued, A Taste for
Purity rewrites the history of vegetarianism on a global scale.
First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms
of the arts, whether visual arts, literature, film, theatre or
music from Bach to the Beatles. The last book to be completed by
Arnold Hauser before his death in 1978, it is a total analysis of
the spiritual forces of social expression, based upon comprehensive
historical experience and documentation. Hauser explores art
through the earliest times to the modern era, with fascinating
analyses of the mass media and current manifestations of human
creativity. An extension and completion of his earlier work, The
Social History of Art, this volume represents a summing up of his
thought and forms a fitting climax to his life's work. Translated
by Kenneth J. Northcote.
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John Singleton's sequel to 'The Fast and the Furious' - which
brought stardom to Vin Diesel. Diesel decided not to reprise his
role but Paul Walker did. Former undercover cop Brian O'Conner
(Walker) finds himself on the trail of another group of underground
car enthusiasts in an attempt to redeem himself after his illegal
escapades in the first movie. This time the location is Miami,
where O'Connor has been making money out of street racing, and he
is asked to bring down the drugs baron Carter Verone (Cole Hauser)
in exchange for erasing his criminal record. Enlisting the help of
an ex-con (Tyrese), O'Connor once again finds himself raging
through the streets in stolen cars.
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John Singleton's sequel to 'The Fast and the Furious' - which
brought stardom to Vin Diesel. Diesel decided not to reprise his
role but Paul Walker did. Former undercover cop Brian O'Conner
(Walker) finds himself on the trail of another group of underground
car enthusiasts in an attempt to redeem himself after his illegal
escapades in the first movie. This time the location is Miami,
where O'Connor has been making money out of street racing, and he
is asked to bring down the drugs baron Carter Verone (Cole Hauser)
in exchange for erasing his criminal record. Enlisting the help of
an ex-con (Tyrese), O'Connor once again finds himself raging
through the streets in stolen cars.
Originally published in 1974, this book surveys the experience of
public and quasi public housing in the UK, USA, France, Germany,
the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Puerto Rico.
Each country's housing policy is set in a broad social and
historical context, showing how the policy developed and how
effective it was. Administrative problems encountered in different
countries are evaluated and compared and many similarities emerge.
The relationship of housing to transport, education and employment
is discussed and special attention is focused on the role of new
towns in Sweden, the former USSR, the UK, Israel and the USA.
Against the backdrop of international conventions and their
implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores
how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among
diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts, such as
those kept and trafficked between art dealers, private collectors
and museums, have become increasingly localized in a 'Bermuda
triangle' of colonialism, looting and the black market, with their
re-emergence resulting in disputes of ownership and claims for
return. This interdisciplinary volume provides the first
book-length investigation of the changing behaviours resulting from
the effect of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of
Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer
of Ownership of Cultural Property. The collection considers the
impact of the Convention on the way antiquity dealers, museums and
auction houses, as well as nation states and local communities,
address issues of provenance, contested ownership, and the
trafficking of cultural property. The book contains a range of
contributions from anthropologists, lawyers, historians and
archaeologists. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up
perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in
the Epilogue. Each section is contextualised by an introductory
chapter from the editors.
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733 Dominica, a place
once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and
seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief,
failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of
varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological
and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined
plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it
caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of
eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two
Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and
archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways
that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial
pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from
official documents. The archaeological record-which preserves
traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and
vessels for storing water-reveals changes in political authority
and in how social relations were mediated through the environment.
Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an
abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create
predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose
resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the
vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a
valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around
insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an
open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph
Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.
The role of the textile finisher has become increasingly demanding,
and now requires a careful balance between the compatibility of
different finishing products and treatments and the application
processes used to provide textiles with desirable properties. In
one comprehensive book, Chemical finishing of textiles details the
fundamentals of final chemical finishing, covering the range of
effects that result from the interplay between chemical structures
and finishing products.
After an introductory chapter covering the importance of chemical
finishing, the following chapters focus on particular finishing
techniques, from softening, easy-care and permanent press, non-slip
and soil-release, to flame-retardant, antistatic and antimicrobial.
Within each chapter, sections include an introduction, mechanisms,
chemistries, applications, evaluations and troubleshooting. The
book concludes with a chapter on the future trends in chemical
finishing.
Chemical finishing of textiles is an essential reference for all
academic and industrial textile chemists and for those studying
textile education programmes.
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of every important type
of chemical finishCombines technical understanding and practical
experience conciselyEssential tool to assist in the demanding
challenge of chemical finishing for textiles
This book presents an integrated and holistic discussion on
cadmium, lead and mercury toxicity in aquatic environments,
expanding general concepts on chemical speciation effects and
exploring specific environmental toxicological issues, exposure
routes, and bioanalytical approaches for their determination and
assessments on their intracellular deleterious effects. It contains
worldwide and regional aspects on cadmium, lead and mercury
occurrence, fate, and toxicity, addressing key environmental
exposure and health risk concerns to both humans and aquatic
organisms. Our book is of interest to anyone conducting research in
the broad fields of oceanography, geochemistry, ecotoxicology, and
environmental and public health.
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized
vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical
problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for
the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization,
this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India,
where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized,
new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists
claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial
resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement
mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the
connections among these developments and many others, Julia Hauser
explores the global history of vegetarianism from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She traces personal
networks and exchanges of knowledge spanning Europe, the United
States, and South Asia, highlighting mutual influence as well as
the disconnects of cross-cultural encounters. Hauser argues that
vegetarianism in this period was motivated by expansive visions of
moral, physical, and even racial purification. Adherents were
convinced that society could be changed by transforming the body of
the individual. Hauser demonstrates that vegetarians in India and
the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only
internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism,
and violence. Finding preoccupations with race and masculinity as
well as links to colonialism and eugenics, she reveals the
implication of vegetarian movements in exclusionary, hierarchical
projects. Deeply researched and compellingly argued, A Taste for
Purity rewrites the history of vegetarianism on a global scale.
Originally published in 1974, this book surveys the experience of
public and quasi public housing in the UK, USA, France, Germany,
the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Puerto Rico.
Each country's housing policy is set in a broad social and
historical context, showing how the policy developed and how
effective it was. Administrative problems encountered in different
countries are evaluated and compared and many similarities emerge.
The relationship of housing to transport, education and employment
is discussed and special attention is focused on the role of new
towns in Sweden, the former USSR, the UK, Israel and the USA.
First published in 1969. This book analyses the role of
Unemployment Insurance in a high-employment economy. It emphasises
the social requirements of an income-maintenance scheme in the
context of various economic policies, particularly government
intervention in the labour market. The authors discuss other
related problems including the relationship between Unemployment
Insurance and redundancy compensation and the question of
selectivity in social security. This book provides a case study in
a field bordering labour economics, public finance and social
policy and will be useful as a textbook for both economists and
sociologists, illustrating the relevance of economic analysis to
social welfare policy. It offers comparisons of Unemployment
Insurance in several European countries with the British scheme and
in their final chapter the authors make important suggestions for
policy changes in the structure of British Unemployment Insurance
and in social security generally.
First published in 1965, Mannerism is the rediscovery and
revaluation of Mannerism, that long misjudged artistic style which
came into its own during the crisis of the Renaissance.
Expressionism, Surrealism and Abstract Art prepared the ground for
a new understanding of Mannerism, and Dr. Hauser shows how this
revaluation signifies an even deeper caesura in intellectual
history than the crisis of the Renaissance itself in which
Mannerism arose. These propositions however, only touch on the
problem which is exhaustively treated by Hauser in all its
historical and thematical variations. The author does not confine
himself to the observation of development from the point of view of
the history of art. In Part One he considers the emergence of the
scientific worldview during the Renaissance, the economic and
social revolution, religious movements and political ideas, the
problem of alienation, and narcissism as keys to the understanding
of Mannerism. Part Two, which deals with the history of Mannerism
both in Italy and abroad, gives not only remarkable analyses of
works of art with the aid of 322 reproductions, but also considers
leading representatives of the literature of the Mannerism in
Italy, Spain, France, and England. Again, in Part Three, parallel
and connecting lines are drawn between art and literature to make
the rules of form and the contents clearly recognisable. The book
will be of interest to students of art history and literature.
This manual is prepared to enhance the wastewater treatment plant
operator's understanding of laboratory theory and procedure in the
testing of wastewater, to appreciate the nature of the contaminants
under analysis, the analytical methods, and their limitations.
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