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Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history
is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These
may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed
under great pressure. They may also be considered to be successful
or catastrophic, but how are historians to make such judgments and
appeal to evidence in support of their conclusions? Further, and
crucially, how exactly are we to distinguish probable unrealized
alternatives from improbable ones? This book describes some of the
modern statistical techniques that can begin to answer this
question, as well as some of the difficulties in doing so. Using
simple, well-quantified cases drawn from military history, we claim
that statistics can now help us to navigate the near-truths, the
envelope around the events with which any meaningful historical
analysis must deal, and to quantify the basis of such analysis.
Quantifying Counterfactual Military History is intended for a
general audience who are interested in learning more about
statistical methods both in military history and for wider
applications. Key Features: Demonstrates how modern statistical
techniques can measure the impact of counterfactual decisions.
Examines the importance of counterfactual reasoning for both modern
scholars and historical actors. Combines historical narrative,
mathematical precision and data to create a straightforward
presentation of both factual and counterfactual military history.
Provides an original contribution to the debate over the validity
and rigour of works of counterfactual history Written in a manner
accessible to readers who have no formal training in History or
Statistics.
Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history
is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These
may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed
under great pressure. They may also be considered to be successful
or catastrophic, but how are historians to make such judgments and
appeal to evidence in support of their conclusions? Further, and
crucially, how exactly are we to distinguish probable unrealized
alternatives from improbable ones? This book describes some of the
modern statistical techniques that can begin to answer this
question, as well as some of the difficulties in doing so. Using
simple, well-quantified cases drawn from military history, we claim
that statistics can now help us to navigate the near-truths, the
envelope around the events with which any meaningful historical
analysis must deal, and to quantify the basis of such analysis.
Quantifying Counterfactual Military History is intended for a
general audience who are interested in learning more about
statistical methods both in military history and for wider
applications. Key Features: Demonstrates how modern statistical
techniques can measure the impact of counterfactual decisions.
Examines the importance of counterfactual reasoning for both modern
scholars and historical actors. Combines historical narrative,
mathematical precision and data to create a straightforward
presentation of both factual and counterfactual military history.
Provides an original contribution to the debate over the validity
and rigour of works of counterfactual history Written in a manner
accessible to readers who have no formal training in History or
Statistics.
This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American
imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture.
With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image
of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical
appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right,
contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on
American Indian literary nationalism, postcolonialism, and
transnational theories, essays demonstrate a complex nexus of power
relations that seemingly allows European culture to build its own
Native images, and ask what effect this has on the current
treatment of indigenous peoples.
This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American
imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture.
With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image
of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical
appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right,
contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on
American Indian literary nationalism, postcolonialism, and
transnational theories, essays demonstrate a complex nexus of power
relations that seemingly allows European culture to build its own
Native images, and ask what effect this has on the current
treatment of indigenous peoples.
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage
with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society'
and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more
informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown
and influenced.
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage
with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society'
and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more
informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown
and influenced.
Examining the history of social movements and non-state
socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and
how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational
life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with
the politics of the ballot box.
Examining the history of social movements and non-state
socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and
how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational
life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with
the politics of the ballot box.
In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that "once
admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs
of social and physical degeneration," a phenomenon that has not
escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans,
and other chronic-care patients.
Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was
avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was
inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a
patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a
large veterans' hospital, who suffered from various degrees of
social withdrawal, an opportunity to express their individuality
and independence and to shape institutional decisions.
"The Perils of Patient Government" goes well beyond a
description and analysis of the projects' successful side--a
general improvement in the lives of the veterans on Ward 23; it
also exposes and analyzes the project's failures, portraying
negotiation and conflict among change-oriented and conservative
staff of varying professional identities, ideologies, and career
strategies. While struggling over the idea and practice of patient
self-government, nurses, and other professionals did make progress
but also set severe limits on what patients could achieve for
themselves. As well, Lella's study tackles the larger question of
how change affects organizations and institutions.
Lively and well-written, this is an enlightening work for
students of gerontology and geriactics, for professionals and
para-professionals, administrators, and policy-makers involved in
chronic care, and for researchers probing the fields of medical
sociology and institutional organization.
Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that
was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the
ice ages. But how do you figure out what a mammoth is if you have
no concept of extinction, ice ages, or fossils? Long after the last
mammoth died and was no longer part of the human diet, it still
played a role in human life. Cultures around the world interpreted
the remains of mammoths through the lens of their own worldview and
mythology. When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils,
they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had
vanquished the Titans. When the Chinese discovered buried ivory,
they knew they had found dragons' teeth. But as the Age of Reason
dawned, monsters and giants gave way to the scientific method. Yet
the mystery of these mighty bones remained. How did Enlightenment
thinkers overcome centuries of myth and misunderstanding to
reconstruct an unknown animal? The journey to unravel that puzzle
begins in the 1690s with the arrival of new type of ivory on the
European market bearing the exotic name "mammoth." It ends during
the Napoleonic Wars with the first recovery of a frozen mammoth.
The path to figuring out the mammoth was traveled by merchants,
diplomats, missionaries, cranky doctors, collectors of natural
wonders, Swedish POWs, Peter the Great, Ben Franklin, the inventor
of hot chocolate, and even one pirate. McKay brings together dozens
of original documents and illustrations, some ignored for
centuries, to show how this odd assortment of characters solved the
mystery of the mammoth and, in doing so, created the science of
paleontology.
This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, guest edited by
Dr. Robert MacKay in collaboration with Consulting Editor Dr.
Thomas Divers, is devoted to Controversies in Equine Medicine and
Surgery. Topics in this issue include: Hepatitis viruses in horses;
Surgical treatment of wobblers; Electrical nerve stimulation in the
management of equine headshaking; Lidocaine in postoperative
management of colics; Neonatal encephalopathy; Shared mechanisms in
the pathophysiology of different clinical forms of laminitis and
implications for prevention and treatment; Toward functional
cartilage restoration over chondral and subchondral defects in
equine joints: prospects for regenerative medicine; Diagnostic
testing for equine endocrine diseases; Treatments for sarcoid; EIPH
importance and prevention; Treatment options for equine melanoma;
and Removing a placenta.
A missing brother, an unlikely rapist, a determined bride and a
lonely outcast are just a few of the "vicious little monkeys" who
inhabit the same Bronx neighborhood. When a vengeful shotgun blast,
some stolen money and the ghost of past deeds come into play, the
monkeys discover that the Bronx does not let go of its own so
easily.
Inspired by the recent popular interest in our country's historical
legends and folklore, The Mediocre Life of Jordan Gaites is a fast
paced story about a private detective with CIA background
investigating the suspicious death of a close friend. His
investigation will lead to a historic legend that has the potential
to change the world as we know it today. This blend of U.S. history
and folklore that borders on science fiction will captivate the
reader from beginning to end.
Inspired by the recent popular interest in our country's historical
legends and folklore, The Mediocre Life of Jordan Gaites is a fast
paced story about a private detective with CIA background
investigating the suspicious death of a close friend. His
investigation will lead to a historic legend that has the potential
to change the world as we know it today. This blend of U.S. history
and folklore that borders on science fiction will captivate the
reader from beginning to end.
Title: Quebec Hill; or, Canadian Scenery. A poem, in two
parts.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Mackay, J.; 1797. 4 .
644.k.25.(5.)
A CREATURE...half boy, half mormon cricket, destined to be a
do-gooder yet shunned by the public for his odd appearance. Legend
says the creature would come out at night and climb to the top
spire of the temple in order to watch over the city and help those
in need. There'd never been an LDS superhero before and it was
never the boy's intention to become one, but somehow he did and
this is his incredibly wacky story. A funny tale of a little Mormon
boy accidentally left behind in the salty Utah desert by his
loving, but highly overpopulated Mormon family. The boy is rescued
and raised by Mormon crickets. Through a serious of miraculous, but
yet to be explained events, he gains superhero powers and becomes
Mormon Cricket Man. Mormon Cricket Man is called on a super secret
church mission as a member of the Rockwellians, a super secret sect
of LDS church security who fight evil throughout the Universe. A
funny, well written story of adventure and fun for the young and
the young at heart...the first Mormon superhero is born. When you
purchase Mormon Cricket Man you become a superhero We donate 100%
of the profits from the sale of Mormon Cricket Man - LDS superhero
to help feed, clothe and provide shelter to real world children
throughout the Universe.
Why is Money] a) The thing that most of us worry about the most,
and b) The thing that you understand and were educated in school
about the least? Why do otherwise educated people tragically say:
"I really do not understand Economics"? In Secrets About Money That
Put You At Risk Michael McKay clearly and concisely presents the
basics of this vital knowledge that we should have learned in
school but were never taught. This is an ABC book for Adults, as
well as for Young People, on What is Money and How it Works. It
will teach you The Basic Things About Money And Wealth You Must
Know And Probably Do Not. As reviewer David Gordon stated, "Michael
McKay has described in a compelling fashion essential truths about
money which everyone needs to know. Once you read this book, money
will no longer seem mysterious." Dr Ron Paul, United States
Congressman, has written, " 'Secrets About Money' by Michael McKay
is a Great Summary that needs to be read by as many Members of
Congress as possible."
Canadian defence policy has been largely neglected by historians
except as a problem related to constitutional and political
development. Dr. Hitsman repairs this neglect in his study of the
military aspects of the defence of Canada, from the British
Conquest to the withdrawal of the British garrison. His
investigation demolishes a number of myths which have sprung up in
this era of Canadian history. For example, in his examination of
the military arrangements of the British in Canada Dr. Hitsman
points out that, contrary to established belief, Guy Carleton, the
last officer of the British Army to hold the appointment of
Commander-in-Chief in North America, did more than just muddle
through when Americans invaded Canada in 1775. This and many other
misconceptions are corrected in this lucid study. After a brief
introductory section on the problems of defence and attack during
the period of the Conquest, there follows a coherent and
intelligent account of the military aspects of Canadian defence
after 1760: the geographical factors in strategy, the degree of
potential danger, the men and resources available, and the policies
pursued by the British government and its agents in Canada. The
attitudes and behaviour of both English-speaking and French
Canadians are also examined in their relationship to British rule.
This book presents the facts about Canadian defence policy from
original sources. Basing his study on Admiralty, Colonial and War
Office papers, Dr. Hitsman reveals a remarkable ability for finding
the appropriate document to illustrate each stage in the
development in defence planning. His personal knowledge of army
organization and his ability to make his way easily through
military reports help to make this study an important contribution
to Canadian history and scholarship.
Colorectal Surgery, second edition, is the essential guide for
general surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS examination, as
well as a quick-reference for clinicians working in the field.
Providing a concise and evidence-based overview of colorectal
surgery, this resource covers the diagnosis, management, and
treatment of colorectal conditions. Extensively updated to reflect
recent innovations in surgical practice, this edition covers new
topics such as robotic surgery, complete mesocolic excision,
capsule colonoscopy, and the role of qFIT in lower GI
investigations. The oncology and inflammatory bowel disease
chapters have been revised to reflect new understanding of the
genetic aspects of IBD as well as novel therapeutic agents.
Management of benign colorectal disease has also been revised to
reflect current approaches to rectal prolapse and haemorrhoidal
disease including updated guidelines for functional bowel
conditions.
Oregon entered a new era in 1964 with the election of Tom McCall as
Secretary of State and Bob Straub as State Treasurer. Their
political rivalry formed the backdrop for two of Oregon's most
transformative decades, as they successively fought for, lost, and
won the governorship. Veteran Oregon journalist Floyd McKay had a
front-row seat. As a political reporter for The Oregon Statesman in
Salem, and then as news analyst for KGW-TV in Portland, McKay was
known for asking tough questions and pulling no punches. His
reporting and commentaries ranged from analysis of the "Tom and
Bob" rivalry, to the Vietnam War's impact on Senators Wayne Morse
and Mark Hatfield and the emergence of a new generation of Portland
activists in the 1970s. McKay and his colleagues were on the
beaches as Oregon crafted its landmark Beach Bill, ensuring the
protection of beaches for public use. They watched as activists
turned back efforts to build a highway on the sand at Pacific City.
Pitched battles over Oregon's Bottle Bill, and the panic-inducing
excitement of "Vortex"-the nation's only state-sponsored rock
festival-characterized the period. Covering the period from
1964-1986, McKay remembers the action, the players and the
consequences, in this compelling and personal account. As major
actors fade from the scene and new leaders emerge, McKay casts a
backwards glance at enduring Oregon legends. Half a century later,
amid today's cynicism and disillusionment with media, politics, and
politicians, Reporting the Oregon Story serves as a timely reminder
that charged politics and bitter rivalries can also come
hand-in-hand with lasting social progress. Reporting the Oregon
Story will be relished by those who lived the history, and it will
serve as a worthy introduction to Oregonians young and old who want
a first-hand account of Oregon's mid- twentieth-century political
history and legislative legacy.
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