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In this hilarious and heartwarming family comedy, one of sports' toughest players ever takes on his biggest challenge yet - fatherhood! A superstar with an ego bigger than a football field, Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is getting ready for a run at the big championship game when the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up at his not-so-family-friendly bachelor pad. As the big game gets closer, he begins to realize the most meaningful win he can achieve is the heart of one little fan who counts the most.
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Action film starring Channing Tatum as Shawn MacArthur, a young
small-time criminal who is introduced to the dangerous world of
underground street fighting by seasoned scam artist Harvey Boarden
(Terrence Howard). Boarden goes on to become MacArthur's manager on
the bare knuckle brawling circuit.
For courses in Introductory Psychology Throughout Psychology,
Saundra Ciccarelli and J. Noland White employ a learner-centred,
assessment-driven approach that maximises student engagement, and
helps educators keep students on track. The authors draw readers
into the discipline by showing how psychology relates to students'
own lives. Clear learning objectives, based on the recommended APA
undergraduate learning outcomes, guide learners through the
material. And assessment tied to these learning objectives lets
students check their understanding, while allowing instructors to
monitor class progress and intervene when necessary to bolster
student performance.
Beginning with the earliest known finds, this volume provides a
linear and thematic account of the history of the Old Stone Age, or
Palaeolithic Period, covering major discoveries, interpretations
and debates worldwide, a story that takes us from the embers of the
Great Fire of London to the beginning of the Covid pandemic. It
offers a comprehensive and unique history of archaeological theory
and interpretation, seeking to explain how we know what we know
about the deep past, and how ideas about it have changed over time,
reflecting both scientific and societal change. At its heart lies
the quest for an answer to a most curious and sometimes beautiful
tool ever made - the handaxe. While focused on the earlier
Palaeolithic period, the book provides a readable account of how
ideas about the prehistoric past generally were formed and altered,
showing how the wider discipline came to be dominated by a
succession of different theoretical 'paradigms', each seeking
different answers from the same dataset. Serving a dual purpose as
a historical narrative and as a reference source, this book will be
of interest to all students and researchers interested in deep
human prehistory and evolution, archaeological theory and the
history of archaeology.
Beginning with the earliest known finds, this volume provides a
linear and thematic account of the history of the Old Stone Age, or
Palaeolithic Period, covering major discoveries, interpretations
and debates worldwide, a story that takes us from the embers of the
Great Fire of London to the beginning of the Covid pandemic. It
offers a comprehensive and unique history of archaeological theory
and interpretation, seeking to explain how we know what we know
about the deep past, and how ideas about it have changed over time,
reflecting both scientific and societal change. At its heart lies
the quest for an answer to a most curious and sometimes beautiful
tool ever made - the handaxe. While focused on the earlier
Palaeolithic period, the book provides a readable account of how
ideas about the prehistoric past generally were formed and altered,
showing how the wider discipline came to be dominated by a
succession of different theoretical 'paradigms', each seeking
different answers from the same dataset. Serving a dual purpose as
a historical narrative and as a reference source, this book will be
of interest to all students and researchers interested in deep
human prehistory and evolution, archaeological theory and the
history of archaeology.
For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases
for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and
fast-changing field. The fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy
Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team,
global contributors, and expert authors, delivers the latest
coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the
world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat,
this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to
effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted.
Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general
medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public
health and ethics. Serves as an indispensable resource for
physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be
travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this
area.  Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers
of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and
Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political
Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public
Health. Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics,
Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19. Covers key
topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections
such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as
PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public
health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much
more. Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and
resource-poor areas. Includes reader-friendly features such
as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables,
extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management
diagrams. An eBook version is included with purchase. The
eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and
references, with the ability to search, customize your content,
make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.Â
The bottom line is no longer a number. Business can be a force for
good, although many companies aren’t built to make it that right
now. Becoming a more competitive business that is also better for
the world is simpler than you might think. It’s already happening
across the globe. Drawing on stories from fields as diverse as
human rights in Syria, the UK prison system, Brazilian psychiatric
care, architecture and business, Return on Humanity provides
inspiring learnings and practical strategies that prove a more
human approach to leadership and business will give us all a better
future. Philippa White is a global thought leader, social innovator
and the Founder and CEO of UK-based company TIE. For over 20 years
she has been dedicated to unlocking the potential of corporate
leaders and their companies by igniting the power of a people-first
approach to business.
In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin
Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding of what he
was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging
that the discussion of this issue in Heidegger's major work Being
and Time is often far from clear, White presents a new
interpretation of Heidegger which short-circuits many of the
traditional criticisms. White claims that we are all in a better
position to understand Heidegger's insights after fifty years
because they have now become a part of the conventional wisdom of
common opinion. His view shows up in accounts of knowledge in the
physical sciences, in the assumptions of the social sciences, in
art and film, even in popular culture in general, but does so in
ways ignorant of their origins. Now that these insights have
filtered down into the culture at large, we can make Heidegger
intelligible in a way that perhaps he himself could not. White
presents the best possible case for Heidegger, making him more
intelligible to those people with a long acquaintance with his
work, those with a long aversion to it and in particular to those
just starting to pursue an interest in it. White places the
problems with which Heidegger is dealing in the context of issues
in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, in order to better
locate him for the more mainstream audience. The language and
approach of the book is able to accommodate the novice but also
offers much food for thought for the Heidegger scholar.
This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic
order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new
historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently
several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective
on Asian history, arguing that economic growth was fuelled by the
phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around
the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. On the other side, British
imperial historians, P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, have presented
their own interpretation of 'gentlemanly capitalism', in which they
emphasize the leading role of the service sector rather than that
of British industry in assessing the nature of the British presence
overseas. In order to assess and test these new perspectives, this
volume addresses three key issues. The first is to reconsider the
metropolitan-peripheral relationship in Asia, focusing particularly
on the role of the sterling area and its implications for Asian
economic development. The second is to examine the formation of
inter-regional trade relations within Asia in the 1930s and their
revival and transformation in the 1950s. The final issue is the
comparison of the international order of Asia of the 1930s with the
1950s, and the degree to which the Second World War represented a
break-point in Asia's economic development. Dealing with issues of
trade, economy, nationalism and imperialism, this book provides
fresh insights into the development of Asia during the
mid-twentieth century. Drawing on the latest scholarship it will
prove invaluable to all who wish to better understand the position
of countries such as Japan, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia and
Korea within the wider international order.
This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' -
the idea that in the period immediately after independence
Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely
because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business
interests allied to indigenous elites. The author argues that,
although British business did indeed have a strong position in
Malaysia in this period, Malaysian politicians and administrators
were able to utilise British business, which was relatively weak
vis-a-vis the Malaysian state, for their own ends, at the same time
as indigenous businesses and foreign, non-British competitors were
gathering strength. In addition, despite the commitment of both
Conservative and Labour governments in the UK to preserving British
influence worldwide through the Commonwealth relationship, British
firms in Malaysia received only limited support from the British
post-imperial state.
This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic
order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new
historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently
several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective
on Asian history, arguing that economic growth was fuelled by the
phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around
the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. On the other side, British
imperial historians, P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, have presented
their own interpretation of 'gentlemanly capitalism', in which they
emphasize the leading role of the service sector rather than that
of British industry in assessing the nature of the British presence
overseas. In order to assess and test these new perspectives, this
volume addresses three key issues. The first is to reconsider the
metropolitan-peripheral relationship in Asia, focusing particularly
on the role of the sterling area and its implications for Asian
economic development. The second is to examine the formation of
inter-regional trade relations within Asia in the 1930s and their
revival and transformation in the 1950s. The final issue is the
comparison of the international order of Asia of the 1930s with the
1950s, and the degree to which the Second World War represented a
break-point in Asia's economic development. Dealing with issues of
trade, economy, nationalism and imperialism, this book provides
fresh insights into the development of Asia during the
mid-twentieth century. Drawing on the latest scholarship it will
prove invaluable to all who wish to better understand the position
of countries such as Japan, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia and
Korea within the wider international order.
This book explores innovative approaches to teacher professional
learning, examples of teaching enacted in classrooms, and factors
affecting the promotion of quality teaching in socio-scientific
issues and sustainability contexts. Since educational settings and
cultures influence teaching, the different approaches and
perspectives in various cross-national contexts enable us to
appreciate the diversity of different countries’ practices and
provide insight into seminal approaches to socio-scientific
issues-based teaching internationally. The book consists of three
parts: innovative professional development programs, innovative
teaching approaches, and issues relating to student engagement with
socio-scientific issues and sustainability education. The book
targets those who can be expected to develop curriculum, enact
teaching practices, and facilitate teachers’ professional
development in socio-scientific issues and sustainability
education.
This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' -
the idea that in the period immediately after independence
Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely
because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business
interests allied to indigenous elites. The author argues that,
although British business did indeed have a strong position in
Malaysia in this period, Malaysian politicians and administrators
were able to utilise British business, which was relatively weak
vis-a-vis the Malaysian state, for their own ends, at the same time
as indigenous businesses and foreign, non-British competitors were
gathering strength. In addition, despite the commitment of both
Conservative and Labour governments in the UK to preserving British
influence worldwide through the Commonwealth relationship, British
firms in Malaysia received only limited support from the British
post-imperial state.
In recent years, sensor research has undergone a quiet revolution
that will have a significant impact on a broad range of
applications in areas such as health care, the environment, energy,
food safety, national security, and manufacturing. Sensors for
Chemical and Biological Applications discusses in detail the
potential of chemical and biological sensors and examines how they
are meeting the challenges of chem-bio terrorism by monitoring
through enhanced specificity, fast response times, and the ability
to determine multiple hazardous substances. Exploring the
nanotechnology approach, and carrying this theme throughout the
book, the chapters cover the sensing principles for, chemical,
electrical, chromatographic, magnetic, biological, fluidic,
optical, and ultrasonic and mass sensing systems. They address
issues associated with cost, synthesis, and testing of new low cost
materials with high sensitivity, selectivity, robustness, and speed
for defined sensor applications. The book extensively discusses the
detailed analysis of future impact of chemical and biological
sensors in day-to-day life. Successful development of improved
chemical sensor and biosensor systems and manufacturing procedures
will not only increase the breadth and depth of the sensor
industry, but will spill over into the design and manufacture of
other types of sensors and devices that use nanofabrication and
microfabrication techniques. This reference not only supplies
versatile, hands-on tools useful in a broad array of disciplines,
but also lays the interdisciplinary groundwork required for the
achievement of sentient processing.
Internationally recognized authorities in vascular medicine Michael
R. Jaff and Christopher J. White have joined with leading experts
to produce a book that comprehensively and uniquely addresses
vascular disease. The editors' clinical approach, combined with the
work of contributors nationally renowned in their respective
fields, make this work useful and practical to both clinicians and
interventionalists alike. Vascular Disease: Diagnostic and
Therapeutic Approaches bridges vascular and endovascular medicine
to provide practicing physicians of multiple backgrounds -- as well
as trainees, students, and anyone involved in the treatment of
vascular diseases -- an essential overview of the diagnostic
approaches and state-of-the-art treatments or arterial and venous
diseases.
In March 2012 a small consultation convened on the campus of
Princeton Theological Seminary, where James E. Loder Jr. had served
for forty years as the Mary D. Synnott Professor of the Philosophy
of Christian Education. Members from the Child Theology Movement
had begun to read Loder's work and they wanted to go further. So
they invited former students of Loder's to meet with them for
conversations about things that really mattered to them and to
Loder: human beings (and especially children), the church's witness
to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and discerning the work of Spiritus
Creator in the postmodern world. The conversations proved rich and
rewarding and some would even say they took on a life of their own
- serious scholarship set to the music of the Spirit's
communion-creating artistry forming new relationships, inspiring
new ideas, and sustaining all of it amid much laughter, joy, and
hope. These essays, taken from the papers delivered at the
consultation, are offered as a means of extending that conversation
inspired by Loder's interdisciplinary practical theological science
and his discernment of the "logic of the Spirit".They are offered
with confidence that the same Spirit continues to work in all
persons who hope for the Spirit's redemptive transformation of all
creation, beginning with children.
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original
poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet
throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained
popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until
now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his
poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship
between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets. For
example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in
some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. White
considers Bloomfield's emphasis on the importance of local
tradition and community in the lives of labouring people. In
challenging the idea that the formal and rhetorical innovation of
Wordsworth and Coleridge was principally responsible for the
emergence of a new kind of poetry at the turn of the eighteenth
century, he also shows that it is impossible to understand how the
lyric and the literary ballad evolved during the Romantic period
without considering Bloomfield's poetry. White's authoritative
study demonstrates that, on the contrary, Bloomfield's poetry was
pivotal in the development of Romanticism.
In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin
Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding of what he
was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging
that the discussion of this issue in Heidegger's major work Being
and Time is often far from clear, White presents a new
interpretation of Heidegger which short-circuits many of the
traditional criticisms. White claims that we are all in a better
position to understand Heidegger's insights after fifty years
because they have now become a part of the conventional wisdom of
common opinion. His view shows up in accounts of knowledge in the
physical sciences, in the assumptions of the social sciences, in
art and film, even in popular culture in general, but does so in
ways ignorant of their origins. Now that these insights have
filtered down into the culture at large, we can make Heidegger
intelligible in a way that perhaps he himself could not. White
presents the best possible case for Heidegger, making him more
intelligible to those people with a long acquaintance with his
work, those with a long aversion to it and in particular to those
just starting to pursue an interest in it. White places the
problems with which Heidegger is dealing in the context of issues
in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, in order to better
locate him for the more mainstream audience. The language and
approach of the book is able to accommodate the novice but also
offers much food for thought for the Heidegger scholar.
This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
approaches to drama and science in education. Drawing on a solid
basis of research, it offers theoretical backgrounds, showcases
rich examples, and provides evidence of improved student learning
and engagement. The chapters explore various connections between
drama and science, including: students' ability to engage with
science through drama; dramatising STEM; mutuality and
inter-relativity in drama and science; dramatic play-based outdoor
activities; and creating embodied, aesthetic and affective learning
experiences. The book illustrates how drama education draws upon
contemporary issues and their complexity, intertwining with science
education in promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and
empathetic understandings needed to interpret and respond to the
many challenges of our times. Findings throughout the book
demonstrate how lessons learned from drama and science education
can remain discrete yet when brought together, contribute to
deeper, more engaged and transformative student learning.
This book provides an introduction to the Forge, an online
discussion site for tabletop role-playing game (TRPG) design, play,
and publication that was active during the first years of the
twenty-first century and which served as an important locus for
experimentation in game design and production during that time.
Aimed at game studies scholars, for whom the ideas formulated at or
popularized by the Forge are of key interest, the book also
attempts to provide an accessible account of the growth and
development of the Forge as a site of participatory culture. It
situates the Forge within the broader context of TRPG discourse,
and connects "Forge theory" to the academic investigation of
role-playing.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that
cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal
migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the
adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the
collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered
by several social science disciplines, while also examining the
crucial relationship between internal and international migration.
Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best
collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part
III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all
world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several
contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy
areas. The volume's editor Michael J. White has spent a career
studying the pattern and process of internal and international
migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide
variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced
economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from
all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both
geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The
Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars,
as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most
relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.
This volume explores a broad range of different genotyping
techniques. Genotyping: Methods and Protocols consists of chapters
that cover numerous topics such as: an overview of multiplexed
microsatellite analysis; High Resolution Melt analysis and
TaqMan-based assays; in situ analysis of variants in single RNA
molecules; the MassARRAY system and Molecular Inversion Probes;
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis, Paralogue Ratio Test, and
Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification; long-range PCR
combined with PacBio sequencing; Targeted Locus Amplification;
Multilocus Sequence Typing and rapid SNP detection with
pyrosequencing; and genotyping-by-sequencing for plant analysis.
Finally, the volume concludes with a summary of pertinent points to
describe genetic variation. Written in the highly successful
Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include
introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary
materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible
laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding
known pitfalls. Thorough and practical, Genotyping: Methods and
Protocols is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning
more about the diverse field of genotyping.
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