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In rural and sparsely populated countries, telemedicine can be a
vital and life-saving link to health care, and in those regions
where demands on hospitals are ever increasing, it can provide a
safe and comfortable alternative to hospital-based therapy. The
second edition of this introductory guide to telemedicine and
telecare services is invaluable to new practitioners in this
growing field of medicine. The book describes the benefits of
telemedicine and highlights the potential problems. The authors
provide numerous examples of how telemedicine is used in the United
States, Australia, and Scandinavia.
Written by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United
States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S.
Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to
understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in
the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies
that have pursued the Civil War's connections with Europe and the
Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly
Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the
West. As the United States went through its Civil War and
Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a
four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain's North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
Drawing primarily from Suffolk sources, this book explores the
development and place of Protestantism in early modern society,
defined as much in terms of its practice in local communities as in
its more public pronouncements from those in authority. Using
detailed analysis of four communities, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds,
Thetford and Hadleigh, John Craig explores the responses and
initiatives of these towns to the question of the Reformation in
the 16th century. A fascinating picture emerges of the
preoccupations and priorities of particular groups. The political
goals and consciousness of townsmen and tradesmen are examined, and
the problems of analyzing the evidence for ascribing religious
motivations to urban factions are highlighted. The case of Hadleigh
addresses some aspects of the connection often made between the
growth of Protestantism and the incidence of social division and
conflict. These local studies provide the basis for a broader
perspective on urban reformation in East Anglia.
Drawing primarily from Suffolk sources, this book explores the
development and place of Protestantism in early modern society,
defined as much in terms of its practice in local communities as in
its more public pronouncements from those in authority. Using
detailed analysis of four communities, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds,
Thetford and Hadleigh, John Craig explores the responses and
initiatives of these towns to the question of the Reformation in
the 16th century. A fascinating picture emerges of the
preoccupations and priorities of particular groups. The political
goals and consciousness of townsmen and tradesmen are examined, and
the problems of analyzing the evidence for ascribing religious
motivations to urban factions are highlighted. The case of Hadleigh
addresses some aspects of the connection often made between the
growth of Protestantism and the incidence of social division and
conflict. These local studies provide the basis for a broader
perspective on urban reformation in East Anglia.
For an august and important institution of the realm, whose
activities concern every citizen so constantly and continuously, is
it not surprising how little every citizen knows of the London Mint
in detail? In this 1953 book its story up until the 1950s is told
with unimpeachable authority by Sir John Craig, former Deputy
Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint and Engraver of the King's
Seals. Any reader may follow the chronology of the Mint, from the
many crude workshops of the early days to the central, nationally
recognised organisation with statutory safeguards that it has
become. Here they may read of those who influenced the growth and
policy of the Mint, watch the development of monetary theory, as
well as the changes in technical processes of coin making, and the
gradual evolution of statutory control. The whole work is
illustrated from the archives of the Mint.
Half-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez
fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S.
Army s elite the Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded
in Vietnam, he was told he would never walk again. Benavidez not
only conquered his disability but demanded to return to combat.On
his second tour, when twelve of his comrades on a secret CIA
mission in Cambodia were surrounded by hundreds of North Vietnamese
regulars, Benavidez volunteered to rescue them. Despite severe
injuries suffered in hand-to-hand combat, Benavidez personally
saved eight men. His actions ensured his everlasting place as one
of the great heroes of the war. In February 1981, President Reagan
awarded him the Medal of Honor.
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century
United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of
the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that
seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century
crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other
studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe
and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America,
particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous
states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War
and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged
a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
Insight into the minds and methods of 'godly' ministers - early
nonconformists - who sought to modify the Elizabethan settlement of
religion. At the heart of Elizabeth I's reign, a secret conference
of clergymen met in and around Dedham, Essex, on a monthly basis in
order to discuss matters of local and national interest. Their
collected papers, a unique survival from the clandestine world of
early English nonconformity, are here printed in full for the first
time, together with a hitherto unpublished narrative by the Suffolk
minister, Thomas Rogers, which throws a flood of light on similar,
ifmore public, clerical activity in and around Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk, during the same period. Taken together, the two texts
provide an unrivalled insight into the minds and the methods of
that network of 'godly' ministers whose professed aim was to modify
the strict provisions of the Elizabethan settlement of religion,
both by ceaseless lobbying and by practical example. The editors'
introduction accordingly emphasizes the complex nature of the
English protestant tradition between the Tudor mid-century and the
accession of James I, as well as attempting to plot the
politico-ecclesiastical developments of the 1580s in some detail. A
comprehensive biographical register of the members of the Dedham
conference, of the Bury St Edmunds lecturers, and of many other
important names mentioned in the texts, completes the volume.
PATRICK COLLINSON is Regius Professor of Modern History, University
of Cambridge;JOHN CRAIG is associate professor at Simon Fraser
University; BRETT USHER is an expert on Elizabethan clergy.
For senior-yearundergraduate and first-year graduate courses in
robotics. An intuitiveintroduction to robotic theory and
application Since its originalpublication in 1986, Craig's
Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics andControl has been the leading
textbook for teaching robotics at theuniversity level. Blending
traditional mechanical engineering material withcomputer science
and control theoretical concepts, the text covers a range oftopics,
including rigid-body transformations, forward and inverse
positionalkinematics, velocities and Jacobians of linkages,
dynamics, linear andnon-linear control, force control
methodologies, mechanical design aspects, androbotic programming.
The 4th Edition featuresa balance of application and theory,
introducing the science and engineering ofmechanical
manipulation-establishing and building on foundational
understandingof mechanics, control theory, and computer science.
With an emphasis on the computationalaspects of problems, the text
aims to present material in a simple, intuitive manner.
Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early
American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the
inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison. In "Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early
American West," John Craig Hammond looks beyond elite leadership
and examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of
western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate
of slavery and freedom in the West between 1790 and 1820.
By shifting focus away from high politics in Philadelphia and
Washington, Hammond demonstrates that local political contests and
geopolitical realities were more responsible for determining
slavery's fate in the West than were the clashing proslavery and
antislavery proclivities of Founding Fathers and politicians in the
East. When efforts to prohibit slavery revived in 1819 with the
Missouri Controversy it was not because of a sudden awakening to
the problem on the part of northern Republicans, but because the
threat of western secession no longer seemed credible.
Including detailed studies of popular political contests in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri that
shed light on the western and popular character of conflicts over
slavery, Hammond also provides a thorough analysis of the Missouri
Controversy, revealing how the problem of slavery expansion shifted
from a local and western problem to a sectional and national
dilemma that would ultimately lead to disunion and civil war.
Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840
has wholly revised historians' understanding of the problem of
slavery in American politics. "Contesting Slavery" builds on the
best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in
revolutionary America and the early republic.
The original essays collected here analyze the Revolutionary era
and the early republic on their own terms to produce fresh insights
into the politics of slavery before 1840. The collection forces
historians to rethink the multiple meanings of slavery and
antislavery to a broad array of Americans, from free and enslaved
African Americans to proslavery ideologues, from northern farmers
to northern female reformers, from minor party functionaries to
political luminaries such as Henry Clay.
The essays also delineate the multiple ways slavery sustained
conflict and consensus in local, regional, and national politics.
In the end, "Contesting Slavery" both establishes the abiding
presence of slavery and sectionalism in American political life and
challenges historians' long-standing assumptions about the place,
meaning, and significance of slavery in American politics between
the Revolutionary and antebellum eras.
"Contributors" Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria *
David F. Ericson, George Mason University * John Craig Hammond,
Penn State University, New Kensington * Matthew Mason, Brigham
Young University * Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of
Technology * James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center * Peter S. Onuf,
University of Virginia * Robert G. Parkinson, Shepherd University *
Donald J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley,
Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian
Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University,
Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva
Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University
If we had no other writings from Mr. Craig than Book of Petite
Wisdoms, it would be enough: They reveal a poet at the peak of his
profession, and still ascending. How possible? Read this volume to
find out. The first of four, it telescopes its revelation into
seven little 14-syllable lines of wisdom per stanza. 100 stanzas in
all. And the revelation? A mystical vision: How out of his Infinite
Love God allows Man to not only ascend to Him, but become Him.
Sharing this vision with that found in the poetry of Walt Whitman,
St. John of the Cross, Hafiz, Rumi, Plotinus, and others, the Book
of Petite Wisdoms is no spectator sport, it invites you the reader
to ascend as well: "Kiss me," one poem urges us, "Crack the layers
of chalk imprisoning your soul. It's not me you're kissing after
all --it's the God in you released to make love to everything your
senses present..."
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