"Corporate reform" is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. Public education in America is worth almost a trillion dollars a year. Whereas American public education is a democratic institution, its destruction is being choreographed by a few wealthy, well-positioned individuals and organizations. This book investigates and exposes the handful of people and institutions that are often working together to become the driving force behind destroying the community public school.

Just like Scheherazade, undercover agents talk to save their lives. If they put in a poor performance, they don't see the curtain rise again. ART OF DARKNESS pries open the virtuoso identity techniques practiced by undercover operatives, fugitives, disguise artists, pranksters, con artists, and federally protected witnesses. It draws on original interviews with undercover operators in order to show how identity artists on both sides of the law obtain fake ID, develop a disguise, build a cover story, maintain believability in street performances, and deal with threats to their identities-all without formal acting training. ART OF DARKNESS inhabits the grey areas of morality as it exposes identity roleplays at the borders of lawfulness. In it you'll find stories of: law-enforcement workers who adopt the techniques of criminals in order to catch them but somehow get caught up in their own trick identities; self-defined artists whose work also has a criminal dimension; criminal informants who masterfully play sides and roles against each other; and hoaxsters and impersonators who may perform trick identities primarily for gain but do so with tremendous inventiveness and a directorial consciousness. This book may explode any remaining notion you harbor that you are not at some level a member of the intelligence community, discerning who is "for real" and who is presenting a self for personal gain.

In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information, and they cannot manage and improve care without improved information management. Patient Care Information Systems examines how to design and implement these systems so they successfully meet the needs of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. In one convenient reference, the authors summarize and synthesize previously disparate research and case experiences on these systems and suggest future directions based on the evolving demands of administrators and caregivers.

Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching social milieu in a few salient strokes and creating almost unbearably intense moments of dramatic suspense, he has for over thirty years been riveting the attention of viewers on the suffering of such oppressed groups as the aged (Siberia), the mentally challenged (No Room for Idiots) and the workingmen and women in thrall to corrupt corporations (One Everyman). The two plays offered here, In the Lions' Den and The Panther, fall well within the purview of Mitterer's social concerns, portraying as they do, respectively, the plight of the Jews in the Third Reich and, once again, the aged in contemporary society. Yet they also reveal a deeper and more personal thematic vein having to do with the intimate symbiosis of language and individual identity. In Lions' Den the Jewish protagonist Kirsch affects Tyrolean dialect to create an Aryan persona for survival purposes, in effect corroborating the idealist doctrine, esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived, as this or that). You are what you can persuade others you are, and God help you if your powers of persuasion fail you! In The Panther the old man's self-image, his very sense of himself, erodes with the chipping-away of age at his memory of the lines that make up Rilke's immortal Dinggedicht. In both plays the bedrock ordering of experience imposed by language is strained to the breaking point, leaving the protagonists teetering on the brink of the abyss that looms just beyond personal identity. Of his own life the self-effacing Felix Mitterer has said: "Its only unusual aspect is that I became a writer, that I was saved and others weren't". His words allude obliquely to the grinding poverty and backbreaking work he had to endure labouring on the farms of the Tyrol as he grew up. They also convey his solidarity with those "others" who could not make it out of the Alpine ghetto and suggest his deep commitment to make their plight, and that of other oppressed groups, the driving force of his dramatic art. Felix Mitterer has done what all true artists do, transformed his personal demons into angels of art. And in tracing, through that art, the correspondence between his own demons and those of society, he masters them, not only in himself but in the receptive viewer (or reader) as well.

Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns of human behavior and the operations of government, and the conditions under which even relatively minor crises can lead to system breakdown.

History of Modern Biotechnology, devided into two volumes (69 and 70), is devoted to the developments in different countries. N.W.F. Kossen: The Morphology of Filamentous Fungi.- H. Bockeer, W.A. Knorre: Antibiotica Research in Jena from Penicillin and Nourseothricin to Interferon.- K. Schugerl: Development of Bioreaction Engineering.- R. Katzen, G.T. Tsao: A View of the History of Biochemical Engineering.- J. M. Woodley: Selected Advances in Enzyme Technology.- H.R. Bungay: Computer Applications in Bioprocessing.- W. Beyeler, E. DaPra, K. Schneider: Automation of Industrial Bioprocesses.-"

In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information, and they cannot manage and improve care without improved information management. Patient Care Information Systems examines how to design and implement these systems so they successfully meet the needs of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. In one convenient reference, the authors summarize and synthesize previously disparate research and case experiences on these systems and suggest future directions based on the evolving demands of administrators and caregivers.

Die schnelle und effiziente Realisierung innovativer Dienstleistungen stellt zunehmend einen Erfolgsfaktor fur die Wettbewerbsfahigkeit von Dienstleistungsunternehmen dar. Dienstleistungen werden in der Praxis jedoch oft "ad hoc," d.h. ohne systematische Vorgehensweise, entwickelt. Das Konzept des "Service Engineering" beschreibt Vorgehensweisen, Methoden und Werkzeugunterstutzung fur die systematische Planung, Entwicklung und Realisierung innovativer Dienstleistungen. Ziel des Buches ist es, Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern gleichermassen einen Uberblick uber den aktuellen Kenntnisstand wie auch uber zukunftige Tendenzen im Service Engineering zu geben. Die Beitrage wurden fur die Neuauflage aktualisiert, zusatzlich wurden Beitrage namhafter Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis in wichtigen, aber bislang unbesetzten Themenfeldern aufgenommen. "

Contested Spaces is an edited collection of critical ethnographies that examine the educational experiences of adults as cultural practice. These practices take place in diverse settings -- from the formal and subtly negotiated educational contexts of school classrooms, parent or adult education programs; to the institutionally interstitial realms of a worker training program, Bible study class, prison yoga class, or refugee resettlement program; to fluid and explicitly contested everyday spaces: an LGBTQ choir, a public parade, or Latinx cultural programming.The compilation includes twelve richly rendered case studies written from the perspective of “practitioner-ethnographers” -- individuals who straddle the roles of educator and ethnographic researcher. A central premise of the book is that, even as the terrain of adult education is increasingly infused with the aims and ideologies of neoliberal capital, participants in specific educational programs and activities are continuously forging educational alternatives to neoliberal education. Each chapter examines educative practices that either directly contest conventions of adult teaching and learning, and/or subtly challenge conventional ways of understanding the practices of adult teaching and learning. Drawing on distinct theoretical framings, each author illuminates the ways in which adults engaged in teaching and learning participate in cultural practices that necessarily intersect with other dimensions of social life, such as work, recreation, community engagement, personal development, or political action. By juxtaposing ethnographic inquiries of formal and informal learning spaces, as well as intentional and unintended challenges to mainstream adult teaching and learning, Contested Spaces provides new understandings and critical insights into the complexities of adults’ educative experiences.

Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns of human behavior and the operations of government, and the conditions under which even relatively minor crises can lead to system breakdown.

Der Versuch, die offene: Fursorge in der Psychiatrie und ihren Grenzgebieten zu schildern, wurde in der Uberzeugung unternommen, dass der Zeitpunkt fur die allgemeine Einfuhrung dieser neuen Fur sorgeform gekommen ist. Die Geschichte der deutschen Psychiatrie, die Fortschritte im Ausland und das Bedurfnis nach Individualisierung und Rationalisierung des offentlichen Irrenwesens scheinen uns in dieselbe Richtung zn weisen wie die jungste Entwicklung der sozialen Hygierw und Wohlfahrtspflege und die bevorstehende Reform des Strafrechts. Die Darstellung wendet sieh in erster Linie an die un mittelbar beteiligten Irrenarzte, weiter aber an alle Kreise, die an der Geisteskrankenfursorge und den verwandten Fursorgezweigen der psyehiatrischen Grenzgebiete, wie der FursorgP fur Nervenkranke, jugendliehe Psychopatht>n, sittlich Gefahrdete, Trinker, entlassene Straf gefangene u: w. interessiert sind, also an die Arzte, SozialhygiE'niker, ationalukonomen, Verwaltungs-und FursorgebE'amtE'n sowie an die Ver t. n ter dc>r offentlichen und privaten \VohlfahrtspflegP. Im gegenwartigen Zeitpunkt hielten wir es in erster Linie fur ange bracht, die verschiedenen bisher verwirklichten Typen der offenen psychiatrischen Fursorge in Selbstschildenmgen ihrn Urheber zn ver ansdu1ulichen. Hierauf wurde versucht, aus diesen Berichten und einer Ubersicht ubc>r die Verhaltnisse im Ausland an Hand unserer Erfahrungen die allgemeinen Folgerungen zu ziehen und die offene psychiatrische Fursorge nach ihrem inneren Aufbau, ihrem Verhaltnis zn den ubrigen Fursorgezweigen, ihrer Bedeut1mg fiir das Gesell c haftsldwn nnd ihrer Auswirkung auf die prakti; che und wissen: schaftliche PsychiatriP zn beschreiben. Wenn wir dabei das von KoLB im ."

"Corporate reform" is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. Public education in America is worth almost a trillion dollars a year. Whereas American public education is a democratic institution, its destruction is being choreographed by a few wealthy, well-positioned individuals and organizations. This book investigates and exposes the handful of people and institutions that are often working together to become the driving force behind destroying the community public school.

"This is the best study of a single Chinese poet I have seen in decades. And the best study of Du Fu known to me. David Schneider goes beyond previous works in revealing what might be called the source of Du Fu's gravitas. What is especially refreshing is that the author, while making use of well-selected modern authorities to cast light on Du Fu's poetry, is equally careful never to embrace their "theories" fully, with the ancillary danger of anachronism which taints so much contemporary "humanities" scholarship. The combination of empathy and critical thinking here is exemplary. The author writes eloquently and clearly, and is a very fine translator indeed, and gives us some of the very finest translations of Du Fu we now possess." - Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University