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This book will assemble the views of many of the world's experts in
the field of viruses and diabetes. It will look critically at some
unanswered questions, in the field. Among these, How do viruses
destroy or modify the pancreatic islet? Which viruses are involved?
What is the role of virus-induced cytokines> Could vaccines
prevent virus-induced diabetes? Until recent technological
advances, progress in the understanding of the relationship between
viruses and diabetes has been hampered. New technologies are
helping shed new light on these mysteries. This will be the first
comprehensive volume on this topic.
In Selected Poems, Keith Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper
Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers
a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid
in the imagination, that have achieved a life beyond their first
appearance on the page. With the signature charm and insight that
have made him a beloved poet for nearly fifty years, Taylor dives
into the wilderness of his life, in canoe and on foot. Across the
decades, he reflects on what it means to be a painter, a writer, an
observer of life's ordinary beauties; on encountering a bear in the
Michigan woods; on the evolution of hitchhiking and the lives of
saints; on his transfixion with Doreen dancing at his grade
school's show-and-tell; and on the deep and abiding love of a long
marriage. A triumphant celebration of growing up and the life that
comes after, this is a collection not to be missed by fans of
American poetry and all who wander in the wilderness.
Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic
development, an element of the emerging "green economy" destined to
upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and
deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind
energy firms, however, are subsidiaries of the same fossil fuel
companies that wrought havoc in shale-gas and coal-mining towns
from rural Appalachia to the Great Plains. On its own, wind energy
development does not automatically translate into community
development. In Governing the Wind Energy Commons, Keith Taylor
asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to
community well-being rather than corporate profit. He looks to the
promising example of rural electric cooperatives, owned and
governed by the 42 million Americans they serve, which generate $40
billion in annual revenue. Through case studies of a North Dakota
wind energy cooperative and an investor-owned wind farm in
Illinois, Taylor examines how regulatory and social forces are
shaping this emerging energy sector. He draws on interviews with
local residents to assess strategies for tipping the balance of
power away from absentee-owned utilities.
Keith Taylor has undertaken a thorough study of the full range of
writings by the brilliant French thinker Henri Saint-Simon
(1760-1825), including his unpublished manuscripts, and the result
is the first comprehensive and truly representative selection in
English from the works of this founding father of social science
and socialism, whose ideas exerted a formative influence on such
major and diverse intellectual figures as Comte, Proudhon, Marx and
Engels, Herzen, Carlyle and Durkheim. When Saint-Simon's writings
first appeared, they aroused little more than amusement and
curiosity. The ideas they contained - ideas concerning the
application of scientific method to the study of man and society,
the coming of the new 'scientific-industrial' age in which the
State would assume responsibility for promoting social welfare, the
prospects for international cooperation and integration in Europe,
man's need for a secular religion - were widely dismissed. But the
boldness and originality of Saint-Simon's work had a lasting impact
on subsequent thinkers and played a major role in the development
of European social thought throughout the nineteenth and into the
twentieth centuries. Keith Taylor's introductory essay places
Saint-Simon's writings in their proper historical context, offers a
penetrating reassessment of their significance as a contribution to
social theory, and considers the extent of their influence on
modern thought. It indicates the inadequacies of many previous
interpretations of Saint-Simon's thinking, and highlights, in
particular, the tendency of most recent commentators to disregard
some crucial features of his political philosophy. This selection
is an essential insight into a modern understanding of Saint-Simon
from a young English scholar. Nowhere else in English may be found
so wide-ranging a selection from Saint-Simon's writings presenting
such a balanced view of his thought.
First Published in 1982. In this book, Taylor has selected for
special attention the work of Saint-Simon and his disciples (the
SaintSimonians), Owen, Fourier, Cabet, and Weitling - those
thinkers who made the most important contributions to the
development of early socialist theory. The author discusses the
designation of 'utopian' which entered into the conventional
vocabulary of the history of ideas, and is now used almost without
question. This title argues that these thinkers were certainly
utopian in the sense that they sought to describe the structure of
an ideal future society.
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The Seasonal Eye
Keith Taylor
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Veteran environmental tutor and retired countryside ranger Keith
Taylor seeks out spiritual and visual riches as he undertakes a
year travelling to locations that have always intrigued him or may
offer a fresh relationship with the outdoors, both through his own
seasonally aware eyes and those of equally restless colleagues.
Here, in The Seasonal Eye, he takes the reader through extreme
parts of Britain, from the foot of an oak in Savernake Forest,
Wiltshire, to the caves of a Nottingham border ice age sanctuary,
our coastlines and nature reserves now managed by our county
naturalists trusts and the varied terrains of the Cairngorms. This
inquisitive man invites us to join him in his quests to discover
how the compulsion to merge supposition with reality provides a
clearer understanding of the precarious yet adaptive environmental
issues that surround us all.
First Published in 1982. In this book, Taylor has selected for
special attention the work of Saint-Simon and his disciples (the
SaintSimonians), Owen, Fourier, Cabet, and Weitling - those
thinkers who made the most important contributions to the
development of early socialist theory. The author discusses the
designation of 'utopian' which entered into the conventional
vocabulary of the history of ideas, and is now used almost without
question. This title argues that these thinkers were certainly
utopian in the sense that they sought to describe the structure of
an ideal future society.
Keith Taylor has undertaken a thorough study of the full range of
writings by the brilliant French thinker Henri Saint-Simon
(1760-1825), including his unpublished manuscripts, and the result
is the first comprehensive and truly representative selection in
English from the works of this founding father of social science
and socialism, whose ideas exerted a formative influence on such
major and diverse intellectual figures as Comte, Proudhon, Marx and
Engels, Herzen, Carlyle and Durkheim. When Saint-Simon's writings
first appeared, they aroused little more than amusement and
curiosity. The ideas they contained - ideas concerning the
application of scientific method to the study of man and society,
the coming of the new 'scientific-industrial' age in which the
State would assume responsibility for promoting social welfare, the
prospects for international cooperation and integration in Europe,
man's need for a secular religion - were widely dismissed. But the
boldness and originality of Saint-Simon's work had a lasting impact
on subsequent thinkers and played a major role in the development
of European social thought throughout the nineteenth and into the
twentieth centuries. Keith Taylor's introductory essay places
Saint-Simon's writings in their proper historical context, offers a
penetrating reassessment of their significance as a contribution to
social theory, and considers the extent of their influence on
modern thought. It indicates the inadequacies of many previous
interpretations of Saint-Simon's thinking, and highlights, in
particular, the tendency of most recent commentators to disregard
some crucial features of his political philosophy. This selection
is an essential insight into a modern understanding of Saint-Simon
from a young English scholar. Nowhere else in English may be found
so wide-ranging a selection from Saint-Simon's writings presenting
such a balanced view of his thought.
This book will assemble the views of many of the world's experts in
the field of viruses and diabetes. It will look critically at some
unanswered questions, in the field. Among these, How do viruses
destroy or modify the pancreatic islet? Which viruses are involved?
What is the role of virus-induced cytokines> Could vaccines
prevent virus-induced diabetes? Until recent technological
advances, progress in the understanding of the relationship between
viruses and diabetes has been hampered. New technologies are
helping shed new light on these mysteries. This will be the first
comprehensive volume on this topic.
Calling all SAP Business One users! Your must-have handbook is
here. Now updated for SAP Business One 10.0, this bestselling guide
has the expertise you need to keep your business running smoothly.
Whether you're a new hire or a super user, get step-by-step
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to doing your job better in SAP Business One. Highlights Include:1)
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Practical advice for people who are grieving or supporting those
who grieve. There are many practical suggestions for what to say
and what not to say at a time of loss and grief. There are also
many uplifting stories told by grieving people about their time of
loss.
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