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Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among
teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly
little is written about young men's involvement in it. Reporting on
a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men's
involvement in domestic abuse, whether as victims, perpetrators or
witnesses to violent behaviors between adults. Original survey
data, focus group material and in-depth biographical interviews are
used to make the case for a more thoroughgoing engagement with the
meanings young men come to attribute to violent behavior, include
the tendency among many to configure violence within families as
"fights" that call for acts of male heroism. The book also
highlights the dearth of services interventions for young men prone
to domestic abuse, and the challenges of developing responsive
practice in this area. Each section of the book highlights further
online resources that those looking to conduct research in this
area or apply its insights in practice can draw upon.
Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among
teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly
little is written about young men's involvement in it. Reporting on
a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men's
involvement in domestic abuse, whether as victims, perpetrators or
witnesses to violent behaviors between adults. Original survey
data, focus group material and in-depth biographical interviews are
used to make the case for a more thoroughgoing engagement with the
meanings young men come to attribute to violent behavior, include
the tendency among many to configure violence within families as
"fights" that call for acts of male heroism. The book also
highlights the dearth of services interventions for young men prone
to domestic abuse, and the challenges of developing responsive
practice in this area. Each section of the book highlights further
online resources that those looking to conduct research in this
area or apply its insights in practice can draw upon.
Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a
first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group
of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how
theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real
students' writing. Based on the beginning writing program developed
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a course that asks students
to consider what it means to be a literate member of a community,
the essays in the collection explore how students become (and what
impedes their progress in becoming) authorities in writing
situations. Key features of this volume include: * demonstrations
of how research into specific teaching problems (e.g., the problem
of authority in beginning writers' work) can be conducted by
examining student work through a variety of lenses such as task
interpretation, collaboration, and conference, so that instructors
can understand what factors influence students, and can then use
what they have learned to reshape their teaching practices; *
adaptability of theory and research to develop a course that
engages basic writers with challenging ideas; * a model of how a
large writing program can be administered, particularly in regards
to the integration of research and curriculum development; and *
integration of literary and composition theories.
Renowned researchers and writers Jen Lawless and Richard Fox bring
groundbreaking research on gender and politics into the
undergraduate classroom. In this brief, accessibly written text,
the authors focus on the big empirical questions that animate the
study of gender and politics and ask students to think critically
and analytically about these often surprising findings.
The author John L. Fox shares his many years of teaching and
surgery through more than three hundred illustrations and
photographs (including over one hundred in color). Dr. Fox has
published many works on neuroscience and clinical neurosurgery and
is well-known for his color images of live neurosurgical anatomy as
viewed through the operating microscope. Historic techniques,
instrumentation and positioning, photographic techniques, cranial
anatomy and the cranial flap, and intracranial anatomy as seen from
the frontolateral or pterional approach are clearly discussed and
illustrated from the operating (right sided) surgeons' perspective.
The operations seen in this atlas for the main part involve
aneurysms and some tumors. Directed toward neurosurgeons,
neuroscientists, and anatomists, the book is intended to serve as
an atlas of anatomy as well as a guide to clinical neurosurgery.
Changes and additions are sprinkled throughout. Among the
significant new features are: * Markov-chain simulation (Sections
1. 3, 2. 6, 3. 6, 4. 3, 5. 4. 5, and 5. 5); * gradient estimation
(Sections 1. 6, 2. 5, and 4. 9); * better handling of asynchronous
observations (Sections 3. 3 and 3. 6); * radically updated
treatment of indirect estimation (Section 3. 3); * new section on
standardized time series (Section 3. 8); * better way to generate
random integers (Section 6. 7. 1) and fractions (Appendix L,
program UNIFL); * thirty-seven new problems plus improvements of
old problems. Helpful comments by Peter Glynn, Barry Nelson, Lee
Schruben, and Pierre Trudeau stimulated several changes. Our new
random integer routine extends ideas of Aarni Perko. Our new random
fraction routine implements Pierre L'Ecuyer's recommended composite
generator and provides seeds to produce disjoint streams. We thank
Springer-Verlag and its late editor, Walter Kaufmann-Bilhler, for
inviting us to update the book for its second edition. Working with
them has been a pleasure. Denise St-Michel again contributed
invaluable text-editing assistance. Preface to the First Edition
Simulation means driving a model of a system with suitable inputs
and observing the corresponding outputs. It is widely applied in
engineering, in business, and in the physical and social sciences.
Strategies for Quasi-Monte Carlo builds a framework to design and
analyze strategies for randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC). One key
to efficient simulation using RQMC is to structure problems to
reveal a small set of important variables, their number being the
effective dimension, while the other variables collectively are
relatively insignificant. Another is smoothing. The book provides
many illustrations of both keys, in particular for problems
involving Poisson processes or Gaussian processes. RQMC beats grids
by a huge margin. With low effective dimension, RQMC is an
order-of-magnitude more efficient than standard Monte Carlo. With,
in addition, certain smoothness - perhaps induced - RQMC is an
order-of-magnitude more efficient than deterministic QMC. Unlike
the latter, RQMC permits error estimation via the central limit
theorem. For random-dimensional problems, such as occur with
discrete-event simulation, RQMC gets judiciously combined with
standard Monte Carlo to keep memory requirements bounded. This
monograph has been designed to appeal to a diverse audience,
including those with applications in queueing, operations research,
computational finance, mathematical programming, partial
differential equations (both deterministic and stochastic), and
particle transport, as well as to probabilists and statisticians
wanting to know how to apply effectively a powerful tool, and to
those interested in numerical integration or optimization in their
own right. It recognizes that the heart of practical application is
algorithms, so pseudocodes appear throughout the book. While not
primarily a textbook, it is suitable as a supplementary text for
certain graduate courses. As a reference, it belongs on the shelf
of everyone with a serious interest in improving simulation
efficiency. Moreover, it will be a valuable reference to all those
individuals interested in improving simulation efficiency with more
than incremental increases.
Nearly 20 years ago we produced a treatise (of about the same
length as this book) entitled Computing methods for scientists and
engineers. It was stated that most computation is performed by
workers whose mathematical training stopped somewhere short of the
'professional' level, and that some books are therefore needed
which use quite simple mathematics but which nevertheless
communicate the essence of the 'numerical sense' which is exhibited
by the real computing experts and which is surely needed, at least
to some extent, by all who use modern computers and modern
numerical software. In that book we treated, at no great length, a
variety of computational problems in which the material on ordinary
differential equations occupied about 50 pages. At that time it was
quite common to find books on numerical analysis, with a little on
each topic ofthat field, whereas today we are more likely to see
similarly-sized books on each major topic: for example on numerical
linear algebra, numerical approximation, numerical solution
ofordinary differential equations, numerical solution of partial
differential equations, and so on. These are needed because our
numerical education and software have improved and because our
relevant problems exhibit more variety and more difficulty.
Ordinary differential equa tions are obvious candidates for such
treatment, and the current book is written in this sense."
On 1st June 1666, during the second Anglo-Dutch War, a large but
outnumbered English Fleet engaged the Dutch off the mouth of the
Thames in a colossal battle that was to involve nearly 200 ships
and last four days. False intelligence had led the English to
divide their fleet to meet a phantom fleet from France and although
the errant squadron rejoined on the final day of the battle, it was
not enough to redress the balance. More than 1,500 English sailors
were killed, 2,000 taken prisoner and two vice admirals killed. The
battle ended when the English escaped into a fog bank, both fleets
by this time having expended their ammunition. Like many a defeat,
it sparked controversy at the time, and has been the subject of
speculation and debate ever since. The battle was an event of such
overwhelming complexity that for centuries it defied description
and deterred study, but this superbly researched book is now
recognised as the definitive English-language account. First
published in 1996, it provides the only clear exposition of the
opposing forces, fils many holes in the narrative and answers most
of the questions raised by the actions of the English commanders.
The narrative is totally engrossing and worthy of what was the
greatest battle anywhere in the age of sail, and this new paperback
edition will bring the story to new readers who missed the book in
its earlier editions.
Strategies for Quasi-Monte Carlo builds a framework to design and
analyze strategies for randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC). One key
to efficient simulation using RQMC is to structure problems to
reveal a small set of important variables, their number being the
effective dimension, while the other variables collectively are
relatively insignificant. Another is smoothing. The book provides
many illustrations of both keys, in particular for problems
involving Poisson processes or Gaussian processes. RQMC beats grids
by a huge margin. With low effective dimension, RQMC is an
order-of-magnitude more efficient than standard Monte Carlo. With,
in addition, certain smoothness - perhaps induced - RQMC is an
order-of-magnitude more efficient than deterministic QMC. Unlike
the latter, RQMC permits error estimation via the central limit
theorem. For random-dimensional problems, such as occur with
discrete-event simulation, RQMC gets judiciously combined with
standard Monte Carlo to keep memory requirements bounded. This
monograph has been designed to appeal to a diverse audience,
including those with applications in queueing, operations research,
computational finance, mathematical programming, partial
differential equations (both deterministic and stochastic), and
particle transport, as well as to probabilists and statisticians
wanting to know how to apply effectively a powerful tool, and to
those interested in numerical integration or optimization in their
own right. It recognizes that the heart of practical application is
algorithms, so pseudocodes appear throughout the book. While not
primarily a textbook, it is suitable as a supplementary text for
certain graduate courses. As a reference, it belongs on the shelf
of everyone with a serious interest in improving simulation
efficiency. Moreover, it will be a valuable reference to all those
individuals interested in improving simulation efficiency with more
than incremental increases.
Changes and additions are sprinkled throughout. Among the
significant new features are: * Markov-chain simulation (Sections
1. 3, 2. 6, 3. 6, 4. 3, 5. 4. 5, and 5. 5); * gradient estimation
(Sections 1. 6, 2. 5, and 4. 9); * better handling of asynchronous
observations (Sections 3. 3 and 3. 6); * radically updated
treatment of indirect estimation (Section 3. 3); * new section on
standardized time series (Section 3. 8); * better way to generate
random integers (Section 6. 7. 1) and fractions (Appendix L,
program UNIFL); * thirty-seven new problems plus improvements of
old problems. Helpful comments by Peter Glynn, Barry Nelson, Lee
Schruben, and Pierre Trudeau stimulated several changes. Our new
random integer routine extends ideas of Aarni Perko. Our new random
fraction routine implements Pierre L'Ecuyer's recommended composite
generator and provides seeds to produce disjoint streams. We thank
Springer-Verlag and its late editor, Walter Kaufmann-Bilhler, for
inviting us to update the book for its second edition. Working with
them has been a pleasure. Denise St-Michel again contributed
invaluable text-editing assistance. Preface to the First Edition
Simulation means driving a model of a system with suitable inputs
and observing the corresponding outputs. It is widely applied in
engineering, in business, and in the physical and social sciences.
Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two
widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine
Corps. His Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps and
Courage and Fear: A Primer are considered classic war memoirs.
Drawing on his long experience of being a leader, Fox presents the
six essential elements of leadership that all good leaders employ
to build successful organizations able to cope with any challenge
because they are truly built on loyalty and trust. Impressed by the
manner and methods of his most effective fellow Marines to guide
and direct, Fox defines leadership is defined as having a strong
focus on the strengths of comradeship and its core importance to
all individuals and organizations. In his view, managers are
concerned with the bottom line and making a profit, while leaders
are concerned with their followers, their health, happiness, and
daily lives. Recognition of the sources of leaders is addressed and
followed with a discussion of the principles of leadership and the
historical traits of a leader. The book covers the essential
elements of leadership: care, personality, knowledge, motivation,
commitment, and communication with a chapter on each element.
Finally, Fox provides an account of his personal experience and how
his views about leadership were forged by the Marine Corps and by
the crucible of combat. He provides many examples of leadership
displayed by those with whom he served in battle--his fellow Marine
unit leaders. While draw from a military experience, Fox contends
that his six elements apply to all who want to pursue leadership.
Developed during forty-three years of leading Marines in two wars
and in the peace time, his principles are designed to inspire and
motivate others in all endeavors.
The author has been a railway modeller for many years and he is
also a trained draughtsman. As detailed drawings of current wagons
are difficult to obtain he decided to produce a series of his own
drawings of modern British railway wagons (back as far as the
1980s). The book contains approximately 50 collections of drawings
in 4mm/ft scale with enlarged detail at 8mm/ft or scaled as
appropriate. Each wagon is shown in three elevations, normally over
two pages, most accompanied by a colour detail photographs of each
particular wagon. There is also an appendix of wagon loads to fit
the drawings, which includes Hapag/Lloyd containers, RMC 'Inbulk'
Tank, Charter Rail lorry for KOA wagon and Scorpion light tank for
KFA wagon. Photographs accompany about half the wagons shown in the
appendix.
Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism.
Discover how their interpretations of the Prophets, Writings,
and Megillot can enrich your perspective.
The Haftarah is a potent tool for understanding the values,
ethics, and moral lessons contained in the Torah readings. In this
first-of-its-kind volume, more than eighty women rabbis from the
Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements offer fresh
perspectives on the beloved texts that make up the Haftarah the
Prophets and Writings and the Five Megillot.
Based on readings that are rich in imagery some poetic, some
narrative, some dark and brooding their commentaries include
surprising insights on the stories of Deborah and Yael, David and
Goliath, David and Bathsheva, and the witch of Endor, among many
others. Themes such as Jerusalem as woman, the story of Jonah and
the fish, and other prophetic images are informed and challenged by
this groundbreaking work.
A rich resource, a major contribution to modern biblical
commentary, and the ideal companion to The Women s Torah
Commentary, The Women s Haftarah Commentary will inspire all of us
to gain deeper meaning from the Hebrew scriptures and a heightened
appreciation of Judaism.
Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism. Discover how their
interpretations of the Prophets, Writings, and Megillot can enrich
your perspective. The Haftarah is a potent tool for understanding
the values, ethics, and moral lessons contained in the Torah
readings. In this first-of-its-kind volume, more than eighty women
rabbis from the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist
movements offer fresh perspectives on the beloved texts that make
up the Haftarah—the Prophets and Writings—and the Five
Megillot. Based on readings that are rich in imagery—some poetic,
some narrative, some dark and brooding—their commentaries include
surprising insights on the stories of Deborah and Yael, David and
Goliath, David and Bathsheva, and the witch of Endor, among many
others. Themes such as Jerusalem as woman, the story of Jonah and
the fish, and other prophetic images are informed and challenged by
this groundbreaking work. A rich resource, a major contribution to
modern biblical commentary, and the ideal companion to The
Women’s Torah Commentary, The Women’s Haftarah Commentary will
inspire all of us to gain deeper meaning from the Hebrew scriptures
and a heightened appreciation of Judaism.
Dying is a serious and complicated business. Circumstances
surrounding the sudden death of the author's husband inspired her
to recruit professionals and create a 258-page workbook to use as a
guided tour for end-of-life planning and transitioning after the
loss of a loved one. It is an all-in-one-place to map out wishes
and list legal and financial affairs. The comprehensive
step-by-step checklists and fill-in-the-blanks worksheets that are
in an easy-to-use format, will help guide you through making
decisions, expressing your wishes, encourage conversation,
eliminate confusion, ease the transition, and help protect your
survivors from injustices and victimization that often occurs upon
the death of a loved one. Charlotte invites you to hold her hand as
she navigates you through this process.
In a new approach to environmental photography, Dana Fritz explores
the world's largest enclosed landscapes: Arizona's Biosphere 2,
Cornwall's Eden Project, and Nebraska's Lied Jungle and Desert Dome
at the Henry Doorly Zoo. In these vivaria, plants are grown amid
carefully constructed representations of the natural world to
entertain and educate tourists while also supporting scientific
research. Together, these architectural and engineering marvels
stand as working symbols of our complex relationship with the
environment. Giant terraria require human control of temperature,
humidity, irrigation, insects, weeds, and other conditions to
create otherwise impossible ecosystems. While technical demands
inform the design of these spaces, the juxtapositions of natural
and artificial elements generate striking visual paradoxes that can
go unnoticed. Here Fritz turns away from visitors' prepared sight
lines, revealing alternate views that dispel the illusion of
natural conditions. Inviting questions about what it means to
create and contain landscapes, Terraria Gigantica inspires
contemplation of our ecological future.
The most comprehensive account available of Michael Heizer's art by
a writer and curator who has critical experience with the artist
and his work. Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often least
accessible, American artists. As one of the last living figures who
launched the Land Art movement, his legacy of works that are
literally and metaphorically monumental has an incalculable
influence on the world of sculpture and environmental art. But his
seclusion in the remote Nevada desert, as well as his notorious
obduracy, have resulted in significant gaps in our critical
understanding. Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments spans
the breadth of Heizer's career, uniquely combining fieldwork,
personal narrative, and biographical research to create the first
major assessment in years of this titan of American art. Author
William L. Fox, founding director of the Center for Art +
Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, has alternately been a
sponsor, advocate, and critic of Heizer's work for decades. Fox's
understanding of the artist's history and connection to landscape,
his time spent with Heizer at the remote ranch where Heizer is
finishing his magnum opus - the mile-long sculpture City - and his
access to some of Heizer's key associates give him a unique
position from which to discuss the artist's work. Fox has also made
numerous site visits to Heizer's work - including early pieces in
the Nevada desert now largely lost to the elements - to correct the
often inconsistent accounts of their locations. Last, Fox imparts a
crucial new understanding of Heizer's work by elaborating on the
artist's bond with his father, the famed archaeologist and cultural
ecologist Robert Heizer, who enlisted his son on important digs in
Mexico and Peru, providing the young man with an appreciation of
site, landscape, and geology that would thoroughly inform his work.
Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments is a long overdue
addition to the critical and biographical literature of this major
figure in American art.
"I have only two men out of my company and twenty out of some other
company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it
here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is
on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will
hold." First Lt. Clifton B. Cates's report on July 19, 1918,
reminds us that controlling one's fear is key to success on the
battlefield. Cates-a future commandant of the Marine Corps-held,
but if his fear had bested him, he might not have been able to
think clearly or lead his men successfully, possibly sacrificing
his men's lives and the mission. Medal of Honor recipient and
retired Marine colonel Wesley L. Fox writes about his fears in
difficult operational and training situations, their effect on him,
and he how he handled particular fears. While he focuses primarily
on military experiences, Fox's methods of handling the thoughts,
actions, and reactions to fear apply to civilian circumstances as
well. Fear can bombard us in our daily routine, sometimes in
unexpected ways. The more we know about ourselves and how fear
affects us, the better able we are to control it and to produce
positive results. "If fear is not handled properly and promptly,"
Fox writes, "it can and will override common sense, good judgment,
and the positive decision-making process."
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Are you lacking confidence in your decision-making abilities?
Leaders often have to make challenging decisions, such as how do we
improve employee morale? How do we decrease employee turnover? What
needs to happen to ensure employees and stakeholders feel safe to
return to work during a pandemic? Great leaders understand how to
balance emotion with reason and to make decisions that positively
impact their organizations. Making good decisions in difficult
situations is no small feat. Change, uncertainty, stress, and
anxiety all contribute to this dilemma. The Practical Decision
Maker: A Handbook for Decision Making and Problem Solving, 2nd
edition will help you achieve a high level of confidence and give
you practical tools to make faster and more effective practical
decisions. Decision-making has never been more critical, especially
for today's leaders. Updates to this new edition include additions
to reflect 21st century technology and the divisive times leaders
are in today.
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