Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.

The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the "Master of the Macabre." The authors write about King works that have received little critical attention and aim to open up doorways of analysis and insight that will help readers gain a stronger appreciation for the depth and detail within King's fiction. Indeed, while King is often relegated to the role of a genre writer (horror), the essays in this collection consider the merits of King's writing beyond the basics of horror for which he is primarily known. Recommended for scholars of literature, horror, and popular culture.

The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the "Master of the Macabre." The authors write about King works that have received little critical attention and aim to open up doorways of analysis and insight that will help readers gain a stronger appreciation for the depth and detail within King's fiction. Indeed, while King is often relegated to the role of a genre writer (horror), the essays in this collection consider the merits of King's writing beyond the basics of horror for which he is primarily known. Recommended for scholars of literature, horror, and popular culture.

First published in 1986, The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching explores the subject and importance of anti-racist education. The book examines the relationship between the educational debate at the level of academic institutions, professional organisations, and local education authorities within the context of the actual practice of teaching. It also questions how to link anti-racist theories put forward by theorists and activists to the practice of teachers. The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching is a detailed discussion of the history of racism and of anti-racist teaching and education.

How much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
"The Google Guys" skips past the general Google story and focuses on what really drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt shows the company as the brainchild of two brilliant individuals and looks at Google's business decisions in light of its founders' ambition and beliefs.
Larry is the main strategist, with business acumen and practical drive, while Sergey is the primary technologist and idealist, with brilliant ideas and strong moral positions. But they work closely together, almost like complementary halves of a single brain.
Through interviews with current and former employees, competitors, partners, and senior Google management, plus conversations with the founders themselves, Brandt demystifies the company while clarifying a number of misconceptions.

The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to the nation's cultural designs, themes, and motifs. The study suggests that U.S. literary and cultural practice is permeated by 'moveable designs'-flexible, yet constant features of hegemonial practice that constitute an integral element of American national self-fashioning. The naturally pervasive liminality of U.S. cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of American culture. Moveable Designs looks at artistic expressions across various media types (literature, paintings, film, television), seeking to illuminate critical phases of U.S. American literature and culture-from the revolutionary years to the movements of romanticism, realism, and modernism, up to the postmodern era. It combines a wide array of approaches, from cultural history and social anthropology to phenomenology. Connecting an analysis of literary and cultural texts with approaches from design theory, the book proposes a new way of understanding American culture as design. It is one of the unique characteristics of American culture that it creates-or, rather, designs-potency out of its inner conflicts and apparent disunities. That which we describe as an identifiable 'American identity' is actually the product of highly vulnerable, alternating processes of dissolution and self-affirmation.

In the past few years, the concept of "liminality" has become a kind of pet theme within the discipline of Cultural Studies, lending itself to phenomena of transgression and systemic demarcation. This anthology employs theories of liminality to discuss Canada's geographic and symbolic boundaries, taking its point of departure from the observation that "Canada" itself, as a cultural, political, and geographic entity, encapsulates elements of the "liminal." The essays comprised in this volume deal with fragmented and contradictory practices in Canada, real and imagined borders, as well as contact zones, thresholds, and transitions in Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian texts, discussing topics such as the U.S./Canadian border, migration, French-English relations, and encounters between First Nations and settlers.

More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence patterns of urban development. While infrastructure is as old as cities, technological changes and public policies on taxation and regulation produce new issues worthy of analysis, ranging from megaprojects and greenhouse gas emissions to involuntary resettlement. This volume, based on the 2012 seventh annual Land Policy Conference at the Lincoln Institute, brings together economists, social scientists, urban planners, and engineers to discuss how infrastructure issues impact low-, middle-, and high-income countries.
Infrastructure drives economic and social activities. For urban areas, the challenges of balancing economic growth with infrastructure development and maintenance are reflected in debates about finance, regulation, and location and about the sustainable levels of infrastructure services. Relevant sectors include energy (electricity and natural gas); telecommunications (phone lines, mobile phone service, and Internet); transportation (airports, railways, roads, waterways, and seaports); and water supply and sanitation (piped water, irrigation, and sewage collection and treatment).
Recent research shows that inadequate infrastructure is associated with income inequality. This is likely linked to the delivery of infrastructure services to households, such as direct health benefits, improved access to education, and enhanced economic opportunities. Because so much infrastructure is energy intensive, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative impacts must address services such as electric power and transport. Bringing the management of infrastructure up to levels of good practice has a large economic payoff, and performance levels vary dramatically between and within countries. A crucial unmet challenge is to convince policy makers and voters that large economic returns can result from improving infrastructure performance and maintenance.

Herz- und kreislaufwirksame Medikamente spielen in Anasthesie, Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Indikationsstellung und Dosierung oder auch die Kombination von Medikamenten mussen sich einerseits am Stand des heutigen Wissens, andererseits aber an Art und Ausmass von kardiovaskularen Erkrankungen und Vorerkrankungen orientieren. Das vorliegende Buch stellt das Ergebnis einer interdisziplinaren Bestandsaufnahme dar, welche die pathophysiologischen und pharmakologischen Grundlagen, aber auch die heute zu empfehlenden Behandlungsstrategien fur die unterschiedlichen kardiovaskularen Krankheitsbilder vermittelt.

Die Zahl einschlagiger Publikationen zur "Totalen Intravenosen Anasthesie" (TIVA) nimmt taglich zu. Vergleichende Untersuchungen wurden durchgefuhrt zwischen Thiopental oder Methohexital, Etomidat, Propofol, Midazolam zur Narkoseeinleitung, zur kontrollierten Sedierung wahrend Regionalanasthesie, zur totalen intravenosen Anasthesie mit unterschiedlichen Opiaten und Muskelrelaxanzien, bei Erwach senen oder Kindern, bei stationaren oder ambulanten Patienten, in der Neurochirurgie, der Kardiochirurgie oder anderen Fachgebieten, mit unter schiedlichen Infusionsgeschwindigkei ten. Haben wir uns bisher besonders intensiv mit High-flow-, Low-flow- oder Minimal-flow-Anasthesien auseinandergesetzt, wird mit der Diskussion urn die TIVA an den "Grundfesten" der Zufuhr von Inhalationsanasthetika wie Lachgas, Enfluran, Isofluran etc. geruhrt. Es lag daher nahe, eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme durchzufUhren und zugleich eine Antwort auf folgende Fragen zu versuchen: Was ist im Rahmen derTIVA sicher, was vorteilhaft, aber auch, was nicht oder unzulanglich gesichert, deshalb ungewiB und moglicherweise gefahrlich? Die Referate beschiiftigen sich mit den Substanzen, die fur eine TIVA prinzipiell zur Verfugung stehen, untersuchen, ob sie fUr eine solche Aufgaben stellung geeignet sind, gehen der Frage nach, mit welchen Opiaten oder Relaxanzien ggf. kombiniert werden sollte, urn optimale Effekte zu erzielen. Dabei durfen nicht nur die Vorteile, sondern mussen auch die Nachteile offengelegt werden. Ein Beitrag befaBt sich mit der Frage, ob aus dem Abgehen von jeglicher Form einer Inhalationsanasthesie (mit Ausnahme von Sauerstoff bzw. Luft) auch andere Erfordernisse der Pramedikation oder der Konfiguration der Anasthesiegerate resultieren."

Die in der Anasthesie gebrauchlichen Pharmaka sind hochwirksame chemische Substanzen, die potentiell lebensgefahrlich sind. Der sichere und kritische Umgang des Anasthesisten mit diesen Substanzen ist die Voraussetzung fur optimale Patientensicherheit. Nur durch offene Diskussion und standigen Erfahrungsaustausch uber aktuelle Entwicklungen lasst sich dieser Sicherheitsstandard weiter optimieren. Im Sinne dieser Zielsetzung vermittelt das vorliegende Buch zunachst das notwendige pharmakologische Basiswissen zum Verstandnis der Medikamentenwirkung und moglicher Komplikationen. Auf dieser Grundlage aufbauend werden in der Anasthesie haufig verwendete Pharmaka mit ihrem speziellen Wirkspektrum sowie moglichen unerwunschten Effekten und denkbaren Interaktionen mit anderen Arzneimitteln vorgestellt. Patientenimmanente Risikofaktoren, die sich durch spezielle Vorerkrankungen ergeben, werden selbstverstandlich berucksichtigt und sind integraler Bestandteil der Erorterung.

Wahrend die Herstellung und Speicherung der meisten komprimierten Gase keine prinzipiellen Schwierigkeiten mehr bereitet, nimmt das Acetylen eine besondere Ausnahmestellung ein. Sie ist dadurch bedingt, dass das Acetylen als stark exotherme Verbindung leicht und unter hoher Warme- entwicklung in seine Elemente Kohlenstoff und Wasserstoff zerfallen kann. Dadurch kann sich Acetylen auch in Abwesenheit von Luft oder Sauerstoff unter Umstanden unter explosionsartigen Erscheinungen zersetzen. Die Zer- setzung tritt besonders dann leicht auf, wenn das Acetylen unter erhoeh- tem Druck steht. Je nach der Groesse der Behalter ergeben sich verschiede- ne untere Explosionsgrenzen fur den Druck, so dass bei normalen Gefassdi- 1 mensionen Acetylen von uber 1,4- 1,5 ata schon gefahrlich ist ) Es war daher von vornherein nicht moeglich, Acetylen wie andere Gase in Stahlflaschen komprimiert in den Verkehr zu bringen. Auf der anderen Sei- te bedingten die zahlreichen Anwendungsmoeglichkeiten des Acetylens die Notwendigkeit, eine entsprechende Speichermoeglichkeit fur das Acetylen zu schaffen. Eine solche Moeglichkeit ergab sich, als durch Claude und 2 Hess ) im Aceton ein ausgezeichnetes Loesungsmittel fur Acetylen gefun- den wurde. Nach ihren Feststellungen loest bei normalem Druck 1 1 Aceton ca. 25 1 Acetylen auf. Weiterhin stellten sie fest, dass die Loeslichkeit proportional mit dem Druck zunimmt. Daruber hinaus wurde schon von ihnen festgestellt, dass die Zersetzli- keit des Acetylens in der Loesung wesentlich geringer als die des gasfoer- migen Acetylens der gleichen Konzentration ist. Eingehendere Versuche hieruber wurden von Barthelot und Vieille3) angestellt.

Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."

Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy have driven Amazon to the top of the online retail world.

Richard Brandt charts Bezos's rise from computer nerd to world- changing entrepreneur. His success can be credited to his forward-looking insights and ruthless business sense. Brandt explains:
Why Bezos decided to allow negative product reviews, correctly guessing that the earned trust would outweigh possible lost sales.
Why Amazon zealously guards some patents yet freely shares others.
Why Bezos called becoming profitable the "dumbest" thing they could do in 1997.
How Amazon.com became one of the only dotcoms to survive the bust of the early 2000s.
Where the company is headed next.

Through interviews with Amazon employees, competitors, and observers, Brandt has deciphered how Bezos makes decisions. The story of Amazon's ongoing evolution is a case study in how to reinvent an entire industry, and one that anyone in business today ignores at their peril.