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This issue will include articles on Nerve Repair and Nerve
Grafting, Nerve Regeneration, Nerve Transfers to Restore Shoulder
Function, Nerve Transfers to Restore Elbow Function, and many more!
This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the
gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific
research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide
interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and
metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century
life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to
science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on
Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse
methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth
century was an important moment in the Western understanding and
perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to
the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the
emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are
often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout
a range of cultural productions.
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and
popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy
worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman,
owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and
one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender,
and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of
the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their
masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays
in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always
match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely
absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by
these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn't
fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore
explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s
on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range
disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the
people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans
considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern
Methodist University.
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and
professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam.
Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of
integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis
for the first time. Military service, especially service in
Vietnam, helped shape modern black culture and fostered a sense of
black solidarity in the Armed Forces. But as the war progressed,
racial violence became a major problem for the Armed Forces as they
failed to keep pace with the sweeping changes in civilian society.
Despite the boasts of the Department of Defense, personal and
institutional racism remained endemic to the system. Westheider
tells this story expertly and accessibly by providing the history
and background of African American participation in the U.S. Armed
Forces then following all the way through to the experience of
African Americans returning home from the Vietnam war.
Based on original research, this book disputes the notion that
information management is a recent phenomenon. It traces its
origins to the period 1945-1951, when the post-war Labour
government, and its media architect, Herbert Morrison, moved from
an idealistic commitment to open communication towards the
pragmatic relationship with the media with which we are now
familiar. In the process this government laid the foundations for
the politics of spin. This book is indispensible to an
understanding of the way contemporary governments communicate.
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Heart of Darkness (Paperback, New edition)
Joseph Conrad; Introduction by Gene M. Moore; Notes by Gene M. Moore; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van
Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's
shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror
which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations.
Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in
the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing
effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European
and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in
some individuals. The other two stories in this book - Youth and
The End of the Tether - concern the sea and those who sail upon it,
a genre in which Conrad reigns supreme.
This handy pocket book will help veterinary nurses with all types
of calculations. Numerous worked examples are included to delelop
the reader's confidence in carrying out the procedures involved.
Each type of calculation has its own separate section in the book
and the authors have used the simplest possible method in
explaining each one. The book is structured such a way that the
reader can progress from a simple explanation of the arithmetic
principles involved, to the application of these principles to
essential veterinary calculations.
Qualified veterinary nurses and students alike will fine this
book an invaluable reference source, whether performing relevant
veterinary calculations or studying for professional
examinations.
Key Features
Convenient size
Ideal as a self-teaching manual
Accessible and user-friendly style
Includes worked examples, self-test exercises and answers where
appropriate
The papers collected here were originally presented at a conference
on multinational culture held at Hofstra University to explore the
sociocultural impacts of the transformation to a global economy.
Written by a distinguished group of contributors from Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, the essays
address such questions as: Which particular changes have already
taken root? How can we assess the efficacy of interventions by
nation states and transnational authorities? How are the globe's
resources being managed and how should they be managed in the
future? Specific topics explored include government policies and
their relationship to multinational activities, the formation and
regulation of international capital, labor market segmentation and
protectionism, managing multinationals without sacrificing ethical
standards or profits, environmental impacts, and the language,
legal, gender, and race dimensions of a global economy. Following a
general introduction, the volume is divided into six groups of
chapters, each of which examines a specific aspect of global
transition. The contributors first look at the more general issues
of global movements and global policies, with articles on critical
social movements and the future of the global political economy,
the evolution of multinational public policy towards business, and
the implications of internationalization for development and
welfare in the Third World. The next section describes
globalization's reach into the arenas of monetary policy, banking,
financing, and debt. Subsequent chapters look at the explicit and
implict prejudices and differences that can undermine or enhance
our global experience, present case studies of the contradictory
imperatives between indigenous culture and globalization, affirm
the importance of collective action in protecting labor and the
environment, and consider the controversial and multifaceted nature
of technology transfer. The diversity of topics and perspectives
presented make this an ideal set of supplemental readings for
advanced level courses in development economics, political economy,
and international economics.
This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality.
Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies
and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of
consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex
education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital
age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child
protection and safeguarding in the context of risk, danger and
harm, they also argue that where these stifle children's sexual
knowledge, understanding, expression and experience, they
contribute to a climate of fear, ignorance and bad experiences or
harms. What is necessary is to balance safeguarding with enabling,
and encourage judicious understandings that advance from a rigid
developmental model to one that recognises pleasure and excitement
in children's nascent sexual lives. Exploring that balance through
their chosen issues, they seek to encourage changed thinking in
professional, personal and academic contexts, and speculate that
children might teach adults something about the way they think
about sex. Childhood and Sexuality will be of interest to students,
scholars and professionals across a range of subjects and
disciplines including sociology, social work, criminology, and
youth studies.
Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations
of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply
entwined with their religious, community, and individual
identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements
of African American culture in the centuries-long journey from
slavery to freedom. It also continued to play this role in blacks'
post-emancipation odyssey from second-class citizenship to full
equality. Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in
Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the
end of slavery to the present day. The music's creators, consumers,
and distributors are all part of the story. Musical genres such as
spirituals, ragtime, the blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues,
rock, soul, and hip-hop—as well as black contributions to
classical, country, and other American music forms—depict the
continuities and innovations that mark both the music and the
history of African Americans. A rich selection of documents help to
define the place of music within African American communities and
the nation as a whole.
From solar panels to synthetic biology, an
accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the
global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging technologies are changing
China's relationship with the world, and what it means for
governments, companies, and organizations across the globe. Ever
since China began its ascendancy to great-power status in the
1980s, observers have focused on its growing economic, military,
and diplomatic power. But in recent years, Chinese officials,
businesses, and institutions have increased their visibility and
influence on every major global issue, from climate change and
artificial intelligence to biotechnology and the global Covid-19
pandemic. How have these newer issues changed China's relationship
with the world? And, importantly, how can we prepare for a future
increasingly shaped by China? In China's Next Act, Scott M. Moore
re-envisions China's role in the world, with a focus on
sustainability and technology. Moore argues that these increasingly
pressing, shared global challenges are reshaping China's economy
and foreign policy, and consequently, cannot be tackled without
China. Yet sustainability and technology present opportunities for
intensified economic, geopolitical, and ideological competition-a
reality that Beijing recognizes. The US and other countries must do
the same if they are to meet ecological and technological
challenges in the decades ahead. In some areas, like clean
technology development, competition can be good for the planet. But
in others, it could be catastrophic-only cooperation can lower the
risks of artificial intelligence and other disruptive new
technologies. In this clearly written and accessible overview,
Moore examines how countries like the US must balance cooperation
and competition with China in response to shared challenges. With
an emphasis on opportunities as well as threats, Moore addresses
not only key developments in sustainability and technology within
China, but also their implications for foreign countries,
companies, and other organizations. China's influence on
sustainability and technology is both global and granular-and
twenty-first century China itself looks more like a network than a
nation-state. Featuring original interviews and an in-depth look at
Chinese government policy, China's Next Act provides a unique-and
uniquely balanced-window into these new dimensions of China's
global ascension.
Two Naval Reservists called to duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis
suddenly find themselves caught in a life and death struggle
against an unknown enemy. Are the Russians responsible for their
plight? Or are they fighting someone far more sinister?
Detection of Drugs and Their Metabolites in Oral Fluid presents the
analytical chemistry methods used for the detection and
quantification of drugs and their metabolites in human oral fluid.
The authors summarize the state of the science, including its
strengths, weaknesses, unmet methodological needs, and cutting-edge
trends. This volume covers the salient aspects of oral fluid drug
testing, including specimen collection and handling, initial
testing, point of collection testing (POCT), specimen validity
testing (SVT), and confirmatory and proficiency testing. Analytes
discussed include amphetamines, cannabinoids, cocaine, opiates,
phencyclidine, cannabimimetics, and miscellaneous drugs. This
practical guide helps users turn knowledge into practice, moving
logically from an outline of the problem, to the evaluation of the
appropriateness of oral fluid as a test medium, and finally to a
consideration of detection methods and their validation and
employment.
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century
alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass
killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social
progress, so that perversions were always related either to
degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later
Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their
repression under the demands of modern European civilization.
Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked
within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence,
crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained
its currency in European thought after the Second World War as
Freudian-influenced accounts of the history of philosophy
configured the Marquis de Sade as a kind of Kantian "superego" in a
framework that viewed the Western Enlightenment as unraveled by its
own inner demons. In this way, a straight line was imagined from
the late eighteenth century to the Holocaust. These ideas have had
an ongoing legacy in debates about sexual perversion, feminism,
genocide representation, and historical memory of Nazism. However,
recent genocide research has massively debunked assumptions that
perpetrators of mass violence are especially sexually motivated in
their cruelty. This book considers how the late twentieth-century
imagination eroticized Nazism for its own ends, but also how it has
been informed by nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of
mass violence as a sexual problem.
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than
African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance
explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined
challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired,"
black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and
faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security.
Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and
lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. These
difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally
entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimination. New
federal programs offered hope as they redefined government's
responsibility for its citizens, but local implementation often
proved racially discriminatory. As Cheryl Lynn Greenberg makes
clear, African Americans were not passive victims of economic
catastrophe or white racism; they responded to such challenges in a
variety of political, social, and communal ways. The book explores
both the external realities facing African Americans and individual
and communal responses to them. While experiences varied depending
on many factors including class, location, gender and community
size, there are also unifying and overarching realities that
applied universally. To Ask for an Equal Chance straddles the
particular, with examinations of specific communities and
experiences, and the general, with explorations of the broader
effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political
organizing.
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there
were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United
States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best
embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans.
Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow era, Randolph was by
his thirtieth birthday a prime mover in the movement to expand
civil, social, and economic rights in America. A Socialist and a
radical, Randolph devoted his life to energizing the black masses
into collective action. He successfully organized the all-black
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the March on Washington
Movement during the Second World War. In this engaging new book,
historian Andrew E. Kersten explores Randolph's significant
influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights
leader. Kersten pays particular attention to Randolph's political
philosophy, his involvement in the labor and civil rights
movements, and his dedication to improving the lives of American
workers.
Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview of
the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth
of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and
tracing the story through its growth in America. Noted author and
historian Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions
provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for
cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial
freedom. At the same time, Harvey covers the ongoing tug-of-war
between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an
African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority of
African Americans; and the critique of the adoption of the "white
man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The
book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions
in churches that attracted congregants of widely disparate
educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there
were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United
States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best
embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans.
Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow era, Randolph was by
his thirtieth birthday a prime mover in the movement to expand
civil, social, and economic rights in America. A Socialist and a
radical, Randolph devoted his life to energizing the black masses
into collective action. He successfully organized the all-black
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the March on Washington
Movement during the Second World War. In this engaging new book,
historian Andrew E. Kersten explores Randolph's significant
influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights
leader. Kersten pays particular attention to Randolph's political
philosophy, his involvement in the labor and civil rights
movements, and his dedication to improving the lives of American
workers.
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and
popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy
worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman,
owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and
one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender,
and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of
the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their
masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays
in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always
match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely
absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by
these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn't
fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore
explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s
on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range
disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the
people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans
considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern
Methodist University.
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