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At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted
in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then
exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It
killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in
twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a
century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the
first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its
breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to
reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, "The Great Influenza"
is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us
with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics
looming on our own horizon. John M Barry has written a new
afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the
terrible threat of the avian flu and suggests ways in which we
might head off another flu pandemic.
A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how
judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role
and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of
academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can
affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by
interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial
decision-making: psychological effects, group dynamics, numerical
reasoning, biases, court processes, influences from political and
other institutions, and technological advancement. All can have a
bearing on judicial outcomes. In How Judges Judge: Empirical
Insights into Judicial Decision-Making, Brian M. Barry explores how
these factors, beyond the law, affect judges in their role. Case
examples, judicial rulings, judges’ own self-reflections on their
role and accounts from legal history complement this analysis to
contextualise the research, make it more accessible and enrich the
reader’s understanding and appreciation of judicial
decision-making. Offering research-based insights into how judges
make the decisions that can impact daily life and societies around
the globe, this book will be of interest to practising and training
judges, litigation lawyers and those studying law and related
disciplines.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
Most successful organizations recognize Maintenance Parts and
Procurement as a critical success factor to Asset Management
Excellence and their fundamental supply chain value proposition.
This book works as a guide to all the stakeholders that influence
the success of their Maintenance Parts Operation and their
enterprise's bottom line. Maintenance Parts Management Excellence:
A Holistic Anatomy defines the Maintenance Parts Managements role
in Asset Management Excellence and expands on the importance of the
Parts Inventory Planner role in an organization. It discusses how
to create a unique Maintenance Parts Management Strategy for an
organization and offers insights on the multiple strategies needed
to create and maintain a Maintenance Parts inventory policy. The
book also provides an organized overall approach to creating
Maintenance Parts Management Excellence in an enterprise.
Executives with an organization responsible for the construction,
management, and disposal of all assets classes (plant, equipment,
IT assets), consultants responsible for assignments associated with
optimizing life cycle decisions for clients, maintenance, and
reliability professionals within an organization, will benefit from
this professional plus book. Upper-level undergraduate engineering
students, as well as graduate students of management who focus on
operations management and engineering graduate students addressing
issues of maintenance and reliability engineering, may also be
interested in this book.
A judge's role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges
undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and
their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of
academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can
affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by
interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial
decision-making: psychological effects, group dynamics, numerical
reasoning, biases, court processes, influences from political and
other institutions, and technological advancement. All can have a
bearing on judicial outcomes. In How Judges Judge: Empirical
Insights into Judicial Decision-Making, Brian M. Barry explores how
these factors, beyond the law, affect judges in their role. Case
examples, judicial rulings, judges' own self-reflections on their
role and accounts from legal history complement this analysis to
contextualise the research, make it more accessible and enrich the
reader's understanding and appreciation of judicial
decision-making. Offering research-based insights into how judges
make the decisions that can impact daily life and societies around
the globe, this book will be of interest to practising and training
judges, litigation lawyers and those studying law and related
disciplines.
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Mike Ornstein; Illustrated by Kevin M. Barry
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This book provides excellent techniques for detecting and
evaluating biofilms: sticky films on materials that are formed by
bacterial activity and produce a range of industrial and medical
problems such as corrosion, sanitary problems, and infections.
Accordingly, it is essential to control biofilms and to establish
appropriate countermeasures, from both industrial and medical
viewpoints. This book offers valuable, detailed information on
these countermeasures. It also discusses the fundamentals of
biofilms, relates various substrates to biofilms, and presents a
variety of biofilm reactors. However, the most important feature of
this book (unlike others on the market) is its clear focus on
addressing the practical aspects from an engineering viewpoint.
Therefore, it offers an excellent practical guide for engineers and
researchers in various fields, and can also be used as a great
academic textbook.
This book provides excellent techniques for detecting and
evaluating biofilms: sticky films on materials that are formed by
bacterial activity and produce a range of industrial and medical
problems such as corrosion, sanitary problems, and infections.
Accordingly, it is essential to control biofilms and to establish
appropriate countermeasures, from both industrial and medical
viewpoints. This book offers valuable, detailed information on
these countermeasures. It also discusses the fundamentals of
biofilms, relates various substrates to biofilms, and presents a
variety of biofilm reactors. However, the most important feature of
this book (unlike others on the market) is its clear focus on
addressing the practical aspects from an engineering viewpoint.
Therefore, it offers an excellent practical guide for engineers and
researchers in various fields, and can also be used as a great
academic textbook.
This book explains the formation of biofilm on materials surfaces
in an industrial setting. The authors describe new developments in
understanding of biofilm formation, detection, and control from the
viewpoint of materials science and engineering. The book details
the range of issues caused by biofilm formation and the variety of
affected industries.
This book combines information communication technology (ICT) with
the creative interdisciplinary teaching approach known as STEM
(science, technology, engineering and mathematics). It introduces
STEM and Creative Education and shows (through examples and
creative activities) the importance and impact that ICT has for
STEM and modern education. The book describes the audio visual
classroom, the use of the Internet, Social Networking and STEM and
provides STEM lessons for both the real and virtual worlds.
Instructors will find this unique textbook to be very useful with
students, of various ages, in creative education and engineering
classes. This special book offers something for everyone. It serves
as a guide for teachers in charge of science fairs and creative
classes, especially those which require STEM education. It also
includes activities to help develop creative thinking and
problem-solving skills and prepares students who plan to become
teachers and mentors of the future. Readers in general can
simultaneously enjoy and learn about ICT's impact on STEM and
modern education. In addition, e-learning designers and
administrators who want to introduce e-learning systems into their
organizations can refer to this book as a reference and a resource.
The book complements most e-learning and ICT education books which
generally focus too much on technical issues.
This book explains the formation of biofilm on materials surfaces
in an industrial setting. The authors describe new developments in
understanding of biofilm formation, detection, and control from the
viewpoint of materials science and engineering. The book details
the range of issues caused by biofilm formation and the variety of
affected industries.
The proliferation of social media has altered the way that people
interact with each other - leveling the channels of communication
to allow an individual to be 'friends' with a sitting president. In
a world where a citizen can message Barack Obama directly, this
book addresses the new channels of communication in politics, and
what they offer.
Prominent in Barack Obama's political campaigns and presidency has
been a promise to use social media tools to engage American
citizens in the business of democratic governance, stirring the
hopes of millions who believe in the democratizing potential of
information and communication technology. Yet what has become of
these promises? To what extent have they been realized? Shattering
views of social media as a cure-all for limits on citizen
deliberation and governmental representation, The Social Media
President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement
analyzes the White House's use of Twitter and other online tools
for a wide range of policy initiatives and strategic campaigns.
Drawing on interviews, case studies and social-media content, the
authors provide a bold take on a subject too frequently prone to
exaggerated expectations. By examining presidential campaigns since
1992 and the actions of President Obama since taking office in
2009, a clearer picture emerges about the strengths and weaknesses
of social media for public engagement. In terms of setting national
policy, or getting systematic citizen input, a social media-enabled
future would not only be difficult to implement with foreseeable
technology, it could actually erode democratic institutions of
voting and representation. Yet social media's prominence continues
to grow and it is destined to play an ever-larger role in political
rhetoric, campaign strategies, governance appeals and public
debate. The thoughtful attention the authors provide to the
successes, limitations and missed opportunities of the Obama
Administration should command the interest of concerned scholars,
practitioners and citizens everywhere.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everything you need to know about
one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates 'Easily
our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New
York Times Book Review In 1918, the world faced the deadliest
pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called
Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises,
and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI,
history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in
Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as
many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in
twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a
year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the
Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and
epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and
depth of research, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of
triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering
model as we confront the aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics
looming on the horizon.
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Peter Pan (Paperback)
James M. Barrie; Retold by David Desmond O'flarherty, Mallika Naguran; Artworks by Ludmila Pipchenko
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Life with Peter Pan is hardly dull! The boy who never grows up
takes Wendy and her brothers on a wild adventure. With fairy Tinker
Bell, they fly far, far away to Neverland. There, they live under a
tree with the Lost Boys and hide from the pirates. Follow Peter and
friends in their fantasies until bloodthirsty Hook creeps up. Can
they escape? Tick tick tick ...
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current research,
policy, and practice developments in promoting mental health and
well-being. It offers guidance on developing and delivering mental
health promotion interventions across a variety of settings
internationally. Chapters outline key mental health promotion
concepts, implementation processes, and outcomes through empirical
findings, practical advice based on successful evidence-based
approaches, and templates for action. In addition, chapters answer
key "how" questions on practical implementation as well as the
"whys", providing rationales for mental health promotion and
identifying the key factors and underlying principles that make
these interventions work. The book includes examples of
evidence-based practice with 17 case studies of innovative
interventions from different international settings. These case
studies illustrate the practical aspects of intervention
development and delivery and the realities of implementing policies
and programes outside of controlled research conditions. Topics
featured in this book include: * Interventions that promote gender
equality. * Community empowerment models of mental health
promotion. * Mental health promotion in the home for children and
parents. * Promoting social and emotional learning in schools. *
Addressing stress and promoting mentally healthy workplaces. *
Mental health promotion within primary health care. * Re-orienting
mental health services to mental health promotion for service users
and caregivers. Implementing Mental Health Promotion, Second
Edition, is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and
related professionals, and policymakers as well as graduate
students across such interrelated disciplines as health promotion,
public health, child and school psychology, social work, clinical
psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, health psychology,
educational policy and practice, school nursing, occupational
therapy, school counseling, and family studies.
A comprehensive and breathtakingly illustrated presentation of the
genius of Michelangelo by the world's leading expert on the artist
The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces
both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200
drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural plans
and views, this authoritative examines Michelangelo as "the divine
draftsman and designer" whose work, according to Giorgio Vasari,
embodied the unity of the arts. Carmen C. Bambach delivers a
thorough and engaging narrative of the artist's long career,
beginning with his training under Ghirlandaio and Bertoldo and
ending with his 17-year appointment as chief architect of St.
Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. In each thematic chapter, related
drawings and other works are illustrated and discussed together,
many for the first time, to provide new insights into
Michelangelo's creative process. In addition to St. Peter's, other
featured projects include the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Tomb of
Pope Julius II, and the architecture of the Campidoglio in Rome.
Michelangelo's theories of art are also explored, and new
consideration is given to his personal life and affections and
their effect on his creative output. Magnificent in every way, this
book will be the foremost publication about this remarkable artist
for many years. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of
Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (11/13/17-02/12/18)
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current research,
policy, and practice developments in promoting mental health and
well-being. It offers guidance on developing and delivering mental
health promotion interventions across a variety of settings
internationally. Chapters outline key mental health promotion
concepts, implementation processes, and outcomes through empirical
findings, practical advice based on successful evidence-based
approaches, and templates for action. In addition, chapters answer
key "how" questions on practical implementation as well as the
"whys", providing rationales for mental health promotion and
identifying the key factors and underlying principles that make
these interventions work. The book includes examples of
evidence-based practice with 17 case studies of innovative
interventions from different international settings. These case
studies illustrate the practical aspects of intervention
development and delivery and the realities of implementing policies
and programes outside of controlled research conditions. Topics
featured in this book include: * Interventions that promote gender
equality. * Community empowerment models of mental health
promotion. * Mental health promotion in the home for children and
parents. * Promoting social and emotional learning in schools. *
Addressing stress and promoting mentally healthy workplaces. *
Mental health promotion within primary health care. * Re-orienting
mental health services to mental health promotion for service users
and caregivers. Implementing Mental Health Promotion, Second
Edition, is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and
related professionals, and policymakers as well as graduate
students across such interrelated disciplines as health promotion,
public health, child and school psychology, social work, clinical
psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, health psychology,
educational policy and practice, school nursing, occupational
therapy, school counseling, and family studies.
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