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Action movie starring former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista as a
disgraced ex-cop trying to get to the bottom of a murder he is the
prime suspect for. Ray (Bautista)'s career has followed an unusual
trajectory. Both an ex-cop and now, having been released from
prison, an ex-con, Ray struggles to find work and finally takes a
job as a bouncer for a strip club called The House of the Rising
Sun. When the son of the club's owner, Vinnie (Lyle Kanouse), is
found murdered, Ray's boss, Tony (Dominic Purcell), suggests that
Ray use his policing skills to track down the killer. However, the
police themselves are on the case and already have a killer firmly
in mind: Ray.
The position of low skilled workers in the labour market has
deteriorated significantly over the past three decades. What has
caused this deterioration in low skilled labour demand and what can
explain the different labour market responses throughout the OECD?
Mark Sanders addresses these questions and evaluates proposed
policies to improve upon the present situation and prevent further
deterioration in the future. The author develops a theoretical
framework that produces two hypotheses to explain the shift in
relative demand as well as the different ways in which this shift
has manifested itself. The framework is then extended by
introducing unemployment, and additional hypotheses are proposed to
explain the main EU-US differences. The dynamics thus uncovered
yield somewhat unorthodox policy implications on income-, labour
market and technology policies in Europe and the US. This
comprehensive book will appeal to both scholars and academics,
whilst graduate and PhD-students looking for an accessible
introduction to modelling the dynamics of technical change and its
interactions with the labour market will find it of great interest.
Learn effective ways to assess and evaluate reference services in
YOUR library Innovation and the constant evolution of technology
continually spur academic librarians to find superior ways to
deliver high quality reference service to students, faculty, and
researchers. Reference Assessment and Evaluation offers librarians
and administrators a plethora of fresh ideas and methods to
effectively assess and evaluate reference service in any academic
library. Leading experts share their own best practices in
delivering digital reference, training staff and student workers,
and providing instruction through case studies from academic
libraries of all sizes. Because of fiscal pressures, the need to
attract the best and brightest students and faculty to the academy,
and increased competition from Internet search engines, the
evaluation and assessment of reference service remains one of the
most important challenges for academic libraries. Reference
Assessment and Evaluation provides practical tips and clear
examples on assessing and evaluating several diverse aspects of
reference services. This book discusses in detail case studies from
various colleges and universities on wide-ranging issues such as
virtual reference evaluation, merging reference desks, peer
evaluations, library instruction, and staff development. Academic
libraries of all types will find opportunities to modify these
innovative ideas to remain at the forefront of reference service.
Topics in Reference Assessment and Evaluation include: a case study
of the library at the University of Colorado at Boulder's efforts
to implement a drop-in research consultation program for students
enrolled in the introductory writing course coordination of an
annual professional development program for specialized instruction
targeted at faculty and staff members at Colorado State University
peer observation between the reference staff members of Augustana
College Library and St. Ambrose University Library the merging of
San Jose State University's government publication desk with the
reference services deskalong with the public library's reference
desk Valparaiso University's main library's training and use of
student assistants analyzing user and librarian satisfaction within
virtual reference transactions evaluation of the University of
South Alabama's Baugh Biomedical Library's chat reference service
evaluation of the University of Texas at Arlington's virtual
reference service library technology's impact on reference desk
statistics statistical analysis of reference desk data for staffing
needs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Reference
Assessment and Evaluation is timely, important reading for academic
references librarians and supervisors.
This is an introductory guide to the work of a major contemporary
theorist that includes an interview with Spivak herself. "Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory" offers a concise, comprehensive
and accessible introduction to the themes central to the thought of
one of the world's most provocative and original theorists. The
book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice,
with deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and issues of
postcoloniality and globalization, and makes clear the extent of
her impact in the fields of postcolonial and literary theory. In
this engaging and stimulating book, Mark Sanders explores the
questions Spivak has posed with increasing regularity in recent
years: What is the responsibility in today's world of the literary
reader? What specifically does a training in the literary habit of
reading bring to political and intellectual responsibility? Can
reading lead to a responsible form of global or transnational
literacy? The book includes a new interview with Spivak herself, in
which she discusses the key themes in her work as well as future
writing plans. "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory" is a key
resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker.
This open access book is an outcome of the EU's Horizon 2020
project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial
Society' (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal
analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the
authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with
valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe's
entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and
the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing
entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.
This open access book builds on the European Union's (EU) Horizon
2020 project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an
Entrepreneurial Society' (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe
can move towards more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth
through reforms that will rekindle its entrepreneurial spirit.
Based on decades of research and countless discussions with
stakeholders, the book also features the FIRES project's full list
of policy interventions and institutional reforms that can help
policymakers make that agenda a reality.
Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play,
communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have
systematically explored these changes in light of their
implications for individual and social welfare. How can we
conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human
well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of
disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation of
technology and its social, psychological, and political effects,
and a philosophical analysis and evaluation of the implications of
such effects.
Ethics and Phenomenology is a collection of essays that explore the
relationship between moral philosophy and the phenomenological
tradition. Phenomenology is a vast and rich philosophical tradition
which seeks to explain how we perceive the world. This, in turn,
involves questions about one s relationship to the world and how
one both acts and should act in the world. For this reason
phenomenology entails an ethics, even if such an ethics is not
always apparent in the work of phenomenological thinkers . The book
is devoted to two central tasks: Section One offers essays
exploring the resources available to moral philosophy in the work
of the major phenomenologists of the 20th-century, including
Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others. Part Two
consists of essays demonstrating the way that the phenomenological
method can facilitate advances in our thinking through the
exploration of contemporary ethical issues, including
environmentalism, intellectual property, parenting and others.
Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play,
communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have
systematically explored these changes in light of their
implications for individual and social welfare. How can we
conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human
well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of
disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation of
technology and its social, psychological, and political effects,
and a philosophical analysis and evaluation of the implications of
such effects.
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the
language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu,
Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover
how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a
battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation.
Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a
complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu
saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans,
Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of
Zulu-language learning-from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo
among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to
widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to
teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white
appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African
culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity.
In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly
and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English-
and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as
the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South
Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language,
Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics infl
uence all individuals in a multilingual society.
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years of genetics teaching and research expertise, authors Mark
Sanders and John Bowman use an integrated approach that helps
contextualize three core challenges of learning genetics: solving
problems, understanding evolution, and understanding the connection
between traditional genetics models and more modern approaches.
Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach, 2/e is extensively
updated with relevant, cutting-edge coverage of modern genetics and
is supported by MasteringGenetics, the most widely-used homework
and assessment program in genetics. Featuring expanded assignment
options, MasteringGenetics complements the book's problem-solving
approach, engages students, and improves results by helping them
master concepts and problem-solving skills.
This book is dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and recovery
of African Americans with substance use disorders. African
Americans are disproportionately represented in the addictions,
criminal justice, and child welfare systems. It is clear that, when
their culturally specific needs are not met, they are vulnerable to
continuous relapse and the revolving door syndrome. There has been
little written that focuses exclusively on prevention, treatment,
and recovery among African Americans. This book was written to fill
this gap. It is an important contribution to the field of
behavioral health, providing a much-needed treasure trove of
important knowledge from specialists, including physicians,
psychologists, educators, social workers, addictions counselors,
public health specialists, researchers, the clergy, as well as
individuals in recovery. This volume adds significantly to the
knowledge base of practitioners and researchers whose work focuses
on prevention, treatment, and recovery in African American
communities. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
This book is dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and recovery
of African Americans with substance use disorders. African
Americans are disproportionately represented in the addictions,
criminal justice, and child welfare systems. It is clear that, when
their culturally specific needs are not met, they are vulnerable to
continuous relapse and the revolving door syndrome. There has been
little written that focuses exclusively on prevention, treatment,
and recovery among African Americans. This book was written to fill
this gap. It is an important contribution to the field of
behavioral health, providing a much-needed treasure trove of
important knowledge from specialists, including physicians,
psychologists, educators, social workers, addictions counselors,
public health specialists, researchers, the clergy, as well as
individuals in recovery. This volume adds significantly to the
knowledge base of practitioners and researchers whose work focuses
on prevention, treatment, and recovery in African American
communities. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
This open access book is an outcome of the EU's Horizon 2020
project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial
Society' (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal
analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the
authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with
valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe's
entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and
the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing
entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.
This open access book builds on the European Union's (EU) Horizon
2020 project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an
Entrepreneurial Society' (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe
can move towards more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth
through reforms that will rekindle its entrepreneurial spirit.
Based on decades of research and countless discussions with
stakeholders, the book also features the FIRES project's full list
of policy interventions and institutional reforms that can help
policymakers make that agenda a reality.
The Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser is a
comprehensive examination of the former US Poet Laureate's
long-time contribution to American letters. For many years,
Kooser's work, while well-regarded among regional audiences in the
Midwest and Great Plains, had been considered quaint and provincial
by readers elsewhere. This attitude largely changed circa 1980 with
the publication of Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, when
Kooser's work began to receive national readership. In this new
critical study, Mark Sanders, a long-time critic, publisher, and
supporter of Great Plains poetry, compiles a comprehensive overview
and evaluation of Kooser's poetic legacy. The Weight of the Weather
gathers numerous criticisms, book reviews, reflections, and
interviews that span Kooser's long poetic career, including work by
a number of critics and fellow poets-Dana Gioia, David Baker, and
Jonathan Holden among them. The book endeavors to balance early
appraisals of Kooser's work, from 1980 and before, through his
contemporary success and popularity. Kooser, a Presidential
Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA,
served as US Poet Laureate from 2004-2006; among his many
collections of poetry is Delights & Shadows which won the 2005
Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Long-noted for his poetry's
accessibility, clarity, and precision, Kooser's poetry has too
often been compartmentalized as regional or pastoral; The Weight of
the Weather changes that perspective. Indeed, Kooser's work is
universally American, deeply ingrained in the poetic traditions of
Whitman, Frost, Williams, Stafford, and Stevens.
The first book to explore the complex relationship between law and
literature in testimony to crimes of apartheid before South
Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, "Ambiguities of
Witnessing" closely analyzes key individual testimonies. Whereas
most existing books on this and other truth commissions are weighed
down by abstract legal and philosophical discussion, this book does
justice to witnesses' public testimony in a fascinating and
theoretically sophisticated investigation of questions of human
rights, mourning, forgiveness, and reparation. Framed by the
personal, "Ambiguities of Witnessing" also meditates on what it
means for the writer to respond to this epochal event in the
history of post-apartheid South Africa.
"Meet the Artists" presents an extraordinary collaborative project
between Jake and Dinos Chapman, George Condo and Paul McCarthy. It
came about when the four artists were invited by the London arts
agency, RS&A, to collaborate on the creation of eight paintings
and a set of etchings over a period of one year. The project was
commenced in March 2006, when one large canvas, one small canvas
and one etching plate were delivered to each artist's studio. The
collaborators were given a month to work before their paintings and
etching plates were collected and rotated to the next artist in a
prearranged sequence. Each canvas and etching plate rotated four
times in total so that each participating artist had the chance to
be first, second, third and fourth in the sequential makeup of a
single painting and etching plate. An exquisite corpse for four of
today's most interesting living artists.
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the
language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu,
Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover
how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a
battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation.
Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a
complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu
saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans,
Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of
Zulu-language learning--from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo
among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to
widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to
teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white
appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African
culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity.
In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly
and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English-
and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as
the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South
Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language,
Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics
influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the
language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu,
Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover
how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a
battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation.
Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a
complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu
saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans,
Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of
Zulu-language learning-from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo
among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to
widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to
teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white
appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African
culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity.
In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly
and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English-
and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as
the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South
Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language,
Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics
influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
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