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A convincing argument that mass incarceration neither reduces crime
nor ensures safety Over two million people are incarcerated in
America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975.
Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending
people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and
other changes in the legal system have contributed to this
spectacular rise of the general prison population. After overseeing
the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows
first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In
Downsizing Prisons, he convincingly argues that mass incarceration
will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public
safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer.
This unique book provides the first comprehensive overview of wood
based bioenergy in the northern hardwood forests of the Eastern
United States. This includes a holistic look at the topic of wood
based bioenergy, as well as focused analyses of key topics. This
book is relevant to engineers, project developers, foresters,
economists, sociologists, environmental scientists and natural
resource managers. Most chapters also provide practical hands-on
advice for the practitioner, and provide a valuable resource for
anyone who is considering developing a woody bioenergy project.
Few things are as certain as societal changes-and the pressing need
for educators to prepare students with the knowledge and ways of
thinking necessary for the challenges in a changing world. In the
forward-thinking pages of Designs for Learning Environments of the
Future, international teams of researchers present emerging
developments and findings in learning sciences and technologies at
the infrastructure, curricular, and classroom levels. Focusing on
ideas about designing innovative environments for learning in areas
such as biology, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and computer
science, the book surveys a range of learning technologies being
explored around the world-a spectrum as diverse as digital media,
computer modeling, and 3D virtual worlds-and addresses challenges
arising from their design and use. The editors' holistic
perspective frames these innovations as not only discrete
technologies but as flexible learning environments that foster
student engagement, participation, and collaboration. Contributors
describe possibilities for teaching and learning in these and other
cutting-edge areas: Working with hypermodels and model-based
reasoning Using visual representations in teaching abstract
concepts Designing strategies for learning in virtual worlds
Supporting net-based collaborative teams Integrating innovative
learning technologies into schools Developing personal learning
communities Designs for Learning Environments of the Future will
enhance the work of a wide range of professionals, including
researchers and graduate students in the learning and cognitive
sciences, and educators in the physical and social sciences.
This unique book provides the first comprehensive overview of wood
based bioenergy in the northern hardwood forests of the Eastern
United States. This includes a holistic look at the topic of wood
based bioenergy, as well as focused analyses of key topics. This
book is relevant to engineers, project developers, foresters,
economists, sociologists, environmental scientists and natural
resource managers. Most chapters also provide practical hands-on
advice for the practitioner, and provide a valuable resource for
anyone who is considering developing a woody bioenergy project.
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Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 11th International Conference, ACNS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, June 25-28, 2013. Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Michael Jacobson, Michael Locasto, Payman Mohassel, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network
Security, ACNS 2013, held in Banff, Canada, in June 2013. The 33
revised full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 192 submissions. They are organized in topical
sections on Cloud Cryptography; Secure Computation; Hash Function
and Block Cipher; Signature; System Attack; Secure Implementation -
Hardware; Secure Implementation - Software; Group-oriented Systems;
Key Exchange and Leakage Resilience; Cryptographic Proof;
Cryptosystems.
Pell's Equation is a very simple Diophantine equation that has
been known to mathematicians for over 2000 years. Even today
research involving this equation continues to be very active, as
can be seen by the publication of at least 150 articles related to
this equation over the past decade. However, very few modern books
have been published on Pell's Equation, and this will be the first
to give a historical development of the equation, as well as to
develop the necessary tools for solving the equation.
The authors provide a friendly introduction for advanced
undergraduates to the delights of algebraic number theory via
Pell's Equation. The only prerequisites are a basic knowledge of
elementary number theory and abstract algebra. There are also
numerous references and notes for those who wish to follow up on
various topics.
Few things are as certain as societal changes-and the pressing
need for educators to prepare students with the knowledge and ways
of thinking necessary for the challenges in a changing world. In
the forward-thinking pages of Designs for Learning Environments of
the Future, international teams of researchers present emerging
developments and findings in learning sciences and technologies at
the infrastructure, curricular, and classroom levels.
Focusing on ideas about designing innovative environments for
learning in areas such as biology, engineering, genetics,
mathematics, and computer science, the book surveys a range of
learning technologies being explored around the world-a spectrum as
diverse as digital media, computer modeling, and 3D virtual
worlds-and addresses challenges arising from their design and use.
The editors' holistic perspective frames these innovations as not
only discrete technologies but as flexible learning environments
that foster student engagement, participation, and collaboration.
Contributors describe possibilities for teaching and learning in
these and other cutting-edge areas:
- Working with hypermodels and model-based reasoning
- Using visual representations in teaching abstract concepts
- Designing strategies for learning in virtual worlds
- Supporting net-based collaborative teams
- Integrating innovative learning technologies into schools
- Developing personal learning communities
Designs for Learning Environments of the Future will enhance the
work of a wide range of professionals, including researchers and
graduate students in the learning and cognitive sciences, and
educators in the physical and social sciences.
Pell's Equation is a very simple Diophantine equation that has
been known to mathematicians for over 2000 years. Even today
research involving this equation continues to be very active, as
can be seen by the publication of at least 150 articles related to
this equation over the past decade. However, very few modern books
have been published on Pell's Equation, and this will be the first
to give a historical development of the equation, as well as to
develop the necessary tools for solving the equation.
The authors provide a friendly introduction for advanced
undergraduates to the delights of algebraic number theory via
Pell's Equation. The only prerequisites are a basic knowledge of
elementary number theory and abstract algebra. There are also
numerous references and notes for those who wish to follow up on
various topics.
Biography of Arthur Friederich Schulz. Born in Strasburg
Prussian-occupied France in 1891. Arthur lived during one of the
most important periods in German history and pivotal periods in
European and World history. Arthur was an athlete, soldier,
industrialist, party-member, and father.
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length
publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the
edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of
writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human
observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a
crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these
observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an
essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a
calligrapher's hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating
with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest
undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars;
it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal,
finally ending in a postliterate condition in which visual language
has superseded words. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is
compiled and edited by Tim Gaze from Asemic magazine and Michael
Jacobson from The New Post-Literate blog. Contributors include:
Reed Altemus, mIEKAL aND, Rosaire Appel, Francesco Aprile, Roy
Arenella, Derek Beaulieu, Pat Bell, John M. Bennett, Francesca
Biasetton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Tony Burhouse & Rob Glew, Nancy
Burr, Riccardo Cavallo, Mauro Cesari, Peter Ciccariello, Andrew
Clark, Carlfriedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Patrick Collier, Robert
Corydon, Jeff Crouch, Marilyn Dammann, Donna Maria Decreeft,
Alessandro De Francesco, Monica Dengo, Mirtha Dermisache, Bill
Dimichele, Christian Dotremont, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Mark
Firth, Eckhard Gerdes, Mike Getsiv, Jean-Christophe Giacottino,
Marco Giovenale, Meg Green, Brion Gysin, Jefferson Hansen, Huai Su,
Geof Huth, Isidore Isou, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen,
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Rashid Koraishi, Irene Koronas, Edward
Kulemin, Le Quoc Viet & Tran Tr?ng Duong, Jim Leftwich, Misha
Magazinnik, Matt Margo, Andre Masson, Nuno de Matos, Willi
Melnikov, Morita Shiryu, Sheila E. Murphy, Nguyen Duc Dung, Nguyen
Quang Thang, Pham Van Tuan, Francois Poyet, Kerri Pullo, Lars Px,
Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Roland Sabatier, Ekaterina Samigulina &
Yuli Ilyshchanska, Alain Satie, Karen L. Schiff, Spencer Selby,
Peggy Shearn, Ahmed Shibrain, Gary Shipley, Christopher Skinner,
Helene Smith, Lin Tarczynski, Morgan Taubert, Andrew Topel, Cecil
Touchon, Louise Tournay, Tran Tr?ng Duong, Lawrence Upton, Sergio
Uzal, Marc van Elburg, Nico Vassilakis, Glynda Velasco, Simon
Vinkenoog, Vsevolod Vlaskine, Cornelis Vleeskens, Anthony Vodraska,
Voynich Manuscript, Jim Wittenberg, Michael Yip, Logan K. Young,
Yorda Yuan, Camille Zehenne, Zhang Xu, & others."
"Well, I can't believe I'm doing this, but here I go. Into the
abyss..."
With these words, Alex Markham begins writing the story of his
deceased older brother. David was a star, beloved by many, but
understood by few.
Now his story has fallen into the hands of the younger brother who
spent his whole life in David's shadow. But for Alex, this is not a
tribute. It's a chance to tell the world the real story...the dark
story. The one no one knows. The one no one wants to know.
For only Alex knew the real David Markham...the man behind the
fame, the booze, and the drugs. But maybe...just maybe...not even
Alex knew the real David.
What will ensue as he writes is a journey of discovery...not only
of David's life, but of his own as well.
Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the
earth's changing climate has become a new science. Earth Systems
Science is the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic
global change, such as chemically forced global climate change. The
work is aimed at those students interested in the emerging
scientific discipline.
Earth Systems Science is an integrated discipline that has been
rapidly developing over the last two decades. New information is
included in this updated edition so that the text remains relevant.
This volume contains five new chapters, but of special importance
is the inclusion of an expanded set of student exercises.
The two senior authors are leading scientists in their fields and
have been awarded numerous prizes for their research efforts.
* First edition was widely adopted
* Authors are highly respected in their field
* Global climate change, integral to the book, is now one of the
most important issues in atmospheric sciences and oceanography
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Salt Wars (Hardcover)
Michael Jacobson
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How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have
successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels
of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have
linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's
been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as
many as 100,000 deaths deaths and many billions of dollars in
avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt is everywhere
in our diets--in packaged foods, fast foods, and especially meals
at table-service restaurants. Why hasn't salt received the sort of
public attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In
Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry
and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government
efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food. Despite
an abundance of research going back more than half a century
showing that high-sodium diets lead to hypertension and other ills,
a few scientists argue the opposite--that American consume a
healthy amount of salt and that eating less would increase the risk
of cardiovascular disease. This "man bites dog" take on sodium
confused consumers and was enthusiastically taken up by food
industry lobbyists. Jacobson, a salt wars combatant for more than
forty years, explains what science actually says about salt intake
and rebuts "sodium skeptics." He discusses what other countries are
doing to cut dietary salt, and describes some recent victories in
the United States. He advises readers how to reduce salt--warning
them against "salt bombs" (Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, for
example, packs an entire day's worth of sodium in one can)--and
calls on them to suit up for the next battle in the salt wars.
Over 2 million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and
jails, eight times as many since 1975. At current incarceration
rates, an African American born in the U.S. today has a 30 per cent
chance of spending some time in prison. Mandatory minimum
sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to
prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in
the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the
general prison population. After overseeing the largest city jail
system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner
workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons, he
convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have
claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety. Simply put,
throwing away the key is not the answer. Given the dire budget
shortfalls facing most states, there really is no choice: we no
longer have the revenue to continue prison expansion while
simultaneously supporting education, health care, and lower taxes.
Downsizing Prisons examines specific ways that states have begun to
transform their prison systems. Jacobson offers practical policy
solutions and strategies, including: changing how parole and
probation agencies operate, significantly reducing punitive
sentencing and technical parole violations, and supporting
drug-treatment programs for low-level drug offenders. These policy
changes can actually increase public safety as well as save money.
As our prison populations swell to record levels, it is clear that
the time to reform our prison system has come. Downsizing Prisons
offers a clear and persuasive plan of action.
Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the
occasional expose, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of
us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for
prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory
constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and
inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an
ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its
structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors
to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader
and narrower ramifications. Some argue that despite the problems
facing the practice of incarceration as punishment, a professional
ethic for prison officers and staff can be constructed and
implemented. Others, however, despair of imprisonment and even
punishment, and reach instead for alternative ways of healing the
personal and communal breaches constituted by crime. The result is
a provocative contribution to practical and professional ethics.
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