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This book rethinks the basic building blocks of marketing with an
entrepreneurial perspective. Asks questions suing a "what if?"
compass in which the emphasis is on asking the right questions,
rather than finding the right answers. For entrepreneurs looking to
make sense of the many new contributions that have redefined
marketing. NOTE: The print may appear lighter in some copies due to
the print method used.
Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only
book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgensteina
(TM)s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He
introduces and analyzes:
- Wittgensteina (TM)s life and the background to the
Tractatus
- the ideas and text of the Tractatus
- the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy
today,
Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher
in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading
for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
The first book in the new Haunted Handbook line within the popular
America's Haunted Road Trip series, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook
offers a plethora of eerie spots in the Queen City. Each of the
places in Cincinnati Haunted Handbook is presented in a two-page
spread that includes directions, a brief history, details about the
paranormal activity, and advice on seeing it in person. Sites are
organized into sections, including schoolhouses, roads and bridges,
hotels and inns, and others. From the winding curves of the spooky
Buffalo Ridge Road to the ghost of Music Hall, from the moans heard
by the Miamitown bridge to the wispy form that flits through Spring
Grove Cemetery, this book offers creepy hideaways that even
Cincinnati natives don't know about. Equally suitable as a travel
guide or as a diverting read for casual dipping, Cincinnati Haunted
Handbook sorts out what creeps and crawls in the Ohio night.
"Live Like You Were Dying" is the unforgettable story inspired
by Tim McGraw's #1 Country Music song of the same name. It weaves a
tale of the miracles that happen once you stop being so busy with
life that you actually have time to live it.
Millions have embraced the song's lyrics. Now experience the
inspirational story that will touch your heart and soul.
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the
long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean.
Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and
transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly
shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultural development, and
draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland's
national narratives of identity. Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century
Scottish writers are re-examined in this new light. Morris explores
the ways that discourses of "improvement" in both Scotland and the
Caribbean are mediated by the modes of pastoral and georgic which
struggle to explain and contain the labour conditions of
agricultural labourers, both free and enslaved. The ambivalent
relationship of Scottish writers, including Robert Burns, to
questions around abolition allows fresh perspectives on the era.
Furthermore, Morris considers the origins of a hybrid
Scottish-Creole identity through two nineteenth-century figures -
Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. The final chapter moves forward
to consider the implications for post-devolution (post-referendum)
Scotland. Underpinning this investigation is the conviction that
collective memory is a key feature which shapes behaviour and
beliefs in the present; the recovery of the memory of slavery is
performed here in the interests of social justice in the present.
We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that
may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship.
Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public
representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and
increased protection through the criminal justice system. Nonhuman
primates used as research subjects are also gaining limited rights
of personhood in some countries. This book examines how zoo animals
could benefit from that revolution as well. Reviewing zoo law and
politics in the United States, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia,
scholars and zoo directors grapple with how the current law in
those regions of the world impacts zoo animals and how it could be
changed to serve them better. They discuss the ways in which zoo
animals could benefit from some re-worked companion animal law in
the United States; the challenges of reintroductions and their
legal barriers; how we can extend ideas of human research subject
rights to zoo animal research; the stark problems of too few animal
welfare laws in South East Asia; the need for a central governing
body focused solely on exotic captive animals in New Zealand; and
the need for stricter laws preventing the exotic pet problem that
is increasingly affecting both zoos and sanctuaries. The book
starts a dialogue that moves the scholarship about zoos beyond a
general discussion of ethics to a concrete dialogue and set of
suggestions about how to extend legal rights to this group of
animals.
The first book in the new Haunted Handbook line within the popular
America's Haunted Road Trip series, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook
offers a plethora of eerie spots in the Queen City. Each of the
places in Cincinnati Haunted Handbook is presented in a two-page
spread that includes directions, a brief history, details about the
paranormal activity, and advice on seeing it in person. Sites are
organized into sections, including schoolhouses, roads and bridges,
hotels and inns, and others. From the winding curves of the spooky
Buffalo Ridge Road to the ghost of Music Hall, from the moans heard
by the Miamitown bridge to the wispy form that flits through Spring
Grove Cemetery, this book offers creepy hideaways that even
Cincinnati natives don't know about. Equally suitable as a travel
guide or as a diverting read for casual dipping, Cincinnati Haunted
Handbook sorts out what creeps and crawls in the Ohio night.
This book participates in the recovery of the long-obscured
memory of relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. Scottish
connections with slavery remain an uncomfortable area for a nation
that prides itself on ideals of liberty and democracy. However,
post-devolution (post-independence?) Scotland is currently
undertaking a wide-scale re-assessment of its place in the United
Kingdom and the wider world. Therefore, an honest re-examination of
the imperial past plays a vital role in the present.
Situated between historical and literary studies, this book
offers a "cultural history" that explores two main avenues.
Firstly, it develops the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a
forgotten lieu de memoire (Pierre Nora) where Scotland might
reconsider its national narratives that evade issues of empire,
race and slavery. Accordingly, this book re-examines texts from the
Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and maps
them into world-literature perspectives of the Atlantic world. This
includes critical analyses of pastoral and georgic modes in
Enlightenment discourses of "improvement" and "gradual
amelioration" across both Scotland and the Caribbean. Secondly, it
advances the re-conceptualisation of the "British Isles and
Ireland" as "NOWA"- the North Western Atlantic Archipelago. It
argues that the discussion of cultural fusion articulated in
Caribbean theories of creolisation provide a suggestive model for
the future of NOWA. The relations between both Atlantic
archipelagos the Caribbean and NOWA are then explored from a
transnational Atlantic perspective. This both illuminates
discussions of "Mulatto-Scots" from the Caribbean, and reconsiders
the relationship between enslaved and free labourers in the
Atlantic world that serves a politics of emancipation. "
Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only
book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgensteina
(TM)s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He
introduces and analyzes:
- Wittgensteina (TM)s life and the background to the
Tractatus
- the ideas and text of the Tractatus
- the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy
today,
Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher
in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading
for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that
may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship.
Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public
representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and
increased protection through the criminal justice system. Nonhuman
primates used as research subjects are also gaining limited rights
of personhood in some countries. This book examines how zoo animals
could benefit from that revolution as well. Reviewing zoo law and
politics in the United States, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia,
scholars and zoo directors grapple with how the current law in
those regions of the world impacts zoo animals and how it could be
changed to serve them better. They discuss the ways in which zoo
animals could benefit from some re-worked companion animal law in
the United States; the challenges of reintroductions and their
legal barriers; how we can extend ideas of human research subject
rights to zoo animal research; the stark problems of too few animal
welfare laws in South East Asia; the need for a central governing
body focused solely on exotic captive animals in New Zealand; and
the need for stricter laws preventing the exotic pet problem that
is increasingly affecting both zoos and sanctuaries. The book
starts a dialogue that moves the scholarship about zoos beyond a
general discussion of ethics to a concrete dialogue and set of
suggestions about how to extend legal rights to this group of
animals.
In recent years, Raman spectroscopy has undergone a major
transformation from a specialist laboratory technique to a
practical analytical tool. This change was driven on several
parallel fronts by dramatic advances in laser instrumentation,
detectors, spectrometers, and optical ?lter technology. This
resulted in the advent of a new generation of compact and robust
Raman instruments with improved sensitivity and ?exibility. These
devices could be operated for the ?rst time by non-specialists
outside the laboratory envir- ment. Indeed, Raman spectroscopy is
now found in the chemical and phar- ceutical industries for process
control and has very recently been introduced into hospitals.
Handheld instruments are used in forensic and other security
applications and battery-operated versions for ?eld use are found
in envir- mental and geological studies. Simultaneously, major
advances have been seen in the development of powerful processing
methods, some driven by the progress of related spect- scopic
methods such as NIR absorption spectroscopy. Numerous chemometric
packages are available for advanced analysis of data. These do not
require specialist user knowledge (although caution is required in
interpreting - sults) and provide further enhanced sensitivity and
capability to the Raman technique. In this book we focus on two
such major ?elds, biomedical and ph- maceutical. The book is aimed
at life sciences and pharmaceutical re- erships. Accordingly, the
chapter authors emphasize explanatory material with practical
implications rather than focusing on mathematical detail.
In recent years, Raman spectroscopy has undergone a major
transformation from a specialist laboratory technique to a
practical analytical tool. This change was driven on several
parallel fronts by dramatic advances in laser instrumentation,
detectors, spectrometers, and optical ?lter technology. This
resulted in the advent of a new generation of compact and robust
Raman instruments with improved sensitivity and ?exibility. These
devices could be operated for the ?rst time by non-specialists
outside the laboratory envir- ment. Indeed, Raman spectroscopy is
now found in the chemical and phar- ceutical industries for process
control and has very recently been introduced into hospitals.
Handheld instruments are used in forensic and other security
applications and battery-operated versions for ?eld use are found
in envir- mental and geological studies. Simultaneously, major
advances have been seen in the development of powerful processing
methods, some driven by the progress of related spect- scopic
methods such as NIR absorption spectroscopy. Numerous chemometric
packages are available for advanced analysis of data. These do not
require specialist user knowledge (although caution is required in
interpreting - sults) and provide further enhanced sensitivity and
capability to the Raman technique. In this book we focus on two
such major ?elds, biomedical and ph- maceutical. The book is aimed
at life sciences and pharmaceutical re- erships. Accordingly, the
chapter authors emphasize explanatory material with practical
implications rather than focusing on mathematical detail.
Scotland's Transnational Heritage draws on the expertise of
academics, museum professionals and creative practitioners working
together to re-think the way that the transnational histories of
Scotland are being told today. It emphasises Scotland's role in
networks of colonialism and outlines new historical examples of how
Scottish trades and institutions benefitted from Empire. It gathers
examples of contemporary case studies and innovative practices in
storytelling that engage and inform. The book aims to inspire
heritage and museum staff and academics to create new approaches to
these histories, both in Scotland and beyond. Within the current
context of calls to decolonise both the museum and the academy,
this is a timely snapshot of the exciting and diverse work taking
place in the field in Scotland today.
Scotland's Transnational Heritage draws on the expertise of
academics, museum professionals and creative practitioners working
together to re-think the way that the transnational histories of
Scotland are being told today. It emphasises Scotland's role in
networks of colonialism and outlines new historical examples of how
Scottish trades and institutions benefitted from Empire. It gathers
examples of contemporary case studies and innovative practices in
storytelling that engage and inform. The book aims to inspire
heritage and museum staff and academics to create new approaches to
these histories, both in Scotland and beyond. Within the current
context of calls to decolonise both the museum and the academy,
this is a timely snapshot of the exciting and diverse work taking
place in the field in Scotland today.
Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic
representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the
relationship between medium and content in representational art,
which counters currently dominant theories that make attention to
the former inevitably a distraction from attending to the latter.
Through close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels,
Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses
we encounter in representational art; what they are, how they are
made present to us, and how they are created. The result is an
intuitive way of thinking about how these art forms work.
In the rubber industry, one of the most widely practiced processes
is the reinforcement of rubber by particulate fillers, especially
carbon black and silica. This process is of such importance that
more than 99% of rubber products contain fillers, and the research
and development of fillers have become the most widely researched
area in rubber science and technology. This book covers the most
important theoretical and practical aspects of rubber
reinforcement, such as filler basic properties and their
characterization methods, the effect of fillers in polymers, the
processability of compounds, and the properties of filled
vulcanizates. Special chapters deal with applications of fillers in
tires and industrial rubber goods and the reinforcement of silicone
rubbers. Testing methods and their principles, applications, and
limitations are reviewed, with emphasis on the surface activity,
widely accepted as the "third dimension" of filler
characterization, after particle size and structure. This has not
been described in depth in other books on rubber reinforcement. The
effects of fillers on rubber and their mechanisms, which are
important links between filler properties and the performance of
rubber goods, are explained. A guide for selecting the most
appropriate reinforcing systems for specific applications is
provided, taking into account processabilities and properties of
filled compounds and performance of rubber products. With solutions
to many practical problems related to rubber research and
compounding, this book serves as a valuable companion to engineers
and product developers in the rubber industry, material scientists,
and teachers and students in material science and rubber courses.
This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of
religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works
with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist,
his work employs spiritual themes--and, often, traditional
religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible
chapters, Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address
Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's
early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in
Guernica; Picasso's later, fraught relationship with the church,
which commissioned him in the 1950s to paint murals for the Temple
of Peace chapel in France; and the centrality of religious themes
and imagery in bullfighting, the subject of countless Picasso
drawings and paintings.
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