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1914 (DVD)
Clayton Garrett, Steven Spencer, Tom Sinclair, Jonathan Pap, Brian MacDonald, …
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Canadian war drama told in real time. Led by Sergeant Mac Reid
(Clayton Garrett), Canada's 21st Battalion prepare for the fight
ahead at Courcellette during the First World War. With the
impending battle drawing closer, the sergeant must deal with supply
problems and wounded troops while also trying to retrieve an
underage soldier from the front line.
McGuire and Anderson bring the findings of the behavioral
biology of group cooperation to bear on the vexatious problem of
healthcare reform. One of the few certainties that we have is that
the approach of the last 50 years--arguments between advocates of
government or private insurance--has led to intractable gridlock.
It is thus necessary to ask whether the initial assumptions buried
within this controversy might have fatal flaws. In the authors'
views, they do. Our modern society would never tolerate funding of
any other necessity or convenience by such clumsy methods. In
short, McGuire and Anderson contend we must pay for healthcare the
way we pay for food, housing, clothing, and transportation.
McGuire and Anderson begin by examining the flaws embedded in
each side of the current debate. They offer ten postulates around
which any successful system must be devised, and identify the
problems from the perspective of patients, professionals, and
public and private insurance providers. Finally, they apply the
knowledge of the biology of human behavior to the problem of
enhancing group cooperation toward a self-correcting system, which
avoids the current major pitfalls. A workable system, they contend,
will be one that is compatible with human nature; not a perfect
system, but better than we have, and more likely to work than
competing theoretical constructs.
The book details the murders aboard the fishing vessel Investor.
This is the largest unsolved mass murder in Alaska State history.
Eight people were slaughtered, including two small children and the
Captians pregnant wife. The book starts with the actual scene of
the murders and continues on through the lives of those involved as
well as two trials of the suspected killer. The State failed to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their suspect was guilty. The
author was personaly involved with the case from the beginning.
During years of research, evidence was uncovered by the author as
to the identitity of the possiable murderers. New evidence uncovers
legal misconduct, lies, coverups and powerful drug connections. All
of which shed new light on this gruesome crime.
"Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic
Guide for Policymakers" by J. Michael McGuire The challenge
addressed in this book is designing the degree of decentralization
that is most effective in satisfying the basic needs of the poor.
Case studies of decentralization at work in the real world are
presented and analyzed. The aim of this book is to help the reader
who wishes to use decentralization to help implement a basic needs
approach to development. The aim of this book is to help readers
use the decentralization of government functions to implement a
basic needs approach to development. The aim is not to "give the
answer," but rather to provide insight into decentralization as a
process and to help practitioners develop skills in designing their
own decentralization programs.
A volume in Research on Hispanic and Latino Business Series Editors
Michael William Mulnix and Esther Elena Lopez-Mulnix Approximately
25% of Latin Americans live on less than $2 a day, and Latin
America is the most unequal region of the world. Poverty and
inequality cause suffering and slow development. The solution must
include generating an inclusive development process through
satisfying the basic needs of the poor that enhance their
productivity, that enable them to contribute to the development
process, and that enables them to earn the income necessary to live
a full life. Decentralization of taxing and spending from the
central government to lower levels of government can help to
satisfy basic needs of the poor and create an inclusive development
process. However, decentralization is a stepby- step process that
must implemented by taking into account real-world circumstances
such as a lack of administrative ability in local government, and
by formulating policy accordingly. The book derives economic
principles for implementing the process of decentralization, and it
presents cases that illustrate the principles at work. It is an
economic guide for policymakers and practitioners.
Crystal Clear, Up-to-Date Science + Compelling Applications = A
Balanced Program for Learning. Develop a clear understanding of the
core concepts of nutrition with NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES: FROM
FUNDAMENTALS TO FOOD, 4th Edition. Now updated with the 2020-2025
Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the latest findings in the
field, this proven resource clearly explains the scientific
principles underlying nutrition while incorporating applications
relevant to your daily life. Supported by an impressive visual
design, engaging case studies, and interactive digital resources,
NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES offers a unique, balanced program for
learning.
As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more
comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the
'rights' and 'wrongs' of technological use can be adequately
categorized. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited
- focused upon specific technologies such as the internet, or
bio-technology with little sense of any social or historical
continuities in the way technology in general has been regulated.
In this book, for the first time, the 'question of technology' and
its relation to criminal justice is approached as a whole.
Technology, Crime and Justice analyzes a range of technologies,
(including information, communications, nuclear, biological,
transport and weapons technologies, amongst many others) in order
to pose three interrelated questions about their affects upon
criminal justice and criminal opportunity: to what extent can they
really be said to provide new criminal opportunity or to enhance
existing ones? what are the key characteristics of the ways in
which such technologies have been regulated? how does technology
itself serve as a regulatory force - both in crime control and
social control more widely? Technology, Crime and Justice considers
the implications of contemporary technology for the practice of
criminal justice and relates them to key historical precedents in
the way technology has been interpreted and controlled. It outlines
a new 'social' way of thinking about technology - in terms of its
affects upon our bodies and what they can do, most obviously the
ways in which social life and our ability to causally interact with
the world is 'extended' in various ways. It poses the question -
could anything like a 'Technomia' of technology be identified - a
recognizable set of principles and sanctions which govern the way
that it is produced and used, principles also consistent with our
sense of justice? This book provides a key resource for students
and scholars of both criminology and technology studies.
As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more
comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the
'rights' and 'wrongs' of technological use can be adequately
categorized. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited
- focused upon specific technologies such as the internet, or
bio-technology with little sense of any social or historical
continuities in the way technology in general has been regulated.
In this book, for the first time, the 'question of technology' and
its relation to criminal justice is approached as a whole.
Technology, Crime and Justice analyzes a range of technologies,
(including information, communications, nuclear, biological,
transport and weapons technologies, amongst many others) in order
to pose three interrelated questions about their affects upon
criminal justice and criminal opportunity: to what extent can they
really be said to provide new criminal opportunity or to enhance
existing ones? what are the key characteristics of the ways in
which such technologies have been regulated? how does technology
itself serve as a regulatory force - both in crime control and
social control more widely? Technology, Crime and Justice considers
the implications of contemporary technology for the practice of
criminal justice and relates them to key historical precedents in
the way technology has been interpreted and controlled. It outlines
a new 'social' way of thinking about technology - in terms of its
affects upon our bodies and what they can do, most obviously the
ways in which social life and our ability to causally interact with
the world is 'extended' in various ways. It poses the question -
could anything like a 'Technomia' of technology be identified - a
recognizable set of principles and sanctions which govern the way
that it is produced and used, principles also consistent with our
sense of justice? This book provides a key resource for students
and scholars of both criminology and technology studies.
Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current
reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon
of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized conception of deviance,
one that clarifies the continuities between crime in the
traditional, physical context and developing spaces of interaction
such as a 'cyberspace', this book analyzes criminal behaviours in
terms of the destructions, degradations or incursions to a
hierarchy of regions that define our social world. Each chapter
outlines violations to the boundaries of each of these spaces -
from those defined by our bodies or our property, to the more
subtle borders of the local and global spaces we inhabit. By
treating cybercrime as but one instance of various possible
criminal virtualities, the book develops a general theoretical
framework, as equally applicable to the, as yet unrealized,
technologies of criminal behaviour of the next century, as it is to
those which relate to contemporary computer networks. Cybercrime is
thereby conceptualized as one of a variety of geometries of harm,
merely the latest of many that have extended opportunities for
illicit gain in the physical world. Hypercrime offers a radical
critique of the narrow conceptions of cybercrime offered by current
justice systems and challenges the governing presumptions about the
nature of the threat posed by it. Runner-up for the British Society
of Criminology Book Prize (2008).
Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current
reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon
of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized conception of deviance,
one that clarifies the continuities between crime in the
traditional, physical context and developing spaces of interaction
such as a 'cyberspace', this book analyzes criminal behaviours in
terms of the destructions, degradations or incursions to a
hierarchy of regions that define our social world. Each chapter
outlines violations to the boundaries of each of these spaces -
from those defined by our bodies or our property, to the more
subtle borders of the local and global spaces we inhabit. By
treating cybercrime as but one instance of various possible
criminal virtualities, the book develops a general theoretical
framework, as equally applicable to the, as yet unrealized,
technologies of criminal behaviour of the next century, as it is to
those which relate to contemporary computer networks. Cybercrime is
thereby conceptualized as one of a variety of geometries of harm,
merely the latest of many that have extended opportunities for
illicit gain in the physical world. Hypercrime offers a radical
critique of the narrow conceptions of cybercrime offered by current
justice systems and challenges the governing presumptions about the
nature of the threat posed by it. Runner-up for the British Society
of Criminology Book Prize (2008).
Prebiotics and Probiotics in Human Milk: Origins and Functions of
Milk-Borne Oligosaccharides and Bacteria provides a comprehensive,
yet approachable, treatise on what is currently known about the
origins and functions of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO), the
complex sugars in milk that are not digested by the infant. The
book examines how HMOs and bacteria in human milk may function
independently and coordinately to influence both maternal and
infant health. Human milk is the only food "designed" specifically
to nourish humans, indeed representing the essence of a perfect
"functional food." And although researchers have been studying its
composition for decades, surprisingly little is really understood
about the origins and functions of its myriad components, an area
that is especially true for HMOs and bacteria. This book provides a
thorough review of the newest research on these inter-related milk
constituents as written by a team of experts from both academia and
industry who actively conduct HMO and human milk microbiome
research as they endeavor to apply this new knowledge to infant
nutrition. Each chapter provides objective rationale for what
research is still needed in this rapidly evolving area, also
discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by the industry
in adding HMO and microbes to infant food products. This book is a
valuable resource for nutrition researchers focused on infant
nutrition, food scientists and product developers working on infant
formula, and clinicians interested in broadening their
understanding of the benefits of human milk for infants.
This book is based on notes for the course Fractals: lntroduction,
Basics and Perspectives given by MichaelF. Barnsley, RobertL.
Devaney, Heinz-Otto Peit gen, Dietmar Saupe and Richard F. Voss.
The course was chaired by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and was part of the
SIGGRAPH '87 (Anaheim, California) course pro gram. Though the five
chapters of this book have emerged from those courses we have tried
to make this book a coherent and uniformly styled presentation as
much as possible. It is the first book which discusses fractals
solely from the point of view of computer graphics. Though
fundamental concepts and algo rithms are not introduced and
discussed in mathematical rigor we have made a serious attempt to
justify and motivate wherever it appeared to be desirable. Ba sic
algorithms are typically presented in pseudo-code or a description
so close to code that a reader who is familiar with elementary
computer graphics should find no problem to get started.
Mandelbrot's fractal geometry provides both a description and a
mathemat ical model for many of the seemingly complex forms and
patterns in nature and the sciences. Fractals have blossomed
enormously in the past few years and have helped reconnect pure
mathematics research with both natural sciences and computing.
Computer graphics has played an essential role both in its de
velopment and rapidly growing popularity. Conversely, fractal
geometry now plays an important role in the rendering, modelling
and animation of natural phenomena and fantastic shapes in computer
graphics."
Crystal Clear Science + Compelling Applications = A Balanced
Program for Teaching and Learning Now updated with the 2015 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES: FROM FUNDAMENTALS
TO FOOD, 3rd Enhanced Edition clearly explains the scientific
principles underlying nutrition while incorporating applications to
promote a complete understanding of core concepts. This integrated
approach provides a strong science foundation in a context relevant
to your daily life and career. Supported by an impressive visual
design, engaging case studies and interactive digital resources,
NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES offers a unique, balanced program for
learning.
Crystal Clear Science + Compelling Applications = A Balanced
Program for Teaching and Learning Now updated with the 2015 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES: FROM FUNDAMENTALS
TO FOOD, 3rd Enhanced Edition clearly explains the scientific
principles underlying nutrition while incorporating applications to
promote a complete understanding of core concepts. This integrated
approach provides a strong science foundation in a context relevant
to students' daily lives and their careers. Supported by an
impressive visual design, engaging case studies and interactive
digital resources, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES offers a unique, balanced
program for teaching and learning. A Table of Food Composition
booklet is included.
The book details the murders aboard the fishing vessel Investor.
This is the largest unsolved mass murder in Alaska State history.
Eight people were slaughtered, including two small children and the
Captians pregnant wife. The book starts with the actual scene of
the murders and continues on through the lives of those involved as
well as two trials of the suspected killer. The State failed to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their suspect was guilty. The
author was personaly involved with the case from the beginning.
During years of research, evidence was uncovered by the author as
to the identitity of the possiable murderers. New evidence uncovers
legal misconduct, lies, coverups and powerful drug connections. All
of which shed new light on this gruesome crime.
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