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Faith Hounds (Hardcover)
William N Mitchell; Foreword by David Brown; Illustrated by Amanda Weems
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""Agents of Atrocity" provides an incisive and elegant treatment of
the problem of the all too common horrors of mass murder, rape and
plunder in military conflict. Using compelling theory combined with
careful historical assessments of three civil conflicts (in Israel,
Russia and England), Neil Mitchell places the focus squarely on the
role of leaders in amplifying or moderating atrocities in armed
conflicts. While the richness of the cases themselves is sufficient
reason to read this book, the implications for anticipating
atrocities and reducing their occurrence make it essential for
those who seek to study or practice human rights and security
policy."-- Hans Jenkins-Smith, Professor of Public Policy, Texas
A&M University
""Agents of Atrocity" is an excellent and important book filling a
void in contemporary human rights research. By focusing not only on
the decision-makers who are at the head of abusive governments, but
also on the agents who physically commit those abuses and the
relationship between the two, Mitchell enhances our understanding
of the dynamics of carnage. This book should be read by all who
wish to understand how and why governments commit such horrific
crimes, and steps that can be taken to prevent them."-- Steven C.
Poe, University of North Texas
"This is an erudite, literate, fascinating volume. Mitchell
explains why political leaders sometimes prevent, sometimes ignore,
and sometimes encourage violence, while followers, if not properly
controlled, are frequently motivated by rape, loot, and sadism.
Mitchell brings the individual back into the study of human rights
and shows how in practice, as well as in law, international
standards of accountabilitycan moderate political violence. The
book is a pleasure to read, and hard to put down." --Rhoda
Howard-Hassmann Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Mitchell's A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, Fourth Edition
provides an essential introduction and reference for Stata
graphics. The fourth edition retains the features that made the
first three editions so useful: A complete guide to Stata's graph
command Exhaustive examples of customized graphs Visual indexing of
features-just look for a picture that matches what you want to do
This edition includes new discussions of color, Unicode characters,
export formats, sizing of graph elements, and schemes. The section
on colors has been greatly expanded to include over 50 examples
that demonstrate how to modify colors, add transparency, and change
intensity. In the discussion of text modifications, Mitchell now
shows how to include Unicode characters such as Greek letters,
symbols, and emojis. New examples have also been added that show
how to change the size of graph elements such as text, markers, and
line widths using both absolute units (points, inches, and
centimeters) as well as relative units (line large or *2 for two
times the original size). Finally, the look of graphs throughout
the book has changed-most graphs are now created using a common
updated scheme. The book's visual style makes it easy to find
exactly what you need. A color-coded, visual table of contents runs
along the edge of every page and shows readers exactly where they
are in the book. You can see the color-coded chapter tabs without
opening the book, providing quick visual access to each chapter.
The heart of each chapter is a series of entries that are typically
formatted three to a page. Each entry shows a graph command (with
the emphasized portion of the command highlighted in red), the
resulting graph, a description of what is being done, and the
dataset used. Because every feature, option, and edit is
demonstrated with a graph, you can often flip through a section of
the book to find exactly the effect you are seeking. The book
begins with an introduction to Stata graphs that includes an
overview of graphs types, schemes, and options and the process of
building a graph. Then, it turns to detailed discussions of many
graph types-scatterplots, regression fit plots, line plots, contour
plots, bar graphs, box plots, and many others. Mitchell shows how
to create each type of graph and how to use options to control the
look of the graph. Because Stata's graph command will let you
customize any aspect of the graph, Mitchell spends ample time
showing you the most valuable options for obtaining the look you
want. If you are in a hurry to discover one special option, you can
skim the chapter until you see the effect you want and then glance
at the command to see what is highlighted in red. After focusing on
specific types of graphs, Mitchell undertakes an in-depth
presentation of the options available across almost all graph
types. This includes options that add and change the look of
titles, notes, and such; control the number of ticks on axes;
control the content and appearance of the numbers and labels on
axes; control legends; add and change the look of annotations;
graph over subgroups; change the look of markers and their labels;
size graphs and their elements; and more. To complete the graphical
journey, Mitchell discusses and demonstrates the 12 styles that
unite and control the appearance of the myriad graph objects. These
styles are angles, colors, clock positions, compass directions,
connecting points, line patterns, line widths, margins, marker
sizes, orientations, marker symbols, and text sizes. You won't want
to overlook the appendix in this book. There Mitchell first gives a
quick overview of the dozens of statistical graph commands that are
not strictly the subject of the book. Even so, these commands use
the graph command as an engine to draw their graphs; therefore,
almost all that Mitchell has discussed applies to them. He also
addresses combining graphs-showing you how to create complex and
multipart images from previously created graphs. In a crucial
section titled "Putting it all together", Mitchell shows us how to
do just that. We learn more about overlaying twoway plots, and we
learn how to combine data management and graphics to create plots
such as bar charts of rates with capped confidence intervals.
Mitchell concludes by warning us about mistakes that can be made
when typing graph commands and how to correct them. The fourth
edition of A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics is a complete guide to
Stata's graph command and the associated Graph Editor. Whether you
want to tame the Stata graph command, quickly find out how to
produce a graphical effect, or learn approaches that can be used to
construct custom graphs, this is the book to read.
In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell
explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger
Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of
seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph
with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on
the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth,
and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and
Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial "Chatterton" notebook,
which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is
central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama,
fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of
Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his
deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery,
especially in later works such as "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," The
Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest.
Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously
undiscovered sources, Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in
Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such
figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Theophile Gautier,
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this
most distinguished company.
"Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside" occupies a
distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's
already unique body of work. "Modern Love" is now best known for
the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith's own
contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and
indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been
anthologized, the complete cycle is rarely included, and the
original edition has not been reprinted since its first appearance
in 1862. This edition restores the original publication and
supplements it with a range of accompanying materials that will
reintroduce Meredith's astonishing collection of poetry to a new
generation of readers.
Two popular practices--crystal and energy healing--in one great,
expert handbook! Krista Mitchell (Change Your Energy) is a master
at crystal healing, and with Crystal Reiki, she has created a
handbook for practitioners both amateur and professional. This hot
new technique combines crystal layouts with energy healing to treat
a variety of ailments. Fully illustrated and easy to use, this
comprehensive guide teaches the fundamentals of working with
crystals and chakras; explains how healers should prepare
themselves, their space, and their tools; covers four levels of
healing that include auras, body, mind, and spirit; and stresses
the importance of self-care for healers themselves.
Who is responsible for the terror, atrocities, and violations of
human rights that occur in civil wars? Blame can be directly
attributed to the actual perpetrators of the massacres, rapes, and
pillaging--but it can also be placed on the leaders who often hide
behind their ambivalent orders. Placing responsibility clearly in
the hands of political leadership, Mitchell explores the
interaction of leaders, their management practices and repressive
policies, using the Arab-Israeli conflict and the English and
Russian civil wars to shed light on when leaders are more or less
likely to turn to atrocities to achieve their goals. With civil
wars continuing to rage around the world, "Agents of Atrocity"
provides a timely history of atrocities and the leaders and
henchmen who carried them out, while providing a new context for
understanding why they occur and how they can be prevented in the
future.
Interpreting and Visualizing Regression Models Using Stata, Second
Edition provides clear and simple examples illustrating how to
interpret and visualize a wide variety of regression models.
Including over 200 figures, the book illustrates linear models with
continuous predictors (modeled linearly, using polynomials, and
piecewise), interactions of continuous predictors, categorical
predictors, interactions of categorical predictors, and
interactions of continuous and categorical predictors. The book
also illustrates how to interpret and visualize results from
multilevel models, models where time is a continuous predictor,
models with time as a categorical predictor, nonlinear models (such
as logistic or ordinal logistic regression), and models involving
complex survey data. The examples illustrate the use of the
margins, marginsplot, contrast, and pwcompare commands. This new
edition reflects new and enhanced features added to Stata, most
importantly the ability to label statistical output using value
labels associated with factor variables. As a result, output
regarding marital status is labeled using intuitive labels like
Married and Unmarried instead of using numeric values such as 1 and
2. All the statistical output in this new edition capitalizes on
this new feature, emphasizing the interpretation of results based
on variables labeled using intuitive value labels. Additionally,
this second edition illustrates other new features, such as using
transparency in graphics to more clearly visualize overlapping
confidence intervals and using small sample-size estimation with
mixed models. If you ever find yourself wishing for simple and
straightforward advice about how to interpret and visualize
regression models using Stata, this book is for you.
This practice-oriented textbook shows how to utilize the huge
variety of NMR experiments available today in addition to standard
experiments. Intended as a practical guide for students and
laboratory personnel, it treats theoretical aspects only to the
extent necessary to understand the experiments and to interpret the
results.
The book is significantly revised and expanded for the 2nd
edition, and now includes the nuclei 1H/2H, 13C, 31P, 17O, 15N,
19F, 29Si, 77Se, 113Cd, 117Sn/119Sn, 195Pt, 207Pb and a new chapter
on solid state NMR. An expanded set of 50 graded problems offers
invaluable help for students, practitioners and laboratory
personnel alike.
This second edition of Data Management Using Stata focuses on tasks
that bridge the gap between raw data and statistical analysis. It
has been updated throughout to reflect new data management features
that have been added over the last 10 years. Such features include
the ability to read and write a wide variety of file formats, the
ability to write highly customized Excel files, the ability to have
multiple Stata datasets open at once, and the ability to store and
manipulate string variables stored as Unicode. Further, this new
edition includes a new chapter illustrating how to write Stata
programs for solving data management tasks. As in the original
edition, the chapters are organized by data management areas:
reading and writing datasets, cleaning data, labeling datasets,
creating variables, combining datasets, processing observations
across subgroups, changing the shape of datasets, and programming
for data management. Within each chapter, each section is a
self-contained lesson illustrating a particular data management
task (for instance, creating date variables or automating error
checking) via examples. This modular design allows you to quickly
identify and implement the most common data management tasks
without having to read background information first. In addition to
the "nuts and bolts" examples, author Michael Mitchell alerts users
to common pitfalls (and how to avoid them) and provides strategic
data management advice. This book can be used as a quick reference
for solving problems as they arise or can be read as a means for
learning comprehensive data management skills. New users will
appreciate this book as a valuable way to learn data management,
while experienced users will find this information to be handy and
time saving-there is a good chance that even the experienced user
will learn some new tricks.
Cicero's first major triumph was the prosecution of Caius Verres
for misgovernment in Sicily. This speech was given in the second
part of the trial and shows the development of Cicero's rhetoric.
This edition communicates the literary flavour of the original and
discusses the historical and political background to the trial,
with examination of noteworthy textual cruces and problems of
interpretation. [Latin text with facing-page English translation,
introduction and commentary.]
A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in
Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The
first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500
years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system
of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively
history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable
story of how a radical new political order was born out of the
revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the
seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved
over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone
by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power.
Mitchell's superb history addresses the most crucial issues
surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including
what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the
ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire
and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and
philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the
demise of Athenian democracy.
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William N Mitchell; Foreword by David Brown; Illustrated by Amanda Weems
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