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This collection of essays and articles from the pages of Wooden
Boat magazine includes some 18 years-worth of articles that
collectively represent a wide-ranging and important work of
American yachting history. Readers will discover engaging tales
that range from that of the fascinating, 1895 America’s Cup
winner to America’s oldest marine engine, the latest in electric
propulsion, and insightful looks at a variety of fascinating
characters including designers, builders and sailors.
Human Action - a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von
Mises is a historically important and classic publication on
economics, and yet it can be an intimidating work due to its length
and formal style. Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human
Action, however, skillfully relays the main insights from Human
Action in a style that will resonate with modern readers. The book
assumes no prior knowledge in economics or other fields, and, when
necessary, it provides the historical and scholarly context
necessary to explain the contribution Mises makes on a particular
issue. To faithfully reproduce the material in Human Action, this
work mirrors its basic structure, providing readers with an
enjoyable and educational introduction to the lifes work of one of
history's most important economists.
'Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949' offers a
theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the
Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical
drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949.
This monograph opens with an examination of the aid industry and
the claims of leading practitioners that the industry is
experiencing a crisis of confidence due to an absence of clear
moral guidelines. The book then undertakes a critical review of the
leading philosophical accounts of the duty to aid, including the
narrow, instructive accounts in the writings of John Rawls and
Peter Singer, and broad, disruptive accounts in the writings of
Onora O'Neill and Amartya Sen. Through an elaboration of the
elements of interconnection, responsible action, inclusive
engagement, and accumulative duties, the comparative approach
developed in the book has the potential to overcome the
philosophical tensions between the accounts and provide guidance to
aid practitioners, donors and recipients in the complex
contemporary circumstances of assistance. Informed by real world
examples, this book grapples with complex and multi-dimensional
questions concerning practices and the ethics of aid. The author
judiciously guides us through the debate between deontological and
consequentialist moral theories to arrive at a sophisticated
consequentialist account that does justice to the complexity of the
problems and facilitates our deliberation in discharging our duty
to aid, without yielding, as it should not, a determinate answer
for each specific situation. Researchers, students, and
practitioners of international aid will all find this book
rewarding. Win-chiat Lee, Professor and Chair, Department of
Philosophy, Wake Forest University Susan Murphy's book offers us a
sophisticated exploration of the philosophical basis for aid. It is
grounded in a full understanding of the complexities and pitfalls
of the aid industry, but its particular strength lies, mainly
through an extensive discussion of Singer, Rawls, O'Neill and Sen,
in a comparison of consequentialist and duty-based approaches,
eventually endorsing a broad non-idealised, situated
consequentialist account in what she calls an interconnected
ethical approach to the practice of assistance. For anyone wanting
to think carefully about why we should give aid, this book has much
to offer. Dr Nigel Dower Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of
Aberdeen Author of World Ethics - the New Agenda (2007)
This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment
of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish
welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its
overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare
state change and its political, economic and social implications is
based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for,
who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over
the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they
relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions,
finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and
corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of
crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to
isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how
globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation,
marketisation and new public management have deepened and
diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state.
This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists,
political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in
the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of
welfare state change.
In Protein Structure, Stability, and Folding, Kenneth P. Murphy and
a panel of internationally recognized investigators describe some
of the newest experimental and theoretical methods for
investigating these critical events and processes. Among the
techniques discussed are the many methods for calculating many of
protein stability and dynamics from knowledge of the structure, and
for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein unfolding.
New experimental approaches presented include the use of
co-solvents, novel applications of hydrogen exchange techniques,
temperature-jump methods for looking at folding events, and new
strategies for mutagenesis experiments. Unique in its powerful
combination of theory and practice, Protein Structure, Stability,
and Folding offers protein and biophysical chemists the means to
gain a more comprehensive understanding of some of this complex
area by detailing many of the major techniques in use today.
A uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological
sustainability and social transformation, this book explores
transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case
study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move
towards a sustainable welfare state, and the policy of making such
transformation happen. It takes a theoretical and practical
approach to implementing an alternative paradigm for welfare in the
context of globalisation, climate change, social cohesion,
automation, economic and power inequalities, intersectionality, and
environmental sustainability, as well as perpetual crisis,
including the pandemic.
Robotics and VR systems are uniquely suited to provide functional
assistance with mobility and activities of daily living, especially
for patients with motor and sensory disorders of the central
nervous system, stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis,
spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy. Compiling both current
knowledge and key challenges of robotic rehabilitation in one
convenient text, Robotics in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow resource on robotic and VR
systems in all areas of medical rehabilitation. Covers the impact
of robotics and artificial intelligence on all aspects of health
care delivery. Focuses on the key technologies in developing
robotics for a wide range of medical rehabilitation activities,
including neuroprosthesis applications of robotic exoskeletons and
brain-controlled assistive robotics and prosthetics.Â
Addresses artificial intelligence, medical robotics in acute care
medicine, and robots on the battlefield and in space travel.Â
Contains chapters on the economics of the robotic industry and the
future of robots in medicine. Ideal for physiatrists and
PM&R residents and fellows; clinicians in orthopaedics, sports
medicine, spinal cord injury, and occupational therapy; and
specialists working with orthotics and prosthetics. An eBook
version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access
all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to
search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have
content read aloud.Â
This book examines the radical changes in social and political
landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years
as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international,
humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a
regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on
'crises' in this book draws attention to the intense
socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades.
Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge
to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political
life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and
national communities, or international and regional structures of
interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border
military incursions, regional security, and transnational
epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central
explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and
re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural
dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.
A uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological
sustainability and social transformation, this book explores
transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case
study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move
towards a sustainable welfare state, and the policy of making such
transformation happen. It takes a theoretical and practical
approach to implementing an alternative paradigm for welfare in the
context of globalisation, climate change, social cohesion,
automation, economic and power inequalities, intersectionality, and
environmental sustainability, as well as perpetual crisis,
including the pandemic.
Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of
hospitals-about how they are born and evolve, about the forces that
give them shape, and the shifts that conspire to render them
inadequate. Reading architecture through the history of hospitals
is a deciphering tool for unlocking the elemental principles of
architecture and the intractable laws of human and social
conditions that architecture serves in each of our lives. This book
encounters brilliant and visionary designers who were hospital
architects but also systems designers, driven by the aim of social
change. They faced the contradictions of health care in their time
and found innovative ways to solve for specific medical dilemmas.
Less-known designers like Filarete, Lluis Domenech i Montaner,
Albert Schweitzer, Max Fry and Jane Drew, John Dawe Tetlow, Gordon
Friesen, Thomas Wheeler, and Eberhard Zeidler are studied here,
while the medical spaces of more widely-known architects like
Isambard Brunel, Aalvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Paul
Rudolph also help inform this history. All these characters were
polymaths and provocateurs, but none quite summarizes this history
more succinctly than Florence Nightingale, who in laying out her
guidelines for ward design in 1859, shows how the design of a
medical facility can influence an entire political and social
order. Architecture of Health, richly illustrated with images and
never before published renderings and drawings from the MASS Design
Group, charts historical epidemics alongside modern and
contemporary architectural transformations in service of medicine,
health, and habitation; it explores how infrastructure facilitates
healing and architecture's greater role in constructing our
societies.
This book represents an analytic approach to the whole question of
assistant secretaries in the federal bureaucracy. It attempts to
blend the theoretical tools of the political scientist with the
practical experience of operating officials to achieve a fuller
understanding of the policy process.
In recent years the enhanced role of political executives in the
White House has tended to overshadow the contributions of assistant
secretaries and other political executives in the Cabinet and other
agencies. However, President Carter's determination to reestablish
the primacy of the Cabinet has opened up the possibility that the
assistant secretary's role will be reinvigorated. Assistant
secretary positions, originally established for the direction of
presidential programs, have evolved over time to encompass many
additional roles. This is the first substantial analysis in more
than a decade of the assistant secretaries' roles, relationships,
and career patterns-as well as those of other presidential
appointees. Based on the specific experiences of twenty-one
assistant secretaries and three under secretaries who served during
the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations, it provides invaluable
insights into the background against which political executives
carry out the president's programs and help formulate his policies.
"Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings" is the second of two themed
issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122) that
explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue considers how archives
allow historical traces of sexuality and gender to be sought,
identified, recorded, and assembled into accumulations of meaning.
Contributors explore conundrums in contemporary queer archival
methods, probing some of them in essays on the Catholic Church and
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This issue also
includes a series of intergenerational interviews reflecting on
histories of LGBT archives, a roundtable discussion about legacies
of queer studies of the archive, and a closing reflection by Joan
Nestle, a founding figure in the practice of international queer
archiving. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota
and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.
Zeb Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
This book examines the radical changes in social and political
landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years
as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international,
humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a
regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on
'crises' in this book draws attention to the intense
socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades.
Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge
to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political
life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and
national communities, or international and regional structures of
interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border
military incursions, regional security, and transnational
epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central
explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and
re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural
dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life?, which was originally delivered as a set of lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, is perhaps one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century. It marked the beginning of molecular biology, and stimulated scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore and discover the structure of DNA. The novelty and appeal of What is Life? is that Schrödinger addressed the central problems of biology--heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order--from a physicist's perspective. Fifty years later, at Trinity College, a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the anniversary of Schrödinger's lectures. In this book, they present their views on the current main problems in biology. The contributors are eminent scientists (including two Nobel Laureates) and well-known writers of popular science, including Jared Diamond, Christien de Duve, Manfred Eigen, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Kauffman, John Maynard Smith, Roger Penrose, and Lewis Wolpert. They tackle questions on our current understanding of the origin of life, evolution, the origin of human inventiveness, developmental biology, and the basis for consciousness. The book ends with a touching biography by Schrödinger's daughter, Ruth Braunizer. This book will set the stage for biological research into the next century and is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
Most commonly accepted economic "facts" are wrong Here's the
unvarnished, politically incorrect truth. The liberal media and
propagandists masquerading as educators have filled the world--and
deformed public policy--with politically correct errors about
capitalism and economics in general. In The Politically Incorrect
Guide(tm) to Capitalism, myth-busting professor Robert P. Murphy, a
scholar and frequent speaker at the Ludwig von Mises Institute,
cuts through all their nonsense, shattering liberal myths and
fashionable socialist cliches to set the record straight. Murphy
starts with a basic explanation of what capitalism really is, and
then dives fearlessly into hot topics like:
* Outsourcing (why it's good for Americans) and zoning restrictions
(why they're not)
* Why central planning has never worked and never will
* How prices operate in a free market (and why socialist schemes
like rent control always backfire)
* How labor unions actually hurt workers more than they help them
* Why increasing the minimum wage is always a bad idea
* Why the free market is the best guard against racism
* How capitalism will save the environment--and why Communist
countries were the most polluted on earth
* Raising taxes: why it is never "responsible"
* Why no genuine advocate for the downtrodden could endorse the
dehumanizing Welfare State
* The single biggest myth underlying the public's support for
government regulation of business
* Antitrust suits: usually filed by firms that lose in free
competition
* How tariffs and other restrictions "protect" privileged workers
but make other Americans poorer
* The IMF and World Bank: why they don't help poor countries
* Plus: Are you a capitalist pig? Take the quiz and find out
Breezy, witty, but always clear, precise, and elegantly reasoned,
The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism is a solid and
entertaining guide to free market economics. With his twelve-step
plan for understanding the free market, Murphy shows why
conservatives should resist attempts to socialize America and fight
spiritedly for the free market.
Education, patient care, and research combine into the expression
of what is known as a university center: a place of learning, a
place of development, a place of patient care and cure, a place of
compassion, a place of progress. Many centers reflect to the
highest degree all of these qualities. Those of us within this
volume wish to give testimony to the urological center developed,
designed, and cared for by Dr. William Wallace Scott. This man, in
our opinion, reflects all of the preceding features to the highest
degree. We in Urology have benefited greatly by his leadership and
counsel. Herein will be found articles on patient care, research,
education, and historical vignettes. These can hardly be a measure
of the man but serve to underline modern progress in Urology and
clinical research. LOWELL R. KING, M. D. GERALD P. MURPHY, M. D. ,
D. Sc. v Patrons DR. J. ARCADI DR. J. M. HOLLAND DR. W. BRANNAN DR.
W. J. HOPKINS DR. H. BRENDLER DR. W. J. KEARNS DR. H. J. BRADLEY
DR. L. R. KING DR. R. W. BRIDGE DR. B. KosTO DR. W. W. S. BUTLER
DR. A. MITTELMAN DR. R. L. CALHOUN DR. G . P. MURPHY DR. W. A.
CAMPBELL DR. I. J. NUDELMAN DR. D. M. DAVIS DR. L. PERSKY DR. J. N.
DE KLERK DR. R. B. ROTH DR. R. M. ENGEL DR. P. L. SCARDINO DR. R.
P. FINNEY DR. J. D. SCHMIDT DR. R. P. GIBBONS DR. J. H.
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