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The chapters of this book synthesize papers on the inter-related
topics of urban economics, real estate, transportation and public
policy and include applied and empirical research on a variety of
sub-topics. These include innovative econometric techniques that
are applied to timely problems, such as impacts of flooding in
Vancouver, BC Canada on property values; and the determinants of
traffic accident fatalities in the US and in Thailand. There are
also chapters on more policy-oriented issues, such as the impacts
of Covid-19 on real estate in Toronto, ON Canada. The book will
appeal to the interest of academics, policy-makers, planners, and
geographers.
Bringing together essays, research studies and other material
written over the past two decades, this book traces through them a
history of political and intellectual debates on the left and in
cultural studies, around central issues of education, labour and
the youth question. An argument is made for linking the cultural,
structural and autobiographical dimensions of the youth question in
order to engage educationally with the burden of representation
which young people are made to carry via race, class and sexuality
in the postmodern world. The book includes three major unpublished
pieces and an introduction which discusses the nature of the
collection, and sets it in both a personal and political context.
In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential
evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926-September
8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of
evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature
writing of recent times. What it means to be scientifically
literate-is essential for humanistic scholars, who must ground
themselves with literary reading of scientific texts. As the most
influential American evolutionary theorist of the second half of
the twentieth century, Williams masters critique, frames questions
about adaptation and natural selection, and answers in a plain,
aphoristic writing style. Williams aims for parsimony-to "recognize
adaptation at the level necessitated by the facts and no
higher"-through a minimalist writing style. This voice articulates
a powerful process that operates at very low levels by blind and
selfish chance at the expense of its designed products, using
purely trial and error.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The rivalry between India and Pakistan has proven to be one of the
world's most intractable international conflicts, ever since 1947
when the British botched their departure from the South Asian
subcontinent. And the enmity is likely to continue for another
thirty-five years, reaching the century mark. This has critical
implications for both countries and the rest of the world. Renowned
South Asia expert Stephen P. Cohen explains why he expects this
rivalry to continue in this first comprehensive survey of the deep
historical, cultural, and strategic differences that underpin the
hostility. In recent years the stakes have increased as India and
Pakistan have each acquired a hundred or more nuclear weapons,
blundered into several serious crises, and become victims of
terrorism, some of it from across their borders. America is puzzled
by the problem of dealing with a rising India and a struggling
Pakistan, and Cohen offers a fresh approach for U.S. policy in
dealing with these two powers. Drawing on his rich experience in
South Asia to explore the character, depth, and origin of Indian
and Pakistani attitudes toward each other, Cohen develops a
comprehensive theory of why the dispute between New Delhi and
Islamabad is likely to persist. He also describes the terrible cost
of this animosity for the citizens of India and Pakistan, including
the region's high levels of violence and low level of economic
integration. On a more hopeful note, however, he goes on to suggest
developments that could ameliorate the tension, including a more
active role for the UnitedStates in addressing a range of issues
that divide the nations. Kashmir is one of these issues, but as
much a consequence as a cause of the rivalry. Can India and
Pakistan resolve their many territorial and identity issues?
Perhaps the best they can expect in the near term is a limited
degree of normalization, including bottom-up ideas generated by the
peace and business communities, as well as a realistic assessment
by strategic elites of the two states' shared common interests.
""Right now, full normalization seems unlikely,"" Cohen writes in
the preface, ""so this book is suffused with conditional pessimism:
normalization would be desirable, but there are worse futures than
a projection of the present rivalry for another thirty years or
more.
India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it
now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked
a critical component --strategic military planning. India's
approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable,
however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does
not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this
effort in the future, and what are the likely ramifications?
Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta answer those crucial questions in
a book so timely that it reached number two on the nonfiction
bestseller list in India.
"Two years after the publication of "Arming without Aiming," our
view is that India's strategic restraint and its consequent
institutional arrangement remain in place. We do not want to
predict that India's military-strategic restraint will last
forever, but we do expect that the deeper problems in Indian
defense policy will continue to slow down military modernization."
--from the preface to the paperback edition
"With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial
player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim
population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the
planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear
weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward
determining what the world looks like ten years from now. The
Future of Pakistan presents and evaluates several scenarios for how
the country will develop, evolve, and act in the near future, as
well as the geopolitical implications of each. Led by renowned
South Asia expert Stephen P. Cohen, a team of authoritative
contributors looks at several pieces of the Pakistan puzzle. The
book begins with Cohen's broad yet detailed overview of Pakistan,
placing it within the context of current-day geopolitics and
international economics. Cohen's piece is then followed by a number
of shorter, more tightly focused essays addressing more specific
issues of concern. Cohen's fellow contributors hail from America,
Europe, India, and Pakistan itself, giving the book a uniquely
international and comparative perspective. They address critical
factors such as the role and impact of radical groups and
militants, developments in specific key regions such as Punjab and
the rugged frontier with Afghanistan, and the influence of-and
interactions with-India, Pakistan's archrival since birth. The book
also breaks down relations with other international powers such as
China and the United States. The all-important military and
internal security apparatus come under scrutiny, as do rapidly
morphing social and gender issues. Political and party developments
are examined along with the often amorphous division of power
between Islamabad and the nation's regions and local powers.
Uncertainty about Pakistan's trajectory persists. The Future of
Pakistan helps us understand the current circumstances, the
relevant actors and their motivation, the critical issues at hand,
the different outcomes they might produce, and what it all means
for Pakistanis, Indians, the United States, and the entire world.
Praise for the work of Stephen P. Cohen The Idea of Pakistan: ""The
intellectual power and rare insight with which Cohen breaks through
the complexity of the subject rivals that of classics that have
explained other societies posting a comparable challenge to
understanding.""- Middle East Journal India: Emerging Power: ""In
light of the events of September 11, 2001, Cohen's perceptive,
insightful, and balanced account of emergent India will be
essential reading for U.S. foreign policymakers, scholars, and
informed citizens.""- Choice "
India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the
last of three major wars in 1971. Far from peaceful, however, the
period since then has been "one long crisis, punctuated by periods
of peace." The long-disputed Kashmir issue continues to be both a
cause and consequence of India-Pakistan hostility. Four Crises and
a Peace Process focuses on four contained conflicts on the
subcontinent: the Brasstacks Crisis of 1986?1987, the Compound
Crisis of 1990, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, and the Border
Confrontation of 2001?2002. Authors P.R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal
Cheema, and Brookings senior fellow Stephen P. Cohen explain the
underlying causes of these crises, their consequences, the lessons
that can be learned, and the American role in each. The four crises
are notable because any one of them could have escalated to a
large-scale conflict, or even all-out war, and three took place
after India and Pakistan had gone nuclear. Looking for larger
trends of peace and conflict in the region, the authors consider
these incidents as cases of attempted conflict resolution, as
instances of limited war by nuclear-armed nations, and as examples
of intervention and engagement by the United States and China. They
analyze the reactions of Indian, Pakistani, and international media
and assess the two countries' decision-making processes. Fo "ur
Crises and a Peace Process e"xplains how these crises have affected
regional and international policy and evaluates the prospects for
lasting peace in South Asia.
This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis
between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of
a nuclear war in 1990. Placing the crisis in the context of
concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet
Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South Asian
affairs. The book also makes a significant contribution to the
debates on the role of nuclear weapons, confidence and security
building strategies and the place of ethnicity in contemporary
international relations.
In mid-March 1992, a group of forty scholars, journalists,
strategists, and government officials met in Kathmandu, Nepal, to
assess the post-Cold War world. The meeting marked both a summing
up and a beginning. Many of the conference participants had been
associated at one time or another with the Program in Arms Control,
Disarmament, and International Security (A CD IS) at the University
of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign. Founded in 1978, ACDIS had from
its very first year recruited scholars from South Asia (and
scholars working on South Asia). Much of this work was supported by
a continuing grant from the Ford Foundation (which also contributed
major support for the Kathmandu meeting), but lllinois was also
"home" for a number of Fulbright and Asia Foundation grantees.1 The
meeting in Kathmandu provided an opportunity for these individuals
to again meet with each other and with faculty and staff associated
with ACDIS.
This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990. Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South Asian affairs. The book also makes a significant contribution to the debates on the role of nuclear weapons, confidence and security building strategies and the place of ethnicity in contemporary international relations. eBook available with sample pages: 0203475186
A study which attempts to formulate an anthropological approach to
consciousness. This text explores the importance of the conscious
self, and of the conscious collectively, in the construction and
interpretation of social relations and process. It asks the
question: to what extent is the consciousness of individuals
modelled by the cultures and social structures within which they
live?.
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the
study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural
terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the
community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose
meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable
to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves
as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to
the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications
of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and
utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and
identities.
Endocrinology and Metabolism: Progress in Research and Clinical
Prac tice is a new series that has been designed to present timely,
critical reviews of constantly evolving fields; to provide
practical and up-to-date guidance in the solution of pertinent
clinical problems; to offer an alterna tive to the laborious search
of the literature (and the often frustrating reading of highly
technical articles); and to translate the language of the
laboratory into that of the practice of medicine. We think that
this volume and those to come will prove useful to physi cians (and
to physicians in training), as well as to investigators in a wide
variety of specialties; in short, to anyone who seeks answers to
questions in endocrinology and metabolism. The first chapter of
this volume could well serve as a general introduc tion to the
entire series. It points out how our growing understanding of the
molecular basis of biologic communication has led to the discovery
of a growing number of clinical syndromes, as well as to the
realization that phenotypically similar diseases may have radically
different pathogenetic mechanisms and thus may require radically
different therapeutic strata gems."
In the last decade, it has become increasingly evident that the
clini- cal and morphologic changes underlying many of the
complications of diabetes, including cataract formation,
retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, and macrovascular disease,
are preceded by a variety of disturbances of biochemical and
physiologic origin. Dr. Cohen has recently written a superb
monograph, entitled Diabetes and Protein Glycosylation: Measurement
and Biologic Relevance, in which she thoroughly explores how
enhanced nonenzymatic glycosylation in uncontrolled diabetes
underscores the pressing need for main- tenance of long-term
euglycemia. In the present volume, The Polyol Paradigm and
Complications of Diabetes, she reviews, in a most succinct and
thorough manner, how another biochemical mechan- ism, involving the
polyol pathway, is involved in the pathogenesis of such diabetes
complications as retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropa- thy, and
cataract formation. Dr. Cohen gives us a clearly written and
comprehensive mono- graph, reviewing the chemistry of the polyol
pathway and of the aldose reductase inhibitors, and the
pathophysiologic significance of increased polyol pathway activity
in a variety of tissues affected by Vlll Foreword diabetes
mellitus. She insightfully describes the relationship of increased
polyol pathway activity to altered metabolism of inositol-
containing phospholipids and to changes in various tissue
concentra- tions of myo-inositol. Finally, she provides us with a
careful review of the existing experimental and clinical studies
with a variety of different aldose reductase inhibitors that have
been and are being performed in the hope of preventing or reversing
long-term compli- cations of diabetes.
In the middle of the 17th century, the great French philosopher
Rene Descartes wrote (L'Homme, J. Le Gras, Paris, 1669) that a
suitable stimulation of the brain results in two types of
"movements": exterior movements, designed to seek desirable ends
and to avoid undesirable or harmful ones and interior movements or
"passions" which through the release of "animal spirits" regulate
the heart, the liver, and other organs. When it appears appropriate
to meet a threat with force, the passion of rage causes the release
of strong spirits, whereas when avoidance appears to be the better
choice, the passion of fear causes the brain to release weak
spirits. We do not know what influence, if any, Descartes had on
the thinking of Walter B. Cannon (Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger,
Fear and Rage, Appleton and Co. , New York, 1920), of Hans Selye
(The Story of the Adaptation Syndrome, Acta, Inc. , Montreal,
1952), ofG. W. Harris or of R. Guillemin (Hypothalamic-Hypophysial
Interrelationships. A Sym posium. c. c. Thomas, Springfield, 1956),
but it is interesting to reflect upon the durable value of great
ideas which constantly resurface even if modified by other ideas
and by new techniques, as if propelled by a preordained
intellectual imperative.
The student of biological science in his final years as an
undergraduate and his first years as a graduate is expected to gain
some familiarity with current research at the frontiers of his
discipline. New research work is published in a perplexing
diversity of publications and is inevitably concerned with the
minutiae of the subject. The sheer number of research journals and
papers also causes confusion and difficulties of assimilation.
Review articles usually presuppose a background knowledge of the
field and are inevitably rather restricted in scope. There is thus
a need for short but authoritative introductions to those areas of
modern biological research which are either not dealt with in
standard introductory textbooks or are not dealt with in sufficient
detail to enable the student to go on from them to read scholarly
reviews with profit. This series of books is designed to satisfy
this need. The authors have been asked to produce a brief outline
of their subject assuming that their readers will have read and
remembered much of a standard introductory textbook of biology.
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities. eBook available with sample pages: 0203131681
Accessible, concise, and clinically focused, Essentials of Pain
Medicine, 4th Edition, by Drs. Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N.
Raja, Scott M. Fishman, Spencer S. Liu, and Steven P. Cohen,
presents a complete, full-color overview of today's theory and
practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. It provides
practical guidance on the full range of today's pharmacologic,
interventional, neuromodulative, physiotherapeutic, and
psychological management options for the evaluation, treatment, and
rehabilitation of persons in pain. Covers all you need to know to
stay up to date in practice and excel at examinations - everything
from basic considerations through local anesthetics, nerve block
techniques, acupuncture, cancer pain, and much more. Uses a
practical, quick-reference format with short, easy-to-read
chapters. Presents the management of pain for every setting where
it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care
unit, and the pain clinic. Features hundreds of diagrams,
illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify key
information and injection techniques - now in full color for the
first time. Includes the latest best management techniques,
including joint injections, ultrasound-guided therapies, and new
pharmacologic agents (such as topical analgesics). Discusses recent
global developments regarding opioid induced hyperalgesia,
addiction and substance abuse, neuromodulation and pain management,
and identification of specific targets for molecular pain. Expert
ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook
experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As,
and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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Onco-Nephrology (Hardcover)
Kevin W. Finkel, Mark Anthony Perazella, Eric P. Cohen
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Kidney disease and cancer are frequent comorbidities that require
specialized knowledge and expertise from both the nephrologist and
the oncologist. Written by three pioneers in this growing
subspecialty, Onco-Nephrology provides authoritative, definitive
coverage of the mechanism and management of these two
life-threatening diseases. This unique, single-volume resource
covers current protocols and recommends management therapies to
arrest kidney failure and allow oncologic treatments to continue
and succeed. Addresses acute and chronic kidney diseases that
develop from a variety of cancers. This includes direct kidney
injury from the malignancy, paraneoplastic effects of the cancer,
and various cancer agents used to treat the malignancy. Discusses
key issues regarding kidney disease in patients with cancer,
including conventional chemotherapeutic regimens and new novel
therapies (targeted agents and immunotherapies) or the malignancies
themselves that may promote kidney injury; patients with chronic
kidney disease who acquire cancer unrelated to renal failure; and
kidney transplantation, which has been shown to carry an increased
risk of cancer. Contains dedicated chapters for each class of the
conventional chemotherapeutic agents, targeted cancer agents, and
cancer immunotherapies including the basic science, pathogenic
mechanisms of injury, clinical manifestations, and treatment.
Includes special chapters devoted to the individual classes of
chemotherapies that relate to kidney disease for quick reference.
Discusses increasingly complex problems due to more numerous and
specialized anti-cancer drugs, as well as increased survival rates
for both cancer and renal failure requiring long-term patient care.
Covers anti-VEGF (antivascular endothelial growth factor) agents
and cancer immunotherapies - treatments that are being recognized
for adverse kidney effects. Utilizes a clear, logical format based
on the ASN Core Curriculum for Onco-Nephrology, making this
reference an excellent tool for board review, as well as a
practical resource in daily practice. Enhanced eBook version
included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access
all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety
of devices.
Stephen Philip Cohen, the scholar who virtually created the field
of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of
the most interesting and important articles, chapters, and speeches
from his fifty-year career. Cohen, often described as the "dean" of
U.S. South Asian studies, is a dominant figure in the fields of
military history, military sociology, and South Asia's strategic
emergence. This exceptional collection includes material that have
never appeared in book form, including Cohen's original essays on
the region's military history, the transition from British rule to
independence, the role of the armed forces in India and Pakistan,
the pathologies of India-Pakistan relations, South Asia's growing
nuclear arsenal, and America's fitful (and forgetful) regional
policy. These original writings show how Cohen developed a
still-relevant theory of regional conflict, and how his views
evolved over the years tracking the development of South Asian
security studies.
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