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This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of
the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South
Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from
the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared
to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their
orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and
agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and
enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the way - if
they were protected from internal and external threat. This volume
contributes to the increasingly comparative and international
literature on the history of eugenics and to several ongoing
historiographic debates, especially around issues of race. As
white-settler societies, questions related to racial mixing and
purity were inescapable, and a notable contribution of this volume
is its attention to Indigenous populations, both as targets and on
occasion agents of eugenic ideology.
An updated edition of the international bestseller with inspirational stories and new resources to transform your life.
Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion and a positive attitude to the job every day. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager has the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team.
Seattle's Pike Place Fish is a world famous market that is wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling, joyful atmosphere and great customer service. By applying ingeniously simple lessons learned from the Pike Place, our manager discovers how to energise and transform her workplace.
Addressing today's most pressing work issues with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message, FISH! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profound.
This volume details generation of gene-edited cell lines and
organisms as models for human diseases, pest control, and large
animal welfare and production outcomes. Chapters guide readers
through gene regulation, editing, screening of cell lines, genome
editing, and an overview of the tools for efficient genome editing
including; ZFNs, TALENs, and CRISPR. Written in the format of the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, each chapter
includes an introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials
and reagents, includes tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls,
and step- by-step, readily reproducible protocols. Authoritative
and cutting-edge, Applications of Genome Modulation and Editing
aims to be a useful and practical guide for researchers to commence
or advance their study in this field.
It doesn't matter if you are an individual contributor who wants to hang on to a better work life or a CEO who wants to maintain a new high level of productivity: Sustaining change is the true test of leadership. Holding on to a culture of innovation, maintaining a higher quality of work life, constantly renewing an important customer service program, or retaining a more participative management style require the use of an unique set of principles that are different than those used simply to initiate a change . . . External energy is often what it takes to catch our attention in a busy world. But external energy cannot sustain a change. That takes a different source of energy: natural energy." --from the Introduction to
This volume details generation of gene-edited cell lines and
organisms as models for human diseases, pest control, and large
animal welfare and production outcomes. Chapters guide readers
through gene regulation, editing, screening of cell lines, genome
editing, and an overview of the tools for efficient genome editing
including; ZFNs, TALENs, and CRISPR. Written in the format of the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, each chapter
includes an introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials
and reagents, includes tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls,
and step- by-step, readily reproducible protocols. Authoritative
and cutting-edge, Applications of Genome Modulation and Editing
aims to be a useful and practical guide for researchers to commence
or advance their study in this field.
An updated edition of the international bestseller with
inspirational stories and new resources to transform your life.
Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion
and a positive attitude to the job every day. In this engrossing
parable, a fictional manager has the responsibility of turning a
chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an
effective team. Seattle's Pike Place Fish is a world famous market
that is wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling, joyful
atmosphere and great customer service. By applying ingeniously
simple lessons learned from the Pike Place, our manager discovers
how to energise and transform her workplace. Addressing today's
most pressing work issues with an engaging metaphor and an
appealing message, FISH! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp,
instantly applicable, and profound.
The phenomenal bestseller FISH! has sold more than one million
copies worldwide and has appeared on numerous bestseller lists.
Now, with the FISH! Omnibus, readers can enjoy the wisdom of FISH!
and its sequels FISH! TALES and FISH! STICKS in one book. FISH! is
a powerful parable that will help you love the work you do - even
if you can't always do work that you love. In this engaging
metaphor, a fictional manager transforms a chronically
unenthusiastic department into an effective team by applying
ingeniously simple lessons learnt from Pike Place Fish, a wildly
successful local fishmonger. The parable addresses today's most
pressing work issues and offers easy to grasp, profound wisdom -
the hallmark of a business classic. With FISH! TALES, readers can
learn how people from four real-life businesses boosted morale and
improved results by implementing the FISH! principles. Here are
specific and tested techniques that can be put to use immediately
in any kind of business or organisation - even at home. FISH! TALES
features dozens of success stories, and it details a twelve-week
programme with specific steps and action plans to help you find
greater fulfilment - while inspiring those around you to do the
same. In FISH! STICKS, the authors teach you how to create your own
vision for your business - and to keep it alive and renewed through
the tough and changing times, such as turnover in management and
staff. FISH! STICKS will show you sustainable ways to establish an
invigorating management style that really works.
The Celtic Jersey is a comprehensive and evocative history of one
of the most famous and iconic football shirts of them all. Through
a breathtaking collection of historic match-worn jerseys, this
stunning coffee table book tells the story of the green-and-white
hoops, and the great players who have pulled it on. In doing so The
Celtic Jersey also provides a unique insight into the history of
the club itself. So much more than a football shirt, 'the Hoops'
are steeped in cultural and political significance which makes them
sacred to followers of Celtic Football Club and instantly
recognised the world over. Compiled with the help of the key
collectors of match worn Celtic shirts, this unique publication
showcases both home and away jerseys worn by club legends from
Jimmy Johnstone and Henrik Larsson, to current icon Scott Brown.
With many of the jerseys originating from the personal collection
of legendary kit man Neilly Mochan, the book includes several
opposition jerseys swapped during Celtic's glorious 1960s and 1970s
European Cup campaigns, and a jersey from the infamous
Intercontinental Cup tie against Racing Club of Argentina in 1967.
In the words of the late Tommy Burns, "When you pull on that
jersey, you're not just playing for a football team. You're playing
for a people and a cause."
In this volume distinguished scholars from different social science disciplines assess the emerging international order. The volume's three sections examine theories and strategies of order; the prospects of the major likely contenders for world leadership (the United States, Russia, China, the European Union, Japan and India); and the challenges to world order, including globalization, nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, environmental degradation, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. This book thus offers a comprehensive account of the prospects for a peaceful and just international order in the next century.
Before it was written, this book was spoken. For ten winter days in
1977, the orator Paul John-widely respected as a dean of Yup'ik
elders, and recognized for his tireless advocacy of Yup'ik language
and traditions-held an audience of Yup'ik students rapt at Nelson
Island High School, in southwest Alaska. Hour after hour he spoke
to the young people, sharing life experiences and Yup'ik
narratives, never repeating a tale. Now, more than a
quarter-century after Paul John's extraordinary performance, Sophie
Shield's translations and Ann Fienup-Riordan's editing have brought
his words back to life, and to a new audience. This book records
one elder's attempt to create a moral universe for future
generations through stories about the special knowledge of the
Yup'ik people. Tales both authentically Yup'ik and marked by Paul
John's own unique innovations are presented in a bilingual edition,
with Yup'ik and English text presented in facing pages. As Paul
John says, "In this whole world, whoever we are, if people speak
using their own language, they will be presenting their identity
and it will be their strength."
Let them speak to me no more of Rome, and let Greece be silent lest
she stand accused of knowing nothing but what she has derived from
Egypt. Frederik Ludvig Norden (17081742), a Danish naval officer,
wrote these words during a 1737 expedition to describe his
amazement at the technical ingenuity of ancient Egyptian and Nubian
art and architecture. Posthumously published in 1755, Nordens
Travels in Egypt and Nubia proved to be of great importance for
eighteenth-century discussions of the role of Egypt and Greece in
the creation of European identity. This volume, supplemented by
more than fifty of Nordens own drawings, is an analysis of the
publication and its lasting cultural and intellectual influence.
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry
James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong
Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a
fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation.
Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all
autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that
the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive
consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical
act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living
and only eventually, and occasionally, in writing. Originally
published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
This inspiring follow up to FISH! offers exciting case-studies of
how companies are applying the fish philosophy to meet their unique
goals and needs. FISH TALES features four real-life stories of the
fish principle in action - to help you 'reel' in new possibilities
in the workplace - and four short chapters, also from actual
organisations, on the four principles of the FISH! philosophy.
Using a short, easy-to-read format, it effectively communicates a
message that applies to every kind of business. These stimulating
examples of re-energised companies are perfect for those wanting to
dive deeper into the FISH! philosophy and create that amazing
environment in their own workplace.
The movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the
clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of
research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and
investigating the human activities that took place there became
available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of
Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a
sixteen year period have made a significant contribution to
charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and
its community over six millennia. Evolution of a Community
chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland
location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of
activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back
into the Mesolithic period. Subsequent visits during the Late
Neolithic became more focused when the locality appears to have
been part of a religious landscape that included a possible barrow
site and ritual pit deposits. The excavations indicate that the
earliest permanent settlement at the site dates to the Late Bronze
Age, with the subsequent Iron Age phases characterised as a small,
modest and inward-looking community that endured into the Roman
period with very little evidence for disjuncture during the
transition. The significant discovery of a group of seventh-century
Anglo-Saxon burials which produced rare evidence for infectious
deceases is discussed within the context of 'final phase'
cemeteries and the influence of visible prehistoric features within
the local landscape. The excavation of the Late Anglo-Saxon and
medieval rural settlement defined its origins and layout which,
alongside the artefactual and archaeobotanical assemblages
recovered creates a profile over time of the life and livelihood of
this community that is firmly placed within its historical context.
Autobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but
making autobiography is equally part of the fabric of our ongoing
experience. We tell the stories of our lives piecemeal, and these
stories are not merely about our selves but also an integral part
of them. In this way we "live autobiographically"; we have
narrative identities. In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul
John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our
selves and our stories, between narrative and identity in everyday
life.
Eakin draws on a wide range of autobiographical writings, from
work by Jonathan Franzen, Mary Karr, and Andre Aciman to the New
York Times series "Portraits of Grief" memorializing the victims of
9/11, as well as the latest insights into identity formation from
the fields of developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and
neurobiology. In his account, the self-fashioning in which we
routinely, even automatically, engage is largely conditioned by
social norms and biological necessities. We are taught by others
how to say who we are, while at the same time our sense of self is
shaped decisively by our lives in and as bodies. For Eakin,
autobiography is always an act of self-determination, no matter
what the circumstances, and he stresses its adaptive value as an
art that helps to anchor our shifting selves in time."
This is the second of two volumes published by Cambridge University
Press in honor of Richard Lewontin. The first volume, Evolutionary
Genetics from Molecules to Morphology, honors Lewontin's more
technical contributions to genetics and evolutionary biology. This
second volume of essays honors the philosophical, historical, and
political dimensions of his work. Given the range of Lewontin's own
contributions, it is fitting that the volume covers such a wide
range of perspectives on modern biology. He was a very successful
practitioner of evolutionary genetics, a rigorous critic of the
practices of genetics and evolutionary biology, as well as an
articulate analyst of the social, political, and economic contexts
and consequences of genetic and evolutionary research. The volume
contains an essay by Lewontin on Natural History and Formalism in
Evolutionary Genetics, and an extended interview with Lewontin,
covering the history of evolutionary genetics as seen from his
perspective and exemplified by his career. The remaining chapters,
contributed by former students, post-docs, colleagues, and
collaborators, cover issues ranging from the history and conceptual
foundations of evolutionary biology and genetics, to the
implications of human genetic diversity, to the political economy
of agriculture and public health.
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