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The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed
the homes of Dallas high society—and a window into the dark
secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties. As a
string of high profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the
Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief "the King of
Diamonds" because he eluded police and the FBI for more than a
decade. Like Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief," the King was so bold
that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were
watching television, or hosting parties. He hid in their closets.
And dared to smoke a cigarette while they were sleeping not far
away. Rena Pederson, then a young reporter withUPI, started
following the elusive thief while she managed the night desk. With
gymnastic skill, this thief climbed trees or crawled across
rooftops to get into sprawling mansions. He took jewels from
heiresses, oil kings, corporate CEOs. These were not just some of
the richest people in Texas; they were some of the richest people
of their time. Scotland Yard and Interpol were on the look-out. But
the thief was never caught and the jewels never recovered. To
follow the tracks of the thief, Rena has interviewed more than two
hundred people, from veteran cops to strippers. She went to pawn
shops, Las Vegas casinos, and a Mafia hangout—and discovered that
beneath the glittering façade of Dallas debutante parties was a
world of sex trafficking, illegal gambling, and political graft.
When one of the leading suspects was found dead in highly unusual
circumstances, the story darkened. High society crashed head-first
into Mickey Spillane. The odd psychological aspects of the The King
of Diamonds give us different kind of crime story. Detectives were
stumped: Why did the thief break into houses when his targets were
inside, increasing the risk of being captured? Why did he hide in
their closets? Many times, he was so close he could hear their
breathing as they slept. As one socialite put it, “It was a very
peculiar business.”
Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Metallic Materials
outlines the state-of-the-art on AM in high performance materials
utilizing the two most industrially interesting routes of powder
bed fusion (PBF) and directed energy deposition (DED). The book
delves into Feedstock, Processing, Monitoring and control, Modeling
and simulation, and Surface and thermal post-treatments. It
specifically addresses materials and the most relevant and high
performance applications, namely Ni-based alloys and Titanium
alloys, and also provides insights into potential applications
through illustrative case studies. With each chapter contributed by
experts in the field, this work will serve as a comprehensive
resource for graduate students and practitioners alike.
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A
Critical Annotated Bibliography, is comprised of critical essays
accompanied by annotated bibliographies on a host of programs,
models, strategies and concerns vis-a-vis teaching and learning
about social issues facing society. The primary goal of the book is
to provide undergraduate and graduate students in the field of
education, professors of education, and teachers with a valuable
resource as they engage in research and practice in relation to
teaching about social issues. In the introductory essays, authors
present an overview of their respective topics (e.g., The
Hunt/Metcalf Model, Science/Technology/Science, Genocide
Education). In doing so, they address, among other concerns, the
following: key theories, goals, objectives, and the research base.
Many also provide a set of recommendations for adapting and/or
strengthening a particular model, program or the study of a
specific social issue. In the annotated bibliographies accompanying
the essays, authors include those works that are considered
classics and foundational. They also include research- and
practice-oriented articles. Due to space constraints, the annotated
bibliographies generally offer a mere sampling of what is available
on each approach, program, model, or concern. The book is composed
of twenty two chapters and addresses an eclectic array of topics,
including but not limited to the following: the history of teaching
and learning about social issues; George S. Counts and social
issues; propaganda analysis; Harold Rugg's textbook program; Hunt
and Metcalf's Reflective Thinking and Social Understanding Model;
Donald Oliver, James Shaver and Fred Newmann's Public Issues Model;
Massialas and Cox' Inquiry Model; the Engle/Ochoa Decision making
Model; human rights education; Holocaust education; education for
sustainability; economic education; global education; multicultural
education; James Beane's middle level education integrated
curriculum model; Science Technology Society (STS); addressing
social issues in the English classroom; genocide education;
interdisciplinary approaches to incorporating social issues into
the curriculum; critical pedagogy; academic freedom; and teacher
education.
Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten
and Jon E. Pedersen, have co-edited a series of books on teaching
and learning about social issues. Our goal has been to build a
series that would broadly represent the work that has been
undertaken over the past 110 plus years related to the field of
teaching and learning about social issues. As we created and added
to the series (see for example: Addressing Social Issues in the
Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the
Field; Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories
and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education; Teaching and
Studying Social Issues: Major Programs and Approaches), we came to
the conclusion that the development of an annotated bibliography of
the key works (books, chapters, articles, reports, and research) on
a wide-range of issues/topics germane to teaching and learning
about social issues was a logical addition to the series. In
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Volume
1: A Critical Annotated Bibliography (which was published in early
2012), the focus was on a host of programs, models, strategies and
concerns vis-a-vis teaching and learning about social issues. This
new book constitutes Volume Two in the series entitled Educating
About Social Issues in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries and
picks up where Volume One left off. Included in this book are the
pioneering works of the following: Boyd Bode, Alan F. Griffin, G.
Gordon Hullfish, Richard Gross, Robert Yager, and James Banks.
Collectively, their work on social issues spans the period between
the late 1930s through the present (with James Banks and Robert
Yager continuing to publish through today). As for the
subjects/topics (other than pioneers of teaching about social
issues) addressed in this volume, they are: Issues-Centered
Approaches to Teaching Geography, Addressing Social Issues in
Sociology and Anthropology Courses, Peace Studies, The Vietnam War,
and LBGT.
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Our Bodies Are Selves (Hardcover)
Philip Hefner, Ann Milliken Pederson, Susan Barreto
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While many contemplate roaming the world, at 22, Laurie Rutherford
Pederson embarked on a solo journey of 365 days, beginning in
December 1976. She recorded her many adventures, sublime to
horrific, in twenty-seven journals from which this book emerged.
The Victoria, B.C. native worked as a travel agent, creating her
own itinerary to countries that intrigued her. She explored these
exotic locations, each replete with its historic and often perilous
political landscapes, using all means of transport: from a luggage
rack on a train in India to rickshaws to horseback, even a boat on
the Canal du Midi. Family friends in several countries provided
respites of gracious hospitality and rollicking entertainment; but,
to her credit, Pederson writes with equal appreciation of the many
strangers-locals and fellow travellers-she encountered along the
way. Her prose sparkles with hilarious interior monologues and a
cinematographer's attention to detail. From a near-fatal motorcycle
accident on Bali to a brush with death at the Israel-Lebanese
border, there is adventure, romance, fear and reflection. The
author left her secure home in Victoria as a young adventuress; she
returned a woman. Pederson's memoir is contemplative yet
spontaneous, capturing a time of great change in the world.
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Catalina by Air (Hardcover)
Jeannine L. Pederson, Catalina Island Museum
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St. Albans (Hardcover)
L. Louise Haynes, Charlotte Pederson; As told to St Albans Historical Museum
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Ever since its introduction around 1960 by Kirillov, the orbit
method has played a major role in representation theory of Lie
groups and Lie algebras. This book contains the proceedings of a
conference held from August 29 to September 2, 1988, at the
University of Copenhagen, about "the orbit method in representation
theory." It contains ten articles, most of which are original
research papers, by well-known mathematicians in the field, and it
reflects the fact that the orbit method plays an important role in
the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups, solvable Lie
groups, and even more general Lie groups, and also in the theory of
enveloping algebras.
What does it mean to be human in an age of science, technology, and
faith? The ability to ask such a question suggests at least a
partial answer, in that however we describe ourselves we bear a
major role in determining what we will become. In this book, Philip
Hefner reminds us that this inescapable condition is the challenge
and opportunity of Homo sapiens as the created co-creator. In four
original chapters and an epilogue, Hefner frames the created
co-creator as a memoirist with an ambiguous legacy, explores some
of the roots of this ambiguity, emphasizes the importance of
answering this ambiguity with symbols that can interpret it in
wholesome ways, proposes a partial theological framework for
co-creating such symbols, and applies this framework to the
challenge of using technology like artificial intelligence and
robotics to create other co-creators in our own image. Editors
Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk have compiled eight responses to
Hefner's work to honor his scholarly career and answer his call to
help co-create a more wholesome future in an age of science,
technology, and faith.
What would your life be like if Jesus lived it? Imagine the change
you would experience in your thoughts, actions, and relationships.
Think of the joy and freedom that could transform every area of
your life. That s exactly what God has in mind for you You ll find
out how in Growth. Through personal study and small group
interaction, this study sets you on a path to live out the
character of Jesus in this world as only you can. It happens not by
trying hard, but by training. By cultivating spiritual
disciplines--Scripture meditation, prayer, solitude, endurance,
loving others--you ll discover the joy of being transformed by
Christ and the freedom of living each day sustained by his power.
Leader s guide included Growth group sessions are: Training to Live
Like Jesus The Practice of Scripture Meditation The Practice of
Solitude Simple Prayer Three Transforming Prayers The Roundabout
Way And the Greatest of These Is Love"
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film proposes a way of
constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and
novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic films,
Trevor C. Pederson recognizes that the psychoanalytic tradition
began with making sense of the seemingly inconsequential. Here he
turns his attention to popular films like Joel Schumacher's The
Lost Boys (1987). While masterworks like Psycho (1960) are not the
object of interpretation, Hitchcock's film is used as a skeleton
key. The revelation that Norman Bates' character had been his
mother all along, suggests a framework of reading a film as having
symptom characters who are excised to create a latent plot. The
symptom character's behavior or inter-relations are then
transcribed to an ego character. This is a shift in the tradition
of literary doubling from hermeneutic intuition to a formal
methodology that generates data for the unconscious. Pederson
continues the project of unifying competing schools into a single
model of mind and offers clinical examples from his own practice
for all its terms. Psychodynamic techniques that emphasize the
importance of working with the body, the id, and the ubiquity of
repetition are introduced. A return to Freud's structural theory,
in which complexes are anchored in the stages of superego
development, is used to carefully plot and explain the social
nature of the superego and its relation to authority in society
(secondary narcissism) and the otherworldly (primary narcissism).
Discrete phases of superego development and their ties to both the
social and the id revive the grand promises of classical
psychoanalysis to link with every field in the humanities.
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film will appeal to
psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as
scholars of film studies and literature interested in using a
psychoanalytic approach and ideas in their work.
A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides
important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it
physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths,
remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated
from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and
experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress,
recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work
includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms,
suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on
assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of
rights. This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer,
dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it.
Pederson and Trigg have drawn on their own experiences with cancer
patients to provide frank discussions of the physiological and
psychological aspects of breast cancer. Fears, truths, remedies,
and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from the
perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and friends.
Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress,
recovery, and death are discussed in language accessible to the
general reader. The work includes valuable appendices including a
glossary of terms, suggested reading, questions to ask doctors,
tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill
of rights.
Our Bodies Are Selves is a look at what it means to be human in a
world where medical technology and emerging ethical insight force
us to rethink the boundaries of humanity/spirit and man/machine.
This book gives us a fresh look at how our expanding biological
views of ourselves and our shared evolutionary history shows us a
picture that may not always illumine who and where we are as
Christians. Offering up Christian theological views of embodiment,
the authors give everyday examples of lives of love, faith, and
bodily realities that offer the potential to create new definitions
of what it means to be a faith community in an increasingly
technological age of medicine.
This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding
psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua
psychologist to link the depths of the mind to the surface. The
author argues that egoism and altruism are a more accurate
representation of activity and passivity and that Freud's work
points to masculine and feminine drives on each pole, which,
because of psychic bisexuality, can exist in either sex. The author
argues that Freud places the Oedipus complex as the height of
striving for personal happiness in passionate love or success. The
subsequent father complex is snatched from obscurity and given its
proper weight as the recreation of the parental incest taboo
amongst siblings. Passionate love and success are mastered as the
ideal to marry and seek fairness in one's dealings with others. The
author argues that Freud's work suggests that the earlier form of
the superego are depersonalized to create different ontologies, or
forms of being in the world, that reference the necessary
subjective sense of Space, Time, the Superlative, and up to oedipal
Prestige.Lastly, to justify this return to the drive, superego, and
psychic bisexuality the author provides an explication of
Wittgenstein's private language argument.
There have been many serious abuses of presidential power in
recent decades, including Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and
the Lewinsky affair, subsequently Americans have demonstrated
renewed interest in discussing the relationship between character
and political leadership. Through an investigation of the life and
career of George Washington, often considered the exemplary moral
president, the chapters offer a balanced scholarly contribution to
this analysis.
Fishman, Pederson, Rozell, and their contributors examine the
legacy of Washingtons presidency. Leading political scientists and
historians describe and evaluate the impact of Washington's
leadership on the institution of the presidency and on those who
have since occupied the Oval Office. In the contemporary era of
almost endless speculation about the role of character in
presidential leadership, an analysis of Washington's character and
the model he established is especially germane.
The chapters provide diverse interpretations of the value of
understanding Washington's leadership and the character of the
modern presidency. Some of the scholars conclude that Washington
indeed laid the foundation for good character and strong leadership
in the presidency. Others take a more critical approach and see
Washington, like many of his successors, as a fallible human being
who possessed both character strengths and weaknesses. The lasting
value of this analysis for political scientists, historians, and
other students of the American presidency is that it demonstrates
the continued vibrant debate over Washington's authentic legacy to
the office.
In this volume Rozell and Peterson bring together a collection
of new essays exploring the unparalleled impact of Franklin D.
Roosevelt on the modern presidency. Of all the modern presidents,
FDR looms largest. Indeed, most scholars date the origins of the
modern presidency to FDR, and many assert that no one since has
achieved his level of greatness in office.
The essays are organized into two broad sections: The first
examines FDR's impact on the creation and development of the
administrative presidency and the legacy of the New Deal; the
second looks at FDR's legacy to presidential leadership and the
exercise of presidential powers. An important volume for scholars
and other researchers of the FDR era and the modern American
presidency.
This essay collection is a retrospective analysis of the
Washington administration's importance to the understanding of the
modern presidency. Contemporary presidential scholarship gives
little attention to the enormous impact that Washington's actions
had on establishing the presidency. Most contemporary literature
starts with 1933 and, although FDR's impact on the development of
the modern institution of the presidency is undeniable,
Washington's actions in office also established standards for
practices that continue to this day.
This analysis of the Washington presidency begins with an
examination of Washington's leadership and its relevance to the
modern presidency. The second group of essays looks at different
aspects of presidential powers and the precedents established by
the Washington administration. The third section examines
Washington's press coverage, looking at the origins of Washington's
image and the various myths in the press as well as the president's
difficult relations with his contemporary press. A thoughtful and
important corrective that will be of interest to scholars,
students, and researchers involved with the American presidency and
its history.
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