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Life in 1967 was simple in small town America until the local bank
is robbed and one teenager was able to identify a potential
suspect. While searching for the thieves the local basketball team
was on a roll winning games and was a serious contender to win the
conference championship. One teenager named Porter is pursued by
the bank robbers who intend to do away with him as a potential
witness and a couple of local teenagers are on his trail to make
sure he does not date there girlfriends. The ending is a thriller
and everything up to that point has Porter considering whether he
can survive.
Unknown to Trong, scouts had reported increased American activity
to the southeast of the camp, which possibly meant the Americans
were moving into the area. Every precaution had been taken to
ensure that the camp was not taken by surprise. Patrols were sent
out daily. Observation posts were placed well forward of the camp,
and fi ghting positions around the camp were manned at all times.
Trong checked his equipment one more time as he waited for the
Americans. He slid the bolt back on his Soviet made AK-47 making
sure that a round was chambered. Next, he checked the green plastic
American-made detonator, which was attached to the Chinese claymore
mine located thirty meters from his position. He thought himself
ready and tried to fi ght the panic that assailed his mind. He
thought of what his section leader had told him. "Wait, until the
Americans were close to the mine before detonating it. Then use
your rifl e to kill any of the Americans that are left alive."
Chester Porter was born and raised in Texas. He was drafted into
the Army in 1967 and served with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade.
In 1968 he was transferred to the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. In
1982 he became a Federal Law Enforcement Offi cer for the
Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service. He retired
from federal service in 2005 after twenty-nine years of government
service. Porter lives today, outside of Savannah Georgia in the
small town of Rincon.
This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work
of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of
this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis
on the relationship between politics and art.
Developing an Online Educational Curriculum: Techniques and
Technologies acts as a guidebook for teachers and administrators as
they look for support with their online education programs. It
offers teaching suggestions for everything from course development
to time management and community building. The book is designed to
provide information to help teachers work more effectively with
online tools, develop course materials for existing online courses,
work with the internet as a medium of education and complete daily
activities - such as evaluating assignments, lecturing and
communicating with students more easily. Administrators are also
given support in their efforts to recruit, train, and retain online
teachers, allocate resources for online education and evaluate
online materials for promotion and tenure.
This volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium
co-sponsored by the History of Chemistry, Polymer, Material Science
and Engineering, Polymer Chemistry and Cellulose, Paper and Textile
Division of the American Chemical Society on the history of manmade
fibres at its 201st national annual meeting in Atlanta in 1991. It
contains chapters on a wide range of fibres both from an historical
perspective and with a view to outlining new materials and novel
uses.
Papers from the Discussion Conference on Recent Advances in General
Relativity, held at the U. of Pittsburgh, May 1990, survey the
interacting fields of classical general relativity, astrophysics,
and quantum gravity. Some of the remarks made following the invited
papers are also included. The conference also included three
workshops on classical g
With a unique focus on middle-range theory, this book details the
application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of
integrating and better understanding the different transitional
components of the overall demographic transition. This book first
details key concepts and measures in modern spatial demography and
shows how they can be applied to middle-range theory to better
understand people, places, communities and relationships throughout
the world. Next, it shows middle-range theory in practice, from
using spatial data as a proxy for social science statistics to
examining the effect of "fracking" in Pennsylvania on the formation
of new coalitions among environmental advocacy organizations. The
book also traces future developments and offers some potential
solutions to promoting and facilitating instruction in spatial
demography. This volume is an ideal resource for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses involving
spatial analyses in the social sciences, from sociology and
political science to economics and educational research. In
addition, scholars and others interested in the role that
geographic context plays in relation to their research will find
this book a helpful guide in further developing their work.
This book contains the findings of a study, which examines the
potential energy savings available to the Commission of the
European Communities through the recovery of selected waste
materials. It identifies the principal institutional, operational
and technical constraints to further recovery.
The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and
both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not
discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for
so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their
papers for publication and efficiently meeting our schedules. It is
thanks to their cooperation that this volume has appeared speedily
and painlessly; their revisions have helped to give it internal
coherence. This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a
conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1 December, 1989. We
are most grateful to the Wellcome Trust for having underwritten the
costs of the conference, and to Frieda Houser and Stephen Emberton
whose organizational skills contributed so much to making it a
smoothly-run and enjoyable day. In addition to the papers delivered
at the conference, we are delighted to have secured further
contributions from David Harley and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch. Our
thanks to them for their eager help. From start to finish, we have
received splendid encouragement from all those connected with the
Philosophy and Medicine series, especially Professor Stuart
Spicker, and Martin Scrivener at Kluwer Academic Publishers. Their
enthusiasm has lightened our load, and expedited the editorial
process.
A sweet romance, where teens make their own summer work. As their
business grows, so does their love for one another. A rollercoaster
of emotions.
Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national
interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts?
This interdisciplinary collection responds to these questions
exploring ideas of Britain's national interest and their impact on
strategy, challenging current thinking and practice in the making
of foreign policy.
Written by a growth management expert, this book provides proven
strategies and solutions that you can use to put smarth growth into
action. Facing realities head on, it provides a frank discussion of
the pros and cons, difficulties, and stumbling blocks that others
have faced.
As water becomes ever more important in a rapidly growing United
States challenged by lessening firm-yield water reliability, the
public needs to understand the myriads of quite different
state-by-state water policies. States share surface water and
groundwater sources that relate to each other conjunctively. Texans
for example, should understand New Mexico water ownership and state
policies because they share surface water and groundwater sources.
Californians should understand Nevada’s water policies for the
same reasons. Above all else, the people of the United States must
realize that a water policy in one state can drastically impact
water availability in neighboring states. Although the federal
government has supra-legal authority over some state water policies
and acts as the ultimate arbiter of interstate disputes, no one
current book exists that explains the complicated relationships
between state water policies with an analysis of federal water
policies. Water Rights and Polices in the United States is a
one-stop resource providing a state-by-state analysis of water
ownership, regulatory agencies, and water polices. It explains the
complicated relationships between state water policies and provides
and analysis of federal water polices. How we manage these policies
is of utmost importance to all Americans.
Stephen Porter's Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid
initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American
people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War,
opening an important window onto the "short American century."
Chronicling both international relief efforts and domestic
resettlement programs aimed at dispossessed people from Europe,
Latin America, and East Asia, Porter asks how, why, and with what
effects American actors took responsibility for millions of victims
of war, persecution, and political upheaval during these decades.
Diverse forces within the American state and civil society directed
these endeavors through public-private governing arrangements, a
dynamic yielding both benefits and liabilities. Motivated by a
variety of geopolitical, ethical, and cultural reasons, these
advocates for humanitarian action typically shared a desire to
portray the United States, to the American people and international
audiences, as an exceptional, benevolent world power whose objects
of concern might potentially include any vulnerable people across
the globe. And though reality almost always fell short of that
idealized vision, Porter argues that this omnivorous philanthropic
energy helped propel and steer the ascendance of the United States
to its position of elite global power. The messaging and
administration of refugee aid initiatives informed key dimensions
of American and international history during this period, including
U.S. foreign relations, international humanitarianism and human
rights, global migration and citizenship, and American political
development and social relations at home. Benevolent Empire is thus
simultaneously a history of the United States and the world beyond.
Prostate Ultrasound: Current Practice and Future Directions
addresses the most up-to-date imaging techniques that incorporate
ultrasound in the evaluation of prostate cancer. The volume
features an important section on the applied physics of ultrasound
and the future techniques that promise soon be to be routinely
available as we continue to improve our ability to evaluate this
optically illusive disease. The volume evaluates imaging of the
prostate for the diagnosis and treatment of these benign
conditions, and evaluates the future of pelvic floor ultrasound in
the male. The general scope encompasses the physics of ultrasound,
the technical aspects on the use of ultrasound, and the actual
present day state of the art use of ultrasound in the treatment and
diagnosis of men with prostatic issue. The volume also includes the
unique feature of providing links to video clips that illustrate
techniques of diagnostic ultrasound that will provide the reader
with the foundation to perform accurate and safe ultrasound exams.
Prostate Ultrasound: Current Practice and Future Directions will be
of great value to urologists, radiologists, medical oncologists
ultrasound technicians and fellows and residents in urology.
The discipline of Sociology has a rich history of including spatial
context in the analysis of social issues. Much of this history has
revolved around the development and application of spatial theory
aimed at understanding the geographic distribution of social
problems, the organization of communities, and the relationship
between society and the environment. More recently, the social
sciences have seen a large number of technological innovations that
now make it possible to place social behaviour in spatial context.
Consequently, because of the historical disjuncture in the
development of spatial theory and the recent development of
relevant methodological tools, the relationship between materials
describing both the methodological approaches and their theoretical
importance a scattered throughout various books and articles.
Geographical Sociology consolidates these materials into a single
accessible source in which spatial concepts such as containment,
proximity, adjacency, and others are examined in relation to such
methodological tools as hierarchical linear models, point pattern
analysis, and spatial regression. As these methods continue to
increase in popularity among social scientists the ability to more
generally understand societies relationship to geographic space
will continue to increase in it importance in the field. This book
represents a starting point to linking these concepts to practice
and is presented in an accessible form in which students,
researchers, and educators can all learn, and in turn, contribute
to its development.
Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation
and management are the most challenging public policy issues for
any society. Water is the common denominator of all life on earth.
Public water policies then become the fundamental foundations of
community formation anywhere. Cities exist in their places based on
the local access to adequate amounts of fresh water. Without fair,
workable, and transparent public water policy any society is
threatened with socio-economic destruction, especially in the arid
areas living under severe drought and the threat of warming trends
worldwide. Public Water Policies: The Ultimate Weapons of Social
Control *Provides an interdisciplinary view of water policies
worldwide *Critically analyzes the consequences of water policies
around the world, many that are not only overlooked, but that have
never been considered *Analyzes the conflicts in social values of
any society that demand hard choices between population growth,
economic growth, and the environment *Provides a new perspective on
the overall long-reaching economic consequences of water policy.
*Offers four new terms to describe public water policies in
relation to social control: due process social control, deceptive
social control, diplomatic social control, and destructive social
control *Compares and contrasts water policies in key places in the
world using the new terms of social control to enlighten the public
and especially those water policymakers worldwide
With a unique focus on middle-range theory, this book details the
application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of
integrating and better understanding the different transitional
components of the overall demographic transition. This book first
details key concepts and measures in modern spatial demography and
shows how they can be applied to middle-range theory to better
understand people, places, communities and relationships throughout
the world. Next, it shows middle-range theory in practice, from
using spatial data as a proxy for social science statistics to
examining the effect of "fracking" in Pennsylvania on the formation
of new coalitions among environmental advocacy organizations. The
book also traces future developments and offers some potential
solutions to promoting and facilitating instruction in spatial
demography. This volume is an ideal resource for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses involving
spatial analyses in the social sciences, from sociology and
political science to economics and educational research. In
addition, scholars and others interested in the role that
geographic context plays in relation to their research will find
this book a helpful guide in further developing their work.
Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national
interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts?
This interdisciplinary collection responds to these questions
exploring ideas of Britain's national interest and their impact on
strategy, challenging current thinking and practice in the making
of foreign policy.
The distinction between molecular immunology and immunobiology is
neces sarily arbitrary. The most rapid progress is usually made in
the blurred area between the two, when the chemist is aware of the
full significance of the biological problems, and the biologist is
alert to the contribution that a knowl edge of molecular structure
can be made to their solution. The range of scientific disciplines
able to contribute to research in immunology, which this approach
brings, is reflected in the present volume. Protein chemists worked
out the arrangement of the polypeptide chains and the amino acid
sequences of antibodies and X-ray crystallographers the three
dimensional structure, but more precise definition of the amino
acid side chain positions in the combining site is required for an
understanding of the subtleties of antibody specificity. That this
can be achieved with physical techniques such as nuclear magnetic
resonance has been shown by R. A. Dwek, and in his chapter he
summarizes these results with a minimum of technical detail. The
immune response has been shown to be dependent on complex cellular
interactions and further progress will be facilitated by
investigation of the molecular basis of these interactions. This
necessitates study of the structure and organization of the
molecules in the surfaces of lymphocytes and other cells.
It is appro pi ate to the contents of this book to recall a few
highlights in the history of plant cytology from its inception over
three centuries ago. Robert Hooke in 1663 presented his
observations of what he called " cells" in cork and other plant
parts and beautifully illustrated and described these in his
classic " Micrographia" published two years later. More detailed
exploration of the cell and its contents awaited almost two
centuries for Robert Brown's discovery of the nucleus in 1831.
Discoveries of other cell organelles followed, particularly in the
latter part of the 19th and early part of this century. As is
frequently noted each of these achievements was preceeded by
advances in the resolution of the microscope. Now history repeats
and recent developments in electron microscopy have given the
biologist the opportunity to study cell morphology in far greater
detail than at any time previously. Indeed, the resolution of the
electron microscope is several hundredfold better than that
available in the finest light microscopes. These advances in
instrumentation plus improvements in the techniques of specimen
preparation have made possible the ex amination of plant cells of
almost any type. It is the resulting wealth of new information now
accessible to the botanical cytologist that has prompted this
publication. In this book we have brought together electron
micrographs represent ing a number of cell types from higher
plants.
An extension of a topological space X is a space that contains X as
a dense subspace. The construction of extensions of various sorts -
compactifications, realcompactifications, H-elosed extension- has
long been a major area of study in general topology. A ubiquitous
method of constructing an extension of a space is to let the "new
points" of the extension be ultrafilters on certain lattices
associated with the space. Examples of such lattices are the
lattice of open sets, the lattice of zero-sets, and the lattice of
elopen sets. A less well-known construction in general topology is
the "absolute" of a space. Associated with each Hausdorff space X
is an extremally disconnected zero-dimensional Hausdorff space EX,
called the Iliama absolute of X, and a perfect, irreducible,
a-continuous surjection from EX onto X. A detailed discussion of
the importance of the absolute in the study of topology and its
applications appears at the beginning of Chapter 6. What concerns
us here is that in most constructions of the absolute, the points
of EX are certain ultrafilters on lattices associated with X. Thus
extensions and absolutes, although very different, are constructed
using similar tools.
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