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The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the
most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music
Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. A rock music icon is readily
recognizable-but intriguing and little-known stories lie behind the
public's enchantment. Readers of Rock Music Icons will encounter
new perspectives on notable recording artists ranging from Elvis
Presley, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Bob Marley to Elton John,
David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, and Kurt Cobain. One
meets Pink Floyd upon the fall of the Berlin Wall, the drama of
Freddie Mercury, Ozzy Osborne, and Madonna, and the musical craft
of Billy Joel. Rock Music Icons investigates authenticity,
identity, and the power of the voices and images of these widely
circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of
our lives. Rock Music Icons brings a reader an inside look into the
creativity of some of the most prominent rock stars of our time.
"Now what should I do?" This is a question academic leaders ask
themselves with great regularity. As ironic as it may seem, very
few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic
administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the
most part, academic administrators learn on the job. They also seek
advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to
offer such advice. The book is written both for academic
administrators at all levels as well as for those who aspire to
academic administration.
This updated edition examines the latest regulatory and judicial
developments involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA) and provides a clear, practical explanation of its
requirements. Using this book, you will learn how to manage the
"field side" of RCRA compliance, including identifying hazardous
waste, transporting hazardous materials under EPA and DOT
regulations, and disposing of solid wastes. You will also learn how
to manage the "paperwork side" of RCRA compliance, working with
such documents as RCRA permits, manifests and land ban documents,
and underground-storage-tank notices. New issues addressed in this
edition include the new provisions regarding recycling, the
corrective action program, and the regulation of combustion units;
changes in enforcement policy, civil and criminal liability, and
citizen suits; and new regulations regarding land disposal,
underground storage tanks, facilities siting, and municipal solid
waste management.
"Now what should I do?" This is a question academic leaders ask
themselves with great regularity. As ironic as it may seem, very
few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic
administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the
most part, academic administrators learn on the job. They also seek
advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to
offer such advice. The book is written both for academic
administrators at all levels as well as for those who aspire to
academic administration.
Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming should be
required reading for any serious student of the issue of climate
change. Edited and introduced by iconoclastic climatologist Patrick
J. Michaels, Shattered Consensus demonstrates the remarkable
disparities between so-called consensus documents on global
warming, such as the reports of the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and climate reality.
Shattered Consensus consists of nine expert essays on global
warming, covering the earth's temperature history and disparities
between what has been predicted about climate change and what has
actually been observed. The reader will discover substantial
disconnections and new information not generally discussed in
mainstream reports about climate science. For example, the
oft-quoted statement that recent years are the warmest of the last
millennium is now in serious doubt. Temperature changes observed
through the atmosphere (not just at the surface) are clearly
different than what has been projected to occur. Disparities
between observed precipitation and the simulations of computer
models can be several hundred percent. Shattered Consensus will
surely shatter commonly-held opinions about global warming and
leave the reader with serious questions about whether or not
policies to "fight" climate change are warranted at all.
The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided
into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a
broad scale; on the other, more qualitative area studies. This
edited collection promotes a new approach to comparative politics
that transcends the debate about the future of the discipline. The
contributors' essays are innovative in their interweaving of case
studies of the political situations in particular regions with the
project of political theorizing. The chapters take as their points
of departure such diverse topics as the liberal tradition in United
States politics, the impact of drug-related violence on democratic
stability in Colombia, and the relationship between poverty
reduction and support for democracy in Mali, thereby resoundingly
demonstrating the broad relevance of the volume's unifying theme:
theoretically informed comparative analysis. Students of politics,
from advanced undergraduates to practicing scholars, will find this
volume useful in assessing, analyzing, and uniting the fields of
comparative politics and political theory.
The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided
into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a
broad scale; on the other, more qualitative area studies. This
edited collection promotes a new approach to comparative politics
that transcends the debate about the future of the discipline. The
contributors' essays are innovative in their interweaving of case
studies of the political situations in particular regions with the
project of political theorizing. The chapters take as their points
of departure such diverse topics as the liberal tradition in United
States politics, the impact of drug-related violence on democratic
stability in Colombia, and the relationship between poverty
reduction and support for democracy in Mali, thereby resoundingly
demonstrating the broad relevance of the volume's unifying theme:
theoretically informed comparative analysis. Students of politics,
from advanced undergraduates to practicing scholars, will find this
volume useful in assessing, analyzing, and uniting the fields of
comparative politics and political theory.
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Equality - More or Less (Paperback)
Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton; Contributions by Brandon Jason Archuleta, Richard H. Davis, Morten G. Ender, …
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The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work
of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls
within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social
science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the
Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied
are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed
exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with
the topic. Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards
of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an
ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in
acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the
other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such
expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely
thwarted. Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds
these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying
deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which
promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in
those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce
discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who
condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and
unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the
present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate
whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another,
convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being
made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are
considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and
reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal,
including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as
accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of
these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites
even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual
curiosity and a spirit of adventure. Places Lost and Found is a
treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six
decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of
Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to
reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore
an array of places that are deeply layered with history and
meaning. The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in
Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its
aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any
discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and
resilience, and of course the romance of travel.
The Criminal Justice System in the United States is possessed by
the spirit of vengeance The proof is that as a nation we lead the
entire world in locking up it's people with the largest prison
population, the highest incarceration rate, and with the longest
and harshest penalties. What's worse is that once you get caught up
in the system you will continue to serve time long after your
sentence has been completed. Whether you were a career criminal or
a first time offender; a felony conviction will follow you For the
rest of your life As a first time offender. I have lived my life on
the road of infamy for over 28 years Trying to get my name back and
rebuild my life has been an arduous journey. I've suffered
tremendously from the collateral consequences of criminal
convictions laws that have blocked me from prospering and has made
my life mediocre at best. This book is about what myself and others
like me have lived through as well as how it effected me and those
around me. It is a glimpse into the turbulent life a convicted
felon who has paid their debt to society yet is still serving time
even though they've been released from the system. It's a
revelation to those have been on this journey for any length of
time, a warning to those who are about to start, and a wake up call
to everyday Americans who don't think this could happen to them
This book is a eye opening account of just how the spirit of
vengeance keeps those who get caught up in the criminal justice
system, "sentenced for life " How mass incarceration is a spiritual
attack on manhood and how it has made men who get caught up in the
system irrelevant and ineffective, and how the politics of fear and
the passage of draconian laws have created a permanent second class
who are marginalized, and oppressed by a legal and lethal form of
discrimination 1 in every 31 people in this country are currently
under Department Of Correction supervision They are either locked
up in local jails, in the state or federal penitentiary, on parole
or probation, or on some other form of community control. There are
over 600,000 people being released back into our society and they
really don't know how big of a giant they're about to face. While
there are a lot of great programs that are out there now to help
them succeed, (that did not exist when I was released), this book
will help them understand spiritual aspect of what's behind the
personal, political, societal, and economic road blocks that the
spirit of vengeance has set in place for their demise
Contents - 1. New Product Development-An Overview- Introduction;
The Opportunities New Products Create; The Problems New Products
Create; The New Product Development Cycle for Industrial Products;
Consumer New Product Evaluation; The Role of Technical Research and
Development in New Product Development; Why New Products Fail; Ten
Philosophies of Successful New Product Development; Case Studies -
2. Marketing Research In The Specialty Paper Business- Introduction
and Objectives; The Urgent Case for Marketing Research; General
Definitions and Applications for Marketing Research; Professional
Marketing Research; Practical Employment of Marketing Research;
Nonobjectivity in Research; The Scientific Method of Investigation;
Sources of Marketing Information; Methods of Collecting Data in
Marketing Research; Kinds of Marketing Research and Applications -
3. Spunbonded Products- Introduction; Sheet Structure of Tyvek
Spunbonded Linear Polyethylene; Area-Bonded Sheets; PointBonded
Spunbonded Polyethylene; Reemay Spunbonded Polyester; Typar
Spunbonded Polypropylene; Summary - 4. Nonwovens and Textile
Replacements - Introduction; Background of The Nonwoven Industry;
Types of Nonwovens; Disposables; Linen Supply Field; The Graduate;
Disposable Diaper Market; Improvements Evolving; Significant Trends
and Emerging Technologies; Marketing Strategy Facing Nonwoven
Producers; Textile Replacements and Their Future; Technical
Research and Development; Gathering Competitive Intelligence;
Marketing Intelligence; Benefits Realized; Textile Replacements and
Their Future; Conclusions - 5. Extrusion Coating of Paper and Board
- Survey; Structure of Polyethylene; Specific Barrier Properties of
Polyethylene; Extrusion Equipment; Primers for Polyethylene
Coating; Printing of Polyethylene Coated Papers; Extrusion Coating
of Pigmented Plastics; Other Resin Additives; Testing of
Polyethylene Coated Papers; Extrusion Resins Other Than
Polyethylene; Where Are We Going? - 6. The Use of the Computer in
New Product Development - Introduction; Gathering Data;
Printout-Input Data; Printout-Output Data; Conclusions - 7.
Pulp-Molding - Three-Dimensional Paper Products - History of Pulp
Molding; Statistics of Pulp Molding; Technology of Pulp Molding;
Production Techniques and Properties of Pulp Molded Products; The
Future of Pulp Molding -
This new book by Robert A. Davis is also a collection of
never-before-published abstracts of collections of Wiles County,
Georgia. Material contained within this volume: Estate Records,
Inferior Court Cases, Justice of the Peace Case Files, Land Court
Minutes, Lists of soldiers who fought at the Battle of Kettle Creek
779, Records of Ceded Lands of Original Wilkes County, Early
Settlers, Superior Court Minutes, Tax Digest 1785. and more Loose
Wilkes County, Georgia records.
The Second edition of Georgia Research published by The Georgia
Genealogical Society, is an essential guide for anyone researching
Georgia ancestors. This comprehensive guide includes a wide array
of sources, facts, and data to assist with genealogical and
historical research. Included in the guide are sources for each
Georgia county along with historical maps plus information on
Georgia land lotteries, census schedules, military records,
passenger lists, naturalization records, tax records, cemeteries,
historic newspapers, Indian records and African American records.
Written by experts in Georgia genealogical research, Georgia
Research is an indispensable resource for those just starting their
search as well as the experienced researcher.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Pediatric Nutrition Support Is A Complete Resource For All
Dietitians, Nurses, Physicians, And Pharmacists Involved In
Pediatric Care. This Reference Provides Thorough Coverage Of The
Latest Developments And Techniques In Enteral And Parenteral
Feeding And Evaluation Methods. Cases Detailing Specific Pediatric
Disease Conditions Offer Concrete Examples Of Nutrition Support
Processes.
1926. This volume contains passages from the reporter and
historian, Davis' diary of remembrances-just the tally of certain
bygone doings and sayings, of which he has been reminded by
something which happened yesterday or this morning.
The story of the fall and destruction of this Confederate city
placed Atlanta in the legendary realm of Atlantis, Troy, Athens,
and Moscow. Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil
War Atlanta from the eve of Secession to the memorials for the
fallen, many years after the war, through the memories of a
participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the
fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Her memoirs,
however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of
growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war for a
society's survival. Although Sallie's memoirs provide invaluable
detail on Civil War Atlanta, she also wrote of her personal
experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, in the midst of the
opening shots of the battle for Chattanooga, and in the postwar
riots of Augusta and Athens.Sallie Clayton belonged to one of
Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are
colored by the losses her family suffered. The introduction to this
work includes background on the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and
Civil War Atlanta that provides a more balanced and fuller account
of life at the crossroads of the Confederacy. The introduction also
attempts to give a more accurate view of Civil War Atlanta than
that in the popular mind.
This collection of essays by 12 members of the MIT staff, provides
an inside report on the scope and expectations of current research
in one of the world's major AI centers. The chapters on artificial
intelligence, expert systems, vision, robotics, and natural
language provide both a broad overview of current areas of activity
and an assessment of the field at a time of great public interest
and rapid technological progress. Contents Artificial Intelligence,
Patrick H. Winston and Karen Prendergast * KnowledgeBased Systems,
Randall Davis * Expert-System Tools and Techniques, Peter Szolovits
* Medical Diagnosis: Evolution of Systems Building Expertise,
Ramesh S. Patil * Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering,
Charles Rich and Richard C. Waters * Intelligent Natural Language
Processing, Robert C. Berwick * Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding, Victor Zue * Robot Programming and Artificial
Intelligence, Tomas Lozano-Perez * Robot Hands and Tactile Sensing,
John M. Hollerbach * Intelligent Vision, Michael Brady * Making
Robots See, W. Eric L. Grimson * Autonomous Mobile Robots, Rodney
A. Brooks AI in the 1980s and Beyond is included in the Artificial
Intelligence Series, edited by Patrick H. Winston and Michael
Brady.
Contents - 1. Introduction - R. H. Mosher - Early History of
Specialty Papers - Modern Developments - New Techniques - Synthetic
Materials - State of the Industry - 2. Theory of High Polymers and
Their Application to the Paper-Converting Industry - R. T. Nazarro
- Polymerization - Molecular Weights - Synthetic Resins - 3.
Rheology of Paper Coatings and Instruments for the Measurement of
Their Flow Properties - P. E. Pierce - Introduction - Flow Curves -
Thixotropy - Effect of Temperature and Concentration on Viscosity -
Determination of Rheological Behavior - Rotational Viscometers -
Capillary Viscometers - Efflux Viscometers - Falling Ball and
Rising Bubble Viscometers - 4. Water-Base Coatings - T. W. Busch -
History - Unit Processes - The Object of Coating - Coating
Technology - Base Paper - Coating Ingredients - Coating Preparation
- Coating Methods - Drying Coated Papers - Calendering -
Applications of Printing Paper - Special Functional Papers - 5.
Solvent Coatings and Solvent Recovery Systems - M. C. Beren History
- Comparison with Aqueous Coatings - Purpose of Coatings - Types of
Solvent-Coated Paper - Uses of Coated Papers - Ingredients of
Solvent Coating Solutions - Plasticizers - Solvents - Latent
Solvents and Diluents - Formulation - Base Paper - Common Coating
Troubles - General Economics of Solvent Coatings - Solvent Recovery
- Drying - Mixing - Grinding and Filtration - Coating Methods and
Machines - Manufacturing Hazards - 6. Hot-Melt Coatings - B. C.
Miller and P. H. Yoder - Introduction - Hot-Melt Formulations -
Coating Equipment - Heating Equipment - Coating Base Papers -
Applications - 7. Paste Dispersion Coatings - W. D. Hedges -
Versatility - Organosols - Plastisols - Processing Techniques -
Vinyl Dispersion Paste Coatings - Latices - Technology of Paste
Dispersions - Rheology - Manufacture of Paste Dispersions -
Equipment - Mechanism of Film Formation - Applications of Various
Dispersion Coatings - Uses of Vinyl Dispersion Coatings - Index
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and
reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal,
including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as
accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of
these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites
even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual
curiosity and a spirit of adventure. Places Lost and Found is a
treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six
decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of
Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to
reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore
an array of places that are deeply layered with history and
meaning. The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in
Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its
aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any
discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and
resilience, and of course the romance of travel.
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