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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction to Social Capital provides an
overview of cutting-edge research on social capital. Karen Cook
highlights the networks, norms, and trust involved in social
capital that facilitate cooperation, strengthen civil society, and
contribute to social order, indicating how each contributes to the
collective good and provides resources of value to individuals,
organizations, and institutions. Key Features: Cross-cultural
comparisons of the role of social networks in a number of domains
of activity A critical focus on the importance of tolerance and the
reaffirmation of democratic principles and practices An
understanding of current social and political challenges related to
polarization, such as inequality and trust limitations This timely
Advanced Introduction is crucial reading for students and
researchers in sociology and political science who are looking for
an overview of social capital. It will also be an inspiring read
for scholars of public policy, particularly those concerned with
public management and its impact on social capital.
Rapidly generating and processing large amounts of data,
supercomputers are currently at the leading edge of computing
technologies. Supercomputers are employed in many different fields,
establishing them as an integral part of the computational sciences
Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing investigates
current and emerging research in the field, as well as the
application of this technology to a variety of areas. Highlighting
a broad range of concepts, this publication is a comprehensive
reference source for professionals, researchers, students, and
practitioners interested in the various topics pertaining to
supercomputing and how this technology can be applied to solve
problems in a multitude of disciplines.
This book is an international effort to standardize the language,
terms, and methods used in ocular toxicology.With over 300 color
illustrations this consensus volume provides standards and
harmonization for procedures, terminology, and scoring schemes for
ocular toxicology. it is essential for industry, pharmaceutical
companies, and governmental agencies to help improve the drug
development process and to reduce and refine the use of animals in
research. Standards for Ocular Toxicology and Inflammation is
endorsed by the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.
Includes cutting edge information regarding the very lastest
environmental threats to public health Provides a detailed case
study based on real-world scenario that allows the reader to
practice human health risk assessment Describes innovative guidance
and tools to respond to chemical incidents and attacks, which
facilitates the reader to tailoring a effective protection and
remediation response
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An engaging history of studio furniture, Speaking of Furniture:
Conversations with 14 American Masters is a fresh, interesting, and
in-depth examination of the modus operandi of 14 accomplished-and
diverse-furniture makers. The colourful, informative study includes
expository conversations with James Krenov, Wendell Castle, Jere
Osgood, Judy Kensley McKie, David Ebner, Richard Scott Newman, Hank
Gilpin, Alphonse Mattia, John Dunnigan, Wendy Maruyama, James
Schriber, Timothy S. Philbrick, Michael Hurwitz, and Thomas Hucker.
The insightful interviews illuminate how these creative and gifted
craftspeople arrived professionally and what their craft means to
them individually. In his interpretive and elucidatory Foreword,
Edward S. Cooke, Jr. maps out and gives the background on the
parameters of the studio furniture world. Author and furniture
maker Roger Holmes offers an insider's perspective on the art and
craft of producing exquisite contemporary furniture in his
conversational Introduction and maintains, "Art or craft, this is
very personal work." This elegant presentation skilfully sheds
light on the thought processes and techniques of a celebrated and
exceptional gathering of studio furniture makers who are as unique
as they are stellar. As sculptor and furniture designer Wendell
Castle remarks, 'What I admired was that...fine art and craft were
the same thing.'
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between
fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and
their uses Art history is often viewed through cultural or national
lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others
to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an
interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of
functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal
boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is
not art. Avoiding traditional binaries such as East versus West and
fine art versus decorative art, Edward Cooke looks at the
production, consumption, and circulation of objects made from clay,
fiber, wood, and nonferrous base metals. Carefully considering the
materials and process of making, and connecting process to product
and people, he demonstrates how objects act on those who look at,
use, and acquire them. He reveals how objects retain aspects of
their local fabrication while absorbing additional meanings in
subtle and unexpected ways as they move through space and time. In
emphasizing multiple centers of art production amid constantly
changing contexts, Cooke moves beyond regional histories driven by
geography, nation-state, time period, or medium. Beautifully
illustrated, Global Objects traces the social lives of objects from
creation to purchase, and from use to experienced meaning, charting
exciting new directions in art history.
This book is an international effort to standardize the language,
terms, and methods used in ocular toxicology.With over 300 color
illustrations this consensus volume provides standards and
harmonization for procedures, terminology, and scoring schemes for
ocular toxicology. it is essential for industry, pharmaceutical
companies, and governmental agencies to help improve the drug
development process and to reduce and refine the use of animals in
research. Standards for Ocular Toxicology and Inflammation is
endorsed by the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.
Centrarchid fishes, also known as freshwater sunfishes, include
such prominent species as the Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass and
Bluegill. They are endemic to Eastern North America where they form
part of a multi-million dollar sports fishing industry, but they
have also been widely introduced around the globe by recreational
anglers, in aquaculture programs and by government fisheries
agencies. Centrarchid Fishes provides comprehensive coverage of all
major aspects of this ecologically and commercially important group
of fishes. Coverage includes diversity, ecomorphology, phylogeny
and genetics, hybridization, reproduction, early life history and
recruitment, feeding and growth, ecology, migrations,
bioenergetics, physiology, diseases, aquaculture, fisheries
management and conservation. Chapters have been written by
well-known and respected scientists and the whole has been drawn
together by Professors Cooke and Philipp, themselves extremely well
respected in the area of fisheries management and conservation.
Centrarchid Fishes is an essential purchase for all fish
biologists, ecologists, fisheries managers and fish farm personnel
who work with centrarchid species across the globe.
Cooke offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the
furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and
surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England
communities. Winner of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc.'s Charles
F. Montgomery Prize Originally published in 1996. In Making
Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a
fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the
furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and
surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England
communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources,
Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in
demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two
seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late
colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of
the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown
relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of
their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork
with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By
contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of
Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in
Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were
free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown
contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for
their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to
stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.
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
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