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If you had an allergy so severe that accidentally eating a
forbidden food could kill you in minutes--as you gasp for breath,
your throat and tongue swell shut, your blood pressure drops and
organs fail--how would it change your life, and your relationship
to food? For people with food-induced anaphylaxis, the severest
form of allergic response, simply eating in restaurants, accepting
invitations to dinner, going on overnight field trips, or traveling
through foreign countries means facing one's mortality with every
meal. In this book, Mark S. Ferrara weaves history, science, and
psychology to recount the story of his struggles with allergic
asthma and a life-threatening allergy to nuts--and his difficulties
living and working in the Far East and Near East--to show how the
quest for self-actualization can lead to an acceptance of
transience that borders on the mystical. Along the way, he guides
parents in keeping food-allergic children safe at home and at
school and offers strategies that adolescents and adults may use to
negotiate social spaces involving food. He explains how survivors
of anaphylaxis can cope with the sometimes-irrational fears of food
that follow that traumatic experience, so they may live happy,
healthy, meaningful lives.
In addition to possessing the world's largest economies, China and
the United States have extensive higher education systems
comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive
educational traditions, Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence
that American colleges and universities are quickly falling behind
in measures such as scholarly output and the granting of doctoral
degrees in STEM fields. China, in contrast, has massed formidable
economic power in support of its universities in an attempt to
create the best educational system in the world. Palace of Ashes
argues that the overall quality of US institutions of higher
learning has declined over the last three decades. Mark S Ferrara
places that decline in a broad historical context to illustrate how
the forces of globalization are helping rapidly developing Asian
nations-particularly China-transform their major universities into
serious contenders for the world's students, faculty, and
resources. Ferrara finds that American institutions have been
harmed by many factors, including chronic state and federal
defunding, unsustainable tuition growth, the adoption of corporate
governance models, adjunctification, and the overall decline of
humanities education relative to job-related training. Ferrara
concludes with several key recommendations to help US universities
counter these trends and restore the palace of American higher
learning.
When Captain Christopher Newport and his crew landed on the muddy
banks of the James River in 1607, after four months at sea, they
aimed to establish a new colony not for God, or the greater good of
humanity-but for the sake of profit. The Pilgrims who settled in
Cape Cod in 1620 as agents of Plymouth Company found evidence of
divine election in the fortunes they accumulated from a lucrative
system of town-founding in the New World. The innovative and often
ruthless entrepreneurs who followed these colonists carved out the
immense North American frontier wilderness from the Atlantic Ocean
to the golden sands of the California coast, and they forged
industrial and technological revolutions that shook the world. New
Seeds of Profit examines the role of business leaders from George
Washington to Donald Trump in shaping the United States into a
business nation unlike any other in world history. By tracing the
influence of industry and commerce on American society through
portraits of successful entrepreneurs, New Seeds of Profit sheds
light on the esteemed place Americans reserve for their wealthiest
business leaders-and it measures the true cost of that adulation.
In this fascinating, entertaining, and often surprising book, Mark
S. Ferrara exposes the unexpected and uninvited consequences of
venerating business leaders by demonstrating how enterprise driven
by the bottom line endangers people and the environment. In a story
teeming with the heroes and scoundrels of enterprise, New Seeds of
Profit offers an alternative paradigm that delivers just returns to
investors and provides self-actualizing work, while preserving
missions that encourage sustainable stewardship of the earth and
advance the common good.
Between Noble and Humble: Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red
Chamber ( , literally New Biography of Cao Xueqin) is a translation
of a scholarly work by the famous mainland Chinese critic Zhou
Ruchang. Written for the Western reader, it historicizes the life
and times of the Chinese novelist Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763) and
comprehensively introduces the origins of the novel Dream of the
Red Chamber (Honglou meng). This translation is unique because it
offers the first book-length biography of Cao Xueqin in English.
Zhou carefully historicizes the decline of the once illustrious Cao
clan, and he demonstrates how Cao Xueqin's own childhood
experiences in a wealthy bondservant family during the Qing dynasty
profoundly informed the encyclopedic narrative that he would later
write. In Between Noble and Humble, Zhou also offers intriguing and
controversial theories about Honglou meng based on decades of
careful research, for instance, that the famous commentator Red
Inkstone was in fact a female relative of Cao Xueqin.
The historical and literary antecedents of the President's campaign
rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western
world. The ""rhetoric of hope"" is a form of political discourse
characterised by a forward-looking vision of social progress
brought about by collective effort and adherence to shared values
(including discipline, temperance, a strong work ethic,
self-reliance, and service to the community). By combining his own
personal story (as the biracial son of a white mother from Kansas
and a black father from Kenya) with national mythologies like the
American Dream, Obama creates a narrative persona that embodies the
moral values and cultural mythos of his implied audience. In doing
so, he draws upon the Classical world, Judeo-Christianity, the
European Enlightenment, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, the
presidencies of Jefferson, Lincoln, and FDR, slave narratives, the
Black church, the civil rights movement, and even popular culture.
Barack Obama's understanding of history as an ongoing process of
transformation toward social betterment provides the basis for his
ultimate rhetorical formulation of a multicultural utopia that
transcends national boundaries.
This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a Europhysics Study
Conference held in Erice, Sicily from March 17 to 24, 1980. The
objective of the meeting was to bring together practitioners of two
different approaches to the unification of the fundamental par
ticle interactions: supersymmetry and supergravity on the one hand,
and grand unified gauge theories on the other hand. The hope was
that exposure to each others' ideas and problems would at least aid
mutual comprehension, and might start people thinking how to
develop a synthesis of the two approaches which could avoid their
individual shortcomings. It is not clear to us how successful the
conference was in achieving these objectives. On the one hand many
important ad vances in supersymmetric theories were reported which
were primarily of a technical nature, while some interesting
attempts to probe the phenomenological consequences of
supersymmetry and supergravity were also presented. On the other
hand there was considerable in terest in phenomenological aspects
of grand unified theories such as proton decay, neutrino masses and
oscillations, and links with cosmology. There was also some work on
model-building but rela tively few purely technical advances. A few
speakers tried to build bridges between the formalism of
supersymmetry or supergravity and the phenomenologically successful
gauge theories of elementary par ticle interactions."
One of the most important relationships that human beings have with
plants is changing our consciousness-consider the plants that give
us coffee, tea, chocolate, and nicotine. Sacred Bliss challenges
traditional attitudes about cannabis by tracing its essential role
in the spiritual and curative traditions in Asia, the Middle East,
Africa, Europe, and the Americas from prehistory to the present
day. In highlighting the continued use of cannabis around the
globe, Sacred Bliss offers compelling evidence of cannabis as an
entheogen used for thousands of years to evoke peak-experiences, or
moments of expanded perception or spiritual awareness. Today, the
growing utilization of medical cannabis to alleviate the pain and
symptoms of physical illness raises the possibility of using
cannabis to treat the mind along with the body. By engaging sacred
and secular texts from around the world, Sacred Bliss demonstrates
that throughout religious history, cannabis has offered access to
increased imagination and creativity, heightened perspective and
insight, and deeper levels of thought.
There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being
systematically harassed out of DHS. This is a story of bureaucracy
run amok at the expense of our national security. We are less safe
now than before "9-11," even though billions of taxpayer dollars
have been spent. Why? This is the gripping true story of National
Security Whistleblowers and their courageous fight for justice
against the very people who are supposed to be protecting us. If
these whistleblowers lose their fight we all lose. What America's
enemies have not been able to accomplish will be done instead from
within our own government. The Honorable Roger T. Benitez, United
States District Judge, while presiding over "Fitzgerald-Nunn Vs.
Department of Homeland Security" "Boy, there's something about this
that doesn't pass the smell test " "All Americans who read this
book should worry about the government's ability to protect us from
terrorist and drug lords."-Mark Edwards, former Marine and host of
the "Wake Up America" radio show. "They who give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither
liberty or safety."-Benjamin Franklin "This should be one of the
few books that not only every attorney should read, but every one
who calls themselves a patriot."-Attorney and Veteran Austin Price
"This is a MUST READ for anyone who is concerned with the long-term
viability of the republic."-Travis Alexander, CEO World Wide
Protective Services, and former Marine. "A coincidence is a
remarkable concurrence of events or things without apparent
connection-Here too many things connect."-Attorney Gastone Bebi
during land mark case "Fitzgerald-Nunn Vs. Department of Homeland
Security"
There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being
systematically harassed out of DHS. This is a story of bureaucracy
run amok at the expense of our national security. We are less safe
now than before "9-11," even though billions of taxpayer dollars
have been spent. Why? This is the gripping true story of National
Security Whistleblowers and their courageous fight for justice
against the very people who are supposed to be protecting us. If
these whistleblowers lose their fight we all lose. What America's
enemies have not been able to accomplish will be done instead from
within our own government. The Honorable Roger T. Benitez, United
States District Judge, while presiding over "Fitzgerald-Nunn Vs.
Department of Homeland Security" "Boy, there's something about this
that doesn't pass the smell test " "All Americans who read this
book should worry about the government's ability to protect us from
terrorist and drug lords."-Mark Edwards, former Marine and host of
the "Wake Up America" radio show. "They who give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither
liberty or safety."-Benjamin Franklin "This should be one of the
few books that not only every attorney should read, but every one
who calls themselves a patriot."-Attorney and Veteran Austin Price
"This is a MUST READ for anyone who is concerned with the long-term
viability of the republic."-Travis Alexander, CEO World Wide
Protective Services, and former Marine. "A coincidence is a
remarkable concurrence of events or things without apparent
connection-Here too many things connect."-Attorney Gastone Bebi
during land mark case "Fitzgerald-Nunn Vs. Department of Homeland
Security"
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