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During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco
waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations
where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing
free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest
activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the
book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique
opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and
public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal
urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and
anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political
issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and
anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and
scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San
Francisco resisted these processes. This book is relevant to United
Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. -- .
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco
waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations
where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing
free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest
activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the
book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique
opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and
public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal
urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and
anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political
issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and
anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and
scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San
Francisco resisted these processes. This book is relevant to United
Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. -- .
This book is intended to help individuals prepare for and pass the
Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE), as it is the first
textbook designed from scratch for the new certification standards
being implemented in November of 2013. This book reviews
pharmacology, pharmacy laws and regulations, both sterile and
nonsterile compounding, medication safety, quality assurance, the
medication order entry and fill process, inventory management,
pharmacy billing, and pharmacy information system usage and
application. This book also provides information explaining how to
register for the exam and what to do after you pass the exam. In
addition to the material within the book, it also provides
information for accessing web-based practice exams to help you
review.
This textbook has been developed specifically for pharmacy
technicians, but it also provides a good overview of health care
mathematics for any health professional. This book teaches the
following concepts: basic math review, 24-hour time, exponents,
temperature conversion, units of measurement, understanding
prescriptions, day's supply, extemporaneous compounding, billing
compounds, pharmacy business math, parenteral dosage calculations,
insulin, milliMoles, milliEquivalents, millicuries, and
international units, powder volume calculations, percentage
strength, ratio strength, parts, reducing & enlarging formulas,
parts per million, calculations based on body weight, calculations
based on body surface area, infusion rates & drip rates,
dilutions & alligations, parenteral nutrition, and aliquots.
This book also includes an answer key to check your work against.
Learn more about this book at http:
//pharmaceuticalcalculations.org where you may even download a copy
of this textbook for free
Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of
Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender
are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The
contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually
perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack
concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the
industry, and the fan base at large. However, Superheroes and
Masculinity also argues that possibilities of resistance and change
are embedded within these problematic portrayals. To this end,
several chapters explore alternative portrayals of queerness within
superhero representations and read the hegemonic masculinity of
various characters against the grain to produce queer
possibilities. Ultimately, this collection argues that the quest to
unmask how gender operates within superheroes is a crucial one.
As the inevitable, unsustainable nature of contemporary society
becomes increasingly more obvious, it is important for scholars and
activists to engage with the question, "what is to be done?" A
Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation
Front provides an analysis and overview of an under-discussed but
important part of the radical environmental movement, the Earth
Liberation Front (ELF), which actively tried to stop ecocide.
Through engagement with the activism and thought behind the ELF,
volume contributors encourage readers to begin questioning the
nature of contemporary capitalism, the state, and militarism. This
book also explores the social movement and tactical impact of the
ELF as well as governmental response to its activism, in order to
strengthen analytic understanding of effectiveness, resistance, and
community resilience. A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings
on the Earth Liberation Front is sure to inspire more scholarly
work around social change, eco-terrorism, environmental studies,
and environmental justice. This book is a valuable text for
criminologists, sociologists, environmental advocates, politicians,
political scientists, activists, community organizers, and
religious leaders.
In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far
away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and
popularity. The contributors to this collection are political and
social theorists from a range of disciplines who use science
fiction as inspiration for new theories and examples of speculative
politics. In dystopian governments, they find locations and forms
of resistance. Representations of Political Resistance and
Emancipation in Science Fiction explores a range of political and
social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century.
Contributors analyze themes of post-humanism, resistance, agency,
political community making, and ethics and politics during the
Anthropocene.
Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of
Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender
are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The
contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually
perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack
concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the
industry, and the fan base at large. However, Superheroes and
Masculinity also argues that possibilities of resistance and change
are embedded within these problematic portrayals. To this end,
several chapters explore alternative portrayals of queerness within
superhero representations and read the hegemonic masculinity of
various characters against the grain to produce queer
possibilities. Ultimately, this collection argues that the quest to
unmask how gender operates within superheroes is a crucial one.
Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies explores and puts into
dialogue two growing field of studies, comic studies and critical
animal studies. The book's aim is to create a form of praxis that
people can use to actualize many of the values superheroes strive
to protect. To this end, contributor chapters are divided into
sections on the foundation of superhero representation and how to
teach it, criticisms of particular superheroes and how they fall
short of truly protecting the planet, and interpretations of
specific characters that can be read to produce a positive
orientation to the nonhuman world and craft strategies to promote
liberation in the real world. Altogether, the book produces a form
of scholarship on the media that is both intersectional in scope
and tailored to have an impact on the reader beyond theorizing
superheroes for theorization's sake.
Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical,
clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals
working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders
and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways. The
contributors describe current influential models of sexual
offending and the developmental, psychological and social factors
involved. They discuss the prevalence of personality and mental
disorders in known sex offenders and the impact these disorders
have on their treatment and management. They describe clinical work
with individuals, their partners and families, and also consider
the impact of this work on professionals. The book includes an
outline of current approaches to risk assessment, an overview of
the recent changes in legislation in England and Wales, and
suggestions for multi-disciplinary management in the community.
This book will be essential reading for professionals working in
health or criminal justice settings with people who have committed
sexual offences or whose sexual behaviour has caused concern for
others.
As the inevitable, unsustainable nature of contemporary society
becomes increasingly more obvious, it is important for scholars and
activists to engage with the question, "what is to be done?" A
Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation
Front provides an analysis and overview of an under-discussed but
important part of the radical environmental movement, the Earth
Liberation Front (ELF), which actively tried to stop ecocide.
Through engagement with the activism and thought behind the ELF,
volume contributors encourage readers to begin questioning the
nature of contemporary capitalism, the state, and militarism. This
book also explores the social movement and tactical impact of the
ELF as well as governmental response to its activism, in order to
strengthen analytic understanding of effectiveness, resistance, and
community resilience. A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings
on the Earth Liberation Front is sure to inspire more scholarly
work around social change, eco-terrorism, environmental studies,
and environmental justice. This book is a valuable text for
criminologists, sociologists, environmental advocates, politicians,
political scientists, activists, community organizers, and
religious leaders.
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