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Amidst the innumerable articles and books on plastic and
reconstructive surgery, a thorough and extensive study of the
history of free skin grafting was still missing. This omission has
now been rectified by Dr. Klasen. This book is an expansion of a
M.D. thesis, written at the State Universi- ty of Groningen, The
Netherlands, and was guided by Professor A. J. C. Huffstadt,
plastic surgeon, and Professor D. de Moulin, medical historian.
Professor T. Gibson kindly revised the manuscript and wrote the
epilogue. But, as Goethe put it: "nur ein Teil der Kunst kann
gelehrt werden, der Kunstler macht das Ganze" ("only a part of the
art can be taught, the artist makes the totality"). The author,
Henk Klasen, is a remarkable man. As a general surgeon, he devotes
all his interest and skills to traumatology and problems of phys-
iology and pathophysiology in surgery. With such talents it is
natural that he also works parttime as one of the coordinators ofa
modern burn unit. Among his hobbies are love of antiques and old
books. This historical inclination has induced him to write the
present book, in which he vividly describes the development of free
skin grafting in its rel- evant theoretical and practical aspects.
His elaborate study has resulted in an excellent reference book
which at the same time provides enjoyable reading, once again
demonstrating the value of history in understanding the present. A.
J. C. HUFFSTADT, M.D.
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the
Anthropology of Religion!The roots of contemporary Islamic
militancy in Southeast Asia lie in the sixteenth century, when
Christian Europeans first tried to dominate Indian Ocean trade.
Through a detailed analysis of sacred scriptures, epic narratives
and oral histories from the region, this book shows how Southeast
Asian Muslims combined cosmopolitan Islamic models of knowledge and
authority with local Austronesian models of divine kingship to
first resist and then to appropriate Dutch colonial models of
rational bureaucracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century,
these models continue to shape regional responses to contemporary
trends such as the rise of global Islamism.
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the
Anthropology of Religion!The roots of contemporary Islamic
militancy in Southeast Asia lie in the sixteenth century, when
Christian Europeans first tried to dominate Indian Ocean trade.
Through a detailed analysis of sacred scriptures, epic narratives
and oral histories from the region, this book shows how Southeast
Asian Muslims combined cosmopolitan Islamic models of knowledge and
authority with local Austronesian models of divine kingship to
first resist and then to appropriate Dutch colonial models of
rational bureaucracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century,
these models continue to shape regional responses to contemporary
trends such as the rise of global Islamism.
This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical
narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological
kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and
global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have
coexisted in Southeast Asia since the Sixteenth century and
influence politics to this day.
Security studies, also known as international security studies, is
an academic subfield within the wider discipline of international
relations that examines organized violence, military conflict, and
national security. Meant to serve as an introduction to the field
of security studies, Contextualizing Security is a collection of
original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published
material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political
science, sociology, journalism, and philosophy. It offers both
graduate and undergraduate students a grasp on both foundational
issues and more contemporary debates in security studies. Nineteen
chapters cover security studies in the context of homeland security
and liberty, U.S. foreign policy, lessons from the Cold War,
science and technology policy, drones, cybersecurity, the War on
Terror, migration, study-abroad programs, the surveillance state,
Africa, and China. CONTRIBUTORS: Amelia Ayers, James E. Baker, Roy
D. Blunt, Mark Boulton, Naji Bsisu, Robert E. Burnett, Daniel Egbe,
Laila Farooq, Lisa Fein, Anna Holyan, Jeh C. Johnson, Richard
Ledgett, David L. McDermott, James McRae, Amanda Murdie, Bernie
Sanders, Jeremy Scahill, Kristan Stoddart, Jeremy Brooke Straughn,
J. R. Swanegan, and Kali Wright-Smith
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Two women. Two planets. Two mysteries. Only one solution. Follow a
girl with no memories as she maneuvers her way through a world of
desolation, encountering monsters and mysteries, while searching
for a past to explain her present. Delve into her desert-filled
dreams, which become disturbingly closer to reality than her waking
hours.
The primary purpose of this research is to assess the practicality
of utilizing some of the financial derivative products available on
the market today in an effort to mitigate monetary losses due to
the increasing price of jet fuel, thereby increasing stability in
the DOD budget. The scope of this research will focus on the use of
futures and call option contracts. Domestic jet fuel expenditure
data was collected for Fiscal Years 1996 to 2007 and
cross-referenced with the contract process of the previously
mentioned financial hedging instruments during the same period of
time. Results from the ex post facto analysis indicate that hedging
with either heating oil futures or heating oil call options would
have provided a tremendous overall savings to the DOD. Currently
the DOD does not hedge its budget against fluctuation in the jet
fuel spot market. The implication from this study is that the DOD
should consider hedging its jet fuel exposure with either
derivative, in particular call options as it is tailored for risk
adverse customers.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still
casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines
how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century
transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost
every aspect of their society, culture, and identity. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, the volume's contributors examine a
broad array of topics, including the Cold War's impact on national
security, race relations, gun culture and masculinity, law, college
football, advertising, music, film, free speech, religion, and even
board games. Above all, Red Reckoning brings a vitally important
era back to life for those who lived through it and for students
and scholars wishing to understand it.
Security studies, also known as international security studies, is
an academic subfield within the wider discipline of international
relations that examines organized violence, military conflict, and
national security. Meant to serve as an introduction to the field
of security studies, Contextualizing Security is a collection of
original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published
material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political
science, sociology, journalism, and philosophy. It offers both
graduate and undergraduate students a grasp on both foundational
issues and more contemporary debates in security studies. Nineteen
chapters cover security studies in the context of homeland security
and liberty, U.S. foreign policy, lessons from the Cold War,
science and technology policy, drones, cybersecurity, the War on
Terror, migration, study-abroad programs, the surveillance state,
Africa, and China. CONTRIBUTORS: Amelia Ayers, James E. Baker, Roy
D. Blunt, Mark Boulton, Naji Bsisu, Robert E. Burnett, Daniel Egbe,
Laila Farooq, Lisa Fein, Anna Holyan, Jeh C. Johnson, Richard
Ledgett, David L. McDermott, James McRae, Amanda Murdie, Bernie
Sanders, Jeremy Scahill, Kristan Stoddart, Jeremy Brooke Straughn,
J. R. Swanegan, and Kali Wright-Smith
This book introduces an applied, systematic approach to human
trafficking that covers all aspects of the problem in an informed
and well-analyzed, social science sense. While most texts on the
topic of human trafficking take a social theory, human
rights/advocacy or victimization perspective on the topic, few take
a pragmatic, "applied" systems-wide approach to human trafficking.
It is a compilation of the components of the response to human
trafficking by the diverse array of professionals that deal with
this problem: investigators, prosecutors, judges, social service
professionals, criminal justice professionals and educational
institutions. As such, Human Trafficking stretches across multiple
disciplines and is intended for multiple audiences within academia,
as well as for practitioners in the field. It does this by
suggesting a model and methods that can be used to address human
trafficking systematically at the community and regional levels.
This book is an ideal tool for educations and students, as well as
law enforcement, corrections, private security, first responders,
social service and healthcare professionals, judges, court,
administrators and many more.
"The Bible in the Latin West" is the first volume in a series that
addresses the codicology of texts. In considering how and why the
appearance of a manuscript changes over the centuries, Margaret T.
Gibson introduces students to the study of manuscripts and to the
wider range of information and expertise that can be brought to
bear on the study of manuscripts as historical objects as well as
texts. Here Gibson surveys the changes in the most important book
in the western world, the Latin Bible. She begins the survey in
late antiquity, discussing the volumes of the great senatorial
houses of the 4th century and how they influenced the early great
Bibles of northern Europe. The discussion then moves through the
Carolingian period, with its increased interest in commentary to
early vernacular versions, and goes on to reveal how in the 11th
and 12th centuries the growing numbers of monastic and university
readers made new demands on the texts which led to the inclusion of
glosses and other scholarly apparatus. Later, the combined
influences of increased literacy and growing wealth among the
population called for vernacular translations and devotional aids
such as Books of Hours. Gibson completes the survey with a look at
early printed Bibles. A useful volume for anyone being introduced
to the firsthand study of texts and their transmission, as well as
for graduate students in history, English, modern languages,
classics, and religious studies. "The Bible in the Latin West"
contains an introductory survey.
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