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Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of
the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside
the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled
access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of
the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside
the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's
unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
From the groundbreaking partnership of Macmillan Learning and
Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the
science of biology and its impact on the way we live. Available for
the first time with Macmillan's new online learning tool, Achieve,
Biology for a Changing World explores the core ideas of biology
through chapters written and illustrated in the style of a
Scientific American article. Chapters don't just feature compelling
stories of real people-each chapter is a newsworthy story that
serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the
non-majors biology course. Achieve is Macmillan's new online
learning platform that supports educators and students throughout
the full range of instruction, including assets suitable for
pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class
study and assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with
outstanding biology content provides an unrivaled learning
experience.
WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM.
Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause.
Clear-eyed about the President’s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero.
The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.
This is a one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and
its impact on the way we live. Two experienced educators and a
science journalist explore the core ideas of biology through
chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientific
American article. Chapters don't just feature compelling stories of
real people-each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a
context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors
biology course. Scientific American Biology for a Changing World is
available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook
with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment
options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. See 'Instructor
Resources' and 'Student Resources' for further information.
This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de
Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living
philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of
scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the
emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the
relation between religion and violence, secularism, and
sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de
Vries's work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion
should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics,
and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to
scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy.
This book is concerned with the connection between the formal
structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The
contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of
genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. Do
mechanisms or structures in nation-states produce types of national
citizens that are more susceptible to genocidal projects? There are
powerful arguments within philosophy that in order to be the
subjects of our own lives, we must constitute ourselves
specifically as national subjects and organize ourselves into
nation states. Additionally, there are other genocidal structures
of human society that spill beyond historically limited episodes.
The chapters in this volume address the significance-moral,
ethical, political-of the fact that our very form of agency
suggests or requires these structures. The contributors touch on
topics including birthright citizenship, contemporary mass
incarceration, anti-black racism, and late capitalism. Logics of
Genocide will be of interest to scholars and advanced students
working in philosophy, critical theory, genocide studies, Holocaust
and Jewish studies, history, and anthropology.
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- First volume in almost 10 years to bring together a broad
collection on world music analysis, capturing where the field is
now - Wide-reaching scope makes this the perfect first stop for
anyone interested in world music analysis, and could make it a good
focus for seminars at graduate or advanced undergraduate level.
This book is concerned with the connection between the formal
structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The
contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of
genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. Do
mechanisms or structures in nation-states produce types of national
citizens that are more susceptible to genocidal projects? There are
powerful arguments within philosophy that in order to be the
subjects of our own lives, we must constitute ourselves
specifically as national subjects and organize ourselves into
nation states. Additionally, there are other genocidal structures
of human society that spill beyond historically limited episodes.
The chapters in this volume address the significance-moral,
ethical, political-of the fact that our very form of agency
suggests or requires these structures. The contributors touch on
topics including birthright citizenship, contemporary mass
incarceration, anti-black racism, and late capitalism. Logics of
Genocide will be of interest to scholars and advanced students
working in philosophy, critical theory, genocide studies, Holocaust
and Jewish studies, history, and anthropology.
**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine** A rich examination
of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing
in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma,
transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In
Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how
we understand the development of this field and how it is being
used to "treat" gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with
medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research,
shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who
seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone
injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical
ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without
widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural
norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster
shows how medical providers' lack of clinical experience and
scientific research undermines their ability to interact with
patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This
situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients
and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing
knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans
Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make
decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the
process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes,
but over gender itself.
The aim of this unique volume is to help medical researchers design
clinical trials to improve survival, remission duration, or time to
recurrence of disease. Written in a user-friendly step-by-step
format, this work enables the researcher-with no background in
statistics-to determine sample size and write statistical
considerations for their protocols. It provides critical language
which can help with FDA submissions and/or research grants. It also
provides the mathematical justification of the material at a level
consistent with one year of undergraduate mathematical statistics.
It presents survival analysis methods at a more elementary level
than any known text. Filled with tables, figures, plus an extensive
appendix, this one-of-a-kind reference is an absolute must for all
clinical researchers and biostatisticians.
German Disarmament After World War I examines the Allied
disarmament of Germany and the challenges that such an enormous
task presented to international efforts in enforcing the Treaty of
Versailles. In the twenty-first century, disarmament remains a
critical issue for the International community. This new book
focuses on three key areas and lessons of Allied disarmament
operations from 1920-31: the role and experience of international
arms inspectors working amidst an embittered German populace the
ramifications of the divergent disarmament priorities of the
leaders of the disarmament coalition the effectiveness of united
Allied policies backed by sanctions. These major issues are
examined within the overall context of the assessment of Allied
disarmament operations in Germany. While some historians perceive
German disarmament as a failure, this book argues that arms
inspectors successfully destroyed Germany's ability to pose a
military threat to European security. This new study shows how the
destructive legacy of war convinced the victorious nations,
especially Britain and France, of the importance in minimizing
German military strength. French post-war security concerns,
however, were often faced with the unwillingness of Britain to
enforce the totality of the military articles of the treaty. German
obstruction also influenced Allied disarmament policies. German
Disarmament After World War I examines the initial effectiveness of
Allied disarmament efforts in Germany and explains how they
ultimately disappeared through diverging conceptions of a post-war
world. This book will be of great interest to all students of
disarmament, the interwar period and of military history, modern
European history and security studies.
German Disarmament After World War I examines the Allied
disarmament of Germany and the challenges that such an enormous
task presented to international efforts in enforcing the Treaty of
Versailles. In the twenty-first century, disarmament remains a
critical issue for the International community. This new book
focuses on three key areas and lessons of Allied disarmament
operations from 1920-31: the role and experience of international
arms inspectors working amidst an embittered German populace the
ramifications of the divergent disarmament priorities of the
leaders of the disarmament coalition the effectiveness of united
Allied policies backed by sanctions. These major issues are
examined within the overall context of the assessment of Allied
disarmament operations in Germany. While some historians perceive
German disarmament as a failure, this book argues that arms
inspectors successfully destroyed Germany's ability to pose a
military threat to European security. This new study shows how the
destructive legacy of war convinced the victorious nations,
especially Britain and France, of the importance in minimizing
German military strength. French post-war security concerns,
however, were often faced with the unwillingness of Britain to
enforce the totality of the military articles of the treaty. German
obstruction also influenced Allied disarmament policies. German
Disarmament After World War I examines the initial effectiveness of
Allied disarmament efforts in Germany and explains how they
ultimately disappeared through diverging conceptions of a post-war
world. This book will be of great interest to all students of
disarmament, the interwar period and of military history, modern
European history and security studies.
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How
do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure
a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers
to these questions and more. Â Emmanuel Levinas suggested
that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts
to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions
of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and
commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is
entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish
thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic
figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the
tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter
Benjamin to Stanley Cavell. Â How to Measure a
World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record
to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's
proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an
assessment of the world and our place in it. A particular
understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the
traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the
relationship between humans and their world. In the end, Levinas's
suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically,
revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.
The aim of this unique volume is to help medical researchers design
clinical trials to improve survival, remission duration, or time to
recurrence of disease. Written in a user-friendly step-by-step
format, this work enables the researcher-with no background in
statistics-to determine sample size and write statistical
considerations for their protocols. It provides critical language
which can help with FDA submissions and/or research grants. It also
provides the mathematical justification of the material at a level
consistent with one year of undergraduate mathematical statistics.
It presents survival analysis methods at a more elementary level
than any known text. Filled with tables, figures, plus an extensive
appendix, this one-of-a-kind reference is an absolute must for all
clinical researchers and biostatisticians.
Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden
age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not
taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of
television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappeared.
Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art
form, full of promise and urgency, and in New Television, he offers
a strong philosophical justification for its importance. Through
careful analysis of shows including The Wire, Justified, and Weeds,
among others; and European and Anglophone philosophers, such as
Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger; Shuster
reveals how various contemporary television series engage deeply
with aesthetic and philosophical issues in modernism and modernity.
What unifies the aesthetic and philosophical ambitions of new
television is a commitment to portraying and exploring the family
as the last site of political possibility in a world otherwise
bereft of any other sources of traditional authority; consequently,
at the heart of new television are profound political stakes.
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How
do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure
a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers
to these questions and more. Â Emmanuel Levinas suggested
that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts
to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions
of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and
commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is
entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish
thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic
figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the
tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter
Benjamin to Stanley Cavell. Â How to Measure a
World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record
to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's
proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an
assessment of the world and our place in it. A particular
understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the
traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the
relationship between humans and their world. In the end, Levinas's
suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically,
revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.
This book presents a series of papers on a special group of
antifungal agents - the hydroxypyridones (e.g. Ciclopirox,
Rilopirox, and Piroctone) given by international experts at
conferences in Vancouver and Sydney. The action of this group of
agents is unique. Hydroxypyridones are not only active against all
relevant fungi, but they are active against dermato- phytes,
yeasts, moulds as well as gram positive and gram negative bacteria.
They have an inhibitory effect on the lipoxygenase and
cyclo-oxygenase path- ways and, in vitro, exhibit fungicidal and
even sporicidal activity. Ciclopirox is particularly able to
penetrate keratin. These properties facilitate the treatment not
only of tinea pedis caused by fungi but also of infections by gram
negative bacteria. The special ability of Ciclopirox to penetrate
keratin opens the door to an efficacious topical treat- ment for
onychomycosis, with a transungual drug delivery system specially
adapted to infections of the nail organ. The absence of drug
interactions and systemic side effects of this formulation is an
appreciable advantage over the newer systemic therapies for
onychomycosis. Papers are presented covering the mode of action,
antimicrobial spectrum, pharmacological properties, penetration
potential, clinical efficacy and the various indications for this
group of drugs. They will enable the reader to as- sess the
advantage and disadvantage of this new therapeutic modality.
One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that
"the real is rational and the rational is real." In this book, one
of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-Francois Kervegan,
offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the
way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political,
and ethical life. Kervegan begins with Hegel's term "objective
spirit," the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the
binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He
examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the
theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville
and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world
or in Europe, Kervegan shows how Hegel--often associated with grand
metaphysical ideas--actually had a specific conception of civil
society and the state. In Hegel's view, public institutions
represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needs--and in that
sense, demonstrate that the real is the rational, because what
surrounds us is the product of our collective mindedness. This
groundbreaking analysis will guide the study of Hegel and
nineteenth-century political thought for years to come.
RESULTS COACHING is the new essential for today's school leaders.
Being a "coach-leader" is a key competency, a new identity, for
anyone in the business of developing teachers, staff, and students.
Because coaching language and skills require alignment of the
integrity of one's attitudes and behaviors, coaching continually
strengthens emotional intelligence for self-awareness,
self-control, motivation, social awareness, and skill enhancement.
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