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For six decades Sir Robert Worcester has been the face of British
public opinion research: founder of MORI, advisor to Prime
Ministers and the Royal Family, and a regular on election night
specials. Now the very best of his writings have been gathered
together for the first time by his son, Professor Kent Worcester.
The collection ranges from practical guides on polling, the media
and reputation to explorations of public attitudes towards the
environment, science and trust in national institutions. All are
written in the clear and accessible style that has led Sir Robert
to be in such demand in the media. Sir Robert's own journey is
every bit as fascinating as his insights on UK politics and
society. He was born in Kansas City and served with the US military
in Korea before settling in London. Since then, he has served in a
host of public and charitable roles, from Trustee of the WWF to
deputy Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and led the world-wide celebrations
of the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta.
Explaining Cameron's Catastrophe uses expert analyses of hundreds
of surveys and focus groups run by Ipsos MORI to make sense of the
UK's 2016 EU referendum: how we got here; the context, content and
process; lessons from 1975; what remain did wrong; why the leave
campaign was so successful; voters attitudes; and the aftermath.
They also show what the 2016 referendum result, and life without
the EU, means for the future of the UK.
Let's Go for a Ride is the story of William (Bill) Livezey's
thirty-year career in the Maine Warden Service. Heralded as "one of
the best covert investigators in the country" by Maine Warden
Service Lieutenant Dan Scott, Bill is the agency's longest-tenured
undercover operative, having spent twenty years in the Special
Investigations Unit. "Let's go for a ride" is the universal bad-guy
code for breaking the law. Among Maine's most sinister wildlife
offenders, its utterance is prone to incite alcohol-fueled night
hunting, high-speed car chases on winding country roads, drug
dealing, arson, and attempted murder. The worst of the worst were
Bill Livesey's bread and butter. His success at putting the truly
bad guys out of business was driven by his upbringing as one of
them. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Bill's father was a
successful businessman whose blind ambition sent him down the dark
path of drug trafficking. It wasn't long before young Bill was
tagging along and doing drugs with his dad. The aftermath of
witnessing his father perish in a fiery standoff with police sent
Bill spiraling out of control. He lashed out at law enforcement by
dealing drugs, and he numbed the pain and confusion by doing them.
Deep down, Bill knew his life was broken. When a high school
football teammate invited him to attend a Fellowship of Christian
Athletes meeting, he discovered his faith and a new path.
The original Little Golden Book from the 1940s featuring Walt
Disney's "Cinderella" is back! This enchanting fairy tale is
beautifully rendered with vintage artwork bringing Cinderella and
her cruel stepsisters to life.
If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property
during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become
a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Kent
Worcester explores the sometimes ridiculous and often socially
resonate storyverse of the most famous rageaholic in popular
culture: Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. Worcester pays particular
attention to nearly five decades' worth of punishment-themed comics
and graphic novels published between the 1970s and the present day.
These texts provide the material resources for a close reading of
the Punisher's distinctive and extreme form of justice discourse.
Punishment, after all, is a political and social construct.
Violence does not imply or claim legitimacy. Punishment does. To
talk about punishment is to ask who deserves to be punished, who
decides who deserves to be punished, and what form the punishment
should take. All costumed heroes have their political moments; the
Punisher is political. Frank Castle inhabits the most
politically engaged corner of the entire Marvel Universe. His
adventures should attract our interest for precisely this reason.
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration
of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western
societies; in particular, it examines religions in their
differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural
systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is
given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a
clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical
data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the
religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or
media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their
construction of identity, and their relation to society and the
wider public are key issues of this series.
The aim of this book is to illustrate the ways in which surveys can
be used to improve the quality of decision-making in business and
government. It is about the use of surveys rather than how they are
conducted, and provides examples of the ways in which research can
be used as a means to better management. Case studies of a wide
variety of organizations are included to support the theories
propounded.
Violence and Politics points out a paradox of contemporary political violence: it appears to be growing in scope and complexity even in this era of unprecedented democratic and economic growth. These essays cover a number of timely issues including pro-life terrorism, hate crimes, Islam's connection (or stereotyped connection) to violence, rape as a war crime, ethnic conflicts, and violence against those protesting for civil rights for women, gays and lesbians and blacks.
Explaining Cameron's Comeback uses expert analyses of hundreds of
surveys and focus groups run by Ipsos MORI to make sense of the
2015 election campaign from the voters perspective: What we really
thought of Cameron and Miliband; how Dave won and why Ed did not;
why it made sense to go negative; and why the pundits read the
polls wrong. They also show what the 2015 election result means for
the next five years of British politics, from the European
Referendum and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party, to the implications
for the 2020 election.
In early March of 1915 news broke in El Paso that Leonard Worcester
Jr., a leading mining executive in the border region, was being
held in a Chihuahua jail without trial or release on bond.
Officials loyal to Francisco "Pancho" Villa had accused Worcester
of defrauding a Mexican company related to a shipment of zinc, a
charge without merit. While struggling to convince Mexican
officials of his innocence, Worcester found himself in the middle
of a maelstrom of economic interests, foreign diplomacy, and
revolution that engulfed the U.S.-Mexico border region after 1910.
Worcester's 1939 memoir of his "aimless" life describes an
important period in U.S. and Mexican history from the perspective
of an American miner, musician, and entrepreneur-running counter to
the bombast of boosters promoting Manifest Destiny. Introduced,
edited, and annotated by Andrew Offenburger, Worcester's
first-person account details the expansion of the American West,
mining and labor in Colorado, the formation of reservations in
Indian Territory, the Great Depression, and the everyday nature of
the Mexican Revolution in Chihuahua. Worcester's memoir, one of the
few written by an American living in the Mexican borderlands during
this important historical era, provides a snapshot of the
capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions
in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early
twentieth century. Published in Cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist
University.
This book is the new edition of this comprehensive guide to the
medical and surgical management of kidney stones. Divided into
three main sections, the text begins with discussion on the basic
formation of kidney stones, followed by mineral metabolism and
diseases that lead to the formation of stones, with the final
section describing surgical management techniques. The second
edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with new topics
including imaging methods, non invasive surgical techniques, and
management in special cases such as pregnancy. This new edition
also includes discussion on stones in children. With an
internationally recognised author team led by US-based specialists,
this 900-page text is highly illustrated with clinical photographs
and diagrams. Previous edition published in 1995. Key Points
Comprehensive guide to medical and surgical management of kidney
stones Fully revised second edition, with many new topics Highly
illustrated with clinical photographs and diagrams over 900 pages
Internationally recognised, US-based author team
Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has
created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the
pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including
Time, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times. He is
also a longtime contributor to Mad magazine, where he has been
writing and drawing Spy vs. Spy for nearly two decades. He is the
cofounder and coeditor of World War 3 Illustrated, the cutting-edge
magazine devoted to political graphic art. Along with two dozen
images, this volume features ten lively, informative interviews
with Kuper. The book also includes a quartet of revealing
interviews with underground comix legends R. Crumb and Vaughn Bode,
Mad magazine publisher William Gaines, and Jack Kirby, co-creator
of mainstream superheroes from the Avengers to the Fantastic Four.
These were conducted by Kuper and fellow artist Seth Tobocman in
the early 1970s, when they were teenagers. Kuper's graphic novels
have explored the medium from comics journalism and autobiography
to fiction and literary adaptation. Most of the interviews
collected in this book are either previously unpublished or long
out of print, and they address such varied topics as the nuts and
bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at
Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, Spy vs.
Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World
War 3 Illustrated. Among the works examined herein are his books
The System, Sticks and Stones, Stop Forgetting to Remember, Diario
de Oaxaca, and adaptations of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Kuper also discusses his recently
published opus, the 328-page Ruins, inspired by his experiences in
Oaxaca, Mexico. This book is the 2016 Eisner Award Winner for Best
Graphic Album.
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
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.
If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property
during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become
a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Kent
Worcester explores the sometimes ridiculous and often socially
resonate storyverse of the most famous rageaholic in popular
culture: Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. Worcester pays particular
attention to nearly five decades' worth of punishment-themed comics
and graphic novels published between the 1970s and the present day.
These texts provide the material resources for a close reading of
the Punisher's distinctive and extreme form of justice discourse.
Punishment, after all, is a political and social construct.
Violence does not imply or claim legitimacy. Punishment does. To
talk about punishment is to ask who deserves to be punished, who
decides who deserves to be punished, and what form the punishment
should take. All costumed heroes have their political moments; the
Punisher is political. Frank Castle inhabits the most
politically engaged corner of the entire Marvel Universe. His
adventures should attract our interest for precisely this reason.
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