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Atlas of Diagnostic Pathology in Nonhuman Primates
by Andrew D. Miller Ivanela Kondova-Perseng Keith G. MansfieldThe Atlas of Diagnostic Pathology in Nonhuman Primates offers the first extensively illustrated collection of classic lesions in nonhuman primate diseases and pathological conditions, compiled by an international team of expert contributors. Organized by infectious and noninfectious conditions, the atlas comprehensively covers viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases, as well as nutritional, toxic, and metabolic causes, and genetic, age-related, neoplastic, and noninfectious inflammatory conditions. Since nonhuman primates are an indispensable resource for efficacy and safety evaluation of novel therapeutic strategies targeting clinically important human diseases, research with monkeys is critical to understand how to prevent and treat emerging infectious diseases such as Zika virus disease, Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2/coronavirus, pandemic flu, and many more. This book is intended to serve veterinary practitioners in university facilities, zoos, biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies, as well as clinicians, researchers, and students engaged in nonhuman primate research.
Atlas of Corneal Imaging
by J. Bradley RandlemanA comprehensive reference for physicians, surgeons, and trainees, Atlas of Corneal Imaging covers all aspects of corneal imaging from basic map interpretation to advanced diagnostic uses and features over 1200 illustrative images and figures representing a wide variety of devices and techniques.Drs. J. Bradley Randleman, Marcony Santhiago, and William J. Dupps Jr guide readers through the process of analyzing corneal images using a multitude of different techniques, technologies, and individual devices. This creates a complete picture of the cornea’s basic methods and pathological processes and allows readers to directly visualize how their technology would display the pathology in question.Atlas of Corneal Imaging is designed to help practitioners recognize subtle findings and evaluate signs of weakening or pathology, no matter how they present or what device is being used. Multiple iterations of the same clinical condition are shown with numerous complementary images for the same eye to provide a comprehensive presentation of each case.Chapters feature information on: Topographic patterns and mapping Corneal ectasia evaluations Cornea and refractive surgery evaluations Clinical correlations with corneal disorders Cornea and refractive surgery complications Evaluation for cataract surgery Atlas of Corneal Imaging fills a significant void in corneal imaging resources available today by presenting an image-first approach to understanding all the many different technologies for imaging the cornea.
Atlas of Clinical Nuclear Medicine
by Gopinath Gnanasegaran Ignac Fogelman Gary Cook Susan E. M. ClarkeThis long-awaited Third Edition has been revised and updated to encapsulate the developments in the field since the previous edition was published nearly two decades ago. The successful style of the previous editions has been built upon and expanded to provide the ultimate guide for beginners, those in training, and experienced practitioners. Each section contains comprehensive cases with first-class examples of correlative/hybrid imaging (SPECT and PET/CT) included where appropriate. This atlas contains superb illustrative cases and valuable supportive information, together with highlighted teaching points aiding all clinicians in routine practice.
Atlas of Chinese Macrofungal Resources: Volume 1: Overview, Macrofungal Ascomycetes, Jelly Fungi and Coral Fungi
by Yu Li Taihui Li Zhuliang Yang Tolgor Bau Yucheng DaiThis book is part of the 4-volumes collection of Atlas of Chinese Macrofungal Resources . This atlas documented 1819 species (or varieties) in 509 genera of macrofungi known from China, which are, according to their morphological characteristics, practically divided into 10 groups, including 196 larger ascomycetes, 21 jelly fungi, 47 coral fungi, 637 polyporoid, hydnaceous and lephoroid fungi, 11 cantharelloid fungi, 653 agarics, 130 boletes, 75 gasteroid fungi, 16 larger pathogenic fungi on crops, and 33 larger myxomycetes.All species are evidenced with voucher sand photographs. About 370 of the listed species (occupying 1/5 of the totals pieces) have their type localities in China, among which over 260 species (accounting for 1/7 of the species) were firstly discovered and published by the present authors. Some of the species are endemic to China and East Asia. Introduction to all species are accompanied with color photographs showing their macro-morphology and (or) habitat. The macroscopic and microscopic diagnostic characters ecological habits, economic importance (edibility, medicinal availability or toxicity) and geographical distribution in China of all species are described in brief and easy-to-understand style. In the guide, the characteristics and using method of the book, related mycological vocabulary, common taxonomic techniques and positions of the fungal genera in modern taxonomic system are briefly introduced.The knowledge of this book should be interesting to mycologists, mycology fans and mushroom lovers, as well as researchers, teachers and students studying on edible fungi, plant pathology, healthcare and biomedicine sciences, bioresources and biodiversity, ecology and other related disciplines. It is an ideal reference for those who are interested in the Chinese macrofungi and larger slime molds. In this first volume, it covers Macrofungal Ascomycetes, Jelly Fungi and Coral Fungi.
An Atlas of Cat Anatomy
by Hazel E. Field Mary E. TaylorAn Atlas of Cat Anatomy can help a student learn twice as much as he could in the same amount of time using only a written description. The book is spiral bound and stands like an easel, taking a minimum amount of space in the work area. Altogether there are fifty-seven plates featuring the various parts and organ systems in their actual size, making identification remarkably easy. A brief verbal description accompanies each plate. In addition, the extensive glossary includes synonymous terms, derivations, definitions, and keys to pronunciation.
Atlas and Clinical Reference Guide for Corneal Topography
by Ming Wang Lance KuglerCorneal topography has become essentially a pattern recognition trade, best learned by viewing multiple images of representative patterns. In spite of this, currently available topography books focus only on the technology behind topography, or a particular application of topography, as opposed to presenting a comprehensive collection of topographic patterns that provide quick, consistent pattern recognition and identification. Drs. Wang and Kugler, along with Drs. Morgan and Boerman, look to fill this void with Atlas and Clinical Reference Guide for Corneal Topography.Atlas and Clinical Reference Guide for Corneal Topography is the first corneal topography book that lends itself to efficient image search and reference for busy clinicians at chair side. Organized into both map-based and disease-based sections, the book allows for quick reference in busy clinical situations. Images come from the commonly used topographers, the Zeiss Atlas and the Oculus Pentacam, but the principles of pattern recognition can be applied to any topographer. Due to the text’s large collection of topographic images and corresponding corneal conditions, Atlas and Clinical Reference Guide for Corneal Topography can be used side by side with the topographer.Designed as both a learning tool for students and a reference for clinicians to use when faced with a challenging topography interpretation, Atlas and Clinical Reference Guide for Corneal Topography will be appreciated by a wide spectrum of eye care professionals. General ophthalmologists, cataract and refractive surgeons, corneal specialists, optometrists, and ophthalmology residents and students will benefit from this invaluable atlas for corneal topography.
Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man
by Peter Alson Teddy Atlas"Of all the people who have affected by my life and influence the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father."So begins the autobiography of legendary boxing trainer and commentator Teddy Atlas, who grew from the rebellious son of a doctor to a man who embraces, and lives by, his father's values and code.In this gritty, spellbinding tale, Atlas recounts his fascinating life -- as a juvenile delinquent on the streets of Staten Island; as a boxer and Golden Gloves champion under the tutelage of famed trainer Cus D'Amato; as a companion to the dangerous, unpredictable Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, up until the day Gravano turned rat and brought down crime boss John Gotti; and as a trainer of champions and contenders, among them fourteen-year-old Mike Tyson and heavyweight Michael Moorer, whom he led to the crown with a win over Evander Holyfield.Equally engrossing are Teddy Atlas's accounts of training dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp for her successful comeback at age forty-two; his work with actor Willem Dafoe, preparing him for his role as a concentration camp boxer in the film Triumph of the Spirit; his journey to Poland to choreograph the film's boxing scenes; and his own performance in movies such as Play It to the Bone. In sharing his stories, Atlas reveals the philosophy by which he lives.Like Teddy Atlas -- inimitable, tough, honest, and wise -- this book inspires. It is about so much more than boxing. It is a story of overcoming hardships, of compassion for those in need, of tremendous personal integrity, and of personal and professional triumph.
Atlantis Ek Rahasyamay Dwip: अटलांटिस एक रहस्यमयी द्वीप
by Shivendra Suryavanshiहम जब भी अटलांटिस के बारे में सोचते हैं, हमारी आँखों के सामने सागर में डूबी एक भव्य सभ्यता नजर आने लगती है। अटलांटिस देवताओं की वह धरती जिसका जिक्र सर्वप्रथम प्लेटो ने अपनी पुस्तक ‘टाइमियस’ और ‘क्रिटियास’ में किया था। कहते हैं अटलांटिस का विज्ञान आज के विज्ञान से हजारों गुना ज्यादा बेहतर था। पर एक दिन धरती के जोर से हिलने की वजह से पूरी अटलांटिस सभ्यता कहीं सागर में समा गई। तब से लेकर आज तक वैज्ञानिक, आर्कियोलॉजिस्ट उस सभ्यता को ढूंढने का प्रयत्न कर रहे हैं। ईश्वर को ब्रह्मांड के निर्माण के लिये 7 तत्वों की आवश्यकता थी- अग्नि, जल, वायु, पृथ्वी, आकाश, ध्वनि और प्रकाश। इन 7 तत्वों से ईश्वर ने ब्रह्मांड का निर्माण किया। पर अभी भी ईश्वर की सबसे अद्वितीय रचना बाकी थी और वह थी जीवन की उत्पत्ति। जीवन की उत्पत्ति के लिये ईश्वर ने ‘ब्रह्मकण’ का निर्माण किया, जिसे अंग्रेजी में ‘गॉड-पार्टिकल’ या 'हिग्स-बोसन' कहा जाता है। इस ब्रह्मकण ने ब्रह्मांड के हर जीव का निर्माण किया। क्या था यह ब्रह्मकण? जिसने अलग-अलग प्रकार के अरबों-खरबों जीवों की रचना की, जिसने इन्हें इतना अलग-अलग बनाया। इस कथानक में जहां एक ओर तिलिस्म, जादू, चमत्कार और रहस्य है, वहीं दूसरी ओर विज्ञान की एक अद्भुत दुनिया है, जो बिग-बैंग, ब्लैक होल, नेबुला और डार्क मैटर जैसे सिद्धांतों को खोलती है। पौराणिक कथाओं और विज्ञान के ताने बाने से बुना हुआ एक अद्भुत कथानक।
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
by Joe JacksonFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic.Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.
Athletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success
by Andrew P. WintersteinAthletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success, Third Edition is a dynamic text that provides students with a foundation upon which they can build their athletic training knowledge and develop an authentic understanding of the rewards and challenges of the athletic training profession. The Third Edition of Athletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success by Andrew P. Winterstein builds upon previous editions in providing a mix of foundational athletic training knowledge coupled with human interest information to help guide students in their decision-making process when contemplating a career. This Third Edition breaks the mold of other introductory athletic training texts by including answers to many "real-life" athletic training situations. The Third Edition is broken into four sections that cover all different aspects of the profession: Understanding athletic training Common injuries and conditions Planning, prevention, and care Preparing for success Further expanding the learning process, included with each new textbook purchase is access to a companion website that includes videos, a glossary, and various web resources.Updated Features Include: New injury spotlights for the upper and lower extremity and general medical conditions Updated information from athletic training students on keys to success New career spotlights from athletic trainers working in a broad range of career settings Updated information on historic changes in athletic training, including the upcoming transition to master’s degree for professional preparation Updated web resources Additional resources for instructors Complete redesign of text layout and updated images Athletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success, Third Edition is a must have for students taking the first step into a career in athletic training.
Athletic Training Exam Review: A Student Guide to Success
by Lynn Van Ost Karen Lew Feirman Karen ManfriFor more than 20 years, Athletic Training Exam Review has empowered and enabled students to assess and evaluate their athletic training knowledge, skills, and decision-making abilities. Now, newly updated for its platinum anniversary, the Seventh Edition continues a tradition of excellence while serving as a premier guide to successfully achieving certification as an athletic trainer.The Seventh Edition serves as a comprehensive self-evaluation tool, elevating readers’ level of preparation for the BOC exam. This market-leading guide has made a positive impact on the athletic training profession by highlighting and improving students’ strengths and weaknesses.What’s inside: Updated study techniques and test-taking strategies An expanded overview of the exam format to assist in organization and planning More than 1,300 multiple-choice questions and nearly 100 true/false questions, updated and organized according to the BOC’s Practice Analysis, Seventh Edition Educational Domains Clinical decision-making questions testing the ability to make appropriate judgment calls using problem solving A skills assessment composed of 26 problems designed to test manual athletic training skills Scenario-based problems to strengthen critical-thinking abilities In addition to the updated content, the Seventh Edition also features a fully redesigned and expanded online test-taking experience, including: New user-friendly, mobile format 8 knowledge assessment tests—3 more than the previous edition! 5 unique true/false exams 20 total drag and drop identification photographs—8 more than the previous edition! 43 critical-thinking scenarios 3 clinical decision-making exams containing scenario-based exam questions 13 video segments with related questions for practicing evaluation and assessment Athletic Training Exam Review has assisted thousands of students and has become a hallmark text around the globe. Connecting the classroom with clinical education, this review tool is a timely and critical text that prepares students for their exam and career as an athletic trainer.
Athletic Training Case Scenarios: Domain-Based Situations and Solutions
by Francis Feld Keith Gorse Robert BlancEvery case that athletic trainers respond to is unique, but by exposing themselves to a variety of scenarios, they can be prepared for almost any situation. Case studies are the easiest way to find this information, but oftentimes, they come in the form of informal anecdotes or only relate to very specific subjects. Athletic Training Case Scenarios: Domain-Based Situations and Solutions is designed to fill this gap by providing a large number of studies from all five of the domains of athletic training. Keith M. Gorse, Francis Feld, and Robert O. Blanc have gathered true-to-life scenarios for each of the five domains of athletic training, resulting in expert advice on the best response to many possible scenarios. These scenarios were shared by the certified athletic trainers who originally responded to them coming from their work in industrial settings, high schools, colleges, professional teams, and sports medicine clinics. Each scenario features the actual case as it was first assessed by the athletic trainer in order to give readers an opportunity to use their own judgment and decide the best course of action before the original athletic trainer’s own response and recommendations are given. Organized by domain, readers will be able to easily find examples of any case they could imagine. Each domain (prevention, evaluation and diagnosis, emergency care, treatment and rehabilitation, and organizational and professional health) has over a dozen scenarios designed to encourage critical thinking. This format gives readers the closest thing to a crash-course by exposing them to a diverse array of cases and situations. Athletic training students and clinicians will appreciate the wide range of cases presented in Athletic Training Case Scenarios: Domain-Based Situations and Solutions, providing them with the strong knowledge base they will need to respond to any situation they may experience themselves.
An Athletic Trainers’ Guide to Sports Nutrition
by Damon AmatoAn Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Sports Nutrition fills the void of a subject area that is underrepresented in current athletic trainer curriculums despite its importance in the field. Damon Amato has created a text that can be easily read and understood by health care professionals yet is in-depth enough to create a solid understanding of how the body works, and easy enough to then pass on the information to athletes to help them eat ideally based on their specific sport, goal, and situation. Giving a physiology background is necessary to lay the foundation for understanding why certain recommendations in the text are given; however, only the necessary details are included to focus on what is pertinent for athletic trainers to understand while advising athletes.Some topics covered inside include: Basics of human nutrition Disordered eating and eating disorders in athletes Supplements Eating optimally for injury recovery Nutrient timing Special situations An Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Sports Nutrition gives athletic training clinicians and students the information and tools necessary to aid athletes in maintaining peak performance in nutrition, and fills the void left in the current athletic training curriculum.
The Athletic Trainer's Guide to Differential Diagnosis: A Visual Learning Approach
by Andrew P. Winterstein Sharon ClarkAs educators, we strive to teach students to think critically and to commit to a diagnosis, the ability to make that commitment is one of the most difficult steps for clinicians in training. With many possible injuries and conditions, and an equally large number of diagnostic elements, a clear and logical method is needed.The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Differential Diagnosis: A Visual Learning Approach provides an approach that helps the reader sort through the possibilities and think about the clinical evaluation within a clinical thinking framework using a visual mapping approach.The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Differential Diagnosis is not designed to be a “how-to” evaluation text. Rather, it is designed to create a framework that allows the reader to think differently about differential diagnoses, access existing knowledge in anatomy and clinical evaluation, and assess information for the purpose of making higher-order clinical decisions. Dr. Andrew P. Winterstein and Sharon V. Clark have organized The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Differential Diagnosis by body part, as well as by location in the body. The reader will be able to examine the possible diagnoses by location and approach the evaluation in a more focused and organized fashion. This method of evaluation also allows the reader the opportunity to apply evidence-based principles to the clinical evaluation process.The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Differential Diagnosis takes a visual learning approach with an emphasis on diagrams, tables, and boxes to illustrate the visual evaluation framework. In addition, each chapter offers a clinical case to provide a springboard for approaching the differential diagnosis process.The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Differential Diagnosis: A Visual Learning Approach will enhance the athletic training student and clinician’s critical thinking skills, as well as be an excellent resource for self-assessment and preparation for certification.
Athene Palace: Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania
by R.G. WaldeckOn the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opportunities in Romania, international spies cloaked in fake identities, and Nazi officers whom Waldeck discovered to be intelligent but utterly bloodless. A German Jew and a reporter for Newsweek, Waldeck became a close observer of the Nazi invasion. As King Carol first tried to placate the Nazis, then abdicated the throne in favor of his son, Waldeck was dressing for dinners with diplomats and cozying up to Nazi officers to get insight and information. From her unique vantage, she watched as Romania, a country with a pro-totalitarian elite and a deep strain of anti-Semitism, suffered civil unrest, a German invasion, and an earthquake, before turning against the Nazis. A striking combination of social intimacy and disinterest political analysis, Athene Palace evokes the elegance and excitement of the dynamic international community in Bucharest before the world had comes to grips with the horrors of war and genocide. Waldeck’s account strikingly presents the finely wrought surface of dinner parties, polite discourse, and charisma, while recognizing the undercurrents of violence and greed that ran through the denizens of Athene Palace.
Atacama (Matthew Bishop (Español) #3)
by Burt ClinchandhillUn misterio de mil millones de años resurge. > GANADOR: Premio Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, otoño de 2022 - Mejor aventura histórica Walker Monroe, profesor de Yale, bibliotecario y experto en lenguas antiguas, recibe la visita inesperada de dos miembros del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos. Le muestran una pieza de metal desconocido grabada con un texto misterioso y codificado y le piden ayuda para traducirlo. Pide ayuda a sus amigos y colegas, Matthew Bishop y Jennifer Porter, pero al no poder descifrar el código, inician la búsqueda del origen de la extraña pieza de metal. Emprenden un peligroso viaje a través de cuatro continentes, desentrañando un peligroso rompecabezas, mientras otros interesados los siguen de cerca. Pieza a pieza, se acercan a una verdad que sacudirá los cimientos de todo lo que pensaban que era cierto sobre la historia de nuestro mundo. EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTA el tercer libro de la serie "Matthew Bishop" de thrillers de conspiraciones religiosas, ideal para fans de Dan Brown y Michael Crichton.
At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah (Life of the Past)
by Alan L. Titus and Mark A. LoewenThe Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new tyrannosaur), plus the most complete specimen of a Late Cretaceous therizinosaur ever collected from North America, and much more. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah is a major stepping stone toward a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America.
At the Jim Bridger: Stories
by Ron Carlson"We lean closer and closer, eager to catch every last word." said The New York Times Book Review. "Bigger, richer, funnier, and more complex than any description of them can convey," said the San Francisco Chronicle. "Some of the funniest and saddest stories ever to cozy up together," said the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses spins a rollicking tale of happiness and disappointment; where a teenaged magician seduces the prettiest girl in his high school and the world, with devastating consequences. Long regarded as one of our finest living short story writers, Ron Carlson triumphantly returns with At the Jim Bridger, nine stories that are epic in scope and confessional in tone; stories that enfold the reader in a world of love and mystery, and make us feel better than just about anything written on the page.
At the End of the World
by Nadia MikailWhen the world is ending, what matters most to you?Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn't seen her sister June for two years. She has no idea where she is, but that hasn't stopped her from thinking about her every day and hoping she's okay.But now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months' time, she and her mother decide that it's time to track her down and mend the hurts of the past. They don't have any time to spare - if they don't resolve their issues now, they never will.Along with Aisha's boyfriend Walter and his parents (and a stray cat named Fleabag), the group embarks on a roadtrip through Malaysia in a wildly decorated campervan to put the past to rest, to come to terms with the present, and to hope for the future, even with the world about to end.
At the End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization
by Veit BraunRecent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth distribution and our understanding of who can own what. This book explores the idea of ownership in the realm of plant breeding, revealing how plants have been legally and materially transformed into property. It highlights the controversial aspects of turning seeds, plants and genes into property and how this endangers the viability of the seed industry. Examining ownership not simply as a legal concept, but as a bundle of laws, practices and technologies, this is a valuable contribution that will interest scholars of intellectual property studies, the anthropology of markets, science and technology studies and related fields.
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
by Edward Wong&“This book&’s power comes from Wong&’s broad sense of the patterns of Chinese history, reflected in the lives of a father and son, and from his ability to toggle effortlessly between the epic and the intimate.&” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic&“Edward Wong&’s exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America&’s finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father&’s journey—from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America—Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging.&” —Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition, winner of the National Book AwardOne of Foreign Policy&’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024An epic story of modern China that weaves a riveting family memoir with vital reporting by the New York Times diplomatic correspondentThe son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People&’s Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao&’s promise of a powerful China. His astonishing journey as a soldier took him from Manchuria during the Korean War to Xinjiang on the Central Asian frontier. In 1962, disillusioned with the Communist Party, he made plans for a desperate escape to Hong Kong.When Edward Wong became the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, he investigated his father&’s mysterious past while assessing for himself the dream of a resurgent China. He met the citizens driving the nation&’s astounding economic boom and global expansion—and grappling with the vortex of nationalistic rule under Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader since Mao. Following in his father&’s footsteps, he witnessed ethnic struggles in Xinjiang and Tibet and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. And he had an insider&’s view of the world&’s two superpowers meeting at a perilous crossroads.Wong tells a moving chronicle of a family and a nation that spans decades of momentous change and gives profound insight into a new authoritarian age transforming the world. A groundbreaking book, At the Edge of Empire is the essential work for understanding China today.
At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court, A Memoir
by Lisa Sarnoff GochmanHave you ever wondered what it's like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States?In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochmancaptures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before the nine justices of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. At the Altar of the Appellate Gods traces the arc of a violent, racially motivated crime by white supremacist Charles C. Apprendi Jr. in rural Vineland, New Jersey, through the New Jersey state court system, and all the way up to the Supreme Court, where Gochman defended the constitutionality of New Jersey's Hate Crime Statute before a very hot bench. Gochman went head-to-head with Justice Antonin Scalia, fielded tough questions from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and strolled down memory lane with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Told with grace and humor, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods will interest anyone who is curious about the inner workings of our court system and what it is really like to bring a case before the highest court in the country.
At-Risk Youth: A Comprehensive Response
by J. Jeffries McWhirter Benedict T. McWhirter Ellen Hawley McWhirter Anna Cecilia McWhirterThis text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that you will need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. Each chapter has resources that direct you to interesting and informative You Tube, TEDTalk, and research sites to expand upon and illustrate the written information. The authors describe and discuss the latest research-supported, evidence-based prevention and intervention techniques that will help you perform your job successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk.
At Lady Molly's: Book 4 Of A Dance To The Music Of Time (A Dance of Music and Time)
by Anthony PowellAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books. As the fourth book, At Lady Molly’s (1957), opens, the heady pleasures of the 1920s have begun to give way to the austerity and worries of the 1930s. Even so, the whirl of London life continues: friends commit to causes and to spouses, confess adulteries, and fall victim to dissipation and disillusion. As Nick moves ever more comfortably in the worlds of art, culture, and society, Powell’s palette broadens: old friends make appearances, but new ones take places on the stage as well—including Isobel Tolland, whom Nick knows at first sight he’s destined to marry. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--ChicagoTribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New YorkTimes "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis
Asymptotische Stochastik: Eine Einführung mit Blick auf die Statistik
by Norbert HenzeDieses Lehrbuch liefert einen verständnisorientierten Einstieg in die asymptotische Stochastik. Es ist vom Niveau her zu Beginn eines Mathematik-Masterstudiums angesiedelt und deckt den Stoff ab, der in einer vierstündigen Vorlesung mit zweistündigen Übungen vermittelt werden kann. Einzelne Kapitel eignen sich zudem für Seminare am Ende eines Bachelorstudiums.Neben eher grundständigen Themen wie der Momentenmethode zum Nachweis von Verteilungskonvergenz oder dem multivariaten zentralen Grenzwertsatz und der Delta-Methode werden unter anderem Grenzwertsätze für U-Statistiken und der Satz von Donsker sowie die Brown'sche Brücke mit Anwendungen auf die Statistik behandelt. Das Buch schließt mit einem zentralen Grenzwertsatz für hilbertraumwertige Zufallselemente mit Anwendungen auf gewichtete L²-Statistiken. Ein besonderes Merkmal des Buches sind mehr als 130 Selbstfragen, die am Ende des jeweiligen Kapitels beantwortet werden, sowie mehr als 180 Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen. Hierdurch eignet sich dieses Werk sehr gut zum Selbststudium.Die 2. Auflage ist vollständig durchgesehen und thematisch unter anderem um die starke Konsistenz der Maximum-Likelihood-Schätzung sowie zentrale Grenzwertsätze für Dreiecksschemata von Zufallsvektoren und hilbertraumwertigen Zufallsvariablen erweitert. Hinzugekommen sind auch weitere Beispiele sowie 11 neue Aufgaben mit Lösungen.