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  • Saint Consequence

    Michael M. Weinstein’s debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, meditates on the body as a site of continuous change—both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed—to explore the often tangled journeys of physical and spiritual transformation.What does it mean to inhabit a body—and for that body to inhabit our shared world, in all its complexity? Saint Consequence attempts to mine the gap ... Read more

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  • Total Quality Safety Management and Auditing

    Total Quality Management (TQM) is a business philosophy that yields customer satisfaction and continuous process improvement. This new reference and workbook embraces the TQM revolution and explains to readers how TQM principles are applied to safety and health programs. The text also focuses on the ISO-9000 Quality Program, Voluntary Protection Program, and Process Safety Management. For each of ... Read more

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  • Precious and Semi-Precious Stones

    This vintage book comprises a comprehensive treatise on precious and semi-precious stones, with information on special properties, cutting, tools, and much more. Although old, this handbook contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of utility to the modern enthusiast. It would make for an ideal addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this volume include: “Real, ... Read more

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  • Mind Unmasked

    A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness

    The human mind has proven uniquely capable of unraveling untold mysteries, and yet, the mind is fundamentally challenged when it turns back on itself to ask what it itself is. How do we conceive of mind in this postmodern world; how can we use philosophical anthropology to understand mind and its functions? While philosophers and social scientists have made important contributions to our ... Read more

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  • The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving

    The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the foundation's senior vice president. In that role he developed its metrics-based approach, called "relentless monetization," to ensure that the money the foundation receives and grants is used most effectively. Ralph M. Bradburd has served as long-time consultant to ... Read more

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  • The Democracy Advantage

    How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace

    Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainability Science

    The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

    The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved. A consistent thread in the sustainability science movement is the wide acknowledgement that greater degrees of integration across what are now segmented dimensions of extant ... Read more

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  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

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  • Postmodernized Simmel

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory ... Read more

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  • An Integrative Approach to Treating Babies and Children

    A Multidisciplinary Guide

    Working with babies and children is most successful when therapists have a complete understanding and overview of all appropriate treatment options, and the effects of early influences on child health and development. This book shows therapists how to consider these factors in order to work more effectively within their individual areas of expertise.Contributors from a wide range of disciplines, ... Read more

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  • Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book contains two review articles on the dynamics of partial differential equations that deal with closely related topics but can be read independently.Wayne reviews recent results on the global dynamics of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. This system exhibits stable vortex solutions: the topic of Wayne's contribution is how solutions that start from arbitrary initial conditions ... Read more

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  • Decision Making in Health and Medicine

    Integrating Evidence and Values

    Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and service costs must be considered. Decisions in clinical and health policy require careful weighing ... Read more

    $132.99 USD