The Application of Plasmas to Chemical Processing

Raymond F. Baddour And Robert S. Timmins (Eds. )

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Four-skills American English course with a communicative methodology, engaging texts, and a strong pronunciation syllabus - designed to get students speaking. With texts and topics that make learners want to speak, American English File is the course that gets students talking. It gives you full skills coverage with a clear focus on pronunciation, plus wide-ranging support and resources too. Resources include Test Generator CD-ROMs, DVDs, Multi-ROMs, and websites. The highly popular teacher's site has extra lesson ideas and resources for you to download.

Quantum Computing for Everyone (Mit Press)

Computers & Technology

Bernhardt, Chris

Computer Science

Human Rights in a Post Human World: Critical Essays

This work is described by its distinguished author as a sequel to The Future of Human Rights. It is an analysis of the state of human rights in a 'post human' and 'machinist' world almost overwhelmed by security concerns, 'terrorist threats', and technoscience. It begins with a series of questions: Are there now two different realms of human rights: human rights in times of peace and human rights in the 'state of exception'? Does such a distinction affect the nascent jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? In what way do these impacts on global social policy concern development? The book goes on to present a critique of approaches towards a theory of human rights proposed by Amartya Sen and Sen's emphasis on the ethical, as opposed to juridical, nature of such rights. Focusing on the human right to development, the author examines why the UN Declaration on the Human Right to Development has not attracted more attention and goes on to highlight the work of Arjun Sengupta and its implications for the human right to development. It goes on to examine how in the current world scenario the 'emancipatory potential' of human rights may be carried forward in theoretical work and through activism.

How to Design Programs, second edition: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (Mit Press)

Felleisen, Matthias

Findler, Robert Bruce

Flatt, Matthew

Krishnamurthi, Shriram

The New Industrial Organization

Jacquemin, Alexis

Mehta, Fatemah [Translator]

Business & Money

The Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Russian and English. It covers the words you need to know for everday use, carefully selected from findings from the Oxford Languages Tracker and the Oxford English Corpus. Also included are Russian and English-speaking culture and grammar supplements, giving lively and useful information on life in the Russian-speaking world. Discover more on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's hub for dictionaries and language reference.

"[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." ―The New England Journal of Medicine
"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment... " ―Ethics
"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text... " ―European Medical Journal
"Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives... detailed, exhaustively referenced... " ―The Florida Bar Journal
"This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care." ―Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Journal
"Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide... " ―Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives―those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.

Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process (Design Thinking, Design Theory)

Goldschmidt, Gabriela

... extremely valuable. [This book] addresses exactly the right questions in a balanced, nuanced way." ―Journal of the American Medical AssociationCohen’s book is a major contribution to the literature of the inevitable." ―Medical Humanities ReviewThis book provides readers with an insightful overview of the practice of oocyte donation, the broader issues raised by this innovative yet problematic technology and, given the recommendations of NABER, how these issues mights be resolved.... Well written, structured, researched, and thought-provoking, this book makes a timely, important, and worthwhile contribution to the growing body of reproductive technology scholarship." ―Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Home PageDetailed notes; extensive references; comprehensive research... Recommended..." ―ChoiceLeading scholars investigate the difficult ethical, legal, and policy issues that surround egg donation and the new reproductive technologies as a whole. In addition, the book describes procedures at four egg-donation centers and presents a new set of guidelines from the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction.

Biomechanics of Movement: The Science of Sports, Robotics, and Rehabilitation

Self-Help

Uchida, Thomas K.

Delp, Scott L

A critical examination of the films of Oscar Micheaux.
 One of the most original and successful filmmakers of all time, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884, yet he created an impressive legacy in commercial cinema. Between 1913 and 1951 he wrote, directed, and distributed some forty-three feature films, more than any other black filmmaker in the world, a record of production that is likely to stand for a very long time.
Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. Uplift provided the context for Micheaux's extensive commentary on racist cinema, such as D. W. Griffith's 1915 blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation, which Micheaux "answered" with his very early films Within Our Gates and Symbol of the Unconquered. Uplift explains Micheaux's use of "negative images" of African Americans as well as his multi-pronged campaign against stereotype and caricature in American culture. His campaign produced a body of films saturated with a nuanced intertexual "signifying," boldly and repeatedly treating controversial topics that face white censorship time after time, topics ranging from white mob and Klan violence to light-skin-color fetish to white financing of black cultural productions.

Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, tenth edition

Arts & Photography

Fabozzi, Frank J.

Fabozzi, Francesco A.

History & Criticism

"Cohen and Eisen have written that rare work, a book that really matters! With clarity and grace, The Jew Within tells the story of how American Jews live and understand their Judaism over the span of their lives, in their families, and among their friends." ―Riv-Ellen Prell
"... a marvelous book. The authors have succeeded in conveying in a very convincing manner the meaning of Jewish identity, Jewish belief, and Jewish practice among a most... important sector of American Jews: the baby-boomer generation." ―Charles S. Liebman
Rocked by reports of soaring intermarriage rates, rampant assimilation, and diminishing population, the American Jewish community has been concerned with issues of Jewish identification and continuity. What factors shape, nourish, and sustain Jewish commitment? What leads some Jews to place Jewish commitment at the center of their lives, while others consign it to the margins? What matters most to American Jews and why? Through in-depth interviews with Jews across the country, Arnold M. Eisen and Steven M. Cohen, two of the keenest observers and analysts of American Jewish life, probe beneath the surface to explore the foundations of belief and behavior among moderately affiliated American Jews. Among their thought-provoking conclusions are that the construction of Jewish meaning in America is personal and private and that communal loyalties and norms no longer shape Jewish identity as they did several decades ago. The rich and moving personal narratives presented by the authors, accompanied by insightful analysis, raise important questions for all those concerned with the meaning and future of Judaism in American life.

Financial Modeling, fifth edition

Benninga, Simon

Mofkadi, Tal

Finance

In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
A powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet.
"Zsuzsanna Ozsváth bring[s] forth Radnóti’s life, his thought, and his passion with a depth of insight that is rare in a scholar. Brilliant, penetrating, and passionate, Ozsváth’s book sets a new standard of excellence in Holocaust studies. It is a must for anyone who would approach the dark flame that burns at the core of the Event." ―David Patterson, University of Memphis Miklós Radnóti, a young Hungarian Jewish poet, was shot by Hungarian soldiers guarding him while on a forced march from Yugoslavia back to Hungary during the final days of World War II. When his body was discovered and exhumed nearly two years later, a small book of poems was found in his coat pocket. These poems, together with the rest of Radnóti’s work, solidified his reputation as one of Hungary’s greatest poets. Radnóti shared the experience of many Jewish artists and intellectuals in Central Europe during the early part of the 20th century, but his poetry brings out a particular and personal view of the Holocaust in Hungary. His work plays a unique role in the history of Central European culture as some of the most beautiful poems ever written in Hungarian, as a voice against the rise of totalitarianism, and as testimony to the destruction of Europe’s Jews. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth places Radnóti within the context of the political and intellectual history of interwar Hungary, situating him as an artist who is both a Jew and a Hungarian patriot. Her sensitive translations from the Hungarian lend poignancy to this tragic and forcefully told story. This account of Radnóti’s life and work explores the sources of the poet’s inspiration and imagery and restores it to its extreme times and places.
Zsuzsanna Ozsváth is Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she is also Director of the Holocaust Studies Program. She is coeditor and cotranslator (with Frederick Turner) of Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti and Attila Jozsef’s The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poetry.
Jewish Literature and Culture―Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor
Contents Myth and Consciousness Poetic Images: Socialist Art and Political Commitment The Pull of Contraries: Making of the Past Visions of Destruction, Lyrics of Resistance In Extremis: 1944

The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI

Biographies & Memoirs

Imbrie, Andrew

Buchanan, Ben

Arts & Literature

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