Author: Beverley Henderson File Type: pdf Confused by medical terms? Dont know a carcinoma from a hematoma? Medical Terminology For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, youll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence. This plain-English guide to language that can be just plain confusing clears up the meanings of the Greek and Latin sources of medical terms. Youll get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. Youll also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and youll find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. Youll discover how to Understand word foundations and origins Grasp the essential meanings of unfamiliar terms Define common prefixes and suffixes Identify and pronounce medical terms Deconstruct words to grasp definitions Use plurals and multiples with ease Describe medical conditions accurately Bone up on terms that describe the anatomy Use mnemonic devices to remember medical terms Know when words refer to diseases, injuries, treatments, and more Use medical terminology in the real world Complete with a list of essential references on medical terminology as well as helpful word-building activities Medical Terminology For Dummies puts you in the know in no time .**
Author: Meriel Jones
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Despite the growth of research on masculinity in both Gender and Classical Studies, and the resurgence of interest in ancient fiction, no volume has yet been devoted to exploring the representation of masculinity in ancient Greek novels. This ground-breaking study examines and contextualizes three key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity -- paideia, andreia, and sexual ideology -- as evidenced in the five ideal Greek novels (namely those of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, and Heliodorus). Jones argues that while some of the narratives may be set in the classical past, the masculine concerns they display are inescapably symptomatic of the imperial present, reflecting some of the gender troubles of the real world of their authors. Using modern theories of the performance of gender as tools for analysis, the study finds that many of the novels men betray an awareness that their masculine identities depend on the maintenance of their image before others -- they are conscious of playing the man. The book also puts forward the hypothesis that, while most of the authors uphold accepted scripts of masculinity, Achilles Tatius constructs Cleitophon as a misperformer of masculinity as a means of challenging and subverting traditional codes of gender. **
Author: Barrett Brown
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What is creationism? Is it science, theology, both, neither? Whos behind it? What does it mean for Western Civilization? And why should you give a damn in the first place? National Lampoon veteran Barrett Brown and Professor of Sociology Jon P. Alston, Ph.D, answer these questions - and perhaps one or two others in a superbly unorthodox, serenely offensive and splendidly hilarious look at the forces behind the most talked-about pseudo-theory in modern history. In FoD, the reader will discover ominous parallels between Billy Joels greaser anthem Uptown Girl and chief intelligent design proponent William Dembski, the wholly non-Christian origins of the United States, the goofy history of the creation science movement, secrets of a happy marriage to anti-feminist icon Phylis Schafly, stunning evidence that William Jennings Bryan might not have been all that bright, the the three interesting things that occurred in 2004, and the true nature of the millennia-old Conspiracy of Nonsense that threatens the very fiber of Western Civilization.
Author: Mark Gregory Pegg
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In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--it was a long savage battle for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. These accounts of ordinary men and women, remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times, bring the story vividly to life. Pegg argues that generations of historians (and novelists) have misunderstood the crusade they assumed it was a war against the Cathars, the most famous heretics of the Middle Ages. The Cathars, Pegg reveals, never existed. He further shows how a millennial fervor about cleansing the world of heresy, coupled with a fear that Christendom was being eaten away from within by heretics who looked no different than other Christians, made the battles, sieges, and massacres of the crusade almost apocalyptic in their cruel intensity. In responding to this fear with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society. This fundamental change, Pegg argues, led directly to the creation of the inquisition, the rise of an anti-Semitism dedicated to the violent elimination of Jews, and even the holy violence of the Reconquista in Spain and in the New World in the fifteenth century. All derive their divinely sanctioned slaughter from the Albigensian Crusade. Haunting and immersive, A Most Holy War opens an important new perspective on a truly pivotal moment in world history, a first and distant foreshadowing of the genocide and holy violence in the modern world. **
Author: Andrea Quinlan
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In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed Ontarios most successful rapist trap. Since then, the kit has become the key source of evidence in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault as well as a symbol of victims improved access to care and justice. Unfortunately, the SAEK has failed to live up to these promises. ul l*l ul The Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book to chart the thirty year history of the sexual assault evidence kit and its role in a criminal justice system that re-victimizes many assault victims in their quest for medical treatment and justice. Drawing on actor-network theory and feminist technology studies, Andrea Quinlan combs through sixty-two interviews with police, nurses, scientists, and lawyers, as well as archival records and legal cases to trace changes in sexual assault forensics, law, advocacy, and anti-violence activism in Ontario. Through this history Quinlan bravely and provocatively argues that the SAEK reflects and reinforces the criminal justice systems distrust of sexual assault victims. **
Author: William A. Pelz
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In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full scale revolution that toppled the monarchy and inaugurated a period of radical popular democracy.The establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919 ended the revolution, relegating all but its most prominent leaders to a historical footnote. In A Peoples History of the German Revolution, William A. Pelz cuts against the grain of mainstream accounts that tend to present the revolution as more of a collapse, or just a chaotic interregnum that preceded the countrys natural progression into a republic.Going beyond the familiar names of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg or Clara Zetkin, Pelz explores the revolution from the bottom up, focusing on the active role that women, rank-and-file activists, and ordinary workers played in its events. Rejecting the depiction of agency as exclusively in the hands of international actors like Woodrow Wilson or in those of German elites, he makes the compelling case that, for a brief period, the actions of the common people shaped a truly revolutionary society.****
Author: Bies van Ede
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Voormalig rechercheur Vincent Koning is besmet met een virus dat hem onverbiddelijke de dood zal injagen, al weet niemand nog wanneer. Hij slijt zijn dagen in de kroeg en speelt een spel van aantrekken en afstoten met zijn vriendin Karina. Een toevallige ontmoeting met de kleine crimineel Jannes Dragt is het begin van een stroom gebeurtenissen die samenkomen in het Groningse dorp.
Author: Edward G. Goetz
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The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesnt see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities, and by tracing the tensions involved in housing integration and policy across fifty years and myriad developments he shows why. Goetzs core argument, in a provocative book that shows todays debates about housing, mobility, and race have deep roots, is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather than integrated housing projects that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts. **Review Edward G. Goetz uses extensive evidence to support the community building position. This is an important book because The One-Way Street of Integration shows why dogmatic support for racial integration may cut against racial justice. (Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City) The One-Way Street of Integration is an important book. Edward G. Goetzs explanations of the conflicts between community development and fair housing are clear, comprehensive, and powerful. This book is a necessary read, especially for Goetzs wise and achievable prescriptions for resolution of those conflicts. (Henry Cisneros, Principal of Siebert Cisneros Shank, and former U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio) The One-Way Street of Integration investigates the key conflicts within the liberal Left. As Edward G. Goetz shows, these unresolved differences prevent stronger advocacy for the alleviation of inequalities pervasive throughout metropolitan America. This is a must read for twenty-first-century urban and metropolitan scholars, policy makers, and students interested in pursuing racial and economic equity. (Derek Hyra, American University, and author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City) The One-Way Street of Integration justly challenges the integrationist project of moving people of color to opportunity. Goetz makes us question why many diminish and even disrupt promising efforts to help people of color develop communities where they are. This book is a major intellectual investment for all of us who want better institutions and initiatives for achieving and sustaining racial equity in the metropolis. (Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, and author of God and Government in the Ghetto) About the Author Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. He has published widely, including, most recently, New Deal Ruins Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy.
Author: J. P. Park
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Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhous work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a persons command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital. **Review Art by the Book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the way taste, status, and a growing urban sphere changed the content of elite self-understanding in 16th- and 17th-century China. By constantly cross-cutting between social history and the content and style of the painting manuals, Park demonstrates how even those outside the literati orbit could begin to take on the aura of the highest elites. ----- Katherine Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh The printed manuals are situated within the wider horizons of late Ming thought, literature, tastes, fashions, values, and lifestyles. Thus, in addition to students of late imperial Chinese art history, this book should appeal to those interested in later Chinese literary, social, and cultural history, to readers interested in the history of the book, and to students of early modern cultural and social theory in comparative context. ----- Richard Vinograd, Stanford University Review Art by the Book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the way taste, status, and a growing urban sphere changed the content of elite self understanding in 16th- and 17th-century China. By constantly cross-cutting between social history and the content and style of the painting manuals, Park demonstrates how even those outside the literati orbit could begin to take on the aura of the highest elites.Katherine Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh The printed manuals are situated within the wider horizons of late Ming thought, literature, tastes, fashions, values, and lifestyles. Thus, in addition to students of late imperial Chinese art history, this book should appeal to those interested in later Chinese literary, social, and cultural history, to readers interested in the history of the book, and to students of early modern cultural and social theory in comparative context.Richard Vinograd, Stanford University
Author: Perchta Z Rožmberka
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The letters of the Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anezka, give a vivid insight into how medieval women viewed themselves. Perchtas letters inform her father that his choice of a husband for her has caused her desperate sadness and sorrow in which death seems a better alternative. Despite her unhappiness and her almost total dependence on others, however, Perchta undertook to take control of her own fate and to improve the circumstances of her life. Her letters were the means whereby she informed her father and brothers of her misery and persuaded them to take action, and in the process they tell us about her expectations of respect and companionship in marriage. The letters of both sisters show them to be women with a vigorous sense of their own dignity and offer insights into the hopes and disappointments, joys and vexations of fifteenth-century women. The letters also introduce theenvironment and the activities of daily castle life, and offer an intimate picture of family life in the fifteenth century.JOHN M. KLASSEN is Professor of History at Trinity Western University, Canada. He was assisted in the translations by EVA DOLEZALOVA, Historical Institue, Prague, and LYNN SZABO, Trinity Western University.ReviewKlassen and the editors of the series ought to be commended for making these letters available to an audience not familiar with the Czech language or the history of Bohemia. They provide one more facet of the position of women in the late Middle Ages. H-NET REVEIWS At once domestic and political, private and public... should prove of great interest to medievalsits and students of womens history. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Excellent addition to series... open(s) a remarkable window into the conditions, beliefs, and expectations that shaped the lives of late medieval noblewomen... Fine introduction. MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM A highly welcome addition to the canon of medieval womens literature. Whereas most scholars continue to study well-known mystical literature, and reproduce womens visionary texts, the Library of Medieval Women series pursues the goal of making available a wider range of medieval womens literature in English translation. MEDIAEVISTIK Language NotesText English (translation)Original Language Czech, German