Author: Laura Nader File Type: pdf Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologists work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary crossing in others. **
Author: Martin L. Abbott
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Washington State is about to enter a new phase of the math wars. Since the late 1980s, the debate over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren has raged worldwide among educators, politicans, and parents. The stakes are high. To operate effectively in a global, twenty-first-century economy and polity, the United states must provide an education in mathematics that is both excellent and equitable.In this volume, four scholars at the Washington School Research Center (WSRC) at Seattle Pacific University present original research drawn from statistical studies of state educational data and from thousands of classroom observations carried out by The BERC Group. They assess the current state of math education and review its history and development. The authors also provide a dispassionate review of the extensive international, national, and state literature. The in-depth observational research in Winning the Math Wars confirms that the real issue is neither the approach to teaching - traditional or reform - nor the type of curriculum. If Americas goal of educational equity and excellence is to be achieved, then math teachers everywhere must be fully supported in developing the specific skills that are ideal for educating all students. The authors discussion focus on four principles for improving math teaching and learning fidelity to reform efforts by all involved an emphasis on instruction and instructional tools the critical nature of mathematical knowledge and the need for transformational change. Winning the Math Wars is an important book for policy makers, school leaders, practitioners of mathematics education, parents, and anyone who wants to make sense of the math wars.From the Inside FlapThis is an important book for policy makers, school leaders, teachers, parents, and anyone who wants to make sense of the math wars--the debate that has raged since the late 1980s over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren. About the AuthorMartin Abbott, Ph.D., is director of the WSRC and professor of sociology at Seattle Pacific University. He specializes in evaluation research and statistical analysis of large data sets. Duane Baker, Ed.D., is president of The BERC Group and an expert in assessment, classroom observation, and teaching reforms. Karen Smith, Ed.D., is winner of a presidential award in mathematics education and an experienced elementary math teacher, school administrator, and consultant to public schools. Thomas Trzyna, Ph.D., is a specialist in international education and a co-author of Toward a Global Ph.D.
Author: Stanley B. Lippman
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Inside the C++ Object Model focuses on the underlying mechanisms that support object-oriented programming within C++ constructor semantics, temporary generation, support for encapsulation, inheritance, and the virtuals--virtual functions and virtual inheritance. This book shows how your understanding the underlying implementation models can help you code more efficiently and with greater confidence. Lippman dispells the misinformation and myths about the overhead and complexity associated with C++, while pointing out areas in which costs and trade offs, sometimes hidden, do exist. He then explains how the various implementation models arose, points out areas in which they are likely to evolve, and why they are what they are. He covers the semantic implications of the C++ object model and how that model affects your programs. Highlights Explores the program behavior implicit in the C++ Object Models support of object-oriented programming. Explains the basic implementation of the object-oriented features and the trade offs implicit in those features. Examines the impact on performance in terms of program transformation. Provides abundant program examples, diagrams, and performance measurements to relate object-oriented concepts to the underlying object model. If you are a C++ programmer who desires a fuller understanding of what is going on under the hood, then Inside the C++ Object Model is for you! Get a value-added service! Try out all the examples from this book at www.codesaw.com. CodeSaw is a free online learning tool that allows you to experiment with live code from your book right in your browser. 0201834545B11102003**
Author: Barnaby Conrad
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FOREWORDSome time ago, when I was about a decade more remotefrom my own final bulletin than I am today, I publishedin a national magazine a part of my private collectionof deathbed utterances. These Passing Remarks, as I calledthem, seemed to strike a sympathetic chord. I heard from atleast a hundred fellow-collectors, many of whom generouslypassed on to me their favorite specimens. The communicationI most treasure came from a New England correspondentwho wrote that when his father was dying thenurse put her ear down close to his face to see whether shecould detect any breathing. The old gentleman opened hiseyes and said Boo! My informant added, quite properly,I envy him that. So do I. He also enclosed an epitaphfound on a New England tombstone commemorating a youthwho died at twenty-one. It reads Dont take on so. Its allright. These are true Yankee farewells.My fellow-hobbyists made me feel that I was one of aworld-wide fraternity of collectors of Last Words. This senseof community has now been reconfirmed, and most pleasantly,by the reading of the book you hold in your hands.It will at once take an honorable place on the slim shelfholding anthologies in this odd, delightful field.From the foreword by Clifton Fadiman
Author: Cristina Rocha
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This book is the first ethnographic account of the global spiritual movement headed by John of God, a Brazilian faith healer. Renowned for performing surgeries using rudimentary tools such as kitchen knives and scissors, without anesthetics or asepsis, John of God is allegedly inhabited byentities, or spirits, and goes into a trance-like state in order to heal his visitors and afterwards, when he regains consciousness, does not remember the operations. Visited by thousands of the desperately ill the wealthy celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Ram Daas, Wayne Dyer, and ShirleyMacLaine and an increasing array of media, John of God has become an international faith healing superstar in just over a decade. Books about him have been translated into several languages, from Russian to Ukrainian to Japanese ABC, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC have made documentaries onhis healing center tour guides advertise package trips and John of God himself travels to conduct healing events in the US, New Zealand, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, and many other countries.More recently, a transnational spiritual community has developed around John of God, comprised of the ill, those who seek spiritual growth, healers, and tour guides, and according to followers, even spirits whose powers transcend national boundaries. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Brazil, theUS, the UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for a healer from Brazil to become a global guru in the 21st century. Rocha explores what attracts foreigners to John of Gods cosmology and healing practices, howthey understand their own experiences, and how these radical experiences have transformed their lives.
Author: Jacqueline T. Fish
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The work of Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) is made more complicated when the scene is contaminated by either Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNEs) or Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs). Special considerations must be observed when working at such scenes, whether they are the result of acts of terrorism, accidents, or natural disasters. Practical Crime Scene Investigations for Hot Zones contains guidelines and best practices for keeping CSIs safe and conducting a thorough crime scene investigation in these deadly environments.A compilation of professional experiences and observations from CSIs who have encountered these challenges in the field, the book offers strategies for dealing with a host of scenarios. The expert contributors discuss practices and procedures validated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBIs Hazardous Materials Response Unit and Laboratory. Topics discussed includeullChemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats encountered by CSIs and other personnelllLaws, regulations, and standards that apply to working in a hazardous environmentllEquipment for personal protection and evidence recoveryllRoles and responsibilities of personnel on the scenellCollecting, processing, and documenting evidencellDecontamination of the scenelulHigh consequence events (HCEs) have increased in recent years as terrorism and natural disasters have dominated the headlines. Enhanced with nearly 300 color photos, this one-stop reference supplies practical information to keep CSIs, first responders, HAZMAT technicians, incident commanders, and military and intelligence officials safe from the hazards they may encounter on the job.About the AuthorJacqueline T. Fish currently serves as chair of the Criminal Justice Department and director of graduate studies in criminal justice at Charleston Southern University. Her career includes development oversight of the National Forensic Academy curriculum and seventeen years as a police officer in Knox County, Tennessee, where she invested the majority of her time as sergeant in charge of the Criminal Identification Division. Robert N. Stout has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement and hazardous materials. His law enforcement experience includes serving as sergeant for the Virginia State Police, deputyparamedic for the Amherst County Sheriffs Office, and in motor carrier safetyhazardous material teamenvironmental crimes investigations for the Virginia State Police. Edward W. Wallace, Jr. served with the New York Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years and performed various law enforcement duties, including crime scene investigator and counter-terrorism investigator. Mr. Wallace held the coveted NYPD rank of Detective First Grade and spent 15 years in crime scene investigations, where he investigated numerous high profile crimes, including participating in the investigations of both World Trade Center attacks and the October 2001 anthrax attack. Mr. Wallace lead the development of the national curriculum of crime scene investigations for CBRNETICs for the National Center of Biomedical Research and Development at Louisiana State University and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Author: Holly Porter
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Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. With its wide investigation of social life in northern Uganda, this provocative study offers vital analysis for those interested in sexual and gender violence, post-conflict reconstruction and human rights.
Author: Patrick Symmes
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Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the first President to visit the nation almost 100 yearssince Coolidge in 1928. And then Fidel Castro passed away in November 2016, marking the end of the momentous era in Cuban history. In The Day Fidel Died, Patrick Symmes interweaves reporting from years spent traveling to the Cuban Island, a narrative history of the rise of Fidelismo and the last sixty-plus years of life there under Fidel. Symmes exploration of the Castros Cubahow it came to be and what its becomingpaints a wondrous and striking portrait of the nation, its culture, politics and people for anyone first undertaking a trip or those still dreaming of doing so.A Vintage Shorts ebook original.
Author: Christian Smith
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In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our souls or hearts. Building on Smiths previous work, To Flourish or Destruct examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? Smith argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods ends that are, by nature, constitutionally good for all human beings. He goes on to explore the ways we can and do fail to realize these endsa failure that can result in varying gradations of evil. Rooted in critical realism and informed by work in philosophy, psychology, and other fields, Smiths ambitious book situates the idea of personhood at the center of our attempts to understand how we might shape good human lives and societies.