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Cats Are Capable of Mind Control

Cats Are Capable of Mind Control

Kris Sanchez

Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins US
2016
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From the creator of the popular Twitter sensation UberFacts comes this fun compilation quiz book, packed with entertaining infographics and surprising factoids, for fans of Schott's Miscellany, What If? and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Providing "the most unimportant things you'll never need to know"-fun and surprising facts, statistics, and infographics on diverse subjects, from art and science to history and popular culture-UberFacts has become one of the most widely followed and successful accounts on Twitter, followed by nearly 12 million people. Based on the popular social media phenomenon and culled from an exhaustive variety of sources-science journals, books, media, and literary magazines-Cats are Capable of Mind Control is a fascinating collection of shocking, delightful, educational, and informative facts and figures that are entertaining, topical, and sometimes downright bizarre (the safest place to suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. is a casino). Did you know: * The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a ten-minute walk from any other point?* Vultures' stomach acid is so corrosive they can digest anthrax?* Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap and effective pesticides? Discover all this and much, much more in this treasure trove of trivia for the social media age.
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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

Kris Newby

HARPER PAPERBACKS
2020
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A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time--Lyme disease--and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today.While on vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover: Newby had become one of the 300,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year.As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe's discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.
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Visual Basic.NET Tips and Techniques

Visual Basic.NET Tips and Techniques

Kris Jamsa

Osborne/McGraw-Hill
2002
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Containing more than three hundred Visual Basic.NET tips, techniques, tricks, and best practices, a guide for advanced Visual Basic programmers and developers explains how to use Visual Basic.NET within the .NET Framework, how to mrigrate programs from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.NET, and such concepts as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, XML and Soap, and more. Original. (Advanced)
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Black Ghost of Empire

Black Ghost of Empire

Kris Manjapra

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
2023
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A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it.Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today.Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.
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Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice

Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice

Kris Cole; Jill Noble; Tim Rule; Kim Slingo; Billy Worth

Cengage Learning EMEA
2023
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Leadership & Management: Theory & Practice, 8e presents the current theory, research and practical application of management and leadership concepts in everyday language and in a context that makes it easy to understand. You will learn models and frameworks that you can use in leadership and management situations, as well as leading-edge information about the science and art of management that you can put into practice in your own way. This market-leading textbook provides you with rigorous information while balancing the key topics with a practical approach, through real-life case studies, examples and problem-solving techniques. The text addresses a comprehensive range of industry types and identifies the transferable skills of leaders and managers. This is a resource for your professional reference library that you will refer to for many years to come.
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Leo's Map of Monsters: The Armoured Goretusk

Leo's Map of Monsters: The Armoured Goretusk

Kris Humphrey

Oxford University Press
2020
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When Leo opens his assignment envelope on his ninth birthday two words stare back at him: TOP SECRET. But before he has time to ask any questions, he's whisked away beyond the village wall to meet his new boss, the Guardian. As the Guardian's apprentice, he must protect his village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. Armed with a slingshot of magical stones and a strange map, Leo is given his first mission-to do battle with an angry Armoured Goretusk.
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Leo's Map of Monsters: The Spitfang Lizard

Leo's Map of Monsters: The Spitfang Lizard

Kris Humphrey

Oxford University Press
2021
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It's Leo's job as the Guardian's apprentice to protect the village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. Whenever a monster gets too close to the village walls Leo must venture out, using his magical map to first find the monster and then do battle with it. In this book, Leo must track down a deadly Spitfang Lizard before it reaches the village. He is given one piece of advice-first they spit, then they bite. If a Spitfang's throat swells up . . . run!
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Leo's Map of Monsters: The Frightmare

Leo's Map of Monsters: The Frightmare

Kris Humphrey

Oxford University Press
2021
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It's Leo's job as the Guardian's apprentice to protect the village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. Whenever a monster gets too close to the village walls Leo must venture out, using his magical map to first find the monster and then do battle with it. In this book, Leo must track down the ghostly Frightmare-a powerful monster that haunts the abandoned ruins, breathing deadly blue fire at any intruder.
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Leo's Map of Monsters: The Shrieking Serpent

Leo's Map of Monsters: The Shrieking Serpent

Kris Humphrey

Oxford University Press
2022
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Leo Wilder must protect the village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. But when the magical stones needed to fight the monsters run out, he will have to journey into the depths of the Endless Mines to retrieve more. It will take all of Leo's courage to face the Shrieking Serpent, the dangerous monster that lives in the mines.
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The Fragmentation of Being

The Fragmentation of Being

Kris McDaniel

Oxford University Press
2017
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The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.
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The Fragmentation of Being

The Fragmentation of Being

Kris McDaniel

Oxford University Press
2019
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The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.
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The Big Zero

The Big Zero

Kris Timmermans; Chris Roark; Rodrigo Abdalla

Portfolio Penguin
2019
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Do you want to achieve startup speed at enterprise scale?Growth. It's what every company strives for. But it's become more and more elusive as companies struggle to hit their projected growth rates in an increasingly competitive market.While zero-based budgeting (ZBB) has been wielded for decades to cut costs, it falls short when it comes to spurring growth. But a zero-based mindset (ZBx) does that and more. ZBx facilitates forensic oversight into resource allocation that funnels savings back into growth initiatives and encourages new sources of innovation.The Big Zero shows how a ZBx approach focuses on agility over austerity, visibility over guesswork and the future over the past to fuel growth and competitiveness.
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Here/There

Here/There

Kris Paulsen

MIT Press
2017
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An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current "drone vision" works."Telepresence" allows us to feel present-through vision, hearing, and even touch-at a remote location by means of real-time communication technology. Networked devices such as video cameras and telerobots extend our corporeal agency into distant spaces. In Here/There, Kris Paulsen examines telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current "drone vision" works. Paulsen traces an arc of increasing interactivity, as video screens became spaces for communication and physical, tactile intervention. She explores the work of artists who took up these technological tools and questioned the aesthetic, social, and ethical stakes of media that allow us to manipulate and affect far-off environments and other people-to touch, metaphorically and literally, those who cannot touch us back.Paulsen examines 1970s video artworks by Vito Acconci and Joan Jonas, live satellite performance projects by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, and CCTV installations by Chris Burden. These early works, she argues, can help us make sense of the expansion of our senses by technologies that privilege real time over real space and model strategies for engagement and interaction with mediated others. They establish a political, aesthetic, and technological history for later works using cable TV infrastructures and the World Wide Web, including telerobotic works by Ken Goldberg and Wafaa Bilal and artworks about military drones by Trevor Paglen, Omar Fast, Hito Steyerl, and others. These works become a meeting place for here and there.
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Pandemic in Potosí

Pandemic in Potosí

Kris Lane

Pennsylvania State University Press
2022
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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717–22 was likely the most destructive disease to strike South America since the days of the Spanish conquest.Pandemic in Potosí features the single longest narrative of this nearly forgotten period, penned by local historian Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, along with shorter treatments of the disease’s ravages in Cuzco, Arequipa, and the outskirts of Lima. The “Gran Peste,” as it was called, was a pivotal event about which Arzáns wrote at length because he lived through it, but also because it was believed to have cosmic significance. Kris Lane translates and contextualizes Arzáns’s account, which is rich in local detail that sheds light on a range of topics—from therapeutics, devotional life, class relations, gender, and race to conceptions of illness, sin, and human will and responsibility during a major public health crisis.Original narratives of the pandemic, translated here for the first time, help readers see commonalities and differences between past and present disease encounters. Designed for use in courses on Latin American history, this concise work will also interest scholars and students of the history of religion, history of medicine, urban studies, and epidemiology.
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The Reckoning: A Dark Storm Novel

The Reckoning: A Dark Storm Novel

Kris Greene

St. Martin's Griffin
2019
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A Dark Storm Novel, Kris Greene's The Reckoning is the final book in an exciting fantasy series about a young man who discovers that it's his destiny to lead the war against the Darkness. Not much is left of Gabriel's life ever since he discovered his true destiny as a warrior knight in the final battle against darkness. His life has been rife with soul-sucking demons and creatures straight out of the books he studied in college. His life is no longer ordinary. As a warrior, he has no choice but to fight for good. And if he screws up, the world is toast... The war between good and evil has just been kicked up a notch for Gabriel Redfeather and his partner, the half Valkyrie, De Mona Sanchez. Gabriel is the only one who can stem the tide of darkness creeping across the land. But will he be able to do it without falling into darkness himself?
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Holding Schools Accountable

Holding Schools Accountable

Kris Sloan

Praeger Publishers Inc
2006
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Sloan explores the varied contours of the educational accountability movement that has swept the United States. He describes the historical origins and underlying assumptions of present day accountability measures, current issues surrounding accountability, relationships between the accountability and the standards movements, and the role of standardized testing in each of these movements, and provides a critical reading of the seemingly divided literature concerning the effects of accountability on public education.This volume also focuses on the implications of accountability measures on parents, families, and communities, including details of the varied efforts by grassroots organizations that have raised concerns over current accountability measures. While there has been a substantial amount of parent and community opposition to both state and national accountability policies, increasingly these organizations are offering suggestions for ways to make accountability measures better and more responsive to both community and student needs. The work concludes by offering valuable suggestions about improving, even strengthening accountability measures in ways that are more responsive and respectful of students, their families, and local communities.
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Trauma in Facial Plastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America

Trauma in Facial Plastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America

Kris S. Moe

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2017
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This issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Kris S. Moe, is devoted to Trauma in Facial Plastic Surgery. Articles in this issue include: Neurosurgical Considerations in Craniofacial Trauma; Management of War and Terrorism Injuries of the Head & Neck; ORIF Frontal Bone and Sinus Fractures; ORIF Orbit Fractures; ORIF Nasal Fractures; ORIF Maxilla and Midface; Emergent Soft Tissue Repair; Endoscopic Repair TMJ; Eyelid and Periorbital Soft Tissue Trauma; Post-traumatic Laser Treatment of Soft Tissue Injury; Issues in Pediatric Craniofacial Trauma; and Evidence-based Fracture Management.
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Animals, Theology and the Incarnation

Animals, Theology and the Incarnation

Kris Hiuser

SCM Press
2017
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How does an understanding of the non-human lead us to a greater understanding of the incarnation? Are non-human animals morally relevant within Christian theology and ethics? Is there a human ethical responsibility towards non-human animals? In Animals, Theology and the Incarnation, Kris Hiuser argues that if we are called to represent both God to creation, and creation to God, then this has considerable bearing on understanding what it means to be human, as well as informing human action towards non-human creatures.
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Interprofessional Perspectives Of Mental Health Crisis: For Nurses, Health, and the Helping Professions

Interprofessional Perspectives Of Mental Health Crisis: For Nurses, Health, and the Helping Professions

Kris Deering; Joanne Williams

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
2022
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“There is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best make a difference.”Alan Simpson, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Health Service and Population Research, King’s College London, UK“Any one of us could experience a mental health crisis. However, a high-quality interdisciplinary response can be lifesaving and life changing. This book is an important contribution to the literature as it has examples ofgood practice for all professionals – both on the frontline and in service development.”Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK“This publication is a valuable and timely resource given the increasing recognition of the impact of mental health needs in a range of different professional settings.”Victoria Sweetmore, Acting Discipline Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing, University of Derby, UKInterprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis improves the care of those experiencing a mental health-related crisis by providing insight into the roles different UK statutory services have and the need for collaborative mental health care.For those studying and working in the field of mental health crisis, this vital work will bridge your understanding by offering a cross-discipline perspective of the different services, their role in aiding service users and, the ways we can work more collaboratively together to meet the mental health needs of those requiring care.Throughout, the book:• Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face• Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-system approach to crisis care• Helps professionals to understand good practice and the challenges of other services when aiding a person in crisis• Critically evaluates service provision and ways to improve crisis care• Explores recovery and collaboration with service users experiencing a crisis and their significant othersThe book is timely and essential in its promotion of high-quality interdisciplinary response and emphasis on integration and collaboration between service providers.Kris Deering is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and the module lead of Working with a Person Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis at UWE Bristol, UK. Including working as a senior practitioner for a mental health crisis team, Kris has over 15 years of mental health nursing experience.Jo Williams is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at UWE Bristol, UK. Her clinical practice experience includes civilian and military nursing, supporting people living with co-existing mental health and substance misuse issues.
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