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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Carl B Harrison
At eleven years old, Arthur good has what is called Acute Pareidolia, An amazing gift that lets him see the hidden things inside everyday objects. His gift has revealed a hidden world that coexists alongside this one. After Arthur answers a help wanted sign that only someone with his ability could have seen. Taking on this unusual job changes Arthur' s life forever. Working at Hagedell Castle for Sir William Elden, he must try to remove a family curse, Unfortunately, becoming involved in a centuries old feud with an immortal king. Helped by a new friend, Penny Black, blind girl who has acute Audio Pareidolia, they work together to solve the clues that will reveal doorways into another world.
Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
Leonard N. Moore
University of Illinois Press
2003
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As the first elected black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl B. Stokes embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement from a vehicle of protest to one of black political power. In this wide-ranging political biography, Leonard N. Moore examines the convictions and alliances that brought Stokes to power. Impelled by the problems plaguing Cleveland's ghettos in the decades following World War II, Stokes and other Clevelanders questioned how the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement could correct the exclusionary zoning practices, police brutality, substandard housing, and de facto school segregation that African Americans in the country's northern urban centers viewed as evidence of their oppression. As civil unrest in the country's ghettos turned to violence in the 1960s, Cleveland was one of the first cities to heed the call of Malcolm X's infamous "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech. Understanding the importance of controlling the city's political system, Cleveland's blacks utilized their substantial voting base to put Stokes in office in 1967. Stokes was committed to showing the country that an African American could be an effective political leader. He employed an ambitious and radically progressive agenda to clean up Cleveland's ghettos, reform law enforcement, move public housing to middle-class neighborhoods, and jump-start black economic power. Hindered by resistance from the black middle class and the Cleveland City Council, spurned by the media and fellow politicians who deemed him a black nationalist, and unable to prove that black leadership could thwart black unrest, Stokes finished his four years in office with many of his legislative goals unfulfilled. Focusing on Stokes and Cleveland, but attending to themes that affected many urban centers after the second great migration of African Americans to the North, Moore balances Stokes's failures and successes to provide a thorough and engaging portrait of his life and his pioneering contributions to a distinct African American political culture that continues to shape American life.
Solen var på väg upp över bergen öster om Marbella. Vid horisonten i sydväst lyste Gibraltar-klippans kalksten vit. Lambert njöt av sin tidiga morgonpromenad efter stranden i San Pedro de Alcántara men saknade Silvia och undrade var hon fanns och vad hon gjorde. Han hade försökt ringa henne, men mobilen var helt död. Att hon i denna stund befann sig på ett livsfarligt uppdrag i Nordkorea anade han föga. Tankarna vandrade till det telefonsamtal han fått från församlingen i Fuengirola som ville att han skulle bistå den i kampen för att få behålla sin karismatiske kyrkoherde som inom kort skulle lämna Costa del Sol. Utan en aning om att denne bärare av Guds ord snart skulle visa sig vara en ulv i fårakläder hade han tackat nej till uppdraget Han hade istället åtagit sig att biträda Jon Silver som vänt sig till honom och påstått att en advokatkollega i Nueva Andalucía tagit pengarna han skulle investera i ett fastighetsköp i La Zagaleta. Mannen levde uppenbarligen högt med ett dyrbart uteliv och tycktes ständigt vara omgiven av vackra kvinnor. Att det stora belopp som Silver ville investera kom från hans gamla klient Christer Johansson skulle även det bli en fullständig överraskning för honom.
”Kamrat Vladimir”, sa Viktor Kamerskaja och gjorde en konstpaus, ”det svenska bolaget har en unik uppfinnare som kan komma att lösa batterienergifrågan.” ”Ja, det må så vara. Men vad har vi för nytta av det?” ”Min käre Vladimir, vi ska givetvis se till att ta hand om hans forskningsresultat och begrava dem för all framtid och även ta hand om uppfinnaren själv. Har jag uttryckt mig tillräckligt klart?” Den säregne svenske uppfinnaren Lars Persson – som kallats ”den nye Einstein” – lider av Aspergers syndrom, vilket inte hind-rat honom från att utveckla ett nytt litiumluftbatteri med sensationellt hög verkningsgrad. Forskningen hotar inte bara de oljeproducerande länderna utan även maktbalansen i världen. Flera av stormakterna är också ute efter att få kontroll över den nya stora litiumfyndigheten i Dasht-e Kavir i Iran. Hemliga förhandlingar mellan Indien och Kina har lett fram till det s.k. litiumavtalet. Frågan är om detta avtal är orsaken till Rysslands hotfulla uppträdande i Persiska viken. Lambert hamnar mitt i Perssons frontalkollision med den svenska Ekobrottsmyndigheten när denne anklagas för grova skattebrott och han åtar sig försvaret. Samtidigt som allt fler internationella aktörer försöker lägga beslag på hans klients patent drar rättegången i Trelleborg igång…
Carl Parker: A Life In Paint: How One Adult With Asperger's Found His Place in the World Through Art
Carl B. Parker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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As a self taught painter with Asperger's Syndrome, Carl Parker has achieved remarkable success. His unique style, which incorporates impressionism, realism, abstraction and surrealism, is something he calls "spontaneous flow". Over the years, he has painted hundreds of works which now hang all over the world. This book is a collection of his favourite pieces, described by the artist himself.
Biology of Stress in Fish
Carl B. Schreck; Lluis Tort; Anthony Farrell; Colin Brauner
Academic Press Inc
2016
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Biology of Stress in Fish: Fish Physiology provides a general understanding on the topic of stress biology, including most of the recent advances in the field. The book starts with a general discussion of stress, providing answers to issues such as its definition, the nature of the physiological stress response, and the factors that affect the stress response. It also considers the biotic and abiotic factors that cause variation in the stress response, how the stress response is generated and controlled, its effect on physiological and organismic function and performance, and applied assessment of stress, animal welfare, and stress as related to model species.
This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the editor contends, literally permits the exploration of many sub-topics, such as rebirth, social patterns, evolution, devolution, entropy, history, ecology, ethics, medicine, personal values, and so on.
More than fifty years ago, Tetsuhiko Uehiro looked down on the radioactive ashes of Hiroshima and dedicated his life to more ethical resolutions of human disagreements. He founded an association which attracted millions of Japanese people, to promote traditional ethics. His son, Eiji Uehiro, seeking a more universal and international basis for ethics, founded the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, which became a partner of the Carnegie Council. To commemorate the Foundation's tenth anniversary, leading scholars of Asian philosophy and Jungian psychology were brought together to find new grounds for ethics in human experience which would not depend on religious affiliation and which would apply ethics to the interpersonal and global problems of the modern world. All the authors reach for new decision-making paradigms giving new ways of learning about morality. They suggest that our bodies, feelings, dreams, and synchronous experiences give us clues to ethics. Their scholarship illusrates that people are invisibly, inescapably interconnected with each other and with our environment. An important resource for scholars in the fields of comparative cultures, counseling and ethics, Jungian psychology, and Asian religions.
Enhancing Police Integrity
Carl B. Klockars; Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich; M.R. Haberfeld
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2006
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How can we enhance police integrity? The authors surveyed over 3000 police officers from 30 U.S. police departments on how they would respond to typical scenarios where integrity is challenged. They studied three police agencies which scored highly on the integrity scale: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and St. Petersburg, Florida. The authors conclude that enhancing police integrity goes well beyond culling out "bad apple" police officers. Police administrators should focus on four aspects: organizational rulemaking; detecting, investigating and disciplining rule violations; circumscribing the informal "code of silence" that prohibits police from reporting the misconduct of their colleagues; and understanding the influence of public expectations and agency history.
The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Poincaré Conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volumeCovers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, from Ancient Egypt to the presentIncludes up-to-date references and an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments. Whether you're interested in the age of Plato and Aristotle or Poincaré and Hilbert, whether you want to know more about the Pythagorean theorem or the golden mean, A History of Mathematics is an essential reference that will help you explore the incredible history of mathematics and the men and women who created it.
Specifically designed as an integrated survey of the development of analytic geometry, this classic study takes a unique approach to the history of ideas. The author, a distinguished historian of mathematics, presents a detailed view of not only the concepts themselves, but also the ways in which they extended the work of each generation, from before the Alexandrian Age through the eras of the great French mathematicians Fermat and Descartes, and on through Newton and Euler to the "Golden Age," from 1789 to 1850. Appropriate as an undergraduate text, this history is accessible to any mathematically inclined reader. 1956 ed. Analytical bibliography. Index.
History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Carl B. Swisher
Cambridge University Press
2009
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The Taney Period, 1836–1864, by Carl B. Swisher, is the fifth volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The volume opens with Roger B. Taney's appointment as chief justice of the Court, describing the Taney Court and its personnel. Later chapters offer a comprehensive analysis of the leading constitutional issues addressed by the United States Supreme Court during this period. Swisher covers the Taney Court's decisions on commerce power, admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, the rights of corporations, patent rights and free enterprise, and legal decisions relating to slavery, including a detailed analysis of the Dred Scott decision and its aftermath. The volume ends with the close of the Taney Period, which coincided with cases and constitutional issues related to the Civil War, including Lincoln's appointments to the Supreme Court, Northern nullification, and wartime curtailment of civil rights.
The Basic Open-Hearth Steel Process
Carl B. Dichmann; Alleyne (TRN) Reynolds
Kessinger Pub
2007
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Good Long Term Care - How to Find it, Get It, and Pay for It.: An Elder Law Attorney's Perspective
Carl B. Zacharia Esq
Carl B. Zacharia
2013
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A History of the Handel Choir of Baltimore (1935-2013): Music, Spread Thy Voice Around chronicles the history of one of America’s longstanding volunteer choral organizations, one that has followed in the footsteps of venerable ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), the Bethlehem Bach Choir, and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College. It begins by considering music in the city of Baltimore, and establishing the reasons surrounding the choir’s formation. Substantial coverage is given to the influence of Katharine M. Lucke, one of Baltimore’s grandes dames—as a composer, mover, and shaker—and a vital force in Baltimore’s National Music Week from her position on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Subsequently the book focuses on the contributions of each of the ten conductor/music directors, the vicissitudes of funding a volunteer choir, the choir’s contributions to music education in the greater Baltimore metropolitan area, and the choir’s repertoire. The book contains extensive appendices describing the choir’s repertoire, its presidents, and its unbroken string of Messiah performances. Throughout more than seventy-five years, the Handel Choir of Baltimore has remained true to its original charter as an amateur choral organization that aspires to the highest standards of artistic excellence. A History of the Handel Choir of Baltimore is an invaluable resource to those interested in choral music studies, the running of an amateur, volunteer choir, and other disciplines of music studies.
Sexualities and Popular Culture is a fascinating exploration into the study of popular culture and its influence on how we perceive the endless varieties of the sexualized human presentation of self in everyday life. Author Carl B. Holmberg presents a short history of the notion of popular culture and communication giving clear definitions and generous examples that illustrate the evolving portrayal of human sexuality. Holmberg gathers evidence from the "popular" inherent in all aspects of our culture from familiar sources such as books, film, magazines, and television, to less common ones such as prehistoric texts, sports, and everyday popular practices to explain how pervasively popular culture communicates sexuality to us and through us. This book is also highly recommended as supplementary reading for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students studying popular culture, gay and lesbian studies, sociology, and mass communication. "Carl B. Holmberg's Sexualities and Popular Culture is one of the most important works in the field of cultural studies published in recent years. Well written in its analysis, wide ranging in its discussion, and containing numerous 'gems' of insight on a topic rarely approached, Holmberg's study is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the social dynamics of our culture." --Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University