The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations

Poised between the end of the Cold War and the start of a new millennium, international relations theory finds itself at a major intellectual crossroads. Globalizing phenomena, emerging non-state actors, revolutionizing technologies, and a self-redefining fluidity in power relations are just a few of the challenges that international relations theorists must find ways to take into account. It is increasingly apparent that traditional paradigms alone are not up to the task. The time is right for a new set of explorations; based, ironically, on one of the field's greatest traditions―its willingness to apply an interdisciplinary approach to asking new questions and finding newer answers.
The outstanding contributors to this landmark volume offer a fundamental reexamination of the basic assumptions and theoretical tools of traditional international relations theory. Ciprut draws on a wide range of concepts, from the hidden dimensions of mindset and language to the societal implications of evolutionary ecology. Unabashedly creative and iconoclastic in its willingness to search for new insights, The Art of the Feud is a substantiated call to seek more inclusive, dynamic, and interactive forms of theory attuned to the new and evolving realities of the global scene.

Study Guide for Foundations of Nursing, 7e

Medical Books

Cooper, Kim

Nursing

Mosby

Get more out of your textbook with this helpful study tool! Corresponding to the chapters in Cooper and Gosnell’s Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 7th Edition, this study guide helps you learn, understand, and apply the concepts of LPN/LVN nursing. Hundreds of labeling, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions are included, each with textbook page references. It also includes critical thinking questions based on clinical scenarios, and multiple-choice and alternate-format questions to help you review for the NCLEX-PN® examination.
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Study Guide for Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 7e

Get more out of your textbook with this helpful study tool! Corresponding to the chapters in Cooper and Gosnell’s Adult Health Nursing, 7th Edition, this study guide helps you learn, understand, and apply the fundamentals of LPN/LVN nursing. Hundreds of labeling, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions are included, each with textbook page references. It also includes critical thinking questions based on clinical scenarios, and multiple-choice and alternate-format questions to help you review for the NCLEX-PN® examination.
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<li>Learning activities</li> help you meet content objectives, and include crossword puzzles, labeling, matching, completion, identification, NCLEX® exam-style multiple-choice review questions, and critical thinking questions.<li>
Page references are included for all activities except for the critical thinking questions, to facilitate your review.</li> </ul>
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<li>NEW!</li> An increased emphasis on NCLEX® review prepares you more effectively for the NCLEX-PN® examination, with more NCLEX-style alternate-format type questions and more critical thinking activities.</ul>

Study Guide for Adult Health Nursing, 7e

Get more out of your textbook with this helpful study tool! Corresponding to the chapters in Cooper and Gosnell’s Foundations of Nursing, 7th Edition, this study guide helps you learn, understand, and apply the fundamentals of LPN/LVN nursing. Hundreds of labeling, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions are included, each with textbook page references. It also includes critical thinking questions based on clinical scenarios, and multiple-choice and alternate-format questions to help you review for the NCLEX-PN examination. "Useful for student nurses or return to practice nurses wanting to improve their knowledge." Reviewed by: Helen Reeves, St Giles Walsall Hospice on behalf of Nursing Times, November 2015
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<li>Learning activities</li> help you meet content objectives, and include crossword puzzles, labeling, matching, completion, identification, NCLEX® exam-style multiple-choice review questions, and critical thinking questions.<li>
Page references are included for all activities except for the critical thinking questions, to facilitate your review.</li> </ul>
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<li>NEW!</li> An increased emphasis on NCLEX® review prepares you more effectively for the NCLEX-PN® examination, with more NCLEX-style alternate-format type questions and more critical thinking activities.</ul>

Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth. Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)

Arts & Photography

Kim Cooper

Music

Continuum

The truth behind the pop music we love most.

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Smay, David

Feral House

Los Angeles, 1929: a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash. A mysterious prophetess and her alluring daughter have relieved an oil tycoon's nephew of his fortune. But the kid won't talk. To find the money, the old man calls on a trusted executive, Raymond Chandler, who in turn enlists the aid of his devoted secretary/mistress, Muriel Fischer, and their idealistic patrolman friend Tom James. 
 Soon the nephew is revealed as a high-ranking member of a murderous cult of angel worshippers, and the trio plunges into an investigation that sends them careening across Southern California, from sinister sanitariums to roadside burger stands, decaying Bunker Hill mansions to sparkling cocktail parties, taxi dance halls to the morgue, all in search of the secretive Great Eleven. But when Muriel goes undercover to infiltrate the group's rural lair, she comes face to face with disturbing truths that threaten to spoil everything, not just for the cult's members, but for herself as well. 
 A work of fiction inspired by actual events and featuring the real-life cop who is a likely model for the mature Chandler's greatest creation, private eye Philip Marlowe, Kim Cooper's The Kept Girl exposes a mystery so horrifying, it could only be true.

The Kept Girl

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Esotouric Ink

There’s a serious lack of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. We, as a society, have an incredible opportunity to take steps to promote inclusivity that will lead to more collaboration, brilliance, and groundbreaking advancements which will not only make this world a better place but also further our understanding of one another, improve goodwill towards others, and make society richer on many levels. Girls in Science: Voices for Change, will not only inspire fresh ideas on equity and diversity based on youthful thinking, it will also present tangible and practical guidelines for inclusion. Why does it matter? Without a breadth of perspectives, we have no chance of solving the world’s problems—big and small. The absence of diversity in science will not be solved simply by a recruitment strategy; we need to create inclusive and accepting environments so that girls and underrepresented groups don’t get pushed out of the STEM fields. What’s InsideLearn how:-More inclusive environments can be created on teams, and in schools, workplaces, and communities-Gender-bias in toys and marketing can limit girls’ and boys’ interests-Diverse role models can directly and indirectly influence self-confidence and career choices-Male champions and allies can help pave the way for more equality and breakthroughs in the workplace-Language and communication styles can unintentionally cause misconceptions and alienate others-Microsponsorship techniques can counteract the negative impact of microaggressionDo you want to be a part of a movement that will lead to more inclusive environments for youth? Through the discussions in this book, learn how you can make changes to create more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments, especially in the STEM fields. Proceeds of this book will be donated to FIRST Robotics Canada's EDI initiatives. This book is for:-high school students-parents, teachers, mentors, and educators-non-profit leaders-corporate executives and managers-STEM enthusiasts-gender-equality advocatesRecommendations“This book is required reading for anyone who wants to see our next generation of young scientists succeed–from parents to educators to community leaders, Girls in Science: Voices for Change contains practical information on how we can all contribute to changing the culture of STEM for our children. By sharing girls’ stories in their own voices, Kim Cooper gives us an eye-opening look at the challenges our young women face in engaging with STEM activities and the role we as a society play in perpetuating those challenge. Nevertheless, Kim’s voice and the girls’ voices also reveal tremendous potential for change. With helpful suggestions for change and tips for action that anyone can begin incorporating into their life, Girls in Science: Voices for Change sets out a powerful agenda for transformation, and gives us a blueprint for a better, more inclusive future.”– Dr. Jennifer Gardy, Associate Professor, Scientist and Science-television HostAbout the AuthorKim Cooper is the vice president of partnerships at FIRST Robotics Canada, a charity encouraging kids and youth in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Kim is also co-chair of the Girls in STEM Executive Advisory Council and was recognized by Microsoft as an inspiring Canadian leader in business and technology. She’s passionate about sharing the stories of underrepresented youth and is part of the movement to bring equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) into the STEM fields. Kim is a freelance writer for Scholastic Education, as well as a business instructor at Sheridan College. Kim’s career experience ranges from editor of a kids’ magazine to digital producer for youth media. Her educational background is in business, writing, and Japanese.

Girls in Science: Voices for Change: Tips for Equality and Inclusion in Schools, Workplaces, and Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Independently published

Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognisable today. This is a guide to the world of Raymond Chandler and his noble alter-ego, the private detective Philip Marlowe. It mixes locations from the books, the films and Chandler's personal life. There's the crummy dive where Moose Malloy went looking for Velma; the actual lounge where Marlowe and Terry Lennox ordered gimlets; the top-floor suite where oil executive Chandler got his priceless education in how a dirty, sun-drenched city really operated. This is the Los Angeles that Raymond Chandler carried in his heart. And now, you can too.

The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles

Reference

Atlases & Maps

Herb Lester Associates

A lavishly illustrated and luxuriously printed large format fold-out poster-guide showing 30 of the most notorious cults active in the US and Canada from the early 20th century to today. Mixing thorough research with lively text, the guide takes in the full spectrum of cult behaviour – sex, death, polygamy, religious mania, beings from Outer Space. We’ve all seen them: those tight-knit groups of fellow travellers, dressed in matching colored robes, shaking the can or passing out literature on street corners, smiling at some shared and secret observation. Cults are fascinating, even as we try not to look at them too closely. But when we do take a look, we find that like Tolstoy’s happy families, cults are almost all alike. Take a big dollop of unresolved daddy (or mommy) issues and shake them up with physical isolation, a leadership hierarchy, mental manipulation, financial exploitation and sexual abuse, and you’ll have the standard Cult Cocktail, ready to be garnished with unique beliefs to taste. Often, the first layers of membership are wonderful, providing the deepest sense of belonging that a lonely seeker has ever felt. It’s only as the onion is peeled that the real community is revealed, and often then it is too late. We’ve collected thirty of the more interesting recent cults to stake a claim in North America, and boiled their complex histories down to bite size. Each one is an extraordinary example of how a whole new world can coalesce around charisma and faith, and how mad, bad and dangerous these worlds can be to know.

Cults! Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: An Illustrated Guide (Herb Lester Associates Guides to the Unexpected)

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Study Guide for Foundations of Nursing, 7e

Study Guide for Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 7e

Study Guide for Adult Health Nursing, 7e

Study Guide for Foundations of Nursing, 7e

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

The Kept Girl

Girls in Science: Voices for Change: Tips for Equality and Inclusion in Schools, Workplaces, and Communities

The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles

Cults! Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: An Illustrated Guide (Herb Lester Associates Guides to the Unexpected)