Edited by three eminent physicians who are also noted medical writers, this encyclopedic collection contains over 10,000 entries ranging from major essays to short definitions, all written in language that is readily accessible to health care professionals and lay readers. Written by over 150 medical experts from the United States and the United Kingdom, the entries consider the historical developments and state-of-the-art of the major medical disciplines; discuss the academic, educational, and administrative structure of the profession and its relations to government and the law; and include numerous contributions to medicine, and definitions of common medical terms. Designed not only as a serious reference but also as a source of interesting and curious facts, the Companion contains detailed reviews of topics such as biochemistry, genetics, medical ethics, and surgery, interspersed with more leisurely entries on Music and Medicine, Cults and Quackery, and Bernadette of Lourdes. Encyclopedic in scope, this two-volume work will provide anyone interested in medicine with a fascinating and informative survey of the field. Selected entries: Addiction · Anatomy · Art &amp; Medicine · Clinical Chemistry · Computers in Clinical Medicine · Death, Dying, and the Hospice Movement · Doctors as Patients · Ethical Issues · Foundations, Charities and Grant-Making Bodies · Genetics · Geriatrics · Government &amp; Medicine · Hematology · Insurance · Intensive Care · Law &amp; Medicine · Medical Books and Libraries · Medical Education · Medical Journals · Microbiology · Music &amp; Medicine · Neurology and the Neurological Sciences · Nuclear Medicine · Nursing · Pain · Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology &amp; Therapeutics · Psychology in Relation to Medicine · Sports and Medicine · Tropical Medicine · Ultasonics · Women in Medicine

The Oxford Companion to Medicine

Walton, John

Beeson, Paul

Medical Books

Oxford University Press

“I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That’s Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of society, working in the darkness to shine a little light. The reality is a little different—but no less fascinating. In The Legendary Detective, John Walton offers a sweeping history of the American private detective in reality and myth, from the earliest agencies to the hard-boiled heights of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on previously untapped archival accounts of actual detective work, Walton traces both the growth of major private detective agencies like Pinkerton, which became powerful bulwarks against social and labor unrest, and the motley, unglamorous work of small-time operatives. He then goes on to show us how writers like Dashiell Hammett and editors of sensational pulp magazines like Black Mask embellished on actual experiences and fashioned an image of the PI as a compelling, even admirable, necessary evil, doing society’s dirty work while adhering to a self-imposed moral code. Scandals, public investigations, and regulations brought the boom years of private agencies to an end in the late 1930s, Walton explains, in the process fully cementing the shift from reality to fantasy. Today, as the private detective has long since given way to security services and armed guards, the myth of the lone PI remains as potent as ever. No fan of crime fiction or American history will want to miss The Legendary Detective.

The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment [Jan 01, 1984] Walton, John

Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (Paperback)by John Walton230 pagesPublisher: Columbia University Press (January 1984)Language: EnglishRELUCTANT REBELS COMBINES HISTORICAL STUDIES OF NATIONAL REVOLTS IN THIRD WORLD WITH A THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION THAT DEMONSTRATES WHY THESE EVENTS BELONG TO PROPER STUDY OF REVOLUTION

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment. Contrasting the experiences of Coney Island and Blackpool with those of Disneyland and Beamish, Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton explore playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to offer a transatlantic perspective on changing ideas about leisure, class, and mass culture. Blackpool and Coney Island were the definitive playgrounds of the industrial working class. Teeming crowds partook of a gritty vulgarity that offered a variety of pleasures and thrills from roller coaster rides and freak shows to dance halls and dioramas of exotic locales. Responding to the new money and mobility of the working class, the purveyors of Coney Island and Blackpool offered the playful crowd an "industrial saturnalia."Cross and Walton capture the sights and sounds of Blackpool and Coney Island and consider how these "Sodoms by the sea" flouted the social and cultural status quo. The authors also examine the resorts' very different fates as Coney Island has now become a mere shadow of its former self while Blackpool continues to lure visitors and offer new attractions. The authors also explore the experiences offered at Disneyland and Beamish, a heritage park that celebrates Britain's industrial and social history. While both parks borrowed elements from their predecessors, they also adapted to the longings and concerns of postwar consumer culture. Appealing to middle-class families, Disney provided crowds a chance to indulge in child-like innocence and a nostalgia for a simpler time. At Beamish, crowds gathered to find an escape from the fragmented and hedonistic life of modern society in a reconstructed realm of the past where local traditions and nature prevail.

Cross, Gary

Humor & Entertainment

Columbia University Press

History

Americas

This text seeks to establish the emerging role of HRD and to provide frameworks and guidelines for practitioners and students in a range of learning contexts. The text builds on the body of knowledge in the field, where appropriate, and provides new approaches to encompass the major themes impacting on individuals and organisations for the year 2000 and beyond.HR directors are playing an increasingly important role in developing learning and development processes in order to enhance the contribution of 'knowledge workers' to the strategic development of an enterprise. To facilitate this requires an in depth knowledge of strategic decision making processes from which, in the past, HRD practitioners have been largely excluded.

Strategic Human Resource Development

Business & Money

Human Resources

Ft Pr

This book is a detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America, two in Mexico and two in Colombia. John Walton has based his studies on the assumption that the problems of economic growth are essentially political, that is, are problems of choice, decision-making, and the exercise of power. His fundamental purpose has been to discover how elites of different kinds are more and less successful in the promotion of economic development, which he defines as a process in the organization of a society leading not only to higher levels of efficient output but also to a more equitable distribution of benefits.At the time, the four cities compared were the second- and third-largest metropolitan areas in each country, Guadalajara and Monterrey in Mexico, Medellín and Cali in Colombia. This selection allows the author to pair, across countries, cases of early and large-scale industrialization (Monterrey and Medellín) with cases of more recent industrial growth in agricultural-commercial centers (Guadalajara and Cali). Walton presents historical introductions to each of the regions and integrates these with original fieldwork and interviews with more than three hundred members of the political and economic elites.The findings are extensive, but in general they demonstrate that where political and economic power is more broadly distributed, where elites are more open and accessible, and where organizational life is more active and coordinated, regions tend to develop qualitatively as well as quantitatively, showing increases both in productivity and in such benefits as public services, housing, education, and a more balanced distribution of income. If these characteristics are absent, regions may be industrialized but do not provide a broad sharing of the benefits. Walton places a good deal of emphasis on the role of foreign investments, demonstrating that the more penetrated regions are also the less developed.Finally, the results of these studies are used to evaluate and advance theories of underdevelopment and particularly of economic dependency.

Elites and Economic Development: Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities (LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series)

Economics

University of Texas Press

Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas—planning, demography, or economics—and has emphasized either power elites or the masses, but not both. The published literature on Latin America has reflected these interests and has so far failed to provide a comprehensive view of Latin American urbanization. Urban Latin America is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem. Alejandro Portes and John Walton have included material on both elites and marginal populations and on the three major areas of research in order to formulate and address some of the key questions about the structure of urban politics in Latin America. Following an introduction that delineates the scope of Latin American urban studies, Portes discusses the Latin American city as a creation of European colonialism. He goes on to examine political behavior among the poor, with central reference to system support and countersystem potential. Walton provides material for a comparative study of four cities: Monterrey and Guadalajara in Mexico and Medellín and Cali in Colombia. He also summarizes a large number of urban elite studies and develops a theoretical interpretation of their collective results, based on class structure and vertical integration. Material in each chapter is cross-referenced to other chapters, and the authors have used a common methodological approach in synthesizing and interpreting the research literature. In the final chapter they generalize current findings, elaborating on the interface between elite and mass politics in the urban situation. They make some observations on approaching changes and pinpoint possible research strategies for the future.

Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below (Texas Pan American Series)

Portes, Alejandro

Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below

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The Oxford Companion to Medicine

The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment

Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

Strategic Human Resource Development

Elites and Economic Development: Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities (LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series)

Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below (Texas Pan American Series)

Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below