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In The Desert Of Desire: Las Vegas And The Culture Of Spectacle By William L. Fox
2005 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0874175631 | PDF | 1 MB
The presentation of art, animals, and sex in Las Vegas, and how the creation of spectacle blurs the line between art and business. Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds through its collective ability to fantasize our deepest desires, which in a consumer society mean vast wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this context, Fox examines how Las Vegas's culture of spectacle has obscured the boundaries between high art and entertainment extravaganza, nature and fantasy, for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. His purview ranges from casino art galleries--including Steve Wynn's private collection and a branch of the famed Guggenheim Museum, --to the dismally underfunded Las Vegas Art Museum; from spectacular casino animal collections like those of magicians Siegfried and Roy and Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef exhibit to the city's desultory efforts to create a viable public zoo; from the environmental and psychological impact of lavish water displays in the arid desert to the artistic ambiguities intrinsic to Las Vegas's floating world of showgirls, lapdancers, and ballet divas. That Las Vegas represents one of the world's most opulent displays of private material wealth in all its forms, while at the same time providing miserly funding for local public amenities like museums and zoos, is no accident, Fox maintains. Nor is it unintentional that the city's most important collections of art and exotic fauna are presented in the context of casino entertainment, part of the feast of sensation and excitement that seduces millions of visitors each year. Instead, this phenomenon shows how our insatiable modern appetite for extravagance and spectacle has diminished the power of unembellished nature and the arts to teach and inspire us, and demonstrates the way our society privileges private benefit over public good. Given that Las Vegas has been shown over and over to be the harbinger of national cultural trends, Fox's commentary may offer prescient insight into the future of the arts in America, as well as new understanding of the role that public institutions like museums and zoos play in our lives.

In Search of Falling Stars: H.H. Nininger's Classic Find a Falling Star, Revisited & Expanded by Harvey Nininger, Jim Banks
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1960259016 | 592 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb
In the early 20th century, the science of meteorites was at a low ebb. Then, in 1923, Harvey H. Nininger, a trained biologist, witnessed a great fireball that plunged him headlong into an exciting new field: meteoritics. In this remarkable book, Nininger, often called "the father of modern meteoritics," recounts in his own words his long love affair with "falling stars," those "stones from the sky" that rain down upon Earth from outer space in great, but little-known, profusion.

In Real Time: Managing the New Supply Chain By Sandor Boyson, Lisa H. Harrington, Thomas M. Corsi
2004 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1567204317 | PDF | 12 MB
The age of the real-time supply chain has finally arrived. Thanks to an emerging technology construct?€"the Internet-based mega-portal?€"companies can now connect instantaneously with suppliers, distributors, manufacturers, customers, and alliance partners around the world. Online access to up-to-the-minute information enables companies to improve communication and project management across the entire supply chain, promote collaboration across departments, and enhance customer service and financial operations. The results are stunning; for example, a recent survey reports dramatic increases in revenues and customer retention and decreases in operating costs and product cycle times.Drawing from extensive primary research, this book presents detailed examples of how organizations as diverse as Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Dell, and the U.S. Department of Defense are creating information and communication hubs online and reaping the rewards. The authors explain the basic technical and organizational infrastructure necessary for launching a mega-portal and how its successful management can have profound impact on every area and function of the extended enterprise?€"from strategy to logistics, product development to customer service. As competition heats up from every direction, the ability to design and manage your supply chain with precision and speed becomes a business imperative. In Real Time offers a practical blueprint for building, implementing, and sustaining supply chains in today's rapidly changing environment.

In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) By Deborah Schiffrin
2006 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0521481597 | PDF | 3 MB
Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyzes a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart.

In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism) By Bartholomeusz
2002 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0700716815 | PDF | 1 MB
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril. Though Buddhism is commonly assumed to be a religion that never allows for war, this study suggests otherwise, thereby bringing Buddhism into the ethical dialogue on religion and war. Without a realistic consideration of just-war thinking in contemporary Sri Lanka, it will remain impossible to understand the power of religion there to create both peace and war.

In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Frances Lee, Stephen Macedo
English | March 11, 2025 | ISBN: 0691267138, 0691267146, 9780691289328 | True EPUB | 392 pages | 3.9 MB
What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better

Impulskontrolle & Frustrationstoleranz für Ihren Hund in nur 10 Minuten täglich: Entspannte Spaziergänge, ruhige Begegnungen und zuverlässiger Rückruf ... Denkspielen uvm.
Deutsch | 2. Oktober 2025 | ASIN: B0FTMJN827 | 208 Seiten | EPUB (True) | 1.26 MB
Impulskontrolle und Frustrationstoleranz beim Hund: Mit vielfältigen Übungen die unverzichtbaren Schlüsselkompetenzen trainieren und zu einem rundum entspannten Mensch-Hund-Alltag gelangen Fällt es Ihrem Hund schwer, sich trotz Ablenkung an Ihre Befehle zu halten? Müssen Wünsche nach Leckerli, Spiel & Co. sofort befriedigt werden, um Problemverhalten zu vermeiden? Oder möchten Sie bei Ihrem Hund vorbeugen, um solche Schwierigkeiten gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen? Dann sollten Sie Impulskontrolle und Frustrationstoleranz trainieren, und dieser Praxisratgeber zeigt Ihnen, wie das ganz einfach klappt. Sind Impulskontrolle und Frustrationstoleranz beim Hund nicht ausreichend ausgeprägt, kann das schnell zu erheblichen Problemen führen: Aggressivität, Fluchtverhalten oder Übersprungshandlungen werden zur potenziellen Gefahr für Tier und Mensch, und wenn Sie sich auf Gehorsam und Beherrschung Ihres Hundes nicht verlassen können, ist ein stressfreier Alltag unmöglich. Doch zum Glück lassen sich die beiden Schlüsselfähigkeiten einfach, effektiv und langfristig trainieren - und alles, was Sie dazu wissen müssen, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. Machen Sie sich zunächst mit dem Konzept der beiden Fähigkeiten vertraut, um anschließend zur Praxis überzugehen: Mit einer Vielzahl an Übungen und Trainingsmethoden rund um Themengebiete wie Futterverhalten, Leinenführigkeit, Ängste, Beißen & Schnappen oder Medical Training arbeiten Sie gemeinsam mit Ihrem Liebling auf einen stressfreien Alltag hin. Als Anfänger? Keine Sorge! Alle Methoden werden detailliert angeleitet, sodass Sie auch ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse sofort ins Training einsteigen können. Grundlagen von Impulskontrolle und Frustrationstoleranz: Erfahren Sie, was die beiden Fähigkeiten wirklich ausmacht, weshalb sie so wichtig sind, und welche neurologischen Grundlagen das Lernen Ihres Hundes gestalten. Basic-Kompetenzen: Grundgehorsam, Stubenreinheit, Futterverhalten, Leinenführigkeit oder Artgenossenbegegnungen - machen Sie Ihren Liebling in kürzester Zeit fit in den wichtigsten Hundedisziplinen. Für fortgeschrittene Fellnasen: Mit zahlreichen präzise angeleiteten Übungen bearbeiten Sie gezielt und effektiv Problemfelder wie Ängste, Anspringen, Bellen, Schnappen oder Jagdinstinkt und bereiten dank Medical Training problemlose Tierarztbesuche und Medikamentengabe vor. Bonus: Denksportübungen: Mit spielerischen und kreativen Übungen wie "Flaschendrehen", "Schnüffelteppich" oder "Schatzsuche" fordern Sie zusätzlich die kognitiven Fähigkeiten Ihres Vierbeiners und sorgen für Spaß und Abwechslung. Mit diesem Buch machen Sie Ihren Hund fit für den Alltag und stellen sicher, sich jederzeit auf Ihren besten Freund verlassen zu können. Ob Sie erste Probleme angehen wollen, mit konkreten Schwierigkeiten kämpfen oder einfach von Anfang an den besten Grundstein legen - hier finden Sie alles, was Sie brauchen. Also worauf warten Sie noch? Klicken Sie nun auf "Jetzt kaufen mit 1-Click" und helfen Sie Ihrem Hund, sich jederzeit von seiner besten Seite zeigen zu können!

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A Protection Training Pack By Oxfam Publishing
2009 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0855986166 | PDF | 2 MB
Improving the Safety of Civilians is an innovative tool that strengthens the capacity of field workers to improve civilian safety through humanitarian programs. Designed for use in difficult and sensitive field situations, the pack draws from extensive experience in real protection crises.Each pack consists of a comprehensive training manual and CD, containing four training modules and core exercises, and templates of all resources for adaptation, together with posters and activity cards for minimal preparation.The materials are designed for use by experienced facilitators, who have some knowledge of protection issues, to train emergency response teams. The pack introduces the ideas discussed in Protection, also published by Oxfam, using modules and exercises that can be adapted to all levels of participant knowledge.

Improving Schools Through Teacher Leadership By Alma Harris, Daniel Muijs
2004 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0335208827 | PDF | 1 MB
It is now widely accepted that improving schools invest in teacher leadership and build the capacity for improvement by distributing leadership responsibilities to teachers. In primary, secondary and special schools, teachers are uniquely placed to influence the quality of teaching and learning and they are important gatekeepers to development and change. This book explores how teacher leadership is an intrinsic and important part of school and classroom improvement. It investigates teacher leadership in action and considers the roles, responsibilities and influence of teachers who lead. It considers the implications of teacher leadership for teachers' professional development and focuses on ways in which this important form of leadership can be fostered and enhanced. The central message in this book is that teachers play a critical role in leading improvement in the classroom and school level and that this form of leadership contributes directly to raising achievement among learners. This book is crucial reading for all those who are concerned with teacher and school development, school leadership and school improvement.

Implied Volatility in Practice: Surfaces, Calibration, and Fast Greeks in Python: From Raw Quotes to Arbitrage-Free Vol Surfaces and Production-Ready Risk by James Preston, Danny Munrow
English | September 17, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FRLBQ1CS | 723 pages | EPUB | 0.74 Mb
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