The Application of Plasmas to Chemical Processing

Raymond F. Baddour And Robert S. Timmins (Eds. )

The MIT Press

Four-skills American English course with a communicative methodology, engaging texts, and a strong pronunciation syllabus - designed to get students speaking. With texts and topics that make learners want to speak, American English File is the course that gets students talking. It gives you full skills coverage with a clear focus on pronunciation, plus wide-ranging support and resources too. Resources include Test Generator CD-ROMs, DVDs, Multi-ROMs, and websites. The highly popular teacher's site has extra lesson ideas and resources for you to download.

Quantum Computing for Everyone (Mit Press)

Computers & Technology

Bernhardt, Chris

Computer Science

Human Rights in a Post Human World: Critical Essays

This work is described by its distinguished author as a sequel to The Future of Human Rights. It is an analysis of the state of human rights in a 'post human' and 'machinist' world almost overwhelmed by security concerns, 'terrorist threats', and technoscience. It begins with a series of questions: Are there now two different realms of human rights: human rights in times of peace and human rights in the 'state of exception'? Does such a distinction affect the nascent jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? In what way do these impacts on global social policy concern development? The book goes on to present a critique of approaches towards a theory of human rights proposed by Amartya Sen and Sen's emphasis on the ethical, as opposed to juridical, nature of such rights. Focusing on the human right to development, the author examines why the UN Declaration on the Human Right to Development has not attracted more attention and goes on to highlight the work of Arjun Sengupta and its implications for the human right to development. It goes on to examine how in the current world scenario the 'emancipatory potential' of human rights may be carried forward in theoretical work and through activism.

How to Design Programs, second edition: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (Mit Press)

Felleisen, Matthias

Findler, Robert Bruce

Flatt, Matthew

Krishnamurthi, Shriram

The New Industrial Organization

Jacquemin, Alexis

Mehta, Fatemah [Translator]

Business & Money

The Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Russian and English. It covers the words you need to know for everday use, carefully selected from findings from the Oxford Languages Tracker and the Oxford English Corpus. Also included are Russian and English-speaking culture and grammar supplements, giving lively and useful information on life in the Russian-speaking world. Discover more on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's hub for dictionaries and language reference.

"[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." ―The New England Journal of Medicine
"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment... " ―Ethics
"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text... " ―European Medical Journal
"Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives... detailed, exhaustively referenced... " ―The Florida Bar Journal
"This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care." ―Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Journal
"Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide... " ―Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives―those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.

Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process (Design Thinking, Design Theory)

Goldschmidt, Gabriela

... extremely valuable. [This book] addresses exactly the right questions in a balanced, nuanced way." ―Journal of the American Medical AssociationCohen’s book is a major contribution to the literature of the inevitable." ―Medical Humanities ReviewThis book provides readers with an insightful overview of the practice of oocyte donation, the broader issues raised by this innovative yet problematic technology and, given the recommendations of NABER, how these issues mights be resolved.... Well written, structured, researched, and thought-provoking, this book makes a timely, important, and worthwhile contribution to the growing body of reproductive technology scholarship." ―Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Home PageDetailed notes; extensive references; comprehensive research... Recommended..." ―ChoiceLeading scholars investigate the difficult ethical, legal, and policy issues that surround egg donation and the new reproductive technologies as a whole. In addition, the book describes procedures at four egg-donation centers and presents a new set of guidelines from the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction.

Biomechanics of Movement: The Science of Sports, Robotics, and Rehabilitation

Self-Help

Uchida, Thomas K.

Delp, Scott L

"Benos-Amos opens for the reader richly detailed adn nuanced vistas into the intellectual and cultural history of one of the major kingdoms of precolonial West Africa." ― African Studies Review
"The wealth of historiographic resources, the command of relevant literature, the ethnographic research and prudent use of oral traditions give this work a high degree of... intellectual excitement.... a landmark in the field." ―Warren d’Azevedo
Making use of archival and oral resources in this extensively researched book, Paula Girshick Ben-Amos questions to what extent art operates as political strategy. How do objects acquire political meaning? How does the use of art enhance and embody power and authority?

Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy through Careful Design

Arts & Photography

Hoepman, Jaap-Henk

History & Criticism

"... a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... " ―Kirkus Reviews
Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind’s Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.

The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy

Zeavin, Hannah

Parenting & Relationships

A critical examination of the films of Oscar Micheaux.
 One of the most original and successful filmmakers of all time, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884, yet he created an impressive legacy in commercial cinema. Between 1913 and 1951 he wrote, directed, and distributed some forty-three feature films, more than any other black filmmaker in the world, a record of production that is likely to stand for a very long time.
Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. Uplift provided the context for Micheaux's extensive commentary on racist cinema, such as D. W. Griffith's 1915 blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation, which Micheaux "answered" with his very early films Within Our Gates and Symbol of the Unconquered. Uplift explains Micheaux's use of "negative images" of African Americans as well as his multi-pronged campaign against stereotype and caricature in American culture. His campaign produced a body of films saturated with a nuanced intertexual "signifying," boldly and repeatedly treating controversial topics that face white censorship time after time, topics ranging from white mob and Klan violence to light-skin-color fetish to white financing of black cultural productions.

Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, tenth edition

Fabozzi, Frank J.

Fabozzi, Francesco A.

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