Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary

Author: Tony Geiss

Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 2230

ISBN-13: 9780679449980

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Version 2.0 for Windows 3.1/95, is the only American unabridged dictionary on CD-ROM! It includes all three of these essential features: * fully searchable text * illustrations * spoken pronunciations And using it is as simple as Click, Look, and Listen. Click! Choose among four ways to search the dictionary. Whichever search type you choose, a single click brings up the word you want with the full text of the dictionary entry--definitions, written pronunciations, parts of speech, etymologies, synonyms and antonyms, usage notes, and more. Look! This dictionary is not just words--more than 2,400 spot maps and illustrations await you. Just click on the camera icon wherever it appears. Listen! Hear the written language come to life. Over 120,000 professionally recorded pronunciations--more than in any other electronic dictionary--capture the authentic sounds of American English. Just click on the loudspeaker icon. In the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, completeness and ease of use are matched by versatility. This is a flexible tool with advanced features designed to meet the needs of scholars, students, business people, word-game players, and anyone else who ever has a question about the words that make up the English language. * Find exactly the word you want--when you want it * Make the dictionary your writing partner by linking it to your word processor * Choose the language of your interface! This is the first electronic dictionary of English to offer you the choice of English, French, or Spanish menus, dialogue boxes, etc. The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary--no electronic dictionary has ever done so much, so easily, so flexibly, and so authoritatively. This dictionary does it all. System Requirements: * IBM or compatible PC (80486 or higher) * 8 Mb of RAM or more * 3 Mb of free disk space on a hard drive (or for custom installation of data files on a hard drive, 30 Mb) * Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher * Windows-compatible Mouse * CD-ROM drive (double-speed or faster) To access the recorded pronunciations: * Windows-compatible sound card

Dixie Redux
Dixie Redux

Author: Raymond Arsenault

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1588382974

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Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation’s most distinguished historians. Each of the contributors has a personal as well as a professional connection to Sheldon Hackney, a distinguished scholar in his own right who has served as Provost of Princeton University, president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania, and the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In a variety of roles–teacher, mentor, colleague, administrator, writer, and friend–Sheldon Hackney has been a source of wisdom, empowerment, and wise counsel during more than four decades of historical and educational achievement. His life, both inside and outside the academy, has focused on issues closely related to civil rights, social justice, and the vagaries of race, class, regional culture, and national identity. Each of the essays in this volume touches upon one or more of these important issues–themes that have animated Sheldon Hackney’s scholarly and professional life.

Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations
Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations

Author: Yogesh Malhotra

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781878289735

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Annotation Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers frameworks, models, analyses, case studies and research on the integration of knowledge management within virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual communities of practice. Themes covered in this section include business model innovation; design of virtual organization forms; net-based models; techniques for enabling knowledge capture, sharing and transfer; and collaboration and competition at intra- and inter-organizational levels. The focus of the second half is on key success factors that are important for realizing virtual models of business transformation. Topics include the role of organizational control systems, the role of internal and external employees and customers in creation of organizational knowledge, and information quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Variation and change in the lexicon
Variation and change in the lexicon

Author: Mark Kaunisto

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9401204640

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The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and -ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. It examines the nature of competition between the two affixes: what kind of rivalry existed, what kinds of words entered into competition, and in what ways the rivalry was resolved. The book presents close studies of six notably differentiated -ic/-ical adjective pairs, namely classic/classical, comic/comical, economic/economical, electric/electrical, historic/historical, and magic/magical, as well as commentaries on some 40 other -ic/-ical pairs, which manifest different types of shifts in use through history. It also includes critical discussion of general perceptions on and approaches to the practical use of corpora, stressing the importance of close and careful study of the materials under analysis. It further emphasises the value of consulting a variety of sources alongside corpora, including dictionaries and language usage manuals. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.

Author: Nancy Frey

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1935249401

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Students in the 21st century still need to develop traditional reading and writing skills, and they must also learn how to use technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing student literacy in using search engines efficiently, evaluating information found on websites, avoiding plagiarism, communicating with a wide audience, working collaboratively, and creating multimedia products.

Concussive Brain Trauma
Concussive Brain Trauma

Author: Rolland S. Parker

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 855

ISBN-13: 142000798X

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Focusing on a public health problem affecting millions of people of all ages, the second edition of Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation reflects Dr. Rolland S. Parker's more than 25 years of neuropsychological practice and research in traumatic brain injury and stress, and his prior experience as a clinical psychol

D.H. Lawrence Today
D.H. Lawrence Today

Author: Barry Jeffrey Scherr

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780820458335

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D. H. Lawrence Today is a rare and extraordinary blend of intellectual-political history, psycho-literary biography, and literary criticism not seen in Lawrence studies since the heyday of F. R. Leavis. Barry J. Scherr provides a vigorous defense of Lawrence against his powerful enemies in the literary-cultural-political-academic world - a world dominated today by the political correctness of the elite extreme left-wing intelligentsia. Dr. Scherr employs a daring, original, intense strategy to deal with Lawrence's enemies, involving unique, intricate, complex explication de texte as well as incisive polemic. Unconventional and seminal, D. H. Lawrence Today is the most stimulating, provocative, courageous book on Lawrence to appear in many years.

Structure, Culture, and History
Structure, Culture, and History

Author: Sing C. Chew

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780847698370

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Preface p. vii Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future 1. History of Social Structural Analysis Charles Crothers p. 3 2. Social Structure: The Future of a Concept Douglas V. Porpora p. 43 Part II. Culture and Social Structure 3. How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure Lyn Spillman p. 63 4. Agency, Structure, and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order J. David Knottnerus p. 85 5. Global Power, Hegemonic Decline, and Culture Narratives Albert J. Bergesen p. 107 6. Situating Hybridity: The Positional Logics of a Discourse Jonathan Friedman p. 125 Part III. History and Social Structure 7. A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System Barry K. Gills and Andre Gunder Frank p. 151 8. Evolutionary Pulsations in the World System George Modelski and William R. Thompson p. 177 9. Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall p. 197 10. Ecology in Command Sing C. Chew p. 217 11. Applications of Elementary Theory to Social Structures of Antiquity Brent Simpson and David Willer p. 231 Part IV. Micro and Macro Structures: Interactions and Organizations 12. Gender, Institutions, and Difference: The Continuing Importance of Social Structure in Understanding Gender Inequality in Organizations Amy S. Wharton p. 257 13. Social Structure and Social Exchange Joseph Whitmeyer and Karen S. Cook p. 271 14. Social Organizations across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective Peter M. Hall and Patrick J.W. McGinty p. 303 15. Acts, Persons, Positions, and Institutions: Legitimating Multiple Objects and Compliance with Authority Henry A. Walker and Larry Rogers and Morris Zelditch p. 323 Index p. 341 Contributor Affiliations p. 343.

Smearing the Queer
Smearing the Queer

Author: Michael Scarce

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 131779057X

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Discover how gay men’s health care can be improved! Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often act as a detriment to gay men’s health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and in medical care while broadening approaches to gay male wellness beyond the limited scope of HIV infection. This groundbreaking book explore a number of neglected concerns affecting the sexual health of gay men , calling for the recognition of their scientific, political, and cultural significance. In Smearing the Queer, gay men, HIV prevention workers, health care providers, mental health professionals, policymakers, researchers, and instructors in related fields will appreciate the in-depth examination of such issues as: research and development on rectal microbicides why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to screen for anorectal cancer an in-depth critique of the problematic diagnosis of “Gay Bowel Syndrome” gay men’s use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex Viagara’s impact on gay men’s sexual cultures, erectile dysfunction, and recreational drug use a broad-based advocacy agenda for improving relations between gay men and the health sciences the politics surrounding gay men’s restricted access to new and prospective safer sex technologies Smearing the Queer challenges heterosexist bias within the health care delivery and health sciences research and calls for the development of public policy initiatives that address gay men’s wellness in more sophisticated and complex ways. This is the only publication that provides in-depth social, cultural, and political analysis of the topics of Gay Bowel Syndrome, gay men’s use of the female condom, rectal microbicides, and anal Pap smears while examining the social forces that direct scientific research under the guise of objectivity.

Born in Seattle
Born in Seattle

Author: Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0295802731

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The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of Seattle activists who gave birth to the national movement for redress. It was they who first conceived of petitioning the U.S. Congress to demand a public apology and monetary compensation for the individuals and the community whose constitutional rights had been violated. Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro, using hundreds of interviews with people who lived in the internment camps, and with people who initiated the campaign for redress, has constructed a very personal testimony, a monument to these courageous organizers’ determination and deep reverence for justice. Born in Seattle follows these pioneers and their movement over more than two decades, starting in the late 1960s with second-generation Japanese American engineers at the Boeing Company, as they worked with their fellow activists to educate Japanese American communities, legislative bodies, and the broader American public about the need for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and pay for this wartime injustice and to promise that it will never be repeated.