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Author: Greg Kading
Publisher: One Time Publishing
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983955481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of how a police detective lead the task force that exposed the facts behind the deaths of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.
Author: Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2005-04-11
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe increasing Native American enrollment at campuses across the United States is something to be celebrated. It reflects the resiliency of Native people across the country, a commitment on the part of Native students and their families to pursue educational goals, and the growing strength in tribal government and tribal economies. However, the underlying reality that the retention rate for Native American students is the lowest for any group in higher education ought be a source of tremendous concern. It is a consequence of the history of Native Americans in the United States; the state of elementary and secondary education for many Native Americans; and the lack of awareness in much of higher education to Native American students, people, and issues. What are the trends in enrollment for Native American students? What do we know about their experiences on our campuses? What contributes to their success in pursuing their educational aspirations, and what inhibits them? How might greater awareness of contemporary issues in Indian country affect our ability to serve Native American students? How might knowledge of Native American epistemology, cultural traditions, and social structures help in our efforts to address challenges and opportunities on our campuses? In this volume of the New Directions in Student Services series, scholars and practitioners alike, most of them Native American, address these important questions.
Author: R. Killick-Kendrick
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0323150578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRodent Malaria reviews significant findings concerning malaria parasites of rodents, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, and evolution, along with life cycles and morphology; genetics and biochemistry; and concomitant infections. This volume is organized into eight chapters and begins by sketching out the history of the discovery of rodent as well as aspects of parasitology, immunology, and chemotherapy. These concepts are investigated two decades following Ignace Vincke's major discovery and Meir Yoeli's successful establishment of the method of cyclical transmission of the parasite. The following chapters focus on the taxonomy and systematics of the subgenus Vinckeia, with reference to the concepts of species and subspecies of animals and the degree to which they apply to malaria parasites, in particular to those of rodents. The discussion then shifts to how the rodent malaria parasites provide a unique insight into the subcellular organization of Plasmodium species, the use of rodent malaria as an experimental model to study immunological responses, and infectious agents that interact with malaria parasites. The book concludes with a chapter on malaria chemotherapy, with emphasis on the value of rodent malaria in antimalarial drug screening and the use of antimalarial drugs as biological probes. This book will be of interest to protozoologists and physicians as well as those from other disciplines including biochemistry, immunology, pharmacology, cell biology, and genetics.
Author: Project on Disney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780822316244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains critical essays in which the authors, having visited Disney World as individuals and as a group, offer their perspectives on various aspects of the amusement park and its appeal.
Author: Ana Pacheco
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890135440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the best-kept secrets of the art world is that important center of postwar modernism: Taos, New Mexico.
Author: Mark Santiago
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0806162724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict. He argues that Commandant General Pedro de Nava’s coordinated campaigns against the Mescaleros were the culmination of the Spanish military’s efforts to contain Apache aggression, constituting one of its largest and most sustained operations in northern New Spain. A Bad Peace and a Good War examines the antecedents, tactics, and consequences of the fighting. This conflict occurred immediately after the Spanish military had succeeded in making an uneasy peace with portions of all Apache groups. The Mescaleros were the first to break the peace, annihilating two Spanish patrols in August 1795. Galvanized by the loss, Commandant General Nava struggled to determine the extent to which Mescaleros residing in “peace establishments” outside Spanish settlements near El Paso, San Elizario, and Presidio del Norte were involved. Santiago looks at the impact of conflicting Spanish military strategies and increasing demands for fiscal efficiency as a result of Spain’s imperial entanglements. He examines Nava’s yearly invasions of Mescalero territory, his divide-and-rule policy using other Apaches to attack the Mescaleros, and his deportation of prisoners from the frontier, preventing the Mescaleros from redeeming their kin. Santiago concludes that the consequences of this war were overwhelmingly negative for Mescaleros and ambiguous for Spaniards. The war’s legacy of bitterness lasted far beyond the end of Spanish rule, and the continued independence of so many Mescaleros and other Apaches in their homeland proved the limits of Spanish military authority. In the words of Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez, the Spaniards had technically won a “good war” against the Mescaleros and went on to manage a “bad peace.”
Author: Timoteo B. Aquino
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 984
ISBN-13: 9786210400106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. J. Weberman
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780883730966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barry Cole
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-24
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780646937922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGood vision is essential to just about everything we do but not everyone has naturally good vision.Modern technology and modern optometry can do much to restore normal vision and preventblindness, yet globally 40 million people are blind and another 250 million have severe vision loss.Even in Australia, a wealthy country with a good health system, 70,000 Australians are legally blindand some 300,000 have low vision. It is a global public heath challenge to reduce these numbers.This book takes the reader through the early history of optometry, from the invention of spectaclesin Italy in the late 14th century, through the evolution of systematic sight testing beginning in the17th century and how this got its solid scientifi c foundations in the 18th and 19th centuries.When Australia was fi rst settled by Europeans, spectacles were bought in general stores andselected by trial and error, but by 1830 there were opticians who tested sight. They got betterat doing so and began calling themselves optometrists at the turn of century. They battled thetyranny of distance at a time when scientifi c advances were taking place in Europe and Americaand it took three months to travel to England. Australian optometrists kept good pace with whatwas happening in those countries: they beat the tyranny of distance.They engaged in political battles to win recognition and legislation to regulate their professionand improve its educational standards. There were battles glorious, some won and some lost.They faced hostility from a medical profession that wanted to lay claim to all things to do withhealth, to the exclusion or subordination of others. It took time and effort but the two ophthalmicprofessions, optometry and ophthalmology, found a rapprochement, at times still an uneasy one,but they now work cooperatively, making best use of their respective skills for the benefi t ofpatients. This book tells a fascinating story of the evolution of an important aspect of health carein Australia, and does so in the context of changing technology and a changing society.
Author: Jim Eckles
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-02-13
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781507798553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the history of Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945. The test, in an instant, ushered the world into the nuclear age. Unlike other books that focus on Los Alamos or the Manhattan Project, this book describes what went on at the bomb test site - how the test bed was prepared, who did the work, how they lived in the desert and what happened to the site after the war. The book is filled with first-hand accounts and anecdotes given to the author by the men who were actually there. Also, the story continues after the end of the war as the National Park Service proposed the site be declared a national monument. The Department of Army vetoed such proposals because the site sits in the middle of White Sands Missile Range. A compromise was to make the site a national historic landmark. Eckles explains what happened to many of the artifacts associated with the test, like Jumbo and the control bunker, how the site's open houses have grown to see thousands of visitors each year, and what the radiation issues are all about. Included are many photographs of the site, some of which have never been published before. In 2013 Eckles published "Pocketful of Rockets: History and Stories Behind White Sands Missile Range" that included a chapter on Trinity Site. He has extracted that chapter, one of 29 in the large volume, and reworked it, beefing it up with additional information and photos. It now stands alone as an educational and entertaining guide to Trinity.
