Author : John Hockenberry
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786881628
A journalist for National Public Radio and ABC News recounts the challenges he has faced as a paraplegic at home and abroad, from the dangers of war-torn Iraq and Jerusalem to discrimination at home. Reprint.
Author : Sallie Tisdale
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0990437094
Most Anticipated, Too: The Great 2016 Nonfiction Book Preview The Millions GROUNDBREAKING. A career-defining book. -The New Yorker Sallie Tisdale is the author of seven books on such varied subjects as medical technology, her pioneer ancestors and Buddhist women teachers. Her many essays have appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, The New Yorker, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review and many other journals. This first collection of work spans thirty years, and includes an introduction and brief epilogues to each essay. Tisdale's questing curiosity pursues subjects from the biology of flies to the experience of working in an abortion clinic, why it is so difficult to play sports with men, and whether it's possible for writers to tell the truth. She restlessly returns to themes of the body, the family, and how we try to explain ourselves to each other. She is unwilling to settle for easy answers, and finds the ambiguity and wonder underneath ordinary events. The collection includes a recent essay never before published, about the mystery of how we present ourselves to each other and whether it is possible to know even our own inner lives.
Author : I. I. Bigi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139478249
Why didn't the matter in our Universe annihilate with antimatter immediately after its creation? The study of CP violation may help to answer this fundamental question. This book presents theoretical tools necessary to understand this phenomenon. Reflecting the explosion of new results over the last decade, this second edition has been substantially expanded. It introduces charge conjugation, parity and time reversal, before describing the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) theory for CP violation and our understanding of CP violation in kaon decays. It reveals how the discovery of B mesons has provided a new laboratory to study CP violation with KM theory predicting large asymmetries, and discusses how these predictions have been confirmed since the first edition of this book. Later chapters describe the search for a new theory of nature's fundamental dynamics. This book is suitable for researchers in high energy, atomic and nuclear physics, and the history and philosophy of science.
Author : Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 161537017X
Preceded by Boundaries and boundary violations in psychoanalysis / Glen O. Gabbard, Eva P. Lester. New York: BasicBooks, c1995.
Author : Good Karma Factory
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
ISBN : 9780974587714
Join the Karma Police and help set the record straight. Armed with The Official Karma Violation Ticket Book you can let friends, family, co-workers, even celebrities and politicians know they did a NO-NO! Just fill out a citation and express your feelings and opinions while upholding the laws of the universe!
Author : Iosif B. Khriplovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642608388
Electric dipole moments (EDMs) have interested physicists since 1950, when it was first suggested that there was no experimental evidence that nuclear forces are symmetric under parity (P) transformation. This question was regarded as speculative because the existence of an EDM, in addition to P violation, requires a violation of time-reversal (T) symmetry. In 1964 it was discovered that the invariance under CP transformation, which combines charge conjugation (C) with parity, is violated in K-meson decays. This provided a new incentive for EDM searches. Since the combined operations of CPT are expected to leave a system invariant, breakdown of CP invariance should be accompanied by a violation of time-reversal symmetry. Thus there is a reason to expect that EDMs should exist at some level. The original neutron EDM experiments were later supplemented with checks of T invariance in atoms and molecules. These investigations are pursued now by many groups. Over the years, the upper limit on the neutron EDM has been improved by seven orders of magnitude, and the upper limit on the electron EDM obtained in atomic experiments is even more strict.
Author : Gustavo C. Branco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198503996
The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. This book provides a self-contained introduction and is designed to bring beginning researchers to the forefront of the field.
Author : Susan Bitensky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9047431162
The core of this book is a detailed analysis of the status of corporal punishment of children, including Areasonable spankings by parents, under international human rights law. The analysis leads compellingly to the conclusion that such punishment is indeed a human rights violation, consonant with modern norms about right and decent treatment of juveniles. The book further provides a comparative analysis between the domestic laws of the seventeen nations that ban all corporal punishment of children (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, and Portugal) and examples of the domestic laws in the countries that still permit some physical chastisement of children (United States and Canada). Because it is anticipated that a good number of readers will be surprised to learn that this disciplinary practice has become a human rights law violation, the book also engages in an in-depth exegesis of the psychological evidence and historical and philosophical reasons warranting prohibition of all corporal punishment of children as an imperative policy choice. The work probes as well why, once that choice is made, it is essential to use legal bans on the punishment inasmuch as they have uniquely effective pedagogical and therapeutic roles and give some permanence to humanity’s hard won understanding about protecting the young from violence. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Author : Michael Moran
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780446672337
A humorous collection of tear-off summonses is designed to let duplicitous, arrogant, and otherwise ill-willed people know that they are violating the laws of the universe by spreading bad vibes and risk a taste of their own medicine. Original.
Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231168187
Theorists critique photography for ÒobjectifyingÓ its subjects and manipulating appearance for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photographyÕs violating powers and aesthetic technique as part of a complex Òsocial ontologyÓ that exposes the hierarchies, divisions, and exclusions behind appearances. Photography must Òarrive unannouncedÓ and Òget in the way of the world,Ó Roberts argues, committing to the truth-claims of the spectator over the self-interests and sensitivities of the subject. Yet even though the violating capacity of the photograph results from external power relations, the photographer is still faced with an ethical choice: whether to advance photographyÕs truth-claims on the basis of these powers or to diminish or veil these powers to protect the integrity of the subject. PhotographyÕs acts of intrusion and destabilization constantly test the photographer at the point of production, in the darkroom, and at the computer, especially in our 24-hour digital image culture. RobertsÕs refunctioning of photographyÕs place in the world is therefore critically game-changing, as it politically and theoretically restores the reputation of the art.
