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Selling Sickness
by Ray Moynihan Alan CasselsIn this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD.Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.
Selling Your Crafts: Revised Edition
by Susan Joy SagerDrawing upon profiles of established artisans and the helpful insights of small-business entrepreneurs, this unique guide not only gives tactics for promoting and marketing crafts, but also provides the necessary forms for getting a business up and running. The book details how to network effectively and build a customer base, listing organizations, business associations, and crafts publications that offer further sources of information. Filled with easy-to-understand examples and sample forms and contracts, this book provides the essential tools for prospering in the crafts business, as well as the resources needed to keep savvy as business grows.
Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood
by Syd Field- Breaks Down the Business of Screenwriting - Explains What the Buyer Looks For - Shows You What to Do to Get in the Door - Tackles the Pitching Process - Provides Personal Insights from Famous Screenwriters Everybody has a story to tell. Everybody wants to write the great American screenplay. But what do you do after it's written? How do you sell it? Studio honchos. Development Executives. Independent Producers. What do they want? Do you need an agent or manager to get it into production? Selling a screenplay can mean earning $250,000 or more, so competition is fierce. Syd Field gives you an insider's look at the movie and TV industry, packed with essential tips from the pros. Selling a Screenplay is a must-have guide for every screenwriter, filled with frank real-life advice from Hollywood's most powerful deal makers and most celebrated screenwriters. They all started somewhere.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sellphotos.com: Your Guide to Establishing a Successful Stock Photography Business on the Intern et
by Rohn EnghPhotography is in the midst of a revolution. Rohn Engh shows part-time and professional photographers how to compete with the big agencies by using the Internet--the new frontier of stock photography sales--and by determining how their images, both traditional and digital, are delivered and paid for. A comprehensive guide, sellphotos. com covers everything for photographers from Internet basics and the nature of the stock photography trade to building their own web sites and operating their own business. Rohn Engh is a veteran editorial stock photographer who has sold to national and worldwide markets since 1960. He is founder and publisher of PhotoStockNotes, PHOTOLETTER and PhotoDaily, market letters that post photo editor picture needs. Engh also conducts photo marketing seminars nationwide. He lives in Wisconsin.
Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
by Sol SteinmetzAfter an introduction surveying the many reasons that words might change meaning over the years and centuries, lexicographer Steinmetz cites in dictionary fashion English words that used to mean something different than they do now. Entries are about a half page long. A glossary of names and terms is provided. Pronunciations are not indicated for anything. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Semantic Under-determinacy and Communication
by D. BelleriCombining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, this book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by seeking an answer to the questions of how it can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it.
Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing
by Silvio PeroniThis work deals with the applications of Semantic Publishing technologies in the legal domain, i. e. , the use of Semantic Web technologies to address issues related to the Legal Scholarly Publishing. Research in the field of Law has a long tradition in the application of semantic technologies, such as Semantic Web and Linked Data, to real-world scenarios. This book investigates and proposes solutions for three main issues that Semantic Publishing needs to address within the context of the Legal Scholarly Publishing: the need of tools for linking document text to a formal representation of its meaning; the lack of complete metadata schemas for describing documents according to the publishing vocabulary and the absence of effective tools and user interfaces for easily acting on semantic publishing models and theories. In particular, this work introduces EARMARK, a markup meta language that allows one to create markup documents without the structural and semantic limits imposed by markup languages such as XML. EARMARK is a platform to link the content layer of a document with its intended formal semantics and it can be used with the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies, another topic in this book. SPAR Ontologies are a collection of formal models providing an upper semantic layer for describing the publishing domain. Using EARMARK as a foundation for SPAR descriptions opens up to a semantic characterisation of all the aspects of a document and of its parts. Finally, four user-friendly tools are introduced: LODE, KC-Viz, Graffoo and Gaffe. They were expressly developed to facilitate the interaction of publishers and domain experts with Semantic Publishing technologies by shielding such users from the underlying formalisms and semantic models of such technologies.
Semiotic Agency: Science beyond Mechanism (Biosemiotics #25)
by Alexei Sharov Morten TønnessenThis book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis of the function and evolution of organisms, their subagents, and multi-organism systems, and in this way offer a theoretical platform for integrating biosemiotics with both natural science and the humanities/social sciences. Agents are autonomous systems that incorporate knowledge on how to make sense of their environment and use it to achieve their goals. The functions of all agents are supported by mechanisms at the lowest level; however, the explanatory power of mechanistic analysis is not sufficient for complex agents. Non-mechanistic methods rely on the goal-directedness of agents whose dynamics follow self-stabilized dynamic attractors. The properties of attractors depend on stable or slowly changing factors, and such dependencies can be interpreted as sign relations if they are adaptive in nature. Agents can replace or redirect mechanisms on demand in order to preserve their functions; for performing higher-level semiotic functions, mechanisms are thus only means. We assume that mechanism and semiosis are not mutually exclusive, and that simple agents can interpret signs mechanistically. This assumption allows us to extend semiotic analysis to all agents, including ribosomes in cells, computers, and robots. This book challenges established traditions in natural science and the humanities/social sciences: semiotics no longer appears as restricted to humans and rational thinking, and biology is no longer limited to rely exclusively on mechanistic reasoning.
Semiotics of International Law
by Evandro Menezes de CarvalhoLanguage carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect. The diversity of languages and legal systems can enrich the possibilities of understanding and developing international law, but it can also represent an instability and unsafety factor to the international scenario. This multilegal-system and multilingual scenario adds to the complexity of international law and poses new challenges. One of them is legal translation, which is a field of knowledge and professional skill that has not been the subject of theoretical thinking on the part of legal scholars. How to negotiate, draft or interpret an international treaty that mirrors what the parties, - who belong to different legal cultures and who, on many occasions, speak different mother tongues - ,want or wanted to say? By analyzing the decision-making process and the legal discourse adopted by the WTO's Appellate Body, this book highlights the active role of language in diplomatic negotiations and in interpreting international law. In addition, it also shows that the debate on the effectiveness and legitimacy of International Law cannot be separated from the linguistic issue.
Semiotics, Law & Art: Between Theory of Justice and Theory of Law (Law and Visual Jurisprudence #2)
by Eduardo C.B. BittarThis book presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art. Focusing on Greimasian semiotics, it examines specific works of art (from Giotto to Banksy) that deal with the theme of justice, promoting a more sensitive and humanized perception of the values that surround law. The book offers readers a comprehensive review of the semiotics of law, critically examining the relation between law & art. It covers a variety of topics, including semiotics, law and art; semiotics, art and experience; and society, law and art, as well as semiotics, law and painting; semiotics, law and architecture; semiotics, law and theatre; semiotics, law and literature; and semiotics, law and culture. In doing so, it uses the semiotics of painting to explain the symbology of justice and its significance in history; the semiotics of architecture to explain the setting of justice; the semiotics of theatre to explain the logic of the legal process; and the semiotics of literature to explain the narrative logic of legal decisions. Lastly, drawing on the semiotics of culture, it discusses ways of promoting justice, citizenship and human rights. Written from both philosophical and semiotical perspectives, the book enhances the centrality of visual jurisprudence studies to promote a better understanding of the role of law.
Semiparametric Odds Ratio Model and Its Applications
by Hua Yun ChenBeginning with familiar models and moving onto advanced semiparametric modelling tools Semiparametric Odds Ratio Model and its Applications introduces readers to a new range of flexible statistical models and provides guidance on their application using real data examples. This books range of real-world examples and exploration of common statistical problems makes it an invaluable reference for research professionals and graduate students of biostatistics, statistics, and other quantitative fields. Key Features: Introduces flexible statistical models that have yet to systematically introduced in course materials. Discusses applications of the proposed modelling framework in several important statistical problems, ranging from biased sampling designs and missing data, graphical models, survival analysis, Gibbs sampler and model compatibility, and density estimation. Includes real data examples to demonstrate the use of the proposed models, and estimation and inference tools.
Senior Dogs
by Kim Campbell Thornton Buck JonesWhether teaching a dog the basics, turning Fido from frumpy to fabulous, or traveling with man's best friend, Dog Fancy magazine's Simple Solutions books are best bets for dog owners. Filled with helpful tips and fun illustrations, these handy guides serve as easy-to-use foundations for success.
Sense and Nonsense and the National Curriculum (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
by Michael Barber Duncan GrahamOriginally written after four years of the National Curriculum, at a time when adjustments and radical changes were being implemented, this book analyses from various points of view what is wrong with the National Curriculum and presents a series of options for putting it right.
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation
by Jeff DolvenIn an age of interpretation, style eludes criticism. Yet it does so much tacit work: telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What does style have to do with form, history, meaning, our moment’s favored categories? What do we miss when we look right through it? Senses of Style essays an answer. An experiment in criticism, crossing four hundred years and composed of nearly four hundred brief, aphoristic remarks, it is a book of theory steeped in examples, drawn from the works and lives of two men: Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet and diplomat in the court of Henry VIII, and his admirer Frank O’Hara, the midcentury American poet, curator, and boulevardier. Starting with puzzle of why Wyatt’s work spoke so powerfully to O’Hara across the centuries, Jeff Dolven ultimately explains what we talk about when we talk about style, whether in the sixteenth century, the twentieth, or the twenty-first.
Sensing the Nation's Law: Historical Inquiries Into The Aesthetics Of Democratic Legitimacy (Studies In The History Of Law And Justice #13)
by Stefan Huygebaert Angela Condello Sarah Marusek Mark AntakiThis book examines how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are “imagined” this book suggests that their “rightfulness” must be “sensed” – analogously to the need for justice not only to be done, but to be seen to be done. This book brings together legal, historical and philosophical perspectives on the representation and iconography of the nation in the European, North American and Australian contexts from contributors in law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.
Sensors, Cloud, and Fog: The Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things
by Sudip Misra Subhadeep Sarkar Subarna ChatterjeeThis book provides an in-depth understanding of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. It highlights several of today's research and technological challenges of translating the concept of the IoT into a practical, technologically feasible, and business-viable solution. It introduces two novel technologies--sensor-cloud and fog computing--as the crucial enablers for the sensing and compute backbone of the IoT. The book discusses these two key enabling technologies of IoT that include a wide range of practical design issues and the futuristic possibilities and directions involving sensor networks and cloud and fog computing environments towards the realization and support of IoT. Classroom presentations and solutions to end of chapter questions are available to instructors who use the book in their classes.
Sensory Integration and the Child Understanding: Hidden Sensory Challenges
by A. Jean AyresThis classic handbook, from the originator of sensory integration theory, is now available in an updated, parent-friendly edition. Retaining all the features that made the original edition so popular with both parents and professionals, this book remains the best book on the subject. With a new foreword by Dr. Florence Clark and commentaries by recognized experts in sensory integration, this volume explains sensory integrative dysfunction, how to recognize it, and what to do about it. Helpful tips, checklists, question-and-answer sections, and parent resources make the new edition more informative and useful. Indispensable reading for parents, this book is also an excellent way to improve communication between therapist, parents and teachers. The original edition was the first book to explicate sensory integrative dysfunction, and this edition offers new insights and helpful updates in an easy-to-use format.
Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics #42)
by Annalisa Baicchi Rémi Digonnet Jodi L. SandfordThe book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception. The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and linguistic perspectives on embodiment and body perception, highlighting the core mechanisms humans employ to acquire knowledge of reality. These processes are based on sensory experience and interaction through communication.
Sensory Systems of Animals: Biology and Behavior
by Mark HollinsPerception in animals is a fascinating and challenging subject that calls to students from many disciplines. The aim of this book is to provide a knowledge base and unifying perspective on the field that will enable beginning researchers to chart their own course within it. The author describes, in a systematic but engaging way, the sensory systems of humans and other vertebrates, as well as arthropods and molluscs.Why is it important to understand the senses of animals? One reason is that human activities are changing the perceptual world of animals in ways that expose them to danger. From bright outdoor lighting disorienting migrating birds to human sonar driving whales to beach themselves; it is becoming increasingly important to find ways to reduce such dangers. This will require big changes in human behavior, and greater understanding of how animals react, physiologically and behaviorally, to anthropogenic changes in their environment.The emphasis throughout is on research, in both the behavioral/ethological and neuroscientific traditions, that has led to important discoveries. The functional anatomy of each system, from receptor cells to brain areas, is succinctly described, explaining how it underlies the animal’s sensory abilities and behavior. Overall descriptions of a sense for a class of animals (for example, hearing in arachnids) are interspersed with expanded coverage of that sense in a particular animal, such as the ogre-faced web-casting spider that does a backflip to capture an insect buzzing overhead. Evolutionary themes are found throughout the book, for example in describing the development of the vertebrate ear, and in the convergent evolution of the eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods.With over 500 references and 80 illustrations, this textbook is intended as primary reading for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students of biology, neuroscience, sensory psychology, and veterinary science. It will also be of interest to professionals and academics in these fields, and to anyone else who works with or studies animals.
Sentiments and Activities: Essays In Social Science (classic Reprint) (International Library of Sociology)
by George Caspar HomansPublished in 1998, Sentiments and Activities is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Sentir el bosque: La experiencia del shinrin-yoku (baño de bosque)
by Álex GesseUna invitación a conectarte con la naturaleza: los baños de bosque. Vivimos abstraídos en ciudades, escenarios urbanos y paisajes grises. Con el paso del tiempo, hemos olvidado el impacto que nos puede causar la ausencia de naturaleza. Álex Gesse nos invita a probar los baños de bosque, una técnica japonesa que nos ayuda a reconectar con la naturaleza y con sus efectos beneficiosos para el cuerpo y el espíritu. En este libro, el autor -guía experimentado en baños de bosque- nos relata una veintena de experiencias reales de shinrin-yoku, que han de servir de inspiración e ilustración de lo que podemos encontrarnos en un viaje al interior del bosque, un paseo relajado, sin prisa, sin presiones, como una pausa extraordinaria fuera de nuestra rutina, y que nos conducirá a reencontrarnos con nosotros mismos. Además, nos dice, podemos buscar la naturaleza y su poder sanador allí donde estemos: en la oficina, en casa, en las calles de nuestra ciudad... Allí donde más lo necesites. «Todos tus sentidos están para ser despertados, para conectarte con el bosque, y cuando se liberan, las emociones se despiertan, las conversaciones se desenvuelven y un nuevo mundo surge a tu alrededor, permitiéndote encontrar la armonía con el bosque y, en definitiva, hallar tu equilibrio interior.»
Sentir el bosque: La experiencia del shinrin-yoku (baño de bosque)
by Álex GesseUna invitación a conectarte con la naturaleza: los baños de bosque. Vivimos abstraídos en ciudades, escenarios urbanos y paisajes grises. Con el paso del tiempo, hemos olvidado el impacto que nos puede causar la ausencia de naturaleza. Álex Gesse nos invita a probar los baños de bosque, una técnica japonesa que nos ayuda a reconectar con la naturaleza y con sus efectos beneficiosos para el cuerpo y el espíritu. En este libro, el autor -guía experimentado en baños de bosque- nos relata una veintena de experiencias reales de shinrin-yoku, que han de servir de inspiración e ilustración de lo que podemos encontrarnos en un viaje al interior del bosque, un paseo relajado, sin prisa, sin presiones, como una pausa extraordinaria fuera de nuestra rutina, y que nos conducirá a reencontrarnos con nosotros mismos. Además, nos dice, podemos buscar la naturaleza y su poder sanador allí donde estemos: en la oficina, en casa, en las calles de nuestra ciudad... Allí donde más lo necesites. «Todos tus sentidos están para ser despertados, para conectarte con el bosque, y cuando se liberan, las emociones se despiertan, las conversaciones se desenvuelven y un nuevo mundo surge a tu alrededor, permitiéndote encontrar la armonía con el bosque y, en definitiva, hallar tu equilibrio interior.»
Seoul Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About Seoul and Were Going to Ask Anyway (Book Of Everything Ser.)
by Tim LehnertYour key to the South Korean city&’s neighborhoods, green spaces, and urban design, as well as its history, museums, pop culture, shopping, and more. From ancient royal palaces and Korean traditional houses to all-night markets, N Seoul Tower, and the club scene, no city combines the ancient and the contemporary quite like Seoul. Local experts weigh in on one of the world&’s most dynamic cities, including contributions from Robert Neff, Tracey Stark, Daniel Gray, Kim Young-sook, Joel Levin, Michael J. Meyers, and Mary Crowe. A comedian details the five things you must bring to Korea, a food writer picks five favorite restaurants, and a prominent meteorologist provides the low-down on Seoul&’s climate. You&’ll also find insider takes on local mountains and ghosts, as well as movies, tea houses, night spots, the economy, cultural treasures, essential reads, Buddhist shrines, and Seoul&’s amazing postwar evolution. From the DMZ, the Han River, and Cheonggyecheon Stream to navigating local dining, linguistics, and cultural practices, this completely updated reference will become your go-to book on the &“Land of the Morning Calm.&”
Seoul Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home (Local Travel Guide)
by Allison Needels Beth Eunhee Hong Arian Khameneh Charles UsherKeen to explore a different side of Seoul? Like a Local is the book for you.This isn&’t your ordinary travel guide. You won&’t find N Seoul Tower or K-Star Road in these pages, because that&’s not where Seoulites hang out. Instead, you&’ll meet the locals at raucous barbecue joints, forward-thinking galleries and underground music dens – and that&’s where this book takes you.Turn the pages to discover:- The small businesses and community strongholds that add character to this vibrant city, recommended by true locals.- 6 themed walking tours dedicated to specific experiences such as flea markets and movie theatres.- A beautiful gift book for anyone seeking to explore Seoul. - Helpful &‘what3word&’ addresses, so you can pinpoint all the listed sights.Compiled by four proud Seoulites, this stylish travel guide is packed with Seoul&’s best experiences and hidden spots, handily categorized to suit your mood and needs.Whether you&’re a restless on the hunt for a new hangout, or a visitor keen to discover a side you won&’t find in traditional guidebooks, Seoul Like A Local will give you all the inspiration you need. About Like A Local:These giftable and collectable guides from DK Eyewitness are compiled exclusively by locals. Whether they&’re born-and-bred or moved to study and never looked back, our experts shine a light on what it means to be a local: pride for their city, community spirit and local expertise. Like a Local Seoul will inspire readers to celebrate the secret as well as the iconic – just like the locals who call the city home. Looking for another guide to Seoul? Explore further with our DK Eyewitness or Top 10 guides to Seoul.
Separate Spheres: The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain (Routledge Library Editions: Women's History)
by Brian HarrisonThe British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were called. In a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis’ central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes. Dr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and argues that anti-suffragism is important for shedding light on the Edwardian feminists. The Antis also introduce us to important Victorian and Edwardian attitudes which are often forgotten and which differ markedly from the attitudes to women which are now familiar; on the other hand, his concluding chapter – which surveys the period from 1918 to 1978 – claims that many of these attitudes, though less frequently voiced in public, still influence present-day conduct. His book, published originally in 1978, therefore makes an important contribution towards the history of the British women’s movement and towards understanding Britain in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.