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Northampton
by James M. ParsonsThe beauty of the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts has always left visitors groping for superlatives, and the town of Northampton--once dubbed "The Athens of the Connecticut Valley"--has lately experienced a renaissance. Interest in the city has only risen through the years, and an assessment of its prominence throughout history easily explains its consistent attraction. From its settling in 1654 to the present, Northampton has been a hotbed of activity, idealism, growth, and change. Walking the streets of Northampton at different times were revolutionaries like Daniel Shays, patriots like Joseph Hawley, religious visionaries like Jonathan Edwards, idealists like the members of the utopian community in Florence, and governors like Caleb Strong and future president Calvin Coolidge. Notables like Sojourner Truth, Alexander Graham Bell, and President Franklin Pierce came and left, but their influences have remained.
Northco (A)
by Ananth Raman Bowon KimA small school-uniform manufacturer wrestles with seasonal demand. The company is saddled with excess inventory when it is bought by a leveraged buyout firm. Students are required to identify ways to analyze and solve the problem.
Northeast Ventures: January 1996
by Josh Lerner Erik K. JacksonCase: Eric K. Jackson, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor Josh Lerner prepared this case as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Josh Lerner has undertaken advisory work for the MacArthur Foundation.
Northern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management
by Carl C. TrettinForested wetlands are a major component of northern landscapes, important both for their ecological functions and their socioeconomic values. Historically, these lands have been used for timber and fiber products, hunting, fishing, trapping, food gathering, and recreation. There are many questions about the use and management of these lands in the future, particularly with respect to forest products, hydrology and water quality, plant and wildlife ecology, landscape dynamics, and wetland restoration. Northern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management provides a synthesis of current research and literature. It examines the status, distribution, and use of these wetland resources. The book focuses on understanding the role of wetlands in the landscape and on how to manage these wetlands and sustain their important functions. This is a primary reference text for the study and management of northern forested wetlands, providing a forum for information discovered by researchers and managers from many nations.
Northern Ireland Politics
by Arthur Aughey Duncan MorrowHopes for a peaceful settlement in Northern Ireland have again put the politics of the province under the spotlight. This new text, written by acknowledged experts on Northern Ireland, provides an immediately accessible introduction to the multi-faceted nature of the politics of the region.
Nosotras que nos queremos tanto
by Marcela SerranoCuatro mujeres chilenas, a las puertas de la madurez y a orillas de un lago, dan curso sin inhibiciones al relato apasionado de sus historias personales.Vidas marcadas a fuego por la experiencia socialista durante el gobierno de Salvador Allende y el golpe militar de 1973, pero también por la huella más íntima del amor y del dolor, el desengaño y la compasión. Los hilos de estas biografías están entrelazados con las vidas de otras mujeres "amigas, primas, hermanas", planteando página a página los dilemas de la sumisión, la infidelidad y el matrimonio, el trabajo y el sexo.Cuando a pocos años del fin de siglo -apagados el fragor de las utopías y la explosión del feminismo- se propone que tal vez los hombres y las mujeres vivan un profundo desencuentro, Marcela Serrano ilumina su relación desde una óptica femenina inédita y enfrenta sin concesiones los claroscuros de la condición existencial de la mujer.
Not Just a Soldier's War (The Lu Wilmott Sagas)
by Betty BurtonIn this &“carefully considered, subtle and observant&” wartime saga, a young English woman travels to Spain to help in the war effort and finds romance(The Sunday Times). In the powerful sequel to The Girl Now Leaving, Betty Burton takes her heroine into the Spanish Civil War. Poverty and factory work have filled Lu Wilmott with a determination to make something of herself. The call to Spain is irresistible: she can live up to her ideals and finally be the woman she&’s always wanted to be. Signing up as a driver, Lu leaves her past and becomes &“Eve&”. One of the few women in charge of heavy vehicles, faced with constant danger, she falls for Spain. But here Eve encounters an old love. Can she find room in her stretched new life for romance? Amidst death and disease, fear and chaos, with food running low, we find a formidable woman is formed from the spirited, naive girl who left Portsmouth . . . &“It is encouraging when someone like Betty Burton manages against the odds to become a roaring success.&” —The Guardian
Not Only The Dangerous Trades: Women's Work And Health In Britain 1880-1914 (Gender And Society Ser.)
by Barbara HarrisonUsing original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book presents a historical period which was marked by a change in the role of the state with respect to intervention in industrial conditions, and analyses the coincidence of this with three other significant developments: the growth of expertise in industrial disease; the employment of women in the factory to take on responsibilities in relation to other women; and changes in the direction of feminist activism. In light of this analysis, the author suggests that some theoretical approaches to both gender relations and health and safety requirements require modification.
Not a Pretty Picture: Ethnic Minority Views of Television (Routledge Revivals)
by Robert MullanOriginally published in 1996, ethnic minorities in the UK made up over 5% of the population yet were hardly represented in the hundreds of hours of terrestrial broadcast television each week. The blatant racism of The Black and White Minstrel Show was over, but more subtle forms of racism were piped into our living rooms in an endless stream of white-dominated programming. ‘Comedies’ and soaps presented non-whites as a sort of joke humanity – stereotypical, simple and amusingly childish. Serious programmes swelled on the negative aspects of ethnicity: race as a problem, cultural clashes and language barriers. Above all – not white equals not normal. For many years critics of popular television argued that such imbalance was harmful. The lack of positive non-white TV role models for children to identify with was leading to growing alienation and disaffection. Ethnic minorities increasingly defined themselves in opposition to white institutions. They were turning towards separate channels – narrow-casting – provided to meet their own TV needs. Based on both extensive survey research and interviews with actual viewers, Not a Pretty Picture investigates the whole issue of TV and ethnic minority viewers at the time: their viewing choices, their criticisms, their feeling about the way they are portrayed. The conclusions are damning: for most of Britain’s ethnic minority communities TV was a white medium, predominantly controlled by whites, portraying white culture and denying non-whites a voice. Not a Pretty Picture, however, provides a voice for these views and a valuable insight into the way ethnic minorities see TV. Today it can be read in its historical context, to see how far we have come, as well as what still needs to be done.
Not without My Child
by Rebecca WintersSHOWCASE "Rebecca Winters is a master storyteller whose characters touch your heart." -Bonnie K. Winn TESSA MARSDEN. Her marriage was a mistake; her son, Scotty, was not. She loves her child with all her heart and soul. She's tried hard to make the marriage work, but this is a marriage that can't be saved. She knows now that she has to get out-before it completely destroys her and her husband, Grant. But when she files for divorce, Grant-for reasons of his own, reasons she doesn't understand-demands full custody of Scotty. Tessa can't live with that. She can't live without her child. ALEX SOMMERFIELD. He's the lawyer handling her divorce. He defies all the rules by falling love with his client. But he's determined not to put her custody case or her happiness at risk.... "Rebecca Winters is a sterling storyteller whose heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful things love can be." -Betina Lindsey, author of The Swan Bride trilogy
Note on Comdisco's Lease Accounting
by Krishna G. PalepuA series of examples are used to illustrate Comdisco's leasing transactions.
Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings
by Josh Lerner John WillingeThis note discusses several ways in which venture-backed firms can be valued, including comparables, net present value, decision-tree analysis, and the "venture capital method."
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
by Ivone MarguliesThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman's work--from Saute ma ville, a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through Jeanne Dielman and Je tu il elle to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman's everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker's work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women's history in the seventies. She then shows how Akerman's "corporeal cinema" is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layerings present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman's minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard's anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman's films as either simply modernist or feminist. An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman's work, Nothing Happens will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.
Nothing on My Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters, and a Life on the Dharma Trail
by Erik StorlieThis frank account by a longtime Zen student looks back over a journey that began in Berkeley in the heady sixties when the author experimented with psychedelics and started to study with Suzuki Roshi, who encouraged his students to find a genuine way of practicing Zen.
Noticia de un secuestro
by Gabriel García Márquez¡Disponible por primera vez en eBook!La crónica de un secuestro real magistralmente retratado por Gabriel García Márquez. En 1990, temiendo la extradición a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar --cabecilla del cartel de Medellín-- secuestroì a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel García Márquez describe la peligrosa prueba de los secuestrados y el increíble drama de las negociaciones para su liberación. También muestra el dolor de Colombia después de casi cuarenta años de revolución guerrillera, sicarios, crisis económica y narcodemocracia. Con intensidad cinematográfica, lenguaje impresionante y rigor periodístico, García Márquez evoca la enfermedad que afecta a su amado país y muestra coìmo penetra cada estrato social, desde el más humilde campesino hasta el mismo presidente.
Noticia de un secuestro
by Gabriel García MárquezLa crónica de un secuestro real magistralmente retratado por Gabriel García Márquez. En 1990, temiendo la extradición a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar cabecilla del cartel de Medellín secuestroì a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel García Márquez describe la peligrosa prueba de los secuestrados y el increíble drama de las negociaciones para su liberación. También muestra el dolor de Colombia después de casi cuarenta años de revolución guerrillera, sicarios, crisis económica y narcodemocracia. Con intensidad cinematográfica, lenguaje impresionante y rigor periodístico, García Márquez evoca la enfermedad que afecta a su amado país y muestra coìmo penetra cada estrato social, desde el más humilde campesino hasta el mismo presidente.
Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation
by Committee on Separations Technology Transmutation SystemsDisposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow.The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel.The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.
Number Theory: An Introduction to Pure and Applied Mathematics (Chapman And Hall/crc Pure And Applied Mathematics Ser. #201)
by Don RedmondThis text provides a detailed introduction to number theory, demonstrating how other areas of mathematics enter into the study of the properties of natural numbers. It contains problem sets within each section and at the end of each chapter to reinforce essential concepts, and includes up-to-date information on divisibility problems, polynomial congruence, the sums of squares and trigonometric sums.;Five or more copies may be ordered by college or university bookstores at a special price, available on application.
Numbers
by Dennis T. OlsonNumbers chronicles a community faced with many competing interests, groups, and issues, endeavoring to define itself and its mission in the world. Dennis Olsen offers readers a comprehensive interpretation of this often overlooked book. He provides a thoroughly contemporary reading of Numbers that enlightens the modern church as it navigates the contemporary wilderness of pluralism, competing voices, and and shifting foundations.
Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational Approach (Engineering Mathematics Ser. #3)
by J.R. DormandWith emphasis on modern techniques, Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational Approach covers the development and application of methods for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. Some of the methods are extended to cover partial differential equations. All techniques covered in the text are on a program disk included with the book, and are written in Fortran 90. These programs are ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners because they allow for straightforward application of the numerical methods described in the text. The code is easily modified to solve new systems of equations. Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational Approach also contains a reliable and inexpensive global error code for those interested in global error estimation. This is a valuable text for students, who will find the derivations of the numerical methods extremely helpful and the programs themselves easy to use. It is also an excellent reference and source of software for researchers and practitioners who need computer solutions to differential equations.
Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations: Problem Solving Using Mathematica (Symbolic and Numeric Computation #7)
by Victor Grigor'E Ganzha Evgenii Vasilev VorozhtsovPartial differential equations (PDEs) play an important role in the natural sciences and technology, because they describe the way systems (natural and other) behave. The inherent suitability of PDEs to characterizing the nature, motion, and evolution of systems, has led to their wide-ranging use in numerical models that are developed in order to analyze systems that are not otherwise easily studied. Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations contains all the details necessary for the reader to understand the principles and applications of advanced numerical methods for solving PDEs. In addition, it shows how the modern computer system algebra Mathematica® can be used for the analytic investigation of such numerical properties as stability, approximation, and dispersion.
Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
by Anne Marie Rafferty Jane Robinson Ruth ElkanA quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.
Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Is It Adequate?
by Committee on the Adequacy of Nurse Staffing in Hospitals Nursing HomesHospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnel--and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.
Nursing in Primary Health Care: Policy into Practice
by Fiona Ross Ann MacKenzieThe role and scope of nursing in primary health care is continually evolving as a result of changes in society. This book explores current issues from the perspective of nursing, showing how policy informs practice. The topics covered include: * health needs profiling* assessment * interprofessional work * quality of care * family carers * new nursing roles in primary health careThe book is suitable for practioners in primary health care, students doing diploma, degree and postgraduate courses in nursing and health studies, and also post-registration courses. Nursing in Primary Care draws on research and examples from practice to encourage a questioning approach to policy information and the consequences of its implementation.
NutraSweet in China (A)
by Carin-Isabel Knoop Michael Y. YoshinoEve Stacey, a recent Harvard MBA, has the challenging task of evaluating the market opportunity for NutraSweet in China. She must decide how best to develop the market for the product in China. May be used with NutraSweet in China (B).