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Book Disparates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Madden
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2020-04-01
  • ISBN : 1496221869
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Disparates written by Patrick Madden and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English disparate means "different" or "miscellaneous"--apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means "nonsense," "folly," or "absurdity,"--words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays--which slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Lazar, Michael Martone, Jericho Parms, and Wendy S. Walters, much like a musician features other performers. Disparates reflects the current zeitgeist by taking on important issues with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from one's friends. Read Chapter 1.

Book Disparate Ladders

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  • Author : Arnold Heidenheimer
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 1351292021
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Disparate Ladders written by Arnold Heidenheimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study breaks new ground in examining how political factors helped lead three countries with highly regarded education systems to evolve quite different structures and processes in their secondary and higher education sectors. Their educational "ladders" are disparate because the techniques and timing for selecting students for further educational opportunities vary both among the three nations, and within the German and Swiss federal systems. The comparative analysis seeks to place the Japanese trajectory with reference to European developments, and to account for some of its unique aspects. Building on an extensive record of publication on comparative education policies and welfare state development, Heidenheimer places special emphasis on exploring the network of relationships between the various levels of the educational system and tiers of government.Following a strategy of integrated comparative analysis, the various national school and university types are directly compared as to their permeability, nature of administrative supervision, curricula, and examination practices. Contrasting the ways in which political parties and bureaucracies have made and adapted policies helps clarify how and why specific innovations became political issues, at the national and regional levels. Through close contextual case analysis, the study probes why, despite great differences hi political institutions, some secondary school policies became especially embattled in all three countries.Heidenheimer explains why the German Lander have maintained a monopoly in the university sector, whereas in both "centralized" Japan and "decentralized" Switzerland national governments operate and finance key parts of the university sector. Also analyzed is the impact of post-unification developments on East German university expansion. Whereas many Swiss schools have no principal, German courts have ruled that principals have tenure in their jobs. This comparative treatment by a political scientist complements studies of education by sociologists and economists analyzing how differences in political institutions have helped shape some distinctive policy emphases. Based on original research and a broad command of the literature, Disparate Ladders will appeal to school administrators, educators, political scientists, social historians, sociologists, and multiculturalists.

Book Disparate Measures

Download or read book Disparate Measures written by Mary A. Armstrong and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of workplace participation and earnings patterns for diverse women in US STEM professions that upends the myth that STEM work benefits women economically. Seen as part economic driver, part social remedy, STEM work is commonly understood to benefit both the US economy and people—particularly women—from underrepresented groups. But what do diverse women find when they work in US STEM occupations? What do STEM jobs really deliver—and for whom? In Disparate Measures, Mary Armstrong and Susan Averett challenge the conventional wisdom that a diverse US STEM workforce will bring about economic abundance for the women who participate in it. Combining intersectionality theory and critical data theory with a feminist economic analysis, the authors explore how different groups of diverse women truly fare in US STEM professions. Disparate Measures is centered on eight unique, in-depth case studies, each of which provides an intersectional economic analysis (a term coined by the authors) of diverse women working in STEM occupations. Four case studies prioritize women of color and examine the STEM participation and earnings of Black women, American Indian and Alaska Native women, Asian and Pacific Islander women, and Hispanic women/Latinas; four additional case studies illuminate intersections that are frequently neglected by the STEM inclusivity literature: foreign-born women, women with disabilities, Queer women, and mothers. What the authors find in their groundbreaking, detailed analysis is that the promises of STEM are only partly true: when compared to women not working in STEM, most women are indeed economically elevated by STEM occupations—yet when compared to white men in the same STEM occupations, women’s second-class status is usually reaffirmed. The authors conclude by offering seven “big-picture” recommendations for rethinking STEM equity, showing just how we can successfully confront the entrenched patterns of economic disadvantage faced by diverse women in STEM jobs.

Book Addressing Systemic Racism and Disparate Mental Health Outcomes for Youth of Color  An Issue of Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America  E Book

Download or read book Addressing Systemic Racism and Disparate Mental Health Outcomes for Youth of Color An Issue of Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America E Book written by Lisa R. Fortuna and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lisa Fortuna, Cheryl S. Al-Mateen, Lisa M. Cullins, and W. David Lohr bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Systemic Racism and Disparate Mental Health Outcomes for Youth of Color. This issue represents a collaboration by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry committee members and includes contributions by top experts in the field. It is an invaluable resource for practicing psychiatrists looking to address the unique needs and experiences of black and BIPOC youth in their practices. - Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the intersection of race and ethnicity with mental health service utilization in foster care youth; understanding systemic racism and racial inequity juvenile justice system involvement; racial disparities in the education system; suicide among minoritized and marginalized youth; trauma and youth of color; parenting and family-based care; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on systemic racism and disparate mental health outcomes for youth of color, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Book Race Matters The Collision of Racially Disparate Dynamics in The Context of Litigating Complex Pinkerton  RICO   1962 d  Conspiracy and Mediate Causation Issues

Download or read book Race Matters The Collision of Racially Disparate Dynamics in The Context of Litigating Complex Pinkerton RICO 1962 d Conspiracy and Mediate Causation Issues written by Dean Browning Webb and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aggressively litigating intricately complex federal RICO §1962(d) conspiracy relief claims and RICO §1962(d) criminal counts present intensely technical issues. These exceedingly significant complex issues include application of the Pinkerton Doctrine and the concept of mediate causation when intimately analyzed and critically evaluated in the context of judicially differentiating inexplicably inconsistent and diametrically inapposite interpretations of the Pinkerton Doctrine, mediate causation, and mediate causality, involving prosecuting and litigating racketeering conspiracies of racial and ethnic minorities and contrasted with prosecuting and litigating white collar professionals and corporate financial institutions. The express purpose of this Abstract section of this multi-volume treatise is expressly intended to critically contrast judicially incongruent, inexplicably inconsistent interpretations and varying applications of these doctrinal postulates by critically analyzing federal decisional authorities rendering conflicting results. These results are graphically exemplified in the context of judicially differentiating and readily distinguishing litigation in the criminal RICO §1962(d) conspiratorial context of racial minorities and ethnic minorities indicted with commission of federal statutory offenses aggressively prosecuted resulting in conviction, contrasted with civil RICO §1962(d) conspiratorial litigation involving white collar professionals and corporate financial institutions accused of commission of federal statutory offenses arising in monetary and financial transactions involving property loss. This treatise concludes that Pinkerton and mediate causation be accorded judicially symmetrical application without judicial differentiation between RICO §1962(d) criminal prosecutions and RICO §1962(d) civil litigation.

Book Federated Content Management  Accessing Content from Disparate Repositories with IBM Content Federation Services and IBM Content Integrator

Download or read book Federated Content Management Accessing Content from Disparate Repositories with IBM Content Federation Services and IBM Content Integrator written by Wei-Dong Zhu and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, businesses have valuable operations data spread across multiple content management systems. To help discover, manage, and deliver this content, IBM® provides IBM Content Federation Services and IBM Content Integrator. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the concept of federated content management and describes the installation, configuration, and implementation of these product offerings. IBM Content Federation Services, available through IBM FileNet Content Manager, is a suite of three federated content management services based on the federation implementation strategy. We describe how to install and configure Content Federation Services for Image Services, Content Manager OnDemand, and IBM Content Integrator. Using an integration implementation strategy, IBM Content Integrator provides a repository neutral API that allows bidirectional, real-time access to a multitude of disparate content management system installations. We present connector configuration details to frequently encountered content management systems. We provide detailed instruction and sample implementations using the product's JavaTM and Web Services APIs to access content stored in repository systems. This book is intended for IT architects and specialists interested in understanding federated content management and is a hands-on technical guide for IT specialists to configure and implement federated content management solutions.

Book Disparate Remedies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2023-07-15
  • ISBN : 0228017904
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Disparate Remedies written by Nandini Bhattacharya and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs.

Book Disparate Regional Development in Brazil

Download or read book Disparate Regional Development in Brazil written by Adriana Amado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, an analysis of the regional development problem in Brazil from a monetary perspective. The author deals with the vicious circles generated in a country with strong regional disparities, emphasizing the link between real and financial problems. Some elements of dependency theory and of post-Keynesian monetary theory are adopted to create a new model which can cope with both financial and real problems in the same framework. State policies for the regions are also examined and the study finds that they are inadequate in the prevention of the vicious circles which lead to disparate regional growth.

Book Does Credit Scoring Produce a Disparate Impact

Download or read book Does Credit Scoring Produce a Disparate Impact written by Robert B. Avery and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disparate Voices

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  • Author : Spectral Sisters Productions
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2015-09-23
  • ISBN : 1504947398
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Disparate Voices written by Spectral Sisters Productions and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISPARATE VOICES (Spectral Sisters Productions Short Play Anthology) contains 25 exiting original short plays (usually in a ten minute format) by local and regional writers from Central Louisiana. Topics range from the sexual orientation of Klu Klux Klan members or Tweedledee and Tweedledum, to steroid use among athletes, with lots of unexpected subjects in-between. Some of the plays will make you laugh, some make you cry, while others make you ponder the universality of the human condition. Each work was accepted and produced in the context of the Spectral Sisters Productions Ten-Minute Play Festival, a developmental theater project going on for over a decade in Alexandria, Louisiana. These short plays, very different in subject matters and writing styles, offer something for the actor, producer, educator, sociologist and, of course, the casual reader to enjoy. While the Heart of Louisiana may not have a reputation for progressive creativity, these works prove that remarkable creativity can be nurtured in the most surprising of locations and yield a dramatic harvest that the whole nation and the entire English-speaking world can enjoy. Please share in our inspiration! Support for DISPARATE VOICES was received through a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of Central Louisiana.

Book Disparate Petals Of 2020

Download or read book Disparate Petals Of 2020 written by Rajat Nayar and published by Writersgram. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disparate Petals of 2020 is a twenty-five days' journey of free verse, into the assortment of events that took place as the whole world went into lockdown. These are reflections of various events openly spoken of, and issues that remain silent. Of noted people that were lost, and new ways of living that were found. So, embark on this journey! For as the saying goes, the true joy of life is the trip.

Book Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights

Download or read book Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights written by Shirley Huston-Findley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a Profession: Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights is a collection of plays demonstrating a broad variety of contemporary perspectives as told through the eyes of the women who created them. The anthology is enhanced by significant interviews between each writer and the editor and an introduction filled with information about the profession of playwriting throughout India. Details include the challenges of multiple languages throughout the country, the lack of funding and rehearsal spaces, the role of censorship, the need for specific training, and the influence of gender upon these writer’s ability to find what one woman called “brain space” given the continuation of traditional gender expectations.

Book When Disparate Voices Rise In Unison

Download or read book When Disparate Voices Rise In Unison written by Dragan (Ed) Balog and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messages sent – truthful and rational, or harmful – can be masked under many veils of values, beliefs, or interests, where the hearts and minds of the receivers can become blinded by false promises and questionable paths. Faith and free will can be a unifying force amongst peoples, yet when mysterious events unfold, a door can open for many questionable elements to enter the arena and offer solutions. The hidden hands of power can influence every facet of society – visibly, and invisibly – where silk strings and shackles can distort and divide the path of every decision and question many core values and beliefs. All messages received need to be decoded by peeling away at all the masks, so that the true meaning is revealed and understood. Ambiguity and deceit can sometimes be hidden in plain sight while seeking ways to bend the will of those whose eyes, ears, hearts, and minds are not tuned into the true meaning of a proposal. Those who can wisely decode, interpret, and respond to messages sent with wisdom and solidarity always remain the true victors and restore harmony.

Book English Corpus Linguistics

Download or read book English Corpus Linguistics written by Charles F. Meyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus linguistics is a research method which draws on authentic language examples, collected and organized into 'corpora', or searchable 'bodies' of data. The method was established in the 1960s, and has rapidly developed since then. Now in its second edition, this book provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and analyze linguistic corpora. It has been extensively updated to reflect the most recent developments in this ever-evolving field, and now covers the empirical foundation of corpus-based research, new methodological considerations that guide the creation of a corpus, new kinds of research that can be conducted on corpora, and the most up-to-date information on how qualitative and quantitative analyses of corpora are conducted. Theoretical approaches are introduced in an accessible, easy-to-read way, and the book is illustrated with a wide range of different linguistic corpora, making it essential reading for researchers and students in a number of subfields of linguistics.

Book Disparate Discourse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry Glenn Cochran
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Disparate Discourse written by Terry Glenn Cochran and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: