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Gerontechnology : understanding older adult information and communication technology use / by Birkland, Johanna L. H.

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Understanding older adult technology use: an introduction to the ICT User Typology -- Enthusiasts: the technological evangelists -- Practicalists: the technological tool users -- Socializers: the technological social butterflies -- Traditionalists: the keepers of technological tradition -- Guardians: the technological resistance fighters -- Understanding the ICT User Typology and the user types -- User types and the life course: toward understanding the universality of user types -- The ICT User Typology in context: a theoretical perspective -- Breaking the digital divide -- Discovery of the ICT User Typology -- Glossary -- References -- Index.…”
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Making room for leadership : power, space and influence / by Morse, MaryKate, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Bodied influence : leadership and the body -- Holding the dynamite : the ethics of power -- Simon and the sinner woman : Jesus' use of power -- The epicenter : how leaders take up space -- The "it" factor : power in presence -- The law of the jungle : visual marks of presence -- Second impressions : visceral marks of presence -- Bean-counting social space : the economics of power -- Space-taking and space-hiding : using power well -- Open space : managing our own souls -- Getting in the sandbox : practical strategies -- The guardians : overseeing a leader's use of power.…”
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Gerontechnology : understanding older adult information and communication technology use / by Birkland, Johanna L. H.

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Understanding older adult technology use: an introduction to the ICT User Typology -- Enthusiasts: the technological evangelists -- Practicalists: the technological tool users -- Socializers: the technological social butterflies -- Traditionalists: the keepers of technological tradition -- Guardians: the technological resistance fighters -- Understanding the ICT User Typology and the user types -- User types and the life course: toward understanding the universality of user types -- The ICT User Typology in context: a theoretical perspective -- Breaking the digital divide -- Discovery of the ICT User Typology -- Glossary -- References -- Index.…”
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Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor James Webb Throckmorton / by Howell, Kenneth Wayne, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics -- The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50 -- Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57 -- The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61 -- The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65 -- Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66 -- "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866 -- An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867 -- Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73 -- The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.…”
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Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor James Webb Throckmorton / by Howell, Kenneth Wayne, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics -- The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50 -- Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57 -- The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61 -- The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65 -- Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66 -- "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866 -- An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867 -- Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73 -- The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.…”
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The case of Terri Schiavo ethics, politics, and death in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Goodman -- At Theresa Schiavo's bedside : a guardian's role and reflections / Jay Wolfson -- Schiavo, privacy, and the interests of law / Daniel N. …”
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Newspeak in the 21st century by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. …”
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Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / by Dimond, Bridgit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anatomy of the Mental Capacity Act and its terms -- Background to the legal system and the Mental Capacity Act -- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making -- Definition of mental capacity -- Making decisions in the best interests of others -- Lasting powers of attorney -- Court of Protection, court appointed deputies, the Office of the Public Guardian and visitors -- Independent mental capacity advocates -- Advance decisions -- Research -- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability -- Children and young persons -- Mental capacity and mental disorder -- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) -- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use -- The informal carer -- Implementation, resources, and code of practice -- Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland -- The future.…”
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The case of Terri Schiavo ethics, politics, and death in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Goodman -- At Theresa Schiavo's bedside : a guardian's role and reflections / Jay Wolfson -- Schiavo, privacy, and the interests of law / Daniel N. …”
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Newspeak in the 21st century by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. …”
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Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / by Dimond, Bridgit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anatomy of the Mental Capacity Act and its terms -- Background to the legal system and the Mental Capacity Act -- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making -- Definition of mental capacity -- Making decisions in the best interests of others -- Lasting powers of attorney -- Court of Protection, court appointed deputies, the Office of the Public Guardian and visitors -- Independent mental capacity advocates -- Advance decisions -- Research -- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability -- Children and young persons -- Mental capacity and mental disorder -- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) -- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use -- The informal carer -- Implementation, resources, and code of practice -- Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland -- The future.…”
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Creative people must be stopped six ways we kill innovation (without even trying) / by Owens, David A.

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Creative people must be stopped six ways we kill innovation (without even trying) / by Owens, David A.

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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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Contemporary debates in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…-- Should minors have the right to refuse treatment, even when against the will of their parents or guardians? -- Is physician-assisted suicide ever ethical? …”
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Contemporary debates in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…-- Should minors have the right to refuse treatment, even when against the will of their parents or guardians? -- Is physician-assisted suicide ever ethical? …”
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert

Table of Contents: “…Satlow -- Judaean desert marriage documents and ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko -- The widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. …”
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