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Agents of Justice chronicles the key role played by agencies in shaping the development of the "litigation state": the American phenomenon of policy enforcement by private litigation. Quinn Mulroy argues that this enforcement strategy is very much by design, exploring how civil rights and environmental agencies established during the rights revolution developed creative strategies for mobilizing litigation by private individuals. The book examines how and when agency officials, acting as agents of justice, divert their attention and resources to helping level the playing field for private plaintiffs seeking to protect their rights through the legal system--ultimately transferring regulatory authority from the bureaucracy to the courts.

The second edition of Comprehensive Review of Headache Medicine begins with chapters on the anatomic and physiological foundations of head pain, followed by detailed sections on diagnosing primary and secondary headache conditions. Subsequent chapters cover the treatment of headache disorders, including special populations and complementary therapies. Expert authors have focused their chapters on the practical needs of medical, dental, and other healthcare providers, and each chapter includes a list of recommended readings and self-assessment questions (totaling 260 questions) to assist the reader to prepare for and pass the headache medicine board exam.

The Hand Behind Unmanned tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal. Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald detail over a hundred years of advances in weapons technology, from mines and balloons to Predators and Reapers, to explain why certain types of unmanned systems became popular while others languished. Their exploration reveals how multiple factors--influential policy entrepreneurs, critical historical junctures, lessons from previous conflicts, and the military's own culture--all interacted in complex ways to generate today's unmanned arsenal. The book also provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of America's unmanned arsenal and the potential future pathways it might take.

The life-changing, seven-step guide to manifesting from self-development coach and internationally bestselling author Roxie Nafousi.It's possible to change your life, and Forbes' "queen of manifesting" Roxie Nafousi is here to show you how to do it. In her newest book, Manifest in Action, readers learn exactly how to unlock their limitless potential, create lasting, transformative change, and turn dreams into reality.Providing practical techniques to expand readers' understanding of each of the seven steps to manifestation, Manifest in Action demonstrates how to harness your potential and confidently step into your power. Each chapter is filled with simple and inspiring exercises designed to cultivate self-awareness, reflection, and growth, empowering readers to manifest the change they want to see in their lives.Originally published in the UK as Manifest: Dive Deeper, Roxie's book is now finally available to her U.S. audience. Described as "the face of manifesting" by The Times and "the voice manifestation needs" by Jay Shetty, Roxie Nafousi can help any reader find their way to empowerment and success in just seven simple steps.

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

The book is about the moral problem generated by morally controversial passages in scripture (and in the Qur'an in particular), passages that seem to allow violence and discrimination against women and sexual and religious minorities. The conservatives argue that scripture can override our own moral judgments and thus certain acts of violence or discrimination can be morally justified through scripture. The book explores this conservative argument and finds ways to undermine it. The book aims to show how a progressive Muslim, or a theist in general, can reject violence and discrimination without renouncing scripture as God's word. Moreover, the book provides a refreshing overview of the history of ethics in the Islamic tradition.

Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review, Sixth Edition, has been thoroughly revised to review the core essential knowledge in gastroenterology, hepatology, and relevant related areas of radiology, pathology, endoscopy, and nutrition for physicians, trainees, gastroenterology fellows in training, medical residents, medical students, gastrointestinal assistants, nurses, allied health care personnel, and other persons caring for patients.

General Surgery Board Review is a comprehensive study of the principles and clinically relevant facts of general surgery, serving as a primary reference for residents during their training. It provides a fundamental understanding of all surgical specialties, the opportunity for improved clinical performance, and an avenue for residents to reach their potential on yearly in-service training exams and the national board exam. Dr. Morchi has experience of over five years of general surgery residency, two years of surgical work in resource-limited environments abroad, and 15 years of clinical experience in emergency care. Utilizing the information in this guide, he achieved the 99th percentile on every yearly in-service training exam as a general surgical resident, and one of the top scores in the nation on the written board exam.

In Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, Amanda Smith Barusch argues that now, more than ever, it is time for older adults to turn toward anger rather than denying or avoiding it. By taking anger seriously, we can neutralize its destructive potential and harness its energy and wisdom for personal and social change. Barusch forcefully demonstrates that anger--and even rage--can be transformative.

Different Beasts explores conceptions of animality and humanity as they emerge in the writings of Spinoza and in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi. The project thus brings together works from distant and different pasts to bear on debates regarding the human-animal binary in its many constructions. It also investigates what is at stake in the formation of responsible comparison--one that is contextually grounded and refined in detail--to understand how the complex machinery behind the human-animal binary operates in different philosophical systems.

The first English language political history of Kuwaiti parliament, this book provides an unprecedented holistic treatment of grassroots contemporary Kuwaiti politics in English in over two decades, incorporating the country's political dynamics into broader debates about the limits of authoritarianism and the practice of democracy in the Arab world, particularly in oil-wealthy states. Author Courtney Freer uses the lens of parliamentary elections as a means of understanding the political ideologies that have dominated in Kuwait since independence. As such, it situates the dynamics of Kuwaiti politics within broader political science debates about whether democratic institutions in "hybrid regimes" are meaningful arenas for popular contestation or only serve to enhance autocratic rule.

Using insights from cognitive science, Comics and Cognition provides a cohesive framework for understanding how readers make meaning out of the many features of comics, including images, language, and layouts, and in a range of styles from realistic to very abstract cues. Mike Borkent unpacks many unconscious patterns and processes that support the why's and how's of the textual experience, showing how perception, interaction, synthesis, and improvisation produce a dynamic interplay between the reader and the text creating a unique texture to readerly experience, including the development of different viewpoints, senses of time, and metacommentaries.

The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship in symbolic interactionism (SI). The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI themes including the self and identity, the interactive construction of meaning, classical pragmatism, interactionist research methods, performance, culture and subcultures, cognition, emotion, organizations and institutions, and social constructionism.

Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista (1943-2021) was a central figure of the cultural and artistic scene in Mexico and one of the leading Ibero-American composers of his generation. In this book, author Ana R. Alonso-Minutti explores the intertextual connections between the multiple texts--musical or otherwise--that are present in Lavista's music. Implementing an innovative mosaic of methodologies, the book offers both a fascinating look at Lavista's compositional career and a contextual panorama of the contemporary music scene in Mexico.

The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. For the first time since antiquity, this volume presents the work in its entirety, providing a fresh and comprehensive English translation of all three parts, in all their known ancient versions, both Greek and Syriac. Detailed explanatory notes, cross-references to Scripture, to ancient literature, and to Evagrius's other writings, as well as commentary on the translation techniques of the Syriac translators, provide the necessary resources for understanding this ancient and puzzling text.

Theoretically and empirically grounded, this book draws on ideas and findings from psychology, sociology, politics, and philosophy and offers a radical challenge to the unfettered adoption of a critical approach in sexualities scholarship and activism. It highlights why we need to shine a critical lens on critique itself, while also anchoring it in a more constructive relationship with its natural opposite: tradition.

In his own day, William James was a towering figure in philosophy, religious studies, and physiological psychology (an ancestor of neuropsychology). He fell out of fashion in the middle twentieth century when logical analysis ruled philosophy, and behaviorism ruled psychology. But interest in his work has been thoroughly rejuvenated by a new generation, some out of an interest in joining philosophy with neuropsychology, and others out of an interest in pragmatism, the famous philosophical position he helped forge. The Oxford Handbook of William James offers a systematic and accessible entrée into the thinking of this fascinating figure. Every contributor is a world-recognized expert on James, so while offering orientation to newcomers, these scholars also provide rich insights along the way that will be of interest to specialists as well.

This two-volume book is on the genesis of quantum mechanics. This first volume covers the key developments in the field in the period between 1900-1923. The second volume covers the rapid transition from the old to the new quantum theory in the years 1923-1927.

EU Procedural Law provides a rigorously structured analysis of the system of judicial protection in the European Union and the procedure before the Union Courts. It examines the various types of proceedings which may be brought before the Union Courts and addresses the relationship between the Court of Justice and the national courts.

It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. This book takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this book demonstrates what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal.

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Focusing on the jurisprudential writings of Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti-i (1854-1935), Mufti of Egypt for a time, Junaid Quadri locates a remarkable series of foundational intellectual shifts that throw into doubt the possibility of reading the modern trajectory of Islamic law through the lens of a continuous tradition. Through close readings of complex legal texts and mining archives oft-neglected in the field, this carefully researched study uncovers a shari'a that is neither a medieval holdover nor merely a pragmatic concession to the demands of a new world, but rather is deeply entangled with the epistemological commitments of colonial modernity.