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THE ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO DEVELOP AN INTERPRETATION OF SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT DOMESTIC ASPECTS OF THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION. IN PARTICULAR, IT FOCUSES ON KENNEDY'S RELATIONS WITH CONGRESS AND ON THE DIFFICULTY OF RECONCILING HIS REPUTATION AS A SKILLFULL POLITICIAN WITH HIS LEGISLATIVE DISAPPOINTMENTS.

The Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth looks beyond the divides of the left and right to discover how a Christian worldview speaks truth, hope, and unity into the most polarizing social justice controversies of our day. It presents a compelling vision of justice that offers hopeful answers to life's biggest questions.

This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which confront societies in virtually every region of the world; this text examines how we can prevent or counter violent extremism using a systematic, evidence-based approach. The book, equal parts theoretical, methodological and applied, represents the first science-based guide for understanding "what makes hate," and how to design and evaluate programs intended to prevent this. Though designed to serve as a primary course textbook, the work can readily serve as a how-to guide for self-study, given its abundant links to freely available online toolkits and templates. As such, it is designed to inform both students and practitioners alike with respect to the management, design, or evaluation of programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism. Written by a leading social scientist in the field of P/CVE program evaluation, this book is rich in both scientific rigor and examples from the "real world" of research and evaluation dedicated to P/CVE.

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum' explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the contemporary-art museum, describing the intersection of art, aesthetics and politics at the highest levels, and the commitment of states, cities and wealthy individuals to the display of art. Global in scope, the book examines key examples from Europe and the Americas to contemporary China. It describes museum building as the projection of political power, but also as a desire to acquire power. So it is a book about ambitious peripheries as much as the traditional centres: Dundee and Bilbao as well as New York and Paris. It is commonplace to assume that the contemporary-art museum has become ever more spectacular, and the place of art ever more subservient within it. This book argues that a tendency to spectacle coexists with another equally powerful tendency, to make art museums that celebrate the artistic process, typically attempting to recreate the feeling of the artist's studio. That tendency is strongly represented in the designs for the Centre Georges Pompidou, completed in 1977, and arguably in the many contemporary art museums which have adapted former industrial buildings. Richard J. Williams's stimulating text includes many historical examples to illustrate how we got to where we are now, from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, to the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao, London's Tate Modern, Oscar Niemeyer's work in Brazil and beyond, and the 798 Art District in Beijing.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Humiliation, Collaboration, Resistance, Liberation: France, 1940 – 44 -- Chapter 3 The 'Anglo – Saxon' New World Order and the French riposte, 1940 – 1946 -- Chapter 4 Europe: Reconstruction and Integration, 1945 – 1952 -- Chapter 5 Unreliable Allies: Empire -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons, 1958-1961.

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"Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland's rural economy, and for centuries Scotland's glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution, ships, railways and eventually lorries took over the drovers' trade, and by the early twentieth century, the age-old droving tradition was all but dead. Except, however, in the Western Isles, where droving on foot continued until the mid-1960s, when MacBrayne's introduced a new generation of ferries capable of bringing livestock lorries to the islands."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Improving Healthcare Operations -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Healthcare Systems in the Twenty-first Century -- Introduction -- The Context: Global Healthcare -- The Context-UK Healthcare -- Healthcare Operations Management -- Quality Improvement and the NHS -- Outline of the Study -- Definitions -- Conclusions -- Structure of the Publication -- References -- 2 Improving Healthcare Systems -- Introduction -- Supply Chain Management -- Systems Thinking and Seamless Healthcare Systems -- Quality Improvement in Healthcare -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Lean in Healthcare -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of Lean Thinking -- Lean from a Supply Chain Perspective -- Critics of Lean -- Key Themes in the Lean Healthcare Literature -- Contemporary Writings on Lean in Healthcare -- Improved Patient Satisfaction -- Readiness for Lean Implementation -- Effectiveness of Lean Interventions in Healthcare -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Delivering Agile and Person-centred Care -- Introduction -- Agility-A Manufacturing Perspective -- Agility from a Supply Chain Perspective -- Person-Centred Care -- Co-designing and Co-producing Health -- Improvement Cycles -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Leanness Plus Agility = Leagility -- Introduction -- Leanness and Agility-Leagility -- Leagile Supply Chains -- Decoupling Points -- Front-Office and Back-Office Activities -- Leagility in Healthcare -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Methodology -- Introduction -- Preparation and Understanding the Research Environment -- Study Design and Methods -- Selection of Care Pathways -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Pathway -- Huntington's Disease Pathway -- Data Collection and Data Analysis -- Non-participant Observation.

"Why is France so often neglected in the study of international relations? This book seeks to redress this balance, providing an in-depth insight into the relationship between the two Anglo-Saxon Powers, the United States (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK), and France from 1900 to the Fall of France in 1940. Drawing on a range of sources and archival material, Williams links the evolution of this complex relationship to the parallel evolution of the study and practice of international relations and suggests that the Anglo-Saxon bias within international relations has obscured the vital contribution made by France to our thinking about the subject. The differing reaction in France, the UK and the USA over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq shows just how contemporary a topic this is, and its continued relevance to global politics"--

Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as:the 24-hour society sleep and work homelessness dream analysis the medicalization and commodification of sleep. Written by a key international figure in medical sociology, this is the first sociological examination of sleep, making it important reading for academics and advanced students of medical sociology, healt