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A Cambodian Odyssey
No full textThe author, winner of an Academy Award for his role in "The Killing Fields," tells his own story of flight from the Khmer Rouge who forced him underground where he worked as a doctor at his own peril
Notas sobre la creación poética
Get PDFEl autor, premio Adonais 1983, reflexiona sobre su concepto de
poesía y creación, e incluye algunos poemas de su último libro, "El amanuense". The author, winner of the Adonais Award 1983, reflects on poetry and
creation, incuding a selection of his last book's poems, "El amanuense"
[EB 2008, Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology Winner]
No full text[Title supplied by cataloger]Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology Winner Isha Jain speaking at the AAA Awards Banquet at the 2008 Experimental Biology conference. The sixteen-year-old Developmental Dynamics author, winner of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology for her work on zebrafish development, told Banquet attendees that finding the right combination between advisor and student can be a phenomenal experience
The current prizes of books for children and youth in 2007-2011 and itś reflection in the press (golden ribbon, magnesia litera)
No full textThis Bachelor Thesis is focused on the Czech awards for literature for children and youth, especially the Magnesia Litera Award and Golden Ribbon Award. Theses literary awards for children and youth will be analyzed in the period of last five years, between years 2007 and 2011. This work aims to introduce the awards and organizations that give awards, e.g. Litera associations and international organizations IBBY including the Czech IBBY section, and there will be mentioned their literary prizes. Also this thesis aims to become familiar with selected media, dealing with the Magnesia Litera and the Golden Ribbon reviews, analyzing these reviews and comparing different media whether they are dedicated to selected literary prize for children and youth to such an extent that they deserve. In this Bachelor Thesis will be dealt with reviews that review those books which in recent years won the Magnesia Litera award, the Golden Ribbon or both awards. In the final analytical part this Bachelor Thesis will deal with the media reviews, compare and determine whether the reviewers has the same or different opinion on the winning children's books. For closer understanding of the world of literature for children and young people there will be included an interview with the selected literary author, winner of both..
Recensão historiográfica a “Pequena História de uma Escola de Contabilidade: A Aula do Comércio” De Miguel Gonçalves
Get PDFEsta obra dedicada ao tema da Aula do Comércio, agora editada pela APOTEC, comemorando o centenário do nascimento de Martim Noel Monteiro, o grande nome da nossa Associação, é fruto de um trabalho do Autor, vencedor do Prémio Martim Noel Monteiro de 2015, do Centro de Estudos de História da Contabilidade da APOTEC, arbitrado por um júri, do qual fizemos parte: “Contabilidade e o palco de setecentos: Estado da Arte na Aula do Comércio de Lisboa com particular referência à oração de abertura do seu 5º curso (1776)”.
This work is dedicated to the School of Commerce (Aula do Comércio) subject, now published by APOTEC, being the labour of the author, winner of the Martim Noel Monteiro Prize in 2015, awarded by the Centro de Estudos da História da Contabilidade of APOTEC, refereed by a jury of which we were part of:”Contabilidade e o palco the setecentos: Estado da Arte na Aula de Comércio de Lisboa com particular referencia À oração de abertura do seu 5º curso (1776)”
The current prizes of books for children and youth in 2007-2011 and itś reflection in the press (golden ribbon, magnesia litera)
No full textThis Bachelor Thesis is focused on the Czech awards for literature for children and youth, especially the Magnesia Litera Award and Golden Ribbon Award. Theses literary awards for children and youth will be analyzed in the period of last five years, between years 2007 and 2011. This work aims to introduce the awards and organizations that give awards, e.g. Litera associations and international organizations IBBY including the Czech IBBY section, and there will be mentioned their literary prizes. Also this thesis aims to become familiar with selected media, dealing with the Magnesia Litera and the Golden Ribbon reviews, analyzing these reviews and comparing different media whether they are dedicated to selected literary prize for children and youth to such an extent that they deserve. In this Bachelor Thesis will be dealt with reviews that review those books which in recent years won the Magnesia Litera award, the Golden Ribbon or both awards. In the final analytical part this Bachelor Thesis will deal with the media reviews, compare and determine whether the reviewers has the same or different opinion on the winning children's books. For closer understanding of the world of literature for children and young people there will be included an interview with the selected literary author, winner of both..
De Duve, C. Blueprint for a cell
No full textChristian de Duve. Blueprint for a cell: the nature and origin of life
In narrative form, the author, winner of the Nobel Prize, delineates the blueprint of life - the pattern of chemical events on which all life depends - and demonstrates unity in the diversity of life on earth. De Duve begins by defining the basic characteristics of life (the blueprint ) and explains the fundamental chemical strategies that allow cells to live. Next, he tracks the evolutionary stages in the development of cells, describing his personal view of the very first cell, the precursor to all of life on earth. He then goes back to prebiotic times and traces the chemical and environmental processes that led to the origin of life and, eventually, to the first cell.
De Duve, in his final chapter, rises above scientific detail to explore the philosophical question of whether life happened by chance or necessity. In de Duve\u27s view, given the nature of the universe, no miracles are needed, and no luck either. Life is an intrinsic part of the universe - an inevitable manifestation of the combinatorial properties of matter. As de Duve himself says, In spite of the advances of biology, many of us continue to be influenced in our thinking by the writings of certain physicists and cosmologists and to view the universe as an \u27unfeeling immensity\u27 and life as something separate, not included in the fundamental properties that cause elementary particles to coalesce into atomic nuclei, nuclei to surround themselves with electrons, and atoms and ions to join into a multitude of molecules, crystals, and other structures. This view in the view of the author is wrong, a remnant of vitalism. Life is an intrinsic part of the universe. Wherever and whenever conditions are favorable, as they were here on Earth, and probably were, are, or will be elsewhere, the universe cannot but blossom into life. (From NHBS book review)https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/ru-authors/1021/thumbnail.jp
The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa [electronic resource] : Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-Making Chain.
No full textDescription based upon print version of record.Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables, Figures and Text boxes -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Text Boxes -- Foreword -- Motivation for writing the book -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Winner of the prestigious Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis International Prize for Statistics, 2005 -- Acknowledgements -- Measurement -- Preface -- Poem on 21st Century Statistician1F -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 Background -- 1.1 Introduction -- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: strategies to promote growth and reduce poverty -- Integrating for development -- Benefiting from globalisationStrengthening institutions and capacity development -- 1.2 Information and knowledge society -- 1.3 Results-based management and managing for development results -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- Historical perspective on public sector management -- Results-based management versus managing for development results -- 1.3.2 Results-based management -- What is result-based management? -- What is a result? -- Results chain -- Results framework or matrix (World Bank, 2012) -- Why RBM? -- Key features of RBM -- Application of the RBM in NSO -- 1.3.3 Managing for results -- Concept -- Some milestones in MfDR1.3.4 Mapping statistics onto policy cycle -- Examples of aligning statistics to policy outcomes -- Example 1: Statistics and the National Development Plan and Medium-Term Strategic Framework in South Africa -- Example 2: Statistics and the National Development Plan 4 in Namibia -- 1.3.5 Indicators, targets and baseline data -- Indicators -- Targets -- Baseline -- Monitoring system -- 1.3.5 Statistics is now a development issue, not just a technical issue -- 1.4 Official statistics -- 1.4.1 What are official statistics? -- 1.4.2 Statistics that are not official1.4.3 Variegated menu of uses for official statistics -- 1.5 Statistical Development in Africa: a historical perspective -- 1.5.1 Prior and early post-independence statistical development -- Statistical training centres -- National statistics Offices and their status -- Statistical legislation -- International concepts -- 1.5.2 Main statistical programmes in 1970s, 1980s and 1990s -- African Census Programme -- The African Household Survey Capability Programme (AHSCP) -- The National Accounts Capability Programme (NACP) -- The Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA)The Statistical Development Programme for Africa (SDPA) -- 1.5.3 Administrative data and registration system -- Administrative data -- Registration systems -- 1.5.4 Infrastructure -- 1.5.5 Statistical atrophy in 1970s and 1980s -- 1.5.6 Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in Africa in 1990s -- Recommendations to national governments -- Statistical development -- Organisation of Statistical Services -- Work programme -- Statistical committees -- Establishment of statistical priorities -- Statistical training -- Seminars -- Data quality and disseminationRecommendations to international organisationsAdded to collection customer.56279.
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Crook County ::Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court /
No full textWinner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section. Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender. NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category). Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges' chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago-Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality. Delve deeper into Crook County with related media and instructor resources
