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Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.

The institutional fabric of our nation is afflicted by divisive politics. Trust in Congress and the Supreme Court has reached new lows, and a tsunami of misinformation and vote suppression is causing many Americans to lose faith in the electoral process itself. These problems can no longer be solved simply by winning elections: gridlock in both the Senate and House, together with judicial vetoes, block most legal reforms for which majorities of Americans vote. Constitutional amendments are the only way out that can restore our government’s capacity to solve problems and rebuild faith among citizens that they can actively participate in effective democratic processes. This book sets out a moderate, centrist agenda to achieve this goal, setting out the problems and solutions in clear language accessible to non-experts. Steering clear of the sharp political divides, Davenport describes 25 procedural amendments that a majority of Americans can consider to fix the deepest flaws in our constitutional design. He also argues that a new national convention called by the states offers the best chance to break the logjam and restore the politics of effective compromise.

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Return to the sensuous world of Romeo and Juliet to discover the story of Mercutio, Verona''s most flamboyant citizen! Prancing on the sidelines of the bitter feud between the Houses of Montecchi and Capuleti, Mercutio harbours his own secret conflict: he is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Romeo Montecchi. When he spies true love blossoming between Romeo and a young Capuleti girl one fateful summer''s eve, Mercutio fears he has finally lost the man he loves, forever. Turning to drink, drugs and ever wilder escapades in an effort to ease his aching heart, Mercutio starts to come off the rails, hurtling towards his own spectacular fate ...

In the 21st century, as the peoples of the world grow more closely tied together, the question of real transnational government will finally have to be faced. The end of the Cold War has not brought the peace, freedom from atrocities, and decline of tyranny for which we hoped. It is also clearer now that problems like economic risks, tax havens, and environmental degradation arising with global markets are far outstripping the governance capacities of our 20th century system of distinct nation-states, even when they try to work together through intergovernmental agreements and organized bureaucracies of specialists. This work defends a cosmopolitan approach to global justice by arguing for new ways to combine the strengths of democratic nations in order to prevent mass atrocities and to secure other global public goods (GPGs). While protecting cultural pluralism, Davenport argues that a Democratic League would provide a legal order capable of uniting the strength and inspiring moral vision of democratic nations to improve international security, stop mass atrocities, assist developing nations in overcoming corruption and poverty, and, in time, potentially address other global challenges in finance, environmental sustainability, stable food supplies, immigration, and so on. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international organizations, philosophy and global justice.

A lively reference guide on the safe blending practices, health applications, and different actions of herbs for common ailments. Individual oil profiles are included along with the physical and emotional conditions that warrant their use.

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Inside Hawaii Prison Walls is based on five years of investigation, qualitative research, and data analysis of recorded interviews. Grounded in theories of psychological, moral reasoning, and relational attachment, an additional evidence-based practice is revealed

Despite the global prevalence and apparent increased frequency of freshwater cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs), metabolic functions that promote cHAB formation and maintenance remain poorly understood. An opportunity to elucidate cellular responses over diel cycles was presented following the 2014 Toledo (OH, USA) water crisis as part of a 48-h Lagrangian survey following toxin-producing bloom biomass in western Lake Erie. Taxonomic analysis of samples collected from 1 m depth showed the bloom to be dominated by three major phyla: Cyanobacteria (~30%), Proteobacteria (~30%), and Bacteroidetes (~20%). Differential expression analysis of Microcystis reads revealed strong diel patterns of expression between day (10:00 h, 16:00 h) and night (22:00 h, 04:00 h) samples. Day transcripts were abundant in functions related to photosynthesis (e.g. psbA, cpcB), nutrient and energy metabolism (glnA, nirA), cell division (ftsH), heat shock response (dnaK, clpB), and nutrient and ion transporters (bicA, acrB). Night transcripts included microcystin synthesis, amino acid synthesis (carB), and pre-dawn expression of photosynthetic antennae (chlI, cbiE). Hierarchical clustering and PCA showed a uniform grouping of expressed genes at night, whereas day transcripts were separated over the 48-h duration. Lack of uniform clustering of day transcripts suggests that the functional partitioning of gene expression during a Microcystis bloom is not limited to circadian regulation, but also to physico-chemical changes within the environment.

Moving beyond Denial into Recovery is a compilation of many resources. Dr. Shirley J. Davenport spent nineteen years studying, uncovering, exploring, and sharing within the recovery community. Moving beyond Denial into Recovery workbook is designed to help participants achieve the benefits from their initial attempt at recovery and to assist in bringing about lasting psyche and life style changes. Moving beyond Denial into Recovery may be extremely helpful when implemented in a treatment and prison setting. This workbook offers valuable tools to prevent relapses and to grow into the person God has predestined them to be. Moving beyond Denial into Recovery presents signs and triggers that lead to relapse, such as fears, anxieties, resentments, expectations, insecurities, and reservations. Addictive behavior and stinking thinking sometimes leads to the thought that a person can have one drink or use drugs onetime. Statistics show that there is a 90% chance that at least one of these risk factors or situations will lead to relapse. Moving beyond Denial into Recovery offers the discipline of putting first things first and setting priorities in a person''s life. A person''s true character and their true spiritual worth is not determined by their achievements or the fortunes they have amassed, but by what they have achieved in inward peace and contentment with God. This is the purpose of Moving Beyond Denial into Recovery

The riveting true story of America''s first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the U.S. Army''s 1st Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man''s-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America''s forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II twenty-six years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport''s First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny. The first American battle of the "war to end all wars" would mark not only its first victory abroad, but the birth of its modern Army.

Pathogen-specific T cells are an integral component of the adaptive immune response and essential for efficient protection against infectious diseases. Work in our laboratory has shown that the long-term preservation of antiviral CD8 memory T cells (CD8 TM) constitutes a protracted and pervasive remodeling process that culminates in their enhanced secondary reactivity and protective capacity. Integrated molecular, phenotypic and functional analyses identified the extracellular adenosine generation/signaling pathway as a possible key element for the regulation of secondary antiviral CD8 TM responses. We were able to show the preferential expression of CD73, an ecto-5''-nucleotidase that generates adenosine from AMP, on antiviral CD8 TM cells as compared to primary effector CD8 T (TE) cells. This led us to show that CD73 expression on CD8 TM cells precedes the acquisition of a central memory (TCM) phenotype, described as a subset of CD8 TM cells with increased protective and proliferative capacity in a recall response. We went on to show that CD73 expression by antiviral CD8 TM cells directly corresponds to enhanced recall responses and represents a novel marker for an intermediate memory subset along the TEM and T¬CM differentiation pathway. This prompted our complementary investigations of the antiviral T cell response in mice deficient for CD73. CD73-deficient mice exhibited normal primary antiviral CD8 T cell responses, virus control and memory generation yet demonstrated impaired secondary antiviral CD8 T cell immunity as evidenced by significantly reduced expansions of secondary CD8 TE cell populations upon rechallenge. Due to compromised survival of CD73-deficient secondary CD8 TE cells, these defects could be rescued in retroviral reconstitution experiments that specifically corrected enzymatic but not other CD73 functions. Thus, CD8 TM cells unexpectedly engage the extracellular adenosine generation/signaling pathway for optimization of secondary responses through harnessing of T cell-intrinsic CD73 activity. Our results define a novel, "pro-inflammatory" role for adenosine in the regulation of pathogen-specific T cell immunity, and identifies a novel pathway for prophylactic or therapeutic interventions aimed at bolstering immune protection against infectious disease.

In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and MacIntyre''s concept of the unity of a life help make sense of Kierkegaard''s existential stages and, in particular, explain the transition from "aesthetic" to "ethical" modes of life. But others have recently raised difficult questions both for these readings of Kierkegaard and for narrative accounts of identity that draw on the work of MacIntyre in general. While some of these objections concern a strong kind of unity or "wholeheartedness" among an agent''s long-term goals or cares, the fundamental objection raised by critics is that personal identity cannot be a narrative, since stories are artifacts made by persons. In this book, Davenport defends the narrative approach to practical identity and autonomy in general, and to Kierkegaard''s stages in particular.

In contemporary philosophy, the will is often regarded as a sheer philosophical fiction. In Will as Commitment and Resolve, Davenport argues not only that the will is the central power of human agency that makes decisions and forms intentions but also that it includes the capacity to generate new motivation different in structure from prepurposive desires. The concept of "projective motivation" is the central innovation in Davenport''s existential account of the everyday notion of striving will. Beginning with the contrast between "eastern" and "western" attitudes toward assertive willing, Davenport traces the lineage of the idea of projective motivation from NeoPlatonic and Christian conceptions of divine motivation to Scotus, Kant, Marx, Arendt, and Levinas. Rich with historical detail, this book includes an extended examination of Platonic and Aristotelian eudaimonist theories of human motivation. Drawing on contemporary critiques of egoism, Davenport argues that happiness is primarily a byproduct of activities and pursuits aimed at other agent-transcending goods for their own sake. In particular, the motives in virtues and in the practices as defined by Alasdair MacIntyre are projective rather than eudaimonist. This theory is supported by analyses of radical evil, accounts of intrinsic motivation in existential psychology, and contemporary theories of identity-forming commitment in analytic moral psychology. Following Viktor Frankl, Joseph Raz, and others, Davenport argues that Harry Frankfurt''s conception of caring requires objective values worth caring about, which serve as rational grounds for projecting new final ends. The argument concludes with a taxonomy of values or goods, devotion to which can make life meaningful for us.

Completely updated with information on keeping yourself safe and healthy in the wilderness. A comprehensive, well-organized, and user-friendly guide to staying alive in the backcountry.

The Brookhaven Computational Science Center brings together researchers in biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine with applied mathematicians and computer scientists to exploit the remarkable opportunities for scientific discovery which have been enabled by modern computers. These opportunities are especially great in computational biology and nanoscience, but extend throughout science and technology and include, for example, nuclear and high energy physics, astrophysics, materials and chemical science, sustainable energy, environment, and homeland security. To achieve our goals we have established a close alliance with applied mathematicians and computer scientists at Stony Brook and Columbia Universities.

• Travel safely through extreme environments • Find water, dress for the environment, create a campsite, signal, and navigate in the desert • Series author Greg Davenport has appeared on ABC''s Primetime Thursday and CBS''s 48 Hours The techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in the desert are made more challenging by the intense sunlight, wide temperature range, sparse vegetation, and sandstorms, but Greg Davenport shares how to deal with the toughest conditions. Learn how to avoid insects and snakes. Photos and drawings illustrate gear and techniques necessary for survival in the rough and dangerous terrain.

How to dress for winter; how to create a campsite and what to use as shelter; how to keep warm How to signal for help with aerial flares, smoke, mirrors, and whistles; finding and purifying water; finding and preparing food; protecting yourself and your supplies from wildlife How to use a map and compass; how to travel on snow and ice with snowshoes, skis, and crampons; how to avoid and deal with avalanches The first in Greg Davenport''s Books for the Wilderness series, Surviving Cold Weather covers the techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in ice and snow. Photos and drawings illustrate gear and techniques. The book covers the five survival essentials--personal protection, signaling, sustenance, navigation, and health--as they relate to the cold. Upcoming books in the series are Surviving Open and Coastal Waters, Surviving the Desert, and Surviving the Jungle.

Covers the techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in water.