Gluck: 20 books

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades,...

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili...

Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis’s live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble that has come...

In Hey! God, Was That You? author Ron Gluck, bush pilot and international relations liaison, glances back in time anecdotally revisiting flying, language gems, and conversation slices occurring from 1963 to 2007 in Papua New Guinea; Cameroon, Washington, D.C.; and New York City. In this memoir,...

Oregon, 1940s: Eve Miller, a young war widow, rebels against the ordinariness of womanhood in the post-war era. Eve is enlightened as she succumbs to the sensual temptation of an adulterous affair. In its aftermath, Eve Miller’s life unravels and leads to unexpected violence and moral isolation....

Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting...

In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By combining analyses of nearly three hundred cases from...

In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT rights in the United...

Ce n’est pas à moi que l’on peut faire croire que les paysans étaient heureux avant la Révolution, j’ai vu le bon temps, comme ils disent, j’ai vu nos anciens villages : j’ai vu le four banal, où l’on ne cuisait de la galette qu’une fois l’an, et le pressoir banal, où l’on n’allait...

◤****本書會讓你更明智、行動更快速。 **做決策或形成任何意見前，請先一讀。**◢ ──賽斯．高汀****Seth Godin ★ 數據世界生存的必備武器 ★ 多懂一點統計，為自己儲備更多力量 找出數據中的隱藏資訊，做最有利的判斷 掌握立論的根據，你會更有說服力 在數據當道時代， 培養統計素養，當聰明的數據使用者！ 大數據太龐大、離我們太遙遠， 多數人無從取得，也沒有工具和技術來處理這些海量數據。 但是，數據就圍繞在我們身邊，著著實實影響著我們每一個決定和觀念的形成。 從食品標籤到天氣預報，從你的銀行帳戶到你的醫生的辦公室…… 影響著你的健康、錢包、工作和人際關係…… 這些和我們每一天的生活密切相關的數據， 在本書中，我們稱作────「日常小數據」。 我們相信統計、相信科學、相信權威， 但是，你看到的數據可能遭到有心或無意的操作， 或者，你根本誤讀了數據。 ‧政治人物在競選廣告中有哪些話沒說出來？ ‧記者用的是精準樣本數據，還是，只是拿出支持他報導的數據？ ‧醫生說你的病是因為某種行為造成的，還是僅僅說兩者有關？ ‧行銷人員在產品包裝上強調哪些重點，又為什麼要這麼做？ ‧為什麼年報用圓餅圖顯示某些數據，卻用柱狀圖表示其他數據？ 無論是商業、政策、廣告、法律、工程、零售、教養……各式各樣的問題都能透過日常小數據找出答案。 本書沒有複雜的統計分析理論，只介紹最重要、最實用的統計觀念，幫助你避開常見的數據陷阱。 有時候，你需要知道某些數據是新聞主播希望引起你的注意、政治人物想要你的選票、廣告主想賺你的錢； 但有時候並沒有其他考量──你就是得弄清楚這些數據，才能夠理解這個世界。 各界好評／ 這本書會讓你更明智、行動更快速。做決策或形成任何意見前，請先一讀。 ──賽斯．高汀Seth...

This essential resource gives the reader a practical overview of the expanding and evolving role of the dental professional in the health care community. Coverage includes globalism, diversity, the impact of technology on public health and community dentistry, and information on Hepatitis C and water fluoridation.

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes...