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In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the.

I argue that firearms, by reducing the cost of keeping the peasant population under control, allowed the elite groups in Europe to increase their rate of exploitation, 1500-1650, by enserfing peasants in Eastern Europe and by raising taxes in Western Europe, in both areas causing real wages to fall (roughly) by half. Similarly, the improved firearms the French brought to South East Asia allowed the local elites to move to the cities and break the old cooperative jajmani relationship between landlord and peasant.

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their finished cloth, selling to merchants, drapers and other traders. While many clothiers were of only modest status or "jacks of all trades", a handful of individuals amassed huge fortunes through the trade, becoming the multi-millionaires of their day. This book offers the first recent survey of this hugely important and significant trade and its practitioners, examining the whole range of clothiers across different areas of England, and exploring their impact within the industry andin their wider communities. Alongside the mechanics of the trade, it considers clothiers as entrepreneurs and early capitalists, employing workers and even establishing early factories; it also looks at their family backgrounds and their roles as patrons of church rebuilding and charitable activities. It is completed with extracts from clothiers' wills and a gazetteer of places to visit, making the book invaluable to academics, students, and local historians alike.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Evolution and Development of Sports-Oriented Graphics -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Motion Graphics Within Broadcast and Streaming Environments -- The Graphics Package -- The Graphics Package: Common Components -- Introductory Video -- The Lower Third -- Team, Player/Participant Introductions, and Data -- In-Game Elements -- Scores, Progress, Timing, and other Important Data -- Scoring Devices -- Other In-Game Elements -- Replay Graphics -- Additional In-Game Elements -- Show Elements -- Set Elements -- Context! -- Chapter 3: Motion Graphics and Live Presentation -- The Nature of Live-Event Presentation -- Sources and Destinations -- Scoreboards -- Specialized Screens -- Cameras -- Video Switchers and Video Playback -- Lighting Effects and Projections -- Recorded Music -- Motion Graphics and the Live Presentation -- Pre-game Elements -- The "Hype" or "Intro" Video -- Sponsorships -- Crowd Prompts -- Game Action and Replays -- Interactive Elements -- Miscellanea -- Sport-Specific Considerations -- Pacing and Structure -- Presentation of Data -- Chapter 4: Design Influences -- About Design -- Recognizing and Utilizing Design Influences -- A Word About "Creativity" -- Design Influences: Individual Sports -- Soccer/Football -- Baseball -- American Football -- Basketball -- Motorsports -- Equine Sports and Golf -- Surfing, Snowboarding, Skateboarding: The "Extreme Sports" -- Combat Sports -- External Design Influences -- Popular Culture and General Trends in Design -- Music -- Comics, Science Fiction, and Fantasy -- Warfare, History, and the Military -- Video Games -- Social Media -- Note -- Chapter 5: Graphic Standards and Sports-Oriented Motion Media -- Specific Athletic Traditions -- Regional Considerations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Antecedents -- Chapter 2 Sheikh Adi and His Order -- Chapter 3 The Yezidi Religion -- Chapter 4 Early Encounters with the Outside World -- Chapter 5 Prisoners on a Sinking Ship -- Chapter 6 English-speaking Missionaries and Explorers -- Chapter 7 Rassam and Layard -- Chapter 8 The Tribulations of Mir Hussein Beg -- Chapter 9 Abdul Hamid and the Yezidis -- Chapter 10 The Publication of the Sacred Books -- Chapter 11 Brother and Sister -- Chapter 12 The Epoch of Mayan Khatun -- Chapter 13 The Yezidis in Transcaucasia -- Epilogue -- Appendix I The Yezidi Sacred Books and Sheikh Adi's Hymn -- Appendix II Texts of the Yezidi Letters to the Grand Vizier and Sir Stratford Canning -- Abbreviations -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Chol Family Genealogy -- Index.

1. Problems and Possibilities with Written Identity -- 2. Constructing Written Identity -- 3. Written Identity as Cultural Expression -- 4. Identity and the Levers of Power -- 5. How to Register a Difference -- 6. Codes in Composition: Crossing Community Boundaries -- 7. Schemas, Frames, and the Shapes of Meaning -- 8. Helping Writers Get Results.

Chapter 1. Understanding the business of personal change -- Chapter 2. Managing services versus transformations -- Chapter 3. Helping as a complex system -- Chapter 4. TCOM -- Chapter 5. Communimetrics—Measurement in TCOM -- Chapter 6. Setting the stage: Establishing and maintaining a TCOM organization -- Chapter 7. TCOM at the individual level -- Chapter 8. TCOM at the program level -- Chapter 9. Creating and managing systems that care -- Chapter 10 'Doing' TCOM: strategies, barriers, and opportunities for implementing and sustaining -- Chapter 11. Social and political considerations in evolving effective helping systems -- Chapter 12. Developing and managing the field of TCOM.

Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) is a comprehensive, multi-level conceptual framework for system management and improvement. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of TCOM by using person-centered, collaborative processes for decision making. The issue with current human services systems is that there is a lack of access to care and that the system is focused on providing services as cheaply as possible. TCOM focuses on helping the greatest number of people while maximizing effectiveness. By fully understanding the nature of the business of helping, the author seeks to offer ways to create and sustain effective and positively evolving helping systems. He lays out a series of goal-directed social change processes which allow people at every level of a system to begin a shift towards transformational practice and the emergence of transformational systems. Building on three decades of work in a large community of scholars and practitioners, this book will represent the first full description of the conceptual framework and will appeal to an interdisciplinary group of scholars across nonprofit management, healthcare management, and social work.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974

This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain. It provides the first comprehensive political analysis of how and why successive Spanish governments have increased or reduced support for renewable power, especially wind and solar. In particular, it identifies the key influences that have been brought to bear on decision making by the core executive as it has sought to determine the appropriate role of renewable sources in the country's electricity mix. Following the introduction, four chapters chart the dramatic rise, fall, and, most recently, renewed rise in support for utility-scale renewable power, from the early 1980s to the present. Another chapter details the decade-long political struggle over the regulation of small-scale distributed renewable electricity generation. The penultimate chapter explores the future prospects for renewable power in Spain, and the final chapter offers an overarching explanation of the patterns of policy outcomes observed. John S. Duffield is Professor of Political Science and Director of Assessment and Review at Georgia State University, USA. His research focuses on the politics of energy and climate change in the United States and other developed countries. He is the author of four books and has co-edited two others.