Автор: Niebylski Dianna C., O`Connor Patrick Название: Latin American Icons: Fame Across Borders ISBN: 0826519296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826519290 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 76690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or define a post-national condition. They become stereotypes as they go global, and the often melodramatic stories that cling to them give them a different sort of power than the one they had in their original contexts. <br><br><em>Latin American Icons</em>, from critics both in the United States and in Latin America, ask these faces questions; they describe the technologies and propaganda machines, whether the newspapers of Revolutionary Mexico (or Paris and New York) or the movie studios of Argentina and Mexico, which gave them power in their local context; and they return their original histories to those faces that have become abstract symbols of The Rebel or The Spitfire or The Tortured Artist. <br><br>In equal parts idolatry and iconoclasm, <em>Latin American Icons</em> recognises and interrogates those Latin Americans who have become larger than life. In trying to understand the meaning of iconic figures in modern Latin America, this volume ranges across every realm of political and cultural life - populist politicos, jet-setting ambassador-playboys, soccer players and superstars - to examine the complex play at work in the making and re-making of celebrities within and across national borders.
Автор: O`Connor Patrick C. Название: Cut Your Texas Property Taxes ISBN: 1717466311 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781717466310 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 28730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: O`Connor Phd Patrick J. Название: College Is Yours 2.0: Preparing, Applying, and Paying for Colleges Perfect for You ISBN: 1432778072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432778071 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Search for Personalized College Help Ends Here Since its release in 2007, College is Yours in 600 Words or Lesshas helped college-bound students and their families make the most out of searching for a college with an approach that is practical, student-centered, supportive, funny, and calming. College is Yours 2.0offers nearly twice the advice found in College is Yours, with updates to guide students and families through a strong college search while living a great high school life. Every chapter is short enough to read in 3 minutes, but deep enough to read over and over again. New topics in College is Yours 2.0include: -Expanded coverage on applying for scholarships and paying for college -What to do when you "freeze" on an application -Making the most of a college interview -Advice for college-bound artists, athletes, and students with special needs -How to make sure your e-mail and social media accounts don't hurt your college chances -What notto write in a college essay -How to lead a happy, productive senior year -Applying to a highly selective college -Choosing among many offers of admission -Taking a year off before starting college -Is college really worth it? These topics build on the rock-solid advice in areas such as: -Learning how to be a strong high school student -What colleges really look for in community service work -How to prepare for college entrance tests -Asking for letters of recommendation -How to visit a college campus -Building your college list -The sure-fire way families can talk about college in a supportive way Readers can continue the college search and discussion on www.collegeisyours.com, where they'll find weekly updates on applying to college, a chance to ask for advice, and more. Award-winning college counselor Patrick O'Connor has helped thousands of college-bound students and families find colleges that are right for them by focusing on what matters most%u2014the needs, interests and goals of the student. College is Yours 2.0 includes the same advice families pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars for, and now it's available to everyone. From high school schedules to admission essays, from college visits to paying for college, College is Yours 2.0 offers the calm, clear, step-by-step advice that's easy to follow, but hard to come by. A world of opportunity awaits-discover the richer road to college in College is Yours 2.0.
The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal?
Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork. In response to a series of human-error caused crashes, the airline industry developed the system of job training and information sharing known as Crew Resource Management (CRM). Under the new industry-wide system of CRM, pilots, flight attendants, and ground crews now communicate and cooperate in ways that have greatly reduced the hazards of commercial air travel.
The coauthors of this book sought out the aviation professionals who made this transformation possible. Beyond the Checklist gives us an inside look at CRM training and shows how airline staff interaction that once suffered from the same dysfunction that too often undermines real teamwork in health care today has dramatically improved. Drawing on the experience of doctors, nurses, medical educators, and administrators, this book demonstrates how CRM can be adapted, more widely and effectively, to health care delivery.
The authors provide case studies of three institutions that have successfully incorporated CRM-like principles into the fabric of their clinical culture by embracing practices that promote common patient safety knowledge and skills.They infuse this study with their own diverse experience and collaborative spirit: Patrick Mendenhall is a commercial airline pilot who teaches CRM; Suzanne Gordon is a nationally known health care journalist, training consultant, and speaker on issues related to nursing; and Bonnie Blair O'Connor is an ethnographer and medical educator who has spent more than two decades observing medical training and teamwork from the inside.
Автор: O`Connor J. Patrick Название: Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five ISBN: 0700626719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626717 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is O'Connor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed.Justice on Fire describes a misguided eight-year investigation propelled by an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent keen to retire; a mistake-riddled case conducted by a combative assistant US attorney willing to use compromised “snitch” witnesses and unwilling to admit contrary evidence; and a sentence of life without parole pronounced by a prosecution-favoring judge. In short, an abuse of government power and a travesty of justice. O’Connor’s own investigation, which uncovered evidence of witness tampering, intimidation, and prosecutorial misconduct, helped give rise to a front-page series of articles in the Kansas City Star—only to prompt a whitewashing inquiry by the Department of Justice that exonerated the lead ATF agent and named other possible perpetrators who remain unidentified and unindicted. O’Connor extends his scrutiny to this cover-up and arrives at a startling conclusion suggesting that the case of the Marlborough Five is far from closed.Journalists are not supposed to make the news. But faced with a gross injustice, and seeing no other remedy, O’Connor felt he must step in. Justice on Fire is such an intervention.
Автор: Niebylski Dianna C., O`Connor Patrick Название: Latin American Icons: Fame Across Borders ISBN: 082651930X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826519306 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or define a post-national condition. They become stereotypes as they go global, and the often melodramatic stories that cling to them give them a different sort of power than the one they had in their original contexts. <br><br><em>Latin American Icons</em>, from critics both in the United States and in Latin America, ask these faces questions; they describe the technologies and propaganda machines, whether the newspapers of Revolutionary Mexico (or Paris and New York) or the movie studios of Argentina and Mexico, which gave them power in their local context; and they return their original histories to those faces that have become abstract symbols of The Rebel or The Spitfire or The Tortured Artist. <br><br>In equal parts idolatry and iconoclasm, <em>Latin American Icons</em> recognises and interrogates those Latin Americans who have become larger than life. In trying to understand the meaning of iconic figures in modern Latin America, this volume ranges across every realm of political and cultural life - populist politicos, jet-setting ambassador-playboys, soccer players and superstars - to examine the complex play at work in the making and re-making of celebrities within and across national borders.
Автор: Samway Patrick Название: Flannery O`Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership ISBN: 0268103097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268103095 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus; Giroux, was her devoted friend and admirer. He edited her three books published during her lifetime, plus Everything that Rises Must Converge, which she completed just before she died in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine, the posthumous The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, and the subsequent award-winning collection of her letters titled The Habit of Being. When poet Robert Lowell first introduced O'Connor to Giroux in March 1949, she could not have imagined the impact that meeting would have on her life or on the landscape of postwar American literature.
Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership sheds new light on an area of Flannery O’Connor’s life—her relationship with her editors—that has not been well documented or narrated by critics and biographers. Impressively researched and rich in biographical details, this book chronicles Giroux’s and O’Connor’s personal and professional relationship, not omitting their circle of friends and fellow writers, including Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, Thomas Merton, and Robert Penn Warren. As Patrick Samway explains, Giroux guided O'Connor to become an internationally acclaimed writer of fiction and nonfiction, especially during the years when she suffered from lupus at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, a disease that eventually proved fatal. Excerpts from their correspondence, some of which are published here for the first time, reveal how much of Giroux's work as editor was accomplished through his letters to Milledgeville. They are gracious, discerning, and appreciative, just when they needed to be. In Father Samway's portrait of O'Connor as an extraordinarily dedicated writer and businesswoman, she emerges as savvy, pragmatic, focused, and determined. This engrossing account of O'Connor's publishing history will interest, in addition to O'Connor's fans, all readers and students of American literature.
