Genius of 10th Street is a searching, riotously alive memoir-in-fragments—an exploration of identity, memory, art, politics, friendship, and the strange afterlives our names and words take on once they leave our hands.With wry humor and piercing tenderness, Robert Roth travels through the overlapping worlds he has inhabited for eight decades: the downtown literary and art scenes, radical political movements, queer countercultures, the Peru of his closest collaborators, the intimate...

My experience at Pan American World Airways during the mid '60s and early '70s was far more than just a job. It was a whole series of adventures. I was snowbound and buried in baggage at Kennedy Airport for 3 days during the Christmas Blizzard of '66. I was on special assignment in Paris during the infamous general strike of '68. I survived three years of martial law in Guatemala after Ambassador Mien was executed while escaping from terrorist kidnappers. My plane caught fire and lost its ...

Our father was always The Most Interesting Man in the Room! This book is a collage of stories from his incredibly rich and varied life experiences. These true accounts span decades. Their locations span five continents and vary from a small southern Georgia town to the world's greatest cities.Our dad was a husband, a father, the batting practice pitcher St. Louis Cardinals, then the Cardinals baseball minor league business manager, an entrepreneur/restauranteur, a radio personality...

Presently, many of the greatest debates and controversies in international criminal law concern modes of liability for international crimes. The state of the law is unclear, to the detriment of accountability for major crimes and of the uniformity of international criminal law. The present book aims at clarifying the state of the law and provides a thorough analysis of the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals, as well as of the debates and the questions these debates have le...

Our children are new in the world and everything they encounter is remarkable. As they grow, their experiences of the simplest and the most profound events enrich us all. In All the Things You Will See, children and parents feel joy in discovering and rediscovering the beauty in our lives. The sun, the rain, sitting with Mommy and playing with children await them and you. The text is warm and flowing, the illustrations peaceful and soothing. As you read this book to your child or to yourse...

In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result, Congress began to move to reimpose cable rate regulation once again, finally succeeding (over President Bush's vet...

The Dance of Change offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in The Fifth Discipline. The central message of the text is that learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology expands on the molecular and cellular foundations of the classic Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology, Eighth Edition (Cooper, Bloom, and Roth) by now including the behavioral methods used to study psychoactive drugs in experimental animals and in humans. Authored by four founders of modern neuroscience, this concise and comprehensive text covers the current series of medications used to treat diseases of the brain and nervous sys...

Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology expands on the molecular and cellular foundations of the classic Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology, Eighth Edition (Cooper, Bloom, and Roth) by now including the behavioral methods used to study psychoactive drugs in experimental animals and in humans. Authored by four founders of modern neuroscience, this concise and comprehensive text covers the current series of medications used to treat diseases of the brain and nervous sys...

First published in 1993. The purpose of this book is to help those who help others. Research has consistently demonstrated that those in the professions, particularly helping professions, have significantly higher levels of stress and burnout. Studies have shown that the profession with the greatest vulnerability to these illnesses is teaching.

How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.In many parts of life – jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet – price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do the other processes that influence who gets which goods, jobs, university places and partners really work?In ‘Who Gets What’, Nobel Prize winning economist Alvin Roth uncovers the global rules of how markets allocate, how matchmaking sha...

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling.While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: ...