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HER PSYCHIC HAD A HEADACHE
[Nancy Mairs] describes her new book, ''Remembering the Bone House,'' as a ''feminist memoir.'' It consists of 12 interconnected autobiographical essays. The key terms here - ''bone house,'' ''memoir,'' ''autobiographical'' - are defined according to Ms. Mairs's specifications in the first essay, ''The Way In.'' Ms. Mairs tells us in her preface that ''The Way In'' may be read first ''if you like a formal entry through the front door,'' or that we might skip it entirely or ''use it as 'the way out' instead.'' This multiple-choice approach seems ingenuous, at best; most puzzling is the author's own suggestion that we might ignore an essay she uses - not very successfully, I admit - to define her own terms. I confess I took the formal approach, beginning on page 1, and ran into heavy sledding at once, wishing that ''The Way In'' had not found its way into the book and wondering why the author, instead of offering us the bizarre choice of overlooking it, had not simply excised it.
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Sanctuary Ordinances
The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal immigration laws. The book investigates a wide range of county-level characteristics of 3,000+ U.S. counties (e.g., socio-economic and demographic traits, political culture, social capital, religious denominations present, etc.) to identify correlates of pro- and anti-immigrant settlement. The book also features the analysis of a national survey and three targeted surveys in pro-immigration (San Francisco), divided (Maricopa), and anti-immigration (Tulsa) counties to explore the individual-level factors associated with sentiments on immigration policy. Finally, the book presents findings from two case studies where active encouragement of Latino settlement (Twin Falls, ID) and active opposition (Hazleton, PD) characterize local reaction to Latino in-migration. The mixed methods study leads the authors to conclude that a funnel of causality concept, path dependency, pro-social attitudes, and the concepts of moral panic and moral dialogue collectively lead to great insight into the question of why some communities are open and accepting while others are exclusionary.
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Synopsis of Orthopaedic Trauma Management
User-friendly resource presents state-of-the-art management of orthopaedic traumaOrthopaedic trauma spans the full spectrum of injury, from simple fractures to life-threatening accidents with multiple broken bones.As such, these incidents are a common reason patients visit emergency departments and receive treatment from orthopaedic surgeons.
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Best Synthetic Methods
Best Synthetic Methods: Organophosphorus (V) Chemistry provides systematic coverage of the most common classes of pentavalent organophosphorus compounds and reagents (including phosphonyl, phosphoryl, and organophosphates), and allows researchers an easy point of entry into this complex and economically important field.
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