Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was \"Cool Britannia.\" Records sold in the millions, a new celebrity elite emerged, and Tony Blair\'s Labour Party found itself returned to government. Drawing

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Supported with detailed lecture notes, lecture videos, homework assignments, and lab assignments Cornerstone of author\'s course is hybrid programs (HPs), capturing dynamical aspects of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in a simple programming language Teaches skills required to formally analyze ubiquitous CPSs, such as power plants and

A friendly, accessible, down-to-earth guide on how to make giving birth a positive experience and how to cope in the first few weeks and months of

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Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this practical manual is a detailed guide to the Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy programme (Palin PCI) developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering (MPC). Palin PCI builds on the principle that parents play a critical role in effective therapy and that understanding and managing stammering is a collaborative journey between

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Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient-attempted suicides. Medically discharged, he returned home to upstate New York and piecework in shoe factories. Written in two voices--one lucid, one dreamlike--his memoir delivers a jump-cut

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