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Geoffrey Canada: Reimagining the School Community
This chapter provides insight to the work of Geoffrey Canada, a school reform leader who developed the successful charter system and neighborhood partnerships, the Harlem Children’s Zone. Canada’s work has bee...
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Establishment of invasive Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) in the Mississippi River basin: identifying sources and year classes contributing to recruitment
Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) was imported to the USA to control aquaculture pond snails. This species has escaped captivity and occurs in parts of the Mississippi River, several tributaries, and floodplain...
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A Test-Replicate Approach to Candidate Gene Research on Addiction and Externalizing Disorders: A Collaboration Across Five Longitudinal Studies
This study presents results from a collaboration across five longitudinal studies seeking to test and replicate models of gene–environment interplay in the development of substance use and externalizing disord...
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Communicating Risks and Benefits About Ethically Controversial Topics: the Case of Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells
Many are supportive of approaches that incorporate lay citizens into policy making and risk management decisions. However, a great deal of learning must first take place about how citizen engagement for contro...
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Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (SCA6) associated with small polyglutamine expansions in the α1A-voltage-dependent calcium channel
A polymorphic CAG repeat was identified in the human α1A voltage-dependent calcium channel subunit. To test the hypothesis that expansion of this CAG repeat could be the cause of an inherited progressive ataxia, ...
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Introduction
One of the major obstacles to a proper understanding of Norman Mailer’s work is his series of pronouncements on the nature of his ambitions. If these remarks are taken quite literally then Mailer’s achievement...
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‘The Peculiar Megalomania of a Young Writer’
In the prefatory Advertisement to an early story, ‘A Calculus at Heaven’ (1944), Norman Mailer wrote: ‘I think its tone gives away the peculiar megalomania of a young writer who is determined to become an impo...
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‘A Frustrated Actor’
Mailer’s intimation that the profession of acting and that of writing may possess important analogies with regard to the form of his fictions, was first hinted at in ‘Superman Comes to the Supermarket’. In thi...
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‘Faceless broads’ and ‘angels of sex’
Since 1972, Mailer seems to have been caught in a dilemma which he had predicted in several metaphors throughout his career. They all stress the notion of the artistic impulse as a limited natural resource of ...
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‘The Existential Hero’ and the ‘Bitch Goddess’
In Advertisements for Myself, the interaction between the narrator and the several fictional protagonists ultimately betrays a garrulous and uncompromising attitude toward a world whose duplicity primarily serves...
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The Novelist versus The Reporter
Never again, up to the present time, have Mailer’s creative performances so legitimately occupied the centre of the stage. The protagonist of The Armies of the Night and the director and leading actor of Maidston...
