Teaching Family Policy: A Handbook of Course Syllibo, Teaching Strategies and Resources
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    		Teaching Family Policy: A Handbook of Course Syllibo, Teaching Strategies and Resources

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    An excellent teaching resource! This collection includes 18 family policy course syllabi, in-class activities, outlines, class projects and assignments, exam review questions, an annotated bibliography, and a list of policy publications.

    Embedded: The Media At War in Iraq
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    • 60 Interviews With Embedded Reporters
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    		 Embedded: The Media At War in Iraq
    Bill Katovsky , and Timothy Carlson
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    In comparison to the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Pentagon controlled the news as tightly as possible, the war of 2003 was a wide-open affair for reporters. This was partly done to counteract propaganda coming from the Iraqi government; it was also an attempt to control and influence the news by keeping journalists under close watch. To this end, the Pentagon developed a "slick new public relations concept known as embedding." (xiii galley) Embedded journalists lived, ate, and traveled with the troops. They also came under enemy fire with the troops. In fact, as a group, the roughly 2,700 journalists in Iraq were more likely to be killed in combat than the quarter million American and British soldiers. Traveling with troops was generally safer and afforded better access, but what about journalistic ethics? That is question at the core of this fascinating book and one proves to have many different answers.

    Embedded is a collection of interviews conducted between April and June 2003 of 60 journalists, public affairs officers, and freelance photographers from a wide range of print, television, and radio sources. Their stories convey information, impressions, and anecdotes that could not be included in their official reports and are therefore quite revealing. They confront not only the risks, and allure, of reporting from a combat zone, but of getting too close to the story to remain objective (if true objectivity is even possible). This personal and often moving collection offers great insight into the most covered war in history. --Shawn Carkonen

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    "The interviews crackle with immediacy." -The New York Times

    "It is my hope that this outstanding piece of work will reach the widest possible distribution and readership." -Dan Rather, CBS News, on the John Burns interview

    EMBEDDED is a collection of deeply emotional and highly personal accounts of covering the Iraq War. Many of the world's top war correspondents and photographers speak candidly about life on the battlefield. Here are articulate and heartfelt descriptions of fear and firefights, of bullets and banalities, of risking death and meeting deadlines.

    With over sixty interviews conducted in Kuwait and Iraq shortly after many returned home, Katovsky and Carlson allowed these journalists to step outside their professional role as journalists and examine the lethal allure of combat reporting.

    Here is CBS Evening News correspondent Jim Axelrod discussing the perils of racing to Baghdad while despondent over the death of a television colleague and being unexpectedly comforted by ABC News Nightline's Ted Koppel; Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson unwittingly driving into an ambush and then kicking out the windshield of his bullet-riddled car to escape the Iraqi gunmen; New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns's brave refusal to be intimidated by his Iraqi information ministry minders; and many, many more.
    Each interview in EMBEDDED maps its own personal path and narrative arc, while presenting an emotional window to war and reporting. Taken individually, each offers a unique view of the most-covered war in history. Collectively, EMBEDDED is an eyewitness to history that will do for the war in Iraq what Michael Herr's Dispatches did for Vietnam.

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    5 out of 5 stars Very Interesting.......2007-03-09

    This is an interesting book. Anyone who is interested in an alternative to the right wing talk radio and tv news should seriously consider checking out the Thom Hartmann radio show opposite Rush Limbaugh weekdays at: thomhartmann dot com / showlisten.shtml

    Whether democrat, republican, or indepedent, so many of the facts out there are completely ignored by the mainstream media and talk shows. This show is one strong example of an examination of the facts regardless of your political affiliation. I am not affiliated with the show in any way, just struck by the facts so many seem to ignore.

    5 out of 5 stars 60 Interviews With Embedded Reporters.......2004-09-30

    The military, not without some justification believes that the US press was a major contributor to the loss of the war in Viet Nam. In conflicts after that (Grenada, Panama) the press was kept at a distant arms length. In the second Iraq war, the Pentagon granted some 2,700 reporters press credentials. About 600 of these were embedded with U.S. military units. And as all of us who watched the war, the coverage was sensational.

    This book consists of interviews with the embedded journalists. They were conducted after the war after the reporters had had time to think about what had happened. About 60 of the embedded reporters have contributed to this book, that's almost ten percent of all the reporters. (I note that Geraldo Rivera who was expelled from the program for revealing future military plans is not included in the interviews). This book provides an interesting insight into the war and to the future of military-press relations.

    2 out of 5 stars Why reporters are not soldiers..........2003-11-25

    This book contains dozens of 3 or 4 page vignettes from reporters (and some others, like an anti-war activist), who covered the Iraq war. Some of the reporters were embedded and others were independent. The main theme of most of the stories is how bad the conditions were and why the reporters were exhausted and just had to go home after their gruelling five weeks of covering the war. If anything, this book will make you marvel at the courage and fortitude of the military personnel, who endure these conditions, and worse, for months on end.

    Some of the stories reflect admiration for the troops and an increased appreciation of the US military and the difficult conditions under which they work and fight. Some reflect a lack of preparedness and understanding by the reporters of what they were getting into; they are apparently suprised that war actually involves killing people, or being killed by them - and the fact that, unfortunately, sometimes innocent civilians die in the process.

    This book is most useful in documenting the experience of the reporters during the war, but it sheds relativley little light on the war itself, nor does it coherently address the complex relationship of the reporter and the war environment. Most of the collected stories are "all about me."

    5 out of 5 stars Under Fire.......2003-09-27

    How did those two co-authors get these war journalists interviewed for Embedded to open up so candidly? When I first picked up this book, I half-expected to read boilerplate journalism-school debates about ethics, objectivity, pursuing a story. That was not the case here. Not at all. Each interview left me reeling in a cold-sweat panic: So this is what it's like to be a wartime reporter. I was right there in the Bradley Fighting Vehicles with these reporters, or avoiding ambushes in a rented SUV if I was traveling as an independent reporter. Man, what action. Remember that movie about ten or fifteen years ago, "Under Fire," starring Nick Nolte as a combat photographer and Gene Hackman as a seasoned foreign news correspondent? Well, Embedded is as cinematic, as powerful in its own storytelling way--and there's dozens and dozens of these true-life stories. What a read. This IS the book of the war.

    5 out of 5 stars Studs Terkel would be proud.......2003-09-22

    A logical idea executed brilliantly: Meld the oral history approach of "Working" to the embedded reporters and their tiny-slices-of-the-pie coverage of the Iraq War. The result is like walking in on a Baghdad reunion party attended by 60-plus of the most interesting, intelligent print and TV war correspondents, including some for the Arab press, all of them spinning yarns about dodging (and sweating) bullets on their wild 21-day spring vacations. Due to the sheer variety of perspectives, each one of them distilled down into fast-reading 3 to 10-page chunks, "Embedded" provides an overall perspective that will be tough for other Iraq war books to match. It ultimately yields a fascinating and fair look at the war. I almost can't wait for the next big act of history to occur; I'll be the first in line to pick up Katovsky and Carlson's next Turkel-like tome.
    Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq
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    • A Great Deal of Effort
    		 Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq
    Danny Schechter
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    2 out of 5 stars From Robert Furs, Counterbias.com.......2004-07-25

    Danny Schechter, a television producer and independent filmmaker, is a notable figure in the media community. As a writer and speaker focused on media issues, Schechter brings to the table a more leftward viewpoint than that which is found in today's mainstream media (no, the media isn't as 'liberal' as Fox News may tell you, and the fact that people like Schechter no longer exist in the mainstream is testament to that).

    Schechter is extremely critical of the way the media has conglomerated into a mass of right-leaning, sensationalistic, pro-authority and screw-everyone-else insanity, and, as the inside jacket states, Embedded is his analysis of the media's "cheerleading for a war in which reporting was sanitized, staged, and suppressed".

    Why introduce Schechter's new book, Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception, with a seemingly unrelated description of his blog? Well, because the book is the blog. With little much else, the book isn't much more than entries taken directly from his web writings, rearranged, formatted into a columnized, newspaper-like format, and printed in book form, with hopes of making a tidy profit (one could say that by selling the book, he wishes to disseminate his views to a wider audience, but then what audience is wider than the internet on which the book's contents already appear?).

    Unfortunately, the fact that most everything in the book is simply reproduced from widely-available online form (the archives are all still online, and worth going through if time is spare), is not the book's worst problem.

    The blog-grabbing nature wasn't constrained to content alone-even spelling and punctuation errors are taken straight from the online text, and they simply haven't been corrected. Quality control is minimal, with spelling, punctuation, and even factual errors, all quite eminent. It's as if the book was thrown together in a matter of days, without much contextual editing-if any at all-to go along with it.

    Further, the books format-a virtual replication of blog entries-make it much less readable as a book. There is absolutely no flow to the many short, albeit interesting and informative, entries. The choppy nature of a blog, with new entries once a day or less rather than a continuous flow, mean that the book version contains much repetition that may grate on the reader's nerves (the MSNBC Ashleigh Banfield saga that Schechter is fond of mentioning feels as though it is repeated fifty times in the book).

    With all its faults, Embedded is an entertaining and somewhat informative read for citizens still lost in the pro-war media fog, who are unwilling to read 286 pages of text on a bright computer screen. The short tidbits are fun to skim and the book is a witness to the faults in the media's Iraq War coverage. Unfortunately, Schechter's obvious left-wing bias may turn off some, and the lazy nature of the book will likely displease most others. Schechter's fifth book is Embedded in mediocrity. He can surely do better.

    2 out of 5 stars A Great Deal of Effort.......2004-06-12

    It is obvious that a great deal of effort went into writing this book. Unfortunately it is heavy-handed without much substance.
    Also the author seems to have a personal chip on his shoulder so it is not very objective.
    Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, An Oral History (2004)
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      "The interviews crackle with immediacy." -The New York Times

      "It is my hope that this outstanding piece of work will reach the widest possible distribution and readership." -Dan Rather, CBS News, on the John Burns interview

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      Here is CBS Evening News correspondent Jim Axelrod discussing the perils of racing to Baghdad while despondent over the death of a television colleague and being unexpectedly comforted by ABC News Nightline's Ted Koppel; Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson unwittingly driving into an ambush and then kicking out the windshield of his bullet-riddled car to escape the Iraqi gunmen; New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns's brave refusal to be intimidated by his Iraqi information ministry minders; and many, many more.
      Each interview in EMBEDDED maps its own personal path and narrative arc, while presenting an emotional window to war and reporting. Taken individually, each offers a unique view of the most-covered war in history. Collectively, EMBEDDED is an eyewitness to history that will do for the war in Iraq what Michael Herr's Dispatches did for Vietnam.
      Being there: suddenly the Pentagon grants access to the action, but the devil's in the details. (The Road To War). : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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        		Being there: suddenly the Pentagon grants access to the action, but the devil's in the details. (The Road To War). : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
        Andrew Bushell , and Brent Cunningham
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          		Close to the action: after being shut out in previous wars, journalists had extraordinary access to the fighting in-Iraq. While not without downsides, ... An article from: American Journalism Review
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          Title: Close to the action: after being shut out in previous wars, journalists had extraordinary access to the fighting in-Iraq. While not without downsides, the Pentagon's embedding plan paid big coverage dividends.
          Author: Sherry Ricchiardi
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              Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq.(book by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson)(Book Review) : An article from: Parameters
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                Grunts and pogues: the embedded life. (Dispatches: slices of the war).(Iraq War 2003, media coverage): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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                  Hard lessons. (The Real-Time War).(Iraq War 2003, media coverage): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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                    Forced Labor In The Gold & Copper Mines: A History Of Congo Under Belgian Rule, 1910-1945, Volume I
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                      Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering: From Fundamentals to Complex Pattern Recognition
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                      In response to an increasing demand for novel computing methods, Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering provides a simple but systematic introduction to neural networks applications. This book features case studies that use real data to demonstrate practical applications. It contains in-depth discussions of data and model validation issues along with uncertainty and sensitivity assessment of models as well as data dimensionality and methods to reduce dimensionality. It provides detailed coverage of neural network types for extracting nonlinear patterns in multi-dimensional scientific data in prediction, classification, clustering and forecasting with an extensive coverage on linear networks, multi-layer perceptron, self organization maps, and recurrent networks.

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                      5 out of 5 stars Great book!.......2007-08-07

                      I found Dr. Samarasinghe's very easy to understand yet very comprehensive in its coverage of neural networks. The hand calculations really helped me see how the algorithms are applied to real-world problems. This is one of the best books on the subject that I own, and I own a bunch of them. I highly recommend it!
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                        Man-machine interaction is the gateway providing access to functions and services, which, due to the ever increasing complexity of smart systems, threatens to become a bottleneck. This book therefore introduces not only advanced interfacing concepts, but also gives insight into the related theoretical background.This refers mainly to the realization of video-based multimodal interaction via gesture, mimics, and speech, but also to interacting with virtual object in virtual environments, cooperating with local or remote robots, and user assistance. While most publications in the field of human factors engineering focus on interface design, this book puts special emphasis on implementation aspects. To this end it is accompanied by software development environments for image processing, classification, and virtual environment implementation. In addition a test data base is included for gestures, head pose, facial expressions, full-body person recognition, and people tracking. These data are used for the examples throughout the book, but are also meant to encourage the reader to start experimentation on his own. Thus the book may serve as a self-contained introduction both for researchers and developers of man-machine interfaces. It may also be used for graduate-level university courses.
                        Fundamentals in Handwriting Recognition (Nato a S I Series Series III, Computer and Systems Sciences)
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                          This book focuses on the fundamental tools and ideas that are generally used in the handwriting recognition field. Though one of the oldest fields of computer pattern recognition, this topic is now attracting growing numbers of researchers in universities and development engineers in industry. The volume is based on a NATO Advanced Study Institute that took place in France in 1993. The most important algorithms for data acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification, and the commonest database and devices for on-line and off-line recognition are presented. The role of parallel machines and special networks in solving problems in the field are also discussed.
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                            Edward A. Patrick
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                              Monique L. Pavel
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                              Revised, updated, and expanded throughout, this edition of Fundamentals of Pattern Recognition addresses the field of PR from a basic mathematical view-point - treating algebraic, topological, and categorical approaches of PR using concepts from homotopy, shape, and fibre spaces theories as well as computational topology.;Maintaining the features of the first edition, this resource: provides a new section on fibrewise topology that formalizes, for the first time, multicoloured, different gray level pictures and other complex signals consisting of base and value spaces and their interconnections; explores new artificial intelligence problems on the possible interplay between recursion theory and fibrewise image topology in connection with effectiveness and decidability problems; develops original techniques and results, such as the study of extremely irregular shapes by means of the mathematical theory of shape, finite topological spaces, and category theory's applications to PR; exhibits new figures of panoramic hierarchical classifications of all mathematical approaches to PR discussed; and presents five appendices that give quick overviews of dominant concepts in PR and related fields.;Containing open research and development problems to reinforce important methodologies, this second edition of Fundamentals of Pattern Recognition is a guide for applied mathematicians; electrical and electronics, systems, and computer engineers; computer scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics and computer science courses in pattern recognition theory and artificial intelligence.

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