本书是对Markov链理论的现代处理方法的导引,该方法的主要目标是确定一个Markov链收敛到作为态空间体积和几何之函数的平稳分布的收敛速率。作者发展了估计收敛时间的关键工具,包括耦合、强平稳时间以及谱方法:一有可能,便强调概率论式的方法。本书包括了许多例题并对统计力学的中心模型给出了简短介绍;还讲述了网络上的随机游动,包括击中和掩盖时间,以及对洗牌的各种方法的分析。至于预备知识,作者假定了对概率论的适度了解以及大学水平的线性代数。本书打算将这个活跃的研究领域的激情带给大范围的受众。

Preface 9 Preface to second edition 9 Preface to first edition 9 Overview 11 For the Reader 12 For the Instructor 13 For the Expert 13 Acknowledgements 16 Part I: Basic Methods and Examples 17 Chapter 1. Introduction to Finite Markov Chains 18 1.1. Markov Chains 18 1.2. Random Mapping Representation 21 1.3. Irreducibility and Aperiodicity 23 1.4. Random Walks on Graphs 24 1.5. Stationary Distributions 25 1.6. Reversibility and Time Reversals 29 1.7. Classifying the States of a Markov Chain* 31 Exercises 33 Notes 34 Chapter 2. Classical (and Useful) Markov Chains 37 2.1. Gambler's Ruin 37 2.2. Coupon Collecting 38 2.3. The Hypercube and the Ehrenfest Urn Model 39 2.4. The Pólya Urn Model 41 2.5. Birth-and-Death Chains 42 2.6. Random Walks on Groups 43 2.7. Random Walks on Z and Reflection Principles 46 Exercises 50 Notes 51 Chapter 3. Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Metropolis and Glauber Chains 54 3.1. Introduction 54 3.2. Metropolis Chains 54 3.3. Glauber Dynamics 57 Exercises 61 Notes 61 Chapter 4. Introduction to Markov Chain Mixing 63 4.1. Total Variation Distance 63 4.2. Coupling and Total Variation Distance 65 4.3. The Convergence Theorem 68 4.4. Standardizing Distance from Stationarity 69 4.5. Mixing Time 70 4.6. Mixing and Time Reversal 71 4.7. p Distance and Mixing 72 Exercises 73 Notes 74 Chapter 5. Coupling 76 5.1. Definition 76 5.2. Bounding Total Variation Distance 78 5.3. Examples 78 5.4. Grand Couplings 85 Exercises 89 Notes 90 Chapter 6. Strong Stationary Times 91 6.1. Top-to-Random Shuffle 91 6.2. Markov Chains with Filtrations 92 6.3. Stationary Times 93 6.4. Strong Stationary Times and Bounding Distance 94 6.5. Examples 97 6.6. Stationary Times and Cesaro Mixing Time 100 6.7. Optimal Strong Stationary Times* 101 Exercises 102 Notes 103 Chapter 7. Lower Bounds on Mixing Times 104 7.1. Counting and Diameter Bounds 104 7.2. Bottleneck Ratio 105 7.3. Distinguishing Statistics 108 7.4. Examples 112 Exercises 114 Notes 115 Chapter 8. The Symmetric Group and Shuffling Cards 116 8.1. The Symmetric Group 116 8.2. Random Transpositions 118 8.3. Riffle Shuffles 123 Exercises 126 Notes 128 Chapter 9. Random Walks on Networks 132 9.1. Networks and Reversible Markov Chains 132 9.2. Harmonic Functions 133 9.3. Voltages and Current Flows 134 9.4. Effective Resistance 135 9.5. Escape Probabilities on a Square 140 Exercises 141 Notes 143 Chapter 10. Hitting Times 144 10.1. Definition 144 10.2. Random Target Times 145 10.3. Commute Time 147 10.4. Hitting Times on Trees 150 10.5. Hitting Times for Eulerian Graphs 153 10.6. Hitting Times for the Torus 153 10.7. Bounding Mixing Times via Hitting Times 156 10.8. Mixing for the Walk on Two Glued Graphs 160 Exercises 162 Notes 165 Chapter 11. Cover Times 166 11.1. Definitions 166 11.2. The Matthews Method 166 11.3. Applications of the Matthews Method 168 11.4. Spanning Tree Bound for Cover Time 170 11.5. Waiting for all patterns in coin tossing 172 Exercises 174 Notes 174 Chapter 12. Eigenvalues 177 12.1. The Spectral Representation of a Reversible Transition Matrix 177 12.2. The Relaxation Time 179 12.3. Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of Some Simple Random Walks 181 12.4. Product Chains 185 12.5. Spectral Formula for the Target Time 188 12.6. An 2 Bound 188 12.7. Time Averages 189 Exercises 193 Notes 194 Part II: The Plot Thickens 195 Chapter 13. Eigenfunctions and Comparison of Chains 196 13.1. Bounds on Spectral Gap via Contractions 196 13.2. The Dirichlet Form and the Bottleneck Ratio 197 13.3. Simple Comparison of Markov Chains 201 13.4. The Path Method 203 13.5. Wilson's Method for Lower Bounds 208 13.6. Expander Graphs* 212 Exercises 214 Notes 215 Chapter 14. The Transportation Metric and Path Coupling 217 14.1. The Transportation Metric 217 14.2. Path Coupling 219 14.3. Rapid Mixing for Colorings 222 14.4. Approximate Counting 225 Exercises 228 Notes 230 Chapter 15. The Ising Model 231 15.1. Fast Mixing at High Temperature 231 15.2. The Complete Graph 234 15.3. The Cycle 235 15.4. The Tree 236 15.5. Block Dynamics 239 15.6. Lower Bound for Ising on Square* 242 Exercises 244 Notes 245 Chapter 16. From Shuffling Cards to Shuffling Genes 248 16.1. Random Adjacent Transpositions 248 16.2. Shuffling Genes 252 Exercise 257 Notes 257 Chapter 17. Martingales and Evolving Sets 259 17.1. Definition and Examples 259 17.2. Optional Stopping Theorem 260 17.3. Applications 262 17.4. Evolving Sets 265 17.5. A General Bound on Return Probabilities 269 17.6. Harmonic Functions and the Doob h-Transform 271 17.7. Strong Stationary Times from Evolving Sets 272 Exercises 275 Notes 275 Chapter 18. The Cutoff Phenomenon 277 18.1. Definition 277 18.2. Examples of Cutoff 278 18.3. A Necessary Condition for Cutoff 283 18.4. Separation Cutoff 284 Exercises 285 Notes 285 Chapter 19. Lamplighter Walks 288 19.1. Introduction 288 19.2. Relaxation Time Bounds 289 19.3. Mixing Time Bounds 291 19.4. Examples 293 Exercises 293 Notes 294 Chapter 20. Continuous-Time Chains* 296 20.1. Definitions 296 20.2. Continuous-Time Mixing 297 20.3. Spectral Gap 300 20.4. Product Chains 301 Exercises 305 Notes 306 Chapter 21. Countable State Space Chains* 307 21.1. Recurrence and Transience 307 21.2. Infinite Networks 309 21.3. Positive Recurrence and Convergence 311 21.4. Null Recurrence and Convergence 316 21.5. Bounds on Return Probabilities 317 Exercises 318 Notes 320 Chapter 22. Monotone Chains 321 22.1. Introduction 321 22.2. Stochastic Domination 322 22.3. Definition and Examples of Monotone Markov Chains 324 22.4. Positive Correlations 325 22.5. The Second Eigenfunction 329 22.6. Censoring Inequality 330 22.7. Lower bound on 335 22.8. Proof of Strassen's Theorem 336 22.9. Exercises 337 22.10. Notes 338 Chapter 23. The Exclusion Process 339 23.1. Introduction 339 23.2. Mixing Time of k-exclusion on the n-path 344 23.3. Biased Exclusion 345 23.4. Exercises 349 23.5. Notes 350 Chapter 24. Cesàro Mixing Time, Stationary Times, and Hitting Large Sets 351 24.1. Introduction 351 24.2. Equivalence of tstop, tCes and tG for reversible chains 353 24.3. Halting States and Mean-Optimal Stopping Times 355 24.4. Regularity Properties of Geometric Mixing Times 356 24.5. Equivalence of tG and tH 357 24.6. Upward Skip-Free Chains 358 24.7. tH() are comparable for 1/2. 359 24.8. An Upper Bound on trel 360 24.9. Application to Robustness of Mixing 361 Exercises 362 Notes 362 Chapter 25. Coupling from the Past 364 25.1. Introduction 364 25.2. Monotone CFTP 365 25.3. Perfect Sampling via Coupling from the Past 370 25.4. The Hardcore Model 371 25.5. Random State of an Unknown Markov Chain 373 Exercise 374 Notes 374 Chapter 26. Open Problems 375 26.1. The Ising Model 375 26.2. Cutoff 376 26.3. Other Problems 376 26.4. Update: Previously Open Problems 377 Appendix A. Background Material 379 A.1. Probability Spaces and Random Variables 379 A.2. Conditional Expectation 385 A.3. Strong Markov Property 388 A.4. Metric Spaces 389 A.5. Linear Algebra 390 A.6. Miscellaneous 390 Exercises 390 Appendix B. Introduction to Simulation 391 B.1. What Is Simulation? 391 B.2. Von Neumann Unbiasing* 392 B.3. Simulating Discrete Distributions and Sampling 393 B.4. Inverse Distribution Function Method 394 B.5. Acceptance-Rejection Sampling 394 B.6. Simulating Normal Random Variables 396 B.7. Sampling from the Simplex 398 B.8. About Random Numbers 398 B.9. Sampling from Large Sets* 399 Exercises 402 Notes 405 Appendix C. Ergodic Theorem 406 C.1. Ergodic Theorem* 406 Exercise 407 Appendix D. Solutions to Selected Exercises 408 Bibliography 438 Notation Index 453 Index 455

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Sometimes the world is a very dark place. You know the magic is still out there, but it feels distant, or displaced. Voices in the Darkness is an attempt to create a link, to bring some of those voices together in a single work of art. Six award-winning authors lent their talent to this work. The stories are unique, and dark, filled with wonder and emotion. Included are: Nadia Bulkin's "Vide Cor Meum (See My Heart)" is a unique twist on true crime as fiction. Kathe Koja's "Pursuivant Island" will resonate differently with every reader, has meaning on different levels, and touches on an actual artistic event. Elizabeth Massie's "Baggie" explores the horror of losing control of one's life, self, everything to another. Cassandra Khaw takes you on a journey through the pain of bad relationships, while reminding her readers of their own self worth. Nick Mamatas takes on the historical character behind the old, old song "Mack the Knife," in his tale, titled appropriately "Ba boo Dop doo Dop boo ree" Brian A. Hopkins' novella "La Belle Époque," explores history, Winchester rifles, and addiction of a very personal persuasion. We all hear voices in the darkness; in the pages of this book you will hear six of them very clearly.

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Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- "A model of Christian charity" / John Winthrop -- "In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet" / Anne Bradstreet -- "The minister's black veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Voices of a revolution -- "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / Jonathan Edwards -- "The way to wealth" / Benjamin Franklin -- "Considerations on keeping Negroes" / John Woolman -- "The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- personal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams -- The search for a national identity -- "On the emigration to America and peopling the western country" / Philip Freneau -- "Federalist no.2" / John Jay -- "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano" / Olaudah Equiano -- The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- A tour on the prairies / Washington Irving -- "Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws" / Tecumseh -- The shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation -- "The young American" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Resistance to civil government" / Henry David Thoreau -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- "Great are the myths" / Walt Whitman -- "Annexation" / John L. O'Sullivan -- Personal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- Slavery and the abolition movement -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- "Appeal to the Christian women of the South" / Angelina Grimke Weld -- "The hunters of men" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Civil war and reconstruction -- "The portent" / Herman Melville -- The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane -- "Hospital sketches" / Louisa May Alcott -- "O Captain! My Captain!" / Walt Whitman -- "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America -- The closing of the frontier -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather -- "Chiquita" / Bret Harte -- The life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love -- "Kansas I" / A Mexican Folk Ballad -- "The passing of the buffalo" / Hamlin Garland -- Black Elk speaks / Black Elk -- Artists render industrialization and urbanization -- "What the engines said" / Bret Harte -- "Life in the iron mills" / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- "Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane -- Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan -- "Chicago" / Carl Sandburg -- Social critics and reformers -- "We are all bound up together" / Francis E. Watkins Harper -- Eighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "A church mouse" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Huckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens -- The shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- "The white man's burden" / Rudyard Kipling -- "The real 'white man's burden'" / Ernest Crosby -- "Hallelujahs" / Jose de Diego -- One of ours / Willa Cather -- "next to of course god america i" / E. E. Cummings -- Democracy and adversity -- The jazz age -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Song of perfect propriety" / Dorothy Parker -- The flivver king / Upton Sinclair -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- "The weary blues" / Langston Hughes -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- The big money / John Dos Passos -- Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets -- "Women on the breadlines" / Meridel LeSueur -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- "Colonial Park" / Ralph Ellison -- "Proud day" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II -- "Freedom" / E. B. White -- Battle cry / Leon Uris -- Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- "Apostrophe to the land" / Countee Cullen -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Hiroshima / John Hershey -- The challenges of power -- Prosperity and anxiety -- An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- The cruicible / Arthur Miller -- The right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- Rights and revolutions -- "Letter from a Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Message to the grass roots" / Malcolm X -- "Why I want a wife" / Judy Brady -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog -- "Blowin' in the wind" / Bob Dylan -- The Vietnam years -- One very hot day / David Halberstam -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- "Life at war" / Denise Levertov -- American pastoral / Philip Roth -- "Letters from my father" / Robert Olen Butler.

Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- "A model of Christian charity" / John Winthrop -- "In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet" / Anne Bradstreet -- "The minister's black veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Voices of a revolution -- "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / Jonathan Edwards -- "The way to wealth" / Benjamin Franklin -- "Considerations on keeping Negroes" / John Woolman -- "The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- personal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams -- The search for a national identity -- "On the emigration to America and peopling the western country" / Philip Freneau -- "Federalist no.2" / John Jay -- "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano" / Olaudah Equiano -- The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- A tour on the prairies / Washington Irving -- "Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws" / Tecumseh -- The shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation -- "The young American" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Resistance to civil government" / Henry David Thoreau -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- "Great are the myths" / Walt Whitman -- "Annexation" / John L. O'Sullivan -- Personal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- Slavery and the abolition movement -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- "Appeal to the Christian women of the South" / Angelina Grimke Weld -- "The hunters of men" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Civil war and reconstruction -- "The portent" / Herman Melville -- The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane -- "Hospital sketches" / Louisa May Alcott -- "O Captain! My Captain!" / Walt Whitman -- "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America -- The closing of the frontier -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather -- "Chiquita" / Bret Harte -- The life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love -- "Kansas I" / A Mexican Folk Ballad -- "The passing of the buffalo" / Hamlin Garland -- Black Elk speaks / Black Elk -- Artists render industrialization and urbanization -- "What the engines said" / Bret Harte -- "Life in the iron mills" / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- "Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane -- Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan -- "Chicago" / Carl Sandburg -- Social critics and reformers -- "We are all bound up together" / Francis E. Watkins Harper -- Eighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "A church mouse" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Huckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens -- The shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- "The white man's burden" / Rudyard Kipling -- "The real 'white man's burden'" / Ernest Crosby -- "Hallelujahs" / Jose de Diego -- One of ours / Willa Cather -- "next to of course god america i" / E. E. Cummings -- Democracy and adversity -- The jazz age -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Song of perfect propriety" / Dorothy Parker -- The flivver king / Upton Sinclair -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- "The weary blues" / Langston Hughes -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- The big money / John Dos Passos -- Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets -- "Women on the breadlines" / Meridel LeSueur -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- "Colonial Park" / Ralph Ellison -- "Proud day" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II -- "Freedom" / E. B. White -- Battle cry / Leon Uris -- Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- "Apostrophe to the land" / Countee Cullen -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Hiroshima / John Hershey -- The challenges of power -- Prosperity and anxiety -- An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- The cruicible / Arthur Miller -- The right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- Rights and revolutions -- "Letter from a Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Message to the grass roots" / Malcolm X -- "Why I want a wife" / Judy Brady -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog -- "Blowin' in the wind" / Bob Dylan -- The Vietnam years -- One very hot day / David Halberstam -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- "Life at war" / Denise Levertov -- American pastoral / Philip Roth -- "Letters from my father" / Robert Olen Butler.

Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama, and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the bond—emotional and intellectual—between Lincoln and Black Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years. A comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines Lincoln's still-evolving place in Black American thought. |Introduction Frederick Douglass, Emancipation Day Address at Poughkeepsie, New York, August 2, 1858 Frederick Douglass, "The Chicago Nominations," June, 1860 H. Ford Douglas, Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, July 4, 1860 Frederick Douglass, "The Inaugural Address," April, 1861 "President Lincoln's Inaugural," Editorial in the Weekly Anglo-African, New York, March 16, 1861 "The Fatal Step Backward," Editorial in the Anglo-African, September 21, 1861 Jabez P. Campbell, "The President and the Colored People," October 1, 1861, Trenton, New Jersey Robert Hamilton, "The President's Message," Editorial in the Anglo-African, December 7, 1861 Robert Hamilton, "The Hanging of Gordon for Man Stealing," Editorial in the Anglo-African, March 1, 1862 Henry McNeal Turner on Lincoln's Proposal for Compensated Emancipation, March 16, 1862 "The Emancipation Message," Editorial in the Weekly Anglo-African, New York, March 22, 1862 Daniel Alexander Payne, Account of Meeting with Abraham Lincoln, April 1862 Henry Highland Garnet on Emancipation in Washington, DC, May 12, 1862 Philip A. Bell, Editorial on Lincoln's Revocation of Gen. Hunter's Emancipation Decree in the Pacific Appeal, San Francisco, California, June 14, 1862 Edward M. Thomas to Abraham Lincoln, Washington, DC, August 16, 1862 Frederick Douglass, "The President and His Speeches," September, 1862 Resolutions of Newtown, New York Meeting on Lincoln's Colonization Proposal, August 20, 1862 Alfred P. Smith, Letter to President Lincoln in Response to Colonization Proposal, Saddle River, New Jersey, September 5, 1862 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Lincoln's Colonization Proposal, September 27, 1862 Philip A. Bell, Editorial on the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the Pacific Appeal, San Francisco, California, September 27, 1862 Frederick Douglass, "Emancipation Proclaimed," October, 1862 George B. Vashon, Open Letter to President Lincoln on Colonization, October, 1862 Henry McNeal Turner, Response to Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 26, 1862 Thomas Strother on Lincoln's Colonization Proposal, October 4, 1862 Ezra R. Johnson, "The Liberty Bells are Ringing," October 4, 1862 C. P. S., "The President on Emancipation," October 4, 1862 Free Black People of Washington, DC, Letter to President Lincoln on Colonization, November 2, 1862 Frederick Douglass, "January First 1863" Emancipation Celebration at Beaufort, South Carolina, January 1, 1863 Philip A. Bell, "The Year of Jubilee Has Come!" January 3, 1863 Robert Hamilton, "The Great Event," Anglo-African, January 3, 1863 Emancipation Celebration at Trenton, New...

xxii, 296 pages : 27 cm The supply of human organs in the United States continues to lag behind demand. By any objective standard the public policy of "encouraged volunteerism," established with the adoption of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act in 1968, has failed. How should the United States and the health care community address this ongoing scarcity? What strategies would be both morally acceptable and effective? Noted bioethicist Arthur Caplan and his coeditors have brought together seminal essays and articles from the most significant literature in the fields of medicine, policy, philosophy and religion to help analyze and assess these questions. Caplan's introductory essay explains why present policies are inadequate, and succeeding sections of the book address the following issues: the determination of death and the "dead donor rule"; the morally divisive case of anencephalic infants as organ donors; the sale of cadaveric or live organs; strategies for increasing the number of available organs, including the market; and how some organ seekers, such as Apple's Steve Jobs, "game the system" by creating advantageous circumstances for organ donation Includes bibliographical references and index The dead donor rule, the determination of death, and organ transplantation from (almost?) cadavers -- The dead donor rule and the concept of death : severing the ties that bind them / Elysa R. Koppelman -- The theoretical and practical importance of the dead donor rule / James J. McCartney -- The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, F.G. Miller, S.D. Halpern -- The dead donor rule : effect on the virtuous practice of medicine / Frank C. Chaten -- Brain death without definitions / Winston Chiong -- Accepting brain death / David C. Magnus, B.S. Wilfond, A.L. Caplan -- Address to the international congress on transplants / Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) -- Brain death : can it be resuscitated? / Alan Shewmon -- The boundaries of organ donation after circulatory death / James L. Bernat -- Should we allow organ donation euthanasia? : alternatives for maximizing the number and quality of organs for transplantation / Dominic Wilkinson and J. Savulescu -- The ethics of non-heart-beating donation : how new technology can change the ethical landscape / Kristin Zeiler, E. Furberg, G. Tufveson, S. Welin -- The use of anencephalic infants as organ donors -- Anencephalic donors : separate the dead from the dying / Alexander Morgan Capron -- Anencephalics as organ donors / Richard M. Zaner -- Ethical issues in the use of anencephalic infants as a source of organs and tissues for transplantation / Arthur L. Caplan -- Anencephalic newborns as organ donors / Canadian Paediatric Society -- Sale of cadaveric or live organs -- Iranian model of paid and regulated living-unrelated kidney donation / Ahad J. Ghods and S. Savaj -- Regulated payments for living kidney donation : an empirical assessment of the ethical concerns / Scott D. Halpern, A. Raz, R. Kohn, M. Rey, D.A. Asch, and P. Reese -- The hidden cost of organ sale / Sheila M. Rothman and D.J. Rothman -- Commercial organ transplantation in the Philippines / Leigh Turner -- Kidney vending : the "trojan horse" of organ transplantation / Gabriel M. Danovitch and A.B. Leichtman -- Financial incentives for cadaveric organ donation / David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber and R. Fitzgerald -- Other strategies for increasing the number of available organs -- Nudge, nudge or shove, shove : the right way for nudges to increase the supply of donated cadaver organs / Kyle Powys Whyte, E. Selinger, A.L. Caplan, J. Sadowski -- The case for "presumed consent" in organ donation / Ian Kennedy, R.A. Sells, A.S. Daar, R.D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, M. Lock, J. Radcliffe, N. Tilney Richards -- A critical approach to the current understanding of Islamic scholars on using cadaver organs without prior permission / Sahin Aksoy -- Priority in organ allocation to previously registered donors : public perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of priority systems / Jennifer A. Chandler, J.A. Burkell, S.D. Shemie -- The use of prisoners as sources of organs : an ethically dubious practice / Arthur L. Caplan -- Presumed consent to organ donation in three European countries / Barbara L. Neades -- Kidney paired donation 2011 / David Serur and M. Charlton -- Kidney paired donation / Bradley Wallis, K.P. Samy, A.E. Roth, M.A. Rees -- Some high risk kidneys safe for transplant / Kristina Fiore -- Gaming the system -- Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group and participants in the International Summit on Transplant Tourism and Organ Trafficking convened by the Transplantation Society and International Society of Nephrology in Istanbul, Turkey (April 30/May 2, 2008) / Arthur L. Caplan -- The hazards of transplant tourism / Francis L. Delmonico -- Transplant tourism in China : a tale of two transplants / Rosamond Rhodes & T. Schiano -- Multiple listing in kidney transplantation / Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani and J.M. Orlowski -- Can any system of rationing withstand the plea of a ten-year-old girl? / Arthur L. Caplan and J. Desante

A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.;Beginnings -- Young Turk -- Union boss -- Onward and upward -- What could he do? -- Fateful hour -- Birth pangs -- Settling in -- Jewish people, Jewish policy -- A nation among nations -- Defense of the realm -- Soured fruits -- Tomb of the patriarch.

Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce the third entry in this award nominated and bestselling anthology series! SHIVERS III contains almost twenty short stories from today's hottest writers, including Douglas Clegg, Thomas F. Monteleone, Tom Piccirilli, F. Paul Wilson, Al Sarrantonio, and many others! Featuring original dark fiction with a handful of rare reprints, SHIVERS III is available only as a beautiful perfect-bound trade paperback! Table of Contents: "Underneath" by Kealan Patrick Burke "Horn of Plenty" by Thomas F. Monteleone "Becoming Men" by Douglas Clegg "Flip Flap" by Elizabeth Massie "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by Meggan C. Wilson & F. Paul Wilson "The Questions of Doves: A Brackard's Point Story" by Geoff Cooper "Hedges" by Al Sarrantonio "This, And That's The End of It" by Tom Piccirilli "Pantheon Version 2.0" by Brian Keene & Michael T. Huyck, Jr. "Celebrate With Us" by Paul Melniczek "The Lingering Scent of Brimstone" by J.F. Gonzalez "Run Away" by Wrath James White "Initiation" by David G. Barnett "End of The Line" by Michael Laimo "Please Let Me Out" by Edward Lee "What They Left Behind" by Brian Freeman "The Hole" by John Maclay "This House Is Not My Home" by Robert Morrish

Holiday Bundle Featuring Twenty Novels of Horror and the Occult The third of our series of holiday bundles, A Haunting of Horros features twenty novels of horror and the occult by various award-winning and bestselling authors.  For $2.99, you're getting twenty novels containing over two million words in total, and a savings of more than $70 if each title was purchased separately.  This bundle is only available for a limited time, so purchase your copy before it's gone. Titles included in this collection: Horrorween - Al Sarrantonio - Book 1 of the Orangefield Series It's Loose - B.W. Battin Ash Wednesday - Chet Williamson The Kill Riff - David J. Schow Wire Mesh Mothers - Elizabeth Massie The Beast That Was Max - Gerard Houarner - Book 1 of the Resurrection Cycle The Evil - Hugh B. Cave - Book 1 of the Evil Trilogy Blood of the Impaler - Jeffrey Sackett The Fury - John Farris - Book 1 of the Fury Series The Light at the End - John Skipp & Craig Spector Lake Monsters - Joseph A. Citro Prodigal - Melanie Tem AfterAge - Yvonne Navarro Ancient Eyes - David Niall Wilson Child of the Night - Nancy Kilpatrick - Book 1 in the Power of the Blood world The Dark’Un - Ronald Kelly Gnelfs - Sidney Williams Excavation - Steve Rasnic Tem Thunder Rise - G. Wayne Miller - Book 1 of the Thunder Rise Trilogy Hexes - Tom Piccirilli Horror

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo Ancient Sorceries Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Heir of Mondolfo The Invisible Girl Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Lair of the White Worm Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House To Be Read At Dusk Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Thophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Bront: Jane Eyre Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Devil's Spectacles Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables Ambrose Bie...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo Ancient Sorceries Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Heir of Mondolfo The Invisible Girl Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Lair of the White Worm Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House To Be Read At Dusk Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Thophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Bront: Jane Eyre Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Devil's Spectacles Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables Ambrose Bie...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo Ancient Sorceries Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Heir of Mondolfo The Invisible Girl Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Lair of the White Worm Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House To Be Read At Dusk Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Thophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Bront: Jane Eyre Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Devil's Spectacles Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables Ambrose Bie...

A collection of original science fiction stories by such noted authors as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, and Kurt Vonnegut.