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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

By: Allen MacDuffie

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

By: Allen MacDuffie

Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139993291

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Climate of Denial

Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Allen MacDuffie

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Climate of Denial

Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Allen MacDuffie

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Western culture encountered the profound shock of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory made it increasingly difficult for secular humanists to flatly deny that humans are animals, fully enmeshed in natural systems and processes. But like those of us confronting climate change today, many writers and scientists struggled to integrate its depersonalizing vision into their understanding of the place of humans in the natural order. The result was that the radical environmental implications of The Origin of Species were evaded as soon as they were articulated, abetted by a culture of denial structured by the illusions of capital and empire. In light of the climate emergency, Climate of Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet.

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Stanford University Press

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150363955X

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Commitment in the Workplace

Theory, Research, and Application

By: John P. Meyer,Natalie J. Allen

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Commitment in the Workplace

Theory, Research, and Application

By: John P. Meyer,Natalie J. Allen

What is a committed employee? Are employees who are committed better or worse off than employees who are uncommitted? What are the organizational advantages and disadvantages of having a committed workforce? Commitment in the Workplace provides an overview of academic and popular perspectives on what committed employees look like and how they become committed. The multiple faces of commitment are examined as are the links that have been established between the various forms of commitment and organizational behavior. In addition, questions concerning individual differences, organizational characteristics, and work experiences associated with commitment are explored. The book concludes with a discussion of what organizations can do to manage commitment effectively, including commitment under more difficult circumstances, such as merger/acquisition, downsizing, and relocation. One of the great strengths of the book is that it summarizes the key organizational commitment research in such a way that the research findings can be evaluated for both their scientific merit and their practical value. The primary audience for Commitment in the Workplace includes students in MBA and executive MBA programs, researchers, and students and practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and industrial psychology.

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SAGE Publications

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150631919X

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Lean Enterprise Value

Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

By: E. Murman,T. Allen,K. Bozdogan,J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld,H. McManus,D. Nightingale,E. Rebentisch,Tom Shields,Fred Stahl,Myles Walton,Joyce Warmkessel,Stanley Weiss,Sheila Widnall

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Lean Enterprise Value

Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

By: E. Murman,T. Allen,K. Bozdogan,J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld,H. McManus,D. Nightingale,E. Rebentisch,Tom Shields,Fred Stahl,Myles Walton,Joyce Warmkessel,Stanley Weiss,Sheila Widnall

Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.

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365

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Springer

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1403907501

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Understanding Doctors' Performance

By: Jim Cox,Jenny King,Allen Hutchinson,Pauline McAvoy

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Understanding Doctors' Performance

By: Jim Cox,Jenny King,Allen Hutchinson,Pauline McAvoy

Understanding Doctors’ Performance addresses possible reasons why doctors under-perform, covering specific areas such as education and training, physical and mental health, workload, personality, organisational culture, drug and alcohol misuse, and cognitive impairment. It draws together evidence and describes the factors (apart from clinical competence) that adversely affect performance and how they can be prevented, identified, assessed and addressed. This practical and easy to read book is invaluable for NHS managers, medical directors, chief executives and board members, along with directors of human resources in healthcare and healthcare professionals interested in the assessment of performance or the management of underperformance.

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CRC Press

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1000621839

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Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries

German Multinational Companies in the UK

By: H. Tüselmann,F. McDonald,A. Heise,M. Allen,S. Voronkova

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Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries

German Multinational Companies in the UK

By: H. Tüselmann,F. McDonald,A. Heise,M. Allen,S. Voronkova

Uses new research to examine performance implications of different employee relations in German firms in the UK, Are they using the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK to escape the heavily regulated system in Germany? The authors explore best practice approaches common to the best performing subsidiaries.

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0230592007

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9780230592001

Hoochie Mama

By: Preston L. Allen

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Hoochie Mama

By: Preston L. Allen

All that homicide detective M Gantry needs in order to solve the most gruesome murders in Miami history is the answer to a simple question. Who is the cigarette smoker? Who is the serial killer leaving the half-smoked Camels butts at the scene of each crime?The problem is the vicious killer might be linked to her own murky past, and her future.When her partner is added to the list of victims, hoochie mama or not, the beautiful, troubled M Gantry must act and act fast before the killer strikes again.

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iUniverse

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0595207863

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

By: Allen MacDuffie

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Climate of Denial

Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Allen MacDuffie

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Climate of Denial

Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Allen MacDuffie

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Western culture encountered the profound shock of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory made it increasingly difficult for secular humanists to flatly deny that humans are animals, fully enmeshed in natural systems and processes. But like those of us confronting climate change today, many writers and scientists struggled to integrate its depersonalizing vision into their understanding of the place of humans in the natural order. The result was that the radical environmental implications of The Origin of Species were evaded as soon as they were articulated, abetted by a culture of denial structured by the illusions of capital and empire. In light of the climate emergency, Climate of Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used--then and now--to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet.

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1503638936

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Mr. Allen's Speech on Ministers Leaving a Moral Kingdom to Bear Testimony Against Sin, Liberty in Danger, from the Publication of its Principles

By: George Allen

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Mr. Allen's Speech on Ministers Leaving a Moral Kingdom to Bear Testimony Against Sin, Liberty in Danger, from the Publication of its Principles

By: George Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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3385575109

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MEMOIR OF COL ETHAN ALLEN

By: Hugh Moore,Ethan 1738-1789 Allen

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MEMOIR OF COL ETHAN ALLEN

By: Hugh Moore,Ethan 1738-1789 Allen

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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