Blair Groff's Books

Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

By: Wei-Dong Zhu,Ben Davies,Isuru Fernando,Blair Groff,Sven Hapke,Abraruddin Khan,Johnson Liu,Josemina Magdalen,Yuki Makino,Mike Prentice,IBM Redbooks

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Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

By: Wei-Dong Zhu,Ben Davies,Isuru Fernando,Blair Groff,Sven Hapke,Abraruddin Khan,Johnson Liu,Josemina Magdalen,Yuki Makino,Mike Prentice,IBM Redbooks

IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provide efficient and effective ways to capture content, manage the content and business processes, discover insights from the content, and derive actions to improve business processes, products, and services. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces and highlights some of the IBM ECM products that can be implemented and integrated together to create end-to-end ECM solutions: IBM Case Manager IBM Datacap IBM Content Manager OnDemand IBM Enterprise Records IBM WatsonTM Content Analytics IBM Content Classification For each product involved in the ECM solution, this IBM Redbooks publication briefly describes what it is, its functions and capabilities, and provides step-by-step procedures for installing, configuring, and implementing it. In addition, we provide procedures for integrating these products together to create an end-to-end ECM solution to achieve the overall solution objectives. Not all of the products are required to be integrated into an ECM solution. Depending on your business requirements, you can choose a subset of these products to be built into your ECM solutions. This book serves as a hands-on learning guide for information technology (IT) specialists who plan to build ECM solutions from end-to-end, for a proof of concept (PoC) environment, or for a proof of technology environment. For implementing a production-strength ECM solution, also refer to IBM Knowledge Center, IBM Redbooks publications, and IBM Software Services.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738439967

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9780738439969

Salvaging Empire

Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

By: James J. A. Blair

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Salvaging Empire

Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

By: James J. A. Blair

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to extract resources and extend empire in the South Atlantic. Responding to current debates in environmental anthropology, critical geography, Atlantic history, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Blair describes how settlers have asserted indigeneity in dynamic relation with the environment. Salvaging Empire uncovers the South Atlantic's outsized importance for understanding the broader implications of resource management and environmental science for the geopolitics of empire.

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Cornell University Press

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1501771183

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9781501771187

A Coaching Life

By: Gary Blair,Rusty Burson

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A Coaching Life

By: Gary Blair,Rusty Burson

“It’s still difficult to describe the scene after the final buzzer sounded, because the moment was just so damned surreal,” writes head coach Gary Blair following the conclusion of the title game of the 2011 NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament. “So many things happened that I will never forget . . . kissing my wife on the floor of Conseco Fieldhouse . . . looking toward the stands, where my grandson was . . . flashbulbs popping as the Aggie Band played triumphantly . . . our players and coaches wildly celebrating the biggest win in women’s basketball history at Texas A&M . . . tears streaming down the faces of former players . . . I remember thinking that I wished I could somehow stop time.” This memory and countless others form the greatest treasure of Coach Blair’s life, as he makes clear in this engaging, inspiring memoir, written with veteran sports journalist and author Rusty Burson. Indeed, as Blair says, “What I cherish the most are the memories of these players and coaches.” Beyond the trophies, beyond the impressive won-lost record compiled over more than four decades of coaching, beyond even the ungrudging professional respect he has achieved among his peers in a fiercely competitive occupation, Gary Blair values the images, moments, and memories collected during a life spent doing what he loves most: coaching and mentoring young women on the basketball court. In A Coaching Life, Coach Blair offers readers a “freeze-frame” view of a storied career. He serves up more than a few of his favorite memories with wit, grace, and humility. In the process, he invites readers to reflect on life’s wins and losses and, most importantly, what both have to teach us.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495377

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9781623495374

The Sign for Home

A Novel

By: Blair Fell

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The Sign for Home

A Novel

By: Blair Fell

Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories. But tragedy struck, and their love was lost forever. Or so Arlo thought. After years trying to heal his broken heart, Arlo is assigned a college writing assignment which unlocks buried memories of his past. Soon he wonders if the hearing people he was supposed to trust have been lying to him all along, and if his lost love might be found again. No longer willing to accept what others tell him, Arlo convinces a small band of misfit friends to set off on a journey to learn the truth. After all, who better to bring on this quest than his gay interpreter and wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend? Despite the many forces working against him, Arlo will stop at nothing to find the girl who got away and experience all of life's joyful possibilities"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1982175966

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9781982175962

Environmental Ethics

A Sourcebook for Educators

By: Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry,Blair Niblett

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Environmental Ethics

A Sourcebook for Educators

By: Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry,Blair Niblett

This well-constructed, and highly original, sourcebook integrates educational materials for teaching environmental ethics with theoretical reflections. The book is set to contribute immensely to its aim of taking ethics out of philosophy departments and putting it into the streets, into villages, and on the Earth—to make ethics an everyday activity, not something left to experts and specialists. Context-based activities are presented in almost every chapter. While it acknowledges foundational theories in environmental ethics, and the work that they continue to do, it wholeheartedly embraces a growing body of literature that emphasises contextual, process-oriented, and place-based approaches to ethical reflection, deliberation, and action. It walks on the ground and isn’t afraid to get a little dirty or to seek joy in earthly relationships. And it ultimately breaks with much Western academic tradition by framing “ethics in a storied world”, thus making room to move beyond Euro-American perspectives in environmental issues. This work will be of interest to school teachers and other non-formal and informal educators, teacher educators, college instructors, university professors, and other professionals who wish to bring environmental ethics to the forefront of their pedagogical practices.

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African Sun Media

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1991201281

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9781991201287

Peacekeeping, Policing, and the Rule of Law after Civil War

By: Robert A. Blair

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Peacekeeping, Policing, and the Rule of Law after Civil War

By: Robert A. Blair

The rule of law is indispensable for sustained peace, good governance, and economic growth, especially in countries recovering from civil war. Yet despite its importance, we know surprisingly little about how to restore the rule of law in the wake of conflict. In this book, Robert A. Blair proposes a new theory to explain how the international community can help establish the rule of law in the world's weakest and most war-torn states, focusing on the crucial but often underappreciated role of the United Nations. Blair tests the theory by drawing on original household surveys in Liberia, highly disaggregated data on UN personnel and activities across Africa, and hundreds of interviews with UN officials, local leaders, citizens, and government and civil society representatives. The book demonstrates that UN intervention can have a deeper, more lasting, and more positive effect on the rule of law than skeptics typically believe.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108858449

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9781108858441

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

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Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

Among the laws agreed upon in England for the governing of the Province of Pennsylvania was one providing for a registry of marriages, births, and deaths. Marriage licenses were issued from the Office of the Provincial Secretary, those listed in this work dating from 1742. Some earlier registers of licenses and some kept at a later date are missing, yet this work still features a base list of 6,500 marriages, to which we have added a further 3,500 marriages from articles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. All 10,000 marriages are based on public records as opposed to church records.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307099

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9780806307091

Cultural Attractions/cultural Distractions

Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts

By: Libby Allison,Kristine Blair

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Cultural Attractions/cultural Distractions

Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts

By: Libby Allison,Kristine Blair

This Popular Culture and Mass Media reader provides a range of readings and images from contemporary periodicals and more scholarly pieces about the role of mass media and technology in society. This text encourages readers to examine varying perspectives about attractions and distractions of today's popular culture, technology, and mass-mediated messages in their personal and social lives and come to their own conclusions. Readings and activities organized around classroom, media, and community. Allows readers to see more than an " expert opinion" , prompting them to form their own views. Readings and images revolve around mass media, popular arts, and technology. Sparks and holds readers' interest, and allows for reader " expertise" in discussions and assignments. Chapter on virtual community revolves around the newest technology of writing and literacy. Helps readers develop computer literacy skills in both the production and consumption of on-line materials. Offers readers opportunities to practice their cultural literacy within their own communities. Offers readers online, web, and Internet writing assignments. Varied topics, writers, and issues represent a cross-section of current cultural readings. Appropriate for readers interested in the humanities, American cultural studies, and journalism.

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0137378181

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Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

Salvaging Empire

Salvaging Empire

A Coaching Life

A Coaching Life

The Sign for Home

The Sign for Home

Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics

Peacekeeping, Policing, and the Rule of Law after Civil War

Peacekeeping, Policing, and the Rule of Law after Civil War

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

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