Donald W. Foster's Books

Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes

Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941

By: Donald Chisholm

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Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes

Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941

By: Donald Chisholm

This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navys officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navys personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as tombstone promotions. In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navys history over the first century and a half of its development.

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Stanford University Press

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0804735255

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9780804735254

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On the Trail of Anonymous

By: Donald W. Foster

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On the Trail of Anonymous

By: Donald W. Foster

Foster shows how he investigated an Elizabethan murder mystery and proved a forgotten poem was written by William Shakespeare, identified "Anonymous", the author of "Primary Colors", and helped the prosecution prove that the Unabomber's manifesto was written by Ted Kaczynski--and how the bomber might have been caught sooner.

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330

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Macmillan

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0805063579

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9780805063578

Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications

By: Donald W. Dareing

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Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications

By: Donald W. Dareing

Explains how to apply time-tested engineering design methods when developing equipment and systems for oil industry and drilling applications Although specific requirements and considerations must be incorporated into an engineering design for petroleum drilling and production, the approach for developing a successful solution is the same across many engineering disciplines. Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications helps readers understand the engineering design process while demonstrating how basic engineering tools can be applied to meet the needs of the oil and petroleum industry. Divided into three parts, the book opens with an overview of best practices for engineering design and problem solving, followed by a summary of specific mechanical design requirements for different modes of power generation, transmission, and consumption. The book concludes with explanations of various analytical tools of design and their application in vibration analysis, fluid mechanics, and drilling systems. Throughout the book, clearly written chapters present traditional tools of engineering mechanics, various mathematical models and methods of solution, key references and background information, and more. Featuring hundreds of figures and a wealth of real-word examples from the petroleum industry, this practical reference: Presents a systematic process for developing an engineering design Illustrates the application of engineering tools during all stages of design Discusses key specifications and considerations for pressure vessels and drilling rigs Explains concept evaluation, visualization of a system and its subsystems, implementing feedback from test results, finalizing a design, and presenting manufacturing drawings Drawn from the author's decades of academic and industrial experience, Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications is the perfect textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in Engineering programs, as well as a highly useful reference for mechanical engineers new to the petroleum industry.

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628

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119799562

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9781119799566

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

By: Donald Leslie Johnson,Donald Langmead

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Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

By: Donald Leslie Johnson,Donald Langmead

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.

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Routledge

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1136640568

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American Country Building Design

Rediscovered Plans for 19th-century Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings

By: Donald J. Berg

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American Country Building Design

Rediscovered Plans for 19th-century Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings

By: Donald J. Berg

Provides an excellent introduction as well as suggestions for using these plans to add architectural detail to your own home...an excellent bibliography."--Victorian Homes "The best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....[It] contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details, site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding This classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one. Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information, an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402723571

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9781402723575

Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates

By: Stewart P Evans,Donald Rumbelow

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Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates

By: Stewart P Evans,Donald Rumbelow

In 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experience as police officers, they uncover clues that have remained undetected for over a hundred years. There are five 'canonical' Ripper victims, yet Scotland Yard's 'Whitechapel Murders' files include another six suspected victims. Drawing the reader into the world of police investigation in Victorian London, Evans and Rumbelow reveal the conflict between the City and Metropolitan forces and the ridicule heaped on the police by the press. Investigating each murder, they conclude that only four of the eleven victims were actually killed by the Ripper. Perhaps most tellingly, they question the motives behind the destruction of evidence – particularly the message 'The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing', which was chalked on the wall near one murder site and rubbed out on order of the Chief Commissioner – and ask whether the enigmatic Dr Robert Anderson, officer in charge of the investigation, knew the Ripper's true identity. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates strips away much of the nonsense that has accumulated since 1888 and reopens files on a case that will perhaps never be fully solved but will always fascinate.

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401

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The History Press

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0752499254

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9780752499253

Asia in the Making of Europe

By: Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley

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Asia in the Making of Europe

By: Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley

First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226467651

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9780226467658

Camp William Penn

1863–1865

By: Donald Scott

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Camp William Penn

1863–1865

By: Donald Scott

The first Civil War facility to exclusively train federal black soldiers Philadelphia and Camp William Penn hosted the greatest anti-slavery abolitionists and Underground Railroad of that century Over 130 rare images

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Schiffer + ORM

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1507302169

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9781507302163

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

By: Donald Leslie Johnson

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

By: Donald Leslie Johnson

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317133188

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9781317133186

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

A Century of Wonder. Book 2: The Literary Arts

By: Donald F. Lach

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

A Century of Wonder. Book 2: The Literary Arts

By: Donald F. Lach

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226467120

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9780226467122

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

A Century of Advance. Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature

By: Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

A Century of Advance. Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature

By: Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

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0226466965

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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

By: Donald H. Dyal

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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

By: Donald H. Dyal

Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war. Catapulting the United States into an international world power, the war had lasting international implications. Besides America's acquisition of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam, the war led the United States to take to the international stage, confronting Germany and Japan (foreshadowing the conflict of World War II), and creating a diplomatic bridge between Great Britain and the United States. For Spain, the 1898-1899 conflict was the death knell of empire, which led to a national crisis culminating in the Spanish Civil War. This volume provides easily accessible information on the naval and army operations, Spanish operations, and the political background to the military events, with an emphasis on future foreign affairs. The Spanish American War is seminal to an understanding of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations—in Cuba, the Pacific, especially Japan, and with Great Britain. It is also central to an understanding of twentieth-century Spain. U.S. military history also requires an understanding of amphibious operations, naval and army reform, deployment command and control, and interservice cooperation as reflected in the Spanish American War. This book provides a quick reference to what was once called this splendid little war.

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393

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031303270X

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9780313032707

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

By: Donald Leslie Shaw

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A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

By: Donald Leslie Shaw

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garc a M rquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1855660784

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9781855660786

Intermediate Accounting

IFRS Edition

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield

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Intermediate Accounting

IFRS Edition

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield

Due to the emergence of IFRS as the required convention for reporting to stock exchanges in the European Union and other important markets, accountants must gain a strong understanding of these standards. Intermediate Accounting integrates this new information throughout the chapters so they’ll learn how to apply the new global accounting standards. Global examples are presented to clearly show how the information is utilized in the field. The use of various currencies is also explored, which is critical for accountants to know in today’s global businesses environment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470616318

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9780470616314

Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield

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Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield

This is the unbound, loose-leaf version of Intermediate Accounting, 17th Edition, Volume 2. This book is written by industry thought leaders, Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield and is developed around one simple proposition: create great accountants. Upholding industry standards, this edition incorporates new data analytics content and up-to-date coverage of leases, revenue recognition, financial instruments, and US GAAP & IFRS. While maintaining its reputation for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and accessibility, Intermediate Accounting drives results by helping students build professional competencies through reliable problem material.

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1119613760

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Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes

Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes

Author Unknown

Author Unknown

Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications

Engineering Practice with Oilfield and Drilling Applications

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture

American Country Building Design

American Country Building Design

Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates

Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates

Asia in the Making of Europe

Asia in the Making of Europe

Camp William Penn

Camp William Penn

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

Intermediate Accounting

Intermediate Accounting

Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

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