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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Gordion Special Studies 8

By: John M. Marston

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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Gordion Special Studies 8

By: John M. Marston

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt's excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. John M. Marston argues that different political and economic systems implemented over time at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural decision making that were well adapted to the social setting of farmers in each period, but that these practices had divergent environmental impacts, with some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural practices and others leading to significant environmental change. The implications of this book are twofold: Gordion will now be one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East and, thus, serve as a valuable comparable dataset for regional synthesis of agricultural and environmental change, and the methods the author developed to reconstruct agricultural change at Gordion serves as tools to engage questions about the relationship between social and environmental change at sites worldwide. Other books address similar themes but none in the Near East address these themes in diachronic perspective such as we have at Gordion. University Museum Monograph, 145

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Conceived in Liberty

The American Worldview in Theory and Practice

By: John J. Tierney, Jr.

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Conceived in Liberty

The American Worldview in Theory and Practice

By: John J. Tierney, Jr.

Conceived in Liberty is a cultural, sociological and geopolitical review of the uniquely American notion that the country and its people are “exceptional.” While all nations have their own patriotic commitments, no other people have outwardly declared their power as vigorously as have Americans, especially since World War II. John J. Tierney, Jr. advances the idea that liberty is the singular source of the power of the American worldview and all other elements of this society—equality, patience, charity, justice, etc.—are derived from liberty. He argues that this worldview comes from this one source and is responsible for the many movements that may engage the public’s interest, such as women’s rights, civil rights, and voting rights. Such movements are all positive, but they could not exist in a society devoid of liberty. Conceived in Liberty also traces other main components of the American worldview: geographic expanse, immigration, energy of the populace, diversity, public policies, and the elements that contribute to exceptionalism. Tierney is not blind to some of the deficiencies of the United States, but he posits that the liberty it manifests is truly the political globe’s last, best hope.

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1412863589

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The Power of Bad

How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

By: John Tierney,Roy F. Baumeister

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The Power of Bad

How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

By: John Tierney,Roy F. Baumeister

The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, how schools fail students, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. Eminent social scientist Roy F. Baumeister stumbled unexpectedly upon this fundamental aspect of human nature. To find out why financial losses mattered more to people than financial gains, Baumeister looked for situations in which good events made a bigger impact than bad ones. But his team couldn’t find any. Their research showed that bad is relentlessly stronger than good, and their paper has become one of the most-cited in the scientific literature. Our brain’s negativity bias makes evolutionary sense because it kept our ancestors alert to fatal dangers, but it distorts our perspective in today’s media environment. The steady barrage of bad news and crisismongering makes us feel helpless and leaves us needlessly fearful and angry. We ignore our many blessings, preferring to heed—and vote for—the voices telling us the world is going to hell. But once we recognize our negativity bias, the rational brain can overcome the power of bad when it’s harmful and employ that power when it’s beneficial. In fact, bad breaks and bad feelings create the most powerful incentives to become smarter and stronger. Properly understood, bad can be put to perfectly good use. As noted science journalist John Tierney and Baumeister show in this wide-ranging book, we can adopt proven strategies to avoid the pitfalls that doom relationships, careers, businesses, and nations. Instead of despairing at what’s wrong in your life and in the world, you can see how much is going right—and how to make it still better.

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0143111078

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Chasing Ghosts

Unconventional Warfare in American History

By: John J. Tierney,Association of the United States Army

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Chasing Ghosts

Unconventional Warfare in American History

By: John J. Tierney,Association of the United States Army

Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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159797398X

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When Professionals Have to Lead

A New Model for High Performance

By: Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

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When Professionals Have to Lead

A New Model for High Performance

By: Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

For too long, professional services firms have relied on the “producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels. When Professionals Have to Lead presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating execution, and setting a personal example. Through examples from consulting practices, accounting firms, investment banks, and other professional service organizations, industry veterans DeLong, Gabarro, and Lees show how this model works to: • Align your firm’s culture and key organizational components. • Satisfy your clients’ needs without sacrificing essential managerial responsibilities. • Address matters of size, scale, and complexity while maintaining the qualities that make professional services firms unique. A valuable new resource, this book redefines the role of leadership in professional services firms.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422131068

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In My Heart's Best Wishes for You

A biography of Archbishop John Walsh

By: John P. Comiskey

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In My Heart's Best Wishes for You

A biography of Archbishop John Walsh

By: John P. Comiskey

Plucked from obscurity and handed a destiny - this was the life of John Walsh (1830-1898), an Irish immigrant to Toronto who became the true founder of the diocese of London, Ontario. As he repaired the damage done by his predecessor, Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault, Walsh used his persuasive powers and talent for teaching to ensure that the diocese would prosper. Biographer John Comiskey illustrates Walsh's struggle to build up his diocese while promoting Catholics for positions of influence in society. Walsh's life unfolded in nineteenth-century Ontario, a period filled with hopes for growth and prosperity, but also saddled with deeply rooted anti-Catholic sentiments. At the same time, English-speaking Catholics were establishing themselves within the Church in Canada as distinct from their French-speaking counterparts. Walsh encouraged new forms of cooperation, a type of ecumenism between Catholics and Protestants, and a growing respect for English Catholics as rightful leaders in society. Walsh also developed new approaches to collegiality among bishops and fostered collaborations between the clergy and laity, and became a beloved figure to both parishioners and the epoch's major figures - including Prime Minister John A. Macdonald. My Heart's Best Wishes for You makes a significant contribution to the history of the Church in the nineteenth century and the growing acceptance of Catholics in English Canada.

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077358725X

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Managing?Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Executives

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances Wickham Lee,John P. Glaser

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Managing?Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Executives

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances Wickham Lee,John P. Glaser

Managing Health Care Information Systems Managing Health Care Information Systems teaches key principles, methods, and applications necessary to provide access to timely, complete, accurate, legible, and relevant health care information. Written by experts for students and professionals, this well-timed book provides detailed information on the foundations of health care information management; the history, legacy, and future of health care information systems; the architecture and technologies that support health care information systems; and the challenges for senior management in information technology, such as organization, alignment with strategic planning, governance, planning initiatives, and assessing and achieving value. Comprehensive in scope, Managing Health Care Information Systems includes substantial discussion of data quality, regulation, laws, and standards; strategies for system acquisition, use, and support; and standards and security. Each chapter includes an overview and summary of the material, as well as learning activities. The activities provide students with the opportunity to explore more fully the concepts presented. Praise for Managing Health Care Information Systems "This is the first book that comprehensively describes both opportunities and issues in the effective management of information technology in health care." —James. I. Cash, Ph.D., retired James E. Robinson Professor, Harvard Business School, and chairman of IT Committee, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Board of Trustees "The challenges of managing information systems and technology in an electronic health care environment are many. Finally here is a book that succinctly takes the reader from the basics to the boardroom in meeting such challenges. This book is a great resource." —Melanie S. Brodnik, Ph.D., director, Health Informatics and Information Management, The Ohio State University "Collaboration among authors—academicians and a nationally known CIO—has produced an excellent resource for graduate students and health care executives who wish to learn about health information technologies, systems, and their management." —Ramesh K. Shukla, Ph.D., professor and director, Williamson Institute for Healthcare Leadership, Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787974684

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Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances W. Lee,John P. Glaser

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Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances W. Lee,John P. Glaser

This most widely used textbook in the field has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in the health care industry and the renewed focus on health care information technology initiatives. Two new chapters cover Federal efforts to enhance quality of patient care through the use of health care information technology and strategy considerations. Additionally, reflecting the increased focus on global health, the book features an international perspective on health care information technology. Case studies of organizations experiencing management-related information system challenges have been updated and several new cases have been added. These reality-based cases are designed to stimulate discussion among students and enable them to apply concepts in the book to real-life scenarios. The book's companion Web site features lecture slides, a test bank, and other materials to enhance students' understanding.

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1118420934

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Millimeter-Wave Digitally Intensive Frequency Generation in CMOS

By: Wanghua Wu,Robert Bogdan Staszewski,John R. Long

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Millimeter-Wave Digitally Intensive Frequency Generation in CMOS

By: Wanghua Wu,Robert Bogdan Staszewski,John R. Long

This book describes the digitally intensive time-domain architectures and techniques applied to millimeter-wave frequency synthesis, with the objective of improving performance and reducing the cost of implementation. Coverage includes system architecture, system level modeling, critical building block design, and digital calibration techniques, making it highly suitable for those who want to learn about mm-wave frequency generation for communication and radar applications, integrated circuit implementation, and time-domain circuit and system techniques. - Highlights the challenges of frequency synthesis at mm-wave band using CMOS technology - Compares the various approaches for mm-wave frequency generation (pros and cons) - Introduces the digitally intensive synthesizer approach and its advantages - Discusses the proper partitioning of the digitally intensive mm-wave frequency synthesizer into mm-wave, RF, analog, digital and software components - Provides detailed design techniques from system level to circuit level - Addresses system modeling, simulation techniques, design-for-test, and layout issues - Demonstrates the use of time-domain techniques for high-performance mm-wave frequency synthesis

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0128023619

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Plan to Win

By: Cheryl Koehn,Taysha Palmer,John Esdaile

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Plan to Win

By: Cheryl Koehn,Taysha Palmer,John Esdaile

The latest therapies and medications, diet and exercise, controlling pain, building a health care team, finding support and much more.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195130561

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Crime Without Punishment

By: John L. McClellan

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Crime Without Punishment

By: John L. McClellan

The Rackets Committee of the United States Senate, of which Senator John L. McClellan was chairman, was engaged for more than five years in a bitter battle against criminals at all levels of our society, whether in labor unions or in great corporations, whether sleek, polished leaders of national crime syndicates or furtive, fly-by-night tinhorns who help their bosses extort upwards of fifty billion dollars annually from united States citizens. In this report of the committee’s activities, Senator McClellan tells how some of the greatest labor unions in the nation were corrupted by conscienceless men, how racketeers prey upon honest businessmen, how criminal influences have become so widespread that they threaten the very future of our nation. In Crime Without Punishment, Senator McClellan takes his readers behind the scenes of the nationally televised hearings and shows how they were developed by a dedicated staff of top-notch investigators, formerly headed by the committee’s chief counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, who became Attorney General of the United States. The reader sees the full picture of James Hoffa and Dave Beck, of the mammoth Teamsters Union, of the invasion of racketeers into many other unions, of the operations of the nation’s top-level gangsters in the fields of labor and management. This report of the committee’s activities and findings does more, however, than tell a fascinating story: it sounds a warning to every citizen of the nation. It reveals in stark terms the national apathy which permits criminals to travel their evil pathways without stop or hindrance. It raises a question that must be answered: are the punishments, the penalties, to be exacted from the men who committed the crime—or must they be visited upon the entire nation? Crime Without Punishment is important, vital reading. “Pulls no punches—names names...from top to bottom of the crime hierarchy.”—Miami Herald

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1789126851

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Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

The Constitution of Supranationalism

By: John G. Oates

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Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

The Constitution of Supranationalism

By: John G. Oates

This book develops a constitutional theory of international organization to explain the legitimation of supranational organizations. Supranational organizations play a key role in contemporary global governance, but recent events like Brexit and the threat by South Africa to withdraw from the International Criminal Court suggest that their legitimacy continues to generate contentious debates in many countries. Rethinking international organization as a constitutional problem, Oates argues that it is the representation of the constituent power of a constitutional order, that is, the collective subject in whose name authority is wielded, which explains the legitimation of supranational authority. Comparing the cases of the European Union, the World Trade Organization, and the International Criminal Court, Oates shows that the constitution of supranationalism is far from a functional response to the pressures of interdependence but a value-laden struggle to define the proper subject of global governance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international organization and those working in the broader fields of global governance and general International Relations theory. It should also be of interest to international legal scholars, particularly those focused on questions related to global constitutionalism.

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Routledge

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1000028372

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British Politics

An Analytical Approach

By: Peter John

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British Politics

An Analytical Approach

By: Peter John

British Politics provides a cutting-edge, analytical introduction to the subject, encouraging students to think about methods and theory, whilst building a fundamental understanding of the current debates shaping British politics and public policy.

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0198840624

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Willpower

Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

By: Roy F. Baumeister,John Tierney

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Willpower

Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

By: Roy F. Baumeister,John Tierney

One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. "Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read." —Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real-life experts, Willpower shares lessons on how to focus our strength, resist temptation, and redirect our lives. It shows readers how to be realistic when setting goals, monitor their progress, and how to keep faith when they falter. By blending practical wisdom with the best of recent research science, Willpower makes it clear that whatever we seek—from happiness to good health to financial security—we won’t reach our goals without first learning to harness self-control.

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1101543779

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Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees

Review and Cladistic Analysis in Light of Morphological Evidence (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

By: John D. Plant,Hannes F. Paulus

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Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees

Review and Cladistic Analysis in Light of Morphological Evidence (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

By: John D. Plant,Hannes F. Paulus

Volume 161 of Zoologica reviews and analyses the evolution and phylogeny of bees. It is subdivided into two parts Part One: A Preamble to the Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees provides a complete and critical review of all previous attempts to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of bees (Anthophila / Apiformes) based on morphological, bionomic and molecular approaches and pre- sented in chronological sequence up to and including recent publications. At the same time, the introductory part examines trends in the classification of bees and compares available hypotheses of bee evolution. Part One closes with a family-wise delineation of the fossil history of bees. Part Two: A Phylogenetic Study of Bees in Light of Morphological Evidence adds an experimental study to complement the bibliographical analysis provided in Part One. The phylogenetic relationships of the larger taxonomic units of bees are tested anew using an extensive dataset of selected morphological features. The study uses all common and current computer-aided techniques of cladistic analysis (parsimony, successive/implied weight, Bayesian and neighbor-joining), which are applied to representatives of all seven families, 22 subfamilies and 48 of 58 tribes of bees. The conclusions drawn from this are evaluated for the major groups (i.e., short-tongued and long-tongued bees), and separately for the families, subfamilies and tribes in each case. In a world currently dominated by molecular genetic approaches to phylogeny, this study clearly demonstrates that it is not anachronistic to engage in morphological efforts, because progress can be significantly advanced and the pool of available scientific arguments enriched. The diversity of the object of investigation justifies a variety of methods. This monograph is a much needed reference work of high practical value for all students of bee evolution, phylogeny and morphology. Further, it is ideally suited as good introductory reading material for university level students.

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Book's by John J. Tierney

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Conceived in Liberty

Conceived in Liberty

The Power of Bad

The Power of Bad

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

When Professionals Have to Lead

When Professionals Have to Lead

In My Heart's Best Wishes for You

In My Heart's Best Wishes for You

Managing?Health Care Information Systems

Managing?Health Care Information Systems

Health Care Information Systems

Health Care Information Systems

Millimeter-Wave Digitally Intensive Frequency Generation in CMOS

Millimeter-Wave Digitally Intensive Frequency Generation in CMOS

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Crime Without Punishment

Crime Without Punishment

Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

British Politics

British Politics

Willpower

Willpower

Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees

Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees

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