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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi

By: Les Leopold

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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi

By: Les Leopold

A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents--everything you'd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a dynamic labor leader whose legacy lives on in today's workplaces and ongoing alliances between labor activists and environmentalists, and those who believe in the promise of America. In The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, author and labor expert Les Leopold recounts the life of the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union leader. Mazzocchi's struggle to address the unconscionable toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers led to the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and included work alongside nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood. His noble, high-profile efforts forever changed working conditions in American industry--and made him enemy number one to a powerful few. As early as the 1950s, when the term "environment" was nowhere on the political radar, Mazzocchi learned about nuclear fallout and began integrating environmental concerns into his critique of capitalism and his union work. An early believer in global warming, he believed that the struggle of capital against nature was the irreconcilable contradiction that would force systemic change. Mazzocchi's story of non-stop activism parallels the rise and fall of industrial unionism. From his roots in a pro-FDR, immigrant family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, through McCarthyism, the Sixties, and the surge of the environmental movement, Mazzocchi took on Corporate America, the labor establishment and a complacent Democratic Party. This profound biography should be required reading for those who believe in taking risks and making the world a better place. While Mazzocchi's story is so full of peril and deception that it seems almost a work of fiction, Leopold proves that the most provocative and lasting stories in life are those of real people.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603580719

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9781603580717

Designing the Online Learning Experience

Evidence-Based Principles and Strategies

By: Simone C. O. Conceição,Les Howles

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Designing the Online Learning Experience

Evidence-Based Principles and Strategies

By: Simone C. O. Conceição,Les Howles

This book provides instructors with a holistic way of thinking about learners, learning, and online course design. The distinctive strategies derived from an integrated framework for designing the online learning experience help create an experience that is more personalized, engaging, and meaningful for online learners.The focus of this book is on the learners and the design of their online learning experiences. The authors refer to learning design instead of instructional design – which focuses on instruction and places the instructor at the center stage of the process. Therefore, the focus is on approaching a learner’s online course experience as a journey consisting of a combination of learning interactions with content, instructor, and other learners. In most online courses, instructors and learners are separated in time and space and depend on technology to facilitate interactions that often lack a strong personal dimension. As online learning continues to proliferate and mature, the emphasis on simply making content available to students online is no longer acceptable. Creating online courses now requires a new way of thinking that incorporates new design ideas and approaches from a variety of fields; it also requires a new set of learning design skills for instructors and course designers.Organized into eight chapters, this volume focuses on enhancing online learning experiences for each of the major aspects of an online course, providing evidence-based principles and strategies to promote learner engagement and deep learning. The concluding chapter provides an example illustrating a real-world application of the principles and strategies covered in the book, using Design Thinking to create learning experiences.This book provides strategies for approaching the learning experience from an integrative perspective for both experienced online instructors and those new to online course design. These strategies are based on evidence-based learning design principles and encourage the reader to adopt an empathic mindset focused on the experience of the learner.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000977099

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9781000977097

Cornflakes with Whisky

One Career, Two Lives, One Marriage – a Real Story of Community Policing and an Enduring Relationship

By: Les King

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Cornflakes with Whisky

One Career, Two Lives, One Marriage – a Real Story of Community Policing and an Enduring Relationship

By: Les King

An affectionate and humorous gallop through the authors four decades of community policing across the Midlands counties of England from the early 1970s until his retirement in 2003. As the author says, All cops who have served for some time could both tell and write some good stories. In that respect this book is not unique. I hope that what is unique is that this story picks up the emotions, the characters and the true feelings that so often are not described when cops recount their experiences. But, this is more. It is a story of two loves. The first is the love of a job that served me well for 33 years, but, just as importantly it is a story of love and marriage that has survived even longer. The job and the marriage were entwined inextricably because in the days when this story started they had to be there was no choice. Does this sound like survival? Well at times it probably was, for both of us. Do I regret any of it? No, not one bit. Does my wife Jud? Well, you had better ask her!

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1496987004

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9781496987006

George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist

Volume 1 George Boyle White of the Hunter Valley

By: Les Dalton,Jenny McCarthy,Susan Tracey

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George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist

Volume 1 George Boyle White of the Hunter Valley

By: Les Dalton,Jenny McCarthy,Susan Tracey

In 1826, George Boyle White, then just twenty-four years old, arrived at Sydney Cove from Calcutta. He had served as navigator in the East India Company for seven years. While employed for a short time as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s office he learned the skills of a land surveyor. Appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor General’s Department he set out Maitland and other major towns in the Hunter Valley region. Surveyor General, Thomas Mitchell, appointed White second-in-charge of his first expedition into the interior. In his report on the expedition Mitchell judged White to be “an accurate and indefatigable surveyor”.

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Les Dalton

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0992533600

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9780992533601

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

By: Les Molloy,Craig Potton,Rod Morris,Debs Martin

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New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

By: Les Molloy,Craig Potton,Rod Morris,Debs Martin

A comprehensive record and description of New Zealand's wilderness, in all its magnificent geological and biological diversity. Traverses the origins of New Zealand's heritage of wild land, its character, the major campaigns to protect it and priorities for its future conservation. Takes a bio-regional approach, with 14 chapters detailing the protected areas, major flora and fauna values, endangered species and conservation threats and responses for each region of New Zealand.

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336

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1927213223

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Book's by Les Molloy

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

Designing the Online Learning Experience

Designing the Online Learning Experience

Cornflakes with Whisky

Cornflakes with Whisky

George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist

George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

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