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Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes

By: Nancy J. Cooke,Frank Durso

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Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes

By: Nancy J. Cooke,Frank Durso

A woman is operated on while she's awake... A plane runs out of gas while circling an airport for 30 minutes... A passenger liner is mistaken for an enemy fighter and shot down... A company invests in a new system that will cost them money... What do these failure have in common? How can we prevent them from happening again?

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CRC Press

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141061848X

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9781410618481

White Trash

The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

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White Trash

The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” —T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

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Penguin

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0143129678

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Counseling Adults in Transition, Fourth Edition

Linking Schlossberg‚Äôs Theory With Practice in a Diverse World

By: Mary Louise Anderson,Jane Goodman, PhD,Nancy K. Schlossberg

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Counseling Adults in Transition, Fourth Edition

Linking Schlossberg‚Äôs Theory With Practice in a Diverse World

By: Mary Louise Anderson,Jane Goodman, PhD,Nancy K. Schlossberg

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826106358

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9780826106353

Counseling Overweight Adults

The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit

By: Robert F. Kushner,Nancy Kushner,Dawn Jackson Blatner

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Counseling Overweight Adults

The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit

By: Robert F. Kushner,Nancy Kushner,Dawn Jackson Blatner

If you find it a struggle to motivate clients to change their behaviors in order to lose weight, this book is for you. Based on a unique strategy developed by Robert F. Kushner, MD, Coundeling Overweight Adults: the Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit addresses three key areas of weight management: eating patterns, exercise patterns, and coping patterns. In this book, you'll learn how to uncover and overcome your patient's unique challenges. This book will guide you through the Lifestyle Patterns Inventory, an innovative way to identify the eating, exercise, and coping styles of a patricular patient. The book also provides tools, sample dialogues, and counseling tips that will help you customize strategies for your patient's individual needs.

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249

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American Dietetic Associati

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088091422X

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9780880914222

Americans All!

Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I

By: Nancy Gentile Ford

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Americans All!

Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I

By: Nancy Gentile Ford

During the First World War, nearly half a million immigrant draftees from forty-six different nations served in the U.S. Army. This surge of Old World soldiers challenged the American military's cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions and required military leaders to reconsider their training methods for the foreign-born troops. How did the U.S. War Department integrate this diverse group into a united fighting force? The war department drew on the experiences of progressive social welfare reformers, who worked with immigrants in urban settlement houses, and they listened to industrial efficiency experts, who connected combat performance to morale and personnel management. Perhaps most significantly, the military enlisted the help of ethnic community leaders, who assisted in training, socializing, and Americanizing immigrant troops and who pressured the military to recognize and meet the important cultural and religious needs of the ethnic soldiers. These community leaders negotiated the Americanization process by promoting patriotism and loyalty to the United States while retaining key ethnic cultural traditions. Offering an exciting look at an unexplored area of military history, Americans All! Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I constitutes a work of special interest to scholars in the fields of military history, sociology, and ethnic studies. Ford's research illuminates what it meant for the U.S. military to reexamine early twentieth-century nativism; instead of forcing soldiers into a melting pot, war department policies created an atmosphere that made both American and ethnic pride acceptable. During the war, a German officer commented on the ethnic diversity of the American army and noted, with some amazement, that these "semi-Americans" considered themselves to be "true-born sons of their adopted country." The officer was wrong on one count. The immigrant soldiers were not "semi-Americans"; they were "Americans all!

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603441328

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Do Plants Know Math?

Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now

By: Stéphane Douady,Jacques Dumais,Christophe Golé,Nancy Pick

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Do Plants Know Math?

Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now

By: Stéphane Douady,Jacques Dumais,Christophe Golé,Nancy Pick

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery “if you wish to save me from a miserable death.” The legendary naturalist was hardly alone in feeling tormented by these patterns. Plant spirals captured the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci and became Alan Turing’s final obsession. This book tells the stories of the physicists, mathematicians, and biologists who found themselves magnetically drawn to Fibonacci spirals in plants, seeking an answer to why these beautiful and seductive patterns occur in botanical forms as diverse as pine cones, cabbages, and sunflowers. Do Plants Know Math? takes you down through the centuries to explore how great minds have been captivated and mystified by Fibonacci patterns in nature. It presents a powerful new geometrical solution, little known outside of scientific circles, that sheds light on why regular and irregular spiral patterns occur. Along the way, the book discusses related plant geometries such as fractals and the fascinating way that leaves are folded inside of buds. Your neurons will crackle as you begin to see the connections. This book will inspire you to look at botanical patterns—and the natural world itself—with new eyes. Featuring hundreds of gorgeous color images, Do Plants Know Math? includes a dozen creative hands-on activities and even spiral-plant recipes, encouraging readers to explore and celebrate these beguiling patterns for themselves.

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Princeton University Press

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0691261083

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9780691261089

Climate Ghosts

Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

By: Nancy Langston

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Climate Ghosts

Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

By: Nancy Langston

Langston focuses on three ghost species in the Great Lakes watershed-woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Their traces are still present in DNA, small fragmented populations, or in lone individuals. We can still restore them, if we make the hard choices necessary for them to survive"--

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Brandeis University Press

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168458065X

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9781684580651

Injunctive Relief

Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions

By: Kirstin Stoll-DeBell,Nancy Dempsey,Bradford Dempsey

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Injunctive Relief

Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions

By: Kirstin Stoll-DeBell,Nancy Dempsey,Bradford Dempsey

The injunction is an exceptionally potent remedy, the grant or denial of which often leads to a cascade of serious consequences. This comprehensive and practical guide to injunctive relief covers all issues that are relevant to these types of motions from pre-filing considerations to appellate relief. The book also includes time-saving checklists, flowcharts to help practitioners decide whether to file such motions and statistics relating to how often these motions are granted/denied.

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American Bar Association

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1604424028

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Book's by Nancy J. Cooke

Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes

Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes

White Trash

White Trash

Counseling Adults in Transition, Fourth Edition

Counseling Adults in Transition, Fourth Edition

Counseling Overweight Adults

Counseling Overweight Adults

Americans All!

Americans All!

Do Plants Know Math?

Do Plants Know Math?

Climate Ghosts

Climate Ghosts

Injunctive Relief

Injunctive Relief

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