The author of Commando Dad: Basic Training returns with this essential guide for expecting fathers as they prepare for “deployment day.” This essential guide to pregnancy offers new dads-to-be everything they need to know in the run-up to birth. Lightheartedly presented in the form of an army training manual, Commando Dad: New Recruits presents month-by-month overviews of the baby’s development, the lowdown on pregnancy symptoms, tips for supporting the mom-to-be, a guide to prenatal care, and what to expect during labor and beyond. With expert advice, easy-to-follow information, and commentary from other first-time fathers, it’s the go-to reference for the dad-to-be who wants to prepare himself—mentally, physically, and emotionally—for the arrival of his new recruit.
What is morality? Neil Sinclair argues that it is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence others' attitudes and actions. Sinclair shows that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still possess the features that make morality appear objective.
This fully illustrated field manual is packed with dozens of missions for you and your troops to enjoy – from creative projects at home in Base Camp, to full-blown outdoor adventures, all with expert advice and carefully drafted mission briefs to make sure you get the most out of your time together.
Like so much of literature, music, religion, art, and even politics, Neil Bethell Sinclairs poetry explores a familiar universalist theme. His poems cross borders, nationalities, races and religions. Yet, there are some who reject the premise of inter-connectedness. They dont want to think about it. They havent got time. They want certitude, bromides and conventional wisdom. Rather than conventional wisdom, these poems offer sensibility and civic discoursecommon sense remedies for an ailing world.
Written by ex-Commando and dad of three Neil Sinclair, this no-nonsense manual is a must-have for every man about to embark on his greatest mission: fatherhood. With straightforward and practical advice for all new recruits, from early reconnaissance right up to the deployment date, learn how to: - Prepare for your baby trooper's arrival - Manage your Commanding Officer (i.e., the mum-to-be) in all terrains - Pack your Deployment Kit list (i.e., the hospital bag) ... and much more Let the mission begin! www.commandodad.com
What is morality? In Practical Expressivism, Neil Sinclair argues that morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the attitudes and actions of others. The ultimate goal of these expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This 'expressivist' model for understanding morality faces well-known challenges concerning 'saving the appearances' of morality, because morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery, not pure expression. This book demonstrates how a properly developed expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently objective features of morality.
Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. These views cook with the same ingredients – the natural world, and our reactions to it – and have similar attractions. This Element assesses each of them by considering whether they can accommodate three central features of moral practice: the practicality of moral judgements, the phenomenon of moral disagreement, and the mind-independence of some moral truths. In the process, several different versions of subjectivism are distinguished (simple, communal, idealising, and normative) and key expressivist notions such as 'moral attitudes' and 'expression' are examined. Different meanings of 'subjective' and 'relative' are examined and it is considered whether subjectivism and expressivism make ethics 'subjective' or 'relative' in each of these senses.
Neil Sinclair is back with this briefing on how to inspire and entertain your kids in the great outdoors. Suitable for children aged 3 to 13, this illustrated field guide is loaded with dozens of activities, games and crafts for you and your troops to enjoy, including: Build a shelter in the woods & share campfire stories Learn to tie knots Make a hotel for creepy crawlies These Forest School mission briefs will make sure your squad learns valuable skills, stays safe and has a lot of fun.
Consensus is growing internationally that traditional command-and-control approaches to environmental regulation have borne much of their low-hanging fruit. Yet it is far from clear what should complement or replace them. Regulatory agencies and policy-makers are struggling with a lack of information about regulatory reform, about what works and what doesn't, and about how best to harness the resources of both government and non-government stakeholders. Progress is being impeded unnecessarily by a lack of shared knowledge of how similar agencies elsewhere are meeting similar challenges and by a lack of data on the success or otherwise of existing initiatives. Despite recent and valuable attempts to deal with such problems in the European Union and North America, these remain islands of wisdom in a sea of ignorance. For example, when it comes to dealing with small and medium-sized enterprises, very little is known, and what is known is not effectively distilled and disseminated. Much the same could be said about the roles of third parties, commercial and non-commercial, as surrogate regulators, and more broadly of many current initiatives to reconfigure the regulatory state. Based on the authors' work for the OECD, Victorian Environmental Protection Authority and the Western Australian Department of Environment Protection, Leaders and Laggards addresses these problems by identifying innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, evaluating empirically the effectiveness of regulatory reform and providing policy prescriptions that would better enable agencies to fulfil their regulatory missions. Focusing primarily on the differing requirements for both corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises in North America and Europe, the book aims to complement existing initiatives and to expand knowledge of regulatory reform by showing: how existing experience can best be put to practical use "on the ground"; by drawing lessons from experiments in innovative regulation internationally; by reporting and extrapolating on original case studies; and by advancing understanding on which instruments and strategies are likely to be of most value and why. The authors argue that the development of theory has outstripped its application. In essence, Leaders and Laggards aims to ground a myriad of theory on the reinvention of environmental regulation into practice. The book will be essential reading for environmental policy-makers, regulatory and other government officials responsible for policy design and implementation, academics and postgraduate students in environmental management, environmental law and environmental policy, and a more general readership within environmental policy and management studies. It will also be of interest to those in industry, such as environmental managers and corporate strategists, who are considering the use of more innovative environmental and regulatory strategies, and to environmental NGOs.
This fully illustrated field guide is loaded with dozens of activities, games and crafts for you and your troops to enjoy in the great outdoors, from forest skills to creative pursuits. These mission briefs are expertly designed to make sure your squad learns valuable skills, stays safe and has a lot of fun. Suitable for ages 3 to 13.
Born in Tiger Bay but living in LA, the Voodoo Detective is about make a rather remarkable discovery. While he is out to solve the mystery of life after death, the psychic experiments he conducts toward this end introduce him to KAON, a discarnate intelligence who claims that he had lived 2,500 years before in a yet to be discovered Ammonite city on the southern coastline of ancient Greece. At the same time however, his otherworldly probings also trigger an intriguing but disturbing series of foreboding lucid dreams that ultimately lead to tragic consequences in this true story.
Few cities have changed so dramatically since the end of World War Two as Sunderland. In 1945 it was the largest shipbuilding town in the world and its economy and employment depended on its heavy industries. By 2000 the shipyards, coal mines and industries had vanished along with famous names such as Vaux Breweries and Binns department store. In a few decades Sunderland was transformed. Working life altered forever with the coming of car manufacturing and telephone call centres, and the social and cultural changes that occurred were just as rapid and wide-ranging. Neil Sinclair's beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched history of this period gives a fascinating insight into the process of change. He recalls the personalities, events and underlying trends that had a major impact on the development of the city. His narrative records what it was like to live through this sometimes difficult time of transition. The slum clearance programme is well described, as are the development of the vast post-war housing estates and the changes in the city centre.A fine selection of illustrations shows how the old industrial sites, often on the river-banks, have been reused for housing, leisure facilities and the growing university campus. The author also examines the characteristics of Sunderland people and he vividly recalls notable individuals who shaped the recent development of the city. Neil Sinclair's book will be essential reading and reference for everyone who lives in the city and has experienced half a century of transformation.
A clause-by-clause guide to the types of warranties and indemnities to include in purchases agreements for a group of companies. Each situation is examined from both vendor's and purchaser's point-of-view, with suggestions on how to modify clauses for the protection of both sides.
Designed to be used when drafting agreements for the purchase or sale of companies, this guide explains the necessity of each clause and its implications for both the buyer and the seller and suggests ways in which each clause might be modified for the protection of both sides.
Despite decades of policy experimentation, the ultimate goal of efficient and effective environmental regulation has continued to elude policy-makers and regulatory theorists. The less than satisfactory performance of both government and market approaches to environmental protection has led tothe introduction of a broader range of policy mechanisms, such as education, information-based strategies, economic instruments and self-regulation. Yet these various policy instruments are usually treated as alternatives to one another rather than as complementary. Drawing from studies in North America, Europe and Australia, the authors show how the design of complementary combinations of policy instruments, tailored to particular environmental goals and circumstances, will produce more effective and efficient policy outcomes. They also confront the criticalproblem of how, at a time of fiscal constraint and small government, environmental policy might still be designed in ways that improve outcomes both for the environment and for business.
Over the last 15 years the coal mining industry has achieved impressive gains in its work health and safety (WHS) performance. These are widely attributed to the development of a new WHS architecture based on structured risk management concepts and WHS management systems.Regulators too have sought to harness this approach in the development of a new form of "management based regulation" which holds out the promise of "regulating at a distance" in a manner that is resource efficient while at the same time promising better WHS outcomes than more prescriptive alternatives.However, the coal mining industry has been unable to sustain its impressive injury/fatality reduction trajectory and individual companies have been unable to apply their WHS architecture successfully across the entirety of their operations. These findings raise important questions for WHS.Based on over 150 interviews mining industry stakeholders and on in depth access to multiple mine sites within individual companies, the authors conclude that corporate systems and other tools of management-based regulation only work well when WHS is institutionalised, and when it gets into the "bloodstream" of the organisation at site level. Only when the formal systems (audits, reporting, monitoring) are supported by informal systems (trust, commitment, engagement) will they be fully effective.These findings and policy prescriptions are relevant not just to mining and WHS but to the multiple areas of social regulation where a systems-based approach has become an article of faith for companies and regulators alike.
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