Roland Murphy's Books

Lord of Janissaries

By: Jerry Pournelle,Roland J. Green

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Three best-selling Jerry Pournelle masterpieces in one volume for the first time: Janissaries and Tran. A modern soldier is transported by aliens to a world filled with warriors through the ages including medieval knights, Roman soldiers. His task: survival. Janissaries Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangeorus mission--only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile teritory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed... Clan and Crown and Storms of Victory He didn't want to conquer the world. He had to. Captain Rick Galloway, formerly of the US Army, more recently a mercenary commander, was now Lord Rick on the planet Tran. Rescued by an alien spaceship from certain death when a mercenary assignment went sour, he and his men were dropped on a world distant from Earth, but inhabited by humans transplanted in the past from medieval Europe, from Imperial Rome, and from other now-vanished nations. Now the time of the Demon Star approaches, whose close approach and fierce heat will render much of Tran uninhabitable. To survive this fiery apocalypse, the warring nations of Tran must be united. Lord Rick doesn't want to conquer the world, but the alternative is certain extinction! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Janissaries: "On the cover... is the clain 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be." - Milwaukee Journal

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Tran

By: Jerry Pournelle,Roland Green

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Tran

By: Jerry Pournelle,Roland Green

Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star. Includes: Clan & Crown and Storms of Victory At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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1618248251

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Social Work

Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger

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Social Work

Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger

Discover why social work must be restructured if it is to remain viable!Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century provides you with a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in social work, and the tension surrounding various social work education curriculums. You will benefit from this thorough discussion of the many problems that the social work profession is facing: a lack of scholarly research, inadequate educational programs, and the use of hypertechnology to educate social work students.Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century examines the epistemological, theoretical, socio/technical, and practice directions that social work has branched into. You'll discover that today's central direction for social work is generated from liberal, postmodern, and increasingly feminist ideological perspectives. In a field where conceptual and theoretical input rarely allow for intellectual diversity, this volume demonstrates that several views are best for inquiry and exploration in social work.Issues discussed include: examining real or unreal social work values by separating them from beliefs, preferences, norms, attitudes, and opinions creating social work course outlines that incorporate practices developed around the globe, allowing for more conceptual and theoretical growth within the field realizing the tremendous difference between communication in the instrumental sense via technology, and in the affective, soul-oriented sense via personal interaction investigating the negative effects of communicating with hypertechnology (modems, e-mail) in the social work profession realizing the need for a greater quantity and quality of social work research to progress further in the field Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century invites you to reinvent social work for today's post-industrial and post-modern era. You will discover a series of challenges that social work must meet and overcome if it is to move into the new century as a relevant and viable profession. You will explore solutions such as increasing scholarship and research among social workers, and decreasing the use of technology (for example, classes held via the Internet) in social work education programs in order to increase the quality of the social work profession.

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Routledge

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1000156737

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The Tree of Life

An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

By: Roland Edmund Murphy

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The Tree of Life

An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

By: Roland Edmund Murphy

Since 1990 Roland Murphy's Tree of Life has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now The Tree of Life is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research. This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughout its tumultuous history. Murphy looks at each wisdom book individually -- Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon -- and adds to them a discussion of wisdom from other parts of the Old Testament. His careful investigations expose the various guises that wisdom adopts -- the "fear of the Lord," moral formation, the universality of human experience, the mysteries of creation, and others.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802839657

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Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

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Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

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1134728875

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Scholars and Prophets

Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries

By: Roland Lardinois

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Scholars and Prophets

Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries

By: Roland Lardinois

The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published on India and shows that Dumont has been influenced by both groups. The book draws on archives and empirical material.

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1351403605

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Monkey Me and the School Ghost: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #4)

By: Timothy Roland

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Monkey Me and the School Ghost: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #4)

By: Timothy Roland

When Clyde gets excited and hyper, he brings a whole new meaning to "monkeying around!" This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!After eating the banana from a science experiment, Clyde changes from an average elementary school student into a high-energy monkey whenever he gets excited. Usually this causes Clyde a lot of trouble at school. But when someone dressed up like a ghost is seen walking around the hallways, only Clyde's special monkey-powers can save the day!

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Monkey Me and the New Neighbor: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #3)

By: Timothy Roland

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Monkey Me and the New Neighbor: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #3)

By: Timothy Roland

When Clyde gets excited and hyper, he brings a whole new meaning to "monkeying around!" This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Clyde is an energetic student who just can't sit still. After eating a banana that has been zapped by lasers on his class field trip to the science museum Clyde starts to feel weird. Now every time he gets hyper, he transforms into a monkey! Only with the help of his twin sister, Claudia, can Monkey Clyde stay out of trouble.Whenever Clyde gets excited, he changes from an average elementary school student into a high-energy monkey. This causes Clyde a lot of trouble at school. But what happens when Clyde gets a new neighbor? And that neighbor turns out to be the school principal. Will Clyde be able to stay calm at home?

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John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

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John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

John Wayne worked on film sets around the globe. This book follows the trail, from his beginnings on the Fox backlot to his final filming in Lone Pine, California. Locations in Mexico, Normandy, Rome, Madrid, London, Ireland, Libya and Africa are covered, along with his favorite vacation spots in Hawaii, Acapulco, Greece, Monaco, and the Hollywood hot-spots he frequented. Anecdotes revisit his most famous scenes, including Rooster Cogburn's charge in True Grit (1969) and Davy Crockett's last stand in The Alamo (1960). Production details describe how San Diego stood in for Iwo Jima, how Old Tucson was turned into El Dorado, and how Genghis Kahn ruled over the deserts of Utah. Never before published photos present then-and-now views in this first of its kind guided tour for film location hunters and Wayne aficionados.

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McFarland

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147668006X

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Helium Three

By: Roland Dobbs

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Helium Three

By: Roland Dobbs

The condensed phases of helium three provide an exciting laboratory for many fundamental questions in condensed matter physics. Due to its light mass and weak interatomic potential, the condensed phases of helium display quantum effects more dramatically than any other atomic system. Intuitionbased on classical experience is often misleading in these phases: the solid phase for instance is less ordered at low temperature than the liquid phase. The present book is unique in covering all the low temperature properties of helium three as liquid, superfluid, and solid. It provides anintroduction to the extensive literature on helium three from the point of view of an experimentalist, and includes the analogy of its properties with the cosmological 'big bang'. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in condensed matter physics and low temperature physics will findthis the standard reference work for the decade to come.

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0198506406

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Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

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Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

Illustrated with a wide range of case studies drawn from all parts of the world, POPULATION GEOGRAPHY clearly depicts the cause-and-effect links between demographic change and the socio-economic transformation of societies. Providing timely information in a clear and accessible style, the text is an ideal classroom text for instructors who are introducing their students to the topic of population geography.

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Guilford Press

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0898624649

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicized and readily accessible. This reference surveys the breadth of innovative place and people development practices, presenting lessons and examples at a general and textured level, putting information about innovative ways to change, influence, and improve the economic development process within easy reach. Roland Anglin brings his unique vantage point to the topic; his experience as a practitioner and applied academic allowed him to see how community economic development practices grow over time in size, scale, and impact. He highlights the difference between what is now termed community economic development (CED) and traditional local economic development practice, specifically the priority placed on community involvement in economic development partnerships between the private sector and government. The book includes case studies that demonstrate what has and has not worked in revitalization efforts, as well as how active public and private sector partnerships have been the most effective in revitalization efforts. A Resource Guide is included at the end of the book for readers who may want a more expansive understanding of community economic development.

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Routledge

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1351552996

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The Renaissance Hamlet

Issues and Responses in 1600

By: Roland Mushat Frye

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The Renaissance Hamlet

Issues and Responses in 1600

By: Roland Mushat Frye

Drawing on recent advances in historical knowledge, the author describes contemporary attitudes toward issues such as rebellion, conscience, regicide, incest, retribution, and mourning. His investigation reveals a number of convincing new reasons for viewing Hamlet not as an irresolute young man but as a vigorous and determined figure in confrontation with the moral dilemmas of his age. By understanding the play in its original terms, we find that it takes on new depth and power for our own time. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400852846

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9781400852840

Computational Systems Biology

Chapter 19. Applications in Cancer Research: Mathematical Models of Apoptosis

By: Stefan M. Kallenberger,Stefan Legewie,Roland Eils

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Computational Systems Biology

Chapter 19. Applications in Cancer Research: Mathematical Models of Apoptosis

By: Stefan M. Kallenberger,Stefan Legewie,Roland Eils

Apoptosis is a form of cellular suicide central to various aspects in biology including tissue homeostasis and embryonic development. It is typically dysregulated in cancer. Understanding the apoptotic signal transduction network is thus a central goal of cancer research. Quantitative modeling approaches provided valuable insights into determinants of cell fate decisions, and promise to become a valuable tool to optimize therapeutic strategies. In this chapter, we summarize modeling approaches used in systems biology of apoptosis. In addition, we give an overview of apoptosis-related research questions that can be addressed by modeling. Moreover, we review top-down and bottom-up modeling approaches applied to apoptosis, and particularly focus on ordinary differential equation (ODE) modeling. We describe bistability, temporal switching, crosstalk between death and survival, and discuss approaches to model cell-to-cell variability.

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Monkey Me and the Pet Show: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #2)

By: Timothy Roland

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Monkey Me and the Pet Show: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #2)

By: Timothy Roland

When Clyde gets excited, he brings a whole new meaning to "monkeying around!" This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Clyde is an energetic student who just can't sit still. When he gets too excited, he transforms into a real monkey! When the class bully challenges Clyde's "monkey me" to the pet talent show, he has no choice but to participate. But when the other pets start to disappear, Clyde uses his inner monkey to save the day.

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0545559839

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Storm Runners (The Storm Runners Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Roland Smith

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Storm Runners (The Storm Runners Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Roland Smith

The first in a middle-grade action-adventure series from Roland Smith!Chase Masters and his father are "storm runners," racing across the country in pursuit of hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Anywhere bad weather strikes, they are not far behind. Chase is learning more on the road than he ever would just sitting in a classroom. But when the hurricane of the century hits, he will be tested in ways he never could have imagined.

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Pathologies of the West

An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America

By: Roland Littlewood

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Pathologies of the West

An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America

By: Roland Littlewood

Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that it is necessary to take into account both social process and personal cultural meaning when explaining psychiatric illness and "deviant" behavior. Littlewood brings anthropological and psychiatric literature to bear on case studies of self-poisoning, agoraphobia, hysteria, chronic fatigue syndrome, post-traumatic stress, male sexual violence, and eating disorders. He contends that Western psychiatric illnesses are themselves "possession states"--patterns by which individual agency is displaced through an idiom of alien intrusion whether of a spirit or a disease.Pathologies of the West is simultaneously an original approach to psychiatric illness in its international perspective and an introduction to recent developments in the social anthropology of medicine. It examines critically the relevance of phenomenological, structural, and ethological approaches to understanding extreme personal experience. Littlewood argues that anthropology must not simply provide a cultural alternative to sociological critiques of medicine--psychiatry itself should take into account the ways in which cultural values are acted out by individuals.

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Cornell University Press

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0801487439

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Monkey Me and the Golden Monkey: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #1)

By: Timothy Roland

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Monkey Me and the Golden Monkey: A Branches Book (Monkey Me #1)

By: Timothy Roland

When Clyde gets excited, he brings a whole new meaning to "monkeying around!" This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Clyde is an energetic student who just can't sit still. After eating a banana that has been zapped by lasers on his class field trip to the science museum Clyde starts to feel weird. Now every time he gets excited, he transforms into a monkey! Only with the help of his twin sister, Claudia, can Monkey Clyde stay out of trouble.

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Raising Sons of Promise

A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys

By: Roland C. Warren

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Raising Sons of Promise

A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys

By: Roland C. Warren

As a single mother, you might find yourself in the difficult position of raising sons alone, wounded by the broken promises of your child's father. But God offers a greater promise to you and your family. Roland Warren, himself the child of a single mother, invites you on a journey to heal your heart and parent your boys to become healthy men, good husbands, and strong fathers.

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1514002906

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

Niven was planning a book about his experiences, but never completed it owing to ill health. The result of twenty years' research, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods offers a well-illustrated and vivid first-hand account through Wicks and Harrison's selection of photographs and stories from Niven's own extensive writings and those of people with whom he worked."--BOOK JACKET.

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Texas Tech University Press

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089672414X

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A Sociology of Educating

By: Roland Meighan,Clive Harber

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A Sociology of Educating

By: Roland Meighan,Clive Harber

Intended to stimulate sociologically informed thinking about educating, this book has become firmly established in its field, winning places on reading lists for Education Studies, Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development courses. The book begins with a light-hearted taste of sociology, and then goes on to explore five key areas of education: the hidden curriculum ideologies of educating sociological perspectives and the study of education educational life chances, and the next learning system. This new edition includes sections on personalized learning, progressive education, and the impact of assessment on pupils. It also comes with a new chapter 'The Discourses of Education'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441159487

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System Safety Engineering and Management

By: Harold E. Roland,Brian Moriarty

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System Safety Engineering and Management

By: Harold E. Roland,Brian Moriarty

Comprehensive in scope, it describes the process of system safety--from the creation and management of a safety program on a system under development to the analysis that must be performed as this system is designed and produced to assure acceptable risk in its operation. Unique in its coverage, it is the only work on this subject that combines full descriptions of the management and analysis processes and procedures in one handy volume. Designed for both system safety managers and engineers, it incorporates the safety procedures used by the Department of Defense and NASA and explains basic statistical methods and network analysis methods which provide an understanding of the engineering analysis methods that follow.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471618160

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Lessons Learned

Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace

By: Roland S. Barth

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Lessons Learned

Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace

By: Roland S. Barth

Roland S. Barth′s warm and wise book deserves to be kept close at hand. Witty, entertaining, instructive, and poignant, Barth′s stories will get you thinking, and the ′working rules′ salted throughout the book will help you navigate the deceptive shoals and powerful tides we all have to deal with at work." Lee G. Bolman, Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership University of Missouri-Kansas City Author of Leading With Soul and Reframing the Path to School Leadership Lessons Learned is an insightful, funny, moving look at commonalties between life at sea and life in the schoolhouse. More than any other Barth book, this one exposes Roland for what he really is—an avid sailor, loyal friend, life-long learner, and compassionate leader." Milli Pierce, Director The Principals′ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education "This charming, humorous, and wise book teaches important lessons about relationships at work and at play. Once again, Barth has written a useful and invaluable book for teachers and principals alike." Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education Trinity University Author of The Lifeworld of Leadership "Barth′s Lessons Learned is a powerful guide for defining the types of interpersonal relationships needed to bring about success." Karen M. Dyer, Manager Education Sector, Center for Creative Leadership Author of The Intuitive Principal In Lessons Learned, Roland S. Barth shares his often whimsical, but always thoughtful, reflections on relationships at sea and in the workplace. Drawing on his 40 years of experience on deck and in the schoolhouse, Barth shows us that these two worlds have more in common than we might expect—and that there is much to be learned about getting along with one another from both. Our day-to-day exchanges with others are central to how we experience and perform in the workplace. Everyone wants to be a member of a high-performing team, be an effective leader, and work in an enlightened and empowering culture. Barth′s seemingly simple stories of interactions among colleagues and companions provide rich, humorous, and often poignant insights into the subtlety and complexity of human relationships that shape teams and leaders. The resulting "rules" provide a practical and delightfully conversational guide to cultivating and fortifying working relationships. Some lessons learned are obvious, others less so. Most of all, Barth provides a backdrop that invites us to reflect on our own stories so that we may better understand our own "lessons learned.

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Corwin Press

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1483334201

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Civil liability for damage caused by waste

By: Boris Meissner,Roland Pappel

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Civil liability for damage caused by waste

By: Boris Meissner,Roland Pappel

The subject of this book is the »Proposal for a Council Directive on Civil Liability for Damage Caused by Waste« which was first presented by the Commission of the European Communities in 1989, then amended in 1991, and which remains under consideration by the Council to this day.The book attempts to look at the Proposal from a comparative point of view, asking what impact the Directive, if implemented as drafted, would have on the law of different Member States of the EC. For this purpose, England (as part of the U. K.) and Germany have been taken as examples. A detailed and comparative outline of the English and German law related to civil liability for waste precedes the examination of the proposed Directive. In this way, the book also contributes to the discussion triggered by the Commission's »Green Paper on Remedying Environmental Damage« of 1993. To the main text of the book, which is written in English, an extensive German summary has been added.Gegenstand dieses Buches ist der von der Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (jetzt: der Europäischen Union)im Jahre 1989 vorgelegte »Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie des Rates über die zivilrechtliche Haftung für die durch Abfälle verursachten Schäden«, der im Jahre 1991 mit wesentlichen Änderungen versehen wurde und dem Rat nach wie vor zur Prüfung vorliegt.Das Buch beleuchtet den Richtlinienvorschlag rechtsvergleichend, d. h. unter der Fragestellung, wie sich die Richtlinie auf die Rechtslage in verschiedenen Mitgliedsstaaten der EU auswirken würde, wenn sie in ihrer derzeitigen Fassung in Kraft träte. Als Beispiele dienen England (als Teil des Vereinigten Königreiches) und Deutschland. Eine detaillierte und rechtsvergleichende Darstellung des englischen und deutschen Rechts in bezug auf die zivilrechtliche Haftung für Abfälle ist daher der Untersuchung des Richtlinienvorschlages vorangestellt. Auf diese Weise leistet das Buch auch einen Beitrag zu der Diskussion, die das im Jahre 1993 von der Europäischen Kommission vorgelegte »Grünbuch über die Sanierung von Umweltschäden« ausgelöst hat. Dem in englischer Sprache verfaßten Haupttext wurde eine ausführliche deutsche Zusammenfassung beigegeben.

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