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Light Science

Physics and the Visual Arts

By: Thomas Rossing,Christopher J Chiaverina

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Light Science

Physics and the Visual Arts

By: Thomas Rossing,Christopher J Chiaverina

Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see. The approach emphasises phenomena rather than mathematical theories and the joy of discovery rather than the drudgery of derivations. The text includes numerous problems, and suggestions for simple experiments, and also considers such questions as why the sky is blue, how mirrors and prisms affect the colour of light, how compact disks work, and what visual illusions can tell us about the nature of perception. It goes on to discuss such topics as the optics of the eye and camera, the different sources of light, photography and holography, colour in printing and painting, as well as computer imaging and processing.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387988270

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America's Church

The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

By: Thomas A. Tweed

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America's Church

The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

By: Thomas A. Tweed

The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around six themes that characterize U.S. Catholicism, and he ties these themes to the Shrine's material culture--to images, artifacts, or devotional spaces. Thus he begins with the Basilica's foundation stone, weaving it into a discussion of "brick and mortar" Catholicism, the drive to build institutions. To highlight the Church's inclination to appeal to women, he looks at fund-raising for the Mary Memorial Altar, and he focuses on the Filipino oratory to Our Lady of Antipolo to illustrate the Church's outreach to immigrants. Throughout, he employs painstaking detective work to shine a light on the many facets of American Catholicism reflected in the shrine.

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Oxford University Press

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0199831483

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Access to Asylum

International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

By: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

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Access to Asylum

International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

By: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border crossings. In this volume Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen examines the impact of these new practices for refugees' access to asylum. A systematic analysis is provided of the reach and limits of international refugee law when migration control is carried out extraterritorially or by non-state actors. State practice from around the globe and case law from all the major human rights institutions is discussed. The arguments are further linked to wider debates in human rights, general international law and political science.

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Cambridge University Press

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113950116X

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The Political Theory of the American Founding

Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom

By: Thomas G. West

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The Political Theory of the American Founding

Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom

By: Thomas G. West

This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas. The book is intended as a response to the current scholarly consensus, which holds that the Founders' political thought is best understood as an amalgam of liberalism, republicanism, and perhaps other traditions. West argues that, on the contrary, the foundational documents overwhelmingly point to natural rights as the lens through which all politics is understood. The book explores in depth how the Founders' supposedly republican policies on citizen character formation do not contradict but instead complement their liberal policies on property and economics. Additionally, the book shows how the Founders' embraced other traditions in their politics, such as common law and Protestantism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108179517

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After Arminius

A Historical Introduction to Arminian Theology

By: Thomas H. McCall,Keith D. Stanglin

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After Arminius

A Historical Introduction to Arminian Theology

By: Thomas H. McCall,Keith D. Stanglin

Inspired by the ideas of the Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, Arminianism was the subject of important theological controversies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and still today remains an important position within Protestant thought. What became known as Arminian theology was held by people across a wide swath of geographical and ecclesial positions. This theological movement was in part a reaction to the Reformed doctrine of predestination and was founded on the assertion that God's sovereignty and human free will are compatible. More broadly, it was an attempt to articulate a holistic view of God and salvation that is grounded in Scripture and Christian tradition as well as adequate to the challenges of life. First developed in European, British, and American contexts, the movement engaged with a wide range of intellectual challenges. While standing together in their common rejection of several key planks of Reformed theology, supporters of Arminianism took varying positions on other matters. Some were broadly committed to catholic and creedal theology, while others were more open to theological revision. Some were concerned primarily with practical matters, while others were engaged in system-building as they sought to articulate and defend an over-arching vision of God and the world. The story of Arminian development is complex, yet essential for a proper understanding of the history of Protestant theology. The historical development of Arminian theology, however, is not well known. In After Arminius, Thomas H. McCall and Keith D. Stanglin offer a thorough historical introduction to Arminian theology, providing an account that will be useful to scholars and students of ecclesiastical history and modern Christian thought.

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Oxford University Press

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019087421X

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God of Liberty

A Religious History of the American Revolution

By: Thomas S Kidd

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God of Liberty

A Religious History of the American Revolution

By: Thomas S Kidd

A "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contribution to American independence and a timely appeal for the same spiritual vitality today (Washington Times). At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths-the First Great Awakening and Enlightenment concepts such as deism and atheism had endowed the colonists with varying and often opposed religious beliefs. Despite their differences, however, Americans found common ground against British tyranny and formed an alliance that would power the American Revolution. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd offers the first comprehensive account of religion's role during this transformative period and how it gave form to our nation and sustained it through its tumultuous birth -- and how it can be a force within our country during times of transition today.

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Basic Books

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0465022774

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Science as Autobiography

The Troubled Life of Niels Jern

By: Thomas Soderqvist

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Science as Autobiography

The Troubled Life of Niels Jern

By: Thomas Soderqvist

This biography probes the unusual mind, the dramatic life, and the outstanding scientific work of Danish-born immunologist Niels Jerne (1911–1994). Jerne’s Nobel Prize-winning achievements in the field of immunology place him in the pantheon of great twentieth-century biomedical theorists, yet his life is perhaps even more interesting than his science. Science as Autobiography tells Jerne’s story, weaving together a narrative of his life experiences, emotional life, and extraordinarily creative scientific work. A legendary figure who preferred an afternoon of conversation in a Paris wine bar to work in the laboratory, Jerne was renowned for his unparalleled powers of concentration and analytical keenness as well as his dissonant personal life. The book explores Jerne the man and scientist, making the fascinating argument that his life experience and view of himself became a metaphorical resource for the construction of his theories. The book also probes the moral issues that surrounded Jerne’s choice to sacrifice his family in favor of scientific goals and the pursuit of excellence.

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Yale University Press

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0300128711

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Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, Fifth Edition

By: Thomas P McCarthy

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Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, Fifth Edition

By: Thomas P McCarthy

In this edition, the communities of sisters have been arranged according to their general apostolic work, viz., contemplative, domestic, foreign and home missions, nursing, retreat and social work, teaching, and writing and publications.

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CUA Press

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0813213126

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Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity

By: Jerrold E. Marsden,Thomas J. R. Hughes

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Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity

By: Jerrold E. Marsden,Thomas J. R. Hughes

Graduate-level study approaches mathematical foundations of three-dimensional elasticity using modern differential geometry and functional analysis. It presents a classical subject in a modern setting, with examples of newer mathematical contributions. 1983 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486142272

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A Jungian Life

By: Thomas B. Kirsch

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A Jungian Life

By: Thomas B. Kirsch

From conception until the present, C.G. Jung, his ideas, and analytical psychology itself have been a central thread of Thomas B. Kirsch’s life. His parents, James and Hilde Kirsch, were in analysis with C.G, Jung when he was born, and he was imaged to be the product of a successful analysis. At an early age, Dr. Kirsch was introduced to many of the first-generation analysts who surrounded C.G. Jung, and over time became acquainted with them. Later, in his roles with the IAAP, he gained a broad knowledge of the developments in analytical psychology, and through both his early family history and in his later professional life, Dr. Kirsch worked closely with many analysts who were integral in forming the foundations of analytical psychology.

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Fisher King Press

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1771690240

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Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899

By: Thomas R. Buecker

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Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899

By: Thomas R. Buecker

Established in 1874 just south of the Black Hills, Fort Robinson witnessed many of the most dramatic, most tragic encounters between whites and American Indians, including the Cheyenne Outbreak, the death of Crazy Horse, the Ghost Dance, the desperation and diplomacy of such famed plains Indian leaders as Dull Knife and Red Cloud, and the tragic sequence of events surrounding Wounded Knee.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135344

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The Great Awakening

The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

By: Thomas S. Kidd

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The Great Awakening

The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

By: Thomas S. Kidd

In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual’s experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit’s work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.

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Yale University Press

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0300148259

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Seeing All Things Whole

The Scientific Mysticism and Art of Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960)

By: Thomas John Hastings

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Seeing All Things Whole

The Scientific Mysticism and Art of Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960)

By: Thomas John Hastings

Kagawa Toyohiko was one of the best-known evangelists and social reformers of the twentieth century. Founder of several religious, educational, social welfare, medical, financial, labor, and agricultural cooperatives, he was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947 and 1948), and four times for the Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1955, 1956, and 1960). Appealing to the masses who had little knowledge of Christianity, Kagawa believed that a positive interpretation of nature was a key missiological issue in Japan. He reasoned that a faith, which is rooted in the "downward movement" of Christ's incarnation, must support the scientific quest and meditate on the purpose or "upward movement" implicit in scientific findings. Through an anti-reductionist methodological pluralism that strives to "sees all things whole," this "scientific mystic" employed a wide range of Japanese and Western cultural resources to assert a complementary role for science and religion in modern society.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498204082

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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

By: Thomas H. Tietenberg,Lynne Lewis

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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

By: Thomas H. Tietenberg,Lynne Lewis

Discussion Questions; Self-Test Exercise; Further Reading; 2 The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems; Introduction; The Human-Environment Relationship; The Environment as an Asset; The Economic Approach; EXAMPLE 2.1 Economic Impacts of Reducing Hazardous Pollutant Emissions from Iron and Steel Foundries; Environmental Problems and Economic Efficiency; Static Efficiency; Property Rights; Property Rights and Efficient Market Allocations; Efficient Property Rights Structures; Producer's Surplus, Scarcity Rent, and Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium.

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Routledge

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1315523965

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Piety and Plurality

Theological Education since 1960

By: Glenn Thomas Miller

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Piety and Plurality

Theological Education since 1960

By: Glenn Thomas Miller

I began studying American theological education in the 1970s, and Piety and Plurality is the third of three studies. In Piety and Intellect, I examined the colonial and nineteenth-century search for a form of theological education that was true to the church's confessional traditions and responsible to the intellectual demands of the age. In Piety and Profession, I described how that model was modified under the impact of the new biblical criticism and by the American belief in professionalism. In this volume, I have tried to bring the story up to date. Unfortunately, I did not find one unifying theme for the period. Rather, theological education seemed to move forward on a number of different levels, each with its own story. Here I have tried to capture some of the dynamics of this movement and to indicate how theological educators have struggled with the plurality in their midst. In the process, theological education has learned to live with its contradictions and problems. As important as the stories are, however, there is also the story of the schools' struggles to live in the midst of a constant financial crisis that checked development at every stage.

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1625641842

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Hearing God’s Voice in the Noise

A Christian Psychic’s Journey of Prayer, Meditation, Intuition, Conversations with God and More

By: Kimberly Susan Thomas

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Hearing God’s Voice in the Noise

A Christian Psychic’s Journey of Prayer, Meditation, Intuition, Conversations with God and More

By: Kimberly Susan Thomas

Kimberly Susan Thomas embarked upon a self-improvement journey. This book reveals how being Black, Christian, and a psychic medium strengthen her relationship with God. She learned that God speaks in different ways. Kimberly realized that a small voice, in her head, dreams, visions, and more, was God’s voice gently guiding her. The spiritual journey highjacked the self-improvement journey. This book contains Kimberly’s anecdotes, insecurities, and insights experienced along the way. She shares how self-help books, famous psychics, religion, prayers, and more all played a role in her becoming a certified psychic medium. Kimberly reveals how racial stereotypes, prejudice and her insecurities got in the way of growing spiritually. Those same events resulted in emotional healing and a greater understanding of her religious life. Have you ever wondered what it is like to pursue becoming a professional psychic medium? Are you one of those folks that don’t believe they are psychic yet curious about it? Everyone has psychic gifts. How each person develops their gifts will depend upon their unique spiritual journey. Chapters include prayers and instructions to help you discover how God’s voice is revealed in your world. The bottom line is this: God’s voice is in the noise of life. We just need to learn how to listen.

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Balboa Press

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1982218274

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9781982218270

Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows

By: Michel Deville,Thomas B. Gatski

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Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows

By: Michel Deville,Thomas B. Gatski

Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows provides researchers and engineering practitioners encountering fluid flows with state-of-the-art knowledge in continuum concepts and associated fluid dynamics. In doing so it supplies the means to design mathematical models of these flows that adequately express the engineering physics involved. It exploits the implicit link between the turbulent flow of classical Newtonian fluids and the laminar and turbulent flow of non-Newtonian fluids such as those required in food processing and polymeric flows. The book develops a descriptive mathematical model articulated through continuum mechanics concepts for these non-Newtonian, viscoelastic fluids and turbulent flows. Each complex fluid and flow is examined in this continuum context as well as in combination with the turbulent flow of viscoelastic fluids. Some details are also explored via kinetic theory, especially viscoelastic fluids and their treatment with the Boltzmann equation. Both solution and modeling strategies for turbulent flows are laid out using continuum concepts, including a description of constructing polynomial representations and accounting for non-inertial and curvature effects. Ranging from fundamental concepts to practical methodology, and including discussion of emerging technologies, this book is ideal for those requiring a single-source assessment of current practice in this intricate yet vital field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642252958

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The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760

By: Thomas J. Little

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The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760

By: Thomas J. Little

During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation society in the British-Atlantic world. The Lords Proprietors of Carolina made vigorous efforts to recruit Nonconformists to their overseas colony by granting settlers considerable freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. Codified in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, this toleration ultimately attracted a substantial number of settlers of many and varying Christian denominations. In The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism, Thomas J. Little refutes commonplace beliefs that South Carolina grew spiritually lethargic and indifferent to religion in the colonial era. Little argues that pluralism engendered religious renewal and revival, which developed further after Anglicans in the colony secured legal establishment for their church. The Carolina colony emerged at the fulcrum of an international Protestant awakening that embraced a more emotional, individualistic religious experience and helped to create a transatlantic evangelical movement in the mid-eighteenth century. Offering new perspectives on both early American history and the religious history of the colonial South, The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism charts the regional spread of early evangelicalism in the too-often neglected South Carolina lowcountry—the economic and cultural center of the lower southern colonies. Although evangelical Christianity has long been and continues to be the dominant religion of the American South, historians have traditionally described it as a comparatively late-flowering development in British America. Reconstructing the history of religious revivalism in the lowcountry and placing the subject firmly within an Atlantic world context, Little demonstrates that evangelical Christianity had much earlier beginnings in prerevolutionary southern society than historians have traditionally recognized.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611172756

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At Any Cost

Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit

By: Thomas F. O'Boyle

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At Any Cost

Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit

By: Thomas F. O'Boyle

O'Boyle has researched and written a monumental book that should be mandatory reading for all CEOs and anyone concerned with business ethics." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Superb . . . a spirited study of General Electric, and of its sometimes brilliant, sometimes bungling, but always ruthless boss, Jack Welch." --Chicago Sun-Times With convincing passion and meticulous research, Thomas F. O'Boyle explores the forces behind General Electric's rise to the top of Wall Street, questioning if GE, with chief executive officer Jack Welch at the helm, is still "bringing good things to life." Welch--explosive, profit-hungry, and pragmatic--catapulted GE's stocks to the top, up 1,155 percent from 1982 to 1997. O'Boyle argues that these astounding results have come only with the heavy price of employees' lives, blighted under the tyranny of "Neutron Jack" Welch, so named for his bomb-like ability to eliminate staff without disturbing surrounding operations. During Welch's reign, hard-nosed success tactics--unblinking downsizing, ruthless acquisition negotiations, and the virtual abandonment of manufacturing in favor of the more glamorous entertainment and financial services industries--coexist with scandals like price-fixing, pollution, and defense contract fraud. Sure to spark controversy, this gripping, comprehensive account begs the greater question: Is Jack Welch's GE a model company for business in the next century, or is it time to change the way the world does business? "Smoothly written and thoroughly researched." --USA Today "This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of corporate America. . . . Thomas F. O'Boyle persuades you that GE--Jack Welch's GE--brings bad things to life. In abundance." --Washington Monthly

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