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A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics

By: Tom Long

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A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics

By: Tom Long

Theoretically innovative and empirically expansive, A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics sets out to become the new authority for the study of small states in International Relations (IR). The book's explanatory approach allows for a comparison of small states' situations and relationships across a global selection of some twenty cases in issues of international security, economy, and institutions. In doing so, it shows how IR's longstandingneglect of small states is a missed opportunity--not just for understanding small states but for developing better theories of IR.

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Oxford University Press

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0190926201

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Waiting for the Cemetery Vote

The Fight to Stop Election Fraud in Arkansas

By: Tom Glaze

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Waiting for the Cemetery Vote

The Fight to Stop Election Fraud in Arkansas

By: Tom Glaze

Waiting for the Cemetery Vote begins with an overview chapter of Arkansas election fraud since the nineteenth century and then moves on to more specific examples of fraudulent activities over a dozen or so years that coincide with the onset of the modern progressive era in Arkansas. Author Tom Glaze, who was a trial lawyer battling election fraud during this time, is the ideal chronicler for this topic, bringing a memoirist's intimate insight together with a wealth of historical knowledge. Glaze describes the manipulation of absentee ballots and poll-tax receipts; votes cast by the dead, children, and animals; forgeries of ballots from nursing homes; and threats to body or livelihood made to anyone who would dare question these activities or monitor elections. Deceptive practices used to control election results were disturbingly brazen in the gubernatorial elections in the 1960s and were especially egregious in Conway and Searcy Counties in the 1970s and in special elections for the state senate in Faulkner, Conway, and Van Buren Counties. A clean-election movement began in the early 1970s, led not by party or political leaders but by individual citizens. These vigilant and courageous Arkansans undertook to do what their public institutions persistently failed to: insure that elections for public office were honest and that the will of the people was scrupulously obliged. Prominent and colorful among these groups was a small band of women in Conway County who dubbed themselves the "Snoop Sisters" and took on the long-established corrupt machine of Sheriff Marlin Hawkins. Written with longtime Arkansas political writer Ernie Dumas and illustrated with cartoons from the inimitable George Fisher, Waiting for the Cemetery Vote will be an entertaining and informative read for any Arkansas history and politics buffs.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610754808

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Lean Software Development

An Agile Toolkit

By: Mary Poppendieck,Thomas David Poppendieck,Tom Poppendieck

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Lean Software Development

An Agile Toolkit

By: Mary Poppendieck,Thomas David Poppendieck,Tom Poppendieck

Providing a set of helpful thinking tools, this text aims to assist in translating each lean principle to agile software development practices that match the needs of your domain.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0321150783

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Lean Enterprise Value

Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

By: E. Murman,T. Allen,K. Bozdogan,J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld,H. McManus,D. Nightingale,E. Rebentisch,Tom Shields,Fred Stahl,Myles Walton,Joyce Warmkessel,Stanley Weiss,Sheila Widnall

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Lean Enterprise Value

Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

By: E. Murman,T. Allen,K. Bozdogan,J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld,H. McManus,D. Nightingale,E. Rebentisch,Tom Shields,Fred Stahl,Myles Walton,Joyce Warmkessel,Stanley Weiss,Sheila Widnall

Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.

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Springer

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1403907501

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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

By: Tom Moon

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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

By: Tom Moon

The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die—does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music. This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It's arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners’ horizons— it makes every listener a seeker, actively pursuing new artists and new sounds, and reconfirming the greatness of the classics. Flanking J. S. Bach and his six entries, for example, are the little-known R&B singer Baby Huey and the '80s Rastafarian hard-core punk band Bad Brains. Farther down the list: The Band, Samuel Barber, Cecelia Bartoli, Count Basie, and Afropop star Waldemer Bastos. Each entry is passionately written, with expert listening notes, fascinating anecdotes, and the occasional perfect quote—"Your collection could be filled with nothing but music from Ray Charles," said Tom Waits, "and you'd have a completely balanced diet." Every entry identifies key tracks, additional works by the artist, and where to go next. And in the back, indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions.

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Workman Publishing Company

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0761153853

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Gumbo Limbo

An Alex Rutledge Mystery

By: Tom Corcoran

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Gumbo Limbo

An Alex Rutledge Mystery

By: Tom Corcoran

Part-time Key West crime-scene photographer Alex Rutledge's vacation is cut short when an old buddy arrives in town, and promptly disappears.

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Macmillan

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0312975708

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Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent

And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer

By: Tom D'Antoni

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Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent

And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer

By: Tom D'Antoni

CONFESSIONS OF A TABLOID WRITER WHO DOVE INTO THE CESSPOOL OF HIS OWN MIND AND CAME UP WITH INCREDIBLE TABLOID STORIES “Some people aspire to greatness. A combination of bad parenting and coming of age in Baltimore, Maryland, at the same time as John Waters pushed me in a different direction,” writes Tom D’Antoni. After fifteen years as a journalist and broadcaster–fifteen years of going after sources and double- and triple-checking facts–D’Antoni was seduced by the dark side: a national supermarket tabloid. When he realized he could entirely make up stories and then quote people he’d just invented–and get paid (poorly) for it–he was hooked. In Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent, D’Antoni resurrects his favorite stories and reveals the (often sick) thoughts that inspired them. From the mild “Newborn Baby Sings Like Elvis” and “Denture Bandit Steals False Teeth from the Mouths of Victims” to the truly twisted, such as “Grandma Turns Pet Dog Inside Out Looking for Lost Lottery Ticket,” “Bag Lady’s B.O. Kills Five People on Bus,” and “Cult Uses Human Heads for Bowling Balls,” they all came straight from D’Antoni’s imagination.

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Villard

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1588364992

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The Southern Kitchen Garden

Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers Essential for the Southern Cook

By: William D. Adams,Tom LeRoy,Thomas R. LeRoy

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The Southern Kitchen Garden

Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers Essential for the Southern Cook

By: William D. Adams,Tom LeRoy,Thomas R. LeRoy

Brimming with fresh vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit, the kitchen garden is a celebration of the seasons from deep roots in the South - at times being the difference between being well-fed or hungry. The kitchen garden has now become fashionable addition to urban, suburban, and country homes. The book contains a planting guide for a variety of garden examples, charts, is essential reading for all gardeners ready to produce food for their tables.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589793188

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The Tom Peters Seminar

Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations

By: Tom Peters

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The Tom Peters Seminar

Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations

By: Tom Peters

This volume brings together the best of the Tom Peters seminars—complete with visual materials. The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that "imagination is the source of value in the economy." Peters' bold ideas vault business thinking beyond change—toward invention and revolution.

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Vintage

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0307764753

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Integrating Lean Six Sigma and High-Performance Organizations

Leading the Charge Toward Dramatic, Rapid, and Sustainable Improvement

By: Tom Devane

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Integrating Lean Six Sigma and High-Performance Organizations

Leading the Charge Toward Dramatic, Rapid, and Sustainable Improvement

By: Tom Devane

You know that great improvement initiatives abound. What you may not know is how to implement them effectively; get fast, dramatic improvement; and sustain those results for the long term. It's a common problem. But take heart: The next wave of performance excellence is here—the seamless integration of today's leading improvement methods. This integration, described thoroughly in this book, builds upon the strengths and addresses the shortcomings of each discipline. For example: While Six Sigma provides a disciplined, quantitative approach, many efforts fail because they don't address the people side of performance improvement and change management. Plus, Six Sigma efforts are expensive and take too long to produce results. Lean Manufacturing techniques can provide quick results, but they lack quantitative tools to reduce variation, and, as a result, are incapable of addressing numerous high-dollar improvement opportunities. Though High-Performance Organizations (HPO) create conditions for great motivation, improve intra-organizational interactions, and lower employee turnover, many HPO interventions fail to produce solid business results because members lack a disciplined approach and the tools for improvement.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787972312

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9780787972318

William Gibson

A Literary Companion

By: Tom Henthorne

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William Gibson

A Literary Companion

By: Tom Henthorne

William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today's most widely read science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for general readers and for scholars interested in Gibson's oeuvre. In addition to providing a literary and cultural context for works ranging from Gibson's first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977), to his recent, bestselling novel, Zero History (2010), the companion offers commentary on Gibson's subjects, themes, and approaches. It also surveys existing scholarship on Gibson's work in an accessible way and provides an extensive bibliography to facilitate further study of William Gibson's writing, influence, and place in the history of science fiction and in literature as a whole.

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McFarland

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0786486937

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9780786486939

Price of Exit

A True Story of Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam

By: Tom Marshall

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Price of Exit

A True Story of Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam

By: Tom Marshall

The risk of a fatal catastrophe was constant. The NVA was the enemy, but the ultimate opponent was, quite simply, death. . . ." For assault helicopter crews flying in and around the NVA-infested DMZ, the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1970-71 was a desperate time of selfless courage. Now former army warrant officer Tom Marshall of the Phoenix, C Company, 158th Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne, captures the deadly mountain terrain, the long hours flown under enormous stress, the grim determination of hardened pilots combat-assaulting through walls of antiaircraft fire, the pickups amid exploding mortar shells and hails of AK fire, the nerve-racking string extractions of SOG teams from North Vietnam. . . . And, through it all, the rising tension as helicopter pilots and crews are lost at an accelerating pace. It is no coincidence that the Phoenix was one of the most highly decorated assault helicopter units in I Corps. For as the American departure accelerated and the enemy added new, more powerful antiaircraft weapons, the helicopter pilots, crew chiefs, and gunners paid the heavy price of withdrawal in blood. For more than 30 Percent of Tom Marshall's 130 helicopter-school classmates, the price of exit was their lives. . . .

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Ballantine Books

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0307758125

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9780307758125

A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

By: Tom Nissley

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A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

By: Tom Nissley

Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the year, featuring original accounts of events in the lives of great writers, and fictional events that took place within beloved books.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393239624

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City as Landscape

A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning

By: Tom Turner

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City as Landscape

A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning

By: Tom Turner

In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136742204

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9781136742200

Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Case Studies and Debates

By: Dr Tom Brass,Tom Brass

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Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Case Studies and Debates

By: Dr Tom Brass,Tom Brass

Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.

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Routledge

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131782735X

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The WBT Briarhoppers

Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio

By: Tom Warlick,Lucy Warlick

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The WBT Briarhoppers

Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio

By: Tom Warlick,Lucy Warlick

In 1934, WBT radio announcer Charles Crutchfield formed a spur-of-the-moment musical group to satisfy a potential sponsor looking for a "hillbilly" radio program to showcase its products. Known as the WBT Briarhoppers, this group went on to become one of the longest lasting bluegrass/country ensembles in America, staying on the air until 1951 and then continuing to perform. Compiled from firsthand interviews, this work tells the story of the WBT Briarhoppers, analyzing the band's history and its connection to the growth of American radio and radio advertising. Using the Briarhoppers as a common thread, it examines changes in culture and the group's contribution to country and bluegrass music. The work also discusses legendary performers including the Tennessee Ramblers, The Johnson Family, and Bill and Charlie Monroe. A discography is included.

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078643144X

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9780786431441

50 Years of Emmerdale

The official story of TV's most iconic rural drama

By: ITV Ventures Ltd,Tom Parfitt

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50 Years of Emmerdale

The official story of TV's most iconic rural drama

By: ITV Ventures Ltd,Tom Parfitt

Everything you need to know about Britain's most iconic rural drama can be found in this beautifully designed and fact-filled book. Celebrating 50 years since the show's creation, this book is packed with history, engrossing features, long lost imagery, and plenty of behind-the-scenes detail. Each character, event, family and location is explored in exhaustive detail, with special features on Emmerdale legends, the show's villains, births, marriages, deaths, and celebrity cameos, bringing all the highlights together with interviews and insights from cast and crew members past and present. This book also includes gatefold section on key family trees, a specially commissioned map of Emmerdale and bespoke artworks for each location, making it a truly desirable package to read or give as a gift. 50 Years of Emmerdale is a stunning and engrossing book, which will delight every fan of this iconic show.

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Cassell

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1788404106

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9781788404105

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson

Guides Not Commanders

By: Tom Harrison

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Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson

Guides Not Commanders

By: Tom Harrison

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000798747

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9781000798746

Capturing Intellectual Knowledge with E-mail Systems: Justifying the Business Case and Return on Investment

By: Tom Swanson,Tom C. Swanson Ph. D.

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Capturing Intellectual Knowledge with E-mail Systems: Justifying the Business Case and Return on Investment

By: Tom Swanson,Tom C. Swanson Ph. D.

This book was written to provide a tool for organizations to use when justifying the need for e-mail capture technology for the purpose of capturing and managing knowledge. E-mail capture is just one facet of capturing knowledge within an organization. This book mentions other methods, but the primary focus is on e-mail capture. The book is a direct derivative of peer-reviewed research during my doctoral studies. Over 500 references were used when researching the background for this book. Over 100 of these references are listed in the back of the book to use in your own justifications for an e-mail capture system to be used for knowledge management. Return on Investment (ROI) is a difficult monster to calculate at times. This book shows a simple method that executives understand. Time equals money. The research identifies the time spent performing many different tasks using e-mail. The time is used for calculating potential cost savings and ROI for different size organizations.

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Lulu.com

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1847284809

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9781847284808

Making Cars in the New India

Industry, Precarity and Informality

By: Tom Barnes

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Making Cars in the New India

Industry, Precarity and Informality

By: Tom Barnes

Auto manufacturing holds the promise of employing many young Indians in relatively well-paid, high-skill employment, but this promise is threatened by the industry's role as a site of immense conflict in recent years. This book asks: how do we explain this conflict? What are the implications of conflict for the ambitious economic development agendas of Indian governments? Based upon extensive field research in India's National Capital Region, this book is the first to focus on labour relations in the Indian auto industry. It proposes the theory that conflict in the auto industry has been driven by twin forces: first, the intersection of global networks of auto manufacturing with regional social structures which have always relied on informal and precariously-employed workers; and, second, the systematic displacement of securely-employed 'regular workers' by waves of precariously-employed 'de facto informal workers'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108603467

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A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare

How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics, and Other Healthcare Organizations

By: Tom Zidel

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A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare

How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics, and Other Healthcare Organizations

By: Tom Zidel

This book is an implementation manual for lean tools and principles in a healthcare environment. Lean is a growth strategy, a survival strategy, and an improvement strategy. The goal of lean is, first and foremost, to provide value to the patient/customer, and in so doing eliminate the delays, overcrowding, and frustration associated with the existing care delivery system. Lean creates a better working environment where what is supposed to happen does happen. On time, every time. It allows clinicians to spend more of their time caring for patients and improves the quality of care these patients receive. A lean organization values its employees and encourages their involvement in organizational initiatives which, in turn, sustains hospital-wide quality improvements. The opportunities for lean in healthcare are limitless. This is not a book to be read and forgotten, nor is it meant to sit on a book shelf as another addition to an impressive but underutilized collection of how-to books. As the name implies, it is a guide; a companion to be referenced again and again as the organization moves forward with its lean transformation.

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Quality Press

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0873897013

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9780873897013

The Circle of Innovation

You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness

By: Tom Peters

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The Circle of Innovation

You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness

By: Tom Peters

Tom Peters--brilliant, original, and perhaps the most inspiring and listened-to business thinker of our time--has a lot on his mind these days. And he wants to share it in The Circle of Innovation. The world of business is in a permanent state of flux, he argues, a state of chaos in which constant innovation is the only survival strategy--for the individual and for the organization. And he presents here a lifesaving handbook--both provocative and practical--designed to turn any organization into a perpetual innovation machine. In 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries in the last five years, Peters has reexamined, refined, and reinvented his views on innovation. Now he brings those seminars--and his passion--to the reader in a landmark book. It is meant, he writes, to both "terrify" and "enlighten." These are "times of matchless peril for those who fail to grasp the nettle...and times of matchless opportunity for those who do." To keep us alert, limber, and ready for action, he provokes and cajoles in chapter after chapter. Among his institutions and revelations: We Are All Michelangelos. He shows how to transform every "jobholder" into a full-fledged businessperson. All Value Comes from the Professional Services. How to convert sluggish staff units into Vital Centers of Intellectual Capital Accumulation. The System is the Solution. How to build great systems--which go far beyond nuts and bolts. Create Waves of Lust. Quality is not the automatic advantage it recently was. There is a pressing need to reverse the rising tide of product and service "commoditization." Tommy Hilfiger Knows. In a crowded marketplace, branding is far more important than ever before. It's a Woman's World. How to capitalize on the fact that women purchase/are purchasing agents for well over half of U.S. commercial and consumer goods. Little Things Are the Only Things. As the Blight of Sameness encroaches on market after market, design is often the best tool in services or manufacturing for sustainable differentiation. We're Here to Live Life Out Loud. Why transformational leaders of the future must have laser-like focus, tell the truth, and live on the lunatic fringe. The hallmarks of Tom Peters legend are an insatiable curiosity, an agile intellect, a pragmatic perspective, and an uncanny ability to gauge the global zeitgeist. These qualities are all brought to bear as Peters sets out to engage, enrage, and ultimately empower his readers, amid forces that are reshaping not only business but every aspect of human experience.

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0307764745

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Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma

A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations

By: Gerhard Plenert,Tom Cluley

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Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma

A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations

By: Gerhard Plenert,Tom Cluley

Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves. Many other organizations employ Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and reduce process variation only to find they are not moving the big bars that measure success for the organization. Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma: A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations details a framework for leveraging an organization’s Lean Six Sigma capability in a manner that drives their strategic plans to execution by linking their strategy deployment into the fabric of their day-to-day operations. Bolstered by real-world examples of successful strategy execution, leveraging, and Six Sigma, the book provides: An organizational framework for understanding the strategic process A model to follow in developing and executing short-range (5 years out) strategies A model for longer-range visioning, scenario modeling, and strategy execution An assessment tool for measuring an organization’s transformation to high performance The framework provides a proven methodology that takes a systems approach to creating high performance. It presents the core process of strategy development and SA&D with the governing process of driving the right metrics through a balanced scorecard approach focused on the organization’s value stream. It then combines this with the enabling process of change management and the creation of a culture of problem solving, waste elimination, and internal discipline to standard work. Anyone can write a book on the procedures behind "Strategy" without understanding the key drivers that give a strategy excitement, commitment, and fire. Here, Gerhard Plenert and Tom Cluley do more than that. First, they examine how to make a strategy meaningful and powerful. Then, they underline the critical piece to strategy development—the execution piece—which takes the glossy strategy brochure off the shelf and makes a usable and executable plan. The book focuses on how to build great strategies and includes examples of what makes them great. It demonstrates how a well-developed strategy generates excitement within an organization, offering you the tools to navigate and design a workable and achievable plan for success for your organization.

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1439867135

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The Yankee Years

By: Joe Torre,Tom Verducci

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The Yankee Years

By: Joe Torre,Tom Verducci

The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees. When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasons—with twelve straight playoff appearances, six pennants, and four World Series titles—Torre left the Yankees as the most beloved manager in baseball. But dealing with players like Jason Giambi, A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson is what managing is all about. Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office, showing what it took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.

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0767930428

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Shoulda Been Higher

A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100

By: Tom W Clarke

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Shoulda Been Higher

A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100

By: Tom W Clarke

The Hottest 100 is a national institution. For 30 years, triple j has held an annual countdown of its listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It has evolved into the single most anticipated musical event of every year for millions of Australians. The Hottest 100 is so much more than music. It's beaches, barbeques, and bonfires. It's joy and despair, drama and debate, friendship and community. This book is a celebration of everything that makes the world's greatest musical democracy so damn iconic. Shoulda Been Higher is the definitive account of the Hottest 100 - a comedic chronicle and love letter. It's the complete picture from Augie March to Ziggy Alberts, 'Amazing' to 'Zombie'.

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Melbourne Books

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1922779164

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Creating Your Lean Future State

How to Move from Seeing to Doing

By: Tom Luyster,Don Tapping

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Creating Your Lean Future State

How to Move from Seeing to Doing

By: Tom Luyster,Don Tapping

Move beyond Value Stream Mapping and Create Your Lean Future In Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing, Tom Luyster, with Don Tapping, details the implementation of lean after the creation of current and future state maps. This book is a follow-up to the successful Value Stream Management: Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping and Sustaining Lean Improvements. It follows the case study of a manufacturing company that has already created a Future State Map, with the authors showing step-by-step how to focus on key information, visually manage product flow, and level production. Get the benefits promised by your future state map, and implement a lean system that will stick without backsliding.

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CRC Press

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1563272482

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Volume 8: Special section, European Shakespeares

By: Graham Bradshaw,Tom Bishop

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Volume 8: Special section, European Shakespeares

By: Graham Bradshaw,Tom Bishop

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.

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Routledge

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135196352X

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Value Stream Management for the Lean Office

Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, & Sustaining Lean Improvements in Administrative Areas

By: Don Tapping,Tom Shuker

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Value Stream Management for the Lean Office

Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, & Sustaining Lean Improvements in Administrative Areas

By: Don Tapping,Tom Shuker

Bring Lean Improvements to the Administrative Areas of Your Organization! Extending their eight-step process to the realization of a lean office, Tapping and Shuker use a customer service case studyto illustrate the effectiveness of the value stream storyboard.This popular volume provides organizations with a proven system for implementing lean principles in the office. In addition to providing a thorough overview of basic lean concepts, this book details methods for identifying the administrative activities in need of attention. To address these, it applies the eight-step process for removing waste and reorganizing workflow. Accompanying the book is a CD containing a lean assessment tool, a storyboard template, charts, a team charter, and worksheets. BONUS CD! Along with this book you receive a CD containing a lean assessment tool, a storyboard template, useful charts, a team charter, forms, reports, and worksheets!

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CRC Press

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1563272466

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History of Rock and Roll

By: Tom Larson,Thomas E. Larson

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History of Rock and Roll

By: Tom Larson,Thomas E. Larson

History of rock and roll includes: biographical information on past and present musicians, composers, bands, producers, and record executives; analyses of evolutionary rock styles from before the 1950s to the present, including a list of the most seminal recordings from each style; an album-by-album review of ... the Beatles and Bob Dylan; an audio CD containing twenty notable recordings in rock, with a synopsis of each.

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Kendall Hunt

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0787299693

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9780787299699

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

By: Donald G. Firesmith,Peter Capell,Dietrich Falkenthal,Charles B. Hammons,DeWitt T. Latimer IV,Tom Merendino

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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

By: Donald G. Firesmith,Peter Capell,Dietrich Falkenthal,Charles B. Hammons,DeWitt T. Latimer IV,Tom Merendino

Offering a practical way to generate effective and efficient project-specific system architecture engineering methods, this volume addresses the entire range of systems architecture including hardware, software, subsystems, and systems of systems. It defines a set of architectural roles and teams and provides a repository of reusable architectural engineering process components to develop high-quality system architectures. It examines a cohesive set of tailorable tasks and components steps for producing associated architectural work products and establishes a recommended set of industry best practices for engineering the architecture of software-intensive systems.

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142008576X

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