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A guide to turning pens and pencils, a popular aspect of
woodturning. Through step-by-step text and clear photography, the
authors describe the history, techniques and projects, plus various
ways of approaching the task, allowing the reader to select the
best procedure for the equipment available and to work according to
their desired scale of production. The projects were selected to
show a wide variety of techniques used in making various types of
writing instrument, including: a twist pen; a click pencil; a
European style pen; an Americana twist pen; a tapered rollerball;
and variations on basic pens.
In 1919, the Ford Motor Company – the world’s largest
automobile manufacturer – decided to make a small Nordic country
its bridgehead to continental Europe. Denmark was a good choice
geographically and because of the country’s favourable customs
policy. During the 1920s, Ford’s iconic Model T was assembled in
Copenhagen, with large quantities exported from there to most of
north-eastern Europe. The innovative manufacturing technology
employed in Copenhagen was the same as that used in Ford’s
American assembly plants, and the Copenhagen plant was actually
designed by Albert Kahn – the architect behind Ford’s famous
Highland Park factory in Detroit, Michigan. The Danish Ford Motor
Company successfully continued production throughout the recession
of the 1930s, the German occupation of Denmark in 1940–1945 and
the Cold War and economic boom of the 1950s. The Copenhagen factory
closed in 1966, obliged to give way to Ford’s larger operations
elsewhere in Europe. Henry Ford’s pioneering principles of mass
production went beyond mere technology. The large-scale serial
manufacturing of uniform products was also a way of fulfilling his
vision of an affluent consumer society. But as Fordism was
relocated across the Atlantic, the rigorous discipline and
fast-paced work routines applied in Detroit were challenged by
local traditions, shifting market conditions and, most notably, a
labour movement that was far more powerful than its American
counterpart. Between Denmark and Detroit offers a detailed history
of the Danish Ford Motor Company, but the book also has a wider
scope, elucidating the concept of Fordism and how it was
transformed by its move across the Atlantic. Lars K. Christensen
holds a PhD in history. He is the author of several publications on
labour history and industrial heritage. Presently, he is head of
research and cultural heritage at the ROMU museums group.
This book takes the reader beyond the commonly accepted view that
information technology is the core knowledge management tool. It
builds on the idea that knowledge management should be seen from
different perspectives: information technology versus human
interaction, knowledge as a product versus a process, individuals
versus collectives, horizontal versus vertical boarders of
knowledge, knowledge management reports and Human Resource
Management.
This is a book of stories about sports persons: sports stars,
less-known athletes and relatively unknown physical education
teachers and sports scientists. More exactly, these 13 essays all
deal with problems associated with writing sport biographies - how
does an author navigate among myths and truths? Why do some
athletes live on in the public mind while others, whose
achievements may have been greater, fade from memory? Are sports
biographies different from those dealing with people from the
non-sporting realm? The subjects range from direct theoretical
explorations of writing sport biographies to discussions of
biographies themselves. Topics include the following: The
German-American sports- and physiology scientist Professor Ernst
Jokl; Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh; two studies of
physical education teachers, including Martti Silvennionen's work
on autoethnographical pedagogy in PE teacher training; women's
sport in Denmark's intermediary period of 1920-1950; writing about
women and sport, and the Finnish worker sports movement experience
from a woman's viewpoint. Another essay observes the contrasts in
the legends of two sports stars in twentieth century Britain, the
English footballer Jackie Milburn and the Olympic athlete, Godfrey
Brown. Other topics include the English sports hero from the 1940s
and '50s, Denis Compton, the Swedish footballer Lennart Nacka
Skoglund and the Danish cyclist Niels Fredborg.Writing Lives in
Sports provides lively discussions of individual sporting lives as
well as important methodological and conceptual questions for
writers and biographers of sport figures and other genres.
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