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Pilot Competency and Capability presents strategies for the air
carrier pilot-in-command operating complex engineered systems
within a complex natural environment. It bridges the gap between
academic books and practical application by providing real-world
examples of how various safety and operational theories work in
practice. The book advises on how to develop concepts, strategies,
and ways of thinking that integrate with existing structures and
FAA regulations, while understanding how engineered systems and
codified structures interface with complex natural environments. It
considers how the prescribed safety margins function to manage
emergent behaviors of both the natural environment and the
engineered systems. The book is intended for airline pilots,
training captains, simulator instructors, and aviation students
taking courses in aviation safety, risk management, and flight
safety to improve in-flight decision-making, risk analysis, and
strategic planning.
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed
approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the
lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this
volume explore our authors' who have each had close personal
encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized
oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As
scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field,
these lived experiences with crime and criminal justice have shaped
their research, teaching, and advocacy work. Their voices represent
experiences that are intersectional, mult-igenerational, global,
trauma-informed and resiliency focused. They are deliberately and
decidedly anti-racist, and their experiences acknowledge the harm
that has resulted from institutionalized and structural trauma.
Most importantly, their stories are grounded in their lived
experiences. This volume offers survivor criminology as a radical
act of hope. Our hope comes from the belief that a trauma-centered
approach to crime, justice, and healing provides the opportunity
for criminology to expand its theoretical and methodological roots.
We see this work as transformative for the discipline - for
students, scholars, members of the community, and policy-makers.
Josh Gershwin is a typical middle class senior at Thomas Jefferson
high school in Richmond Virginia in 1964... well almost typical.
Like many seniors he is juggling his studies and preparing for
college when Penny suddenly enters the picture and unknowingly
captures his heart. But as she prepares to fulfill her dream to
become the first college educated female in her family, she is
convinced she has no time for romance. As a determined Josh
attempts to win her over, he finds himself in the middle of some
mysterious, vexing and sometimes traumatic flash backs to a
rebellious and dangerous time in the nation's history, the war
between the north and the south. At the heart of it all is a
mysterious promise that emerges out of the past from a grateful
comrade that only unveils itself to Josh over time. The Unlikely
Promise is a sometimes humorous sometimes harrowing story of two
young people whose lives become entwined. Whether you are an
adolescent, a young adult or a baby boomer this book will appeal to
you. It is a contemporary story with romance, humor and exciting
scenes from our history and a mysterious thread that links the past
to the present.
Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of
the world's first great experiments in religious toleration.
Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded
Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though
stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams' commitments to
faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its
conception of itself. Through crisp essays that show how Americans
demolished old prejudices while inventing new ones, The Lively
Experiment offers a comprehensive account of America's boisterous
history of interreligious relations.
Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of
the world's first great experiments in religious toleration.
Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded
Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though
stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams' commitments to
faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its
conception of itself. Through crisp essays that show how Americans
demolished old prejudices while inventing new ones, The Lively
Experiment offers a comprehensive account of America's boisterous
history of interreligious relations.
Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in
America tend to focus either on the founding period or the
twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the
ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling
in Everson v. Board of Education, which mandated that the
Establishment Clause applied to state and local governments.
Steven Green illuminates this neglected period, arguing that during
the 19th century there was a "second disestablishment." By the
early 1800s, formal political disestablishment was the rule at the
national level, and almost universal among the states. Yet the
United States remained a Christian nation, and Protestant beliefs
and values dominated American culture and institutions. Evangelical
Protestantism rose to cultural dominance through moral reform
societies and behavioral laws that were undergirded by a maxim that
Christianity formed part of the law. Simultaneously, law became
secularized, religious pluralism increased, and the
Protestant-oriented public education system was transformed. This
latter impulse set the stage for the constitutional
disestablishment of the twentieth century.
The Second Disestablishment examines competing ideologies: of
evangelical Protestants who sought to create a "Christian nation,"
and of those who advocated broader notions of separation of church
and state. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the
missing link between the Establishment Clause and the modern
Supreme Court's church-state decisions.
The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of
sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally
assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars
Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love),
which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good
lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome
under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great
influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first
collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together
many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and
Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the
United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics,
politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical
survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the
ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.
Certain events in one s life, such as marriage, joining the
workforce, and growing older, can become important determinants of
political attitudes and voting choice. Each of these events has
been the subject of considerable study, but in "The Politics of
Parenthood," Laurel Elder and Steven Greene look at the political
impact of one of life s most challenging adult experiences having
and raising children. Using a comprehensive array of both
quantitative and qualitative analyses, Elder and Greene
systematically reveal for the first time how the very personal act
of raising a family is also a politically defining experience, one
that shapes the political attitudes of Americans on a range of
important policy issues. They document how political parties,
presidential candidates, and the news media have politicized
parenthood and the family over not just one election year, but the
last several decades. They conclude that the way the themes of
parenthood and the family have evolved as partisan issues at the
mass and elite levels has been driven by, and reflects fundamental
shifts in, American society and the structure of the American
family."
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