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It Can Be Done: An Approach for Improving Efficiency in the Public
Sector , provides a roadmap describing a simple approach for
improving processes using teams. This book is ideal for process
improvement initiatives, academic institutions, organizational
change practitioners, public entities, and administrators and
leaders seeking a practical approach for the promotion and
implementation of organizational effectiveness. Throughout this
handbook, the term process refers to a series of steps that create
a product or service. Processes are different from projects.
Projects have a beginning and an end. Processes are ongoing,
cyclical, and rarely operate in isolation. They connect to or
impact many other processes. An approach to improve these processes
is the focus of this book. As a public sector leader, you are
encouraged, more often than not, to have an external perspective
looking outside, looking long term. You are told to keep your eyes
on the horizon, spend time figuring out what the public or the
customer wants, to pay attention to what other similar
organizations are doing, build external partnerships, network, and
analyze both the external opportunities and threats. The truth is,
however, the leaders and organizations that stand out are those
who, contrary to this traditional approach, aggressively look
internally, with a balance, more likely, of 80% internal and 20%
external, particularly within the public sector.
Richard Camden, a graduate student, journeys to Egypt to search for
the truth about myths and legends that have been swirling around
the Great Pyramid for centuries. His goal is to separate myth from
fact and legend from reality. Was the Great Pyramid built by an
antediluvian king to memorialize a tremendous cataclysm that
resulted in the Great Flood? Had the king, in anticipation of the
upcoming destruction, placed accounts of all Earth history-in the
forms of a terrestrial globe, celestial spheres, star charts,
certain machines, and malleable glass-in the pyramid for
preservation?
But what should be a predictable, scholarly investigation turns
into a mysterious and unpredictable journey when he teams with his
puzzling and astonishing cab driver, Hordadef. Who is this
mystifying figure, and how does he know secrets and details lost to
the sands of time?
Through the routine of a contracted tour, and the mundane
day-to-day, Richard is guided in ways he could not have imagined to
hidden knowledge he could only dream existed. And in the end, with
the help of the ubiquitous Hordadef, his world is changed in ways
as great and profound as the Pyramid he grows to know as deeply as
his own soul.
This bestselling series is written by an experienced team of
Scottish authors and examiners. This Student Book includes:
Complete coverage of the higher course, whilst the Revision Book
gives plenty of confidence-building practice. Multiple-choice
questions to offer complete support for the new multiple-choice
paper. Worked examples and exam questions help consolidate learning
and provide thorough exam preparation. 'Test-yourself' questions
presenting opportunities for self-assessment. Clear diagrams convey
key teaching points and help students to learn. Answers to all the
questions are supplied for all-round support.
New for Scottish Secondary Maths, "Red 4" (R4) is fully in line
with the ethos of Curriculum for Excellence, and provides students
with everything they need to know to head towards Credit
Levels.Clear 'learning intentions' head each section, providing
concise summaries of key concepts. Worked examples and extensive
practice exercises lead towards contextualised work. Early chapters
focus on essential skills, supporting those students that need
reinforcement of prior learning. Activities linked to Curriculum
for Excellence are clearly highlighted. A wealth of examples and
exercises provide rigorous practice towards Credit Level.
Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases presents basic information about viral-caused and viral-like diseases in many cultivated crops. The editors, internationally known plant pathologists, provide authoritative descriptive symptomatic signatures of virus diseases, to aid in the diagnosis and possible control of viruses. This handbook organizes cultivated plants into groups according to their final destinations and uses after harvest-a useful grouping system that indicates that some diseases, their resultant epidemiology, and control measures are characteristic within different groups.
Many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968 are brought to light
here. The offensive is acknowledged as the turning point of the
Vietnam War. Using Communist Vietnamese documents combined with
Western sources, the author provides a more accurate version of the
events, their significance, and reveals the crucial role played by
US intelligence. This book illustrates that in the 1960s the
Communist Vietnamese were well aware of the political and
diplomatic nature of a People's War.
"Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters" The surge of current interest
in the interface between clinical and social psychology is well
illustrated by the publication of a number of general texts and
journals in this area, and the growing emphasis in graduate
programs on providing training in both disciplines. Although the
bene fits of an integrated clinical-social approach have been
recognized for a number of years, the recent work in this area has
advanced from the oretical extrapolations of social psychological
models to clinical issues to theory and research that is based on
social principles and conducted in clinical domains. It is becoming
increasingly common to find social psy chologists pursuing research
with clinical populations and clinical psy chologists investigating
variables that have traditionally been in the realm of social
psychology. A major area of interface between the two disciplines
is in research and theory concerned with how individuals respond to
negative events. In addition to the trend toward an integrated
clinical-social approach, the growing body of literature in this
area reflects the explosion of cur rent interest in the area of
health psychology; work by clinical and social psychologists on the
topics of stress and coping has been one of the major facets of
this burgeoning field. The purpose of the present volume is to
provide a common forum for recent advances in the clinical and
social literature on responses to negative life outcomes."
Multiple-choice questions now offer complete support for the new
multiple-choice paper. Worked examples and exam questions help
consolidate learning and provide thorough exam preparation.
'Test-yourself' questions present opportunities for
self-assessment. Clear diagrams convey key teaching points and help
students to learn. Answers to all questions are supplied, for all
round support. Updated for the new-style exam in May 2008, these
bestselling books are written by an experienced team of Scottish
authors and examiners. Covering units 1(H), 2(H) and 3 (H), the
Student Book offers complete coverage of the higher course, whilst
the Revision Book gives plenty of confidence-building practice.
* The first book of its kind to approach the topic of humor from a
social psychological perspective. * Includes contributions from
leading international scholars to offer a broad, global overview of
the social psychology of humor. * Focuses on current, cutting-edge
research to provide future directions in the field for years to
come.
* The first book of its kind to approach the topic of humor from a
social psychological perspective. * Includes contributions from
leading international scholars to offer a broad, global overview of
the social psychology of humor. * Focuses on current, cutting-edge
research to provide future directions in the field for years to
come.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume
to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems:
A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to
illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework
(LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding
research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating
the work of the health and human service professions. Although not
exactly a "how to" manual, it does provide many concrete examples
of how and when the framework can be used to guide scholarly and
professional activities. It also provides a concise overview of the
framework itself that can help those who have read the theoretical
volume refresh their memory, and assist those who have not, in
understanding the basic concepts of the LSF and in deciding whether
and how the framework might be useful to them.
This book helps in supporting curriculum for excellence and
providing the best way to head for Credit Level. Each section of
this book features clear 'learning intentions' at the start, which
provides a concise summary of the key concepts. This book includes
worked examples and extensive practice exercises to lead the user
towards contextualized work. The early chapters focus on essential
skills, which supports those users who need to reinforce their
previous learning experiences.
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Slapping Leather
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Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that
straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have
provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized
masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West.
Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over
the decades, demonstrating how queer cowfolx have fought to build a
community where LGBTQ+ people can escape discrimination in both
mainstream rodeos and broader society. Yet not all LGBTQ+ groups
have found full acceptance in gay rodeo. Originally formed by gay
men for gay men, the rodeo has at times perpetuated historically
problematic ideas about the US West, the iconic cowboy, and the
meaning of masculinity. Despite the gay rodeo's credo of
acceptance, its history reveals complicated relationships with
straight rodeo, gender stereotypes, and women competitors. Drawing
from multiple archives and over seventy oral history interviews,
historians Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield demonstrate how amid
these tensions, participants, volunteers, and spectators continue
to redefine the performance of the cowboy and national belonging.
Distinguishing itself from the numerous manuals written for
students, this is the first book dedicated to helping teachers in
all fields, at both secondary and college levels, to teach the
research paper more effectively. It is a comprehensive response to
the challenges raised by this ubiquitously assigned and commonly
dreaded exercise. The essays here cover all aspects of research
paper instruction, from the debate over the value_and even the
existence_of the research paper, to practical advice. Some essays
outline entire research paper courses and units, while others offer
solutions to very specific common problems, like teaching library
search strategies and note taking, discouraging plagiarism, and
taking advantage of computers. In addition to the essays, many
written especially for the volume, the bibliographies that follow
each section offer many more useful ideas.
Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and
evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most
interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater
understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions,
Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late
nineteenth-century "rehabilitation" of Euripides. Some of the
factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well
known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten,
when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist
Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous
Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall,
was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first
appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat
it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel
thought "should be strongly resisted." The influence of Rationalist
Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much
greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the
case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the
Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of
Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads
the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of
the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary
criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone
interested in intellectual history, especially instances of
significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and,
especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors
and their works. The work should be of specific interest to
classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and
evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most
interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater
understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions,
Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late
nineteenth-century 'rehabilitation' of Euripides. Some of the
factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well
known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten,
when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist
Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous
Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall,
was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first
appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat
it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel
thought 'should be strongly resisted.' The influence of Rationalist
Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much
greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the
case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the
Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of
Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads
the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of
the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary
criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone
interested in intellectual history, especially instances of
significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and,
especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors
and their works. The work should be of specific interest to
classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
Now available in paperback Cornelius Reid may be the Galileo of
vocal pedagogy. Claiming to have rediscovered the science and the
craft of the Bel Canto maestros, this modern singing master
researches as he teaches, and he invites voice students, voice
teachers, and voice scientists to share his discoveries. The Modern
Singing Master is a compilation of essays written by renowned
singing teachers as their testament to their great singing
instructor, who enabled them to really understand how to sing and
how to teach singing to their students. The essays explain the four
basic principles with which he works: the two-register theory, the
necessity for pure vowels, the use of rhythm to encourage the
muscles to react spontaneously, and the choice of dynamic (loud or
soft). His research and interpretations have given birth to a new
era of voice and pedagogy known as 'Functional Voice Training.'
This work concludes with a marvelous article written by Cornelius
Reid himself on the fascinating musical journey he has taken over
the past sixty years. Recommended for beginning and experienced
singers, singing teachers, and all fans of Cornelius L. Reid. cloth
edition originally published in 2002 under ISBN 0-8108-4241-6.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume
to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems:
A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to
illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework
(LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding
research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating
the work of the health and human service professions. Although not
exactly a "how to" manual, it does provide many concrete examples
of how and when the framework can be used to guide scholarly and
professional activities. It also provides a concise overview of the
framework itself that can help those who have read the theoretical
volume refresh their memory, and assist those who have not, in
understanding the basic concepts of the LSF and in deciding whether
and how the framework might be useful to them.
This volume documents developments in the study of catalysis
relating to organic synthesis and its application in industrial
processes. It surveys a wide range of homo- and heterogeneous
catalysis for industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals. It covers
enantioselective hydrogenation, catalyzed hydrogens and oxidation,
carbonylation, hydroaminomethylation, and more.
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