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Draws on hundreds of case studies to provide a step by step guide
to spot workaholism, understand it, and recover Americans love a
hard worker. The worker who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals
on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a
combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads
to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately
to physical and mental collapse. Intended for anyone touched by
what Robinson calls “the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first
century,” Chained to the Desk provides an inside look at
workaholism’s impact on those who live and work with work
addicts—partners, spouses, children, and colleagues—as well as
the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them.
Originally published in 1998, this groundbreaking book from
best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E.
Robinson was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. In
this new and fully updated third edition, Robinson draws on
hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years
of clinical practice. The agonies of workaholism have grown all the
more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and
iPhone allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on
weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics
describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still
carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the
isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers
and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when
workaholism dominates the workplace. Chained to the Desk both
counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help
readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover.
How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and
works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized
poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the
Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the
history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism:
Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the
suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as
Romanticism's historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The
analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the
"romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about
book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves
"ornamental gentlemen," narratives of prototypically punk
collecting and flaneuring by the essayist and collector Charles
Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman,
queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the
Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this
book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of
literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and
forgery, sexuality, and authorship.
How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and
works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized
poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the
Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the
history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism:
Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the
suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as
Romanticism's historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The
analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the
"romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about
book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves
"ornamental gentlemen," narratives of prototypically punk
collecting and flaneuring by the essayist and collector Charles
Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman,
queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the
Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this
book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of
literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and
forgery, sexuality, and authorship.
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy
processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the
most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general
attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott
E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that
individual agencies develop specific reputations that may contrast
with the more general attitudes towards government as a whole.
Grounded in a treatment of trust as a relationship between two
actors and taking the Environmental Protection Agency as their
subject, the authors illustrate that the agency's reputation is
explained through general demographic and ideological factors - as
well as policy domain factors like environmentalism. The book
presents results from two approaches to assessing trust: (1) a
traditional attitudinal survey approach, and (2) an experimental
approach using the context of hydraulic fracturing. While the
traditional attitudinal survey approach provides traditional
answers to what drives trust in the EPA, the experimental results
reveal that there is little specific trust in the EPA across the
United States. Robinson, Stoutenborough, and Vedlitz expertly point
the way forward for more reliable assessments of trust, while
demonstrating the importance of assessing trust at the agency
level. This book represents a much-needed resource for those
studying both theory and methods in Public Administration and
Public Policy.
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen
years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her
lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition
at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months --
a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and
subsequent marriage -- she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in
a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818
and 1831 which were based on a later fair copy. Until now, no one
has been able to read what Mary Shelley herself initially wrote in
this original draft of the novel. Going back to the unique draft
manuscript of the text held in the Bodleian Library, Charles E.
Robinson has teased out Percy Shelley's amendments, isolating them
from the story in Mary Shelley's hand. Both texts - with and
without Percy's interventions - are presented in this edition,
allowing us for the first time to read the story in Mary's original
hand and also to see how Percy edited his wife's prose. The results
are fascinating. We read a more rapidly paced novel that is
arranged in different chapters. Above all, we hear Mary's genuine
voice which sounds to us more modern, more immediately colloquial
than her husband's learned, more polished style. To this day,
Frankenstein remains the most popular work of science fiction. This
edition promises to redefine the ways we read the story and
perceive the act of its creation.
Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management presents a
comprehensive description of the many complex facets of hazardous
waste management, tank closure, and site assessment. It is also the
only book to cover financial assurance of UST remediation. Part I
discusses UST closure including regulation, closure techniques,
site assessment methods and data interpretation, waste disposal,
contracting, and health and safety. The book's site assessment
section covers such issues as field screening, analytical
techniques, sample collection, and equipment decontamination. Part
2 covers financial assurance addressing UST financial
responsibility, EPA financial responsibility regulations, use of
insurance, use of state funds, and litigation and common law.
Non-technical language is used throughout the book to present
information in an easy-to-understand, readable fashion. Issues in
Underground Storage Tank Management is an essential guide for UST
owners, facility managers, environmental and hazardous waste
consultants, federal and state environmental regulatory personnel,
groundwater professionals, pollution engineers. It also has useful
information for anyone involved in petroleum contamination
assessment.
Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on
removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim
world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new
form of jihadism emerged-global jihad-turning to the international
arena as the primary locus of ideology and action. With this book,
Glenn E. Robinson develops a compelling and provocative argument
about this violent political movement's evolution. Global Jihad
tells the story of four distinct jihadi waves, each with its own
program for achieving a global end: whether a Jihadi International
to liberate Muslim lands from foreign occupation; al-Qa'ida's call
to drive the United States out of the Muslim world; ISIS using
"jihadi cool" to recruit followers; or leaderless efforts of
stochastic terror to "keep the dream alive." Robinson connects the
rise of global jihad to other "movements of rage" such as the Nazi
Brownshirts, White supremacists, Khmer Rouge, and Boko Haram.
Ultimately, he shows that while global jihad has posed a low
strategic threat, it has instigated an outsized reaction from the
United States and other Western nations.
A step-by-step guide to reestablishing work-life balance Americans
love a hard worker. The employee who toils eighteen-hour days and
eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a
combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads
to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and,
ultimately, physical and mental burnout. Intended for anyone
touched by what Robinson calls “the best-dressed problem of the
twenty-first century,” Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World
provides an inside look at the impact of work stress on those who
live and work with workaholics—partners, spouses, children, and
colleagues—as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians
who treat them. This groundbreaking book builds on the research
included in three previous editions of Chained to the Desk from the
best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E.
Robinson. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of
working from home, Robinson finds that the agonies of work stress
have only become more challenging. Recent years have seen an
unprecedented shift to remote work, which has made it significantly
harder to maintain the already delicate work-life balance, weakened
as it is by smartphones and other technology. The result is that
many workaholics are more stressed and burnt out than ever before
in their work, despite being constantly in the presence of family.
Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World both counsels and consoles.
It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot, understand,
and ultimately recover from workaholism.
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis
of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable
development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for
decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and
development across all major regions of the globe. The first
section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land
tenure security and its connections with sustainable development.
The book then explores key thematic challenges that interact
directly with land tenure security, followed by a section on
strategies for addressing tenure insecurity. The book concludes
with a section on new frontiers in research, policy, and action. An
invaluable reference for researchers in the field and for
practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of this
important topic. This is an open access book.
The best decisions made by public managers are based not on
instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on
the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be
founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as
a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for
rigorous, actionable research. Now in a thoughtfully revised second
edition, this textbook shows students of Public Administration
exactly how to use both qualitative and quantitative research
techniques to give them the best chance to make the right
decisions. Uniquely, Eller, Gerber, and Robinson present research
methodologies through a series of real-life case studies, with each
chapter exploring situations where a public manager can use
research to answer specific questions, demonstrating how that
research can inform future policy. Taking readers through the key
concepts, from research design and sampling to interviews, survey
data, and more statistical-based approaches, this new edition
provides a complete guide to using research in the public and
voluntary sectors. New to this edition: To better orient the
student, the second edition is thematically arranged. Five
sections, each with a short essay, provide not only previews of the
content of each section, but more importantly guide the reader
through how the concepts and techniques covered relate to
real-world use and application. A new chapter on applied
quantitative analyses has been added to offer coverage of several
commonly-used and valuable analytic techniques for decision making
for policy and management: benefit-cost analysis, risk assessment,
and forecasting. The second edition is accompanied by online
materials containing suggested course plans and sample syllabi,
PowerPoint lecture slides, and student support materials to
illustrate the application of key concepts and analytic techniques.
Each chapter also includes discussion questions, class exercises,
end of chapter review questions, and key vocabulary to provide
students with a range of further tools to apply research principles
to practical situations.
Introduces geophysical methods used to explore for natural
resources and to survey earth structure for purposes of geological
and engineering knowledge. These methods include seismic refraction
and reflection surveying, gravity and magnetic field surveying,
electrical resistivity and electromagnetic field surveying, and
geophysical well logging. Covers modern field procedures and
instruments, as well as data processing and interpretation
techniques, including graphical methods. All basic surveying
methods are described step-by-step, and illustrated by practical
examples. Well illustrated.
Discover a new way to face work/life challenges, build resilience
and learn how to turn roadblocks into stepping stones with these
daily meditations. These 365 meditations are designed to support
those of us struggling with work/life balance and work
addiction-many of whom have demanding full-time jobs, children,
marriages, and household obligations-juggling pressures from
careers which expect optimal performance. As we navigate these
sometimes tumultuous ups-and-downs, #Chill encourages us to step
back, take a breath, and imbibe a tried-and-true message geared to
widen our resilient zone and free us from the clutches of work/life
woes: an impossible deadline, a hard-boiled boss who has no
empathy, self-imposed pressures to hurry or perform, anxiety to get
it all done, emotional pressures from family members, and the
seismic rumble of our own self-doubt. Dr. Robinson describes
himself as having once being a chain-smoking, caffeine-drinking
work junkie, dogged by self-doubt with no close friends. His
colleagues were breathing down his neck and didn't really
appreciate his hard work, at least that's what he told himself. His
memory got so bad members of his family wondered if he was
developing early onset Alzheimer's. He scoffed at the idea of
work/life balance, yet he couldn't stop working. He joined
Workaholics Anonymous, entered therapy, and stumbled into yoga and
meditation. But what ultimately brought him through the ordeal was
the practice of meditation-present-moment attention to his feelings
and a compassionate, nonjudgmental connection with himself. The
practice enabled him to climb out of the work stupors into a saner
life.
Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on
removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim
world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new
form of jihadism emerged-global jihad-turning to the international
arena as the primary locus of ideology and action. With this book,
Glenn E. Robinson develops a compelling and provocative argument
about this violent political movement's evolution. Global Jihad
tells the story of four distinct jihadi waves, each with its own
program for achieving a global end: whether a Jihadi International
to liberate Muslim lands from foreign occupation; al-Qa'ida's call
to drive the United States out of the Muslim world; ISIS using
"jihadi cool" to recruit followers; or leaderless efforts of
stochastic terror to "keep the dream alive." Robinson connects the
rise of global jihad to other "movements of rage" such as the Nazi
Brownshirts, White supremacists, Khmer Rouge, and Boko Haram.
Ultimately, he shows that while global jihad has posed a low
strategic threat, it has instigated an outsized reaction from the
United States and other Western nations.
The best decisions made by public managers are based not on
instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on
the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be
founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as
a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for
rigorous, actionable research. Now in a thoughtfully revised second
edition, this textbook shows students of Public Administration
exactly how to use both qualitative and quantitative research
techniques to give them the best chance to make the right
decisions. Uniquely, Eller, Gerber, and Robinson present research
methodologies through a series of real-life case studies, with each
chapter exploring situations where a public manager can use
research to answer specific questions, demonstrating how that
research can inform future policy. Taking readers through the key
concepts, from research design and sampling to interviews, survey
data, and more statistical-based approaches, this new edition
provides a complete guide to using research in the public and
voluntary sectors. New to this edition: To better orient the
student, the second edition is thematically arranged. Five
sections, each with a short essay, provide not only previews of the
content of each section, but more importantly guide the reader
through how the concepts and techniques covered relate to
real-world use and application. A new chapter on applied
quantitative analyses has been added to offer coverage of several
commonly-used and valuable analytic techniques for decision making
for policy and management: benefit-cost analysis, risk assessment,
and forecasting. The second edition is accompanied by online
materials containing suggested course plans and sample syllabi,
PowerPoint lecture slides, and student support materials to
illustrate the application of key concepts and analytic techniques.
Each chapter also includes discussion questions, class exercises,
end of chapter review questions, and key vocabulary to provide
students with a range of further tools to apply research principles
to practical situations.
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy
processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the
most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general
attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott
E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that
individual agencies develop specific reputations that may contrast
with the more general attitudes towards government as a whole.
Grounded in a treatment of trust as a relationship between two
actors and taking the Environmental Protection Agency as their
subject, the authors illustrate that the agency's reputation is
explained through general demographic and ideological factors - as
well as policy domain factors like environmentalism. The book
presents results from two approaches to assessing trust: (1) a
traditional attitudinal survey approach, and (2) an experimental
approach using the context of hydraulic fracturing. While the
traditional attitudinal survey approach provides traditional
answers to what drives trust in the EPA, the experimental results
reveal that there is little specific trust in the EPA across the
United States. Robinson, Stoutenborough, and Vedlitz expertly point
the way forward for more reliable assessments of trust, while
demonstrating the importance of assessing trust at the agency
level. This book represents a much-needed resource for those
studying both theory and methods in Public Administration and
Public Policy.
Explores a group caught betwen the homosexual and heterosexual worlds This greatly expanded edition of Gay Fathers contains a wealth of new real-life stories and up-to-date information that celebrates the power of gay fatherhood. Inspiring, definitive, scientifically researched, and experientially based, this thoroughly updated volume offers the most current data and concrete suggestions for dealing with the myriad and complex issues of gay parenting. Gay Fathers is the definitive resource for the more than one million gay fathers and their families and loved ones living in the United States and Canada.
The following information has been gathered over the years, by
talking to people with personal and unique experience in the secret
service of World Finance. Older people who for the last 50 years
have lived secret lives in hiding while controlling the Gold
certificates and Key accounts upon which the modern system of world
Banking is built. This is their version of History. A simplified
story of evil versus good, but it's never quite that simple, for
the battles and the players are more complex. Most of the story is
playing out in the gray area between right and wrong. Regardless:
We think it important for everyone to know where the World is
heading financially, today, for important choices regarding the
future, must be made.
Long before NESARA, a project was born to restore the United States
of America to its original Constitution of the Republic, and to
remove the structure of the Corporate United States. This project
began in the early 1950's and involved intelligent and patriotic
minds of both civilian and military background. These people over
the years became known as the White Knights. Out of this
restoration process came the Prosperity Programs, the Farmer
Claims, and finally NESARA. The children of the wealthy families on
our planet became concerned about the future of our civilization,
when they observed the poverty, disease, starvation and suffering
of the masses. They saw the imbalance between the wealth of the few
and the destitution of the many, and agreed among themselves to try
to correct it. One hundred of these wealthy children, who came to
be known as "wealthy visionaries," put one million dollars each, of
their money, into investment programs in the 1980's called "roll
programs" to generate funds to be used for humanitarian purposes.
Thus, the Prosperity Programs were born. Gradually, news of this
spread to the public and millions of people invested small amounts
of their meager funds to aid in these various Prosperity Programs
success. Also, during the 1970's and 1980's many U.S. farmers were
losing their land, machinery, buildings, and cattle due to
fraudulent foreclosures by the Federal Reserve Banks, in
cooperation with the IRS. Many farmers joined forces and brought a
class action lawsuit against the U.S. Government, the non-federal
Federal Reserve Bank, and the IRS, for fraud against the farmers.
Stop foreclosure with a question. The Magic Question that will
debunk any foreclosure is this: Ask this questions in court.
"Should the one who funded the loan be the one who is repaid the
money debt?" It the answer is Yes or No, the bank must zero our the
false debt on their fraudulently created none-existent loan. There
was no lawful loan made by the bank to the so-called borrower. All
bankers, politicians, and judges know this truth, and they fear the
wrath of the public should their dirty secret ever become known my
a critical mass of the people that they have for decades been
defrauding. The so-called borrower. Bankers will not answer this
question in any courtroom in the world because they know that the
borrower is the one who actually funded the loan. They also know
that the evidence of this fact can easily be found in the
bookkeeping loan entries of the bank. According to GAAP (Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles).
This Study Course is designed to help you realize that we are
beings who are free, who can create our world and be responsible
for the events that occur in our lives. This is who we can be - and
who we really are. This book -- as with the Matrix Movie itself --
will be a life altering experience for you. You will come to see
that we are Commercial slaves. This book will show you how we
became slaves, and how we can free ourselves from this slavery.
This book will affect everything you think and say and do. This
book will expose the Beast, and show you the Promised Land. The
world is filled with symbols whose meanings you do not know nor
understand. Words taught to you verbally by someone else. Your life
is filled with meanings that quite simply are not true. It's a
wonder that we can communicate with one another at all.
Disillusionment is the dissolution of an illusion and a return to
wonder, to innocence, and to truth. What is "the red pill"? The red
pill is a term used in the movie The Matrix, to refer to "The
undistorted truth." What distorts truth? False belief. The phase "I
don't believe it" implies that something is evident but that one
does not or will not accept it because the evidence does not fit an
existing belief (i.e. and existing denial). "I don't believe it" is
often the first thing someone says when he eventually accepts that
which becomes obvious to him in due time. This information is
presented not just to dissolve mistaken belief, but to provide
information that may not be readily available to a person who is
unaware.
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