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This book provide corporate leaders guidance into how to create a
culture of safety where employee injury becomes an extremely rare
event with some companys working millions of hours with zero injury
to their employees. The content is reports on Mr. Nelson's 20 years
of safety consulting experience in applying the safety culture
building material which is backed up by five batteries of research
performed by the Construction Industry Institute, Austin, Texas.
The best of Mr. Nelson's clients have completred in excess of
4,000,000 continous work hours in the USA construction industry
with zero OSHA recordable injuries to heoir employees.
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This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political
roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate
and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist
agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social
movements. Nelson unpacks those political roles by examining the
prominence of advocacy in the organizations, the issues they
address and avoid, their transnational relationships, and their
relationships with religious and secular social movements. The
agencies that educate and mobilize U.S. constituencies most
actively are associated with small Christian sects or with
non-Christian minority faiths with historic commitments to activism
or service. Specialized advocacy NGOs play important roles, and
emerging movements on immigration and climate may represent fresh
political energy. The book examines faith-based responses to the
crises of climate change, COVID-19, and racial injustice, and
argues that these will shape the future of religion as a moral and
political force in America, and of NGOs in international
development.
A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot;
a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the
perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse-Francisco Garcia
Gonzalez's stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to
the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of
Miguel de Cervantes, Maria de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa
Montero, and Roberto BolaNo. With a scholarly introduction by
translator Bradley J. Nelson that introduces Garcia Gonzalez's
oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language
literature, this science fiction collection introduces Anglophones
to this unique author. Garcia Gonzalez turns a black mirror on
contemporary society and its relation both to history and to the
future. His insightfulness and relevance draw comparisons with
Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, and China Mieville, though his
verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy,
producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.
• The only book on the market combining academic with
practitioner perspectives on the management of political campaigns,
thus enriching both professional and student understanding of the
issues confronting the industry. • Views the COVID-19 pandemic as
an innovator as well as a disrupter, showing impacts on campaign
management as agents of both change and continuity. • Focuses on
media—new, traditional, social—and their role in the changing
landscape of political campaigns. Highlights of the Sixth Edition
Covers the 2020 and 2022 elections with an eye to 2024. Examines
changes to the campaign process as a result of COVID-19 and puts
them in context with campaign traditions over time. Includes a new
organization that moves campaign finance up front to emphasize the
centrality of fundraising to successful campaigns. Offers more data
to inform campaign planning and management, especially related to
key topics such as the change in news media coverage, the growth
and use of social media, the use of "big data" in campaigns, and
changes in field and voting rules and policies.
This book highlights the tools and processes used to produce
high-quality glass molded optics using commercially available
equipment. Combining scientific data with easy-to-understand
explanations of specific molding issues and general industry
information based on firsthand studies and experimentation, it
provides useful formulas for readers involved in developing develop
in-house molding capabilities, or those who supply molded glass
optics. Many of the techniques described are based on insights
gained from industry and research over the past 50 years, and can
easily be applied by anyone familiar with glass molding or optics
manufacturing. There is an abundance of information from around the
globe, but knowledge comes from the application of information, and
there is no knowledge without experience. This book provides
readers with information, to allow them to gain knowledge and
achieve success in their glass molding endeavors.
In 1912, the Chemistry Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of
the so-called Grignard reagents. Nowadays, many transition metal
variants are developed to modify reactivity and selectivity of the
C-C bond formation reaction. The Grignard reaction is one of the
fundamental organometallic reactions, often used in alcohol
syntheses. With transition metals like iron, cobalt and nickel or
with noble metals like copper, silver and palladium, modern
Grignard reagents can be designed in reactivity, selectivity and
functional group tolerance. This book, written by international
experts, presents an overview on timely Grignard chemistry
involving transition metals.
Cinema, literature, and television shape our collective political
understanding. Their dramas enact and test political ideas,
especially when they use the political myths widely available in
popular forms such as epics, noirs, and satires. Popular Cinema as
Political Theory explores mythmaking in popular genres,
demonstrating how to see political arguments in the conventional
characters, deeds, and settings that enable movies to entertain us.
Analyzing favorites such as The Prestige, L.A. Confidential, Star
Trek Into Darkness, No Country for Old Men, and O Brother, Where
Art Thou?, John Nelson provides a provocative and original account
of political lessons from summer blockbusters and cinematic
masterpieces alike.
"To many, the term ""campaign ethics"" is an oxymoron. Questionable
campaign conduct occurs at many levels, from national presidential
elections to local delegate contests. Campaign ethics goes beyond
mere ""ethical dilemmas,"" or trying to decide whether or not a
particular act is above board. The chapters in this volume examine
the broad questions of ethics in campaigns from the perspective of
those actors that play critical roles in them, as well as the
scholars who study them. The contributors-who include leading
academics, as well as practitioners from the world of campaigning
and campaign reform-outline, assess, and critique the role and
responsibilities of candidates, citizens, organized interest
groups, political parties, professional campaign consultants, and
the media, in insuring ethical campaigns. Contributors include:
Robert E. Denton (Virginia Tech University), David A. Dulio
(Oakland University), Brad Rourke (Institute for Global Ethics),
Robin Kolodny (Temple University), L. Dale Lawton (Institute for
Global Ethics), L. Sandy Maisel (Colby College), Larry Makinson
(Center for Responsive Politics), Stephen K. Medvic (Franklin &
Marshall College), Dale E. Miller (Old Dominion University),
Candice J. Nelson (Center for Congressional and Presidential
Studies, American University), Mark A. Siegel (Office of
Congressman Steve Israel), Paul Taylor (Alliance For Better
Campaigns), James A. Thurber (Center for Congressional and
Presidential Studies, American University), Michael W. Traugott
(University of Michigan), Carol Whitney (Whitney and Associatesand
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American
University), and William H. Wood (Sorenson Institute for Political
Leadership, University of Virginia). "
College presidents lead taxing and complex, though enormously
fulfilling and rewarding, lives. The story that unfolds in College
Presidents Reflect: Life in and out of the Ivory Tower is fashioned
from the perspectives of over two-dozen retired former college
presidents. The over-their-shoulders view we get from these men and
women who have sat on the presidential perch provides an
unprecedented view of the office, of the pathways to presidencies,
and of the ways in which tenures conclude when presidents decide,
at times pushed, to exit. Does anything after leaving office
compare with the status and regard regularly accorded presidents?
How do their bully pulpits change from the power of the presidency
to life? What are the high successes and unforeseen regrets born
out of time in the office? From their journeys we learn lessons
about leadership. We hear about how one gets into the presidency,
planned or not. There is only one true source of insight and
reflection about these issues and that is those who have been
there, these former college presidents.
The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and
mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological,
theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal
of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this
portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after
twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic
thinker in academic quarrels.
Robert Nelson confronts the contradictions in Pascal's life and
personality: intensely religious according to the demands of his
time, yet simultaneously committed to rigorous scientific inquiry,
no matter where it led; fascinated by rebellion, yet deeply
dependent on the authority of father, spiritual adviser, church,
and science. Mr. Nelson sees the resolution of these personal
dilemmas in Pascal's growing interest in language--the essential
relation between word and object, signifier and signified, which
form a style of "Pascalian linguistics" different from those of
Descartes or Port Royal.
Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the
entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the
scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.
Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together
original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of
science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism,
science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore
parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and
other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general
science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of
the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity,
truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the
relationship between science and values.
• The only book on the market combining academic with
practitioner perspectives on the management of political campaigns,
thus enriching both professional and student understanding of the
issues confronting the industry. • Views the COVID-19 pandemic as
an innovator as well as a disrupter, showing impacts on campaign
management as agents of both change and continuity. • Focuses on
media—new, traditional, social—and their role in the changing
landscape of political campaigns. Highlights of the Sixth Edition
Covers the 2020 and 2022 elections with an eye to 2024. Examines
changes to the campaign process as a result of COVID-19 and puts
them in context with campaign traditions over time. Includes a new
organization that moves campaign finance up front to emphasize the
centrality of fundraising to successful campaigns. Offers more data
to inform campaign planning and management, especially related to
key topics such as the change in news media coverage, the growth
and use of social media, the use of "big data" in campaigns, and
changes in field and voting rules and policies.
This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural
content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural
generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other
types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or
domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods,
search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods,
and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are
active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is
appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on
games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods
for content generation; and researchers in related areas of
artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.
Behavioral neuroendocrinologists are interested in the interactions
between hormones and behaviors. This unique book tracks the
development of behavioral neuroendocrinology from the first
recognized paper in the field by Arnold Berthold in 1849 to the
major contributors of the past century. It traces the history and
development of the field by exploring the women and men who
conducted the studies that revealed these hormone-behavioral
relationships. Most chapters are written by the individuals who
knew these pioneers best, and describe their stories and discuss
the ways in which their work has shaped the field. Now is the
perfect time for this book. The field is burgeoning and interest in
the development of theoretical perspectives is thriving. Moreover,
although this field was dominated by men early on, it has become a
field with near sexual parity among its faculty, society
membership, and leadership, and thus serves as an example of
equitable science, training, and advocacy.
Countering the conventional narrative that Florida’s tourism
industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that
the 1930s were, in reality, the starting point for much that
characterizes modern Florida’s tourism. David Nelson argues that
state and federal government programs designed to reboot the
economy during this decade are crucial to understanding the state
today. Nelson examines the impact of three connected
initiatives—the federal New Deal, its Civilian Conservation Corps
program (CCC), and the CCC’s creation of the Florida Park
Service. He reveals that the CCC designed state parks to reinforce
the popular image of Florida as a tropical, exotic, and safe
paradise. The CCC often removed native flora and fauna, introduced
exotic species, and created artificial landscapes that were then
presented as natural. Nelson discusses how Florida business leaders
benefitted from federally funded development and the ways residents
and business owners rejected or supported the commercialization and
shifting cultural identity of their state. A detailed look at a
unique era in which the state government sponsored the tourism
industry, helped commodify natural resources, and boosted mythical
ideas of the “Real Florida” that endure today, this book makes
the case that the creation of the Florida Park Service is the story
of modern Florida.
On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings
together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words,
and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic
and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of
the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living,
breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us
understand what we gain, or lose when we interact with it, create
it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls
for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal
to help us navigate our current global condition.
In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book
of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it
means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its
first-century context, opening a window into the political,
economic, and social realities of the early church. His fresh
interpretation highlights Revelation's liturgical structure and
directs readers' attentions to twenty-first-century issues of
empire, worship, and allegiance, showing how John's apocalypse is
relevant to the spiritual life of believers today. The book
includes maps, timelines, photos, a glossary, discussion questions,
and stories of modern Christians who live out John's vision of a
New Jerusalem.
Now, for the first time, Arizona visitors and residents can set out
on any part of the Arizona National Scenic Trail with a 'bible' of
the trail's twists and turns, its flora and fauna, and its geology.
In an easy-to-use format, Your Complete Guide to the Arizona
National Scenic Trail serves up the 800-mile trail, section by
section (43 altogether) so that day-hikers as well as thru-hikers
can feel confident about the route. Inspired by the magnificence of
the scenery, wildlife, and diversity of terrain, this new book is
an irreplaceable source for any hiker, mountain biker, or
equestrian heading for the Arizona National Scenic Trail.
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