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It is one thing to study history and it's quite another to have
lived it. John J. (Pat) Ryan, a retired USAF lieutenant colonel has
done just that. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920, he grew
up during the Great Depression. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Pat
applied for and was accepted into the U.S. Army Aviation Cadet
program. To fly had been his lifelong dream and WWII gave him his
chance to make it come true. He was one of the blessed ones that
survived combat in WWII, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, and the
Berlin Airlift.
His story starts at a time when aircraft and autos were scarce,
family radios and television were non-existent, movies were silent
and in black and white. During the Great Depression many families
had to learn to do more with less to survive. For some people, WWII
created jobs in both civilian and military areas. The fortunate
ones were those who survived and didn't lose too many family
members and friends. Pat was one of the lucky ones.
It was in Japan on loan to the CIA where he met his wife-to-be,
Mae, during the Korean War. She had been in the OSS in Italy in
WWII and at the post-war Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. They had
started to write a book of their lives but Mae was stricken with
terminal cancer and passed away only five days after she gave final
approval to her publisher. The book is entitled "A Woman Ahead of
Her Time. The Last Mission" completes the dream Ryan shared with
his wife, and it brings home the lessons of war and humanity, of
responsibility and faith, of family and love.
Come fly as his co-pilot through a life of adventures,
struggles, victories and defeats as he tries to live his life as
truly, honestly and fully as any man can.
Work Healthy is a why-to/how-to book to deliver higher
organizational performance through a new approach to workforce
management. It provides organizations, leaders and managers with
the knowledge, model, and methodology to radically change their
current approach delivering a resilient and sustainable system of
operation. The authors have discovered that the key priorities of
organizations, from covid recovery, DEI, wellbeing, mental health
management, belonging, purpose, sustainability can all be achieved
by focusing on health in its broadest sense. However, individuals
have defined health too narrowly and organizations have got their
current approach badly wrong and in turn are wasting time, money,
and resources. But worst of all they are missing the ultimate
driver of performance. Organizations need to move away from an
ad-hoc, tick-box, tactical, short-term, programmatic, awareness
building, approach to employee health solely focused on reducing
illness and absence to a more strategic, data driven,
evidence-based, systematic, and cultural approach focused on
building work capacity and sustainability. The book also uncovers
the symbiotic relationship between organization health and
employeeAs health. The data collected from over 30+ organizations
(including Salesforce, Nike, British Telecom, Telefonica, Sky
Television, Pasa Brazil, Vattenfall Sweden, Takeda Pharmaceuticals,
etc.) with 30k+ survey responses has identified game changing
correlations. The health of the organization impacts the health of
individuals, and the health of the individuals impacts the health
of the organization.
"A sweet and savory treat." -People "An impressive feat of
narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too
fast to realize just how ingenious they are."-The New York Times
Book Review, Editor's Pick From the New York Times bestselling
author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Kitchens of the Great
Midwest is a novel about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation
palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country's most
coveted dinner reservation. When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia,
falls in love with wine-and a dashing sommelier-he's left to raise
their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of
food to his daughter-starting with pureed pork shoulder. As Eva
grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her
native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic
chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva's
journey as she becomes the star chef behind a legendary and
secretive pop-up supper club, culminating in an opulent and
emotional feast that's a testament to her spirit and resilience.
Each chapter in J. Ryan Stradal's startlingly original debut tells
the story of a single dish and character, at once capturing the
zeitgeist of the Midwest, the rise of foodie culture, and delving
into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity. By
turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Kitchens of the Great
Midwest is an unexpected mother-daughter story about the
bittersweet nature of life-its missed opportunities and its joyful
surprises. It marks the entry of a brilliant new talent.
This revised Lifebuilder Bible Study features additional questions
for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal
reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and an extra "Now
or Later" section in each study.
The focus of this cutting-edge book is on new, information-age
technologies that promise to offer seamless integration of
real-time data sharing, creating a single logical network
architecture to facilitate the movement of data throughout the
battlespace. Because the structure of this network is constrained
by the fundamental trade-off between range, mobility and capacity
that applies to all communications systems, this network is
unlikely to be based on a single network technology. This book
presents an architecture for this network, and shows how its
subsystems can be integrated to form a single logical network.
High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character
of the New England region of northern New South Wales.The authors
explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the
other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New
England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped
its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so,
this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a
whole.Weaving together the histories of human settlement, economic,
social and cultural development, as well as interactions with the
environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers strived
for decades to literally create a new England. It traces the story
of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their hands to
sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the establishment of
schools and other institutions, and the cultivation of traditional
arts. It also examines the early colonial bushranging period, and a
history of not always friendly relations between white settlers and
the local Aboriginal population.A project of the Heritage Futures
Research Centre at the University of New England, High Lean Country
is a fascinating study of this distinctive Australian high country.
African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions
of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within
these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women
have created literature, music, and political statements signifying
some of the most incisive and complex elements of modern American
culture. "Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History" examines the
jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American
women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez,
Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. These writers' engagements
with jazz-based compositional devices represent a new strand of
radical black poetics, while their renditions of local-to-global
social critique sketch the outlines of a transnational
feminism.
Since the early 4th century, Christian pilgrims and visitors to
Judea and Galilee have worshipped at and been inspired by
monumental churches erected at sites traditionally connected with
the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. This book examines the
history and archaeology of early Christian holy sites and
traditions connected with specific places in order to understand
them as interpretations of Jesus and to explore them as
instantiations of memories of him. Ryan's overarching aim is to
construe these places as instantiations of what historian Pierre
Nora has called "lieux de memoires," sites where memory
crystallizes and, where possible, to track the course and
development of the traditions underlying them from their genesis in
the Gospel narratives to their eventual solidification in the form
of pilgrimage sites. So doing will bring rarely considered evidence
to the study of early Christian memory, which in turn helps to
illuminate the person of Jesus himself in both history and
reception.
How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did
the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of
secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the
day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining
the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse
challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing
exclusively through terror. Instead, he reveals the complex system
of enforcement that defined the relationship between state and
society in the Third Reich and helps to explain the Germans'
abiding support for Hitler and their complicity in the regime's
crimes. Stories of everyday life in Nazi Germany paint the clearest
picture yet of just how differently the Gestapo handled certain
groups and actions, and the routine investigation, interrogation,
and enforcement practices behind this system. Enemies of the People
offers penetrating insights into just how reasonable selective
enforcement appeared to Germans, and draws unavoidable parallels
with the contemporary threat of authoritarianism.
Despite the denigrating revelations of his published letters,
Philip Larkin looms larger than ever, both as an English national
icon and as a championed voice of postwar English poetry. Philip
Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual seeks to move
beyond the decades-long preoccupation with Larkin's reputation and
canonical status, approaching Larkin instead as part of a
persevering cultural phenomenon through which the traditionally
distinguished individual is reconstituted in the company of the
ordinary and the interchangeable. It tracks how Larkin's poetic
texts negotiate and engage with representations of popular culture
at a time when notions of celebrity, authenticity, and cultural
authority were newly (and deeply) unsettled by rock and roll, and
when cultural capital had become a coveted substitute for
diminished imperial wealth. From his unprecedented f-bombs to his
cultivation of a familiar, comedic personality, this book examines
how Larkin realigns common social practices and popular art
forms-be it attending a church service, watching television, or
enjoying a concert-to the isolated, knowing gaze of the individual.
In Hebrew and Arabic, the words Amen and Amin?the most frequent
conclusions of prayers?derive from cognate consonantal roots. The
Greek and other versions of the Hebrew Bible continue to use the
word Amen; the New Testament follows suit. The basic meaning of
Amen or Amin in all three scriptures is the same, a passionate
address to God: 'I entrust myself to You; I put my faith in You, I
keep faith with You.' It is the cry of a person struggling to grasp
and be grasped by God. Amen: Jews, Christians, and Muslims Keep
Faith with God examines faith as it is understood by Jews,
Christians and Muslims; it does not aim to be a work of systematic
theology or a lengthy explication of the contents of different
faith traditions. It offers Jews, Christians and Muslims several
approaches to faith as a category of human experience open to God:
a faithful God who reaches out to grasp the faithful human being at
the same time that the faithful human being reaches out to grasp a
faithful God. This two-sided faith, divine and human, lies at the
center of each faith tradition. The book examines faith as one
might examine a gem, gazing at different facets in turn. In this
process, Patrick Ryan, a Jesuit who has lived for decades in Africa
as well as in the United States, shares the personal reflections of
one who has tried to live a life of faith not only in the company
of fellow Christians but also in the company of Jews and Muslims,
friends for many years. The work as a whole, and each chapter
within it, begins and ends with reflections shared with an
anonymous but real person who has struggled with faith for all that
time and who continues the struggle with faith even today.
In this book, Gerard J. Ryan examines the interrelationship between
recognition theory and theology with their respective concerns for
what it means to be a human. He advocates a mutual accompaniment
that reformulates recognition theory within a practical and public
theology. Ryan develops this interpersonal recognition through the
accompaniment of vulnerable people, particularly persons with
disabilities and those who suffer from mental illness. He explores
three contexts that support this mutual accompaniment and the
labour of recognition. These are narrativity, the stories we live
out of; vulnerability, the basic human condition common to all; and
participation, the inter-relationship of humanity.
In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial
Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of
the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela.
Despite profound political and economic changes from the early
twentieth century to the modern day, traditional values, practices,
and social imaginaries associated with older forms of masculinity
and sociality are still valued. Stick, knife, and machete fighting
are understood as key means of instilling the values of fortitude
and cunning in younger generations. Recommended for scholars of
anthropology, social science, gender studies, and Latin American
studies.
After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along
with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but
isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted
they be treated as distinguished guests. As the war progressed,
other Axis envoys were similarly detained. (The Japanese ambassador
to Germany was captured by U.S. soldiers in Europe and held in a
small hotel in rural Pennsylvania, while the War Department argued
for treating him as a war criminal and the local population decried
his luxurious accommodations.) Informants were recruited, attempts
at espionage and escape were foiled, diplomats complained and
squabbled endlessly, babies were born and townspeople made threats,
while newspapers published outlandish exposes of wild parties.
Based on government documents, the recollections of detainees and
hotel staff and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the
first to focus on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000
detainees during their six-month confinement.
Long encouraged by the International Association for the Study of
Organized Crime, the current research on this broad and intriguing
topic is systematically brought together in this exemplary reader.
Understanding Organized Crime in Global Perspective presents a rich
collection of articles by outstanding researchers in the field who
examine empirical research examples, salient issues and their
explication, and provide a theoretical foundation as a guide for
further explorations. Skillfully edited by Patrick J. Ryan and
George E. Rush, this accessible and timely volume focuses on such
particular areas of study and recent trends as: the nature of
organized crime; theoretical perspectives; organized crime in
Russia, Eastern Europe and Hong Kong, with predictions for the next
century; the diversity of activities and structures; and how the
law enforcement community responds to organized crime.
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