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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.
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.
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.
Competition, the drive for efficiency, and continuous improvement
ultimately push businesses toward automation and later towards
autonomy. If a business can operate without human intervention, it
will minimize its operational cost. If Uber can remove the expense
of a driver with an autonomous vehicle, it will provide its service
cheaper than a competitor who can't. If an artificially intelligent
trading company can search, find, and take advantage of some
arbitrage opportunity, then it can profit where its competitors
cannot. A business that can analyze and execute in real-time
without needing to wait for a human to act, is a business that will
be able to take advantage of brief inefficiencies from other
markets or businesses. This trend following a thesis that is based
on 100 years of proven economic theory. Short-wave economic cycles,
those 5- to 10-year cycles, are driven by credit but the long-wave
economic cycles, those 50- to 60-year cycles, are driven by
technological revolution. We've had 5 cycles over the past 200
years with the last wave, the Age of Information &
Telecommunications. We've seen evidence that a new cycle has begun.
Technological revolutions come by way of a cluster of new
innovations. About a decade ago, you started to see AI, robotics
and IoT (sensors) delivering on automation. That's been powerful,
but not transformational. It does not force businesses to
fundamentally change how they do business. The last piece of the
puzzle was cryptocurrency because it allows us to process and
transfer economic value without human intervention. Soon, there
will be a global race to build autonomous operations. Businesses
and organizations without autonomous operations simply will not be
able to compete with those that do because ... autonomy is the
ultimate competitive advantage. Crypto is the mechanism that will
accrue value from being the infrastructure for the next digital
financial revolution. Crypto Asset Investing lays out a case that
we've begun a new technological revolution similar to the Internet
Age of the 1990's. Artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things,
robotics and cryptocurrency are converging to deliver on a new age,
what I call the Age of Autonomy. Understanding the transformation
that's taken place before anyone else can yield enormous investment
opportunity. In this book, you'll learn how and why to invest in
crypto assets.
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.
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.
This book provides a theoretical and practical exploration of the
constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive
bail, and excessive fines. It explores the history of this
prohibition, the current legal doctrine, and future applications of
the Eighth Amendment. With contributions from the leading academics
and experts on the Eighth Amendment and the wide range of
punishments and criminal justice actors it touches, this volume
addresses constitutional theory, legal history, federalism,
constitutional values, the applicable legal doctrine, punishment
theory, prison conditions, bail, fines, the death penalty, juvenile
life without parole, execution methods, prosecutorial misconduct,
race discrimination, and law & science.
The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the
English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide
radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion
has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new
landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting
down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field
agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship
has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many
questions about the nature of landscape development at the time,
the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies
for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these
complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with
topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field
systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to
cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred,
they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of
landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England,
a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today.
NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape
History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in
Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors:
Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart
Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine
Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.
This book explores how and why police reform became an
international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed
the end of the Cold War. Police reform has become an indispensible
element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is
distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable and forcible
methods to preserve and spread liberal values. The book examines
the reason police reform was introduced as a method of building
consensus in Latin America and the Balkans and documents the
development of its use in Africa, the Middle East and the Caucasus
region. It illustrates how police power binds the liberal value of
freedom to the security needs of post-conflict regions and
discusses its force as a strategy to bring law and order to a
global security domain. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary approach to
the subject, the book delves deeply into policing as a method to
bring coherence to global security. It traces the presence of
coherent police strategies in contemporary international relations
through studies of the United Nations, the European Union and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. By contrasting
police reform with security sector reform, the book explores how
liberal peace is imagined by the international NGO sector, state
aid agencies and international organizations. This book will be of
much interest to students of statebuilding, post-conflict
reconstruction, critical security studies, development studies and
IR in general.
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of
maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic,
economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
Written by leading international experts, this comprehensive volume
presents a wide variety of theoretical positions on maritime
security, detailing its achievements and outlining outstanding
issues faced by those in the field. The book includes studies which
cover the entire spectrum of activity along which maritime security
is developing, including, piracy, cyber security, energy security,
terrorism, narco-subs and illegal fishing. Demonstrating the
transformative character and potential of the topic, the book is
divided into two parts. The first part exhibits a range of
perspectives and new approaches to maritime security, and the
second explores emerging developments in the practice of security
at sea, as well as regional studies written by local maritime
security experts. Taken together, these contributions provide a
compelling account of the evolving maritime security environment,
casting fresh light on theoretical and empirical aspects. The book
will be of much interest to practitioners and students of maritime
security, naval studies, security studies, maritime history, and
International Relations in general.
As cross-market bond trading has increased, it has become vital for
international participants to understand the many different
features that characterize the various international bond markets.
Of particular interest to bond traders and investors are such
factors as calculation of prices, accrued interest, yields, and
durations. "Bond Markets" compares and contrasts all major bond
markets with particular attention to: how different instruments are
normally quoted; how much accrued interest is payable by the buyer
in addition to traded price; the cost of a bond if quoted on a
yield basis; normal settlement terms; rules for adjusting coupon
rates; and how yields are quoted and calculated.
An essential guide to the basic concepts that comprise the study of
sociology with contributions from an international range of leading
experts Core Concepts in Sociology is a comprehensive guide to the
essential concepts relevant to the current study of the discipline
and wider social science. The contributing authors cover a wide
range of concepts that remain at the heart of sociology including
those from its academic founding and others much more recent in
their development. The text contains contributions from an
international panel of leading figures in the field, utilizing
their expertise on core concepts and presenting an accessible
introduction for students. Drawing on the widest range of ideas,
research, current literature and expert assessment, Core Concepts
in Sociology contains over 90 concepts that represent the
discipline. Coverage includes concepts ranging from aging to
capitalism, democracy to economic sociology, epistemology to
everyday life, media to risk, stigma and much more. This vital
resource: Sets out the concepts that underpin the study of
sociology and wider social science Contains contributions from an
international panel of leading figures in the field Includes a
comprehensive review of the basic concepts that comprise the
foundation and essential development of the discipline Designed as
a concise and accessible resource Written for students, researchers
and wider professionals with an interest in the field of sociology,
Core Concepts in Sociology offers a concise, affordable and
accessible resource for studying the underpinnings of sociology and
social science.
This book provides a theoretical and practical exploration of the
constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive
bail, and excessive fines. It explores the history of this
prohibition, the current legal doctrine, and future applications of
the Eighth Amendment. With contributions from the leading academics
and experts on the Eighth Amendment and the wide range of
punishments and criminal justice actors it touches, this volume
addresses constitutional theory, legal history, federalism,
constitutional values, the applicable legal doctrine, punishment
theory, prison conditions, bail, fines, the death penalty, juvenile
life without parole, execution methods, prosecutorial misconduct,
race discrimination, and law & science.
In Missing Dad: Ransom (Book 6 in the series), an escaped criminal
from Joe's father's past threatens his life - and Joe and his mates
take the fight to the enemy. So they steal a consignment of cocaine
from under the noses of the smugglers by swimming beneath the hull
of the ship where it is attached; sending it swimming straight into
the arms of Marseille customs officials. And escaping alive - just!
In Antibes, a heroin-manufacturing bunker is busted, thanks to the
hacking skills of Joe's half-Italian cousin Tommaso. Then Tommaso
goes one better and hacks the Kremlin. Which leads to the daring
hijack of a remote-controlled Russian ship carrying an illegal
cargo of deadly hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles. The youngsters
nearly pay for this with their lives in the freezing waters of the
North Atlantic. Meanwhile Joe's father, impatient to deal with his
pursuers, leaves a place of safety and is captured by the deadly
Italian Camorra. The chilling deal they want is - Tommaso, who grew
up with the Camorra, returns to them to take up active service
again. His hacking skills are what they want in order to plunder
container ships coming into the ports of Naples and Marseille. But
Tommaso turns the tables by hacking the Camorra's links to a
Colombian drug baron. And when this deadly game involves hijacking
the drug baron's nuclear submarine packed with 200 tonnes of
cocaine and spiriting it away from South America via the Arctic
Circle, it's all to play for.
In recent years many employers in the U.S., Great Britain, Ireland,
and elsewhere, often in partnership with their unions, have turned
to new approaches to managing and resolving workplace disputes. In
the U.S. this movement is often called "alternative dispute
resolution" (ADR), an approach that involves the use of mediation,
arbitration, and other third-party dispute resolution techniques,
rather than litigation, to resolve workplace disputes. Some
employers have established so-called "conflict management systems,"
a pro-active, strategic approach to handling workplace conflict.
This volume contains chapters by some of the world's leading
scholars of workplace dispute resolution and conflict management as
well as chapters by emerging younger scholars in these fields. The
chapters present original research that combines cutting-edge
thinking about the theoretical dimensions of ADR and conflict
management along with rigorous empirical analyses of real-life
data.
Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced
out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly
millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable
accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh
Ryan-Collins argues that to understand this crisis, we must examine
a crucial paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. The
interaction of private home ownership and a lightly regulated
commercial banking system leads to a feedback cycle. Unlimited
credit and money flows into an inherently finite supply of
property, which causes rising house prices, declining home
ownership, rising inequality and debt, stagnant growth and
financial instability. Radical reforms are needed to break the
cycle. This engaging and topical book will be essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand why they can't find an affordable
home, and what we can do about it.
This exposition provides the state-of-the art on the differential
geometry of hypersurfaces in real, complex, and quaternionic space
forms. Special emphasis is placed on isoparametric and Dupin
hypersurfaces in real space forms as well as Hopf hypersurfaces in
complex space forms. The book is accessible to a reader who has
completed a one-year graduate course in differential geometry. The
text, including open problems and an extensive list of references,
is an excellent resource for researchers in this area. Geometry of
Hypersurfaces begins with the basic theory of submanifolds in real
space forms. Topics include shape operators, principal curvatures
and foliations, tubes and parallel hypersurfaces, curvature spheres
and focal submanifolds. The focus then turns to the theory of
isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. Important examples and
classification results are given, including the construction of
isoparametric hypersurfaces based on representations of Clifford
algebras. An in-depth treatment of Dupin hypersurfaces follows with
results that are proved in the context of Lie sphere geometry as
well as those that are obtained using standard methods of
submanifold theory. Next comes a thorough treatment of the theory
of real hypersurfaces in complex space forms. A central focus is a
complete proof of the classification of Hopf hypersurfaces with
constant principal curvatures due to Kimura and Berndt. The book
concludes with the basic theory of real hypersurfaces in
quaternionic space forms, including statements of the major
classification results and directions for further research.
With careful documentation and persuasive exposition the author
presents an authentic account of the chief incidents in H P
Blavatsky's life, her ideals, and her unswerving dedication to the
service of Humanity. Controversial matters and H P Blavatsky and
controversy go hand in hand - about which today there may still be
differences in opinion, are examined because they touch closely on
fundamentals. They are discussed with the author's penetrating
insight, yet with an impersonal touch not lacking in persuasive
charm. This title includes an important record of the later history
of the Theosophical Society and a listing of world-wide
Theosophical Societies and Groups representative of the
Theosophical Movement today.
Advances in Soil Science was conceived in 1982 to provide a forum
for leading international scientists to analyze and summarize the
available scientific information on a subject, assessing its
importance and ident ifying additional research needs. This goal
seems even more appropriate today. Much is known about our soil
resources. The principles learned and the technology developed need
to be used to increase food pro duction, particularly in developing
countries, and sustain the productivity of the resource base.
Advances in Soil Science fills a gap between the scientific
journals and the comprehensive reference books. Scientists can
delve in depth on a particular subject relating to soil science.
Contributors are asked in particular to develop and identify
principles that have practical applications to both developing and
developed agricultures. Advances in Soil Science was established to
be international in scope and cover all subjects relating to soil
science. This volume certainly fulfills that objective. The first
chapter is concerned with denitrification. The significance of
denitrification in nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural,
grassland, and forest ecosystems, and in global nitrogen cycling is
now well recognized. Therefore, an understanding of denitrification
is essential for the efficient use of nitrogen fertilizers and for
protecting the environ ment. The second chapter looks at the
effects of subzero temperatures on the physical, biological, and
chemical processes. This is an important area of soil science that
has not been studied in great detail."
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