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Confessions of an Old Geezer are just that! Dick's reflections of
his childhood during the turbulent years of the 20's and 30's when
he and his family struggled for their very survival. World War II
interrupted his life when he served for 39 months in the military
rising to the rank of Captain in the Corp of Engineers. Upon
completing his military obligation Dick returned to his previous
position with the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. He
explains his life as a shift worker and what prompted him to leave
his position at Kodak to pursue a business in the Recreational
Vehicle field. Dick, and his wife, Vivian, parlayed a meager
$1.500.00 into an annual gross sales of over $4,000,000.00. Dick
has many interesting, humorous, and daring tales of his adventures
during 22 years of business ownership, camping and cruising
followed by a closing chapter titled: Reflections.
A complete review of anesthesia for the oral and maxillofacial
surgeon Topics in this issue include anesthesia training,
determining the appropriate oral surgery anesthesia modality,
setting and team, pre-, intra-, and post-operative anesthesia
assessment and monitoring, anesthesia equipment, airway evaluation,
common medical illnesses that affect anesthesia, pharmacology of
intravenous medications and local anesthetics, pediatric sedation
and anesthesia, pulmonary and respiratory anesthetic complications,
cardiovascular anesthetic complications, endocrine anesthetic
complications, and more
This book is acollection of essays on purificaton and atonement in
the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of
these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and
anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also
examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what
extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of
ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.
Set in France in the 1930s, "L'Art de vivre" evokes the contrasting
worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an
impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The
aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and
frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist
shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and scrapes by,
earning a living from the few students he can still attract and the
occasional sculpture he can sell.
These worlds, which are physically only a mile apart, come
together as a result of an improbable set of circumstances
involving thefts, a suspected murder, and a high profile police
investigation. Newspapers all over France report excitedly on the
mystery surrounding the artist, as his friends try to understand
what has become of him. Friends of the aristocratic couple never
suspect the obsessive secret that drives them to risk their
position and fortune through a daring crime spree.
TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in
the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean
literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and
Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies,
antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and
post-Euclidean physics.
More than 6 million readers around the world have improved their
lives by reading The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in
1959, David J Schwartz's classic teachings are as powerful today as
they were then. Practical, empowering and hugely engaging, this
book will not only inspire you, it will give you the tools to
change your life for the better - starting from now. His
step-by-step approach will show you how to: - Defeat disbelief and
the negative power it creates - Make your mind produce positive
thoughts - Plan a concrete success-building programme - Do more and
do it better by turning on your creative power - Capitalise on the
power of NOW Updated for the 21st century, this is your go-to guide
to a better life, starting with the way you think.
Freud's relationship with his Judaism - his by virtue of his self-
description as a 'fanatical Jew' - was framed by two of his
convictions. He was centered both by his passionate cultural
affiliation and by his atheism. Within these internal guideposts
lay a Jewish life layered by tensions, pleasures, and
identifications. His creation - psychoanalysis - has labored to
honor its Jewish influences. Recent studies of these insights have
contributed to the current interest in listening more carefully to
the individual meanings of analysands' religious life. This lecture
series was designed to introduce to the public both the
similarities and the differences between the psychoanalytic and the
Jewish world views. The contributors are among the thought leaders
of our generation who work at the interface of the intrapsychic and
religious states of mind. We learn how each has influenced the
other and perhaps how each has been enriched by the other. A tour
de force delving into the influence of Freud's Jewish roots on the
development of psychoanalysis.
If you only read one book on the future of work, Work Disrupted:
Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of
Work should be that book. The future of work swept in sooner than
expected, accelerated by Covid-19, creating an urgent need for new
maps, new mindsets, new strategies-- and most importantly, a
trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff
Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of
Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and
practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by
misinformation, fear, and confusion. With a fundamental belief in
the power of human innovation and creativity, Schwartz presents the
key issues, critical choices, and potential pitfalls that must be
on everyone's radar. If you're anxious about robots taking away
your job in the future, you will take comfort in the realistic
perspective, fact-based insights, and practical steps Schwartz
offers. If you're not sure where to even begin to prepare, follow
his level-headed advice and easy-to-follow action plans. If you're
a business leader caught between keeping up, while also being
thoughtful about the next moves, you will appreciate the playbook
directed at you. If you're wondering how Covid-19 will change how
and where you will work, Work Disrupted has you covered. Written in
a conversational style by Schwartz, with Suzanne Riss, an
award-winning journalist and book author, Work Disrupted offers a
welcome alternative to books on the topic that lack a broad
perspective or dwell on the problems rather than offer solutions.
Timely and insightful, the book includes the impact of Covid-19 on
our present and future work. Interviews with leading thinkers on
the future of work offer additional perspectives and
guidance.Cartoons created for the book by leading business
illustrator Tom Fishburne bring to life the reader's journey and
the complex issues surrounding the topic. Told from the perspective
of an economist, management advisor, and social commentator, Work
Disrupted offers hope--and practical advice--exploring such topics
as: How we frame what lies ahead is a critical navigational tool.
Discover the signposts that can serve as practical guides for
individuals who have families to support, mortgages to pay, and
want to stay gainfully employed no matter what the future holds.
The importance of recognizing the rapidly evolving opportunities in
front of us. Learn how to build resilience--in careers,
organizations, and leaders--for what lies ahead. Why exploring new
mental models helps us discover the steps we need to take to
thrive. Individuals can decide how to protect their livelihood
while businesses and public institutions can consider how they can
lead and support workforces to thrive in twenty-first-century
careers and work. "Jeff's marvelous book is a roadmap for the new
world of work with clear signposts. His insights will help readers
discover opportunities, take action, and find hope in uncertain
times. The ideas are fresh, beautifully crafted, and immediately
applicable. This is not only a book to be read, but savored and
used." --Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of
Business, University of Michigan; Partner, the RBL Group; Co-author
Reinventing the Organization
This book provides a basic understanding of waste management
problems and issues faced by modern society. Scientific, technical,
and environmental principles are emphasized to illustrate the
processes of municipal and industrial solid wastes and liquid
wastes, and the nature of impacts resulting from waste dispersal
and disposal in the environment. Economic, social, legal, and
political aspects of waste management are also addressed.
Environmental issues and concerns receive thorough coverage in
discussing waste reduction, resource recovery, and efficient and
practical waste disposal systems. Other specific topics include
recycling, physical and chemical processing, the biological
treatment of waste solids, incineration, pyrolysis, and energy
recover, hazardous wastes, and landfill management.The role of
government and other institutions in waste management and resource
recovery matters is also detailed. Discussion questions, worked
examples, and end-of-chapter problems reinforce important concepts.
Waste Management and Resource Recovery is particularly suitable as
a text in waste management courses in environmental science or
engineering programs. It also works well as a reference for
practitioners in the waste management field.
The postwar era has witnessed a pluralizing trend in Japan, but small sets of narrowly-focused interest groups still dominate policymaking. Over 200 small consultative councils (shingikai), composed of business people, bureaucrats, scholars, journalists, union members, and others, deliberate on virtually every aspect of public policy. This book reviews their functions and operations, and presents three case studies of specific governmental decisions involving the use of shingikai in the late 1980s.
This survey about associational life and the public sphere brings the study of civil society in Japan into the mainstream of the Western literature on the subject. Its importance thus lies not only in deepening our understanding of Japan, but of civil society generally.
Psychodynamic Concepts in General Psychiatry brings together 37
nationally recognized psychodynamic psychiatrists who discuss in
detail their understanding of how to work with specific types of
patients. Separate chapters on clinical syndromes, including some
of the most challenging that psychiatrists encounter - for example,
in self-destructive, posttraumatic, and abused patients - provide
both a historical review of dynamic perspectives and a detailed
discussion of differential diagnosis and treatment selection for
each disorder. Extensive clinical examples illustrating the
underlying psychodynamic conflicts of patients with these disorders
are presented as well. Also addressed in this volume are the
psychological aspects of the settings in which therapy is practiced
and the ways in which those settings affect both the psychiatrist
and the patient. The final section contains chapters on current
topics of particular relevance: the psychology of prescribing and
taking medication, the meaning and impact of interruptions in
treatment, and the provocative findings of new outcome research and
cost-offset studies. The book closes with a recommended curriculum
for training in psychodynamic psychiatry.
This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from its
independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete
analysis of a country which has experienced diverse and often
dramatic monetary conditions. The authors interpret Italian
monetary history through the looking glass of a model which, while
monetarist in flavour, is open to other interpretations. A key
theme is that public finance is at the root of the (relatively)
high Italian inflation rates. The authors argue that there is a
strong relationship between the government budget deficit and
monetary policy, and that the monetary authorities are too
dependent on government. The book contributes in a novel way not
only to the monetary debate, but also to fiscal and institutional
questions. It combines economic theory, statistical data and
history in an accessible way which should prove useful to both
economic historians and monetary economists.
In order to produce a superior scholarly treatise in bio medical
science, three important conditions need to be met. First, the
subject needs to be of recognized importance and preferably one in
which a sizeable volume of new knowledge has been added recently.
Second, it needs to be quite evident that the field involved re
quires much more up-to-date coverage than it has received and
third, the choice of the editors and in turn the authors needs to
be recognized as outstanding. This major treatise fills these
criteria in an admirable way. There are few who would deny the
importance of knowledge concerning the circulatory system. This all
pervasive system is the route by which virtually all of the cells
and tissues of the body receive their nutrition and it is the major
route by which metabolic waste products are carried away.
Furthermore, the diseases that involve the circulatory system are,
by far, the underlying causes of death and morbidity in the largest
number of Americans, Western Europeans and several other
populations of industrialized nations. Not only is
atherosclerosis-induced-ischemic disease of the heart, brain and
extremities widespread in these populations but venous occlusive
disease also takes a great toll from phlebothrombosis, pulmonary
embolism, etc.
This is the third volume of the comprehensive series on Struc ture
and Function of the Circulation, edited by Dr. Colin J. Schwartz
with the collaboration of Nicholas T. Werthessen and Stewart Wolf.
Dr. Schwartz, an authority on vascular structure and function and a
respected investigator in this field for many years, selected as
authors for the chapters an outstanding group of scientists from
various parts of the world. As indicated in the Preface, the
impetus for this broad treat ise evolved from the scientific
sessions of three interdisciplinary international conferences held
in Lindau in 1970, in Heidelberg in 1973, and Totts Gap,
Pennsylvania, in 1976 as well as from numerous informal
discussions. The subjects dealt with in these three volumes range
from the roots of our knowledge in ancient history to the most
recent inform ation on contractile proteins of smooth muscle cells.
The structure, distribution, and dynamics of arteries, veins, and
lymphatics are described in chapters on the systemic circulation as
well as that of the heart, the vessels themselves, the brain,
nerves, and viscera. Descriptions of ultrastructure,
histochemistry, metabolism, and func tion of endothelium and of
vascular smooth muscle and of vascular changes in aging are all
included in the vast scope of this under taking.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO THE WAR NEUROSES The
survivors of traumatic events have long been known to suffer
psychological sequelae. Of all possible stressors, combat is one of
the most devastating. Wartime exposes its victim to a myriad of
stimuli that are far beyond those of civilized life. The impact
that remains can affect generations to come. In recent years there
has been a paucity of research on the long term effects of battle.
Particularly after the recent war there was initially an
inclination to minimize the psychological impact of combat. It was
only after concerted effort by a few dedicated clini cians that
formal recognition was granted to the current version of the war
neuroses. In the parlance of the day it was called the Post
traumatic Stress Disorder (Figley, 1978). This phenomenologic
diagnosis has been instrumental in bringing the necessary attention
to this condition. Its applicability has been tested across a wide
range of stressors, from man-made to natural. Few workers in the
field now doubt the power of traumatic events to leave a profound
impression on the victim. Contrary to previous thought, it has now
been found that this imprint often becomes a chronic scar.
Copyright (c) 1984 by Spectrum Publications, Inc. Psychotherapy of
the Combat Veteran, edited by H. ). Schwartz."
This book provides a basic understanding of waste management
problems and issues faced by modern society. Scientific, technical,
and environmental principles are emphasized to illustrate the
processes of municipal and industrial solid wastes and liquid
wastes, and the nature of impacts resulting from waste dispersal
and disposal in the environment. Economic, social, legal, and
political aspects of waste management are also addressed.
Environmental issues and concerns receive thorough coverage in
discussing waste reduction, resource recovery, and efficient and
practical waste disposal systems. Other specific topics include
recycling, physical and chemical processing, the biological
treatment of waste solids, incineration, pyrolysis, and energy
recover, hazardous wastes, and landfill management.The role of
government and other institutions in waste management and resource
recovery matters is also detailed. Discussion questions, worked
examples, and end-of-chapter problems reinforce important
concepts.
Waste Management and Resource Recovery is particularly suitable as
a text in waste management courses in environmental science or
engineering programs. It also works well as a reference for
practitioners in the waste management field.
Your go-to guide to a better life, starting with the way you think
Join 6 million readers around the world who have capitalised on the
power of now
First published in 1959, David J Schwartz's classic teachings are as
powerful today as they were then. Practical, empowering and hugely
engaging, this book shows that the key to success is the way you think.
Not only will this timeless classic inspire you, it will give you the
tools to change your life for the better – starting right now.
Schwartz’s step-by-step approach will show you how to:
- Defeat disbelief and the negative power it creates
- Make your mind produce positive thoughts
- Plan a concrete success-building programme
- Do more and do it better by turning on your creative power
- Capitalise on the power of NOW
Updated for the 21st century, The Magic of Thinking Big will guide you
to high achievement in every area of your life.
This approachable guide meets health and social sciences scholars
at their level-either as a reference text or as an enchanting but
practical read-and walks them through each stage of their academic
publishing journey. Drawing on a wealth of examples from his own
experience mentoring others and publishing 300+ articles, Dr.
Schwartz engages early, mid-, and senior-level professionals as
well as graduate students and postdoctoral fellows alike, to
demystify each stage of the writing and publishing process.
Employing a reader-friendly, accessible voice, Dr. Schwartz's style
captivates readers across disciplines, with a refreshing, can-do
perspective. Before diving in, the author relates his own personal
story in scholarly publishing, inviting all academics to unlock the
high-impact writer within. The next set of chapters tackle the nuts
and bolts of the academic publishing process, with basics such as
topic selection, data analysis for publication, writing
preparation, drafting and editing manuscripts, and journals
submissions. The book advances into more innovative topics that can
be simultaneously intimidating and rewarding, including recruiting
and collaborating with coauthors, developing a network, navigating
the peer review process, publishing nonempirical papers, getting
creative with rejected manuscripts, foraying into Open Access and
fee-based publishing, and even how to publish a book or book
chapter. Designed as a digital mentor, The Savvy Academic is the
ultimate tool for students, fellows, and scholarly professionals of
a broad range of experiences in the health and social sciences who
are looking to launch or elevate their scholarly publication
career.
TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in
the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean
literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and
Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies,
antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and
post-Euclidean physics.
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