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This book describes current best practice in managing construction.
It is based on case studies of leading practice responding to
demands from customers that construction match the value and
quality that international competition is forcing on their own
businesses. The case studies show that major customers now partner
with construction firms to find more efficient ways of working.
The resulting best practice adds to these cooperative approaches a
drive for efficiency and innovation based on benchmarks of world
class performance that empower teams to set themselves competitive
targets. So the new approach balances cooperation and
competition.
This is why Professor John Bennett's book is called ''Construction:
The Third Way.'' The third way in modern politics balances the
extremes of cooperation and competition in the interests of the
whole community. At its best it encourages sustainable economic
growth within a fair society. These aims are echoed in leading
practice where teams able to balance cooperation and competition
deliver better value for their customers and yet earn sustainably
higher profits for construction.
The new approach requires managers to rethink construction using
ideas from fundamental science that see human organizations as
self-organizing networks of relationships. This throws new light on
the strengths and weaknesses of both competition and cooperation,
and provides the basis for a new paradigm to guide key construction
decisions. The book describes this background and provides advice
about organization structures that are responsive to changing
markets and technologies, and construction processes that enable
the industry to earch fair profits byproviding customers with the
levels of value and quality they now demand.
*Based on case studies of world-class construction
*Links best practice and leading edge management theory
*Helps customers get good value and quality and construction firms
be efficient and profitable
What should be the relationship between early childhood and
compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by
working together? The rapid expansion of early childhood education
and care means that most children in affluent countries now have
several years at pre-school before compulsory education. This
raises an important question about the relationship between the
two. Whilst it's widely assumed that the former should prepare
children for the latter, there are alternatives. This book contests
the 'readying for school' relationship as neither self-evident nor
unproblematic; and explores some alternative relationships,
including a strong and equal partnership and the vision of a
meeting place. In this ground-breaking book, Professor Peter Moss
discusses the issue with leading early childhood figures - from
Belgium, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United
States -who bring very different perspectives to this contentious
relationship. The book starts with an extended essay by Peter Moss,
to which the other contributors are invited to respond critically,
as well as offering their own thinking about the relationship
between early childhood and compulsory education, both their
current understandings and suggestions on future directions.
Students, researchers and academics in the field of early childhood
education will find this an insightful and timely text. But so too
will their peers in compulsory education, since the book time and
again raises searching questions about pedagogical purpose and
practice in this sector.
What should be the relationship between early childhood and
compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by
working together?
The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means
that most children in affluent countries now have several years at
pre-school before compulsory education. This raises an important
question about the relationship between the two. Whilst it's widely
assumed that the former should prepare children for the latter,
there are alternatives. This book contests the 'readying for
school' relationship as neither self-evident nor unproblematic; and
explores some alternative relationships, including a strong and
equal partnership and the vision of a meeting place.
In this ground-breaking book, Professor Peter Moss discusses the
issue with leading early childhood figures - from Belgium, France,
Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States -who bring
very different perspectives to this contentious relationship. The
book starts with an extended essay by Peter Moss, to which the
other contributors are invited to respond critically, as well as
offering their own thinking about the relationship between early
childhood and compulsory education, both their current
understandings and suggestions on future directions.
Students, researchers and academics in the field of early
childhood education will find this an insightful and timely text.
But so too will their peers in compulsory education, since the book
time and again raises searching questions about pedagogical purpose
and practice in this sector.
Partnering is the most effective way of tackling construction
projects. This book explains how clients and construction firms
using partnering can achieve ever higher levels of efficiency and
certainty to provide world class buildings and infrastructure of
all kinds.
Detailed guidance about the actions that clients and professionals
new to partnering need to take is given followed by advice about
the actions individual firms can take to get the maximum benefits
from partnering. Finally the book describes how highly developed
forms of partnering are developing into strategic collaborative
working that turns construction into a genuinely modern industry
able to meet all customers' needs.
The book is designed to be used flexibly by a variety of readers,
with coloured sections and executive summaries built into the body
of the text to enable senior managers to get a quick overview of
the guidance provided. The detailed guidance provides those at the
workface with the ammunition needed to cooperate with those around
them in doing their best work. The guidance is supported by check
lists that help ensure everyone involved knows what they need to do
to match and then exceed today's best practice. Construction
clients will learn how to get high quality, reliable and fast
completion and a firm price that represents best value for money.
This book helps everyone in the construction industry be fairly
rewarded for delivering best practice. The expert guidance also
gives the construction industry the time and resources needed to
give proper attention to all aspects of quality including
sustainability and total life cycle costs.
to match and then exceed today's best practice.
*Anup-to-date practical guide for implementing strategic
partnering
*Illustrated by best practice case studies and research
results
*Presented in a user-friendly, flexible format
Partnering is the most effective way of tackling construction
projects. This book explains how clients and construction firms
using partnering can achieve ever higher levels of efficiency and
certainty to provide world class buildings and infrastructure of
all kinds.Detailed guidance about the actions that clients and
professionals new to partnering need to take is given followed by
advice about the actions individual firms can take to get the
maximum benefits from partnering. Finally the book describes how
highly developed forms of partnering are developing into strategic
collaborative working that turns construction into a genuinely
modern industry able to meet all customers needs. The book is
designed to be used flexibly by a variety of readers, with coloured
sections and executive summaries built into the body of the text to
enable senior managers to get a quick overview of the guidance
provided. The detailed guidance provides those at the workface with
the ammunition needed to cooperate with those around them in doing
their best work. The guidance is supported by check lists that help
ensure everyone involved knows what they need to do to match and
then exceed today's best practice. Construction clients will learn
how to get high quality, reliable and fast completion and a firm
price that represents best value for money.This book helps everyone
in the construction industry be fairly rewarded for delivering best
practice. The expert guidance also gives the construction industry
the time and resources needed to give proper attention to all
aspects of quality including sustainability and total life cycle
costs.to match and then exceed today's best practice.
This book describes current best practice in managing construction.
It is based on case studies of leading practice responding to
demands from customers that construction match the value and
quality that international competition is forcing on their own
businesses. The case studies show that major customers now partner
with construction firms to find more efficient ways of working. The
resulting best practice adds to these cooperative approaches a
drive for efficiency and innovation based on benchmarks of world
class performance that empower teams to set themselves competitive
targets. So the new approach balances cooperation and competition.
This is why Professor John Bennett's book is called ''Construction:
The Third Way.'' The third way in modern politics balances the
extremes of cooperation and competition in the interests of the
whole community. At its best it encourages sustainable economic
growth within a fair society. These aims are echoed in leading
practice where teams able to balance cooperation and competition
deliver better value for their customers and yet earn sustainably
higher profits for construction. The new approach requires managers
to rethink construction using ideas from fundamental science that
see human organizations as self-organizing networks of
relationships. This throws new light on the strengths and
weaknesses of both competition and cooperation, and provides the
basis for a new paradigm to guide key construction decisions. The
book describes this background and provides advice about
organization structures that are responsive to changing markets and
technologies, and construction processes that enable the industry
to earch fair profits by providing customers with the levels of
value and quality they now demand.
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Drought Adaptation in Cereals (Paperback)
R. Richards; Edited by Jean-Marcel Ribaut; Contributions by Graeme Hammer, R. Trethowan, Kazuo Shinozaki, …
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R2,762
Discovery Miles 27 620
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Learn how to best improve yield in cereal plantseven in dry
conditions The impact of drought on crop production can be
economically devastating. Drought Adaptation in Cereals provides a
comprehensive review of the latest research on the tolerance of
cereal crops to water-limited conditions. Renowned experts
extensively describe basic concepts and cutting-edge research
results to clearly reveal all facets of drought adaptation in
cereals. More than simply a fine reference for plant biology and
plant improvement under water-limited conditions, this book
spotlights the most relevant biological approaches from plant
phenotyping to functional genomics. The need to understand plant
response to the lack of water is integral to forming strategies to
best manage crops. Drought Adaptation in Cereals starts by offering
an overview of the biological basis and defines the adaptive
mechanisms found in plants under water-limited conditions.
Different approaches are presented to provide understanding of
plant genetics basics and plant breeding, including phenotyping,
physiology, and biotechnology. The book details drought adaptation
mechanisms at the cellular, organ, and entire plant levels,
focusing on plant metabolism and gene functions. This resource is
extensively referenced and contains tables, charts, and figures to
clearly present data and enhance understanding. After a foreword by
J. O'Toole and a prologue by A. Blum, Drought Adaptation in Cereals
presents a full spectrum of informative topics from other
internationally respected scientists. These include: drought's
economic impact (P. Heisey) genotype-by-environment interactions
(M. Cooper) secondary traits for drought adaptation (P. Monneveux)
leaf growth (F. Tardieu) carbon isotope discrimination (T. Condon)
drought adaptation in barley (M. Sorrells), maize (M. Sawkins),
rice (R. Lafitte), sorghum (A. Borrell) and wheat (M. Reynolds)
carbohydrate metabolism (A. Tiessen) the role of abscisic acid (T.
Setter) protection mechanisms and stress proteins (L. Mtwisha)
genetic basis of ion homeostasis and water deficit (H. Bohnert)
transcriptional factors (K. Yamaguchi-Shinozaki) resurrection
plants (D. Bartels) Drought Adaptation in Cereals is a unique,
vital reference for scientists, educators, and students in plant
biology, agronomy, and natural resources management.
This book tells for the first time the story from a police
perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the
investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has
refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham
Gardner, he reveals the full story of how the Wests were caught,
how the case was prepared and how it nearly failed to come to
court. This book chronicles the roles of those who brought down two
of Britain's most infamous killers, shedding light on the real
heroes of one of the saddest chapters of criminal history. It
explores the court processes, the complications of Rose West's
trial, her unsuccessful appeal and the difficulty of dealing with
witnesses in such a traumatic case. On one level, this is a story
of the triumph of good over evil; on another it is a detailed
documentation of how a murder investigation really works - the
pressures, the commitment and the physical and emotional drain on
those who carry out this work.
Here is an indispensable text and reference book for anyone
interested in a systems approach to environmental studies. It will
be useful not only to geographers but also to ecologists and other
environmental scientists; planners; economists and other social
scientists; philosophers; and applied mathematicians. Bennett and
Chorley's book has a number of broad aims: first, to employ the
systems approach to provide an interdisciplinary focus on
environmental structures and techniques; second, to use this
approach to aid in developing the interfacing of social and
economic theory with physical and biological theory; and third, to
investigate the implications of this interfacing for human response
to current environmental dilemmas, and hence to expose the
technological and social bases of values which underlie our use of
natural resources. Interpreting the "environment" so as to embrace
physical, biological, man-made, social, and economic reality, the
authors show that the systems approach provides a powerful vehicle
for the statement of environmental situations of ever-growing
temporal and spatial magnitude, and for reducing the areas of
uncertainty in our increasingly complex decision making arenas.
Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but
how many others did he slaughter in Britain or across the seas? The
number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is
impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five
individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at
length in Ripper literature, but other contemporary murders and
attacks bearing strong resemblance to the gruesome Ripper slayings
have received scant attention. These unsolved cases are the focus
of this intriguing book. The volume devotes separate chapters to a
dozen female victims who were attacked during the years of Jack the
Ripper's murder spree. Their terrible stories-a few survived to
bear witness, but most died of their wounds-illuminate key aspects
of the Ripper case and the period: the gangs of London's
Whitechapel district, Victorian prostitutes, the public panic
inspired by the crimes and fueled by journalists, medical practices
of the day, police procedures and competency, and the probable
existence of other serial killers. The book also considers crimes
initially attributed to Jack the Ripper in other parts of Britain
and the world, notably New York, Jamaica, and Nicaragua. In a final
chapter, the drive to find the identity of the Ripper is examined,
looking at contemporary and later suspects as well as several
important theories, revealing the lengths to which some have gone
to claim success in identifying Jack the Ripper.
Discover the truth behind the myth in The Complete Jack the Ripper
by Paul Begg and John Bennett. Whitechapel, 1888: a spate of brutal
murders becomes the most notorious criminal episode in London's
history. The killer, chillingly nicknamed 'The Whitechapel
Murderer', 'Leather Apron' and, most famously, 'Jack the Ripper',
is never brought to justice for the slaughter and mutilation of at
least five women in the slums of East London. But the mystery is
deepened by a letter sent "From Hell" to Scotland Yard, accompanied
by half of a preserved human kidney... In this comprehensive
account of London's most infamous killer, the foremost authorities
on the case explore the facts behind the most grisly episode of the
Victorian era. Setting the scene in the impoverished East End, the
authors' meticulous research offers detailed accounts of the lives
of the victims and an examination of the police investigation. The
Complete Jack the Ripper is the definitive book by Paul Begg and
John Bennett, exploring both the myth and reality behind the
allusive killer. Paul Begg and John Bennett are researchers and
authors, widely recognized as authorities on Jack the Ripper. Paul
Begg's books include Jack the Ripper: The Facts, Jack the Ripper:
The Definitive History, and he is a co-author of The Jack the
Ripper A to Z. John Bennett has written numerous articles and
lectured frequently on Jack the Ripper and the East End of London.
He has acted as adviser to and participated in documentaries made
by television channels worldwide and was the co-writer for the
successful Channel 5 programme Jack the Ripper: The Definitive
Story. He is author of E1: A Journey Through Whitechapel and
Spitalfields and co-author of Jack the Ripper: CSI Whitechapel.
The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about
how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes
covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger
war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not
the first argument of this nature-America was faced with a similar
moral dilemma on the eve of World War II. Fascism was conquering
Europe, and religious leaders across the nation vehemently debated
how to confront Nazi Germany. In The End of Illusions: Religious
Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm, Joseph Loconte brings
together pieces from the most significant religious thinkers of the
pre-war period. In these essays, the writers eloquently and
passionately present their arguments for going to war or
maintaining the peace. In doing so, they explore issues vibrantly
relevant today, including the Christian cause for war, the problem
of evil, and America's role in the world. These urgently written
pieces connect the past with the present and resonate with renewed
clarity and poignancy.
A captivating history of a notorious neighborhood and the first
book to reveal why London's East End became synonymous with
lawlessness and crime Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its
streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for
immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide
who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years,
delves into four centuries of history to chronicle the crimes,
their perpetrators, and the circumstances that made the East End an
ideal breeding ground for illegal activity. In the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, Britain's industrial boom drew thousands of
workers to the area, leading to overcrowding and squalor. But crime
in the area flourished long past the Victorian period. Drawing on
original archival history and featuring a fascinating cast of
characters including the infamous Ripper, highwayman Dick Turpin,
the Kray brothers, and a host of ordinary evildoers, this gripping
and deliciously unsavory volume will fascinate Londonphiles and
true crime lovers alike.
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John Bennett, Henry Clarence Pitz
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