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This comprehensive Research Handbook reflects the latest research
breakthroughs and practices in services management. Addressing
services management from a broader strategic perspective, it delves
into the key issues of analytics and service robots, and their
potential impact. Edited by the late Mark M. Davis, it represents
an early foray into the new frontier of services management and
provides insights into the future of the field. Drawing together
expert service researchers, the Research Handbook begins with an
analysis of service strategy and operations management, before
moving on to explore service innovation and design, serving
customers, healthcare services and artificial intelligence in
service. Chapters explore a wide range of topics including scarcity
strategies, perceived justice in services, the role of culture and
religion in service provision, and the implications of Covid-19 on
healthcare service operations. The book concludes with a reflection
on the fourth industrial revolution that is occurring now and the
understanding of services in an era of advanced technologies.
Addressing emerging challenges and opportunities, this Research
Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and advanced
students of services management and information systems. It will
also be beneficial for practitioners and business managers in
service industries.
Complete introduction to forensic psychology and understanding
psychology's expanding influence on the study of law, crime, and
criminality Highlighting the often-sizable gap between media myths
surrounding forensic practice and reality, Forensic Psychology
presents a broad range of topics within the field, including
detailed treatments of the causes of crime, investigative methods,
the trial process, and interventions with different types of
offenders and offenses. To aid in reader comprehension, this Fourth
Edition is supplemented with additional online resource materials,
including related links, multiple choice questions, and PowerPoint
slides. Authored by a wide range of experienced forensic psychology
professionals and drawing on a wealth of experience from leading
researchers and practitioners, Forensic Psychology includes
information on: Pyschological approaches to understanding crime and
developmental and psychological theories of offendingÂ
Contributions of neuroscience in understanding risk factors for
offending and effects of interpersonal crime on victims Eyewitness
evidence, psychopathy, interviewing winesses and suspects,
detecting deception, and offender profiling and crime linkage
Interpersonal violence and stalking, judicial processes,
safeguarding vulnerable witnesses, criminal responsibilities, and
the role of the expert witness Rehabilitation of offenders,
risk assessment, treating dangerous offenders, and interventions
with female offenders and offenders with intellectual disabilities
With comprehensive coverage of the subject and its many important
intricacies, the Fourth Edition of Forensic Psychology is essential
reading for undergraduates' first encounter with the subject area
and is also an excellent introduction for more specialized
postgraduate courses.
Having spent many years teaching and inspiring others, Rachel M
Davis has fulfilled one of her ambitions as a professional
musician, with the worldwide release of her first CD of moving and
original solo piano music called 'Dreamcatcher'. Recorded on a
Steinway piano under studio conditions Rachel has produced an
incredibly beautiful sound. Working with a team of recording
specialists, the production is truly world class and has been
described as 'The type of music that makes you wish you kept up
those piano lessons...' The CD and the book of sheet music will be
of enormous interest to a broad section of classical and popular
music lovers with a style reminiscent of Enya (Orinoco Flo) Andrew
Lloyd-Webber (Phantom of the Opera), Einaudi, and John Barry(Dances
with Wolves). You can listen to samples of all 10 tracks at
www.rachelmdavis.co.uk where you can also find links to buy the CD
and sheet music or download the tracks from digital music sites
like iTunes or Amazon.
Through his years of experience in extended Scripture memorization,
Andrew M. Davis helps readers commit to studying God’s word so
they may grow in holiness, resist temptation, and share the gospel
with lost people.
Research on applied memory is one of the most active, interesting
and vibrant areas in experimental psychology today. This book
provides descriptions of cutting-edge research and applies them to
three key areas of contemporary investigation: education, the law
and neuroscience. In the area of education, findings from the study
of memory are described which could have a major impact on testing
practice, revision techniques for examinations and teaching basic
literacy and numeracy. In applications to the law, recent findings
shed new light on the dynamics of child abuse investigations, the
status of traumatic memories recovered after long delays and a
further challenge for the eyewitness: change blindness. Finally, in
neuroscience, contributions cover the frightening question of
whether patients can remember incidents during surgical operations
under anaesthetic, the unexpected impact of handedness and rapid
eye movements on memory proficiency and the status of deja vu:
mystical experience or memory error? These accounts of recent
research on applied memory have been written by leading experts in
the field from both Europe and America, with the non-specialist in
mind. They will interest students who wish to extend their reading
beyond core material in cognitive psychology, graduates on more
specialised courses in education, forensics and neuropsychology,
and all those who wish to enrich their knowledge of the
contemporary frontiers of applied memory research.
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Fatal Solution - How a Healthcare System Used Tragedy to Transform Itself and Redefine Just Culture (Paperback)
Jan M. Davies, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FRAeS, Carmella Steinke, RRT, BHS(RT), MPA, W. Ward Flemons, MD, FRCPC
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One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to
be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock,
healthcare providers reeling and fingers starting to point. A large
healthcare system's reputation hangs in the balance while decisions
need to be made, quickly. More questions than answers. People have
to be held accountable - does this mean they get fired? Should the
media and therefore the public be informed? What are family members
and the providers involved feeling? When the dust settles, will
remaining patients be more safe or less safe? In this provocative
true story of tragedy, the authors recount the journey travelled
and what was learned by, at the time, Canada's largest fully
integrated health region. They weave this story together with the
theory about why things fall apart and how to put them back
together again. Building on the writings and wisdom of James Reason
and other experts, the book explores new ways of thinking about
Just Culture, and what this would mean for patients and family
members, in addition to healthcare providers. With afterwords by
two of the major players in this story, the authors make a
compelling case that Just Culture is as much about fairness and
healing as it is about supporting a safety culture.
'A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling
storytelling. Daniel Davis has a rare knack for making complex
science comprehensible and thrilling' BILL BRYSON Welcome to a
revolution in the science of you. Recent and dramatic breakthroughs
in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the
experience of being human in the coming century. Already they are
opening up boundary-breaking possibilities for intervention at
every level, from our brains and genes to our microbiomes and
immune systems. These will confer unprecedented powers over health,
childhood development, our cognitive and physical abilities, and
affect every aspect of how we live our lives and think about
ourselves. As the secrets of our bodies are revealed, we all will
face previously unthinkable choices with consequences we have yet
to understand. Imagine knowing years in advance the precise
likelihood of developing specific cancers, thanks to a bespoke
understanding of every cell in your body; following a diet and
health regime tailored to your microbiome; continuous monitoring of
your body's workings and well-being; taking drugs that improve your
cognition and help to acquire new skills; manipulating the genes of
your unborn children to eliminate disease or even enhance their
capabilities. Written by an award-winning scientist at the
forefront of this work, The Secret Body shows how these radical and
disconcerting possibilities have been made real thanks to the
ingenious technologies and decades-long collaborations of
scientists worldwide. A gripping drama of discovery and a landmark
account of this dawning revolution, it presents a vision of the
human body of dizzying complexity, wonder and possibility. 'A
beautifully rendered picture of the startling new discoveries in
human biology which are radically altering our understanding of how
we function and what our future holds' BRIAN COX 'An extraordinary
journey that reveals the magnificence, intricacy and beauty of the
human body, fundamentally changing the way we see ourselves.
Masterful' ALICE ROBERTS
Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an
investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation,
particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship among
Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from
longstanding "axianoetic" convictions as to the ultimate status of
Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology,
and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N.
Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a
relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility
and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as "ultimate" only in
virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality-what
Whitehead calls "mutual immanence"-uniquely illuminates enduring
mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine
existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As
such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the
World, and their ultimate presuppositions.
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Fatal Solution - How a Healthcare System Used Tragedy to Transform Itself and Redefine Just Culture (Hardcover)
Jan M. Davies, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FRAeS, Carmella Steinke, RRT, BHS(RT), MPA, W. Ward Flemons, MD, FRCPC
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R4,150
Discovery Miles 41 500
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to
be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock,
healthcare providers reeling and fingers starting to point. A large
healthcare system's reputation hangs in the balance while decisions
need to be made, quickly. More questions than answers. People have
to be held accountable - does this mean they get fired? Should the
media and therefore the public be informed? What are family members
and the providers involved feeling? When the dust settles, will
remaining patients be more safe or less safe? In this provocative
true story of tragedy, the authors recount the journey travelled
and what was learned by, at the time, Canada's largest fully
integrated health region. They weave this story together with the
theory about why things fall apart and how to put them back
together again. Building on the writings and wisdom of James Reason
and other experts, the book explores new ways of thinking about
Just Culture, and what this would mean for patients and family
members, in addition to healthcare providers. With afterwords by
two of the major players in this story, the authors make a
compelling case that Just Culture is as much about fairness and
healing as it is about supporting a safety culture.
Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an
investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation,
particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship
between, Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from
longstanding "axianoetic" convictions as to the ultimate status of
Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology,
and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N.
Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a
relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility
and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as "ultimate" only in
virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality-what
Whitehead calls "mutual immanence"-uniquely illuminates enduring
mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine
existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As
such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the
World, and their ultimate presuppositions.
This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex
researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in
a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way
for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments
that have previously been used in sex research.
It may surprise modern Christians that our current problems with
discontentedness are anything but new. In 1643, Puritan pastor
Jeremiah Burroughs wrote a work titled "The Rare Jewel of Christian
Contentment" that has as much resonance in our day as it did in
his. Now pastor and author Andrew M. Davis helps contemporary
Christians rediscover the remarkable truths found in this largely
forgotten work. With powerful new illustrations and a keen sense of
all that makes modern Christians restless, Davis challenges readers
to confront the sources of discontent in their lives and embrace
Paul's teaching on contentment in all circumstances. He gives
special attention to maintaining contentment through poverty and
prosperity, as well as in our marriages, and offers tips on
teaching children how to be content in an age of smartphones and
social media.
With over 150,000 copies sold since its first publication, this is
one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. This unique
guidebook to the night sky shows you how to observe a host of
celestial wonders. Its distinct format of object-by-object spreads
illustrates how deep-sky objects and planets actually look through
a small telescope, while its large pages and spiral binding allow
for use outside. Along with updated star names and astronomical
information, this new edition provides links to a dedicated webpage
with up-to-date tables and images, and an improved planets chapter.
The many Dobsonian-friendly images and small telescope views have
been revised to account for changes in modern telescope technology,
such as larger field of view eyepieces. With dedicated chapters on
Northern and Southern Hemisphere objects, it's never been easier to
explore the night sky, wherever you are. Additional resources are
available on the accompanying website: www.cambridge.org/turnleft.
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original,
interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African
American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian
studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from
around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of
"border crossings" and represent important contributions to the
discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration,
exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of
nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these
contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies
and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers
sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and
celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher,
mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
Hospitality is something of a modern paradox. On the one hand,
hospitality connotes a nicety or pleasantry easily undervalued as a
ritual or formality devoid of epistemological or ethical content.
On the other hand, the rise in international conflict and violence,
the decline of civil speech, and the increased hostility toward
immigrants points to the dire need for hospitable responses to
mitigate tensions. Hospitality represents a further paradox for
feminism. Historically, women have been saddled with
disproportionate responsibility for hospitality and have also been
treated as unwelcome guests in so many arenas. For these reasons,
feminists have good reason to be wary of addressing hospitality.
Yet, feminist theory has taken the lead on developing ontological,
epistemological, and ethical approaches to connectedness and
relationality such that addressing hospitality appears to be an
appropriate extrapolation. Feminism and Hospitality is a collection
that negotiates amidst these intriguing paradoxes. Feminism and
Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship is the first
collection of original works to bring a feminist analysis to issues
and theories of personal, political, economic, and artistic
hospitality. Furthermore, because feminist theorists have brought
so much attention to the nature of human relationships, this volume
employs a fresh analysis beyond the tradition in political theory.
This essential volume explores the vital role of communication in
the aging process and how this varies for different social groups
and cultural communities. It reveals how communication can empower
people in the process of aging, and that how we communicate about
age is critically important to - and is at the heart of - aging
successfully. Giles et al. confront the uncertainty and negativity
surrounding "aging" - a process with which we all have to cope - by
expertly placing communication at the core of the process. They
address the need to avoid negative language, discuss the lifespan
as an evolving adventure, and introduce a new theory of successful
aging - the communication ecology model of successful aging
(CEMSA). They explore the research on key topics including: age
stereotypes, age identities, and messages of ageism; the role of
culture, gender, ethnicity, and being a member of marginalized
groups; the ingredients of intergenerational communication;
depiction of aging and youth in the media; and how and why talk
about death and dying can be instrumental in promoting control over
life's demands. Communication for Successful Aging is essential
reading for graduate students of psychology, human development,
gerontology, and communication, scholars in the social sciences,
and all of us concerned with this complex academic and highly
personal topic.
This essential volume explores the vital role of communication in
the aging process and how this varies for different social groups
and cultural communities. It reveals how communication can empower
people in the process of aging, and that how we communicate about
age is critically important to - and is at the heart of - aging
successfully. Giles et al. confront the uncertainty and negativity
surrounding "aging" - a process with which we all have to cope - by
expertly placing communication at the core of the process. They
address the need to avoid negative language, discuss the lifespan
as an evolving adventure, and introduce a new theory of successful
aging - the communication ecology model of successful aging
(CEMSA). They explore the research on key topics including: age
stereotypes, age identities, and messages of ageism; the role of
culture, gender, ethnicity, and being a member of marginalized
groups; the ingredients of intergenerational communication;
depiction of aging and youth in the media; and how and why talk
about death and dying can be instrumental in promoting control over
life's demands. Communication for Successful Aging is essential
reading for graduate students of psychology, human development,
gerontology, and communication, scholars in the social sciences,
and all of us concerned with this complex academic and highly
personal topic.
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of
dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian
film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant
auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini,
Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a
filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques
employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or
metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the
film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as
hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example).
The book covers works released over different decades and spanning
multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is
intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is
insufficiently studied.
Featured on CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NBC's Today Show, Democracy NOW
, News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other leading talk shows. In the
late 1960s, the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed
by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and extended by President
Richard Nixon, warned that most civilizations have fallen less from
external assault than from internal decay. Over recent years, the
internal decay prophesied by the Violence Commission, but also by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his military-industrial complex
farewell speech, has been reflected in American public policies.
The fault lies on both sides of the political aisle. After Pearl
Harbor, "Mr. Republican," Senator Robert A. Taft, said criticism is
patriotic. Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense assembles more
than three dozen patriots. They range from Kevin Phillips, chief
political strategist for Richard Nixon's victory in 1968, and
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, called a "true American hero"
by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, to Jessica Tuchman Mathews,
President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and
former Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris, who advocated grassroots,
populist policies when he ran for president in the 1970s. Why have
American policies failed? What alternative policies can return
America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global
community shaken by, among other things, American torture and
sexual humiliation of prisoners in Iraq? Patriotism, Democracy and
Common Sense answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks
citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move
America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary
foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner
city, media, campaign finance and voting reform policies. Too much
to expect of our civilization? This important and timely effort is
published in cooperation with The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation.
From Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Se
This book brings together drug design practitioners, all leaders in
their field, who are actively advancing the field of quantitative
methods to guide drug discovery, from structure-based design to
empirical statistical models - from rule-based approaches to
toxicology to the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology. The
aim of the book is to show how various facets of the drug discovery
process can be addressed in a quantitative fashion (ie: numerical
analysis to enable robust predictions to be made). Each chapter
includes a brief review of the topic showing the historical
development of quantitative approaches, a survey/summary of the
current state-of-the-art, a selection of well chosen examples with
some worked through and an appreciation of what problems remain to
be overcome as well as an indication of how the field may develop.
After an overview of quantitative approaches to drug design the
book describes the development of concepts of "drug-like
properties", of quantitative structure-activity relationships and
molecular modelling, and in particular, structure-based design
approaches to guide lead optimisation. How to manage and describe
chemical structures, underpins all quantitative approaches to drug
design and these are described in the following chapters. The next
chapter covers the value of a quantitative approach, and also the
challenge which is to describe the confidence in any prediction,
and methods to assess predictive model quality. The later chapters
describe the application of quantitative approaches to describing
and optimising potency, selectivity, drug metabolism and
pharmacokinetic properties and toxicology, and the design of
chemical libraries to feed the screening approaches to lead
generation that underpin modern drug discovery. Finally the book
describes the impact of bioinformatics, current status of
predicting ligand affinity direct from the protein structure, and
the application of quantitative approaches to predicting
environmental risk. The book provides a summary of the current
state-of-the-art in quantitative approaches to drug design, and
future opportunities, but it also provides inspiration to drug
design practitioners to apply careful design, to make best use of
the quantitative methods that are available, while continuing to
improve them. Drug discovery still relies heavily on random
screening and empirical screening cascades to identify leads and
drugs and the process has many failures to deliver only a small
handful of drugs. With the rapidly escalating costs of drug
discovery and development together with spiralling delivery,
quantitative approaches hold the promise of shifting the balance of
success, to enable drug discovery to maintain its economic
viability.
Church health is measured by more than just numbers, but declining
membership is often a key symptom of a church in crisis. The pastor
of a dying church doesn't need to be told it is dying; he needs to
find the way forward--and he needs hope. Author and pastor Andrew
Davis offers readers the lessons he's learned in his own journey of
leading church transformation, including - keeping Christ's
ownership of the church central - being humble - choosing your
battles wisely - empowering godly men to join in leadership -
making prayer a priority - focusing on the Word - and more Church
decline is not inevitable. Revitalize gives pastors the spiritual
support they long for and the practical advice they need to turn
their churches around and position them for greater health in the
future.
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