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The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of
scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products,
systems and environments - has been illustrated for 25 years by the
books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series. This book
presents the proceedings of the international conference on
Ergonomics & Human Factors 2012. In addition to being the
leading event in the UK that features ergonomics and human factors
across all sectors, this is also the annual conference of the
Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. Individual papers
provide insight into current practice, present new research
findings and form an invaluable reference source. The volumes
provide a fast track for the publication of suitable papers from
international contributors, with papers being subject to peer
review since 2009.A wide range of topics are covered in these
proceedings, including transport, user centred design, safety
culture, military, accidents, healthcare, manufacturing, human
factors integration, education, the 24-hour society, sociotechnical
systems and green ergonomics. As well as being of interest to
mainstream ergonomists and human factors specialists, Contemporary
Ergonomics and Human Factors will appeal to all those who are
concerned with people's interactions with their working and leisure
environment including designers, manufacturing and production
engineers, health and safety specialists, occupational, applied and
industrial psychologists, and applied physiologists.
A wide range of topics are covered in these proceedings, including:
defence; hazardous industries; human factors integration; inclusive
design; medical; methods and tools; occupational health and safety;
slips, trips and falls; and, transport and applications of
ergonomics. The 2010 conference - and these proceedings - also
include a memorial to Professor Tom Reilly and a symposium on
creating a learning organisation. As well as being of interest to
mainstream ergonomists and human factors specialists, Contemporary
Ergonomics & Human Factors will appeal to all those who are
concerned with people's interactions with their working and leisure
environment - including designers, manufacturing and production
engineers, health and safety specialists, occupational, applied and
industrial psychologists, and applied physiologists.
The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of
scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products,
systems and environments - has been illustrated for 27 years by the
books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series. This book
presents the proceedings of the international conference on
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013. In addition to
being the leading event in the UK that features ergonomics and
human factors across all sectors, this is also the annual
conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors.
Individual papers provide insight into current practice, present
new research findings and form an invaluable reference source. The
volumes provide a fast track for the publication of suitable papers
from international contributors, with papers being subject to peer
review since 2009. A wide range of topics are covered in these
proceedings including human computer interaction, standards,
accessibility, work & wellbeing, design, transport, safety
culture, green ergonomics, healthcare, human cognition,
biomechanics, crowd behaviour and the systems approach. As well as
being of interest to mainstream ergonomists and human factors
specialists, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors will appeal
to all those who are concerned with people's interactions with
their working and leisure environment including designers,
manufacturing and production engineers, health and safety
specialists, occupational, applied and industrial psychologists,
and applied physiologists.
This book compiles the papers presented at the Annual Conference of
the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors held in April 2010.
It embraces a wide range of issues related to ergonomics,
reflecting the name change of the Ergonomics Society to the
Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors.
The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of
scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products,
systems and environments - has been illustrated for 25 years by the
books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series. This book
presents the proceedings of the international conference on
Ergonomics and Human Factors 2012. In addition to being the leading
event in the UK that features ergonomics and human factors across
all sectors, this is also the annual conference of the Institute of
Ergonomics and Human Factors.Individual papers provide insight into
current practice, present new research findings and form an
invaluable reference source. The volumes provide a fast track for
the publication of suitable papers from international contributors,
with papers being subject to peer review since 2009.A wide range of
topics are covered in these proceedings, including transport, user
centred design, safety culture, military, accidents, healthcare,
manufacturing, human factors integration, education, the 24-hour
society, sociotechnical systems and green ergonomics.As well as
being of interest to mainstream ergonomists and human factors
specialists, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors will appeal
to all those who are concerned with people's interactions with
their working and leisure environment including designers,
manufacturing and production engineers, health and safety
specialists, occupational, applied and industrial psychologists,
and applied physiologists.
The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of
scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products,
systems and environments - has been illustrated for 27 years by the
books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series.This book
presents the proceedings of the international conference on
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013. In addition to
being the leading event in the UK that features ergonomics and
human factors across all sectors, this is also the annual
conference of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
Individual papers provide insight into current practice, present
new research findings and form an invaluable reference source. The
volumes provide a fast track for the publication of suitable papers
from international contributors, with papers being subject to peer
review since 2009. A wide range of topics are covered in these
proceedings including human computer interaction, standards,
accessibility, work and wellbeing, design, transport, safety
culture, green ergonomics, healthcare, human cognition,
biomechanics, crowd behaviour and the systems approach. As well as
being of interest to mainstream ergonomists and human factors
specialists, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors will appeal
to all those who are concerned with people's interactions with
their working and leisure environment including designers,
manufacturing and production engineers, health and safety
specialists, occupational, applied and industrial psychologists,
and applied physiologists.
The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of
scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products,
systems and environments - has been illustrated for 25 years by the
books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series. This book
presents the proceedings of the international conference on
Ergonomics and Human Factors 2011. In addition to being the leading
event in the UK that features ergonomics and human factors across
all sectors, this is also the annual conference of the Institute of
Ergonomics and Human Factors.Individual papers provide insight into
current practice, present new research findings and form an
invaluable reference source. The volumes provide a fast track for
the publication of suitable papers from international contributors,
with papers being subject to peer review since 2009.A wide range of
topics are covered in these proceedings, including transport, user
centred design, safety culture, military, accidents, healthcare,
manufacturing, human factors integration, education, the 24-hour
society, sociotechnical systems and green ergonomics.As well as
being of interest to mainstream ergonomists and human factors
specialists, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors will appeal
to all those who are concerned with people's interactions with
their working and leisure environment including designers,
manufacturing and production engineers, health and safety
specialists, occupational, applied and industrial psychologists,
and applied physiologists.
Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy was well established in his first
year in office and did not change throughout his presidency. It was
to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too
would be destroyed in a nuclear war - even as Reagan sought an
alternative through strategic defense to make nuclear missiles
obsolete and thus eliminate the possibility of an all-out nuclear
war. This book offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary
accomplishment as president - persuading the Soviets to reduce
their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War. It details how he
achieved this success and in the process explains why Americans
consider Reagan one of our greatest presidents. The authors examine
the decisions Reagan made during his presidency that made his
success possible and review Reagan's critical negotiations with
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ending with the 1988 Moscow Summit
that effectively ended the Cold War. They present Gorbachev's
thoughts on Reagan as a great man and a great president 20 years
after he left office. But ultimately, they reveal the depth of
Reagan's vision of a world safe from nuclear weapons, painting a
clear portrait of a Cold Warrior who saw the possibility of moving
beyond that war.
An avid sportsman, Martin Anderson first visited Kenya on a hunting
safari in 1960, three years before the country gained its
independence from English colonial administration. Anxious to
return and be a part of Kenya's new beginning and Jomo Kenyata's
encouragement of "harambee" (working together with European
settlers/farmers), he partnered with a Kenya settler and started to
raise cattle. Four years later and with one more partner, he
accepted the government's offer to develop a vast tract of raw
African bush for a game and cattle ranch. This book is a history of
that grand and remarkable journey.
"Galana" recounts the story of the creation, achievements, and
demise of the largest cattle ranch in Kenya and perhaps all of
Africa. Located on an arid 2,500-square-mile tract--1 percent of
all the land in Kenya--the Galana Ranch was founded in 1968. Galana
introduced cattle into a region with virulent insect-borne disease,
adapted the animals to the land, and bred resistant stock. It
conducted scientific research into the domestication of wildlife,
and aimed to manage Galana's vast natural population of elephants,
lions, rhino, lesser kudu, eland, oryx, and other game to help that
population attain a level the land could support. In the 1970s and
80s, however, an epidemic of poaching nearly wiped out Galana's
vast elephant herds, and the ranch shut down in 1989. This
engrossing memoir goes to the heart of Kenya's wildlife management
issues and political challenges through a personal tale of
adventure and enterprise in Africa.
Revolution: the Reagan Legacy gives a vivid account of how Reagan
came to power, the way he governed, and the people around him -
Bush, Haig, Deaver, Weinberger, Shultz, Stockman, Jim Baker, Don
Regan, Casey, North - right through a detailed analysis of the
Iran-Contra affair. Anderson, called the 'intellectual powerhouse
behind policy' and 'the invisible man' in Reagan's White House,'
presents a clear and thought-provoking assessment of Ronald
Reagan's legacy to the United States and the world. In a new
chapter written especially for this edition, based on an exclusive
interview with President Reagan after he left office, Martin
Anderson reveals Reagan's thinking about issues that were
controversial during his presidency: What he meant when he called
the Soviet Union an 'evil empire' - and why he did it. Reagan's
role as prime mover behind Star Wars - how he decided to give the
order to begin developing a nuclear missile defense The secret
Reagan/Andropov correspondence in 1983 - including a copy of
Reagan's handwritten letter to Andropov and its consequences for
nuclear disarmament negotiations
Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first
year in office, did not change: to make absolutely sure in the
minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear
war-even as Reagan sought an alternative through strategic defense
to make nuclear missiles obsolete and thus eliminate the
possibility of an all-out nuclear war. This book offers new
perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as
president: persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals
and end the Cold War. It details how he achieved this success and
in the process explains why Americans consider Reagan one of our
greatest presidents. The authors examine the decisions Reagan made
during his presidency that made his success possible and review
Reagan's critical negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, ending with the 1988 Moscow summit that effectively
ended the Cold War. They present Gorbachev's thoughts on Reagan as
a great man and a great president twenty years after he left
office. Ultimately, they reveal the depth of Reagan's vision of a
world safe from nuclear weapons, painting a clear portrait of a
Cold Warrior who saw the possibility of moving beyond that war.
A Country Without Names offers a conspectus of human activity from
its earliest imagined days and the formation of agrarian state
sedentism to our own day. Its tesserae, gathered from beyond the
boundaries of a single country or culture, constitute a mosaic in
which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of
that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state. Whilst a
certain sombreness - from Flowering Midnight's dark elegy for the
English pastoral lyric, to the fate of Congo's Patrice Lumumba in
the contemporary, and near contemporary, political parallels
animating Under Jui-yi Shan - imbues the collection it should be
seen, however, as no more than the corollary of an unsentimental
probing of experience, in a collection which is both paean for the
natural world and indictment of those human qualities and
structures which threaten it. Ian Seed, reviewing Ice Stylus, the
last volume, after Interlocutors of Paradise and Obsequy for Lost
Things, in Anderson's Unsubdued Singing trilogy, noted "its highly
charged lyricism ... the language ... sparse, staccato, pared down
to a minimum." And pointed to "its timeless, archetypal quality" to
"the sense of an epic journey into the darkness of the western
psyche ... One is reminded above all, in the tension between the
aesthetic qualities of the writing and its political, historical
and philosophical subject matter, of the work of Ezra Pound ... In
the current political climate this is a book which may also be read
as ... a plea to begin anew with a narrative that acknowledges the
humility of our place within the universe and our responsibility to
it."
Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city
Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental
imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and
non-native inhabitant.
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Ice Stylus (Paperback)
Martin Anderson
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The sequences of meditations which comprise Anderson's last two
books Interlocutors of Paradise (Skylight Press) and Obsequy for
Lost Things (Shearsman Books) trace fault lines deeply inscribed
within the Judeo-Christian psyche of the West. Ice Stylus is the
final volume of Anderson's Unsubdued Singing trilogy. Many of the
sequences in Interlocutors of Paradise and Obsequy for Lost Things
begin in a geography which is both real and subliminal: the Essex
Thames-side salt marsh. This is also Isaiah's "parched wastes of
salt": here manifestation of wilderness, the condition of spiritual
inanition, which has so frequently been attributed by the West to
the non-West to legitimise aggression whilst masking its real
objective of the expropriation of other peoples' wealth, finds
objective representation. It is the aggressor himself, the
sequences suggest, not the victim, who suffers from inanition. From
the salt marshes his questing voyages take him in search of things
he covets and dreams of, only to confront him, finally, with the
reality of their non-existence. In this "dark land", perhaps
intimating archetypal adventure, his passage takes him through the
trials and ordeals of many wastes of water. What such a journey
eventually delivers to him, however, is not a sacred fire of
illumination or boon of wisdom to take back to his old world to
re-vivify it. Instead, he is vouchsafed the white isotope of
destruction, turning everything dark and possessing the potential
to annihilate the very products of time he has so violently sought
to wrest from others.
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