This study examines James Herriot's five major books as carefully crafted volumes of autobiography based on the building block of the short story. In each of these works Herriot explores the fundamental choice of values underlying a happy and successful life. In his vision the bonds of affection and mutual dependence between all creatures, human and animal, form an enduring theme that lies at the heart of the choices he makes in his personal and professional life. This study will help the reader to understand the relationship between Herriot's stories and each book as a whole and to appreciate Herriot's work in the context of twentieth-century anxieties about identity and meaning.

Following a biographical chapter that describes the relationship between Herriot's life and literary work, Rossi discusses the genre of autobiography, the relationship between truth and fiction in modern autobiography, and Herriot's use of the genre. A separate chapter is then devoted to each of Herriot's works in turn: "All Creatures Great and Small," "All Things Bright and Beautiful," "All Things Wise and Wonderful," "The Lord God Made Them All," and DEGREES"Every Living Thing." The discussion of each work includes sections on plot development and narrative structure, character development, thematic issues, and alternative critical approaches that may be fruitfully applied to the book. Helpful appendices contain identifications of minor characters in the works. A complete bibliography of all of James Herriot's works, critical sources, and a listing of reviews of all of his works completes the volume. Because of the popularity of Herriot's work among adults and young adults this companion will be a key purchase for school and public libraries.

What is the correct way to see color in a modern, scientific society? And who decides? In The Republic of Color, Michael Rossi delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to trace its complex origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform--a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Rossi's compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America--and redefined the way we see the world.

This is the book that Finally tells "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth" about successfully investing in rental properties. The Truth is much different than the hype often presented by the real estate "gurus." Nothing in this book is sugar coated and there isn't any hype. Starting any business is difficult. The vast majority of people who try will fail! If you are to have a good chance of succeeding, you need to have the facts -- NOT A BUNCH OF MOTIVATIONAL NONSENSE! All the motivation in the world won't keep you in business if you don't have the cash flow! This book contains straight talk about finding rental properties at a huge discount; buying with no money down; how to calculate real world cash flow; nightmare tenants; evictions; the amount of work that is REALLY required; tenant screening; dealing with bad tenants; the reasons newbies fail; and much more!

By-products of global biodiesel manufacturing are a global fact and the immense amount of glycerol by-product stacking unsold until mid 2005 gave a visual image of the huge loss of energy and material resources. This was due to the lack of suitable conversion processes for this, the oldest organic molecule known to man, despite various experiments by some biodiesel producers. The large surplus of glycerol by-product which entered the chemical market has caused closure of existing glycerol plants and the discovery of processes that use glycerol as a raw material for the production of value-added chemicals and even of energy. This was followed by 3-4 years of intense research activity worldwide, where human chemical ingenuity opened up a number of practical avenues to convert glycerol into value added products of mass consumption. For instance, the batteries of your laptop and iPod, as well as your car's antifreeze will soon be based on glycerol, the same sweet viscous substance currently present in soaps. Reporting and commenting on such achievements this book aims to inform chemistry professionals, including managers and technologists, on the large potential of glycerol as versatile biofeedstock for the production of a variety of chemicals, polymers and fuels. Whilst filling a gap in the current literature, this nicely illustrated book is written in a clear, concise style and presents the numerous uses of glycerol as a new raw material which are starting to have an impact on industry worldwide. Elucidation of the principles governing the new chemistry of glycerol goes along with updated industrial information that is generally difficult to retrieve. Through its 10 chapters, the monograph tells the story of a chemical success -- that of converting glycerol into value added products -- and highlight the principles that made it possible. Whether as solvent, antifreeze, detergent, monomer for textiles or drug, new catalytic conversions of glycerol have been discovered that are finding application for the synthesis of products whose use range from everyday life to the fine chemical industry. Readers are also shown how a number of practical limitations posed by glycerol chemistry, such as the low selectivity encountered employing traditional stoichiometric and older catalytic conversions, were actually solved based on the understanding of the fundamental chemistry of glycerol and by application of catalysis science and technology. Readers also find a thorough discussion on the sustainability issues of bioglycerol production covering societal, environmental and economic dimensions to reflect the needs of politicians and citizens of today who require cross border research. By explaining the advantages and problems as well as offering solutions the book aids understanding as to whether biodiesel and glycerol refineries are convenient and economically sound. Chemical research on glycerol has shown that given a strong economic input, chemists are able to rapidly devise a whole set of new upgrading processes for the biorefinery and that the latter integrated unity for production energy and chemicals is not just dream of environmentally-minded scientists but an inevitable reality of today. Due to the ever decreasing energy return on energy invested, global society is being forced to switch from fossil to renewable fuels until cheap and abundant energy of solar origin becomes a reality. In this evolution, biofuels, particularly biodiesel, will certainly play a role and therefore, glycerol will be a key raw material for the biorefinery for many years to come. The book's users include industry's top managers and management consultants and also R&D and marketing managers. Along with technical content of a high quality, this is also a strategic book for top managers of the chemical, biofuel, oleochemical and detergent industries.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Bauingenieurwesen, Note: 2,3, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (Bauingenieurwesen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Eine wirtschaftliche Bauausfuhrung ist auch von einer guten Grundlagenermittlung in der Angebotsphase abhangig. In der Regel findet aber die Angebotserstellung und die Produktionsplanung unter hohem Zeitdruck statt und wird daher oft nur unzureichend genau durchgefuhrt. Mit Hilfe der heutigen EDV-Programme ware eine schnelle und genaue Angebotserstellung und Produktionsplanung moglich, wird aber nur selten entsprechend umgesetzt. In der Diplomarbeit soll am Beispiel eines Geschaftshauses eine Kalkulation und Produktionsplanung mit Hilfe des EDV-Programms BRZ durchgefuhrt werden. Dabei sollen die Werkzeuge, die das Programm zur Verfugung stellt, genutzt werden. Im Zuge der Umsetzung soll aufgezeigt werden, wie die Werkzeuge sinnvoll und einfach eingesetzt werden konnen und welche Moglichkeiten der Bewertung und Bearbeitung sich fur die Sachbearbeiter in den einzelnen Phasen ergeben. Die einzelnen Aufgaben sind: - Beschreibung des Projektes. - Beschreibung der allgemeinen Vorgehensweise bei der Angebotsbearbeitung und Darstellung der Umsetzung mit Hilfe des Programms BRZ. - Beschreibung der allgemeinen Vorgehensweisen bei der Produktionsplanung und Darstellung der Umsetzung mit Hilfe des Programms BRZ. - Bewertung, inwieweit ein EDV-Programm den Arbeitsablauf, die Kalkulation und die Produktionsplanung unterstutzen kann. - Erstellen von Checklisten und Ablaufdiagrammen zur Nutzung des EDV-Programms. Zusammenfassung: So ein Programm ist wichtig. Wie bereits erwahnt wird eine solche Software in grossen Unternehmen schon taglich eingesetzt und ist fur die Grosse der Bauprojekte dringend erforderlich, aber wie im eigenen Kapitel auf Seite 105 erwahnt, ist ein solches Programm fur mittelstandige Unternehmen von grosster Bedeutung. Kalkulation, Pr