Ordinary citizens fought City Hall to have a suicide barrier erected around North America's second most "popular" suicide magnet, the Bloor Viaduct over Toronto's Don Valley.
Interviewing is more complex than just asking questions. A successful interview involves multiple skills, including active listening, commitment to a line of questions, and the ability to adapt to whatever unfolds throughout the process. Paul McLaughlin has spent decades studying the art of the interview as a working journalist, interviewing coach, and educator. Using personal examples and anecdotes involving other journalists, this comprehens...
Obstetrical care in the family medicine setting is an ever-evolving discipline. In addition to routine updates due to the passage of time, several new developments have occurred in the field since the last edition of this book was published. Among these developments are advances in prenatal assessment and diagnosis, recommendations for vaccination in pregnancy, assessment and management of infectious disease in pregnancy, and management of chr...
Two action-packed stories about the superheroes-in-training at Hero Academy.
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Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, Paul McLaughlin relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority. The book pays particular attention to the authority of the state and the anarchist rejection of all traditional claims made for the legitimacy of state authority, the author both explaining and defending the central tenets of the anarchist critique of the s...
Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, this book relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority. It pays attention to the authority of the state and the anarchist rejection of various traditional claims made for the legitimacy of state authority.
Valuing Technology"opens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organizations. Based on a major study of the introduction of management information systems in health, higher education and retailing, it explores the active role of end-users in the innovation process.Subjects covered include: * the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities* the interplay of organizational and tec...
This edited volume offers students and researchers in international relations a wide-ranging survey of SSIP, the well established analytical approach to IR that employs rigorous methodology. Both strands of SSIP are represented here, one devoted to the collection and analysis of data, the other concerned with developing IR theories using mathematical models. SSIP has traditionally focused on issues related to security and conflict, yet this bo...
Do you feel the pull to start your own business? Tired of working for others and dealing with office politics, eager for control and more money, Ed "Skip" McLaughlin certainly felt it. When he left his high-level corporate position to start not one but two new businesses, his colleagues' reaction was disbelief: People told me I was crazy. "You are going to fail!" One of his businesses did fail, but the other thrived. Ed bootstrapped it into an...
Re-published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration Unilateral Independence (UDI) which marked the start of hostilities this is the authoritative history of the bitter civil war in South Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Ford Medium-duty trucks are rugged, dependable, economical, and easy to work on. Ford helped ease the growing pains of American evolution by building hundreds of thousands of tough trucks for medium-duty service. From early conversion kit trucks used mainly by farmers, Ford's trucks and chassis became common for utility maintenance, construction, school bus transportation, towing, dumping, firefighting, and camping. This book focuses on Ford's...
By providing health care and public health administrators with an appropriate introduction to the various dimensions found within public health, privatization and managed care, this book analyzes the effect managed care is having on public health.