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Green Leaves: New and Selected Poems collects work from Eric Paul Shaffer's seven volumes and thirty-five years of publication. On voyages around the Pacific Rim, from California to Okinawa to Hawai'i, Shaffer's sharp eye for natural and human detail delights and illuminates. A charter member of the "Clear Pool School, " Shaffer writes direct, profound, and often funny poems celebrating the American vernacular and encouraging a broader sense o...

Immiserizing Growth presents a conceptualization of immiserizing growth which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed, and 'avoidably' harmed by growth, respectively.

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The term "people pleaser" has both positive and negative connotations. In an ideal world, everybody tries to be a people pleaser at least to some degree, but people-pleasing becomes problematic when it approaches the extremes. "Marriage and the People Pleaser" focuses on three topics related to people-pleasing that has gone to an extreme: 1) the eight core areas that extreme people pleasers are likely to struggle with, 2) the unique dynamic th...

The term "people pleaser" has both positive and negative connotations. In an ideal world, everybody tries to be a people pleaser at least to some degree, but people-pleasing becomes problematic when it approaches the extremes. "Marriage and the People Pleaser" focuses on three topics related to people-pleasing that has gone to an extreme: 1) the eight core areas that extreme people pleasers are likely to struggle with, 2) the unique dynamic th...

This book is about poverty in the Global South. It presents results from a wide range of mixed method, or Q-Squared (Q²) - combined qualitative and quantitative approaches - studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America about who are poor and why.

Formerly titles "Rocks and Minerals" this handbook includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and descriptions of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Moving Past Personal Crises" is about both preventing and persevering through a personal crisis. It examines what makes you more vulnerable for a crisis to occur, as well as what some of the most useful tools are for getting through (and getting out of) whatever crisis you're in - be it situational or self-created. This book addresses the following topics: understanding emotional pain respecting your own legitimate needs handling the unknowns ...

Moving Past Personal Crises" is about both preventing and persevering through a personal crisis. It examines what makes you more vulnerable for a crisis to occur, as well as what some of the most useful tools are for getting through (and getting out of) whatever crisis you're in - be it situational or self-created. This book addresses the following topics: understanding emotional pain respecting your own legitimate needs handling the unknowns ...

Excerpt from Comparative Methods of Handling Produce From Warehouse Slots to Holding Areas of Retail StoresThe study of alternative systems of handling produce from warehouse selection-of storage in the retail store showed that the pallet system was the least expensive, costing per cases delivered, compared with for mobile cart shipment and when produce is hand stacked in the trailer. The study also showed that the availability of back haul re...

Excerpt from Packaging Produce at the Central WarehouseReceiving produce in large pallet containers makes the largest contribution to the savings at the central warehouse. This ideal-size container has area dimensions of 42 by 47 inches, so it can be shipped either in rail cars or over-the-road trailers. The depth ranges from 23 inches for apples and citrus to 30 inches for potatoes. The 23-inch deep pallet boxes hold approximately 800 pounds ...

Excerpt from Packaging Produce at the Central WarehouseReceiving produce in large pallet containers makes the largest contribution to the savings at the central warehouse. This ideal-size container has area dimensions of 42 by 47 inches, so it can be shipped either in rail cars or over-the-road trailers. The depth ranges from 23 inches for apples and citrus to 30 inches for potatoes. The 23-inch deep pallet boxes hold approximately 800 pounds ...

Excerpt from Comparative Methods of Handling Produce From Warehouse Slots to Holding Areas of Retail StoresThe study of alternative systems of handling produce from warehouse selection-of storage in the retail store showed that the pallet system was the least expensive, costing per cases delivered, compared with for mobile cart shipment and when produce is hand stacked in the trailer. The study also showed that the availability of back haul re...

Excerpt from Packaging and Price-Marking Produce in Retail Food Stores: A Study of Improved Methods of Marketing Agricultural ProductsWhen apples are 23 cents per pound, up to 33 cents per box Of size 150 or size 163 apples can be saved by individually price-marking each 3-pound (approx imete) bag Of apples, compared with hand filling and estimating the weight or machine filling and weighing and labeling the filled bag with the separate label ...

Excerpt from Packaging and Price-Marking Produce in Retail Food Stores: A Study of Improved Methods of Marketing Agricultural ProductsWhen apples are 23 cents per pound, up to 33 cents per box Of size 150 or size 163 apples can be saved by individually price-marking each 3-pound (approx imete) bag Of apples, compared with hand filling and estimating the weight or machine filling and weighing and labeling the filled bag with the separate label ...

Immiserizing growth occurs when economic growth fails to benefit, or even harms, the poor. This first book-length examination of this phemonenon combines discussion of the mechanisms of immiserizing growth with empirical data on trends in growth, poverty, and related welfare indicators.

One evening on Lahaina's Front Street, as Shaffer walked to an evening with friends, someone passing on the sidewalk commented, "The islands are even further west than I thought." Those accidental words, like poetry, shifted his perspective once again regarding the place he lives. Even Further West is a collection of poems written of, in, and on the Hawaiian islands. Companion volume to Lahaina Noon, this collection includes poems striving to ...

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Excerpt from Handling Groceries From Warehouse to Retail Store ShelvesEight combinations of methods of handling groceries were studied. Costs ranged from to per thousand cases, a difference of 25 percent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...