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Environmental and Workplace Safety A Guide for University, Hospital, and School Managers James T. O' Reilly Philip Hagan Peter de la Cruz Environmental and Workplace Safety is the first book to provide health, safety, and environmental managers at health care and educational organizations with the comprehensive and up-to-date regulatory and compliance information needed to avoid costly penalties and litigation. It also offers sound guidance on...

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This comprehensive anthology examines contemporary neo-paganism ranging from goddess theology to historical-critical essays. Many of the contributors are academically trained neo-pagans, and the resulting volume is a benchmark study of a significant movement that promises to reshape the religious landscape of the next century.

Laser-enhanced ionization (LEI) is a type of optical spectrometry that employs photoexcitation to ionize atoms selectively. Over the past two decades, this method - originally known as the optogalvanic effect - has been the object of extensive worldwide research and the subject of numerous papers and published articles. Until now, however, no single volume has presented this wealth of theory and data in a cohesive and accessible form. Laser-En...

Marshal support throughout your organization Develop a communications strategy that works for -- not against -- you. Based on years of battle-tested principles and case-examples, Roger D'Aprix tells managers how they can avoid the communications breakdowns that sabotage attempts at change, and cause employees to lose faith in their leaders and the system itself. Instead, he shows how communications can be used strategically to connect an organ...

Sidney Harris, acclaimed Dean of Scientific Humor, presents his most recent collection of cartoons. No scientific or technical topic is safe from the scope of his humor. Harriss cartoons have appeared in American Scientist, Playboy, The New Yorker, Discover, and Science, among many other popular magazines. Previous collections include Einstein Simplified, "You Want Proof? Ill Give You Proof, " and From Personal Ads to Cloning Labs. "The humor ...

These studies of the cost of capital will inspire and guide policy-makerswho share the goal of making the allocation of capital in a market economy moreefficient.Volume 1 presents pioneering studies of the cost of capital as adeterminant of investment expenditures. The cost of capital summarizes the futureconsequences of investment essential for current decisions. This concept has becomean indispensible tool for studying the dynamics of invest...

With over 50, 000 terms, this book provides comprehensive coverage of four allied but separate industrial sectors: Constructive, Forestry, Surface Mining and Public Works. The definitions have been compiled to be of use to a wide range of professionals.

Teaches students and practitioners how to: understand the food chain as a single entity, collect and analyze data relevant to investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks, identify human health hazards in foods of animal origin, and principles of safe food.

In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indig...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Hoeksema, Jacob -- Doing without a Partitive Constraint / Abbott, Barbara -- Floating Quantifiers, Partitives and Distributivity / Hoeksema, Jacob -- Naked Partitive Phrases in Turkish / Kornfilt, Jaklin -- Partitives, existentials, and partitive determiners / Reed, Ann -- Is partitive case inherent or structural? / Vainikka, Anne / Maling, Joan -- Bare plurals, plural pronouns and the partiti...

Managers learn how to employ the positive aspects of teams, while benefiting from other's experience on what problems are likely to crop up and how to solve them. This work uses case histories from such companies as Texas Instrument and Kodak in order to illustrate the benefits of teamwork.

The series is aimed specifically at publishing peer reviewed reviews and contributions presented at workshops and conferences. Each volume is associated with a particular conference, symposium or workshop. These events cover various topics within pure and applied mathematics and provide up-to-date coverage of new developments, methods and applications. ds and applications.

Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.

Emergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & Health PerspectiveJonathan D. Kipp, Murrey E. LoflinWhile risk management techniques have been successfully used to reduce the potential for physical harm to the public, these proven methods, strangely enough, have not been applied to one of the most hazardous environments of all -- fire fighting operations. The result is that more than 100, 000 injuries occur to fire fighters each year. Emergency...

This book covers: the historical background and regulation of gambling, all aspects of casino operations--from food and beverages to cage operations, auditing, marketing, and reporting, and the mathematics and a utility analysis of gaming.

Fascinating insights into what influences behavior on the job. Here, leading psychologists examine the entire spectrum of individual differences and show how they affect personality, vocational interests, job performance, and work dysfunctions. Cutting-edge theory and research no manager should miss.

Given the worldwide trend toward quality system registration, U. S. construction firms must now implement ISO 9000 if they are to continue to compete in the international construction market. ISO 9000 enables businesses to formulate operating procedures that allow them to consistently deliver a service or product at a given level of quality. This method has already been adopted by a number of European industries and is rapidly gaining acceptan...

Moral Leadership shows how creating a new leadership practice--one with a moral dimension built around purpose, values, and beliefs--can transform a school from an organization to a community and inspire the kinds of commitment, devotion, and service that can make our schools great. Sergiovanni explains the importance of legitimizing emotion and getting in touch with basic values and connections with others. He reveals how true collegiality, b...