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“christopher baber”

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  • Embodying Design

    An Applied Science of Radical Embodied Cognition

    by Christopher Baber ...
    Rethinking design through the lens of embodied cognition provides a novel way of understanding human interaction with technology.In this book, Christopher Baber uses embodied cognition as a lens through which to view both how designers engage in creative practices and how people use designed artifacts. This view of cognition as enactive, embedded, situated, or distributed, without recourse to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Grasping the Moment

    Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies

    by Christopher Baber, Richard McMaster ...
    The ways in which organizations make use of information available to them to make decisions and manage activity is an essential topic of investigation for human factors. When the information is uncertain, incomplete or subject to change, then decision making and activity management can become challenging. Under such circumstances, it has become commonplace to use the concept of sensemaking as the ... Read more

    $336.66 CAD

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  • When There Is No Doctor

    Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times

    by Gerard S. Doyle ...
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    A field guide to survival medicine, improvisation, and emergency care when professional help is unavailable. When There Is No Doctor by Dr. Gerald S. Boyle is a practical guide to emergency and improvised medical care for situations where professional treatment is delayed or unavailable. Drawing on clinical experience and disaster-preparedness knowledge, Boyle outlines basic principles of first ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facing the Wave

    A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

    by Gretel Ehrlich ...
    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Machine Shop Trade Secrets

    Second Edition

    by James Harvey ...
    Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. Machine Shop Trade Secrets provides practical “how-to” information that can immediately be put to use to improve ones machining skills, craftsmanship, and productivity. It is sure to be used and referred to time and again.Users will ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Beyond Command and Control

    Leadership, Culture and Risk

    by Richard Adams, Christine Owen, Cameron Scott, David Phillip Parsons ...
    This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control. Leadership is separated from ideas and institutional seniority and explained as the collaborative power of one with others. Enabling the intelligent co-participation of all people, the constructive effect of this approach to leadership is in the engagement of people. This is ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

  • The Clara Nevada

    Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage

    by Steven C. Levi ...
    The true story of a mysterious shipwreck during the Klondike gold rush.In early February 1898, witnesses reported a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska's Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm, taking passengers and priceless cargo with her.Was the explosion an accident—or a robbery gone wrong? Did Captain C.H. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Public Health

    Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

    by Geof Rayner, Tim Lang ...
    What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Radiation Injury Prevention and Mitigation in Humans

    by Kedar Prasad ...
    With an estimated 3.3 billion ionizing radiation imaging examinations performed worldwide each year, the growing use of x-ray-based diagnostic procedures raises concerns about long-term health risks, especially cancer. In addition, rapid growth in the number of nuclear power plants around the world increases the risk of a nuclear accident similar t ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Safe Zone

    Technological Aspects of Safety in the Workplace

    by Robert DuPrey ...
    This book presents a comprehensive view of the safety in the workplace and the safety leadership factors and provides detail analysis of the OSHA regulations, safety training and technological aspects of safety in the workplace. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Emergency Management Concepts

    A Step-by-Step Approach

    by Michael L. Madigan ...
    This book provides a step-by-step process that focuses on how to develop, practice, and maintain emergency plans that reflect what must be done before, during, and after a disaster, in order to protect people and property. The communities who preplan and mitigate prior to any incident will be better prepared for emergency scenarios. This book will assist those with the tools to address all phases ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • First Responders Handbook

    An Introduction, Second Edition

    by Michael L. Madigan ...
    The objective of this handbook is to make available in a quick reference form, the information to enhance and support the response capabilities of firefighters, emergency medical technicians, hazardous materials response teams, law enforcement officers, bomb squads, medical doctors and nurses, emergency managers, schools, and others. This handbook is dedicated and committed to disaster prevention, ... Read more

    $87.93 CAD