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  • Severe Weather Warnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    by William Donner, Havidan Rodriguez, Jerald Brotzge, Walter R. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Serious Nonsense

    Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage

    by William W. Donner ...
    Series series Keystone Books
    Versammlinge—community events filled with songs, performances, speeches, and skits that celebrate Pennsylvania German heritage and culture—are held entirely in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language. Some, the “groundhog lodges,” feature a ceremony honoring the groundhog, while others do not. These unique meetings, expressions of a distinctive ethnic identity in the context of a rapidly changing ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Handbook of Disaster Research

    Edited by Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner, Joseph E. Trainor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the 1st Edition, including what is a disaster; morbidity and mortality associated with disasters; gender and disasters; and race, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Pulling the Right Threads

    The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale

    by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Jane C. Goodale, Michele Dominy, Miriam Kahn, Pamela Sheffield Rosi, Deborah Bird Rose, Michael D. Lieber, Joy A Bilharz0, William W. Donner1, Eric Venbrux2, Jane Fajans3 ...
    A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel (Unabridged)

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    by Thomas Erskine ...
    Narrated by Roosevelt Amezaga, William Seal, Karl Donner, Diane Fletcher ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 28 min

    This is a work of theology which addresses a seeming contradiction in Christian thought: that love and forgiveness are freely offered to all, but they cannot be accepted without a major change in the receiver's heart. Along the way, the author explains what he believes justification to be--not a judicial act of God, but rather a description of the state of the believer. He also goes into detail on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Human Factors in Aviation

    Edited by Eduardo Salas, Dan Maurino ...
    Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of Human Factors in Aviation serves the needs of the widespread aviation community - students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers and government personnel. Offering a comprehensive overview the volume covers topics such as pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, vehicles and systems and NextGen issues. The need for an up-to-date, ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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  • The Academic Portfolio

    A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

    by Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller ...
    This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Behind Human Error

    by Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook, Leila Johannesen, Nadine Sarter, David Woods ...
    Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Edited by Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jonas Söderlund ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Read more

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  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...
    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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