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The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships The Secret Life of Boards

The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships The Secret Life of Boards

The relationships within boards can make or break an organisation but well-functioning relationships take skill and effort to maintain. This book looks at the psychology behind individual and group behaviour and offers tactics and power tools to help make a success of your board career. The book shares advice and practical tips from 40 experienced board members from the worlds of corporates the public sector and charities on how to spot and manage complex dynamics. And each chapter ends with techniques for unlocking tricky board relationships that you can put into practice immediately. The authors examine case studies and explore topics such as psychodynamics cognitive behavioural psychology and neuroscience for insights into how boards react under pressure. They then demonstrate how to practise the ART of managing board relationships by increasing Awareness Relating constructively to others and choosing Tactics to ease tensions and foster collaboration. The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships: The Secret Life of Boards reveals why board relationships lie at the heart of organisational success – and how you can use them to gain competitive edge. It is essential reading for current and aspiring board members coaches facilitators and anyone with an interest in boardroom dynamics. | The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships The Secret Life of Boards

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Local Government Law A Practical Guidebook for Public Officials on City Councils Community Boards and Planning Commissions

Local Government Law A Practical Guidebook for Public Officials on City Councils Community Boards and Planning Commissions

Local Government Law provides a unique resource with concise easy-to-understand explanations of important legal issues faced by local public officials community boards and city councils. From the moment officials take office they face decisions related to basic principles found in state and federal law. The same is true for those in the private sector aiming to work successfully with local governments. This practical guidebook will empower public and private representatives with a functional grasp of legal principles with chapters explaining what a local government is the requirement to follow due process local land use controls the basics of the Freedom of Information Act and many other important subjects that regularly arise. As a practical guidebook on local government law this book provides a basic and empowering understanding for officials and private actors in the local government arena. | Local Government Law A Practical Guidebook for Public Officials on City Councils Community Boards and Planning Commissions

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The Hero Maker How Superintendents Can Get their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

The Hero Maker How Superintendents Can Get their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart worthwhile decisions that they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards. You’ll discover how to: reconnect board members to the real purpose of education despite their agendas work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking connect and communicate with board members regardless of personality encourage board members to play to their strengths start each school year undefeated and know when it is time to move on. Each chapter contains hero-making tips to help you get started. The book also includes a special feature on board personalities and the Process Communication Model® (PCM) a method that will make it easier to avoid miscommunication with board members. With this practical book you'll be able to overcome the challenges of the superintendent–board relationship so that your board can make better decisions for those who matter most—the students. | The Hero Maker How Superintendents Can Get their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

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Practical Wisdom Thinking Differently About College and University Governance

Practical Wisdom Thinking Differently About College and University Governance

Co-published with This series of essays written for trustees and administrative leaders of universities and colleges draws on the authors’ extensive consulting experience research into the dynamics of boards and service as trustees to focus on practical insights that will help readers improve governance. The authors have contributed a series of essays on governing well to Inside Higher Education which formed the inspiration for this volume. The primary aim of the book is to provide insight that boards can use to enhance their governing practices. The author’s take is not a “how to do” book but rather one on “how to think. ” Their basic premise is that too many boards are underperforming because they adopt or continue ineffective practices. However thinking in more intentional if not new ways about not only what they do as boards but how they go about their efforts will help boards add value to the institutions and state systems they govern. The authors use thought provoking-titles and a conversational tone to engage the readers get them to reflect on their work and broaden their horizons. | Practical Wisdom Thinking Differently About College and University Governance

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The Superintendent’s Rulebook A Guide to District-Level Leadership

The Superintendent’s Rulebook A Guide to District-Level Leadership

A concise and accessible text The Superintendent’s Rulebook explores the human-resource political and leadership dimensions of the superintendency. This important book is designed for new aspiring superintendents and Boards of Education helping readers to apply the many leadership lessons taught in training programs and education leadership courses to their everyday practice. Full of real-world examples takeaway strategies and supplemented with discussion and inbox questions this valuable resource encourages reflection while capturing the day-to-day spirit and complexities of district-level leadership. | The Superintendent’s Rulebook A Guide to District-Level Leadership

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Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Being a good board member is not about knowing everything; it is about asking the right questions and challenging appropriately. Effective Directors: The Right Questions To Ask (QTA) is a reference book for board members and executives globally to support them in their work. With chapters written by senior company board members and respected figures in corporate governance the questions have been drawn together to offer food for thought and useful prompts that take boards beyond operational discussions. The book clearly presents key areas to be considered by the board (there are over 50 in total) and range from board composition to data security diversity and inclusion and succession planning. The questions are ones that boards in any organisation should be asking themselves their fellow board members service providers executives and other stakeholders to ensure that the right issues are raised transparency and effective oversight are achieved and the board is fulfilling its role in governing the organisation. In addition to being invaluable for board members the book is also a very useful tool for executives in understanding the kind of questions their board members are likely to ask and the kind of questions that should be asked and discussed in the boardroom. | Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

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Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

This study first published in 1979 analysed the international trend towards industrial democracy in the industrial relations practices in Europe Japan and the United States. The development of industrial democracy was occurring through the establishment of employee and union participation on boards of directors and at the shop floor level in the extension of the role and power of works councils. In other countries the main development was through collective bargaining methods on labor-management relations and management decision-making. The authors examine various countries and explore any highlights lessons and ideas that might be transferable from one political and social context to another. | Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

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Dynamics at Boardroom Level A Tavistock Primer for Leaders Coaches and Consultants

Dynamics at Boardroom Level A Tavistock Primer for Leaders Coaches and Consultants

How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in 1947. Today as then the corporate world is undergoing increasing pressure to demonstrate a sustainable generative and meaningful impact on society and employees whilst delivering improved services and products. These tensions and others are explored in this important new book Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders Coaches and Consultants. In this book the reader gets a useful framework of theory and practice that broadens vision and deepens thinking about what is happening in boardrooms. The book opens the door to the reader to a new world of board dynamics edited by those who really understand the deeper workings of the complex human system and its work at board level. This edited volume brings together the insights and contemporary case studies from participants on the Tavistock Institute Dynamics @ Board Level programme that draws on the thinking of Tavistock scholars and practitioners and their work on the dynamics of task role authority and power. Edited by programme co-directors Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Leslie Brissett and their fellow Tavistock Associate Tazi Lorraine Smith and with contributions from senior leadership practitioners and board evaluators from the government international consultancy firms FTSE 100 and global UN institutions this book speaks directly to issues of our time. It represents essential reading for leaders of organizations and businesses as well as leadership coaches and mental health professionals. | Dynamics at Boardroom Level A Tavistock Primer for Leaders Coaches and Consultants

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Qualitative Marketing Research Understanding Consumer Behaviour

Qualitative Marketing Research Understanding Consumer Behaviour

This is a perfect guide to understanding the core principles of qualitative marketing research. It presents qualitative marketing research in the broader context of marketing and managerial decisions consumer psychology and contemporary knowledge about unconscious and automatic processes. Different types of qualitative marketing research methods are examined from the classic focus group interview (FGI) and individual in-depth interview (IDI) to more cutting-edge methods such as ethnography or bulletin boards which enable marketing researchers to discover and understand real consumer motivations needs values and attitudes. With numerous international case studies including PepsiCo Unilever Danone Nestle Aviva and Citibank the book is uniquely practical in its approach. It is vital reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of marketing research consumer behaviour and consumer psychology. | Qualitative Marketing Research Understanding Consumer Behaviour

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Deepening In-Class and Online Learning 60 Step-by-Step Strategies to Encourage Interaction Foster Inclusion and Spark Imagination

Deepening In-Class and Online Learning 60 Step-by-Step Strategies to Encourage Interaction Foster Inclusion and Spark Imagination

Deepening In-Class and Online Learning shows teachers how to make learning joyful as they translate successful classroom strategies to virtual learning. The book includes more than 60 step-by-step strategies that encourage interaction foster inclusion and spark imagination. Each activity is presented in a consistent format ready-to-use in-class and for online learning. Whether teaching virtually or adding digital activities to in-class instruction this book explores effective ways for students to present communicate and collaborate. Innovative activities range from discussing hot topics and sharing personal stories to visual boards and digital storytelling. Also included is an up-to-date glossary of digital tools to help make sense of the shifting landscape in today’s classrooms. | Deepening In-Class and Online Learning 60 Step-by-Step Strategies to Encourage Interaction Foster Inclusion and Spark Imagination

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Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations

Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations

Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors and CEOs in the United States this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to provide a structured analysis of ethical healthcare governance. Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations begins by presenting a clear framework for ethical analysis designed around basic features of ethics – who we are how we function and what we do – before discussing the paradigm in relation to clinical organizational and professional ethics. It goes on to apply this framework in areas that are pivotal for effective governance in healthcare: oversight structures for trustees and executives community benefit community health patient care patient safety and conflicted collaborative arrangements. This book is an important read for all those interested in healthcare management corporate governance and healthcare ethics including academics students and practitioners.

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Relational Team Coaching

Relational Team Coaching

Relational Team Coaching is a state-of-the-art reference book detailing what makes team coaching effective with a focus on being able to work at a relational level within the here and now about what is going on in the present in the team and between the team and the coach. The scope of the book is comprehensive exploring challenging and topical issues. Part A presents an introduction to team coaching and to a relational integrative approach to team coaching providing access to all relevant background research and case studies of team coaching in action. Part B deepens how this relational philosophy looks in practice and what it means for choices and working methodology of the team coach. Part C finally explores how the team coach can step up to face or address the more challenging or professional aspects of practice (e. g. of contracting diversity and inclusion and the shadow side of boards). This book is an essential guide to relational-based effectiveness in team coaching. It will be a key text for all coaching practitioners including those in training.

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Women and Sustainability in Business A Global Perspective

Women and Sustainability in Business A Global Perspective

Women and Sustainability in Business: A Global Perspective brings together original research from a dozen countries concerning the issues and challenges facing women in sustainable business. This is a recurrent topic among researchers regulators companies and rating agencies. Governments pay special attention to how women impact the economy when shaping their strategies on economic sustainability. Women’s contribution to business is fundamental to creating a sustainable economy such that businesses try to strengthen ‘women’s presence’ within their organisations especially on their boards. Today sustainable companies cannot survive without strategies involving women. Stakeholders regulators NGOs and rating agencies track both women-focused strategies and the corporate sustainability reports of companies. Well-designed strategies for women workers help companies to develop their financial and social sustainability initiatives progressively. This book analyses the practice of women in sustainable business in terms of company performance social responsibility board management entrepreneurship employment education management social sustainability environmental politics and technology from a wide range of diverse regional perspectives and highlights the differences between the underdeveloped developing and developed world. | Women and Sustainability in Business A Global Perspective

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Town Planning The Basics

Town Planning The Basics

The planning of urban and rural areas requires thinking about where people will live work play study shop and how they will get about the place and to devise strategies for long time periods. Town Planning: The Basics provides a general introduction to the components of urban areas including housing transportation and infrastructure and health and environment showing how appropriate policies can be developed. Explaining planning activity at different scales of operation this book distinguishes between the big stuff the grand strategy for providing homes jobs and infrastructure; the medium stuff the design and location of development; and the small stuff affecting mainly small sites and individual households. Planning as an activity is part of a complex web stretching way beyond the planning office and this book provides an overview of the many components needed to create a successful town. It is invaluable to anyone with an interest in planning from students learning about the subject for the first time to graduates thinking about embarking on a career in planning to local councillors on planning committees and community boards. | Town Planning The Basics

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Tackling Health Inequalities Reinventing the Role of Environmental Health

Tackling Health Inequalities Reinventing the Role of Environmental Health

Although environmental health has received some recognition as a field which can positively impact on the social determinants of health it remains little known outside its immediate sphere of influence. There is also limited literature available to support the potential impact of the profession in public health policy circles and there has been an overreliance on anecdotal rather than firm evidence. This book presents the findings of an empirical research project focussed on public health policymaking (English Health and Wellbeing Boards) health inequalities and environmental health and provides an insight to the environmental health profession and routes of impact and influence. It discusses environmental health in the context of public health the role of the profession issues of visibility and opportunities for impact in today’s policy landscape. In particular a focus on the local government context is timely given the shifting of the public health function from the National Health Service to local authorities. This book is essential reading for students practitioners and policymakers in the fields of environmental health and public health. | Tackling Health Inequalities Reinventing the Role of Environmental Health

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Renaissance Medicine A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

Renaissance Medicine A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases such as syphilis and the Sweat and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards hospitals town doctors and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section on beliefs explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine including the marginalisation and often expulsion of non-Christian practitioners. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century. | Renaissance Medicine A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

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Special Educational Needs and Disability The Basics

Special Educational Needs and Disability The Basics

Special Educational Needs and Disability provides a clear coherent overview of the historical development of the field of special educational or additional learning or support needs and disability and discusses important past and current social and political contexts in which this took place as well as changes in the law across time. It offers broad coverage of a range of needs and disabilities and how to effectively identify and support those young people who experience such needs. This revised fourth edition covers recent legislative changes across the UK an expanded discussion of key areas such as social emotional and mental health a new chapter on literacy difficulties and further fair balanced and open discussion of up-to-date evidence that indicates how young people who experience barriers to their learning are affected by factors associated with such marketisation for example competition between schools and the academies programme. Special Educational Needs and Disability serves as essential reading for trainee and practising teachers members of governing boards in schools and colleges policymakers and all those working directly with learners and their families. | Special Educational Needs and Disability The Basics

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Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

Visual Communication for Architects and Designers teaches you the art of designing a concise clear compelling and effective visual and verbal presentation. Margaret Fletcher has developed a reference manual of best practices that gives you the necessary tools to present your work in the best way possible. It includes an impressive 750 presentation examples by over 180 designers from 24 countries in North America South America Europe the Middle East Asia Oceania and Africa. This book offers actionable advice to solve a variety of complex presentation challenges. You will learn how to: Understand differences in communication design representation design and presentation design and know how to use these skills to your advantage; Structure the visual and verbal argument in your presentation; Design your presentation layouts architectural competitions boards and digital presentations; Manage issues related to the presentation of architectural and design ideas; Present yourself professionally. Your ability to communicate your design ideas to others is an invaluable and important skill. Visual Communication for Architects and Designers shows you how to develop and implement these skills and gain command of your presentations. | Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

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Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the substantial state defunding of public higher education over the last six decades. With the pandemic and cuts to social services these challenges have only deepened especially creating real dilemmas for first-generation minoritized students seeking to complete a college education. Through extensive analysis of trends in public higher education funding the book documents and lays bare the ways in which elite neoliberal decision-makers launched a multi-pronged and attack on public higher education. It highlights the confluence of the enrollment of an increasingly diverse cohort of students in college with the efforts of conservative white legislatures to diminish funding support for public higher education. Who Killed Higher Education? is an important resource for students in courses on higher education and diversity in education. It will also provide instruction for boards of trustees institutional leaders faculty and key campus constituencies in developing long-term strategies that ensure the access and success of a diverse and talented student body. | Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

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Screen Comedy and Online Audiences

Screen Comedy and Online Audiences

The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge films and TV shows that are meant to be funny? And what might that have to do with our social and cultural backgrounds or with wider cultural ideas about film TV comedy quality and entertainment? The book examines these questions through a study of audience responses posted to online facilities such as Twitter Facebook review sites blogs and message boards. Bore’s analysis of these responses considers a broad range of issues including how audiences perceive the idea of national comedy; what they think of female comedians; how they evaluate romcoms sitcoms and web comedy; what they think is acceptable to joke about; what comedy fans get excited about; how fans interact with star comedians; and what comedy viewers really despise. The book demonstrates some of the ways in which we can adapt theories of humour and comedy to examine the practices of contemporary screen audiences while offering new insights into how they negotiate the opportunities and constrictions of different online facilities to share their views and experiences. | Screen Comedy and Online Audiences

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Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations. Digital technology is at the heart of any enterprise today changing business processes and the way we work. But this technology is often used inefficiently riskily or inappropriately. Worse perhaps many organisational leaders fail to grasp the opportunities it offers and thus fail to transform their organisations through the use of technology. This book provides an explanation of the basic issues around the opportunities and risks associated with digital technology. It describes the role that digital technology can play across organisations (and not just behind the locked doors of the IT department) giving boards and top management the insight to develop strategies for investing in and exploiting digital technology as well as arming them with the knowledge required to ask the right questions of specialists and to detect when the answers given are evasive or irrelevant. International in its scope this essential book covers the fundamental principles of digital governance such as leadership capability accountability for value creation and transparency of reporting integrity and ethical behaviour. | Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

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The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture 1760 - 1860

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture 1760 - 1860

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of small buildings built on country estates and not so small buildings built in picturesque rural settings resort towns and suburban developments. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is the Classical notion of retreat from the city to the countryside. This idea was adopted and adapted by the Augustan-infused culture of eighteenth-century England where it gained popularity with writers artists architects and their wealthy patrons who from the later eighteenth century commissioned retreats gate-lodges estate workers' housing and seaside villas designed to 'appear as cottages'. The enthusiasm for cottages within polite society did not last. By the mid-nineteenth century cottage-related building and book publishing had slowed and the idea of the cottage itself was eventually lost beneath the Tudor barge-boards and decorative chimneystacks of the Historic Revival. And yet while both designer and consumer have changed over time the idea of the cottage as the ideal rural retreat continues to resonate through English architecture and English culture. | The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture 1760 - 1860

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The Science of Alpine Ski Racing

The Science of Alpine Ski Racing

Alpine skiing or downhill skiing is defined by six disciplines: Downhill Super G Giant Slalom Slalom Parallel and Combined that test the athletes’ technical abilities and speed. It has long been a popular sport with many national and international championships and is a mainstay of the Winter Olympic Games. The Science of Alpine Ski Racing is the first book to discuss the science coaching research and training of elite to recreational alpine ski racers for optimal performance. This book brings together the complex physiological biomechanical and technical components of the sport in a practical manner with which coaches and researchers alike can adopt to elicit better performance outcomes for athletes. Literature of this kind has never been formally researched and published specifically for the sport of alpine ski racing making it both unique and a cornerstone to the discipline. Backed by cutting-edge research the book provides practical guidance on preparing athletes for high performance and understanding the core tenets of sports science underpinning it striking a balance between the complex theoretical and practical components coaches and athletes must prepare for in alpine ski racing. Accessibly written and featuring contributions from world-leading experts The Science of Alpine Ski Racing covers key topics of health training and high performance in the sport and will be vital reading for youth coaches professional ski instructors strength and conditioning coaches and sports science staff associated with winter sports programs as well as applied researchers looking for a model to apply to other sports. James (Jimmy) Pritchard is a human performance specialist/sports scientist who has trained and consulted athletes at the Olympic NHL NFL and Division I collegiate level. Specific to alpine ski racing he served as the Director of Strength and Conditioning for Ski and Snowboard Club Vail in Vail Colorado where he helped prepare a long list of US Ski Team athletes including Alice McKennis Mikaela Shiffrin and Tess Johnson. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) as well as registered strength and conditioning coach (RSCC) through the NSCA working with athletes and human performance program managers on a regular basis to find optimal human performance solutions. James has presented at conferences around the United States discussing long term athlete development written over 150 articles for several media outlets has been published in the NSCA’s Strength and Conditioning Journal and taught courses about strength and conditioning at Colorado Mountain College. James holds a BSc in Exercise Science from Colorado Mesa University and MSc degree in Exercise Science from Edith Cowan University. Jim Taylor PhD Psychology is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of sport and parenting. He has consulted with athletes coaches and parents in tennis skiing cycling triathlon track and field swimming football golf baseball fencing and many other sports for more than 30 years. Dr. Taylor is the author of 17 books and the editor of 4 textbooks on sport psychology. He is also a former world-ranked alpine ski racer second-degree black belt in karate marathon runner and Ironman triathlete.

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Operating System Design The Xinu Approach Second Edition

Operating System Design The Xinu Approach Second Edition

An Update of the Most Practical A-to-Z Operating System BookWidely lauded for avoiding the typical black box approach found in other operating system textbooks the first edition of this bestselling book taught readers how an operating system works and explained how to build it from the ground up. Continuing to follow a logical pattern for system design Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach Second Edition removes the mystery from operating system design and consolidates the body of material into a systematic discipline. It presents a hierarchical design paradigm that organizes major operating system components in an orderly understandable manner. The book guides readers through the construction of a conventional process-based operating system using practical straightforward primitives. It gives the implementation details of one set of primitives usually the most popular set. Once readers understand how primitives can be implemented on conventional hardware they can then easily implement alternative versions. The text begins with a bare machine and proceeds step-by-step through the design and implementation of Xinu which is a small elegant operating system that supports dynamic process creation dynamic memory allocation network communication local and remote file systems a shell and device-independent I/O functions. The Xinu code runs on many hardware platforms. This second edition has been completely rewritten to contrast operating systems for RISC and CISC processors. Encouraging hands-on experimentation the book provides updated code throughout and examples for two low-cost experimenter boards: BeagleBone Black from ARM and Galileo from Intel. | Operating System Design The Xinu Approach Second Edition

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Institutional Violence and Disability Punishing Conditions

Institutional Violence and Disability Punishing Conditions

This was several times with that damn cribbage board. I hate cribbage boards to this very day. They never beat us on the arms or legs or stuff it was always on the bottom of the feet I couldn't figure it out. Brian L. Huronia Regional Centre SurvivorOver the past two decades the public has borne witness to ongoing revelations of shocking intense and even sadistic forms of violence in spaces meant to provide care. This has been particularly true in institutions designed to care for people with disabilities. In this work the authors not only describe institutional violence but work to make sense of how and why institutional violence within care settings is both so pervasive and so profound. Drawing on a wide range of primary data including oral histories of institutional survivors and staff ethnographic observation legal proceedings and archival data this book asks: What does institutional violence look like in practice and how might it be usefully categorized? How have extreme forms violence and neglect come to be the cultural norm across institutions? What organizational strategies in institutions foster the abdication of personal morality and therefore violence? How is institutional care the crucial first step in creating a culture that accepts violence as the norm? This highly interdisciplinary work develops scholarly analysis of the history and importance of institutional violence and as such is of particular interest to scholars whose work engages with issues of disability health care law and policy violence incarceration organizational behaviour and critical theory. | Institutional Violence and Disability Punishing Conditions

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