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  • INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
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    INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
    FRANCES ALSTON / EMILY MILLIKIN
    The eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: 11 PowerPoint presentations placed at the beginning of each chapter to better understand the concepts Question Bank comprising multiple-choice questions to test your knowledge at the end of each chapter. Resources to Enhance learning at the end of each chapter for readers who want to explore more of the topic addressed. ...

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  • HANDWRITING
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    HANDWRITING
    JEAN ALSTON / JANE TAYLOR DEC'D
    First Published in 1987, Handwriting reviews theory and research on handwriting, and on children who have handwriting problems, and draws out principles and recommendations for practitioners. The practitioners will include teachers, educational advisors, psychologists and occupational and physical therapists. There has been a revival in the teaching of the basic school skills o...

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  • FOUR KEYS TO THE NATURAL ANABOLIC STATE
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    FOUR KEYS TO THE NATURAL ANABOLIC STATE
    WILLIAM G. ALSTON
    This book reveals a stunning thread of scientific data that points the way to the natural anabolic state--a biochemical condition wherein body fat is metabolized, muscle tissue is built, strength and speed are increased, mental acuity is enhanced, and the ...

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  • INCLUSION BY DESIGN
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    INCLUSION BY DESIGN
    FRANCES ALSTON / EMILY MILLIKIN DEKERCHOVE
    This book introduces a new speculative design process for inclusive new product development (NPD). The authors offer Vision Enabled Design Thinking (VEDT), a human-centered technological design framework incorporating the use of Design Lens and Vision Concepting, as a way for the designer to ideate and reflect on product development concepts within a deeper sociocultural contex...

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  • OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
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    OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
    FRANCES ALSTON / ONWUKA OKORIE
    Occupational Exposures: Chemical Carcinogens and Mutagens offers a focused emphasis on chemical exposures associated with carcinogenic and mutagenic impacts along with associated controls for mitigating and controlling exposures. It discusses a range of topics including hematopoietic system impact, reproductive system impact, inorganic compounds, halogenated compounds, carbamat...

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  • BULLEN'S VOYAGES
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    BULLEN'S VOYAGES
    ALSTON KENNERLEY
    Frank Bullen burst on the national and international popular literary scene at the end of the nineteenth century like a supernova which shone for the first decade or so of the next century and then was gone. But the memory of that brilliance lasts, like his fictional whaling epic, The Cruise of the Cachalot, into the present; this is a book still in print in any number of editi...

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  • STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
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    STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
    FRANCES ALSTON / BRIAN K. PERKINS
    Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population. Environmental protection has been increasingly discussed by concerned citizen groups and politicians in the wake of unexpected environmental disasters that have occurred in recent years...

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  • RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
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    RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
    MARGARET ALSTON
    Research for Social Workers has built a strong reputation as an accessible guide to the key research methods and approaches used in the discipline. Ideal for beginners, the book outlines the importance of social work research, its guiding principles and explains how to choose a topic area, develop research questions together with describing the key steps in the research process...

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  • CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
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    CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
    CATHERINE BUTLER / ‎ANN ALSTON
    In this collection the multidimensional story of children’s literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, questioned, and, in some respects, rewritten. Children’s literature might be characterised as the love-child of the Enlightenment and the Romantic movements, and much of its history over the long nineteenth century shows it being defined,...

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  • THE INDIVIDUAL VS. THE PUBLIC INTEREST
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    THE INDIVIDUAL VS. THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    RICHARD M. ALSTON
    Central to the controversy surrounding U. S. natural resources policy is the conflict between environmentalists and proponents of development. Examining the evolution of the philosophies underlying that conflict, Dr. Alston traces the failure to achieve a unified resources policy to the seemingly incompatible ideological positions held by resource specialists, interest groups, ...

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  • PEAK PERFORMANCE
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    PEAK PERFORMANCE
    PATRICIA MELTON ALLEN / FRANCES E. ALSTON / EMILY MILLIKIN DEKERCHOVE
    The key to success and reaching peak performance is integrating three processes to optimize business through the use of human performance improvement tools, lean thinking, operational excellence, along with a strong organizational culture as the underpinning. These components form the basis of the Peak Performance Model. The tools presented in this book, along with the case stu...

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  • SOCIAL WORK AND DISASTERS
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    SOCIAL WORK AND DISASTERS
    MARGARET ALSTON / TRICIA HAZELEGER / DESLEY HARGREAVES
    Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the world, causing significant destruction to individuals and communities. Yet many social workers are ill-prepared for the demands of this field of practice. This book discusses the role of social workers in disaster work, including in disaster-preparedness, during the disaster and in post-disaster practice. It address...

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  • WE GIVE OUR HEARTS TO DOGS TO TEAR
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    WE GIVE OUR HEARTS TO DOGS TO TEAR
    ALSTON CHASE
    More than a hauntingly beautiful memoir about small dogs in Big Sky country, this book is a wise account of the relationships among dogs, humans, and the land that surrounds them. It is the story of successive generations of Jack Russell terriers, their animal friends, and their human companions. Alston Chase searches for the immortality of dogs, what makes them unique companio...

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  • IN A DARK WOOD
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    IN A DARK WOOD
    ALSTON CHASE
    In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and ma...

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  • LEAN IMPLEMENTATION
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    LEAN IMPLEMENTATION
    FRANCES ALSTON
    This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices. The book offers solutions for many of the challenges, provides a resource that leaders can use in addressing cultural and regulatory issues, provides means to address the associated people issues and the challenging task of knowledge retention and su...

    $1,800.00

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  • HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH?
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    HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH?
    GREG ALSTON
    Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take 'risk' seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn, and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk...

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  • GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT
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    GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT
    FRANCES ALSTON / EMILY J. MILLIKIN
    Development and execution of a successful ES&H program in today's profit-driven business climate is challenging and complex. The techniques outlined in this book provide guidance and aid in understanding the challenges that must be addressed by ES&H management and professionals. This book covers the primary areas of ES&H and key elements that should be considered in developing,...

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  • WOMEN AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH
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    WOMEN AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH
    MARGARET ALSTON
    Bangladesh is by no means a high emitter of carbon, but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected. There is a significant risk of damage to lives and livelihoods due to climate change in the form of cyclones, flooding and storm surges, and slow-onset impacts such as droughts, sea level rises and river basin erosion. Moreover, Bangladeshis are especially v...

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  • BREAKING THROUGH GRASS CEILING
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    BREAKING THROUGH GRASS CEILING
    MARGARET ALSTON
    Farm women are virtually absent from the leadership positions which structure agricultural organisations and policy and shape the industry. This book examines the contemporary position of women in agriculture, drawing on interviews and surveys with many hundreds of Australian women – farmers, bureaucrats, leaders and activists - and with powerful men in the industry. Giving a v...

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  • CULTURE AND TRUST IN TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
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    CULTURE AND TRUST IN TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
    FRANCES ALSTON
    This book provides insight into the important role that culture and trust can play in the success of high-technology organizations. There has been little research to demonstrate a connection between organizational culture and trust. This book introduces a review of the literature and the result of an empirical study that investigated the relationship between mechanistic and org...

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  • ASPECTS OF ROMAN HISTORY 31 BC-AD 117
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    ASPECTS OF ROMAN HISTORY 31 BC-AD 117
    RICHARD ALSTON
    This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the height of its power under Trajan, the book examines the emperors and key events t...

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  • THE FAMILY IN ENGLISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
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    THE FAMILY IN ENGLISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
    ANN ALSTON
    From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’s Literature, Ann Alston argues that this is far from the case. She suggests that...

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  • THE CITY IN ROMAN AND BYZANTINE EGYPT
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    THE CITY IN ROMAN AND BYZANTINE EGYPT
    RICHARD ALSTON
    For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elite...

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  • SOLDIER AND SOCIETY IN ROMAN EGYPT
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    SOLDIER AND SOCIETY IN ROMAN EGYPT
    RICHARD ALSTON
    The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army. Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides a complete reassessment o...

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  • BOTTICELLI
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    BOTTICELLI
    ISABELLA ALSTON
    Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as simply Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence, Italy, probably in or around 1445. Serendipitously winning a high-profile commission from the Florentine court, he was catapulted to notoriety as wealthy patrons, in particular the Medici family, hired him to create works that celebrated their lives and their family’s lives ...

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  • EDITH HEAD
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    EDITH HEAD
    ISABELLA ALSTON / KATHRYN DIXON
    Edith Head is probably the most iconic of all Hollywood costume designers. Beginning in the early 1930s until her retirement in 1977, Edith Head costumed the stars of over 500 films. With 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design, she won 8—the closest to come to her record is Irene Sharaff, who garnered 15 nominations and 5 wins. Edith Head truly surpassed all of he...

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  • ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES
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    ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES
    ISABELLA ALSTON
    The human body is an immensely complex and amazing system, but sometimes something goes haywire and causes one or more of its vital elements to misfire, resulting in bizarre and often devastating anatomical anomalies. Such physical abnormalities in times past often meant that the affected individuals would be stigmatized and shunned from the rest of society, primarily out of fe...

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  • FRENCH POSTERS
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    FRENCH POSTERS
    ISABELLA ALSTON
    The French poster, born of a basic utilitarian purpose, has developed with age into an admired and collected art form. Vintage posters command high prices at auction and curators specialize in their restoration. The earliest art-worthy posters appeared on the streets of Paris designed by French-born artists such as Jules Chéret, who popularized poster art with his Maîtres de l’...

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  • TAROT CARDS
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    TAROT CARDS
    ISABELLA ALSTON
    The earliest known decks of tarot cards created in Italy in the late 15th century were used as a game. The tarot’s association with fortune telling and gypsies did not come about until the late 1700s. The first decks were hand painted for wealthy families who had the money to commission the decks as well as the time to play with them. After the advent of lithography, the easy r...

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  • EDVARD MUNCH
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    EDVARD MUNCH
    ISABELLA ALSTON
    Edvard Munch’s career is effectively divided into two periods: those before and after his mental breakdown in 1908. Prior to his psychiatric treatment and recuperation, the underlying themes of his work bounced between dark sorrow and an overt, aggressive sexuality. But after his breakdown, when he had returned to his homeland of Norway after two decades in France and Germany, ...

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