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  Total Quality and Organization Development

  William Lindsay and Joseph A. Petrick

  What happens when you bridge the fields of Total Quality (TQ) and Organization Development (OD) to improve organizational performance? You get Total Quality and Organization Development.
  Here is a comprehensive and practical treatment of the impact TQ approaches to system performance has on OD. For the first time, views of organization change processes taken by academic researchers and practitioners in the fields of TQ and OD are bridged into a single text. Total Quality and Organization Development presents empowering insights, up-to-date tools, and challenging opportunities for organizational managers, OD practitioners, academicians, trainers, and students alike.
  When facing the fact that a true need exists to transform organization structures and corporate cultures, and to develop organizations to meet the challenges and demands of the next century, the principles and practices of total quality can aid in the transformation. OD was originated by a group of varied professionals, ranging from organizational psychologists to economists and philosophers who had a major role in developing the "human" side of work. The core philosophies of the parallel movements of OD and TQ are rapidly coming together as quality advocates deal with human factors in quality improvement and the technical and measurement factors that accompany such changes. This book will be a vital tool in making those changes successfully.

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  Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers

  Marjorie L. McLellan

  Six Generations Here is a unique collection of words and photographs taken across the first half of the 20th century by Wisconsin dairy farmer Alexander Krueger and his descendants. The Kruegers turned the camera lens on their Dodge County farm, its environs, their family, and the networks of kin that framed their lives. Their photographs and family stories comprise a unique record not only of who the Kruegers were but also of how they sought to be remembered.

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  The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women

  Cheryl L. Meyer

  From the FDA review of RU-486 to the recent growth of fertility clinics to the rights of lesbian parents, women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine. While a great deal has been written on such issues as abortion and postpartum depression, no single volume has offered a broad discussion of the interface between the legal, medical, and political aspects of women's reproduction in a manner accessible and informative to non-specialists. The Wandering Uterus fills that gap. Taking her title from an ancient Greek belief that women's health problems were caused by a wandering uterus that needed to be confined and controlled, Meyer exposes the way in which myths and prejudice about female sexuality continue to influence the practice of law and medicine today.

  This book offers new insights and provides a wealth of up-to-date information on a subject that changes every day. The text is divided into three main parts: political issues of pre- conception, the politics of pregnancy, and the politics of motherhood. Throughout, Meyer argues passionately that while technology and medicine must progress, they should not be allowed to do so at women's expense.

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  Management Ethics: Integrity at Work

  Joseph A. Petrick and John F. Quinn

  This book provides the theoretical rationale, conceptual framework and practical tools necessary for building and sustaining managerial and organizational integrity over time. Individual chapters are devoted to ethical planning, leadership and control. Also included are 28 mini-cases relate to various functional areas of management including finance, marketing, human resource management, law, technology, operations, public policy and the environment.

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  Advances in the Science and Technology of Titanium Alloy Processing: Proceedings of an International Symposium Sponsored by the TMS Titanium and Shaping and Forming Held at the 125th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, February 5-8, 1996

  Isaac Weiss, Raghavan Srinivasan, P. J. Bania, D. Eylon, and S. L. Semiatin

  The purpose of this proceedings volume is to provide the reader with a thorough update of the latest scientific and technological advances in titanium alloy processing. It addresses all aspects of processing, including process development, modeling, and scale up for the hot working, cold working, heat treatment, and joining of titanium alloys and aluminides.

  Coverage includes:

  Hot-Working of Titanium Alloys--An Overview

  Solute Strengthening in Beta Titanium--Hydrogen Alloys

  Cold Forming of Titanium Rounds and Flats

  Selection of Heat Treatment Optimum Technologies for Intricately Shaped Titanium Alloy Articles

  A Study of Diffusion Bonding of Dissimilar Titanium Alloys

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  Robert Berlind: Paintings 1982-1996

  Wright State University

  A catalog from the exhibition of Robert Berlind paintings curated by David Leach, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Wright Sate University.

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  Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State

  Paul D. Lockhart

  This book examines the involvement of Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, a watershed in the history of early modern Europe. Not only did the war permanently alter the European balance of power, but the pressures and demands created by such a prolonged and intensive conflict could not help but have a tremendous impact on the governments, societies, and economies of each of the major participants.

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  The Spiral Guide to Research Writing

  Martin Maner

  This comprehensive guide to writing research papers presents the research process not only as information gathering but also as an opportunity to generate new knowledge and challenge established opinions. Throughout, it advocates the use of technology (including word processing, computerized information services, on-line searches) as it guides students through the process of constructing a research paper.

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  New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

  Alpana Sharma

  During the last 50 years, writers from immigrant groups have greatly enriched American literature. This reference overviews immigrant literatures in the United States since World War II. Previously underrepresented immigrant literatures, such as Pakistani-American, Korean-American, and Mexican-American literatures, are given special attention, and contributors discuss women's writing whenever possible. Each chapter provides a thorough historical and critical discussion and extensive bibliographical information.

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  Case Management and Substance Abuse Treatment: Practice and Experience

  Harvey A. Siegal and Richard C. Rapp

  Case managers are in a unique position that enables them to help their clients achieve their drug treatment goals. Based on a special issue of the Journal of Case Management, this important book reviews the use and adaptations of case management for the treatment of special populations, such as substance-abusing women, prisoners, and HIV-positive drug users. The chapters provide a well-balanced treatment of the subject, including descriptions of innovations in the field, the impact of case management on health care costs, and the challenges faced in the implementation of case management.

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  Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes

  Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

  In this unique volume, renowned experts discuss the applications of fractals in petroleum research-offering an excellent introduction to the subject. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of applications from petroleum exploration to production. Papers also illustrate how fractal geometry can quantify the spatial heterogeneity of different aspects of geology and how this information can be used to improve exploration and production results.

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  Fractals in the Earth Sciences

  Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

  This well-illustrated volume reviews the many applications of fractal geometry used to study earth science patterns and processes. Designed as an introduction to this new area of study, the papers represent a broad spectrum of earth science disciplines where patterns have proven to be fractal over many orders of magnitude in time or space. This volume features an exhaustive list of published fractal dimensions measured for earth science patterns.

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  Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems

  John M. Flach, Peter A. Hancock, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

  There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.

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  Photography in the 1990s: Fifty Portfolios

  Ronald R. Geibert

  Photography in the 1990s: fifty portfolios was a two-disc international survey of nearly 400 images. Portfolios by 50 photographers were selected from 500 submissions from 30 countries. The jurors were museum curators from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque nationale de Paris, the Houston Museum of Art, and the MoMA in NYC. This publication represents a work by each of the photographers from six categories. The curator and project director was Professor Ron Geibert of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

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  Local Applications of the Ecological Approach To Human-Machine Systems

  Peter A. Hancock, John M. Flach, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

  There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.

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  Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

  Barry Milligan

  Throughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that enters and alters the English body and mindset, thus confusing the direction of Anglo-Oriental power dynamics. Incorporating elements of literary criticism, cultural studies, and social history, Pleasures and Pains takes a new look at the complicated dynamics of empire as well as the development of still-prevalent perceptions of drugs as alien invaders responsible for the decay of national character.

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  Total Quality in Managing Human Resources

  Joseph A. Petrick and Diana S. Furr

  Human resource management is a particularly challenging role, both domestically and globally. This challenge can be viewed either as an opportunity or as a threat. As an opportunity, the principles and practices of total quality presented in this book can help human resource professionals or anyone who manages people, transform institutionalized mediocrity into organizational excellence.

  The focus of this book is on managing the difference TQ makes in human resources. Whereas the traditional nature and scope of responsibility for most human resource professionals has been that of staff support geared to administrative compliance, the total quality approach offered here reveals the keys to developing and sustaining commitment to world-class performance. These keys include strategic input and continual improvement of the human resource system to enhance internal and external customer satisfaction both now and in the future. The full meaning of these new TQ role demands is explored in light of the driving forces reshaping the HR environment into the 21st Century.

  In addition, this book offers practitioner assessment instruments, practical TQ tools, and specific implementation steps to take in order to make the TQ difference in managing human resources domestically and globally.

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  1994

  Ronald R. Geibert

  The book 1994 is comprised of samples made in the summer of 1994. Geibert taught a class for a Nevada school Consortium first in Paris and then in Saint Jean-du-Luz, France. The images of the town, which have never been exhibited were the last color film/camera images that Geibert made before making the transition over to installations, multimedia, and scanned books.

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  The New Street Photography

  Ronald R. Geibert

  THE NEW STREET PHOTOGRAPHY examines contemporary "street" photography through the eyes of 30 artists. It includes 150 images, narrated artists statements, and biographies on Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, and Henry Wessel, among others.

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  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

  H. Korth and Amit P. Sheth

  Conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, TX, September 28-30, 1994.

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  Real Estate: Principles and Practices

  James E. Larsen

  This book provides a clear understanding of the theories and practices used in real estate. By balancing practical information with academic rigor, it provides a comprehensive introduction to real estate. It can be used as a first course in real estate career preparation or as an elective course for those seeking practical real estate knowledge. Although it is not a prelicensing text, it could be used for licensing oriented courses with additional state specific material.

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  Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans

  Kristin D. Sobolik

  Scholars working in all aspects of dietary and health reconstruction present their research and its applications to the study of paleonutrition, the limitations of each dietary assemblage in determining paleonutrition, and how those limitations can be alleviated. The 24 scholars present data on the advances that have been made in understanding the nutrition of prehistoric Americans and how those studies have helped define the integrative basis of such research.

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  RIDE-IMS '93, Third International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems

  H. J. Schek, Amit P. Sheth, and B. Czjedo

  Held in Vienna, Austria, April 1993, the workshop heard work-in-progress, industrial, and position papers, which are presented along with panel discussions. Among the topics: lean languages and models, interdatabase consistency and constraints, schematic issues, query processing and optimization, etc.

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  Memories of Rahija

  Abe Bassett

  Sometime in 1987, sadly, I realized that my father, who would have been 102 had he lived, passed the milestone of his 100th birthday without note or commemoration. I vowed this would not happen with my mother, Rahija Saad Bassett. In early May, 1991, I wrote to all of her children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, cousins, and others, asking them to pause for a moment of reflection at the noon hour on her date of birth. And I also asked for a written remembrance: a story, an incident, an impression to be shared. This book is a collection of those individual memories which have come together to form a vivid image of a loving, nurturing woman, who seldom complained of ill fortune, who loved God, and nature, and life, and her children, and all those about her. Her stories are a part of our family folklore and her history is a vital part of our heritage. This collection gives us a unique way to remember her, and an opportunity to pass on to our children and their children and their children's children the heritage which helped to shape us and them. Thank you all for your memories, and I thank my sisters for their special help.