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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Jon A. Jacobson
Hours before Tyler Bedlam's first day on the job, his latest client is a shattered corpse in a ruined Nashville house.Tyler can't accept that failure without knowing why. But the deeper he digs for resolution, the older and more tangled the mystery becomes. And Tyler isn't the only one looking.Billionaire antique collectors, rival private eyes, a shadowy philanthropic organization that may be far more sinister than it seems, and a bulletproof man-crushing colossus, all race Tyler toward answers nobody's been able to find for two-hundred years.When solving one of Tennessee's blackest, most persistent riddles, every clue is worth killing--or dying--for.
Tyler Bedlam isn't a private eye because he needs the money. But understanding rich people's problems won't help him survive them. Protecting a client from her desperate past puts Tyler in a crossfire between the FBI, rival mobs, and a trick-shot killer who protects his blackest secret one numbered bullet at a time. Never sure whether he's hunter or prey, Tyler chases clues from a Confederate cemetery, down Tennessee back roads, to the heights of half-finished Nashville skyscrapers. And in the end, the answers he needs stay alive may be buried in the tortured memories of a murderous show horse. It isn't the sort of thing they write in tour books.
Shows how the engineering curriculum can be a site for rendering social justice visible in engineering, for exploring complex socio-technical interplays inherent in engineering practice, and for enhancing teaching and learning Using social justice as a catalyst for curricular transformation, Engineering Justice presents an examination of how politics, culture, and other social issues are inherent in the practice of engineering. It aims to align engineering curricula with socially just outcomes, increase enrollment among underrepresented groups, and lessen lingering gender, class, and ethnicity gaps by showing how the power of engineering knowledge can be explicitly harnessed to serve the underserved and address social inequalities. This book is meant to transform the way educators think about engineering curricula through creating or transforming existing courses to attract, retain, and motivate engineering students to become professionals who enact engineering for social justice. Engineering Justice offers thought-provoking chapters on: why social justice is inherent yet often invisible in engineering education and practice; engineering design for social justice; social justice in the engineering sciences; social justice in humanities and social science courses for engineers; and transforming engineering education and practice. In addition, this book: Provides a transformative framework for engineering educators in service learning, professional communication, humanitarian engineering, community service, social entrepreneurship, and social responsibilityIncludes strategies that engineers on the job can use to advocate for social justice issues and explain their importance to employers, clients, and supervisorsDiscusses diversity in engineering educational contexts and how it affects the way students learn and develop Engineering Justice is an important book for today’s professors, administrators, and curriculum specialists who seek to produce the best engineers of today and tomorrow.
Air Force F-16 Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses Training
Jon A Norman
Biblioscholar
2012
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Effect of Operational Deployments on Army Reserve Component Attrition Rates and Its Strategic Implications
Jon A Jensen
Biblioscholar
2012
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With this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the other, and where the goal of history education is to help students to think like historians. Building on a critical engagement with Carl Hempel, Hayden White, and David Carr, as well as contemporary work in virtue epistemology, Levisohn proposes a new theory of historiography which serves as a set of guidelines for the teaching and learning of history. According to the theory, the work of historiography is best characterized as a negotiation among narratives, weaving together received narratives with new information and ideas in order to construct a new narrative. This negotiation happens with a particular orientation towards negative evidence or ‘flexible disconfirmationism’, and is assessed according to the openness, sensitivity, responsibility, creativity, boldness and humility, i.e. the virtues of historical interpretation. The book rethinks the work of history education, offering new ways of thinking about the goals of the teaching of history, namely, in terms of the cultivation of the interpretive virtues.
Legends of Dublin: Personalities of the Irish Capital of Texas
Jon A. Awbrey
Booksurge Publishing
2009
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System: With his face in the sun
Jon a. Davidson
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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2016 Indie Book Award Finalist in both SCIENCE-FICTION and SUSPENSE categories Editorial Reviews5 STARS "Classic sci-fi, mystery, and noir fiction mix with futurist questions about where society's slippery slope may be taking us." -Foreword Clarion Review "The Matrix meets 1984" -San Francisco Book Review "cautionary sci-fi tale with an Orwellian, fablelike quality" - Kirkus Reviews "a thoughtful warning about the potential future of the human race" - IndieReader "fascinating - if disturbing - view of an AI world" - TheBookbag review DescriptionWhere will our obsession with being always online, always connected, take us? How will the absolute trust we place in technology evolve? In the future there will be "the System," one global, singularly autonomous Artificially Intelligent entity that controls every aspect of human life. Wallace Blair is a normal man with a normal family life, who lives in this apparent Utopia. That is until he is sent on an innocent errand which escalates rapidly into a downward spiral as the System conspires to rip everything from him that he holds dear. System-With his face in the Sun deals with the age old topics of absolute power and corruption. It illustrates that paranoia, corruption and evil are not the preserve of humans, they exist in any entity, biological or artificial, that obtains absolute power.
