Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there no legislative response after a six-year-old in Flint, Michigan, shot a classmate with a .32 caliber "pocket rocket"? Tragedy follows tragedy, with twelve children shot dead every day in America, but guns remain less regulated than automobiles. Why? As authors Peter Harry Brown and Daniel G. Abel in this powerful book demonstrate, it is because of the terrible power of the gun coalition. Outgunned begins with the story of Wendell Gauthier, the "master of disaster" attorney, who brought down the tobacco industry to the tune of billions and then turned his attention to guns. He struck fear into the hearts of the gun manufacturers as he set out to make gunmakers bear some liability for the killings caused by the often poorly made, inaccurate handguns they marketed to criminals. Coauthor Daniel G. Abel worked for Gauthier, along with other attorneys, as the gun-control campaign gathered momentum. This legal initiative seemed to be about to make history and change the face of violence in America, but sadly, Wendell Gauthier died of cancer before meaningful gun control could be established. More than thirty class-action suits against gun manufacturers now languish in courtroom paralysis while as many Saturday night specials as ever are being made. What happened? Brown and Abel demonstrate how the pro-gun forces once again curbed the will of a nation. This book shows the enomous power of the NRA -- how it killed pending legislation in Congress, hijacked the Campaign Act to fund the George W. Bush presidential election victory, and eviscerated the American Shooting Sports Council. That association and the gun manufacturers actually wanted to compromise and agree to new handgun laws, implicitly accepting some liability, but the NRA leadership, with Charlton Heston as their president, crushed them. In Outgunned, Brown and Abel uncover how NRA lobbyists were instrumental in stopping Smith & Wesson in its tracks. They show how the tendrils of the NRA reach into the Christian Alliance and Republican Party, and how men like John McCain have fought back and been undermined. Outgunned reveals how the NRA began dealing with President George W. Bush when he was still governor of Texas -- prodding him into signing a shocking prohibition against the kind of suits Gauthier brought against the gun manufacturers. Outgunned is the story of a legal crusade with up-close accounts of the people who fought every step of the way. For those who believe in the importance of stopping unnecessary bloodshed, this book is essential, powerful, and urgent.
Mens vi endnu har tid er en samling digte fra to forskellige rtusinder, der alle behandler begrebet "Tid", men som hver for sig ogs handler om forelskelse, k rlighed, had, fortr ngning og venskab. Et tidsbillede af tiden omkring rtusindskiftet set af en ung mand, der blev voksen.
A collection of great poems written in two different Millennia, which are all treating the concept of "time", but each on their own also deal with love, hatred, regression, politics, infatuation, chance, despair and friendship. A picture of the era on both sides of the turn of the 3rd Millennium as seen through the eyes of a young man who eventually grew up.
America, sometimes criticised as a nation of couch potatoes, takes its recreation seriously. Since its debut in the first half of the 20th century, television has held sway over the hearts, minds, and imaginations of billions. The technological advances in recent years have certainly not neglected the TV, and digital television can be seen as the most significant advance sine the introduction of colour television in the 1950s. DTV provides sharper pictures, CD-quality sound, and better colour images. In order to facilitate nation-wide use of this cutting-edge development, several developments have to take place including the production of compelling digital programming, creation of digital carrier systems and consumer adoption of the technology. To this end, the federal government, led by the Federal Communications Commission, has set 2006 as the date for broadcasters to cease analogue broadcasts and convert to digital signals. While no congressional legislation has yet to address DTV specifically, the issue is under constant monitoring, particularly given the stakes involved. Television is too key a component of contemporary American life to overlook. The book provides an overview and analysis of the current state of digital television and its regulatory status. Understanding the topics presented here are important to anyone interested in technology and the advances about to sweep the entertainment industry.
As a leader in your organization, you will be very familiar with your organization's key financial statements and monthly management reports. You may have spent countless hours discussing budgets and expenditures. But how much time have you spent reflecting on the fact that these revenues are generated by actual customers—the people who pull out their wallets and pay for your products and services? In The Customer-Base Audit: The First Step on the Journey to Customer Centricity, experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross start you on the path toward really getting to understand your customers' buying behavior as well as the health of your overall customer base. A customer-base audit is a systematic review of the buying behavior of a firm's customers using data captured by its transaction systems. It will help you answer questions such as: -- How healthy is your customer base? How realistic are your growth objectives? -- How do your customers differ in terms of their behavior and value? -- How has the quality of your customers changed over time? -- What changes in customer behavior lie behind period-to-period changes in firm performance? -- What is important to your high-value customers? Which products help you acquire and retain your best customers? Fader, Hardie, and Ross present five "lenses" through which an executive can address questions like those above. The answers are often lurking in various parts of the organization, but it is rare to find all the relevant analyses in one place, let alone performed on a regular basis (as an audit should be). Yet without such a basic, systematic understanding of the foundations of the firm's primary source of cash flow, how can executives make informed decisions? Fader, a Wharton professor, is the author of Customer Centricity and coauthor of The Customer Centricity Playbook, both of which have helped businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. In this first step of the journey, Fader, Hardie, and Ross assist leaders in gaining a fundamental understanding of their customers' buying behavior—and thus their company as a whole.
As a leader in your organization, you will be very familiar with your organization's key financial statements and monthly management reports. You may have spent countless hours discussing budgets and expenditures. But how much time have you spent reflecting on the fact that these revenues are generated by actual customers—the people who pull out their wallets and pay for your products and services? In The Customer-Base Audit: The First Step on the Journey to Customer Centricity, experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross start you on the path toward really getting to understand your customers' buying behavior as well as the health of your overall customer base. A customer-base audit is a systematic review of the buying behavior of a firm's customers using data captured by its transaction systems. It will help you answer questions such as: -- How healthy is your customer base? How realistic are your growth objectives? -- How do your customers differ in terms of their behavior and value? -- How has the quality of your customers changed over time? -- What changes in customer behavior lie behind period-to-period changes in firm performance? -- What is important to your high-value customers? Which products help you acquire and retain your best customers? Fader, Hardie, and Ross present five "lenses" through which an executive can address questions like those above. The answers are often lurking in various parts of the organization, but it is rare to find all the relevant analyses in one place, let alone performed on a regular basis (as an audit should be). Yet without such a basic, systematic understanding of the foundations of the firm's primary source of cash flow, how can executives make informed decisions? Fader, a Wharton professor, is the author of Customer Centricity and coauthor of The Customer Centricity Playbook, both of which have helped businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. In this first step of the journey, Fader, Hardie, and Ross assist leaders in gaining a fundamental understanding of their customers' buying behavior—and thus their company as a whole.
As the authors point out, China has arrived, big time. To ignore the Chinese is foolish. Yet, where does one begin? Getting a handle on China, with its sweeping history and vast cultural diversity, is, for most, a daunting task. China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society provides a much-needed starting point for piecing together the many parts of the complex puzzle that is China. More than simply a guidebook or historical survey, this rich volume bridges geography, culture, politics, and beliefs to present a nuanced picture of a nation that is often misunderstood by those seeking to view it through a Western lens. Whether one is approaching China for the first time or seeking to fill the gaps in one's existing understanding of things Chinese, this book provides an abundance of useful information. - Brent Fulton, Ph.D., Director, ChinaSource About the Authors: Peter Xiaoming Yu grew up and went to college in Shanghai, China, and later earned a Master's degree in Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Education . He taught courses on Chinese language & culture at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies for many years.He is now Dean of Students at the University of Macau. Dr. Yu is married and has a grown daughter. G. Wright Doyle received a B.A. with Honors in Latin, an M.Div. with Honors, and a Ph.D. in Classics. Dr. Doyle went to Asia with his wife in 1975, and lived in Taiwan almost ten years before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia. As Director of Global China Center (www.globalchinacenter.org), he leads a team of China researchers, writes articles and book reviews about China, and conducts seminars on China's history and culture. He is married and has one grown daughter, who was born in Taiwan. Both authors return to Greater China frequently to stay abreast of the latest developments there. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/PeterXiaomingYuAndGWrightDoyle
Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detective story, the narrative encourages reader interaction by starting each chapter with an intriguing question that often challenges conventional wisdom. Based on interviews with more than thirty top experts, the author highlights a number of disturbing facts about China's recent military buildup and the shifting balance of power in Asia: the Chinese are deploying game-changing "carrier killer" ballistic missiles; some of America's supposed allies in Europe and Asia are selling highly lethal weapons systems to China in a perverse twist on globalization; and, on the U.S. side, debilitating cutbacks in the military budget send a message to the world that America is not serious about its "pivot to Asia." In the face of these threatening developments, the book stresses the importance of maintaining US military strength and preparedness and strengthening alliances, while warning against a complacent optimism that relies on economic engagement, negotiations, and nuclear deterrence to ensure peace. Accessible to readers from all walks of life, this multidisciplinary work blends geopolitics, economics, history, international relations, military doctrine, and political science to provide a better understanding of one of the most vexing problems facing the world.
Libraries and information services are being transformed by the increasing availability of electronic information. The management of information resources in libraries is of greater, not lesser importance in the digital world. Librarians are well placed to provide leadership in the new century as they draw on enduring principles and updated skills to provide organized access to worthwhile information in order to meet the needs of library clients. Developments in this area have been so rapid in the last few years that no current work on collection management covers it adequately. This book fills that gap by presenting an overall view of the information resources that library clients are likely to require in the 21st century. It is an accessible practice-based guide encompassing all areas of collection management, but with a particular focus upon what is new or different from traditional approaches. Integrating discussion of available electronic information sources throughout, it covers:collection management in the organizational contextcollection development policieslibrary co-operation and networkingselection principles and resourcesprinciples of acquisition, access and licensingbudget managementcollection evaluation and reviewpreservation and weeding of library resources. The book features many examples and case studies, together with focus questions at the start of each chapter and suggestions for further reading at the end. It also includes a detailed annotated bibliography. Readership: Written in a straightforward and accessible way, this is essential reading for acquisitions librarians and collection managers in all types of libraries, as well as for students of library and information studies.
Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian, a journalist, a deputy in the Brazilian Assembly, a novelist, poet and artist. He was a cultural critic, with a good deal to say about architecture, past and present, and a public intellectual, whose pronouncements on race, region and empire - not to mention sex - made him famous in some quarters and notorious in others. The Masters and the Slaves, his most famous work, went through forty editions and has been translated into nine languages, made into a comic book and a television miniseries, while two directors (one of them Robert Rossellini) planned to turn it into a film. Yet he is not well known outside Brazil. Freyre was a major social thinker, one of the few who have not come from Western Europe or the USA, and this book argues that we should take account of the pioneering work of this gifted intellectual. His ideas are of particular relevance today for both political and academic reasons. His interest in gender, ethnicity, hybridity, identity, globalization, and capitalism ensures that his ideas are still provocative and topical, and ready to be introduced to a wider audience.
This training journal is designed to help in training and preparation for a sabbatical-type experience on the Camino de Santiago, although it can be used for hiking any number of other trails, such as the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Coast Trail in the United States. The journal has sections for days of preparation, during the primary hiking experience, travel days to and from start and ending points, rest days, and debrief days. It is designed as a companion journal for the authors' book: The Legacy Way: Walking Into Purpose, which discusses the concepts around building a legacy -- not so that you put your name on a building, but so that you're able to pass on core values into the next seven generations (or 400 years).
Abortion and Its Treatment - from the stand-point of practical experience is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
"Ein auf einem Chip gespeichertes Alphabet von hoher digitaler Genauigkeit und Formqualit{t wird uns dann helfen, }ber die hohe Qualit{t der Gutenbergschen Druckkunst als Standard zu verf}gen." Wir wissen heute, da~ diese von Hermann Zapf 1986 getroffene Aussage in naher Zukunft wahr wird. "Schrifttechnologie" von Peter Karow befa~t sich mit der Qualit{t von Formen und Satz digitaler Alphabete. Folgen der Geschichte und Aspekte der Lesbarkeit werden untersucht, Fragen des Copyrights ber}hrt und eine Markt}bersicht gegeben. In vielerlei Hinsicht gibt dieses Buch eine Antwort auf Fragen zum Thema Schrift, ihre Herstellung und Verarbeitung. "Schrifttechnologie" macht deutlich, da~ - allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz - die Computer Schrift und Satz befl}geln k|nnen.
Arbeitslosigkeit und Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit gehören zu den gravierenden Problemen moderner Gesellschaften in dynamischen, globalen Wirtschaftszusammenhängen. Berufliche Normalbiographien bieten oft keine verlässlichen Sicherheiten mehr. Verlieren Menschen ihre Arbeit, kann daraus leicht eine Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit werden mit gravierenden Folgen für die soziale Situation und die psychische und physische Gesundheit. Aus dieser Situation herauszukommen ist sehr schwierig. Viele sind ohne besondere Hilfen chancenlos. - Hier wird von einem Projekt berichtet, in dem arbeitslose Männer und Frauen mit der Unterstützung engagierter Experten aus Wissenschaft (Psychologie, Neurobiologie, Sozialforschung), aus Wirtschaft und Management, aus Beratung und Coaching Wege aus der Arbeitslosigkeit suchen und finden durch einen innovativen Ansatz sozialer Strategienbildung, durch wechselseitige Hilfeleistung und methodische Neuorganisation ihrer Lebenssituation. Sie machen „sich selbst zum Projekt“. Talentdiagnostik hilft ihnen, ihre Stärken zu erkennen, gemeinsam werden mit dem „Beschäftigungsradar“ Arbeitsmöglichkeiten gesucht und geschaffen. Als „Minipreneure“ mit kleinen Unternehmungen fangen sie an und werden dabei in ihren Initiativen unterstützt, in neuen Jobfamilies und Dienstleistungen Fuß zu fassen. Das Projekt entstand aus dem Engagement, arbeitslose Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger nicht allein zu lassen und traf auf Menschen, die ihr Leben neu gestalten wollten. Das Buch stellt Methoden, Theoriekonzepte, Praxis und Erfahrungen vor und will zu Initiativen ermutigen?
Mensch oder Maschine? Wer gibt den Ton an in der Industrie 4.0? Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine L sung an. Es soll nicht die gro e Sammlung theoretischer Er rterungen zu Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0. um ein weiteres Exemplar aufbl hen, sondern es behandelt die praktische Umsetzung einer innovativen Industrieproduktion. Wir d rfen aufh ren, uns als Opfer der Digitalisierung zu sehen, denn wir sind ihr nicht hilflos ausgeliefert, wir k nnen sie gestalten. Solange wir die Ma st be setzen und nicht eine anonyme Marktmacht, muss Arbeit nicht verschwinden. Aber besser kann sie werden. Voraussetzung ist eine ganzheitliche Betrachtung sowohl der technischen wie der sozialen Subsysteme einer Produktion bei Ber cksichtigung wirtschaftlicher Kennzahlen. Dazu geh rt auch die kritische Auseinandersetzung, ab wann und warum der Automatisierung Grenzen gesetzt werden sollten. Zun chst werden in diesem Buch die Rahmenbedingungen des Marktes und die Anforderungen an "gute" Arbeit gekl rt, danach wird ein Matrix-Produktionssystem vorgestellt, das sich auf die intelligente Kombination von digitalen und komplexen menschlichen F higkeiten st tzt und dadurch erhebliche Optimierungen realisiert. Das nach diesen Kriterien entwickelte neuartige Produktionssystem ist der Beweis daf r, dass sich betriebswirtschaftliche Erfordernisse, Wettbewerbsf higkeit und die dringend n tige Flexibilit t f r dynamische M rkte mit dem weitgehenden Erhalt von Arbeitspl tzen vereinbaren lassen. Zus tzlich werden die Arbeitsbedingungen dabei erheblich humaner gestaltet. Die digital gest tzte Matrix-Produktion wurde simulativ erprobt und validiert, es ergab sich ein deutlicher Nutzen sowohl f r den Hersteller als auch f r den arbeitenden Menschen. Damit wird die Doktrin einer digital-automatisierten Produktionsweise aufgebrochen, die den arbeitenden Menschen berfl ssig machen will, obwohl sie gleichzeitig auf ihn als Konsumenten angewiesen ist. Das Buch richtet sich an Fachkr fte und Entscheider in Produkt
