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The Hush House Affair: Creative Destruction (Not A 'No Tell' Motel)

The Hush House Affair: Creative Destruction (Not A 'No Tell' Motel)

Richard J. Reilly

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
nidottu
The Hush House Affair is a true adventure story that could be a novel, but the plot might be rejected as fictional. A three-year journey of cliff-hangers, across five countries, results in a $49,000,000 U.S. government contract. It is a tale of Creative Destruction that gives the reader a window into how a government procurement agency responds when routine is threatened by a disruptive new technology. Creative Destruction is a term economists apply to the never ending process that replaces traditional products and methods with better means of accomplishing the task. We usually see only the results, the shiny and the new, but not the pain and chaos rooted in the battle between the old and the new. The book describes the replacement of an environmentally hazardous process with a more benign method. The author gives a view of the hidden struggle behind changing the U.S. Air Force's method of testing aircraft and engines. The complexity and viciousness of the battle are beyond imagination as the antagonists fight for their jobs in a dying industry. The story is born in conflict, but the convoluted end-game results in a $49 million contract with the US Air Force. 'Creative Destruction, ' a term, popularized by Austrian/American Economist and Harvard Professor, Joseph Schumpeter, to describe the process by which old products are replaced by new devices, ideas or methods. A more mundane expression of this idea is the 'buggy whip' analog: A whip for one's buggy is unnecessary when it is powered by a gasoline engine, and an industry disappears. The "Hush House Affair" chronicles a nearly four-year odyssey that spans five countries and replaces the historical use of water for cooling aircraft noise suppressors with an air-cooling technique. It is a head-on collision: Water cooling, with its columns of black smoke, acid rain and other operational undesirables, becomes environmentally untenable. Air cooling eliminates these negatives, and significant cost savings result as a bonus. In addition, the lawsuits brought by noise and acid rain are eliminated. Air, as a cooling agent, wins handily for many reasons. The protagonists engage in an explosive conflict on first meeting but combine their talents to engage in a classic Schumpeterian conflict with the US government: One industry is destroyed and is replaced by a new enterprise, producing a superior, environmentally more benign product, under a government contract. The battle is not easily won. The traditional industries fight back. Government agencies, steeped in comfortable operational and business relationships, indulge in an internecine rivalry. The new technology is often threatened but is rescued by fortuitous and almost mysterious happenings. When the contract is finally consummated, one of my principal adversaries approached the author and extended his hand, saying, "Hey, no hard feelings. It was your general against our general, and your general won." He didn't understand how his team lost. You will. I hope you enjoy the blow-by-blow account.
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Treadmill To Eternity: : An engineer's trudge through seventy years of the Twentieth Century

Treadmill To Eternity: : An engineer's trudge through seventy years of the Twentieth Century

Richard J. Reilly

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2019
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"Treadmill To Eternity" is not an autobiography but rather a compendium of the author's experiences as a professional engineer during the last 70 years of the 20th Century. After growing up in a rural town of 400 souls and educated as an aeronautical engineer, his career ranged across 16 countries on five continents. The book recounts professional and business events lodged in memory during a 50-year engineering career. In the assessments of family and friends, it was an unusual life. He didn't think it unusual at the time, and the employment diversity may portend the future for engineers in some ways. He began along the accepted path: education and engineering jobs with large companies, potentially leading to retirement and a 'gold-watch' lunch with friends and colleagues. After about 18 years in an orderly apprenticeship with General Mills Inc, Northrop Aircraft Company and Honeywell, Inc., he drifted into a consulting role with many clients ranging across five continents and 16 countries. During corporate employment he was fired twice: once a 'sort-of' and the other a genuine 'we no longer require your services.' In the first instance, an assignment began to take on an odor of fraud. Seeking relief from these duties, he was offered a promotion in another, geographically-distant, corporate division. Moving to the East Coast was not appealing, so he chose another route . In the second, he was called to meet with the company's chief financial officer called me into his office to tell me how pleased he was with the year-end financial data due to changes he made in the company's product line. Three hours later the company President told him his services were no longer required. Both incidents are covered in detail in what follows. His somewhat chaotic professional life was made possible by the advent of the jet airplane and in later years, the personal computer. An early morning departure, from a Minnesota base, made it possible to meet with people on the east, west or gulf coasts and return home the same day. Two or three day trips to Europe became routine, but he managed to be home almost every weekend. His wife, Betty, made all this possible with her self-sufficiency in handling the problems of life around home.
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Immunology of Human Infection

Immunology of Human Infection

André J. Nahmias; Richard J. O’Reilly

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2012
nidottu
When we were first approached by the senior editors of this series to edit a book on interactions between the host and infectious agents, we accepted this offer as an exciting challenge. The only condition, readily agreed upon, was that such a book should focus on the immunology of infections in humans. Our reasons, if not biases, were severalfold. We sensed that the fields of microbiology and im­ munology, which had diverged as each was focusing on its individual search, were coming together. In agreement with the opinions expressed by Dr. Richard Krause in the Introduction, we strongly believed that the development of the immune system evolved in response to infectious agents and that the evolution of these agents was influenced in turn by the character of the host's responses. An inten­ sive examination of the multitude of primitive or more recently developed host defense mechanisms to determine their relative contribution to man's resistance to a given infectious agent appeared to us to be of crucial basic and practical interest. Many immune mechanisms studied in animals were being explored in humans and it appeared timely to focus particularly on what was known about man's resistance to infectious agents, correlating this information with lessons learned from relevant experiments in animal models.
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Immunology of Human Infection

Immunology of Human Infection

André J. Nahmias; Richard J. O'Reilly

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2012
nidottu
When we were first approached by the senior editors of this series to edit a book on interactions between the host and infectious agents, we acceptedthis offer as an exciting challenge. The only condition, readily agreed upon, was that such a book should focus on the immunology of infections in humans. Our reasons, if not biases, were severalfold. We sensed that the fields of microbiology and im­ munolgy, which had diverged as each was focusing on its individual search, were coming together. In agreement with the opinions expressed by Dr. Richard Krause in the Introduction, we strongly believed that the development of the immune system evolved in response to infectious agents and that the evolution of these agents was influenced in turn by the character of the host's responses. An inten­ sive examination of the multitude of primitive or more recently developed host defense mechanisms to determine their relative contribution to man's resistance to a given infectious agent appeared to us to be of crucial basic· and practical interest. Many immune mechanisms studied in animals were being explored in humans and it appeared timely to focus particularly on what was known about man's resistance to infectious agents, correlating this information with lessons learned from relevant experiments in animal models.
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Profiles of People in Power

Profiles of People in Power

Roger East; Carina O'Reilly; Richard J. Thomas

Europa Publications Ltd
2006
sidottu
The second edition of this important biographical reference presents over 300 succinct narrative biographies of some of the most important, influential and powerful people in the world. Covering some 200 countries and territories it profiles every serving head of state and head of government and explains both, the role of the head of state, head of government and the legislature as well as each country's type of government. Containing biographical profiles of close to 350 world leaders, this book will be essential for anyone needing information on those in power. Entries for each country or territory include:a brief explanation of the type of government and the respective roles of the head of state, the head of government and the legislaturea listing of recent heads of state and heads of governmentbiographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government and other recent incumbents of these positions remain significant and active political leaders.This new edition is going to be a great asset to reference libraries, as well as governmental and political organizations world-wide.
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Decadence and decay : from ancient Rome to the present

Decadence and decay : from ancient Rome to the present

Faramerz Dabhiowala; Melanie Grundmann; Richard Whatmore; Mattias Hessérus; Adoreé Villany; Andrew Huddleston; Saul David; Andrew Preston; Daniela Cammack; Pernille Røge; Adam Tooze; J.R. McNeill; Jonathan Rees; Robert Beuregard; William O’Reilly; Michael Nelson; Peter Heather; Robert Coates-Stephans; Neil McLynn; Richard Miles

Bokförlaget Stolpe
2019
sidottu
The fear of living in the end times has a long history. In Decadence and Decay, a group of distinguished international scholars describe how societies over time have handled and interpreted the concept of decline. In times of unrest and transition, declinism the notion that a culture or civilisation is headed towards irreversible decline tends to capture the public imagination. The essays in this volume address how notions of decadence and decay have been used both as opprobrium and as a form of self-definition and empowerment an instrument to protect individualism against collectivistic oppression. From ancient Rome to the present, ideas and expressions of decadence and decay have played a critical role in how we perceive the world.
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Religion : i historia, samtid och framtid

Religion : i historia, samtid och framtid

Janne Haaland Matlary; Daniel T. Potts; Julius J. Lipner; Robin Osborne; John Scheid; Martin Goodman; Diarmaid Macculloch; Elaine Pagels; Reza Aslan; Wouter J. Hanegraaff; Gary Lachman; Malise Ruthven; Marco Pasi; William O’Reilly; Ariel Glucklich; Wolfgang Palaver; Mona Siddiqui; Candida R. Moss; Esther Benbassa; Richard Miles; A.N. Wilson; Jessica Frazier; Simon May; Armin W. Geertz; Harvey Whitehouse; Pär Stenbäck; Benedetta Berti; Göran Rosenberg; Jayne Svenungsson; Adrian Wooldridge; Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Bokförlaget Stolpe
2020
sidottu
Tron på en styrande, övergripande, himmelsk princip har följt människan genom historien. Mer än 80 procent av världens befolkning har idag en religiös tillhörighet och även i sekulära stater fortsätter religionen att spela en viktig roll. Det går inte att förstå politik och internationella relationer idag utan att inkludera religionen som en aspekt av det kulturella sammanhanget. Essäerna i denna antologi, som härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2014, spänner över en mångfald ämnen i dagens såväl som gårdagens samhällen. De utforskar religionen i relation till människans villkor och skildrar hur den manifesterar sig i individens egna upplevelser. För att förstå oss själva behöver vi också förstå religionen.
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Richard J. Daley

Richard J. Daley

Roger Biles

Northern Illinois University Press
1995
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From his first election in 1955 to 1976, Mayor Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago's political landscape. A product of the Irish Catholic working class, Daley never lost touch with his roots as he rose through the Democratic Party machine-whose workings he perfected-to become a powerful and enduring political figure. The story of Daley is also the story of Chicago. Faced with issues confronting many American cities in the twentieth century-civil rights, integration, race riots, fiscal crisis, housing, suburban flight, urban renewal-Daley conducted Chicago's business with a steadfast resolve to withstand the many changes that threatened to engulf his city. Richard J. Daley portrays one of the most prominent American mayors in a balanced perspective and sheds new light on his place in urban history.
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Richard J. Daley

Richard J. Daley

Roger Biles

Northern Illinois University Press
1995
pokkari
From his first election in 1955 to 1976, Mayor Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago's political landscape. A product of the Irish Catholic working class, Daley never lost touch with his roots as he rose through the Democratic Party machine-whose workings he perfected-to become a powerful and enduring political figure. The story of Daley is also the story of Chicago. Faced with issues confronting many American cities in the twentieth century-civil rights, integration, race riots, fiscal crisis, housing, suburban flight, urban renewal-Daley conducted Chicago's business with a steadfast resolve to withstand the many changes that threatened to engulf his city. Richard J. Daley portrays one of the most prominent American mayors in a balanced perspective and sheds new light on his place in urban history.
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Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. [By Richard J. King.] With maps and plans.

Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. [By Richard J. King.] With maps and plans.

Richard J King

British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
pokkari
Title: Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. By Richard J. King.] With maps and plans.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library King, Richard J.; 1875. lxxvi. 472 p.; 12 . 10353.h.15.
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