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Have you heard of the famous robbers D.B. Cooper or Marm Mandelbaum? Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers ages 9 to 12 to the mystery and suspense of fascinating crimes while fostering an interest in history, investigative practices, and sociology.

The retirement puzzle -- Capitalist crisis and pension insecurity -- Reconversion and the origin of bargained plans -- Turning labor into finance capital -- Toward the 401(k) ownership society -- Conclusions

When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes. Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well-known and award-winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using: Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process; Progressive design goals for each step to assure the delivery of low life-cycle costs; Processes to codify tacit knowledge, reveal latent design weaknesses, and build high performance cross-functional team collaboration; Project governance processes that systematically raise their organizations' ability to reduce time to market for new assets, products, and services with higher added value and fewer resources. Hence the books title of Continuous Improvement for Projects. The word "Early" in EEM refers to the principle of trapping problems as early as possible in the project process when they are cheapest to resolve. That makes EEM relevant to all projects, even those that have passed the design stages. To support the use of EEM at any project step, the author has designed each chapter as a stand-alone topic with cross references to other chapters where pertinent. This book explains: The six EEM project delivery steps setting out the tasks and accountabilities for project teams, project managers, and steering committees at each step, How to organize projects to increase project added value through the collaboration of commercial, operational, and technology stakeholders, The wiring up behind behaviors that contribute to the failure of traditional project management approaches and how to avoid those pitfalls, The use of projects as a vehicle for the development of internal talent and increase capital project added value, The systematic development of internal capabilities to deliver flawless operation from day one in less time with less resources, How raising project governance capability directly impacts on company-wide management competence, Uses case studies to explain how to implement the EEM methodology and Describes how EEM principles and techniques applied to product and service development (Early Product Management) multiplies the gains from EEM. This book shows readers how and why EEM works so that they can design their own EEM road map and continuous improvement process for projects. Book jacket.

The Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Kathryn Miles, Eric Hartlep, Gerald Hoover, Martha Laguardia-Kotite, and many others.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Historico-Geographical Explorations of Ireland's Heritages: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Nature of Memory and Identity -- PART I: COMMEMORATION AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE -- 2 Commemorative Heritage and the Dialectics of Memory -- 3 A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness -- 4 Memory and Identity in 'Irish' Australia: Constructing Alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1857-1873 -- 5 Performing Irish-American Heritage: The Irish Historic Pageant, New York, 1913 -- PART II: SPACES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 6 Newgrange, Heritage and the Irish Nation: Two Moments of Transformation -- 7 Heritage, Rhetoric, Identity: Critical Reflections on the Carrickmines Castle Controversy -- 8 Ireland and the House of Invented Memory -- 9 Remembering the Creameries -- PART III: HERITAGE, ECONOMY AND CONSTRUCTS OF IDENTITY -- 10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the Irish Civil War -- 11 Redefining Nation, Identity and Tradition: The Challenge for Ireland's National Museums -- 12 The Construction of Community through Heritage in Northern Ireland -- 13 Identity Crisis? Heritage Construction, Tourism and Place Marketing in Ireland -- Index

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper), Joe LeBleu, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes tales of legendary snipers from the Revolutionary War up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Marcus Luttrell (author of Lone Survivor), Mark Owen (author of No Easy Day: the Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden), William Morgan, Christian McBurney, James Otis, H. Beam Piper, Duane Schultz, Hampton Sides, Michael Haas, Ben S. Malcolm, and many others. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tales of survival are as old as humanity! In Survival: True Stories, readers discover accounts of survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality. Whether it's Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica or William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after mutiny on the Bounty, survival is a fascinating topic for readers ages 9 to 12! Survival is the second book in the Murder & Mayhem series, which features true tales that whet kids' appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records-mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true-almost! The Mystery & Mayhem series delves into the past to provide kids with a jumping-off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. Each of the true tales told in Survival are paired with interesting facts about the setting, the industry, and the time period. A glossary and index provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

Discover accounts of wilderness survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality, including Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica and William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after a mutiny on the Bounty. William Manly loses his wagon train while crossing Death Valley. Charlotte Picard and her family are shipwrecked on the way to Senegal. And then there's the Donner Party

3. Lawrence O. Gostin: 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment, or preventive confinement?3a. Stephen Shute: Mental illness, preventive detention, prison, and human rights; Part II:Beyond the prison; 4. Loïc Wacquant: The use and abuse of the prison in the age of social insecurity; 4a. Ian Loader: Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality; 5. Thomas Mathiesen: Ten reasons for not building more prisons; 5a. David Downes: Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons; 6. Jack Mapanje: Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom.

In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services. Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more