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This interesting book offers an analysis of man-made catastrophes and asks why they continue to occur. 87 catastrophes or near-catastrophes, including high profile cases such as the Bhopal gas disaster, Grenfell Tower, Shoreham Air Show crash, Brumadinho dam collapse and Fukushima Daiichi, are described together with the reasons why they occurred and why over 50 different safety management approaches and techniques failed to prevent them. Featuring 63 eye opening stories from the author's own personal experience and over 200 pitfalls in safety management approaches, this title is illustrated by 24 hypothetical cases in which the reader is asked to consider the approach they would take. Safety management techniques discussed include operating practices, personnel selection and emergency response. Safety management approaches including safety governance in organisations, along with the role of government and local authorities using the instruments of the law are extensively discussed. The work concludes with imaginative and creative ways forward with the aim to make considerable progress and to potentially eliminate man-made catastrophes for good. This title will be an ideal read for safety managers and engineers, community leaders in civic duties or labour union roles and professionals tasked with stopping and mitigating the impacts of man-made catastrophes, along with non-technical readers who are curious and concerned.

This interesting book offers an analysis of man-made catastrophes and asks why they continue to occur. 87 catastrophes or near-catastrophes, including high profile cases such as the Bhopal gas disaster, Grenfell Tower, Shoreham Air Show crash, Brumadinho dam collapse and Fukushima Daiichi, are described together with the reasons why they occurred and why over 50 different safety management approaches and techniques failed to prevent them. Featuring 63 eye opening stories from the author's own personal experience and over 200 pitfalls in safety management approaches, this title is illustrated by 24 hypothetical cases in which the reader is asked to consider the approach they would take. Safety management techniques discussed include operating practices, personnel selection and emergency response. Safety management approaches including safety governance in organisations, along with the role of government and local authorities using the instruments of the law are extensively discussed. The work concludes with imaginative and creative ways forward with the aim to make considerable progress and to potentially eliminate man-made catastrophes for good. This title will be an ideal read for safety managers and engineers, community leaders in civic duties or labour union roles and professionals tasked with stopping and mitigating the impacts of man-made catastrophes, along with non-technical readers who are curious and concerned.

Informed by the work of the contemporary thinker Jacques Rancière, Egalitarian Strangeness explores a range of texts by modern and contemporary French writers in which embedded social inequality and the often conflictual relations across class boundaries feature. Yet the texts also throw up forms of cohabitation and levelling which contest such inequality

Unleash a killer combination of old and new sales strategies. Old-school prospecting tactics or new-school techniques alone won't provide the answers. But Combo Prospecting will ... by showing how to combine time-tested sales processes with cutting-edge social media strategies and clever technology hacks. The book reveals today's new breed of Chief Executive Buyers, the channels they use, the value narrative you need, and the mix of methods that works.

Front Cover -- Science and Starvation: An Introduction to Economic Development -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps and Charts -- List of Photographs -- Synopsis -- Introduction -- Preface -- PART I: Introductory -- CHAPTER 1. The Scientific Revolution and the Starving Millions -- Further Study -- CHAPTER 2. The Nature of Poverty -- Further Study -- PART II: Development of the Rich Countries -- CHAPTER 3. The Development of the West -- Further Study -- CHAPTER 4. Development in Other Countries -- I. The United States -- II. The Soviet Union -- III. Japan -- Further Study

1. Aristotle's life and work -- 2. Style, structure and aim of the Ethics -- 3. The fulfilled life -- 4. Moral virtues and moral training -- 5. The key virtues of character -- 6. Practical wisdom -- 7. Responsibility -- 8. Moral failure -- 9. Relationships with others -- 10. Pleasure and the good life -- 11. Aristotle's moral world and ours.

Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! : sustaining motivation in the armies of Napoleon, 1803-1808

Written primarily for the police officer assigned to homicide investigation, it relates in clear, concise language the important medical aspects of violent death. The forensic pathologist will find content matter pointing out the mutual problems of field investigation on the autopsy examination. Social behaviorists such as psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers interested in the relationship of homicide to community and familial factors will find ample discussion of the conflicts, interests and attitudes that bear directly on homicide investigation