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Tales From the Job Site
by Michael A. PesolaThese stories are not meant to offend anyone. They are written merely to enlighten the reader to the intricacies of remodel work. Remodeling has long since overtaken new construction in dollars spent; therefore, it stands to reason that many contractors and homeowners out there have a story to tell. These stories can take many forms, from horror, to comedy, to yes, even success stories. My father taught my brothers and me most of what we know. He instilled in us a moral code that helped us to distinguish right from wrong and he taught us how to do things right the first time. God bless him, he is still with us teaching and guiding, albeit more now by example and nuance. Remodeling is like a chess game. Anyone can move, it's finishing that counts. If you're going to do something--anything--do it right. In the end, if these stories entertain you or provoke some thought during your remodel project, or if you can find some humor in the whole process, then I guess the book was worth it.
Tales From the Job Site
by Michael A. PesolaThese stories are not meant to offend anyone. They are written merely to enlighten the reader to the intricacies of remodel work. Remodeling has long since overtaken new construction in dollars spent; therefore, it stands to reason that many contractors and homeowners out there have a story to tell. These stories can take many forms, from horror, to comedy, to yes, even success stories. My father taught my brothers and me most of what we know. He instilled in us a moral code that helped us to distinguish right from wrong and he taught us how to do things right the first time. God bless him, he is still with us teaching and guiding, albeit more now by example and nuance. Remodeling is like a chess game. Anyone can move, it's finishing that counts. If you're going to do something--anything--do it right. In the end, if these stories entertain you or provoke some thought during your remodel project, or if you can find some humor in the whole process, then I guess the book was worth it.
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania
by Smoki MusarajTales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war. To gain a better understanding of how people from all walks of life came to invest in these financial schemes and how these schemes became intertwined with everyday transactions, dreams, and aspirations, Smoki Musaraj looks at the materiality, sociality, and temporality of financial speculations at the margins of global capital. She argues that the speculative financial practices of the schemes were enabled by official financial infrastructures (such as the postsocialist free-market reforms), by unofficial economies (such as transnational remittances), as well as by historically specific forms of entrepreneurship, transnational social networks, and desires for a European modernity. Overall, these granular stories of participation in the Albanian schemes help understand neoliberal capitalism as a heterogeneous economic formation that intertwines capitalist and noncapitalist forms of accumulation and investment.
Tales from the Development Frontier
by Thomas G. Rawski Hinh T. Dinh Lihong Wang Xin Tong Eleonora Mavroeidi Pengfei Li Ali ZafarDespite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales from the Development Frontier recounts efforts to establish light manufacturing clusters in several Asian and African countries, looking in particular at China. A companion volume to Light Manufacturing in Africa--which laid out a strategy for injecting new industrial growth nodes into African economies--Tales from the Development Frontier focuses on the six main binding constraints to competitiveness that nascent light manufacturing industries must overcome in developing countries: the availability, cost, and quality of inputs; access to industrial land; access to finance; trade logistics; entrepreneurial capabilities, both technical and managerial; and worker skills. The volume systematically explores potential growth opportunities in light manufacturing in a carefully selected subset of industries: agribusiness, apparel, leather goods, wood-working, and metal products. It specifies the constraints that need to be addressed before local and international entrepreneurs can take advantage of the latent comparative advantage available to many low-income economies in the target industries. It also proposes policies to ease the constraints--policies that can open the door to rapid increases in industrial output, employment, productivity, and exports. The outcomes described in this volume include both inspiring successes and miserable failures in addressing the binding constraints in the identified sectors. These examples reveal how and why industrial development efforts in poor countries--where, by definition, underlying conditions are far from ideal--can accelerate growth. Most of the firms described in a series of case studies started from a very simple and modest base in an environment full of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. With its rich array of new material, this book will support the ongoing research of policy analysts focused on China and other developing countries. Above all, the volume aims to embolden business entrepreneurs and government officials in low-income countries to pursue newly emerging opportunities to expand and accelerate the growth of light manufacturing in their home economies.
Tales from the Marketplace (Cim Professional Development Ser.)
by Nigel F. Piercy'Tales from the Marketplace: Stories of Revolution, Reinvention and Renewal' is a highly innovative approach to building an understanding of the realities of market-led strategic change in companies. It provides an engaging, honest, and effective understanding of real market strategy in major organizations by focussing on the forces behind value-driven strategy. Nigel Piercy provides new and incisive insights into strategy and marketing through business "stories" that are contemporary and provocative. These new "stories" depict how major organizations have experienced revolution in their traditional markets - created by new types of competitors with new business models. The search for superior value is overtaking traditional brand and relationship strategies. The challenge to companies is reinvention and renewal and the alternative is obsolescence and decline. After all, did the major banks really expect to be competing with supermarkets, car companies, Virgin and internet-based companies to provide retail bank services?The book is based on the author's view that:· Business is exciting, turbulent and unpredictable - the "stories" we read and study should be too!· From Dell Computers and easyJet to Amazon.com and Skoda Cars, it is the most innovative companies that have most to teach us about reinvention and new business models· The inflexible analytical frameworks of the past no longer apply - "stories" of reinvention and renewal show the creative strategies developed by companies to cope with threats and exploit opportunities around them.'Tales from the Marketplace' is essential, timely and designed to be highly readable for managers. It also provides an innovative approach for undergraduate and MBA level teachers and students, and for participants on executive programmes in marketing and strategic management.
Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around -- One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today
by Robert WilderFrom the critically acclaimed author of "Daddy Needs a Drink" comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life.
Tales of Electrologica: Computers, Software and People (History of Computing)
by Gerard Alberts Jan Friso GrooteManufacturing computers in series was quite a feat in the 1950s. As mathematical as it gets, the machines discussed here were called X1 and X8.The industrial achievement combined with the background in a mathematical research center made the company Electrologica a legend in Dutch computing. The tales in this book are told by those who have a right to tell. Highly engaged professionals take readers back to their pioneering work with the machines and in retrospect unveil some of the values, which went without saying in the 1960s. To disagree, Paul Klint relates the contrasting views on software in Dutch research traditions. ALGOL culture: Frans Kruseman Aretz takes the reader along to the detailed decisions on constructing compilers and shows the values of an ALGOL culture transpiring. Signposts: Dirk Dekker for the first time ‘owns’ his algorithm for mutual exclusion. In particle physics: René van Dantzig’s use case was an Electrologica X8 computer controlling two other computers in three-dimensional detection of colliding particles. Early steps in AI: Lambert Meertens’ tale of the X8 machine composing a violin quartet comes with his original presentation, as well as the code in ALGOL 60. The reflections of first hand experiences combine well with the second thoughts of historical research into archival sources. Historians Huub de Beer and Gerard Alberts offer a view into the boardrooms of the local enterprise Electrologica, and of the electronics multinational Philips. Where pioneers and historians meet in an inspiring dialogue, the reader gains a view on the often implicit decisions constituting the field.Fortuitously, a copy of the X8 was retrieved from Kiel, Germany, and put on display at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden. Sparked by the very material presence of an X8, the present book takes stock of the state of historiography of Electrologica.Gerard Alberts is an associate professor in History of Digital Cultures, retired from the University of Amsterdam. Jan Friso Groote is a full professor of Formal Methods at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Tales of Life-Changing Innovations: Fighting Hospital Infections ' Note on the Development of Cephalosporins (through 2000)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Beyond traditional X-rays ' Note on the Development of Computed Tomography (through the 1990s)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Containing a Fearsome Pandemic ' Note on the Development of HIV/AIDS Controls, Tests, and Treatments (through 2000)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Containing a Fearsome Pandemic ' Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Controversial Blockbuster ' Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Controversial Blockbuster ' Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses ' Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Fabio VillaIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses ' Note on the Development of Mammography (though 2000)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Eradicating H-Pylori Infections ' Note on the Development of Antibiotic Treatments for Ulcers
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: High Quality and Radiation Free ' Note on the Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (through the 1990s)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Living Drugs ' Note on the Development of CAR-T Therapies (through 2019)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. BhideIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Minimally Invasive ' Note on the Development of Laparoscopic Surgery (B) (2000-2005)
by Srikant M. Datar Caitlin N. Bowler Amar V. BhideSupplement
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Reducing Breast Cancer Risks ' Note on the Development of Tamoxifen (through 1999)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Safe and Cheap Diagnostics ' Note on the Development of Ultrasound Scanning (through 2000)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Too Simple to be Safe? ' Note on the Development of Fecal Transplants
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. BhideIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Without Cutting In ' Note on the Development of Endoscopy (through the 1990s)
by Srikant M. Datar Amar V. Bhide Katherine StebbinsIndustry and Background Note
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
by Camilla TownsendParallel histories of workers in two port cities, Baltimore and Guayaquil, illustrate divergent paths in the development of the Americas. The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity, many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward work explain the US&’s greater prosperity. In this innovative study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of the so-called Protestant work ethic—and argues instead that they prospered relative to South Americans because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era. Townsend builds her study around workers&’ lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian girl named Ana Yagual in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she shows how differing attitudes toward race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business. This empirical research clarifies the significant relationship between economic culture and racial identity—and its long-term effects.
Tales of the Alaska State Troopers
by Peter B. MathiesenWith the elements against them, the state troopers of Alaska face every day with a fight for their lives.In the state of Alaska, anything goes. For the state troopers, an average day can include blizzard conditions, midnight sunsets, and subzero temperatures. Tales of the Alaska State Troopers gives insight to just how the brave men and women of the law combat these conditions while still upholding their duties to the fine people of Alaska.Follow trooper Dan Valentine as he finds himself in the midst of a crisis when an abandoned truck holds more than just an old blanket on the passenger seat. Dan's responsibility for the town of Trapper Creek becomes a fight for survival when he realizes the truck has enough explosives in it to make a small dent in the Alaska Range. With his fellow lawmen, Valentine not only must handle the situation, but he must also make sure that the citizens of Trapper Creek are evacuated from harm's way.Tales of the Alaska State Troopers is rich in content and action. Anyone familiar with the life of a lawman or the state of Alaska will be fascinated with the way Mathiesen delivers his narrative. It's all in a day's work for troopers like Dan Valentine, who never know what a new day can bring.