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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance Samuel P. Black Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance 1923-1961

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance Samuel P. Black Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance 1923-1961

Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur Samuel P. Black Jr. and Erie Insurance the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. One of this study's central themes is the role of innovation in the entrepreneurial process. The rise of Erie Insurance from a four-person enterprise in Erie Pennsylvania in 1925 to the fourteenth largest property-casualty insurer today was the result in part of Black's relentless push to innovate. His continual efforts to cut costs develop new products satisfy customers increase sales and improve operations all contributed greatly to the company's growth. A second theme is the automobile's dramatic impact on modern America. Its takeover of mass transportation provided the basis for the development of the automobile insurance industry and created many of the opportunities that Black and Erie Insurance capitalized on. These themes combine in the history of Black and Erie Insurance to illuminate the dynamic process by which the cultural social economic and technological environment creates opportunities that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms exploit and how entrepreneurial actions stimulate economic growth. | Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance Samuel P. Black Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance 1923-1961

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Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his lifelong work. It is based on a conference at Washington University St. Louis in 1990 and includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman Charles P. Kindleberger Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari. These papers consider Minsky's definitive analysis that yields such a clear and disturbing sequence of financial events: booms government intervention to prevent debt contraction and new booms that cause a progressive buildup of new debt eventually leaving the economy much more fragile financially. | Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky

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The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 14 Essays in Honor of Paul Parin

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 14 Essays in Honor of Paul Parin

Volume 14 includes chapters on the psychoanalysis of political commitment (P. Parin); Jews and homosexuals as strangers (P. Parin); the analogous tasks of the psychoanalyst and the ethnographer (M. Gehrie); cultic elements in early Christianity (W. Meissner); Jewish apocalyptists (D. Merkur); creationist resistance to evolution (R. Graber & L. McWhorter); sacred objects and transitional phenomena in aboriginal Central Australia; and a review of the contributions of Paul Parin (D. Freeman). | The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 14 Essays in Honor of Paul Parin

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Make Room for Baby Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment

Make Room for Baby Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment

This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child–Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP) a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences. An application to pregnancy of the widely disseminated evidence-based Child–Parent Psychotherapy P-CPP spans the prenatal period through the first 6 months of life. Extended cases illustrate ways to help mothers and fathers understand how trauma has affected them navigate the physical and emotional challenges of becoming parents build essential caregiving competencies and ensure the safety of their babies and themselves. Cultural considerations in working with diverse families are addressed through specific intervention examples. | Make Room for Baby Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment

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The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

The process of economi c coopera t i on among devel oping countrie s ha s come a l ong way s i nce the ea rl y 1960s . A l ong s i de the movement f rom the e s tab l i s hment of reg i onal and subreg i on a l i n tegration and cooperati on g rou p i ngs to the e l aborati on of concepts and a pproaches for g l obal and i nterreg i onal coopera t i on ( such a s for exampl e the scheme for a gl oba l sys tem of trade preferences a mong deve l o p ing countries ) there has b een a n exten s ion of the scope of coopera t i on ori g ina l l y focused on trade to other a rea s i ncl u d ing moneta ry a n d f i nan c i a l ma tters produ c t ion ma rketing and s o on . Today the proce s s of economic cooperation among deve l o p ing countri es occu p i e s an i mportan t pl ace i n the economi c s t rategies a n d pol ic ies of devel o p i n g countrie s and in recent years wit h the marked deteri o ration in the wo rl d economi c s i tu a t io n and the wea ken i ng of i n ternat i onal cooperati on for deve l opmen t it has acqu ired even grea ter importa nce and u rgency . I n deed i n v iew of the pro s pects for the worl d economy for th e comi n g yea rs i t h a s b ecome an i mpera t i ve i f the devel oping cou n t ries a re going to b e abl e to env i sage the transformation of their economies and the g rowth ra tes th ey need . | The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

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Structure of the Lithosphere and Deep Processes Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress Volume 4

Structure of the Lithosphere and Deep Processes Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress Volume 4

This book is a collection of papers presented in the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing on structure of the lithosphere and deep processes. The papers deal with topics on the measurement of P-wave velocities in rocks and elastic properties of crust and upper mantle. | Structure of the Lithosphere and Deep Processes Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress Volume 4

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Middlebrow Wodehouse P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

Middlebrow Wodehouse P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories P. G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels stories and musical comedy libretti the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow attending to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy depictions of masculinity World War I Britain the periodical market ideas of Englishness and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion food culture and popular songwriting. Taken together the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression. | Middlebrow Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

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Dollars and Borders U.S. Governemnt Attempts to Restrict Capital Flows 1960-1980

Dollars and Borders U.S. Governemnt Attempts to Restrict Capital Flows 1960-1980

Originally published in 1987 Dollars and Borders explores the United States’ government’s relation to transnational capital. James P. Hawley traces the attempts of four presidents (John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter) in the 1960s and 1970s to restrict international movements of U. S. capital and analyses the political and economic issues confronted by the government during this period. This title will be of particular interest to students of Politics and Economics. | Dollars and Borders U. S. Governemnt Attempts to Restrict Capital Flows 1960-1980

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IET Wiring Regulations: Electric Wiring for Domestic Installers

IET Wiring Regulations: Electric Wiring for Domestic Installers

This book is essential reading for anyone studying towards Domestic Installer status with an approval body such as NICEIC NAPIT or ELECSA in line with Part P of the Building Regulations and also serves as a handy pocket guide to best practice for electricians. Although not intended as a DIY manual non-qualified persons will also find it useful reading. The how-to guide for home wiring to professional standards Now with more on LED lighting Essential reading for serious DIY electrical installation basic plumbing heating systems TV and security alarm installation Up to date with the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations | IET Wiring Regulations: Electric Wiring for Domestic Installers

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain P. T. Barnum Marietta Holley and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world dominated by government and business. In this anthology David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution these humorous articles sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence. | Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

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Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

This book illustrates how a dominant political party the Mapai under the leadership of P. M. David Ben-Gurion chose to ‘hug ’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families ’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party Herut led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War of Independence – were Hagana Members one of three Israeli undergrounds movements associated with Mapai specific ideological viewpoint. By that - the Israeli state created political legitimacy and dominance for Mapai – which was framed as the only political party which were involved with the struggle for national independence. Her fighters battles and casualties became part of the collective memory and national ethos. This project was implemented by refusing to acknowledge the Other casualties of the Eztel and Lehi underground movements wich were ideological identified with Herut Party. The state excluded their bereaved families from the wider official military bereavement circle and forced them to experience disenfranchised grief With no access to official commemoration or to rehabilitative support. It was only after the Likud's (ex-Herut) victory in the 1977 elections that enabled P. M. Menachem Begin to correct this exile from national identity and to initiate the inclusion of His fighters and casualties to the military cemeteries to the history books and to the state commemorations as recognizing their families as part of the National Military Bereavement circles entitled to Honors and support. A thought provoking study about the dark side of the Israeli nation building era Politics of Memory explores the politics of historiography bereavement and military commemoration and the confrontation over boundaries of national pantheon examining the effects of these factors on Israel | Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

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Coaching Parents of Young Children with Autism Promoting Connection Communication and Learning

Coaching Parents of Young Children with Autism Promoting Connection Communication and Learning

A growing body of evidence supports the benefits of high-quality parent interventions for building social and communication skills in 0- to 5-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). How can clinicians coach parents to effectively incorporate learning opportunities into daily routines at home? From preeminent experts this practical book explores the role of the coach and reviews the "whats " "whys " and "how-tos" of successful collaboration with parents. Topics include structuring coaching sessions identifying children's needs facilitating playful engagement and deepening parents' understanding of how they can boost skills development during everyday activities. Seventeen reproducible handouts and forms include the multipage P-ESDM Infant–Toddler Curriculum Checklist ideal for use in telehealth assessments. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. | Coaching Parents of Young Children with Autism Promoting Connection Communication and Learning

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Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who published both the first and the second editions raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history structure and appearance of J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth conclusive version of his opus. | Rethinking J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

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Research Ethics in Applied Economics A Practical Guide

Research Ethics in Applied Economics A Practical Guide

Emphasizing the new challenges posed by the data science revolution digital media and changing norms Research Ethics in Applied Economics examines the ethical issues faced by quantitative social scientists at each stage of the research process. The first section of the book considers project development including issues of project management selection bias in asking research questions and political incentives in the development and funding of research ideas. The second section addresses data collection and analysis discussing concerns about participant rights data falsification data management specification search p-hacking and replicability. The final section focuses on sharing results with academic audiences and beyond with an emphasis on self-plagiarism social media and the importance of achieving policy impact. The discussion and related recommendations highlight emergent issues in research ethics. Featuring perspectives from experienced researchers on how they address ethical issues this book provides practical guidance to both students and experienced practitioners seeking to navigate ethical issues in their applied economics research. | Research Ethics in Applied Economics A Practical Guide

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Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Bringing together scholars from musicology literature childhood studies and theater this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl P. L. Travers and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein Lionel Bart and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults. | Children Childhood and Musical Theater

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Business Transformation Planning for Leaders A Tactical Roadmap for Achieving Profitable Growth with the Highest Return on Capital

Business Transformation Planning for Leaders A Tactical Roadmap for Achieving Profitable Growth with the Highest Return on Capital

This book is a powerful tool for business leaders who have responsibility for the success of the profit and loss (P&L) statement of a business. It provides a roadmap to help business leaders develop a comprehensive business transformation plan - A plan that is simple fact based and actionable. In addition this book is a guide for professionals aspiring to be future P&L leaders. The holistic cross-functional and general manager view of a business in this book is useful for all department heads. For example a sales leader reading this book can understand why running a promotion to drive sales without understanding the capacity of supply chain can result in losing customers. The case study methodology used to illustrate the concepts makes the material easy to read and easy to relate to practical application by readers in their companies. Additionally business leaders responsible for due diligence and integration to create value in M&A can use the approach explained in this book. The roadmap shown in this book is a great way to engage the management team of a business unit to understand and drive the business transformation. The management team can read the book get together for a couple of days (preferably off-site) and discuss by chapter the lessons learned how the chapter applies to their business and what improvements they should focus on based on the learnings. The greatest outcome from this book is an aligned team that is focused on common priorities to execute. By getting the management team to work through this thought process and identifying areas to focus on you will ensure that they have ownership of the solutions. Having this ownership of actions is critical to keeping the team focused and willing to work harder. This roadmap can also be used for successfully integrating acquisitions made by a company to create value. This book has been developed from the author’s experience of personally leading several business transformations and inputs from various other business leaders from multiple industries. The concepts and approach discussed can be universally applied in all industries and companies of any scale. The commonsense approach discussed is applicable for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. | Business Transformation Planning for Leaders A Tactical Roadmap for Achieving Profitable Growth with the Highest Return on Capital

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The Art of the Soluble

The Art of the Soluble

First published in 1967 The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought. It is also a pioneering study of the ethology of the scientists – of the anatomy of scientific behaviour. Is it true that scientists are detached or dispassionate observers of Nature? What underlies the scientist’s deep concern over the matters of priority? How did a class distinction grow up between pure and applied science? By what criteria do scientists value their own and their colleagues work? Some of the answers grow out of author’s four critical studies of Teilhard de Chardin Arthur Koestler D’Arcy Thompson and Herbert Spencer and the book as whole is knit together by a major essay Hypothesis and Imagination on the nature of scientific reasoning. P. B. Medawar who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960 did not see science as a book-keeping of Nature but on the contrary as the greatest of human adventures. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of Science natural science and philosophy in general

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The Correspondence Theory of Truth

The Correspondence Theory of Truth

First published in 1975 The Correspondence Theory of Truth examines the simplest statements of empirical fact and establishes what we can mean when we say that such statements are true. In particular the author has considered whether any or all of beliefs sentences statements or propositions are properly said to be true or false. He proceeds to examine what we mean by the term ‘fact’ and what possible relation between facts and beliefs (or their linguistic embodiments) could be meant by the term ‘correspondence’. The second part of the book is a critical survey of important contemporary accounts of truth. The author examines Tarski’s semantic theory to see if it offers a satisfactory reconstruction of the essence of the traditional notion of correspondence then J. L. Austin’s recent and famous version of the correspondence theory and some criticisms of it by Professor P. E. Strawson. A final chapter summarizes the viable content of the correspondence theory and suggests what problems about truth still remain for discussion if the theory is accepted. This book will be an essential read for students and scholars of Philosophy.

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Routledge Handbook of State Recognition

Routledge Handbook of State Recognition

This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in international politics. Although the recognition of states plays a central role in shaping global politics it remains an under-researched and widely dispersed subject. Coherently and innovatively structured the handbook brings together a group of international scholars who examine the most important theoretical and comparative perspectives on state recognition including debates about pathways to secession and self-determination the broad range of actors and strategies that shape the recognition of states and a significant number of contemporary case studies. The handbook is organised into four key sections:Theoretical and normative perspectivesPathways to independent statehoodActors forms and the process of state recognitionCase studies of contemporary state recognitionThis handbook will be of great interest to students of foreign policy international relations international law comparative politics and area studies. Chapter 19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license https://www. routledge. com/Routledge-Handbook-of-State-Recognition/Visoka-Doyle-Newman/p/book/9780815354871 | Routledge Handbook of State Recognition

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Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity

Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity

The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the very notion of peace and security has become more complex the volume seeks to determine which questions of cybersecurity are indeed of relevance for international peace and security and which while requiring international attention are simply issues of contemporary governance or development. The Handbook offers a variety of thematic regional and disciplinary perspectives on the question of international cybersecurity and the chapters contextualize cybersecurity in the broader contestation over the world order international law conflict human rights governance and development. The volume is split into four thematic sections:Concepts and frameworks;Challenges to secure and peaceful cyberspace;National and regional perspectives on cybersecurity;Global approaches to cybersecurity. This book will be of much interest to students of cybersecurity computer science sociology international law defence studies and International Relations in general. Chapter 30 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license at https://www. routledge. com/Routledge-Handbook-of-International-Cybersecurity/Tikk-Kerttunen/p/book/9781138489011

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Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm E. P. Thompson Raymond Williams Henri Lefebvre Georg Lukács Lucien Goldmann Günther Anders M. N. Roy Angela Davis C. L. R. James Rosa Luxemburg Eve Mitchell and Cedric J. Robinson the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism racism and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies cultural studies Internet research sociology philosophy political science and economics. This is the first of five Communication and Society volumes each one outlining a particular aspect of the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society. | Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

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