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This compelling firsthand look at the research Daniel Goleman relied on for his bestselling book "Emotional Intelligence" describes in vivid, accessible detail where our emotions come from, what purpose they serve, and how the brain systems underlying them evolved. 44 photos & illustrations ..
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Privatization has spread worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, reshaping the balance between state and market in many countries This book provides a comparative political analysis of privatization in the UK, United States and France. The authors argue that privatization is a political phenomenon and should be analyzed as such, rather than as an economic response to the growth of the state and the cost of state provision. The book will be of interest to students of politics, economics, public policy and business studies, as well as to policy-makers and business consultants..
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Emergency Rescue Shoring Techniques, by John O’Connell, is a complete resource on shoring and stabilization of emergency scenes. This book takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of emergency shoring operations so they may learn to operate in a safe and efficient atmosphere while conducting search and rescue operations in unstable environments. O’Connell thoroughly covers the engineering aspects involved in shoring and stabilization, carefully explaining how to maintain the strength and integrity of any and all structurally damaged or unstable elements such as beams, joists, girders, columns, arches, headers, or bearing walls. This book includes a glossary and covers the basic terminology and instructions for shoring, as well as an appendix covering the tools your shoring team will need..
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This book deconstructs competing paradigms in political science and sociology in order to demonstrate metaphysical, methodological, and normative assumptions that underpin the paradigms themselves. Haas covers alternative paradigms in seven fields of middle-range theory--development, community power, presidential voting, ethnic voting, civil strife, international violence, and international community--in both political science and sociology. Haas concludes that competing theorists argue ideologically when they should be discussing their differences in terms of underlying philosophical assumptions. Many disputes between theorists are naive from a philosophical point of view. This unique contribution to social science theory attempts to clarify the issues in the fields of political science and sociology. Haas demonstrates some of the confusions: Some debates are between scholars who are unaware that they agree on paradigms; many scholars are not even testing their own paradigms because they have not examined the basic philosophical assumptions of their theories. Many paradigmatic debates fail to focus on issues of normative importance and thus have little relevance to policy; methodological differences should lead to multimethodological research designs rather than monomethodological disputation. This important study will be of value to practitioners and students in the fields of political science and sociology..
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MODERN UNDERPINNING DEVELOPMEhTT, METHODS AND TYPICAL EXAMPLES - 1917 - PREFACE - THE authors of this volurnc, being familiar with the clevelopment of the art of underpinning from its rather crude methods in 1900 to its present highly developed state, and having unusual opportunities to gather A-aluable first-hand material thi-ough the generosity of Smith, Hauscr c91 lIacIsaac, Inc., -hose contract in olved the greatest aniount of underpinning inciclental to any one contract on subway work, have bccn impelled to rnake this fund of information available to engineers and contl-actox-s. During thc. progress of construction 011 Iiilliam Street throughout two years, great pains were taken to hotograrll the csscntial steps in underpilning, sup- lementing these n it11 dram ings and scien tificall. altcred photographs. It nas felt that one good illustration was worth manj pages of desci-iption, and c-ery effort Ifas made to gather a complete set. Just enough test n-as added, it is hoped, to sufficiently supplelent the illustrations. .S the enginccr has usually only a very linlited timc at his disposal, the book is so arranged that almost uithout the test he maj- quickly get correct and accurate ideas as to the p-oper mcthods of underpinning. As the p-esc.rit i.0t-k of co11st1-uction on the New York subways is drawing to a close, it is to be feared that the really wonderful progress made in construction during this period of about sixteen years will be imperfectly recorded and, perhaps, in a large measure lost. This progress was due to the combined efforts of the best contracting and engineering talent to be found in any community. The authors will be sufficiently rewarded if they are the means of presen-ing the acquired knowledge of only one phase of this gigantic work. LAZARUS WHITE. EDMUND ASTLEY PRENTIS, JR. DECEMBER, 1916. IVILEY ESGINEERING SERIES THE Wiley Engineering Series will embrace books devoted to single subjects. The object of the series is to place in the hands of the practising engineer all the essential information regarding the particular subject in which he may be inter- ested. Extraneous topics are excluded, and the contents of each book are confined to the field indicated by its title. It has been considered advisable to make these books man- uals of practice, rather than theoretical discussions of the sub- jects treated. The theory is fully discussed in text-books, hence the engineer who has previously mastered it there is, as a rule, more interested in the practice. The Wiley Engineering Series therefore will present the most approved practice, with only such theoretical discussion as may be necessary to elucidate such practice. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I GENERAL .PECTS-INDEKIINIPG PAGE DEFIXED-PAYMENT FOR I-KDER- PISSISG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I CHAPTER I1 146, 148, and 150 Viilliam Street . . 14j-,jjilliamStrect . . . . . Rank of Anicrica . . . . . . . Sational City Bank . . . . . . LordsCourtBuilding. . . . . . 135 Villinri Strect . . . . . . . Iiuhn-I.oelj Builcling . . . . . . Tnderpinning Elevated-Railroad Coluilns LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS William Street looking south from Maiden Lane, New York City Frontispiece PLATE I-Method of shoring used in 1902 during subway construction PLATE PAGE in New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2-Method known as protection used above water-level . . I I PLATE g-Combination above water-level of underpinning and protection methods used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Edited and revised by J. W. Jamieson

The Ancient European Religion of Heredity and the Family
The Importance of the Lineage
The Sacred Hearth Fire
Marriage and Procreation
Kinship and Property
Moral Law
Gens, Phratry, Tribe and Nation
The Domestic RReligion as the Moral Foundation of the Ancient City-State.
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Tunnel jacking is used to construct large shallow underground openings in areas where disruption to surface use and activities cannot be tolerated. The technique of tunnel jacking is not new, but in recent years it has been used to construct openings primarily in Europe and Asia, often under railroad lines and highways. The method has had limited use in the United States; however, a state-of-the-tunnel jacking project currently is underway as part of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project in Boston, Massachusetts. These papers have been prepared by experienced designers of tunnel jacking projects to provide the reader with an introduction to large jacked tunnel design, construction, and instrumentation..
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