J Hagen: 16 books
Confronting Mistakes
Lessons from the Aviation Industry when Dealing with Error
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In most organizations, errors - although common and unavoidable - are rarely mentioned bottom-up. Using this example of the high risk aviation industry this book assess how active error management can work and lead to success. Using academic research and 10 actual aviation accidents cases, this book will provide compelling and informative reading.
by Deborah J. Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
“Come play inside me.” The words emanate from the closet door under the basement, and when Wally goes inside, he starts to daydream about a land where the trees are made of cotton candy and the clouds are made of popcorn. All of a sudden, the closet begins to shake and seems to lift off the ground,...
The Physical Microbe
An Introduction to Noise, Control, and Communication in the Prokaryotic Cell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The new field of physical biology fuses biology and physics. New technologies have allowed researchers to observe the inner workings of the living cell, one cell at a time. With an abundance of new data collected on individual cells, including observations of individual molecules and their interactions,...
by Michael Watts, Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy.
Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of...
Dynamical Systems, Number Theory and Applications
A Festschrift in Honor of Armin Leutbecher's 80th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
This volume consists of a selection of research-type articles on dynamical systems, evolution equations, analytic number theory and closely related topics. A strong emphasis is on a fair balance between theoretical and more applied work, thus spanning the chasm between abstract insight and actual...
Breathless Seduction
A Limited Edition Collection of Contemporary Romance Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Will these hot couples embrace romance, be tempted by desire, or lose it all?
Whether it’s the allure of a perfectly-honed body, the sweltering taboo of a bad boy, or the fantasy of an ideal lover, we’ll feed your addiction in this sizzling collection of fifteen mouthwatering love stories.
Escape...
by J.F. Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Japanese have a gardening term "nemawashi" it means to prepare the ground to control the root. Controlling the root allows the stem, branch, leaves and fruit to be influenced as desired. This book is a form of nemawashi. The book's purpose is to provide a means to effect desirable changes...
The Epistles of 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter
Newly Discovered Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era. In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot...
The Gospel of St. John
A Newly Discovered Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era. In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot...
by Walter Demel, Andreas Rose, Susanne Lachenicht
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische...
Eigentum
Warum wir es brauchen. Was es bewirkt. Wo es gefährdet ist
Language: German
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Ohne Eigentum ist gesamtgesellschaftlicher Wohlstand undenkbar. Und doch sind Nutzen und Gestaltung von Eigentum bisweilen umstritten. Die Autoren stellen entscheidende Fragen: Welche Funktion hat das Eigentum für Wirtschaft, Staat und Gesellschaft? Wie beeinflusst es die menschliche Entwicklung?...
by Mark Hallerberg, Rolf Rainer Strauch, Jürgen von Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
This book presents a theoretical framework to discuss how governments coordinate budgeting decisions. There are two modes of fiscal governance conducive to greater fiscal discipline, a mode of delegation and a mode of contracts. These modes contrast with a fiefdom form of governance, in which the...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
The U.S.-China Military Scorecard
Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography...
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