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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
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Willful Blindness
Author: Margaret Heffernan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777953
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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“With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness.” --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes. Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity. We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But greater understanding leads to solutions, and Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what's going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777953
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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“With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness.” --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes. Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity. We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But greater understanding leads to solutions, and Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what's going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive.
The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake
Author: Graham Travers
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, was an English physician, educator, and feminist. She was the head of the campaign to ensure women's access to a university education. She led this campaign when she and six other women, the Edinburgh Seven, started studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland. She was a prominent campaigner for medical education for women and was responsible for establishing two medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh. It was a revolutionary step when no other medical schools agreed to train women, and it was a profession only to be pursued by men. This work presents an accurate account of the life of this great woman. It contains every detail of her life. The author starts by making the readers familiar with her childhood and school days and then moves forward to her inspiring fight for women's right to medical education.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, was an English physician, educator, and feminist. She was the head of the campaign to ensure women's access to a university education. She led this campaign when she and six other women, the Edinburgh Seven, started studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland. She was a prominent campaigner for medical education for women and was responsible for establishing two medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh. It was a revolutionary step when no other medical schools agreed to train women, and it was a profession only to be pursued by men. This work presents an accurate account of the life of this great woman. It contains every detail of her life. The author starts by making the readers familiar with her childhood and school days and then moves forward to her inspiring fight for women's right to medical education.
Tinsley's Magazine
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Navy & Army Illustrated
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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George Canterbury's Will
Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Home Monthly
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Spirit of 'seventy-six
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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TIME STAR
Author: M. P. Rogers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147712148X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
BOOK FOUR OF THE STARSHIP SELENE I SERIES The star ship Selene 1 arrives at the Time Star in the darkness of a dead planet. In this fourth book of the Selene 1 series, the Immortals, having worked diligently against the threat of becoming humanoid automata, find themselves given underground sanctuary by aliens. Irony strikes – are these to be their council of judges? They have reason to fear, and anxiety prevails. But the aliens offer them lavish hospitality – and complacency takes over. This arouses deep suspicion in Mara, the once Supreme Judge of Twin Planets. For what reason this generosity? What could be their real purpose? Truth must be found, so Mara undertakes a daunting journey of discovery – and finds more than she sought. The Selene 1 series is dedicated to the unknown. “Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147712148X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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BOOK FOUR OF THE STARSHIP SELENE I SERIES The star ship Selene 1 arrives at the Time Star in the darkness of a dead planet. In this fourth book of the Selene 1 series, the Immortals, having worked diligently against the threat of becoming humanoid automata, find themselves given underground sanctuary by aliens. Irony strikes – are these to be their council of judges? They have reason to fear, and anxiety prevails. But the aliens offer them lavish hospitality – and complacency takes over. This arouses deep suspicion in Mara, the once Supreme Judge of Twin Planets. For what reason this generosity? What could be their real purpose? Truth must be found, so Mara undertakes a daunting journey of discovery – and finds more than she sought. The Selene 1 series is dedicated to the unknown. “Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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