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Free Download Freiman Stolzfus, "Beyond the Plain and Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives"
English | 2006 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 0873388801 | EPUB | 2,0 mb
A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customs

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Free Download Beyond the Black Box: Talk-In-Interaction in the Airline Cockpit By Maurice Nevile
2004 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0754642402 | PDF | 31 MB
This is the first and only study of the interaction between pilots in the cockpit of commercial aircraft. It examines, in close detail, the communication that pilots engage in with one another and with other parties, such as traffic controllers, as they perform the routine tasks involved in flying an aircraft. It also makes an important contribution to literature on work and language by addressing one of the most highly technological settings there is: the aircraft cockpit. Using data taken from audio and video recordings of pilots talking in aircraft cockpits, it draws on the analytical approaches of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to analyse their task-related communications. It shows that although the tasks performed by pilots may be 'routine', the communications in and through which they are managed are artful accomplishments. Through the shaping of their talk, the pilots manage its indexical and situated properties in effective and skilled ways. In so doing they accomplish in their moment-by-moment interaction the required features of the pilot's work in the cockpit.

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Free Download Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons By Jane Lazarre
1996 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0822318261 | PDF | 10 MB
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." She understands, she says-but he tells her, gently, that he doesn't think so, that she can't understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre's memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the nature of whiteness in a way that passionately informs the connections between herself and her family. A moving account of life in a biracial family, this book is a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America, the story of an education into the realities of African American culture.Lazarre has spent over twenty-five years living in a Black American family, married to an African American man, birthing and raising two sons. A teacher of African American literature, she has been influenced by an autobiographical tradition that is characterized by a speaking out against racism and a grounding of that expression in one's own experience-an overlapping of the stories of one's own life and the world. Like the stories of that tradition, Lazarre's is a recovery of memories that come together in this book with a new sense of meaning. From a crucial moment in which consciousness is transformed, to recalling and accepting the nature and realities of whiteness, each step describes an aspect of her internal and intellectual journey. Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons' and husband's experience as Black Americans-an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor's unconscious racism or the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy-or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a fluid, even ambiguous, identity. It is a coming of age that permits a final retelling of family history and family reunion.With her skill as a novelist and her experience as a teacher, Jane Lazarre has crafted a narrative as compelling as it is telling. It eloquently describes the author's delight at being accepted into her husband's family and attests to the power of motherhood. And as personal as this story is, it is a remarkably incisive account of how perceptions of racial difference lie at the heart of the history and culture of America.

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Free Download Beyond Stammering: The McGuire Programme for Getting Good at the Sport of Speaking By Dave McGuire
2008 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0285636731 | EPUB | 3 MB
Combining mental strategies with breathing techniques, this book explains the McGuire Program, a proven technique for long-term improvement in speech and self-confidence for those who suffer from stammering. Developed through the author's own struggles, readers learn to alter breathing patterns while incorporating mental strategies to maintain fluent speech. This complete program quickly and dramatically improves verbal fluency while the sufferer gains self-esteem, from learning to control the physical and mental aspects of dysfunctional breathing.

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Free Download Charles Michael Byrd, "Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-Gita in Black and White"
English | 2002 | pages: 151 | ISBN: 1401043917, 1401043909 | PDF | 0,9 mb
"Beyond The Bhagavad-Gita in Black and White" is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking to transcend America's oppressive race-consciousness. Each section of Beyond Race is fashioned after the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-gita, the essence of India's Vedic wisdom and one of the great spiritual and philosophical classics of the world.Along with synopses of each Gita chapter, Beyond Race includes commentary culled from Mr. Byrd's 1995-2001 Interracial Voice editorials. During or after each chapter's "race" commentary, is included a specific Gita verse for the purpose of expanding on that commentary from the Vedic perspective.

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Free Download Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance By Jeremy Hope, Steve Player
2012 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1422141950 | EPUB | 4 MB
There's a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization's strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance.But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they're misused by most organizations. For example, executives buy and implement a tool without first asking, What problem are we trying to solve?" And they use tools to command and control frontline teams, not empower thema serious and costly mistake.In this eminently useful, clear-eyed book, the authors critically review dozens of well-known management toolsfrom mission statements, balanced scorecards, and rolling forecasts to key performance indicators, Six Sigma, and performance appraisals. They explain how to select the right tools for your organization, how to implement them correctly, and how to extract maximum value from each.Brimming with rigorous analysis and solid advice, Beyond Performance Management helps you swiftly gauge the value of each management tool, as well as navigate the increasingly crowded field of offeringsso the tools you select deliver fully on their promise.

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Free Download Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage By Scott Keller, Colin Price
2011 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1118024621 | EPUB | 4 MB
The secret of achieving and sustaining organizational excellence revealedIn an ever-changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new tools to thrive. In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term. Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. In the book's foreword, management guru Gary Hamel refers to this notion as "a new manifesto for thinking about organizations."The authors illustrate why copying management best practices from other companies is more dangerous than helpfulClearly explains how to determine the mutually reinforcing combination of management practices that best fits your organization's contextProvides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process: aspire, assess, architect, act, and advance. Among these are new techniques for dealing with those aspects of human behavior that are seemingly irrational (and therefore confound even the smartest leaders), yet entirely predictableUltimately, building a healthy organization is an intangible asset that competitors copy at their peril and that enables you to skillfully adapt to and shape your environment faster than others-giving you the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Free Download Paul V. Dutton, "Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States "
English | ISBN: 1501754564 | 2021 | 216 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
In Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts.

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Free Download Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System: Continuing Kyoto Commitments or a Global 'Cap and Trade' Scheme for a Sustainable Climate Policy? By Prof. Dr. Lutz Wicke (auth.)
2005 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 3540224823 | PDF | 10 MB
This book shows how humankind can 'prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system' without dangerous interference with the global economic system. In the two underlying studies on behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Transport of i the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, the results have been elaborated through scientific evaluation of different climate protection systems and intensive developmental work on an efficient climate protection system. The results will be presented in nine chapters according to the following nine basic R&D steps: 1. Quantifying the 'ultimate climate objective' of the world community in order 'to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system,' thus achieving climate sustainability; 2. Development of a comprehensive standard system for evaluating the prospect of success for different climate protection systems; 3. Based on this scientific standard system, evaluation of the current Kyoto system and of the most important proposals for 'incremental regime evolution' of the Kyoto system. Unfortunately, it must be noted that these systems are incapable of achi- ing climate sustainability; 4. Evaluating three proposals for 'structural regime change' of the Kyoto system. Following this objective evaluation process and numeric comparison of the diff- ent proposals, 5. Description of the eight basic elements of GCCS and its in-depth 'critical asse- ment;' 6.

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Free Download Daniel Gutzmann, "Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning "
English | ISBN: 9004252177 | 2013 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Aspects of meaning that are better captured by their use-conditions instead came into the spotlight of formal semantics recently, mainly due to the raised interest in expressions like interjections or swear words. Going beyond such expressives, the contributions provide detailed semantic analyses of a broad range of use-conditional items, including particles, non-inflectional constructions, personal datives and interpretational effects of focus. This volume thereby proves that the empirical domain of use-conditional meaning is as diverse as the truth-conditional one, equally amenable to systematic semantic treatments.

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