Provides the foundation and tools that are essential for an enterprise to bring Operational Excellence into their organizational culture; gain maximum results, benefits and valueStrategies for and implementing details for enterprises at all levels of maturity from those with programs in place to those looking to improve safety, health, environment performance as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of their operationsInc...

In "Fat and Blood," S. Weir Mitchell intricately weaves a narrative that delves into the intricate relationship between physiological health and moral character, set against the backdrop of late 19th-century American society. This medical romance explores themes of gender, identity, and the cultural anxieties surrounding weight and corporeality, employing a prose style that is both accessible and richly descriptive, reflective of the era's fascination with the interplay of science and lite...

More than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever.This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars.A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda’s various styles, themes, and periods, The Essential Neruda ...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Growing awareness of real-world shocks including market downturns, health surprises, and labor market readjustment is calling into question the ability of global retirement systems to remain healthy and sustain future retirees. Financial and labor market stresses are...

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years bef...

America's Fight for Freedom – 4 Classic Revolutionary Tales draws readers into the turbulent era of the American Revolution through a diverse array of literary styles encompassing drama, romance, and patriotism. This anthology captures the intense spirit of the times, showcasing poignant narratives that blend factual history with imaginative storytelling. Each tale reveals the complexities of the struggle for independence, offering both thrilling adventure and introspective reflection. Rea...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles...

Your climate control is broken, the engine is overheating again, and the traffic has come to a dead stop amidst a swarm of horns. To top it off you're late for work. In a heartbeat, you find yourself in another place, another time. Just for a moment, your mind takes a break. Your subconscious decides to get out of the traffic and set sail along a coast of white sand beaches and palm trees. Later that night, you wake with a jolt but don’t remember what startled you. Your thoughts are racing...

20 Timeless Classics: Exploring American History Through Fiction gathers historical romance, frontier adventure, regional realism, Civil War narrative, social critique, and psychological fiction into a capacious literary survey of the American past. Moving from colonial encounters and the contested borderlands to sectional conflict, Reconstruction, industrial modernity, and small-town life, the volume reveals how fiction converts public history into lived experience. Standout modes include...

Library of Masterpieces—100 Books to Read in a Lifetime offers an ambitious cross-cultural canon of enduring literature, philosophy, drama, and narrative art. Moving from classical epic, tragedy, and political thought to the novel, Gothic romance, detective fiction, modernist experiment, children's literature, and existential reflection, it reveals how literary forms continually remake questions of power, desire, faith, justice, memory, and freedom. Monumental epics, psychologically intric...

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy ...