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Book Settling the Office

Download or read book Settling the Office written by Paul Strangio and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era.

Book On Settling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert E. Goodin
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0691148457
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book On Settling written by Robert E. Goodin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden value of settling In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling--and that even to strive, one must first settle. We may admire strivers and love the ideal of striving, but who of us could get through a day without settling? Real people, confronted with a complex problem, simply make do, settling for some resolution that, while almost certainly not the best that one could find by devoting limitless time and attention to the problem, is nonetheless good enough. Robert Goodin explores the dynamics of this process. These involve taking as fixed, for now, things that we reserve the right to reopen later (nothing is fixed for good, although events might always overtake us). We settle on some things in order to concentrate better on others. At the same time we realize we may need to come back later and reconsider those decisions. From settling on and settling for, to settling down and settling in, On Settling explains why settling is useful for planning, creating trust, and strengthening the social fabric--and why settling is different from compromise and resignation. So, the next time you're faced with a thorny problem, just settle. It's no failure.

Book Settling the Office

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  • Author : Paul Strangio
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Settling the Office written by Paul Strangio and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Settling the West

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  • Publisher : Time Life Medical
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Settling the West written by and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.

Book Joint Agency Transportation Study  Report on Procuring  Paying  Auditing  and Settling Civil Agency Freight and Passenger Transportation Services

Download or read book Joint Agency Transportation Study Report on Procuring Paying Auditing and Settling Civil Agency Freight and Passenger Transportation Services written by United States. Joint Agency Transportation Study Group and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Energy Needs to Develop Better Guidance for Settling Oil Overcharge Cases with Long term Payment Provisions

Download or read book Department of Energy Needs to Develop Better Guidance for Settling Oil Overcharge Cases with Long term Payment Provisions written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marry Him

Download or read book Marry Him written by Lori Gottlieb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships, and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right, from the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet. He’ll come along someday, right? But what if he doesn’t? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of You—but you passed him by? Nearing forty and still single, journalist Lori Gottlieb started to wonder: What makes for lasting romantic fulfillment, and are we looking for those qualities when we’re dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that don’t matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do? In Marry Him, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemma—how to reconcile the desire for a happy marriage with a list of must-haves and deal-breakers so long and complicated that many great guys get misguidedly eliminated. On a quest to find the answer, Gottlieb sets out on her own journey in search of love, discovering wisdom and surprising insights from sociologists and neurobiologists, marital researchers and behavioral economists—as well as single and married men and women of all generations.

Book Settling the Boom

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  • Author : Mary E. Thomas
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN : 1452968411
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Settling the Boom written by Mary E. Thomas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. This collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the “Bakken Boom.” While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead, Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil play resolve through normative narratives and material and affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism’s violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space. Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken. Contributors: Morgan Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U; Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.

Book Settling Disputes

Download or read book Settling Disputes written by Linda Singer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the past few years, innovative methods have been developed not only to settle disputes out of court but also to supplement or replace the means by which legislatures, businesses, communities, therapists, and schools handle conflicts that once could be resolved only by litigation or force. Settling Disputes serves as an essential guide to the new settlement alternatives. This updated edition, in response to the rapid changes of the past five years, includes substantial new material that describes recent transformations in the way that courts and public agencies respond to disputes. The book discusses alternative dispute resolution from the viewpoints of potential participants and offers advice to those who are involved in disputes to help them analyze their situations and goals. Finally, it provides suggestions for professionals involved in dispute resolution and for those whose jobs in law, business, or government are affected by the new options for settling disputes.The dispute resolution movement continues to offer the most hopeful, powerful alternative to the business and personal costs of litigation or, worse, of violence. It has tremendous implications for the professional lives of Americans, for their private lives?as parents, spouses, neighbors, and consumers?and for their role as citizens.The first edition of Settling Disputes was awarded the 1990 Center for Public Resources Book Prize.

Book The Pivot of Power

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  • Author : Paul Walter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 9781525270994
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book The Pivot of Power written by Paul Walter and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The prime ministership remains the main prize in Australian politics, but it is a precarious one. Leadership turnover in recent years has seen more prime ministers rise and fall than at any time since the decade after federation. What explains this volatility? The Pivot of Power is the second volume in a unique blend of collective biography and institutional history that shows the skills, limitations and passions of incumbents are only part of the story. The ways in which prime ministers thrive and fail are influenced by the resources at their command, the evolving nature of the parties they lead, the daunting public expectations they face under a relentless media gaze, and the challenges that history throws at them. Recent changes in these areas have had a destabilising effect and made the role of prime minister more onerous than ever. After decades of strong national leadership, the office has rarely seemed quite so confounding as it does for its contemporary holders. The Pivot of Power explains how this has come about. And its rich account of prime-ministerial fortune since the mid-twentieth century yields historical lessons for overcoming the current malaise."

Book Report

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  • Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 722 pages

Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Settling the Account

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  • Author : Philip Staal
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2015-01-09
  • ISBN : 1491751657
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Settling the Account written by Philip Staal and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1942 in Amsterdam when Isaac and Anna Staal began noticing their Jewish neighbors disappearing. Some were taken away by Dutch police. Some vanished in the middle of the night. As the Nazis embarked on a manhunt for Dutch Jews, Isaac and Anna made the agonizing decision to entrust their children to strangers and seek another hiding place for themselves. On May 21, 1943, the time had come. Dazed with sleep, Philip and his brother were given a last hug by their parents and put in the arms of an aunt who went out the door softly, got on her bicycle with the two tiny tots, and disappeared in the silent night. Sixty years later, Philip was commissioned to work for the restoration of rights in the Netherlands. When looking through archives and records, he discovered the well-kept secret of the war orphans guardians organization. In his compelling story that weaves between past and present, Staal not only shares a heartbreaking narrative of his childhood as a toddler separated from his parents during World War II and forced to live in orphanages after years of hiding but also how he eventually made it his personal mission to reimburse assets and restore rights lost by Dutch victims of persecution, and search for the legacies of war orphans parents, including his own. Settling the Account shares poignant personal narrative, historical facts, and one mans determined pursuit to bring justice to Dutch-Jewish war orphans, and their murdered parents and resolve the mystery of his past.

Book Scientific Canadian Mechanics  Magazine and Patent Office Record

Download or read book Scientific Canadian Mechanics Magazine and Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Un Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Download or read book Un Settling Middle Eastern Refugees written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes.

Book A Settling of Accounts

Download or read book A Settling of Accounts written by Diego de Vargas and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth and final volume of the journals of don Diego de Vargas.

Book The Board of Trade Labour Gazette

Download or read book The Board of Trade Labour Gazette written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scenturion Spy  Book Two   Settling in Moscow

Download or read book The Scenturion Spy Book Two Settling in Moscow written by David M. Goldenberg and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS SECOND book of The Scenturion Spy series, Dr. Milt Davidson has been recruited from the Empire State University (ESU) in New York, where he is an academic pathologist, to spy for the CIA. Since the Russians are developing bioweaponry based on odors that activate receptors in the nose and affect the brain, Milt – who completed graduate studies for a Ph.D.-degree on the sense of smell (olfaction) while in medical school – developed a biotechnology company (Pharmascent Sciences, Inc.) for new neurological therapies administered via smell. This became his cover to spy on Russia’s military’s research on olfaction after taking a sabbatical leave from ESU to work for the CIA. Milt - 43-year-old, handsome, smart, single, and unexpectedly suave for a scientist - gets involved with a French/Israeli spy, Marie Chalfont, as well as Dr. Natasha Petrushkin, a deputy science minister in the Russian parliament. Both help him settle in Moscow, seduce him, and are suspected of being double-agents. The book begins with Milt secretly escaping to St. Martin, where Marie is hiding from the Hezbollah, having assassinated one of their leaders. In Moscow, Milt spies on the Russian olfactory bioweaponry research program through both scientific pretexts and some seduction tactics of his own. Will Milt uncover major secrets of the Russian bioweaponry program? Or will his cover be blown, and American security threatened? Readers will find out soon enough in this thrilling page-turner.