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Author: Tom Oglesby Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1645599957 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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The Taylors are moving from Houston to Rio de Janeiro where Mark will head Titan Global Energy's new Brazil affiliate. The high-profile job is an opportunity to reboot his plateaued, twenty-year career with the company. His alluring wife, Sara, is beginning a new phase of life as an empty nester. Both are looking forward to sharing the adventure of a foreign assignment with Norm and Lisa Nielsen, best friends from their early years with Titan and who already live in Rio. The day they arrive, Mark visits the Nielsen home expecting a heartfelt reunion. Instead, he finds their friends brutally murdered. The Taylors are devastated and embark on a perilous journey to discover the elusive motive for the crime. They will need the help of their new friends, the U.S. Consul General in Rio and an FBI Special Agent if they are to survive the effort. As Mark and Sara deal with the risks they face, the reader will vicariously experience living in the beautiful but dangerous city of Rio de Janeiro.
Author: Tom Oglesby Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1645599957 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
The Taylors are moving from Houston to Rio de Janeiro where Mark will head Titan Global Energy's new Brazil affiliate. The high-profile job is an opportunity to reboot his plateaued, twenty-year career with the company. His alluring wife, Sara, is beginning a new phase of life as an empty nester. Both are looking forward to sharing the adventure of a foreign assignment with Norm and Lisa Nielsen, best friends from their early years with Titan and who already live in Rio. The day they arrive, Mark visits the Nielsen home expecting a heartfelt reunion. Instead, he finds their friends brutally murdered. The Taylors are devastated and embark on a perilous journey to discover the elusive motive for the crime. They will need the help of their new friends, the U.S. Consul General in Rio and an FBI Special Agent if they are to survive the effort. As Mark and Sara deal with the risks they face, the reader will vicariously experience living in the beautiful but dangerous city of Rio de Janeiro.
Author: Barry Schwartz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061748994 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 308
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Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Author: William M. Bowen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113557815X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today.
Author: Dan S. Felsenthal Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030126277 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 92
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This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid five important paradoxes in a restricted domain, viz., when a Condorcet winner exists and is elected in the initial profile. Together with the two companion volumes by the same authors, published by Springer in 2017 and 2018, this book aims at giving a comprehensive overview of the most important advantages and disadvantages of voting procedures thereby assisting decision makers in the choice of a voting procedure that would best suit their purposes.
Author: Elizabeth Ellcessor Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479853437 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 261
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How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessible—useable—for them. Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility—the processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needs—and argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater participation in all forms of mediated culture. Drawing on disability and cultural studies, Elizabeth Ellcessor uses an interrogatory framework based around issues of regulation, use, content, form, and experience to examine contemporary digital media. Through interviews with policy makers and accessibility professionals, popular culture and archival materials, and an ethnographic study of internet use by people with disabilities, Ellcessor reveals the assumptions that undergird contemporary technologies and participatory cultures. Restricted Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that technology only facilitates the participation of those who are already privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities to push us to rethink digital media accessibility.
Author: Raymond A. Belliotti Publisher: ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 336
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Rules about sexuality, written and unwritten, have existed in every culture as have disagreements over what is and isn't acceptable. Must morally permissible sex have only one function? Must it be heterosexual? Must it occur within the confines of the institution of marriage? Must it be accompanied by requisite emotions such as love and intimacy?
Author: Dorceta Taylor Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479861626 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 356
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Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the ‘paths of least resistance,’ there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience. Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. Renowned environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed. Drawing on an array of historical and contemporary case studies from across the country, Taylor explores controversies over racially-motivated decisions in zoning laws, eminent domain, government regulation (or lack thereof), and urban renewal. She provides a comprehensive overview of the debate over whether or not there is a link between environmental transgressions and discrimination, drawing a clear picture of the state of the environmental justice field today and where it is going. In doing so, she introduces new concepts and theories for understanding environmental racism that will be essential for environmental justice scholars. A fascinating landmark study, Toxic Communities greatly contributes to the study of race, the environment, and space in the contemporary United States.
Author: Tom Oglesby
Author: Tom Oglesby
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