Winning the War on Waste: Changing the Way We Work

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Winning the War on Waste: Changing the Way We Work
William E. Conway
Manufacturer: Conway Quality
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Winning the recycling war: 4 million gallons reclaimed and counting at NC axle plant.(coolant management): An article from: Tooling & Production

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000BDA2N6
Release Date: 2005-09-12

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This digital document is an article from Tooling & Production, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1534 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Winning the recycling war: 4 million gallons reclaimed and counting at NC axle plant.(coolant management)
Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71 Issue: 9 Page: 22(3)

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Winning the War on Waste Using No Blame Management

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Winning the War on Waste Using No Blame Management
Leonard Bertrain
Manufacturer: CEO University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book
ASIN: B000IQGJ1K

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Sabanes-Oxley is a recent development in US law that will affect both US and non-US firms seeking to comply with corporate governance initiatives, particularly to the financial services industry because the firms act on behalf of many thousands of institutional shareholders. McGill and Sheppey illustrate the broader context requiring investors and custodians to meet the regulatory needs of specific jurisdiction and how best to structure overall business models to meet multi-layer legal and operational framework.

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The Cooperative Extension Service: A National Assessment
Paul D. Warner , and James A. Christenson
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0865317526

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For the past 48 years, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Directory has served as the preeminent guide to the conservation community for a broad range of audiences. Island Press is proud to be a partner with the National Wildlife Federation to produce and distribute this invaluable annual reference.

The 2003 edition will be the most comprehensive listing yet published, with information on nearly 4,000 government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and colleges and universities, as well as more than 18,000 officials concerned with environmental conservation, education, and natural resource use and management. Included are listings of:

U.S. Congress members, including committees and subcommittees
state, provincial, and federal agencies in the U.S. and Canada
national and international governmental organizations
U.S., Canadian, and international non-governmental organizations
colleges and universities with conservation programs
parks, refuges, and other protected areas
conservation information resources

Each entry contains detailed contact information including names, addresses, and telephone and fax numbers; also included are selected e-mail and internet addresses, descriptions of program areas, senior staff by name and responsibility, principal publications, and more. Entries are categorized by organization type and state or country, and indexed alphabetically and by subject, on subjects ranging from acid rain to zoology. Each person listed in the directory is also indexed alphabetically.

For conservation groups, environmental activists, students and faculty, outdoor writers and science editors, natural resources agencies, wildlife organizations, scientists and researchers, job seekers, and anyone involved with the field of environmental conservation, the Conservation Directory 2003 is an essential resource.

The Conservation Directory 2002 is currently available.

To add your environmental group or to search the Conservation Directory online, visit the National Wildlife Federation website.

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2001 Conservation Directory.......2004-08-29

This volume covers every government agency covering environmental concerns. Federally Protected Areas are described
together with the names and addresses of the supervisory governmental agencies. For instance, the federal agency for
Virginia and Eastern States is located at 7450 Boston Blvd.
Springfield VA 2253 703-440-1713.

The National Estuarine Research Reserves and National Forests
are located at the Bard College Field Station at 914-758-7033

This work would be valuable to a wide constituency of government planners and professionals in academe.

Great Resource.......2000-05-10

This is a must for conservation education professionals. The numerous indexes and summary descriptions of organizations are wonderful.

Life Sciences Organizations and Agencies Directory

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Life Sciences Organizations and Agencies Directory
Brigitte T. Darnay
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Aerosol and clouds play important roles in determining the earth's climate, in ways that we are only beginning to comprehend. In conjunction with molecular scattering from gases, aerosol and clouds determine in part what fraction of solar radiation reaches the earth's surface, and what fraction of the longwave radiation from the earth escapes to space. This book provides an overview of the latest research on atmospheric aerosol and clouds and their effects on global climate. Subjects reviewed include the direct and indirect effects of aerosol on climate, the radiative properties of clouds and their effects on the Earth's radiation balance, the incorporation of cloud effects in numerical weather prediction models, and stratospheric aerosol and clouds.

Volcanism-climate interactions (SuDoc NAS 1.55:10062)

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Volcanism-climate interactions (SuDoc NAS 1.55:10062)
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Introduction to Gauge Field Theory provides comprehensive coverage of modern relativistic quantum field theory, emphasizing the details of actual calculations rather than the phenomenology of the applications. Forming a foundation in the subject, the book assumes knowledge of relativistic quantum mechanics, but not of quantum field theory. The book is ideal for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and researchers in the field of particle physics.

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Excellent, very concise text.......1998-07-01

This book is a very nice introduction if you already have some notions of QFT. It can happily supplement Lowell Brown's book for instance. Its main characteristics is conciseness, it goes straight to the point, in the minimum expenditure of time and effort, without sacrifying mathematical correctness. Unfortunately some important topics are almost absent from the book, such as Ward identities, or infrared divergences. But the book remains self-contained despite this.

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The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Manufacturer: Viking
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000F4H5PE

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Laughing in the face of impermanence

Sylvia Townsend Warner's masterpiece

The Corner That Held Them (Virago Modern Classics)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this marvelous imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.

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Laughing in the face of impermanence.......2004-01-05

There is everything to love about this novel, and nothing to dislike: hilarity, tenderness, complexity of characterization, shocks, unexpected twists, occasional heartbreak, and the inexhaustible panoply of human kind. The core "message"-although this is much more than a message novel-is impermanence. By looking at one convent over several generations, we are reminded of the certainty that we will all die and eventually be forgotten, which is why the author exhorts us to love as much as we can, before it's over. "Here I am, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike." Aren't we all, religious or not! "I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead." So what to do? Laugh! Eat! Flirt with the priest (who, by the way, is an impostor). This is not just a chick-novel. Its pages are full of men who drift in and out of the convent and its surrounds and are as fascinating--and as unpredictable--as the women. What do to? Fall into the stream on a summer day and float. Or scheme and connive. Note the expressive, always surprising language. "Though in the main she was zealously self-deceiving, she had filaments of shrewdness floating from her, and it was with one of these that she sensed that other people were willing enough to be scandalized, and that there was plenty to scandalize them." Like another splendid novel, SHIP OF FOOLS, this one takes the full range of human possibility, compresses it in time and space, and holds it up for our delight. Coincidentally, it restores a sense of perspective to those of us who, fixed in our careers like candles on a spike, imagine the world will not turn without our effort. Very humbling, and sparkling with humor.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's masterpiece.......2001-08-28

Townsend Warner started this novel with the intention of producing a Marxist-Leninist account of how a community of women made their living in the medieval period. That probably sounds deadly dull, but the book itself is anything but: indeed, it remains one of the most page-turning novels I've read in years. Detailing the lives of a convent through eighty years in the Middle Ages, THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM defies any simple explanation of its plot: nuns come and they leave; mothers superior replace their predecessors and then make new plans for the community (which often come to fruition and often don't); people affiliated with the community are born and then later die. Yet despite its apparent random nature, this remains one of the most engrossing books I can imagine: from its beginnings in disastrous marital infidelity to its unforgettable conclusion of desperate betrayal, it has all the fascination of real lived experience.

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If you even wanted to know...

classic history of ideas

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Donald Keene
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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If you even wanted to know..........2006-03-02

If you even wanted to know how the Japanese saw themselves as a county and as a people in relation to the Europeans and other citizens of the world during the height of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, this is the book to pick up and read. Donald Keene offers a respectful, insightful, and tenored work that explores in detail the relationship that the Japan of the time period had with the Dutch traders and other foreigners who brought with them new and exciting inventions and ideas. The proselytizing Portuguese pushed their rugged brand of Catholism, eventually getting them kicked out. The empire making Russians had territory just North of Japan's main island. Though written in the mid 1960's Keene stirs clear from putting the Japanese and the Europeans on pedestals of influential superiority, which gives this book it's enduring qualities. As I read it. I got the sense that all of the players (countries) involved were acting and reacting to the world in which they lived.

Among some of the major historical figures, Honda Toshiaki, one of the original rangaku (Dutch culture in Japan) scholars, along with Otsuki Gentaku, Shiba Kokan, Sugita Genpaku, and others are mentioned in Keene's informative book as big men in Japan's pivotal age.

classic history of ideas.......2002-04-16

This is an expansion and revision of a book from early (1954) in the career of the great Columbia Japanologist Donald Keene. It surveys "the growth and uses of Western learning: in late-18th and early 19th-century Japan. The primary figure Keene writes about is Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821). 74 of the books 246 pages are a translation of parts of Honda's Secret Plan for Managing the Country and Tales of the West.

Keene provides a fascinating account of Japanese views of what Europe might be like based on emerging understanding of European knowledge and technology. Before American gunships forced Japan open and the Meiji "restoration" embarked on a program of rapid industrialization (and militarization), there was a base of thought on trying to adapt what seemed useful from the west in ways compatible with Japanese conceptions of the essence of Japaneseness. Keene's classic book provides valuable background to understanding the rapid "modernization" and militarism of the late-19th-century (with successful wars with first China, then with Russia just before and just after the turn of the 20th century).

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The Japanese Discovery of Europe 1720-1830
P.B. Stanford
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The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830. Revised Ed.
Donald Keene
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press 1969.
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Binding: Paperback
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Build kids' science process skills through enjoyable hands-on activities with motivating holiday themes! This unique approach to teaching science makes complex concepts meaningful while encouraging appreciation for cultural diversity and celebrations from around the world. Classroom-tested, and developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, Science Projects for Holidays Throughout the Year keeps students interested and actively involved through the use of inexpensive toys, food, and everyday household objects. Each motivating lesson, perfect for home or school use, includes cross-curricular extensions, safety tips, corollaries to the NSTA standards, and suggested sources for further study.

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A great resource for elementary teachers.......2001-07-25

I really like this book. I especially like the format: a holiday with corresponding background information, science experiment, and literature recommendation. My third graders loved the Chinese New Year activities--we had fun and learned.

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