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Chapter 1 Of Civilization: Origin and Development of the Term and the Idea -- chapter 2 Secularization and the Universalizing Process -- chapter 3 Christianitas /Civilization -- chapter 4 New Meanings for the Renaissance and the Reformation -- chapter 5 Multiculturalism Reconsidered -- chapter 6 Conclusion: On the Meaning of America.

Front Cover -- Validating Preventive Food Safety and Quality Controls -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- 1 Background: understanding common and assignable causes, laws, and costs -- Preventive Thinking -- Preventive Actions Versus Corrective Actions: Requirements for New Thinking -- Critical Concepts Needed for Effective Preventive Controls: The Difference Between Common or System and Assignable Causes -- Validation -- Verification is not validation -- Impact of the Organizational Structure on Assignable and Common Causes -- Costs Associated With Food Safety and Quality -- International Laws -- Canada -- European Union -- Mexico -- China -- The Need for Harmonization Between Business and Government -- International Standards Organization -- Review of the U.S. FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Control Rules -- Identifying Hazards Relevant to a Food Operation -- Additional Tool: FDA Issues Guidance Documents to Assist Industry -- That's Not Acceptable -- Preventive Controls Under FSMA -- Expanded FDA Enforcement Capabilities -- Extended Preventive Control Considerations: Beyond FSMA -- References -- 2 Teams and teamwork for validating preventive food safety and quality control -- Adopting an Attitude of Continuous Improvement -- Forming Basic Teams -- Team Organizations -- Team Organizations -- Team Facilitators and Team Facilitation -- Prioritizing Problems -- Team Leaders -- Team Secretary -- Team Members -- Guidance for all Team Members -- Team Reward Systems -- Functional Improvement Teams-Assignable Causes -- Specialized Teams and Common Cause Teams -- The Common Cause System Improvement Teams (Reduction of Common Causes) -- Rapid Response Teams -- A Cost Focus -- References -- 3 Environmental monitoring and sampling -- Environmental Pathogens -- Hazard Evaluation

Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- One / Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom -- Part I: Prison Placement -- Two / Have you Seen My Backyard?: Rural Ecology, Disrepute, and Prison Placement -- Three / "It's Like the City, Only Quieter": Making the Rural Ghetto -- Four / Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management -- Five / How Not in My Backyard Became Please in My Backyard: Toward a Model of Prison Placement -- Part II: Prison Impact -- Six / The Prison in My Backyard: Reconsidering Impact -- Seven / The Tarnished Jewel of the Delta: Continuity and Change in Caste, Class, and Disrepute -- Eight / Bringing Down the Big House: The Political Economy of Prison Proliferation -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological Appendix A -- Methodological Appendix B -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

"One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo, the magnitude of their research, the reach of their scholarship, the popularity of their publications, and their close identification with Indian scholarship makes their invisibility as pioneering founders of this specialized field all the more intriguing. Reclaiming this lost history, John M. Rhea looks at the cultural processes through which women were connected to Indian history and traces the genesis of their interest to the nineteenth-century push for women's rights. In the early 1830s evangelical preachers and women's rights proponents linked American Indians to white women's religious and social interests. Later, pre-professional women ethnologists would claim Indians as a special political cause. Helen Hunt Jackson's 1881 publication, A Century of Dishonor, and Alice Fletcher's 1887 report, Indian Education and Civilization, foreshadowed the emerging history profession's objective methodology and established a document-driven standard for later Indian histories. By the twentieth century, historians Emma Helen Blair, Louise Phelps Kellogg, and Annie Heloise Abel, in a bid to boost their professional status, established Indian history as a formal specialized field. However, enduring barriers continued to discourage American Indians from pursuing their own document-driven histories. Cultural and academic walls crumbled in 1919 when Cherokee scholar Rachel Caroline Eaton earned a Ph.D. in American history. Eaton and later indigenous historians Anna L. Lewis and Muriel H. Wright would each play a crucial role in shaping Angie Debo's 1940 indictment of European American settler colonialism, And Still the Waters Run. Rhea's wide-ranging approach goes beyond existing compensatory histories to illuminate the national consequences of women's century-long hegemony over American Indian scholarship. In the process, his thoughtful study also chronicles indigenous women's long and ultimately successful struggle to transform the way that historians portray American Indian peoples and their pasts"--

"This history of Texas land grants reveals details of one of the largest state land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers established themselves in the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. Mexico launched a land grant program through contractors who recruited emigrants to settle on their holdings and costs and dues"--

This book studies the idea behind the comprehensive development of total factor productivity and the index number innovations. The volume also analyses the measurement of productivity growth and the usefulness of GDP measurement as well as perennial problems in measurement of output of certain sectors and of certain processes in an economy. It contains 24 articles, dating from 1957 to 2014

The beginning -- A world at war -- The reasons and the decision -- The military forces -- Siberia's challenges -- Russian Railway Service Corps -- American Expeditionary Force -- Initial operations -- Garrison life -- Railway guard and the Twenty-Seventh Infantry -- Railway guard and the Thirty-First Infantry -- Riding the rails -- The final days -- Conclusion

"After World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. From 1945 to 1950, the atomic arsenal was poorly coordinated and funded. The Air Force and the AEC failed to coordinate efforts for a possible atomic offensive. This lack of preparedness serves as a case study in the tenuous nature of U.S. civilian-military relationships. "--

Between the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. Navy used the experience it had gained to prepare for future wars through simulated conflicts, or war games, at the Naval War College. In Playing War John M. Lillard analyzes individual war games in detail, showing how players tested new tactics and doctrines, experimented with advanced technology, and transformed their approaches through these war games, learning lessons that would prepare them to make critical decisions in the years to come. Recent histories of the interwar period explore how the U.S. navy digested the impact of World War I and prepared itself for World War Ii. However, most of these works overlook or dismiss the transformational quality of the War College war games and the central role they played in preparing the navy for war. To address that gap, Playing War details how the interwar navy projected itself into the future through simulated conflicts. Playing War recasts the reputation of the interwar War College as an agent of preparation and innovation and the war games as the instruments of that agency. -- Inside jacket flap

Food Fraud provides an overview of the current state on the topic to help readers understand which products are being impacted, how pervasive food fraud is, and what laws are in effect across the developed world. As international food trade increases, food processors, distributors, and consumers are purchasing more and more food from foreign countries that, in many cases, have inadequate oversight or control over what is coming into our supermarkets, restaurants, and refrigerators. This book is an essential quick reference that will familiarize readers with the latest issues surrounding the food industry