Dying on the Job

Dying on the Job

Murder and Mayhem in the American Workplace

Ronald D. Brown

Dying on the Job looks at the variety of reasons people take the lives of coworkers or themselves and offers explanations for their behavior. Some are pathological; others are simply stretched to limits they can't sustain. The author offers real stories throughout and ends with a consideration of trends, responses, and prevention strategies.

Enthalpy Calculated from Pressure and Flow-rate Measurements in High-temperature Subsonic Streams

Ronald D. Brown, Bruce A. Fowler

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Evaluation of a Low-density Polyimide Foam in a Dynamic High-temperature Environment

Claud M. Pittman, Ronald D. Brown

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A 6-inch Subsonic High-temperature Arc Tunnel for Structures and Material Tests

Ronald D. Brown

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A Comparison of the Theoretical and Experimental Stagnation-point Heat Transfer in an Arc-heated Subsonic Stream

Ronald D. Brown

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Charts for Approximate Thermodynamic Properties of Nitrogen-oxygen Mixtures

Bruce A. Fowler, Ronald D. Brown, Brown, Ronald D.

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The Wages of Whiteness

Race and the Making of the American Working Class

David R. Roediger

THE WAGES OF WHITENESS provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an Afterword to this second edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself--then surveys criticism of his work. He accepts the views of some critics but challenges others.

Wages of Whiteness & Racist Symbolic Capital

Wulf D. Hund, Jeremy Krikler, David R. Roediger

This book's contents include: Accounting for the Wages of Whiteness: U.S Marxism and the Critical History of Race * Racist Symbolic Capital: A Bourdieuian Approach to the Analysis of Racism * Negative Societalisation: Racism and the Constitution of Race * A Paroxysm of Whiteness: White Labor, White Nation and White Sugar in Australia * Re-thinking Race and Class in South Africa: Some Ways Forward * A White Man's Country? The Chinese Labor Controversy in the Transvaal * Racializing Transnationalism: The Ford Motor Company and White Supremacy from Detroit to South Africa (Series: Racism Analysis - Series B: Yearbooks - Vol. 1)

Reel Inequality

Hollywood Actors and Racism

Nancy Wang Yuen

When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of color, despite exhibiting talent and bankability, continue to lag behind white actors in presence and prominence? Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry. The book charts how white male gatekeepers dominate Hollywood, breeding a culture of ethnocentric storytelling and casting. Nancy Wang Yuen interviewed nearly a hundred working actors and drew on published interviews with celebrities, such as Viola Davis, Chris Rock, Gina Rodriguez, Oscar Isaac, Lucy Liu, and Ken Jeong, to explore how racial stereotypes categorize and constrain actors. Their stories reveal the day-to-day racism actors of color experience in talent agents’ offices, at auditions, and on sets. Yuen also exposes sexist hiring and programming practices, highlighting the structural inequalities that actors of color, particularly women, continue to face in Hollywood. This book not only conveys the harsh realities of racial inequality in Hollywood, but also provides vital insights from actors who have succeeded on their own terms, whether by sidestepping the system or subverting it from within. Considering how their struggles impact real-world attitudes about race and diversity, Reel Inequality follows actors of color as they suffer, strive, and thrive in Hollywood.

The Asshole Survival Guide

How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

Robert I. Sutton

“This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis—what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. “Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource.”—Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before “At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read.”—Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

The Production of Difference

Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch

Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how "modern management" was made at the margins. Even in "scientific" management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy.

Only One Place of Redress

African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

David E. Bernstein

Focuses on the role facially-neutral labor regulations played in institutionalizing discrimination against African Americans in the period between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.

Political Assassinations in America

Jeremy Kuzmarov

As Black revolutionary H. Rap Brown famously declared during the 1967 racial riots in Detroit, “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” While violence is evident in its endless wars waged around the globe and in gun violence and mass shootings in American cities, the extent of its eruption into domestic politics remains largely unacknowledged. Ten American presidents have been the targets or apparent targets of assassins, as have five presidential candidates. Eight governors, seven U.S. Senators, nine U.S. House members, eleven mayors, a U.S. Treasury Secretary and seventeen state legislators have also been victims of political violence. So have the country’s first Secretary of Defense, a White House Counsel and a Secretary of Commerce, a CIA biochemist, numerous journalists and witnesses to state crimes, and even Beatles singer, John Lennon. Then there’s Epstein and Charlie Kirk. Successful, professional, credentialed historians continue to attribute known politically-related assassinations in this country to deranged loners—or “lonely oddballs with a firearm fixation.” Nothing else to see here, folks. Cases closed. Political Assassinations in America aims to debunk this ahistorical record. It shows that the struggle to gain or preserve political power in America has resulted in conspiracies that led to targeted assassinations—just like in other countries—which in turn have resulted in major policy shifts that were usually negative. A pattern of intelligence agency engagement can be discerned in many of the assassinations while a dense network of interconnected players across a range of high-profile crimes emerges, exposing the dark, thorough and very intricate complexity of American secret operations. This book provides a rich trove for sleuths tracking down FBI/CIA conspiracies. Its notes effectively provide an archive of the findings of a wide spectrum of investigative sources who, over the years have been probing the official narratives’ holes, with their findings appearing in books, newspaper articles, and videos, yet remaining unacknowledged by an insouciant public and complicit officialdom. America will not look the same to you after reading this book. Think of it as a companion piece to the Epstein files.

Birth of the American Horror Film

Gary D. Rhodes

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Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History

[2 volumes]

Christopher R. Fee, Jeffrey B. Webb

This up-to-date introduction to the complex world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories provides insight into why millions of people are so ready to believe the worst about our political, legal, religious, and financial institutions. Unsupported theories provide simple explanations for catastrophes that are otherwise difficult to understand, from the U.S. Civil War to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Ideas about shadowy networks that operate behind a cloak of secrecy, including real organizations like the CIA and the Mafia and imagined ones like the Illuminati, additionally provide a way for people to criticize prevailing political and economic arrangements, while for society's disadvantaged and forgotten groups, conspiracy theories make their suffering and alienation comprehensible and provide a focal point for their economic or political frustrations. These volumes detail the highly controversial and influential phenomena of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in American society. Through interpretive essays and factual accounts of various people, organizations, and ideas, the reader will gain a much greater appreciation for a set of beliefs about political scheming, covert intelligence gathering, and criminal rings that has held its grip on the minds of millions of American citizens and encouraged them to believe that the conspiracies may run deeper, and with a global reach.

The American Decisions

Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of Several States : from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869

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The Last Dance

Encountering Death and Dying

Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland

New edition of a basic text surveying attitudes, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, socialization, health care systems, living with life-threatening illness, funerals and body disposition, the experience of loss, death in children's lives, medical ethics, the law, suicide, and concepts of i

Decennial Edition of the American Digest

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