Author: ASME International History and Heritage
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: technology, history, engineering, mechanical, landmarks
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1557530947
ISBN-13: 9781557530943

The book describes, and where possible illustrates, historic mechanical engineering landmarks, representing the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years-from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). Some of them are recognizable to us all, such as Xerography, Sikorsky’s helicopter, and Disneyland’s monorail. Others work behind the scenes or have been superseded, such as the Owens "AR" bottle machine and the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower. The landmarks are grouped into such categories as me

Authors:Richard Feinberg, Ko De Ruyter,
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: ichor, business, series, work, ideas, center, management, cases
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-12-06
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1557533423
ISBN-13: 9781557533425

Written by authorities on the call center industry, Cases in Call Center Management brings to light the strategic importance of call centers in today’s business world. While large corporations have explicit call centers, small organizations, even if they do not designate a part of the organization as a call center, due to changing attitudes toward customer service, in practice have call centers. As interactions with customers move away from person-to-person to other interactive media options, the call center is emerging from the shadows to become a vital force for corporate marketing a

Author: Sytse
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9051709749
ISBN-13: 9789051709742

From our side is a collaborative effort of younger scholars in southern Africa and the Netherlands who are interested in the relationship between development and ethics, from a Christian point of view. The 17 chapters that make up the book have been produced through a unique set of partnerships, in which the authors have intentionally worked with practitioners who are working in the development arena. The essays were also shared in a number of settings with the authors, so that they have also benefited from this creative partnership process, and these partnerships have embraced people in both

Author: Lewins Dayton Burdick
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: manual, ceremonies, covenants, symbols, pertaining, beliefs, survey, facts, legends, hand
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 155753294X
ISBN-13: 9781557532947

The impression is not uncommon among readers that, however interesting they may be, the legendary stories which we no longer accept as true literally, and which often we know to be absurd and impossible, are entirely distinct from what we designate as history. This view of them is not at all satisfactory to the careful student. These tales as they have come down to us often have been rewritten and readapted to the beliefs and conditions of the various peoples of whose life and literature they have formed a part. We reject them as chronicles of actual events, but accept them as of great histori

Authors:Arnold Arluke, Celeste Killeen,
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: new, directions, human, bond, dogs, erickson, hoarding, case, barbara, inside
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1557535116
ISBN-13: 9781557535115

Inside Animal Hoarding profiles one of the largest and most intriguing cases of animal hoarding in recent history. Celeste Killeen’s investigation pries open the door to Barbara Erickson’s hidden and closely guarded life, offering an in-depth view of animal hoarding. The chaos and torment discovered by local officials who’d responded to a ramshackle farmhouse in eastern Oregon was described as otherworldly, unbelievable. But, it was only the sad ending to a lifelong story of betrayal, abuse and abandonment. This in-depth look at how animal hoarding developed in one woman̵

Authors:Alexander C.Y. Huang, Charles S. Ross,
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: cyberspace, asia, hollywood, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1557535299
ISBN-13: 9781557535290

Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a century of Asian readings of plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth are now conjoining in cyberspace, making a world of difference to how we experience Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on fidelity. The result is a new creativity that finds expression in different cul

Author: Peter Carravetta
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: interpretation, postmodernity, allegory, rhetorics, diaphora, prefaces
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1991-02-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1557530041
ISBN-13: 9781557530042

The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modem and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta’s notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or diffe