Quality Without Tears : The Art of Hassle-Free Management

Crosby

MC GRAW HILL INDIA

Moderation Vs. Total Abstinence; Or, Dr. Crosby And His Reviewers

HOWARD

Some of the great advice you'll get is: "The successful situation manager is one who learns to establish the ground rules for success before launching himself into completing the job assigned to him. If nothing else, he must assure himself that he will know when he is finished. He must also decide what persons are involved in deciding he is finished, and supply them with the means to measure his progress.""You are going to be measured anyway by some means, fair or foul. Usually the one doing the measuring has nothing specific in mind; so he does it by the seat of his pants. Careers are destroyed in this manner. It is the situation equivalent to 'Let's have lunch sometime.'"People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable . . . However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.""The Zero Defects concept is based on the fact that mistakes are caused by two things: lack of knowledge and lack of attention . . . Zero Defects is not a motivation method, it is a performance standard. And it is not just for production people; it is for everyone.""You have probably noticed that the world was not specifically designed for you.""None of us is only one thing. We are a combination of many occupations, responsibilities and desires.""Consistency wins, whether you want it to or not.""Embarrassed kittens become tigers.""Dedication is wanting your thing to happen more than they don't want it to happen."

The Art of Getting Your Own Sweet Way

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Dutton Adult

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes.\nHaving ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback.\nCombining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.

Californio Portraits (Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series) (Volume 4)

History

Americas

It has been said that John Henry Newman "stands at the threshold of the new age as a Christian Socrates, the pioneer of a new philosophy of the individual Person and Personal Life." Newman's personalism is found in the way he contrasts the "theological intellect" and the "religious imagination." Newman pleads for the latter when he famously says, in words that John F. Crosby takes as the motto of his book, "I am far from denying the real force of the arguments in proof of a God . . .but these do not warm me or enlighten me; they do not take away the winter of my desolation, or make the buds unfold and the leaves grow within me, and my moral being rejoice."
 In The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby shows the reader how Newman finds the life-giving religious knowledge that he seeks. He explores the "heart" in Newman and explains what Newman was saying when he chose as his cardinal's motto, cor ad cor loquitur (heart speaks to heart). He explains what Newman means in saying that religious truth is transmitted not by argument but by "personal influence."
 Crosby also examines Newman's personalist account of what it is to think; he explains what it is for a person to think not just by rule but by his "spontaneous living intelligence." Crosby examines the subjectivity of Newman, and shows how the modern "turn to the subject" is enacted in Newman. But these personalist aspects of Newman's mind, which connect him with many streams of contemporary thought, are not the whole of Newman; they stand in relation to something else in Newman, something that Crosby calls Newman's radically theocentric religion.
 Newman is a modern thinker, but not the modernist he is sometimes mistaken for. The inexhaustible plenitude of Newman derives from the union of apparent opposites in him: the union of his teaching on the heart with his theocentric teaching, of the subjectivity of experience with the objectivity of revealed truth.
 Crosby writes for a broad non-specialist public just as Newman did.
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 John F. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and is a Senior Fellow at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.
 PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
 "A powerful witness to the influence of Newman's character, teaching and preaching on those who experienced it. Crosby's major contribution is the way that he relates Newman's personalism to his theocentrism. No other writer has brought out this link so well. Relevant for Catholic educators as well as moral philosophy and moral theology. Specialists in Newman will find great interest in Crosby's book." --John Sullivan, Liverpool Hope University, UK

The Personalism of John Henry Newman

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholicism

The Catholic University of America Press

A dramatic and moving story, 'A Wing And A Prayer' vivdly evokes the harrowing missions the US Eight Air Force undertook in runs over North Africa, East Germany and Russia. Descriptions of the horrendous losses during a flight over Bremen, a terrifying hairbreadth escape from German anti-aircraft flak and fighter defences and of the difficult personal trauma of flying in constantly dangerous circumstances. Whether you are an historian, a flying buff or simply someone who enjoys a good story well told, this is the book for you. And it's all true.

Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force Inaction Over Europe in World War II

Military

Robson Books Ltd.

Research Methods in Health Promotion (Custom)

Crosby's complete pocket gazetteer of England and Wales

Literature & Fiction

RareBooksClub.com

Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales

Contemporary

Nabu Press

Somalis in the Neo-South

As demographics change and the southern American region grows more multicultural, clashes between mentalities and contemporary population realties increase. Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration, Politics and Race offers a balanced and insightful look at Somalis in the southern United States. Politically centered, it is a thought-provoking book that presents an essential and positive alternative to the familiar portrayal of Somalis in the United States as terrorists. It explains the U.S. resettlement process and illuminates the civic engagement and entrepreneurship of Somalis in Clarkston, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Peter Lang

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