Results for 'dan brooks'
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Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation
How the partnership between Ford and the UAW, forged through more than fifty pivotal events, transformed their capacity to combine good jobs with high performance. In 2009, the Ford Motor Company was the only one of the Big Three automakers not to take the federal bailout package. How did Ford remain standing when its competitors were brought to their knees? It was a gutsy decision, but it didn't happen in isolation. The United Auto Workers joined with Ford to make this possible--not only in 2009, but in a series of more than fifty pivotal events during three decades that add up to a transformation that simultaneously values work and delivers results. The pivotal events--some planned and some unplanned; some at the facility level and some at the enterprise level -were not all successful. All had the potential, however, to further the transformation, and all provide insight into how large-scale system change really happens. The authors--each with years of experience with Ford, the UAW, and the industry--provide an unprecedented inside look at how core operating assumptions are shifted and at the emergence of integrated operating systems for quality, safety, and other aspects of the enterprise. It is a transformation built on a foundation of dignity and mutual respect, guided by a vision of combining good jobs with high performance.
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My Spoken Word Wife
For all poetas, guerreras, cholas, curanderas, maestras, baby mamas, mamacitas, reinas, wilderness exploradoras, wild survivalist women, in the multiverse and interdimensional locotas! My Spoken Word Wife: Playing for Keeps is a gift for all of them, including the barrio they are from. The collection weaves a tapestry of tales from the rappera trying to make it big, to the mother struggling to make ends meet. This book is also a socio-economic blueprint to teach social justice and class struggles for young vatos, struggling to find their place and voice, for the real machos who have stood by their chavas and empowered these mumeres to be true to themselves.Enter the magical world of rhythm and verse crafted by Misael Juarez and go on a journey like no other."The streets are mean, but the gentle heart of a poet conquers the rage and puts it on the page. Beat by beat, the poetry unfolds and reveals visions from a shaman's heart. The Sacred Poet is back, and he's got your back. The Ancestors speak truth and sing through Juarez's words and declarations of freedom and liberation. "-Josefina López Author of Real Women Have Curves & Artistic Director of Casa 0101 Theater
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Sojourns
Sojourns is a superb poetry collection by John Drudge, one of Canada's greatest living poets.These enchanting, multi-layered poems capture the excitement and cultural buzz of Paris Street life and every other place, infusing them with the poet's own personal journey of sage reflection. His scintillating prose seduces the reader into each memorable Sojourn of discovery as a kindred spirit. Drudge's poetry has an enduring depth of observational perception and inventive poetic language making Sojourns asumptuous feast of poetry.-Strider Marcus Jones - Poet/Editor of Lothlorien Poetry JournalJohn Drudge's verses tap into that timeless desire to see the world. At the same time, Drudge has readers reflect on what it means to be human. His verse unfolds these settings rich with descriptions and beauty. Drudge invites you on a journey, not just to see through his eyes, but for readers to explore their inner acres. How will you answer?Praise for SojournsAs the title implies, this collection of poems is about the journeys we undertake, both internal and external. John Drudge invites us to join him as he rambles around the globe. In the first half, he often travels with a beloved partner, and we become privy to their intimate moments. It was truly refreshing to read simple, unironic poems about love, beauty, and a healthy relationship. For a time, these poems take us on the perfect getaway, days and nights filled with romance, food, wine, culture, and breathtaking scenery. Through Drudge's eyes, we experience the special freedom that travel affords-not just being relieved of our usual burdens and routines, but the liberation that comes from being anonymous, which allows us to be more wholly ourselves. (And to get drunk before noon.) These poems are both introspective and expansive, wistful, imminently accessible, achingly human. Most of them are quite short, but they pack entire days of sightseeing into their brief lines. Then, around the midway point, the tone shifts. In Havana, the sight of old bullet holes in a wall reminds us that conflict is an ever-present reality. We see the ruins of Pompeii, and suddenly, anonymity takes on a new meeting-alone in a foreign city, we find ourselves alienated. At some point, we must confront the multitudes of people who've trodden these same paths before us-ordinary people with ordinary lives, just like us. Eventually, everyone achieves anonymity. Eventually, everyone is lost to time. Gently, Drudge has us face these unpleasant truths, before leading us back into friendlier territory. The final entries convey a sense of winding down as the poet brings us home-not just the physical place, but to the people we love, and above all, to ourselves.-Laura Scharhag, Moonlight and Monsters
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Wild Weddings
"In the past 20 years I have married many nice couples. This book is not about them. It's about all the bizarre, weird, off the wall people and their wild ceremonies."In these hilarious pages, Justice of the Peace Dan Brookshire relates nuptial tales of every stripe, held at posh private estates in Connecticut and New York, in crowded rooms, on Manhattan rooftops, from forest glades to wind blown beaches, in brilliant sun and under stormy skies. He's officiated for them all. Get ready for the ride of your life, for better or for worse.If you've ever been married, or if you're planning to wed, this book is for you. Don't go to a wedding without reading it, and definitely don't get married without first consulting this witty insider's look at what to do, what not to do, and all the crazy things that can make weddings go wild!
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The Extraordinary Ordinary You
Today, most of us create our realities unconsciously from the programs embedded into us by our ancestors or the world around us. Our lives are the result of negative thought forms, limiting belief structures, and the untrue story that we are just flawed, unworthy humans, not the divine incarnate. The Extraordinary Ordinary You speaks the truth about who you are and what you are beyond the constructs of fear, anxiety, doubt, depression, judgment, guilt and shame. Most importantly, this book shows you how to let go of what you are not and be that which you are beyond the constructs.
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The Black Athlete in West Virginia
This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together. West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament, which flourished for 33 years, and both Bluefield State and West Virginia State won athletic championships in the prestigious Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Black schools were gradually closed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the desegregation of schools in West Virginia was an important step toward equality. For black athletes and their communities, the path to inclusion came with many costs.
€ 48,60