The Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management provides easy-to-access insights into why associated behavioral phenomena exist in specific production and service settings, illustrated through ready-to-play games and activities that allow instructors to demonstrate the phenomena in class settings along with applicable prescriptions for practice. By design the text serves a dual role as a desk/training reference to those practitioners already in the field and presents a comprehens...

This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.Arndt was regarded by his peers and successive generations as either the most significant Reformer since Luther, or an uneducated and dangerous element within the Lutheran church. Later commentat...

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow has empowered thousands of data engineers to build more successful data platforms. This new second edition has been fully revised for Airflow 3 with coverage of all the latest features of Apache Airflow, including the Taskflow API, deferrable operators, and Large Language Model integration. Filled with real-world scenarios and examples, you'll be carefully guided from Airflow novice to expert.Using real-world scenarios and examples, this ...

Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms...

Saint Augustine's story is one of struggle, loss, searching, and redemption, one that continues to speak to believers across centuries. A Year of Confession with Augustine brings that journey into daily focus through 365 devotions that weave together a Bible passage, a quotation from Augustine's Confessions, and a brief meditation by Steve Kruschel.Across the year, readers will walk alongside Augustine as he faces the consequences of sin, confron...

Spooky Children's Book - The Secret of the Old Haunted House ( E-Pub) | A Chilling Adventure by The Creepy Club Do you dare to enter...? Discover the thrilling adventure of Sam and Lotte in "The Secret of the Old Haunted House"! This spooky yet child-friendly story is perfect for young readers (ages 7-10) who love mystery, suspense, and a touch of ghostly fun. What's Included? - A complete children's book with 7 exciting chapters. - Instant download of: - E-Pub (for tablet, computer & smar...

Since the first elections of 1994, the South African constitution officially guarantees and promotes a wide range of political and civil rights and institutionalizes the separation of powers with an independent judiciary. This has made South Africa a political symbol of change, hope and democracy in Africa and around the world. However, since the introduction of free and fair electoral processes and with ANC dominating the presidency and the parliamentary seats, the political scene has bee...

This reader shows why Edward Schillebeeckx remains one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Spanning more than half a century and including several texts that appear in English for the first time, it enables students to understand how Edward Schillebeeckx's thought resonates with current debates in theology, for instance on ecology and secularization.T&T Clark Reader in Edward Schillebeeckx includes selections from both pre- and post-Conciliar ...

Lessons in resistance from the book of DanielIn an age when autocrats set the agenda, outright lies pass for truth, and human dignity is trampled underfoot, holding fast to core convictions is more important than ever. In Do Not Bow Down, Ad van Nieuwpoort—a beloved Dutch pastor and public theologian—shows how the biblical book of Daniel offers powerful lessons in resilience and resistance.As he recounts how Daniel stood up to a tyrannical regime, ...

There is a Psalm for just about everything. Defeated? It’s there. Joyful? That’s there too. Angry with God? There are a lot of Psalms for that. Some of them give us great comfort, and some of them make us uncomfortable, but in the end, all of them point us to Jesus.This is a 60-day devotional that deals with us right where we are because that is where the Psalms deal with us. You won't find a bunch of platitudes or Christian fluff. The Psalms are too gritty and honest for that. Thi...

There is a Psalm for just about everything. Defeated? It’s there. Joyful? That’s there too. Angry with God? There are a lot of Psalms for that. Some of them give us great comfort, and some of them make us uncomfortable, but in the end, all of them point us to Jesus.This is a 60-day devotional that deals with us right where we are because that is where the Psalms deal with us. You won't find a bunch of platitudes or Christian fluff. The Psalms are too gritty and honest for that. Thi...

The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. Its long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics.Bringing together experts from fields including history, political science and international relations, architecture, historical sociology, digital humanities and information studies, International Orga...