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This book discusses management decision-making under accident conditions as a vehicle to confirm the importance of clear decision-making guided by a systems approach on how an organization functions related to the role of managers, operators, and the operation of the plant. The book shows how to effectively assess the reliability of an organization particularly those organizations responsible for critical infrastructure. The authors have used Stafford Beer s cybernetic model as a basis to model the behavior and reliability of such organizations. A series of case studies are used to draw...

Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, his biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era. This selection of the best and most representative letters--drawn from the 3000 page German edition--gives readers an intimate view of this remarkable man, from his troubled family life in Germany to his emergence as one of the leading lights of Israel...

What would you do if you lost all reason to live?

Kenneth Khu is an American soldier at the edge of despair, ready to take his own life. He was one of the five servicemen assigned to escort and detain a suspected terrorist in an underground bunker on Canadian soil. As the interrogation began to escalate in hostility, catastrophic world events isolated the men from society. Confined within the cold cement walls, Khu chronicles his efforts to maintain his duty amidst increasing tension and unearth the secrets that lie buried beneath the surface.

In his first novel, author David...

The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens pounded by Allied bombing but maintaining their gallows humor; the endless procession of refugees; the 5,000 Jews who foiled the Nazi's rabid attempt to "purify" the capital; people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave their lives in heroic anti-Nazi resistance while film stars and the well-connected lived in precarious luxury; the Third Reich's leaders...