Autobiography spanning birth to pre - teen years, the middle child of five kids in a far from perfect family enviroment . The children's father owned and operated more than a dozen well known Mexican Food restaurants, surviving and enjoying over three decades in the southeast. The years of success and popularity in the franchise took it's toll on the family . Chris' account of those years tell the disgrace and struggle that few saw. An honest, humorous and intimate search for belonging and security in a child's otherwise years of innocence .The first in a series reflecting back on the life of...

Paul Jonas leader of the "Blackout Gang" is released early from prison, only doing 10 of his 50 year sentence. Tension rises as Jonas realizes that his sister is a wild card and still pulling rank on his gang, even though he has return home. Even worse, his early release was not without a price, a sexy undercover DEA agent is sent to intercept Jonas and gets entangled into his web and finds herself in over her head having equivocal feelings. The streets of Chicago are painted red, as Blackout Gang place a stranglehold on the city and monopolizes on their territory by creating an active war...

Sociologists and health experts from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, and the U.S. discuss issues surrounding stress in the workplace, including its causes and ways in which jobs can be designed to minimize it. The book is intended for professionals and students in occupational health and safety, s

This book provides a theoretical background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress. It also reports on a study of stress and ill-health in a large manufacturing organisation in Australia. It examines the effects of stress, low self-esteem and poor mastery on psychological outcomes and ill-health symptoms.

Sociologists and health experts from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, and the U.S. discuss issues surrounding stress in the workplace, including its causes and ways in which jobs can be designed to minimize it. The book is intended for professionals and students in occupational health and safety.

This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome. The authors also evaluate the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments which foster such new OSH epidemics.