Martin Perrow

Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on

Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on

Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems.

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk.Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach toensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--failsbecau

Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems.

Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour brings together the fruits of Susan Perrow's work in storymaking. It is richly illustrated with lively anecdotes drawn from parents and teachers who have disc

How can one teenage girl get herself into so many predicaments? That’s what Xander keeps asking herself as she deals with boys, horses and adventures-gone-wrong.In this sequel to Celtic Thunder, the t

Working with imaginative journeys and the magic of metaphor, the author has developed the art of therapeutic storytelling for children's challenging behaviour and difficult situations. In this book, s

What do you get when you put an insecure, inexperienced, but spunky teen on a spirited horse? A laugh a minute. Fifteen-year-old Xander Moloney receives an exciting invitation from her friend Brynn t

Once there was a feisty and fearless little girl who had a dream. Inger Knudsen, a Danish girl born in Greenland and raised with the native Inuit, was determined to have her own dogsled and team. In t

A fictionalized account of how Spot, a springer spaniel living on Penobscot Bay in the 1930s, loves to ring the lighthouse bell, and uses that skill to guide the mailboat safely through a storm.

In this fifth book in the Key Mystery Series, Mandy and Nick are joined by Christianne and Noah on a camping trip in a California redwood forest. While panning for gold at a stream, mysterious things

In this third book of the Key Mystery Series, Mandy and Nick explore an abandoned Nevada gold mine. Deep in the mine they find a dog’s skeleton with a mysterious key attached to its collar. Eerie soun

Ten-year-old Mandy of Dyer Cove, Maine, and her 12-year-old cousin Nick try to unravel the mystery of strange happenings at the lighthouse. Is it haunted by the first keeper’s ghost? An ancient key, a

Staying at an elegant 'summer cottage' by the sea in famous Bar Harbor, Maine should be a fun, carefree vacation. It isn't long though before Mandy, Nick and companions are hot on the trail of a new m

In this 6th book in the Key Mystery Series, Nick, Mandy and Peyton are caught in a web of intrigue at Old Fort Knox in Maine. They witness a mysterious figure roaming the dark passageways of the fort.

Is the Loch Ness Monster for real? In this last book in the Celtic Touch Trilogy, Xander and Brynn travel to Scotland to spend the week with their Irish friends Kevin and Donal at Rowan Farm on the ba

Book 4 in the Key Mystery Series!Is the mysterious man lurking outside the Crows Nest Inn at night a Colonial actor or the ghost of a notorious pirate? Who left the piece of treasure map pinned to Chr

Nick and Mandy are back on the trail of a long ago secret in this second cliffhanger of the Key Series. Nick’s family inherits and old farmhouse in New Hampshire and they need to fix it up and sell it

American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employ

The two volumes of this handbook provide a comprehensive account of the emerging and vibrant science of the ecological restoration of both habitats and species. Ecological restoration aims to achieve complete structural and functional, self-maintaining biological integrity following disturbance. In practice, any theoretical model is modified by a number of economic, social and ecological constraints. Consequently, material that might be considered as rehabilitation, enhancement, reconstruction or re-creation is also included. Restoration in Practice provides details of state-of-the-art restoration practice in a range of biomes within terrestrial and aquatic (marine, coastal and freshwater) ecosystems. Policy and legislative issues on all continents are also outlined and discussed. The accompanying volume, Principles of Restoration defines the underlying principles of restoration ecology. The Handbook of Ecological Restoration will be an invaluable resource to anyone concerned with the

The two volumes of this handbook provide a comprehensive account of the emerging and vibrant science of the ecological restoration of both habitats and species. Ecological restoration aims to achieve complete structural and functional, self-maintaining biological integrity following disturbance. In practice, any theoretical model is modified by a number of economic, social and ecological constraints. Consequently, material that might be considered as rehabilitation, enhancement, re-construction or re-creation is also included. Principles of Restoration defines the underlying principles of restoration ecology, in relation to manipulations and management of the biological, geophysical and chemical framework. The accompanying volume, Restoration in Practice, provides details of state-of-the-art restoration practice in a range of biomes within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The Handbook of Ecological Restoration will be an invaluable resource to anyone concerned with the restoration,

Telling the right story at the right time can help children face challenges and change behavior. All 42 stories in this book begin with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation. Then, through metaph

Why does everyone keep telling Lily that many hands make the basket? Didn't she make the basket with her very own hands? It is the most beautiful basket of her 10-year-old life and no one will give he

Inspired by Charles Perrow, Jay M. Gould and Helen Caldicott, Judith Evered shares her personal tragedy related to the 1957 explosion at Windscale Nuclear Power Plant in England. Her memoir recounts t

First published in 1972, this is a searching critique of work by both sociologists and psychologists on organisational structure and behaviour. Professor Argyris - although examining many different viewpoints - focuses in depth on five major writers on the subject: John Goldthrope, Peter Blau, James Thompson, Charles Perrow and David Lockwood, and analyses the practical, policy-making implications they draw or which would logically follow from their theoretical position. Asserting that research work on complex organizations has failed to integrate the sociological and psychological level of analysis - ignoring the importance of individual personality, group dynamics and interpersonal relationships - the author argues that this is self-defeating for sociological research; that it questions many of the findings of sociologists; and leads to their work in fact unintentionally maintaining the status quo as conceived by scientific management. A challenging and stimulating contribution to th