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Friendly fire : the accidental shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
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ISBN: 128325607X 9786613256072 140084097X 9781400840977 0691005060 9780691095189 9780691005065 9781283256070 6613256072 0691095183 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged, no bad guy showed himself, no smoking gun was found. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy--a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift"--the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure--to complete his explanation. His conclusion is disturbing. This accident happened because, or perhaps in spite of everyone behaving just the way we would expect them to behave, just the way theory would predict. The shootdown was a normal accident in a highly reliable organization.

Straightening the Altars : the ecclesiastical vision and pastoral achievements of the progressive bishops under Elizabeth I, 1559-1579
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ISBN: 9780820444376 0820444375 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York: Lang,

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Athletic protective equipment: care, selection, and fitting
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ISBN: 0815185332 Year: 2000 Publisher: Boston McGraw-Hill

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The Bartonian legacy
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ISBN: 186094308X 9781860943089 9781860942464 1860942466 Year: 2000 Publisher: London : Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific,

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The Bartonian Legacy is a collection of memoirs, reminiscences and biographical details regarding Sir Derek Barton (1918-1998) who was one of the most influential organic chemists of the 20th Century. The chapters are contributed by some of his many students, coworkers and scientific colleagues, all of whom testify to his fascinating character and true genius. It offers intimate glimpses at Sir Derek TMs scientific life, his sense of humor and his modus operandi as a teacher of research methods. The volume will serve as a valuable companion work to the more official biographies and obituaries...

The history highway 2000 : a guide to Internet resources
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ISBN: 0765604787 Year: 2000 Publisher: Armonk (N.Y.) : Sharpe,

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Teaching and learning in large classes
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : American sociological association,

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Nonlinear science at the dawn of the 21st century
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ISBN: 3540669183 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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Ore genesis and exploration : the roles of organic matter
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ISBN: 1887483535 Year: 2000 Publisher: Littleton, CO : Society of Economic Geologists,

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Practical intelligence in everyday life
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ISBN: 0521659582 9780521659581 0521650569 9780521650564 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This work reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The authors reveal the importance of tacit knowledge - what we have learned from our own experience, through action. This work reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The authors reveal the importance of tacit knowledge - what we have learned from our own experience, through action. Although it has been seen as an indispensable element of expertise, intelligence researchers have found it difficult to quantify. The data shows that practical intelligence is psychologically and statistically distinct from academic intelligence, and is distinct as well from personality and styles of thought. The data also indicates that practical intelligence predicts job performance and even aspects of school performance as well as, or better than, academic intelligence. This volume thoroughly examines studies of practical intelligence in the United States and in many other parts of the world as well, and for varied occupations, such as management, military leadership, teaching, research and sales.

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