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Fire and rescue services leadership and management perspectives /
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The Rescue of the Third Class on the Titanic : a Revisionist History.
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Rebuilding the fire and rescue services : policy, delivery and assurance /
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Out of context : the uses of modernist fiction /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Works for other times -- Rescue work: innovation and continuity in modernist fiction -- Character and identity -- What chronology demands of us -- Needing to narrate -- Modernism today, or, The author becomes a character.…”
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Heroic efforts the emotional culture of search and rescue volunteers /
Table of Contents: “…Studying Peak Search and Rescue -- Joining up -- Socializing heroes -- Dealing with crisis: rescuers' emotions -- Dealing with others in crisis: managing victims' and families' emotions -- Labeling heroes: letters from survivors and families -- The emotional rewards of rescue work -- Heroic efforts.…”
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Research methods in indigenous contexts /
Table of Contents: “…Methodology -- how to optimally collect data in the fields -- 3.1 History of transcultural field encounters -- 3.2 Field encounter as quasi-experimentation -- 3.3 Researchers' influence and philosophy of science -- 3.3.1 Vulnerability and resilience -- 3.4 Epistemology -- 3.4.1 Qualitative and quantitative methods -- 3.4.2 Validity -- 3.4.3 Reliability -- 3.4.4 Objectivity -- 3.4.5 Ethical aspects -- 3.5 Minimally-invasive techniques -- 3.5.1 Total immersion -- 3.5.2 Rescue work -- 4. Field research in indigenous contexts -- 4.1 The scientist as a psychological being -- 4.1.1 Researchers and their culture of origin -- 4.1.2 Rationality and irrationality -- 4.2 Meta-perspectives -- 4.3 Transcultural competency -- 4.4 Education and training -- 4.4.1 Learning how to prepare research in indigenous contexts -- 4.5 Culturally sustainable field research -- 4.5.1 Practical aspects -- 4.5.2 Being prepared for tropical diseases -- Epilogue.…”
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Work & Leisure Ils 166.
Table of Contents: “…Youth and the Life Cycle; When Play is Tolerated; Play and Social Discipline; The Educational Function; Educationfor Work and Leisure; The Distant Goal; Work Comes to the Rescue; Work-as the Young Find it; Are New Work Values Needed; Where the Fun Comes in.…”
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