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The perfect car : the biography of John Barnard, motorsport's most creative designer
\"John Barnard revolutionised Formula 1, and motorsport as a whole, through his unrelenting quest for perfection in racing car design. Written with Barnard's cooperation and with input from dozens of associates, drivers and rivals, this biography tells the entire story, both personal and professional, of a British design genius. Barnard's technical achievements are explored in detail - and in accessible language - with special emphasis on his brilliant initiatives while at McLaren (the first carbon-fibre composite chassis) and Ferrari (the first semi-automatic gearbox). The Perfect Car is also a human-interest story, telling a tale of innovation under intense pressure while Barnard endeavoured to maintain a stable family life\"--Provided by publisher.
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Where is democracy nestled? Reflections on organizational degeneration based on an artists’ cooperative
PurposeThis article presents a compelling case study of a workers’ cooperative in the cultural sector. It offers a unique opportunity to delve into the tensions between managerial and democratic control, particularly in the context of heightened artistic claims. The pivotal role of an accountant in management for nearly two decades sparks a thought-provoking question about the potential for cooperative degeneration.Design/methodology/approachOur research employs a rigorous qualitative method, utilizing semi-structured interviews of six key members and a comprehensive analysis of legal, accounting and other media documents.FindingsOur findings offer a significant perspective, refuting any indications of organizational degeneration. The decision-making processes continue to uphold democratic principles. While the manager and his administrative staff wield substantial authority, this is justified by their duty to preserve the collective. This duty is executed under democratic control, facilitated by information transparency. The low level of democratic participation poses a challenge, but the manager’s initiatives are aimed at addressing this. The effectiveness of this control, however, relies on the active participation of the members, which acts as a strong deterrent against organizational degeneration.Originality/valueThe originality of our contribution lies in our reference to Chester Barnard whose reflections on industrial democracy have been forgotten, reflections linked to his conception of managerial authority. We also highlight the importance of empowering individual members, which leads them to consider the consequences of their actions. As a result, the manager is not placed in a situation where he has to decide alone, as the scope of his unilateral powers is de facto delimited.
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Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
\"Born in Scotland in 1772, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. She wrote one of the most popular ballads of her day, captivated Sir Walter Scott with her poetry, rubbed shoulders with the Prince of Wales, and dazzled Samuel Johnson with her repartee. Lady Anne's charisma and talent were undeniable; she was well known as both a beauty and a wit. However, she was also seen as an eccentric--an artist defined by her defiance of convention ... Stephen Taylor draws on Lady Anne's private papers, including six volumes of her never-before-published memoirs, to construct a ... biography of her remarkable life\"--Amazon.com.
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Clinical Firsts — Christiaan Barnard’s Heart Transplantations
On December 3, 1967, South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted a healthy heart into 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, expanding organ-replacement therapy beyond corneas, sex glands, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, and liver in the quest to treat heart failure.
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Lady Anne
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine's life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog's powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.
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Controversial red meat study adds correction over undisclosed industry funding
A dietary guideline published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that contradicted years of public health advice by finding no significant benefit to individuals’ health in reducing red meat consumption has been corrected after the journal’s editor was notified of undisclosed industry funding received by the lead author.12 The recommendations, published last October, drew criticism3 because the lead author, Bradley Johnston, had authored a 2016 guideline, also published in Annals,4 that questioned the benefits of limiting sugar intake. Johnston and the Annals’ editor in chief, Christine Laine, argued that there was no obligation to report the institute’s sugar study funding in the red meat paper, since the sugar grant had been made more than three years before the red meat article’s publication, even if the sugar paper itself was less than three years old. Under Texas law, wrote Shive, “Texas A&M AgriLife Research is a state agency affiliated with an academic institution” and therefore its grants count as “public sources” that “need not be listed” in disclosure forms.
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Where lies an organization's purposiveness?
What exactly is an organization? To answer this question, we will refer to organizational theory formulated and developed in the 20th century. Chester Barnard believed that human groups appear to be organized rather than disorderly crowds because members with a common purpose are working purposively. Herbert A. Simon, who expanded on this idea, considered that making purposive decisions is rational as long as the purposes are accomplished step by step from top to bottom along a hierarchy of ends. However, he pointed out that this hierarchy of ends was incomplete and was, sometimes, contradictory. Regarding technology as an alternative to this, James D. Thompson came to the opinion that if organizations are purposive, their core should consist of one or more technologies. Karl E. Weick depicted the technology-formation process as an organizing process. People will initially repeat, for their various purposes, an interlocked behavior cycle as a common means. If the cycle is stable, people with differing goals will be able to use it, leading to the assembly of a larger module and a gradual shift to a common purpose.
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Christiaan Barnard's views on euthanasia
In 2017, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the world's first human heart transplant, carried out by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town on December 3, 1967. Although remembered as a pioneering surgeon, Barnard wrote or co-wrote a surprisingly large number of books, covering different topics. One such book was Good Life, Good Death, published in 1980. In it, Chris discussed the topic of the book's subtitle-A Doctor's Case for Euthanasia and Suicide. This was a topic about which Chris clearly felt strongly and not infrequently commented on.
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Mary Barnard, American Imagist
Perhaps best known for her outstanding translation of Sappho, poet
Mary Barnard (1909-2001) has until recently received little
attention for her own work. In this book, Sarah Barnsley examines
Barnard's poetry and poetics in the light of her plentiful
correspondence with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and
others. Presenting Barnard as a \"late Imagist,\" Barnsley links
Barnard's search for a poetry grounded in native speech to efforts
within American modernism for new forms in the American grain.
Barnsley finds that where Pound and Williams began the campaign for
a modern poetry liberated from the \"heave\" of the iambic
pentameter, Barnard completed it through a \"spare but musical\"
aesthetic derived from her studies of Greek metric and American
speech rhythms, channeled through materials drawn direct from the
American local. The first book on Barnard, and the first to draw on
the Barnard archives at Yale's Beinecke Library, Mary Barnard,
American Imagist unearths a fascinating and previously untold
chapter of twentieth-century American poetry.
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