Blame

Author : Simon Mayo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781448173044

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Blame by Simon Mayo Pdf

What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That’s the situation in which Ant finds herself – together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she’s locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, but wider society wants them to do time for the unpunished ‘heritage’ crimes of their parents. Tensions are bubbling inside the London prison network Ant and Mattie call home – and when things finally erupt, they realize they’ve got one chance to break out. Everyone wants to see them punished for the sins of their mum and dad, but it’s time for Ant to show the world that they’re not to blame. A new nail-bitingly taught YA suspense thriller, from author of the bestselling ITCH series, Simon Mayo.

Author : Michelle Huneven
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429989893

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Blame by Michelle Huneven Pdf

Michelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." That talent explodes with her third book, Blame, a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all. The story: Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail—yet again—after another epic alcoholic blackout. "Okay, what'd I do?" she asks her lawyer and jailers. "I really don't remember." She adds, jokingly: "Did I kill someone?" In fact, two Jehovah's Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy, who was driving with a revoked license, will spend the rest of her life—in prison, getting sober, finding a new community (and a husband) in AA—trying to atone for this unpardonable act. Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up. For the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished? When Huneven's first novel, Round Rock, was published, Valerie Miner, in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, celebrated Huneven's "moral nerve, sharp wit and uncommon generosity." The same spirit electrifies Blame. The novel crackles with life—and, like life, can leave you breathless.

Author : Victoria Team,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Audra Diers-Lawson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832543023

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COVID-19: Risk Communication and Blame by Victoria Team,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Audra Diers-Lawson Pdf

Author : Kelly McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108842259

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The Problem of Blame by Kelly McCormick Pdf

Explores the problem of blame in moral philosophy, setting out a new theory of blame, free will, and moral responsibility.

Author : Christopher Hood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691162126

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The Blame Game by Christopher Hood Pdf

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "spin" activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.

Author : Diana Larsen,Tricia Broderick
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523000562

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Lead Without Blame by Diana Larsen,Tricia Broderick Pdf

A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently. Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team. Layered on with four resilience factors: inclusive collaboration, transparent power dynamics, collaborative learning, and embracing conflict. After applying these strategies, learning leaders will help their teams and themselves become more resilient and better equipped to handle any unexpected and challenging tasks that comes their way.

Author : Alexander Herzen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801492866

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Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen Pdf

"Herzen's novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen's personality."--Isaiah BerlinAlexander Herzen was one of the major figures in Russian intellectual life in the nineteenth century. Who Is to Blame? was his first novel. A revealing document and a noteworthy contribution to Russian literature in its own right, it establishes the origins of Herzen's spiritual quest and the outlines of his emerging social and political beliefs, and it foreshadows his mature philosophical views.

Author : John Billheimer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786429066

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Baseball and the Blame Game by John Billheimer Pdf

Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious. In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets a wrist slap for the same offense. As it turns out, the difference between a lower-case e in some forgotten box score and a lifetime of ignominy can hinge on a number of factors, including timing, geography, reputation, misunderstanding, media bias, and just plain bad luck.

Author : Bruce Lawson
Publisher : Bruce Lawson
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622740376

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Who Can We Blame Now by Bruce Lawson Pdf

Who Can We Blame Now, is about promoting awareness thru opinionated facts, personal experienses, and insight as the result of countless conversations with other African Americans through out the years about what goes on in our communities, such as lack of unity, the crabs in the bucket syndrone, and of corse, the blaming of other races particularly white for every socioeconomical downfall in our inner cities. If youre someone who is logical and accepts reality with no excuses, then this subject matter and the words you are about to read is as real and logical as it gets, and I wrote no excuses.

Author : Lily Geismer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176239

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Don't Blame Us by Lily Geismer Pdf

Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that—far from being an exception to national trends—the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Eric J. Wittenberg,J. David Petruzzi
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210170

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Plenty of Blame to go Around by Eric J. Wittenberg,J. David Petruzzi Pdf

“A welcome new account of Stuart’s fateful ride during the 1863 Pennsylvania campaign . . . well researched, vividly written, and shrewdly argued.” —Mark Grimsley, author of And Keep Moving On June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding glory and victory-two objectives with which he was intimately familiar, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. In Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi objectively investigate the role Stuart’s horsemen played in the disastrous campaign. It is the first book ever written on this important and endlessly fascinating subject. Did the plumed cavalier disobey General Robert E. Lee’s orders by stripping the army of its “eyes and ears?” Was Stuart to blame for the unexpected combat that broke out at Gettysburg on July 1? Authors Wittenberg and Petruzzi, widely recognized for their study and expertise of Civil War cavalry operations, have drawn upon a massive array of primary sources, many heretofore untapped, to fully explore Stuart’s ride, its consequences, and the intense debate among participants shortly after the battle, through early post-war commentators, and among modern scholars. The result is a richly detailed study jammed with incisive tactical commentary, new perspectives on the strategic role of the Southern cavalry, and fresh insights on every horse engagement, large and small, fought during the campaign.

Author : Vanessa Reimer
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772580334

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The Mother Blame Game by Vanessa Reimer Pdf

The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes “good motherhood” grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps now more than ever—for all that is perceived to go “wrong” in their children’s lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of “good motherhood.”

Author : Dave Zwieback
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491914465

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Beyond Blame by Dave Zwieback Pdf

"IT veteran Dave Zweiback describes an incident that threatens the very existence of a large financial institution, and the counterintuitive steps its leadership took to stop the downward spiral. Their novel approach is grounded in proven concepts from complexity science, resilience engineering, human factors, cognitive science, and organizational psychology. It allows us to identify the underlying conditions for failure, and make our systems (and organizations) safer and more resilient."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ola Rotimi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 9780306447

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The Gods are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi Pdf

Author : Andreas Brekke Carlsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009179256

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Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility by Andreas Brekke Carlsson Pdf

New essays by leading moral philosophers on the nature and ethics of self-blame, and its connections to moral responsibility.