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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Losing a job should not mean losing your direction, identity, and future-but America's unemployment system was never designed to help workers navigate lasting economic change.Rebuilding the Ladder: From Unemployment to Reemployment in 21st-Century America presents a practical case for replacing a passive, Depression-era safety net with a modern system that actively guides displaced workers back into meaningful employment.Today, job loss is often more than a temporary interruption. Automation, artificial intelligence, outsourcing, industry decline, and changing skill requirements can eliminate entire career paths. Yet the current system still relies primarily on temporary benefit checks, outdated job portals, fragmented training programs, and workers finding their own way through an increasingly complicated labor market.People facing unemployment do not need only a check. They need a path forward.John S. Pritchett examines the financial, psychological, and civic consequences of prolonged unemployment. Workers can lose savings, retirement security, professional connections, confidence, and a sense of belonging. Communities suffer as joblessness weakens local economies, increases alienation, and erodes trust in public institutions.Drawing lessons from Denmark, Germany, Singapore, and successful American workforce initiatives, the book proposes a new Reemployment Compact for America built around four central supports: - Flexible reemployment accounts for training, certification, relocation, childcare, and other transition expenses- Modern career-navigation centers combining human coaching with current labor-market information- Wage insurance to help experienced workers accept new positions without suffering an immediate financial collapse- Rapid, employer-aligned training programs connected directly to real hiring opportunitiesThe book also outlines a phased roadmap for implementation, including modernized state systems, portable career records, employer transition plans, regional workforce partnerships, community-college training hubs, and a permanent national funding structure.The goal is not to promise that every job can be preserved. It is to ensure that every worker has a realistic opportunity to move forward when the economy changes.Accessible, compassionate, and policy-focused, Rebuilding the Ladder is written for workers, employers, educators, workforce professionals, policymakers, and anyone concerned about the future of work in an age of accelerating disruption.We do not owe every worker permanence-but we do owe them possibility, guidance, and a way back up.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Human progress begins with the courage to exceed limits-but the same ambition that builds civilizations can also drive them toward disaster.The Hubris Paradox: Ambition, Achievement, and the Abyss explores the volatile relationship between human brilliance and human overconfidence. From ancient myths and scientific breakthroughs to technological disruption, political ideology, and institutional collapse, John S. Pritchett examines why the forces that propel progress can also blind people and organizations to consequence.The book traces this paradox through Prometheus, the Wright brothers, Marie Curie, the Manhattan Project, Apollo, the Titanic, Challenger, Chernobyl, the Boeing 737 MAX, FTX, artificial intelligence, gene editing, and other moments when ambition crossed the boundary between boldness and recklessness.These failures were rarely caused by a lack of intelligence. They occurred when confidence silenced doubt, warning signs were ignored, and systems lost the ability to listen.Yet this is not an argument against innovation. Pritchett makes the case for tempered hubris: ambition strong enough to pursue extraordinary goals, paired with humility strong enough to question assumptions, anticipate harm, and change course.Moving from diagnosis to design, the book shows how humility can become more than a personal virtue. It can be built into organizations through red teams, pre-mortems, independent review, pause points, feedback loops, protected dissent, scenario planning, kill switches, and systems designed to recover when they are wrong.The book also examines leadership in an age of complexity. Effective leaders, it argues, are not those who project absolute certainty, but those who create cultures where difficult questions can reach decision-makers before failure becomes inevitable.A practical appendix provides six field tools for applying these principles: - The Foresight Canvas- The System Resilience Checklist- The Listening Architecture Map- The Consequence Ledger- The Leadership Reflex Inventory- The Narrative Immunity Stress TestAccessible, wide-ranging, and deeply relevant to the age of AI and accelerating technological change, The Hubris Paradox is for leaders, innovators, policymakers, educators, and anyone concerned with building progress that can survive its own success.The challenge is not to extinguish the fire of ambition. It is to build systems wise enough to carry it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does a fair juror actually do when the evidence is incomplete, the witnesses disagree, and certainty is impossible In the Jury Box: How Jurors Evaluate Evidence, Resist Bias, and Reach a Fair Decision is a practical guide to the reasoning demands of jury service. John S. Pritchett examines how jurors can evaluate testimony, documents, physical and digital evidence, expert opinions, eyewitness memory, inconsistencies, missing evidence, and competing narratives without allowing confidence, emotion, assumptions, or courtroom performance to substitute for proof.The book's central idea is 'bounded judgment' jurors must decide from the evidence admitted in court, the law provided by the judge, and the burden of proof-without pretending they can know everything that happened.Through clear examples drawn from criminal and civil disputes, the book explores the difference between evidence and story, direct and circumstantial evidence, what a particular piece of evidence actually proves, how gaps in the record should be treated, why eyewitness certainty can mislead, how expert authority can influence judgment, and how bias often operates through ordinary expectations rather than obvious prejudice.Later chapters turn to the jury room itself: burdens of proof, reasonable doubt, combining evidence, resisting premature conclusions, disagreement, responsible dissent, unanimity, compromise, and the challenge of reaching a verdict without demanding impossible certainty.This is not a manual for reaching a particular verdict. It is a guide to thinking carefully about what has been proved, what remains uncertain, and what the law actually asks jurors to decide.Written for prospective jurors, former jurors, students, educators, and readers interested in courts, evidence, critical thinking, and decision-making, In the Jury Box offers a disciplined framework for fair judgment under uncertainty.A fair verdict does not require perfect knowledge. It requires careful reasoning within the limits of the evidence and the law.…