Most Popular Books by David Novak

An old scrapbook in the back of a closet is found to contain photos, mementos, and a special letter about the love of parents for their children.

David Novak aprendeu há muito tempo que não se consegue liderar uma empresa, seja de que tamanho for, sem que as pessoas estejam sintonizadas, concentradas e entusiasmadas na sua missão. Mas como consegui-lo? Durante os seus quinze anos de Yum! Brands, Novak desenvolveu o programa «Taking People with You», e ensina-o a milhares de líderes em todo o mundo. A premissa é simples: não conseguirão fazer coisas em grande enquanto não aprenderem a ter as pessoas do seu lado. Nada é mais importante numa organização. Leve as Pessoas Consigo não é mais um livro de princípios de liderança ou mais uma teoria de escola de gestão. É um guia, passo a passo, para definir objectivos concretos, pôr as pessoas a trabalhar em equipa, fazê-las ultrapassar esses mesmos objectivos definidos e celebrar o sucesso depois de convencer os mais cépticos. E voltar repetir este processo até se atingir um nível consistente de excelência que se torne um dos elementos fundamentais da cultura da sua empresa.

In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Bible, the Talmud, and ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy, Novak asserts Judaism''s integral place in communal discourse of the public square. According to Novak, biblical revelation has universal implications--that it is ultimately God''s law to humanity because humans made in God''s image are capable of making intelligent moral choices. The universality of this claim, however, stands in tension with the particularities of Jewish monotheism (one God, one people, one law). Novak''s challenge is for Judaism to capitalize on the way God''s law transcends particularity without destroying difference. Thus it is as Jews that Jews are called to join communities across the faithful denominations, as well as secular ones, to engage in debates about the common good. Jewish Justice follows a logical progression from grounded ethical quandaries to larger philosophical debates. Novak begins by considering the practical issues of capital punishment, mutilation and torture, corporate crime, the landed status of communities and nations, civil marriage, and religious marriage. He next moves to a consideration of theoretical concerns: God''s universal justice, the universal aim of particular Jewish ethics, human rights and the image of God, the relation of post-Enlightenment social contract theory to the recently enfranchised Jewish community, and the voices of Jewish citizens in secular politics and the public sphere. Novak also explores the intersection of universality and particularity by examining the practice of interfaith dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Todos quieren alcanzar el éxito en su vida personal y profesional. La cuestión es cómo hacerlo. Este libro le enseñará al lector a convertirse en su propio coach de vida por medio de testimonios de grandes líderes

In Defense of Religious Liberty contains David Novak''s vigorous--and paradoxical--argument that the primacy of divine law is the best foundation for a secular, multicultural democracy. Novak presents his claim, which will astound both liberal and conservative advocates of democracy, in political, philosophical, and theological terms. He shows how the universal norms of divine law are knowable as natural law, that they are the best formulations of the human rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that their assertion includes an explicit recognition of God as cosmic lawgiver. Furthermore, Novak maintains that the seemingly disparate ideas of divine command, natural law, and human rights can be integrated into one overall political theory. Novak reveals this integration at work in the classical texts of his own Jewish tradition, as well as in the canonical philosophical tradition of the West, from Plato to the Stoics to Grotius to Kant. He also convincingly makes the case that those who reject any legitimate role for religion in discussions of public morality inevitably substitute arbitrary human power for divine command, arbitrary positive law for natural law, and arbitrary governmental entitlements for human rights that exist prior to the establishment of the state. Novak concludes that religious traditions like Judaism, precisely because they incorporate the doctrines of God the cosmic lawgiver, natural law, and human rights, provide the most coherent ontological foundation for democracy in today''s world.

Das Buch befasst sich mit Technologie und Anwendungen des alternativen Energieträgers Wasserstoff und den ökonomischen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen, die auf eine Erhöhung des Wasserstoffanteils am europäischen Energiemix abzielen.

This text critically and constructively explores the resources offered for natural law doctrine by classical thinkers from three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Three scholars each offer a programmatic essay on natural law doctrine in their particular religious tradition and then respond to the other two essays.

A story in photographs of Alexia, a five year old girl with fragile bones (Osteogenesis Imperfecta).

Johnny Appleseed makes friends with some bears by feeding them his apples.

Both epic lament and lyric journey, The Requiem explores the limits of grief and joy. Stunned by the sudden vision of an abandoned love, the poet finds himself in an underrealm, beside the stream of memory.-Non Fit Press.

A retrospective study of 1353 occupational injuries occurring at a chemical manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas from January, 1982 through May, 1988 was performed to investigate the etiology of the occupational injury process. Injury incidence rates were calculated for various sub-populations of workers to determine differences in the risk of injury for various groups. Linear modeling techniques were used to determine the association between certain collected independent variables and severity of an injury event. Finally, two sub-groups of the worker population, shiftworkers and injury recidivists, were examined. An injury recidivist as defined is any worker experiencing one or more injury per year. Overall, female shiftworkers evidenced the highest average injury incidence rate compared to all other worker groups analyzed. Although the female shiftworkers were younger and less experienced, the etiology of their increased risk of injury remains unclear, although the rigors of performing shiftwork itself or ergonomic factors are suspect. In general, females were injured more frequently than males, but they did not incur more severe injuries. For all workers, many injuries were caused by erroneous or foregone training, and risk taking behaviors. Injuries of these types are avoidable. The distribution of injuries by severity level was bimodal; either injuries were of minor or major severity with only a small number of cases falling in between. Of the variables collected, only the type of injury incurred and the worker''s titlecode were statistically significantly associated with injury severity. Shiftworkers did not sustain more severe injuries than other worker groups. Injury to shiftworkers varied as a 24-hour pattern; the greatest number occurred between 1200-1230 hours, (p = 0.002) by Cosinor analysis. Recidivists made up 3.3% of the population (23 males and 10 females), yet suffered 17.8% of the injuries. Although past research suggests that injury recidivism is a random statistical event, analysis of the data by logistic regression implicates gender, area worked, age and job titlecode as being statistically significantly related to injury recidivism at this facility.