The Unknowers
The Unknowers

Author: Linsey McGoey

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1780326386

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Deliberate ignorance has been known as the ‘Ostrich Instruction’ in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figures at the top still get away with it when disasters on their watch damage so many people’s lives? Does the idea that knowledge is power still apply in today’s post-truth world? A bold, wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ignorance and power in the modern age, from debates over colonial power and economic rent-seeking in the 18th and 19th centuries to the legal defences of today, The Unknowers shows that strategic ignorance has not only long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, but also that true power lies in the ability to convince others of where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies.

Mexican Law
Mexican Law

Author: Stephen Zamora

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199288489

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In addition to setting forth rules and legal doctrines (with reference to practical application of the law), this volume surveys the key institutions that make and enforce the law in Mexico, and places them in their historical and cultural context.

Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety
Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety

Author: William Charney

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 1252

ISBN-13: 1420047868

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It is ironic that those whose job it is to save lives often find themselves injured in the course of performing their duties. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare workers have higher injury rates than agriculture workers, miners, and construction workers. The Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition covers expo

The Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne
The Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne

Author: Glenn J. Lockwood

Publisher: Lyndhurst, Ont. : Corporation of the Township of Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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The Making of Community on the Gananoque River Frontier. 1796-1996.

Quarrying in Antiquity
Quarrying in Antiquity

Author: John Bryan Ward-Perkins

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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"A wide survey over four millennia is possible for quarrying tools and techniques because of their simplicity and long-lived traditions. The chief contribution of the Romans was their organisation of the stone trade by mass production, standardisation and long-distance transport. Indeed, in post-Roman Europe, especially in Britain, it was the excellence of Roman building stone which allowed so much subsequent 'quarrying' in the buildings themselves. One exception in Saxon times was the quarry for Bradford-on-Avon's church. With the 12th-century spurt in church building activity, however, natural stone quarries once more became common and distribution methods familiar to the Roman world re-emerged." - COPAC.