Books by "Christopher P. Smith"

7 books found

Suffering in the Army of Tennessee

Suffering in the Army of Tennessee

by Christopher Thrasher

2023 · University of Tennessee Press

Winner of the 2022 Douglas Southall Freeman Award! Confederate historiography of the Civil War is rich with stories of leaders and decision makers—oft-repeated names immortalized by their association with America’s great trial of the 1860s. But while scholarship exploring the roles of Confederate generals and politicians abounds, a major part of the story remains untold: that of the ordinary people who became soldiers and turned the very pages of Civil War history. Part of the Voices of the Civil War series, Suffering in the Army of Tennessee doesn’t just draw upon one single diary or letter collection, and it does not use brief quotations as a way to fill out a larger narrative. Rather, across eight chapters spanning the Atlanta Campaign to the Battle of Nashville in 1864, Thrasher draws upon a remarkably broad set of primary sources—newspapers, manuscripts, archives, diaries, and official documents—to tell a story that knits together accounts of senior officers, the final campaigns of the Western Theater, and the experiences of the civilians and rebel soldiers who found themselves deep in the trenches of a national reckoning. While volumes have been written on the Atlanta Campaign or the Battles of Nashville and Franklin, no previous historian has constructed what amounts to a sweeping social history of the Army of Tennessee—the daily details of soldiering and the toll it took on the men and boys who mustered into service foreseeing only a small skirmish among the states. While this volume will appeal to Civil War buffs and military history scholars, its accessible structure and engaging narrative style will likewise captivate American history enthusiasts, students, and general readers.

Queen's Bench and Practice Court Reports ... [1844-1882]

Queen's Bench and Practice Court Reports ... [1844-1882]

by Upper Canada. Court of Queen's Bench, J. Hillyard Cameron, Sir James Lukin Robinson, Christopher Robinson, H. C. W. Wethey, Salter Jehosaphat Van Koughnet

1883

Safety Metrics

Safety Metrics

by Christopher A. Janicak

2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This practical guide—and popular reference—helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Newly updated, this edition now also shows you how to incorporate safety management system components into your safety performance program and provides you with additional techniques for analyzing safety performance data.

Safety Metrics

Safety Metrics

by Dr. Christopher A. Janicak

2025 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This completely updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics and safety-performance-measurement strategies, Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance shows you how to assess trends, inconsistencies, data, safety climates, work with data, and help with training in your workplace so you can identify areas that need corrective actions before an accident or injury occurs. Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety provides the reader with a framework for developing and implementing a safety performance measurement program in the workplace. From defining performance goals and objectives to establishing ways to quantify and measure performance, this book is designed for working professionals who are responsible for demonstrating the effectiveness of a safety program. Beyond the techniques for developing the program, this book presents content on commonly used methods for tracking safety performance based upon the potential loss perils including injured employees, liability losses, and property losses to name a few. Statistical analysis and data presentation methods are included as strategies that can be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the organization's safety performance.

Star Schema The Complete Reference

Star Schema The Complete Reference

by Christopher Adamson

2010 · McGraw Hill Professional

The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouse Learn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts. This all-inclusive volume begins with dimensional design fundamentals and shows how they fit into diverse data warehouse architectures, including those of W.H. Inmon and Ralph Kimball. The book progresses through a series of advanced techniques that help you address real-world complexity, maximize performance, and adapt to the requirements of BI and ETL software products. You are furnished with design tasks and deliverables that can be incorporated into any project, regardless of architecture or methodology. Master the fundamentals of star schema design and slow change processing Identify situations that call for multiple stars or cubes Ensure compatibility across subject areas as your data warehouse grows Accommodate repeating attributes, recursive hierarchies, and poor data quality Support conflicting requirements for historic data Handle variation within a business process and correlation of disparate activities Boost performance using derived schemas and aggregates Learn when it's appropriate to adjust designs for BI and ETL tools

Kansas Reports

Kansas Reports

by Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue

1892

Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea

by Patricia Paraide, Kay Owens, Charly Muke, Philip Clarkson, Christopher Owens

2023 · Springer Nature

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries does make it into research journals from time to time, but these articles only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea’s multicultural society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of mathematics education that have been impacted by policies, research, circumstances and other influences, with particular emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind in the education research literature as an in-depth record and critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post / decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy, technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.