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Различные книги в жанре ЗдоровьеBenchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management
Updated to account for ISO 55000, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition,  now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability. New graphics to enhance the text’s main points have been added throughout.As with past editions, the third edition provides a logical, step-by-step methodology that will enable any company to properly benchmark its maintenance function. It presents an overview of the benchmarking process, a detailed form for surveying and “grading” maintenance management, and a database of the results of more than 100 companies that have used this survey. Widely used, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, has proven to be an invaluable planning guide and on-the-job reference for maintenance managers, plant engineers, operations managers, and plant managers.
Workbook to Accompany Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices
 This softbound workbook is the ideal guide for readers of Gulati's Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices, 2nd edition, as well as for students in a classroom or seminar/workshop setting.Each chapter provides extensive Powerpoint-style summaries of important vocabulary and essential concepts, in a format that encourages students to write additional notes and evaluations of the content.Includes reviews of chapter objectives and summaries.Provides readers with answers to the main text's assessment exercises as well as additional questions to direct their study.Each chapter concludes with a set of independent research questions; these questions help readers expand their understanding of the content as they prepare to apply best practices.
Maintenance Planning, Coordination, & Scheduling
Based on real-world experience this invaluable guide and reference tells the whole story of maintenance planning from beginning to end in a concise and easy-to-follow manner. Written by well-known professionals this new edition focuses specifically on the preparatory tasks that lead to effective utilization and application of maintenance resources in the interest of the reliability essential to business objectives. It comprehensively examines the job preparation process from job scoping and planning, to determination of material requirements, estimation of labor requirements and job duration, coordination of all involved parties, and job scheduling. And it includes essential metrics for measuring performance of all contributing functions. It is a vital training document for planners, an educational document for those to whom planners are responsible, and a valuable guide for those who interface with the planning and scheduling function and are dependent upon the many contributions of planning and scheduling operational excellence.Expanded coverage of the proactive culture and environment that senior management must nurture throughout the organization, and the essential supportive roles of other functions essential to the preparatory process.A new chapter that enumerates prerequisites to effective Planning, Coordination and Scheduling.The Scheduling chapter has been expanded to include a debate comparing two popular approaches to the scheduling and achievement of Schedule Compliance.The Material Support chapter is significantly expanded.
Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management
Thoroughly revised and updated, this best selling book presents a logical, step-by-step methodology that will enable any company to conduct a cost-effective benchmarking effort. It presents an overview of the benchmarking process, a detailed form for surveying and "grading" maintenance management, and a database of the results of more than 100 companies that have used this survey.Provides a clear, concise benchmarking methodology.Clearly explains and interprets the most current maintenance benchmarks.Contains a benchmarking database from more than 100 companies.Features current maintenance/asset management philosophies.Offers more information on self-analysis.
30 Summers More
Lessons for Longevity The inspiration for 30 Summers More came in part from Dwayne Clark’s oversight of the care for more than 60,000 amazing human beings as CEO of Aegis Living, which has more than 30 senior living facilities in the Western United States. His unique senior living communities have been widely recognized for their excellence of care to residents and employees alike, by receiving a wide variety of awards including:• Best of Assisted Living Design• The Family Business Growth Award• Top 50 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor• CALA Elevate Award• Top 15 Places to Work with the Best Work/Life Balance• Best Retirement Facility by 425 Magazine (three years in a row) 30 Summers More is full of the latest health and wellness research that includes bite-sized actionsnecessary for living our best life as we move into our senior years.• THE SCIENCE OF AGING, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR HEALTH• HOW TO CLEAN YOUR BRAIN AND RESTORE YOUR BODY WITH QUALITY SLEEP• THE “MICRO-HABITS” NECESSARY FOR LIVING OUR BEST LIFE AS WE AGE• THE RIGHT FOODS TO RESET YOUR METABOLISM, CRAVINGS, AND GUT HEALTH• HOW TO FIND REAL HAPPINESS BY NURTURING YOUR PURPOSE
Buddhist Astrology
The book Buddhist Astrology offers us a glimpse into how to view astrology not as one's destiny but as an influence. Astrology is not a religion and Buddhist Astrology helps us understand astrology. We are the one making the decisions, not something distant and unseen. Astrology from the Buddhist perspective is a study of interdependence. Interdependence brings to mind many factors that are influences to body and mind. One can look at genetics, parents, siblings, education, social standing, cultural and ethnic influences, all together as being factors affecting the personality and attitude. All of these factors are immediate and directly in our environment, so they are considered primary influences on us. From the Buddhist point of view, astrology would fall into a secondary category of influence. It is also considered to be an environmental influence. It is secondary because it is at a distance from us, not immediate and visible. It is environmental because it is part of the physical world. This classification of astrology is important if we are to consider astrology realistically. It would not be useful to over-emphasize astrology to the exclusion of other more primary influences. We are the product of interdependence, astrology plays a role in that interdependence, but it is not a primary influence. The above factors take into consideration observable objects we can review. Although past lives are not obvious phenomena, they are an influence recognized in Buddhism. Reflect upon this yourself. Think of the saying Buddha used to help draw conclusions about what type of person we were in the immediately preceding life. The Buddha said, «Look at the body and you will know what you were; look at your present actions and you will know what you will become.» The Buddha was referring to our present state of affairs as being obvious signs of what sort of existence we led in the past life. If we are rich, then we were generous; if we are handsome and beautiful, we were patient and kind; if we are healthy, then we protected the lives of others. The opposite of being rich, prosperous, attractive and healthy is the result of our miserliness, ill will and causing disruption to the health and physical well being of others. Some astrologers will attempt to tell you what past lives you had, but the best judge of that is yourself. Just look at your body and you can discover a great deal about your past life. As for the future, that is totally created by how you act. If you are generous, kind hearted, patient, and approach life with a positive attitude, you will create not only a good situation for yourself in this life, but you also will create good factors of influence for the future rebirth you take. Astrology was taught in the Kalachakra Tantra (Wheel of Time Tantra). The Buddha said clearly though, «For aware individuals, harmful (astrological) influences will not affect them.» What the Buddha meant by that statement is that if an individual lacks self-awareness and wisdom, then whatever circumstances they meet will cause a reaction motivated from unawareness and habit patterns. They will be predictable and to some extent predetermined. In contrast, an individual who is self-aware and wise has more choices. Self-awareness is being aware of personal dynamics and inclinations. Wisdom has three general sources: past experience, education and spiritual practice. When awareness and wisdom come together, an individual definitely has more options. By having more choices they have a greater expression of freedom, or free will, and therefore are not as predictable. Thus Buddhism says free will is proportionate to the amount of awareness and wisdom an individual has. The greatest expression of free will is enlightenment. Enlightened male and female Buddhas have nothing that has power over them. If there were something that had an unconscious effect on their minds, it would contradict the meaning of full liberation and enlightenment. Astrologically speaking, one can consider that enlightened beings are aware of planetary influences, but also by merely being aware of themselves, the Buddhas control whatever pressure the planets may be generating.
What More Do You Want?
All readers, both novice and longtime practitioners, will encounter in this book new answers, and new questions, to the what, why and how of Zen practice. We've all had moments in our lives when we've thought, «Something is missing. There must be more to life than this.» It is this sense that often brings people to the practice of Zen. By turning to Zen, they acknowledge that this «something» lies not in externals, but rather in seeking to transcend desire and attachment. The journey toward that transcendence begins with questioning, and questions will be part of the path until awakening is attained.In What More do You Want? a fascinating new book by renowned Zen master Albert Low, he addresses some of the questions students have posed about the practice of Zen: Why do we practice? Why should we seek to understand our reasons for practicing? How can we distinguish between true and false practice? What is awakening? In addition, Low shares with his readers four teishos —talks that comment on a text or koan in order to enhance meditation practice—on zazen or seated meditation, on pain and suffering, and on the very nature of practice itself. Finally, Low shares with readers an experience of satori , a glimpse into Buddha nature.
Wholehearted Way
The Wholehearted Way is a translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa, one of the primary texts on Zen practice. Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen's profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature. Bendowa, or A Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way, was written in 1231 A.D. and expresses Dogen's teaching of the essential meaning of zazen (seated meditation) and its practice. This edition also contains commentary on Bendowa by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, a foreword by Taigen Daniel Leighton, and an Introduction by Shohaku Okumura, both of whom prepared this English translation.
Beginning Qigong
Learn traditional Chinese Qigong with this illustrated guide.The urgent pace of modern life has led to a quest for ways to relieve stress. One of the best methods for doing so is Qigong—an ancient Chinese system of breathing techniques and exercises that strengthen the mind, body, and spirit as they balance and augment Qi, or “life force.”This thorough volume presents many different forms of Qigong in detail and through fully illustrated exercises. Included are an explanation of the principles of Qigong, warming–up exercises, breathing exercises, and a guide to massaging the inner organs. The authors have also provided a table that describes the various exercises, listing their physical benefits and classifying them according to level of difficulty, so that readers can practice their own routines.
Zen Light
The Denkoroku, or «Record of Transmitting the Light,» contains the enlightenment stories of the earliest Zen ancestors. In Zen Ught, the author comments on this Buddhist classic, which he studied as part of his own advanced Zen training. Sensei Barragato brings the varied experiences of his life and his studies in Catholicism and Quaker practice to the teachings of Zen Buddhism, making these commentaries at once off-beat, refreshing, and revealing. He touches on the major issues that affect our lives, making this book of interest to both the beginning as well as the advanced student of Zen.