by david allan van nostrand | Mar 28, 2023 | Case Study, The world around us
I want to put together a list of Readers’ Top 10 Closer Looks Most regular readers know me to be a fact-based non-fiction writer who was a business and consumer researcher for more than 30 years before giving it up to write. All around the world, I learned to look...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 11, 2022 | Anthropology, Case Study, Outsiders
Not many people know that Trinidad is closer to Venezuela (6 miles) than it is to Tobago (20 miles). Just 1,800 square miles, Trinidad is smaller than Rhode Island, but nearly twenty times the size of Tobago, a little squirt of an island. More than a million people...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 13, 2022 | Case Study, Items in the News
“There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights. There’s a traffic jam in Harlem that’s backed up to Jackson Heights. There’s a Scout troop short a child, Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild; Car 54, Where Are You?” The...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 24, 2022 | Case Study, Human Behavior, Organizational Behavior
Imagine yourself in charge of a halfway house for felons just released from state and federal prisons. Your agency’s mission is to provide counseling and support services that will help these criminals find – and keep – jobs, adjust to life outside the...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 15, 2021 | Case Study, Customer Satisfaction
In the days of stagecoaches, buckboards and covered wagons, crude wooden wheels turned around crude wooden axles, producing lots of friction and heat. To keep the wooden wheels and axles from burning away, they were lubricated by slathering them with lots of axle...
