The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an aging workforce, and increasing costs demand new approaches to federal facilities management. The Federal Facilities Council of the NRC has sponsored a number of studies looking at ways to meet these challenges. This fourth study focuses on the people and skills that will needed to manage federal facilities in the next decade and beyond. The book presents a discussion of the current context of facilities management; an analysis of the forces affecting federal facilities asset management; an assessment of core competencies for federal facilities management; a comprehensive strategy for workforce development; and recommendations for implementing that strategy.
- Cover
- Series Information
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Ridicule or Reverence? A History of Scholarship on St. Joseph
- Sanctity, Humor, and the Gap between Material Reality and Religious Experience
- Works Cited
- 1. Joseph’s Hosen, Devotion, and Humor: The ‘Domestic’ Saint and the Earliest Material Evidence of his Cult
- 1.1 Introduction: Rethinking ‘Higher’ Levels of Literature and Art
- 1.2 Joseph’s Hosen and Early Material Evidence of his Cult
- 1.2.1 The Ivories
- 1.2.2 The Power of Relics in Fourteenth-Century Europe
- 1.2.3 The Hosen and Humor in Royal Commissions: The Antwerp-Baltimore Polyptych of Philip the Bold
- 1.3 Nutritor Domini and Bumbling Old Fool: The Hamburg Petri-Altar
- 1.3.1 The Kindelwiegenspiele
- 1.4 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 2. Satire Sacred and Profane
- 2.1 Introduction: Laughter as Veneration
- 2.2 From the Margins to the Center: Humor and the ‘World Upside Down’ in Sacred Art and Ritual
- 2.3 Diaper-Washer Josephs and the ‘Battle for the Pants’
- 2.4 Joseph, the Ass, the Peasant, and the Fool
- 2.5 Complexities of Early Modern Humor: The Virtue of the
‘Natural Man’
- 2.6 Dirty Old Man: The Bawdy and the Chaste Saint
- 2.7 Conclusion: Satirizing the Sacred
- Works Cited
- 3. Urbanitas, the Imago Humilis, and the Rhetoric of Humor in Sacred Art
- 3.1 Sacred Humor beyond Edification
- 3.2 Urbanitas, Facetia, and Courtliness in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- 3.3 Dissimulatio, Christian Irony, and the Imago Humilis
- 3.4 The Art of Rhetorical Humor and the Artist as vir facetus: Early Humanism and Social Exchange
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 4. The Miserly Saint and the Multivalent Image: Sanctity, Satire, and Subversion
- 4.1 The Early Modern paterfamilias and the Profit Economy
- 4.2 Treasurer or Miser?
- 4.3 Satire, Subversion, and the Multivalent Image
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Conclusion
- Index
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