A Geary: 11 books

Lina is soon to become queen of Egypt's most venerated beings. The countdown is on but before she ascends into her own immortality, she has some loose ends to address, namely her mother, and her ex. Against Isis' better judgement she allows Lina the time she seeks, but makes it absolutely clear: Lina...

Lina has become queen. She rules over several factions: the Blood Gods, The Sons of Wepwawet, as well as The Daughters of Bast-et. The pressure is on for her to fill, not only Isis' incredibly large shoes, but all the women in power before her. Despite the joy she feels over finally ascending, Lina...

For Lina Oveisi, Chicago is merely a holding ground for all her broken dreams. Her father's dead, and been so seven years, but that hard fact is no less biting as timerolls on. It's the mystery of his death which has never settled with Lina, and at eighteen she's still plagued by it....

Lina, Will, and Jaime have bonded their lives together, but their unconventional love carries a hefty price tag. For Lina their union signifies a new era, one of open acceptance. For Will and Jaime it is an un-traversed terrain, which neither is particularly comfortable with. To add to the pressure...

Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US is shown to be created by the violent intimacy of the state.

Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded new edition, Gary Rummler reflects on the key needs of organizations...

For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...

Example in this ebook   A distinguished English student of folk-lore has written: “Armenia offers a rich and hitherto almost untouched field to the folk-lorist, the difficulty of grappling with the language—the alphabet even of which was described by Byron as ‘a very Waterloo...

Within tourism studies, the cosmopolitan potentials of tourism have often been situated within a broader conversation about globalization, an approach that implies that cosmopolitanism is a predictable by-product of globalization and becoming more cosmopolitan should be the goal of travel. And yet...

When Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart was published in 1990, it was lauded as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. This was the book that first detailed an approach that bridged the gaps between organization strategy, work processes and...

The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst...