Augustine: 275 books
by Augustine Odinakachukwu Ejiogu
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
In the modern globalized economy, it is important for businesses of all sizes to take advantage of the opportunity to enter diverse markets around the world. Through an international presence, organizations can remain competitive. Agricultural Finance and Opportunities for Investment and Expansion...
Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta
Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers...
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
Improving School Leadership
The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This study documents actions of Wallace Foundation grantees to create more-cohesive policies and initiatives to improve instructional leadership in schools; describes how states and districts have worked together to forge such policies and initiatives; and examines the hypothesis that cohesive systems...
Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957
Conversion in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and the Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The subtitle...
Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit
Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of the thought of contemporary French philosopher, historian of ideas, and novelist Chantal Delsol. A member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, she is well known in France as a political analyst and cultural diagnostician....
ESSENTIALS OF COUNSELLING COMPETENCIES
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
A counsellor’s self-awareness and understanding of what counselling is (and what it is not) are foundational for a beginning counsellor’s learning journey. Just as important is the ability to connect with a client from the first contact to closure, as well as to understand and utilise eff ective...
by Augustine Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Here comes the bride!! Oh, and the groom…and, of course, the photographer. Maybe you agreed to take photos at your best friend’s wedding for free because she knows you are a really good photographer. Maybe you have a small photography business and you want to branch out into wedding photography....
The Ones That Got Away
Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Everything associated with Camp Quality is such a positive experience. For six days, campers, companions, and staff members look cancer in the eye and tell the dreaded disease that it can be beaten. They know it may affect a person physically, but not spiritually and emotionally. And because of the...
Getting to Work on Summer Learning
Recommended Practices for Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
RAND is conducting a longitudinal study that evaluates the effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in reducing summer learning loss, which contributes substantially to the achievement gap between low- and higher-income students. Based on evaluations of programs in six school districts,...
Post-Colonial Cameroon
Politics, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people in post-colonial Africa through five...
by Lama Milkweed L. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
This is a lengthy, but exciting novel of how a promising young boy becomes molded into a horrific individual.It explains about the persons life in such detail, that emotions literally explode into a wavering array of uninterruptible events.Leading to endless scenes of inhumane atrocities.Feeding on...
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Theories in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...