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Exceptional Socialists
The Case of the French Socialist Party
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This engaging exploration of the French Socialist Party details the exceptional problems that the party has faced and the way it has dealt with them. The result is a comprehensive and compelling guide to the quiddities of political infighting, the structure of power and of the environment in which the party operates.
Nurture Your Child's Gift
Inspired Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
What if the purpose of living is to fulfill a vision or dream we brought with us into this life? Any parent or person working with children knows that each child, when nurtured and encouraged, develops according to his or her unique temperament and abilities. Nurture Your Child's Gift asks us to see...
by Bert D. Johanson, Nancy B. Johanson, Fred Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
The history of the Springfield Fire Department dates back to 1792 when the first hand pumper, Lion, was purchased. On January 24, 1794, a fire club with 50 members, all prominent citizens of the city, was organized. Fire districts were established in 1830 by an act passed by the Massachusetts legislature....
Engineering Maintainability:
How to Design for Reliability and Easy Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers. It also covers the management of maintainability efforts, including issues of organizational structure, cost, and planning processes. Questions and problems conclude each chapter.
by Gil B. Fried, Timothy D. DeSchriver, Michael Mondello
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Sport Finance, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, grounds students in the real world of financial management in sport, showing them how to apply financial concepts and appreciate the importance of finance in establishing sound sport management practices. Utilizing a modern and practical approach, the...
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Modeling Change and Event Occurrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise...
The New Frontier Investors
How Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Endowments are Changing the Business of Investment Management and Long-Term Investing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds. These are the organizations that are in the media's spotlight and whose leaders and employees command outsized salaries and bonuses. They are the supposed...
Leadership in Dangerous Situations
A Handbook for the Armed Forces, Emergency Services, and First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Leadership in Dangerous Situations provides in-depth coverage of the key psychological, social and organization factors that impact individual and organizational effectiveness for First Responders in dangerous environments. Leading scholars discuss how current theories and empirical research provides...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by Ernest L. Rossi, David B. Cheek, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
A remarkable collaboration between psychologist Rossi and gynecologist-obstetrician Cheek, this book guides and empowers therapists and patients to find the keys to their own health and well-being through therapeutic hypnosis.
Hundreds of engaging case reports from Cheek's forty years of clinical...
Life Beyond Death
A Subjective Account and Objective (Scholarly) Analysis of Death and Compelling Evidence of a After Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Do we have reasonable and rational hope of life after the event I call death? Knowledge is powerful. This book is powerful because it presents knowledge, information, insights, discoveries, experiences, and rational, compelling evidence of life and consciousness after the event I call death. Life...
The Times They Are A Changin'
The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000ft over Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
by John B. Izzo , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stop *Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way!
Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of...
by D.B. Sieders
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
A Sylph, a Merman, and an immortal Rock Star go to Vegas…
No joke, just a road trip for the guys before Paul Pulaski and Vance Idol say goodbye to bachelorhood. Bruce plans to show his buddies a great time in Sin City.
It’s all fun and games until Bruce gets them an audience with...