C Thornton: 22 books
by Richard C. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A story of victory and defeat: Reagan's victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War and his defeat at the hands of his domestic political opponents, who sought accommodation with Moscow over victory.
White Man's Disease
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Poignant, sad, tragic, funny, and compelling. At 29, Paul Thornton thought he was at the top of his game. Married to his beautiful childhood sweetheart, a rising star at one of the world’s largest companies, and gifted with a tall, commanding presence, Paul Thornton had a future as bright as the morning...
by C. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A plague has destroyed the old world, and a small group of survivors are learning to live a new life. But old rivalries have survived too, and the personal conflict between two powerful men threatens to destroy the peace.
Science in the Early Years
Building Firm Foundations from Birth to Five
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Giving early years practitioners and students the confidence to effectively support scientific exploration and investigation with young children, this book explains the science behind young children's knowledge and understanding of the world.
Linking theory to good early years practice, the...
The Reagan Revolution, I
The Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
This is a book about the strategy and politics of the Reagan administration--a watershed in U.S. history. It is the record of how the president established and implemented the strategy that would ultimately lead to a victory over the S.U. in the Cold War.
Developing Organizational Simulations
A Guide for Practitioners, Students, and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations. Incorporating new additions...
Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management
Strategies for Prediction, Diagnosis, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
The theme permeating this book on assessment centers is "continuity and change", describing what has remained the same and what has changed in the 50-year history of the assessment center method. One of the important changes explored is the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs...
The Reagan Revolution, Ii
Rebuilding the Western Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
How President Reagan successfully rebuilt the Western Alliance, particularly in relations with the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan.
The Reagan Revolution Iii
Defeating the Soviet Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Volume III of the Reagan Revolution series recounts the president's successful defeat of the Soviet drive for global hegemony--for strategic weaons superiority, political domination of the Eurasian landmass, and decisive leverage over world oil. In volumes I and II of this study I analyzed the president's...
by George C. Thornton III, Deborah E. Rupp, Brian J. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Written by three leading scholars with vast experience in the science and practice of assessment centers (ACs), this is the first volume to comprehensively integrate variations of the assessment center method with alternative talent management strategies. A useful reference guide, it examines the...
by George C. Thornton Iii
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Globalization, innovation, market share, identifying visionary leaders and, particularly, talent management ...are just some of the issues that benefit from using assessment and development centres. Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management focuses on topics that influence the design of the...
by Thornton W. Burgess, C. S. Corson, Illustrator
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This is one of Thornton Burgesses' "Boy Scout Books." This first one features Walter, a scout who has never been to camp. He and his fellow scouts experience lots of adventures and come to meet and appreciate people who have different background than their own.
The book has 15 images....
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
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