David Townsend: 11 books
Pogey, Poutine and Warm, Furry Beavers
(Plus Twenty Other Reasons to Enjoy Being Canadian)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
A frenetic celebration of all things Canucky the sort of result you might get if you pumped Dave Barry full of maple syrup and Moosehead, then left him tied up in a sack for a week with Ron James and the Littlest Hobo.
by David Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
Two middle-aged men trying to make it work in a small college town. A sexy young flirt in a wheelchair. A snowdrift. Some rope. Sometimes life brings the unexpected, and you get luckier than you ever dreamt possible.
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 5
Employee Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Employee engagement makes a difference. HR professionals know this intuitively and so do leaders. They want employees to care about their work and actively engage with the job and the organization. But now we know that employee engagement is not just something that makes intuitive sense. It also reaps...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 7
Globalization, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Virtual Working Arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Organizations are globalizing at a frenetic rate. The world is becoming more connected each year and each generation of technology speeds up this process. What once took weeks and then days to share now can be done in minutes. This section will help you understand the dynamics of culture and diverse...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 6
Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The pace of change is increasing and shows no signs of slowing down. This section brings you the best thinking from forty years of the OD Practitioner journal on:- The different kinds of change and what's needed to achieve each one.- What you must do to see change initiatives through to completion.-...
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Political Economy of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...
Unlocking Your Family Patterns
Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1995
Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether yo're just not sure).
Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decade's worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 2
Consulting and Partnership Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The role of the HR professional has shifted from personnel administrator to business adviser, which includes consulting and partnering with the organization’s leadership and other service providers. This section will help you learn what core skills are needed for consulting; how to develop partner...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 4
Thinking Systematically and Strategically
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Thinking systemically and strategically means moving beyond a focus on the individual to understand the larger organizational and environmental systems and how the dynamics of those systems impact work performance and the readiness for change. This section will explain how certain problems recur and...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 3
Use of Self as an Instrument of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Use of self” is what Organizational Development practitioners call the complex set of awareness and behaviors that make it possible to be genuinely helpful to others. Effective use of self is essential for influencing change in an organization. This section will help you understand how your assumptions...