Gwen: 421 books

Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy, hilarious way with exhaustion, climatic extremes, dangerous...

Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.

Gwendolyn Oglesby has built most of her career working in customer service with the ultimate goal of creating memorable employee-customer experiences and positive workplace environments. Managing employees, serving customers, building a team culture- she's done it all. Now she's ready to share her...

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these...

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...

What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information silosall content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user, providing visitors with a new level of customization, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites now allow users to upload,...

Ignite creativity by weaving Web 2.0 tools into the classroom. In this expanded and fully updated edition, the authors of the best-selling Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools introduce you to more collaborative tools and expertly lead you through classroom and professional applications that help expand student and teacher learning.

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

Take Charge of Your Writing--and Dazzle Your Instructors! It can be a challenge to achieve writing excellence, but it doesn't have to be mysterious, and it's definitely not impossible. To present powerful ideas effectively in your college essays, you need to break away from rigid rules and...

Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...

Ismaël Tayeb est lieutenant dans un gang criminel. Son grand patron lui donne un ordre qu'il ne peut refuser : trouver une pile nucléaire... Pour cela il va devoir remettre en marche et voler le dernier Atlas, un de ces immenses robots français qui géraient des constructions titanesques jusqu'au...

Jeanne sépare soigneusement sa vie de flic et ses activités libertines nocturnes. Mais cette frontière vole en éclats quand elle va devoir enquêter sur le meurtre d'une jeune femme impliquant Circé, un cercle mystérieux cherchant à réinventer l'art érotique grâce à d'étonnants jeux sous contraintes, comme l'Oulipo le fit jadis avec la littérature.

Sports Arbitrage Trading is the act of placing bets on all possible outcomes of a sporting event so that you lock in a definite profit at the end of that event. Known by a range of names – Scalping, Betting Arbitrage or Surebetting – arbitrage trading also enables people to take advantage of...

The Tall Poppies--a few days ago, they were just another Aussie band watching their fame ebb faster than a nitrous high. Then Stuart, the drummer, is gunned down by Australian drug lords, and the band is suddenly news in Australia, America, and even on CNN. Rachel, a chatty twenty-seven-year-old New...