James A: 1347 books
Process Safety
Key Concepts and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Effective process safety programs consist of three interrelated foundations—safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline—designed to prevent serious injuries and incidents resulting from toxic releases, fires, explosions, and uncontrolled reactions. Each of...
Senior Leadership Teams
What It Takes to Make Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO-right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives...
by James A. Caporaso, Mary Anne Madeira
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
The study of international relations now goes well beyond state-to-state politics and even regional politics. Technological forces are working their effects on the world as a whole, bringing state and non-state actors into contact with one another. Globalization, Institutions and Governance...
Assessing Performance
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the...
by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...
by James A. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
The Romance Game Played and Lost
A Collection of Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The Romance Game: Played And Lost is an adult-themed collection of poems. In an age of social networks and relationship websites, love can happen across vast distances. One never knows who one meets and falls for. The Romance Game: Played And Lost deals with one such relationship. In the beginning...
by James A. Brannan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Essential Skills--Made Easy!
Create your own iPhone and Mac OS X applications with ease. Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to use the Objective-C programming language, Apple's Foundation framework, the iPhone SDK, and the Xcode development environment. The first stop...
The Philippines
Mobilities, Identities, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence.
For...
by Jaber F. Gubrium, Dr. James A. Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Interviews were once regarded as the pipeline through which information was transmitted from a passive subject to an omniscient researcher. However the new "active interview" considers interviewers and interviewees as equal partners in constructing meaning around an interview. This interpretation...
Preparing the Bride
Who Is Jesus Returning For?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Jesus promised He would come again to take us to be with Him to a place He has prepared for us, and scripture states it is an incredible place and life He has for us, beyond our comprehension. We can begin to experience this abundant life and walk in these Kingdom blessings here and now. As we allow...
Paco's Tales
This Is a Historical Novel of Forty Years of Texas History Seen Through the Eyes of a Mexican Orphan Boy: Book #1.
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Paco is a good kid in the BIG THICKET series of short stories. He is patterned after Laura Ingles in Little House on the Prairie, a TV show that lasted 9 years. Paco shows good morals and has an optimistic behavior; he has deep strong feelings and shows he cares by making himself useful.
Being...
by Major James A. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This research project studies the employment of airpower by the Fifth Air Force, under Gen George C. Kenney, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. The research began with two basic assumptions. First, it assumed that the strategic bombardment theory developed by the Air Corps Tactical...
Morality and Justice
Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on...