James D Thompson: 8 books
Organizations in Action
Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult....
The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook, Expanded Edition
Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Available for the First Time: The Complete Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook
Covers all three phases of the start-up to scale-up process, developed with reader feedback from one of the more unusual ebook...experiments of the year” (ThinReads)
Wharton professor Ian C. MacMillan and...
by James FW Thompson, Dave D'Alessio, J. Donnait
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Leprechauns are out to get me. I'm not kidding. They're real, and they're a**holes. I'll tell you why. And while I'm at it, I'll tell you about the two guys who took on Hades's demons on a drunken dare. What they brought back you'll never believe. I also heard about a dude who answered a help wanted...
by Jon F. Nussbaum, Loretta L. Pecchioni, James D. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later...
by Mark Thompson, Jon Thoday, Amanda D. Lotz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,...
by A. Akovbiantz, P. Buchmann, C.A. Cabre-Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of...
Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels
The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...