James M : 1461 books
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Old Testament Legends
Being Stories out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Delve deeper into the fascinating nooks and crannies of biblical history with this engaging volume of tales from the Old Testament era. Ordered chronologically, some of the tales center on unfamiliar characters, while others provide new insight and details about well-known figures such as Adam and Eve.
by M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that St. Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the fragments of ostensible erudition which are scattered about my pages, hardly anything in them...
你要如何衡量你的人生? 哈佛商學院最重要的一堂課 (全新增修版)
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 22, 2018
第一本將企業管理的研究成果套用在人生規劃上的書！
特別收錄克里斯汀生訪談，剖析「人生三問」精義
以破壞式創新理論聞名的克里斯汀生，看到許多哈佛商學院的同學向命運一點一滴地妥協：接受不喜歡的工作、犧牲家庭生活，甚至做出有違倫理的決定。為什麼？他們原本才智過人、為人正派、目標遠大，他們的人生究竟哪裡出了差錯？
因此，克里斯汀生在學期最後安排了他認為最重要的一堂課，用企業理論討論三個問題：
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by Zimbell House Publishing, Edward Ahern, Caitlin Siem
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Reflections: Michigan 2015
is a anthology celebrating Michigan
featuring a collection of short stories from some of our new American authors.
Zimbell House Publishing is commited to
showcasing new American voices.
Lean Diagnostics
Almost Everything You Think You Know About Lean is Probably Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Some of you think you have succeeded in transforming your company into a Lean enterprise just because your quality and delivery metrics and your customer relations are improved? You are wrong. Your performance may even have reached the so-called ‘best-in-class’ status among your peers and you’d...
Debt Free!
Your Guide To Personal Bankruptcy Without Shame
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Debt Free! is a clear, practical guide that helps readers get past the stigma of bankruptcy and on their way to financial recovery.
by James Heilbrun, Charles M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
The 2001 second edition of this survey of the economics of - and public policy towards - the fine arts and performing arts covers arts at federal, state, and local levels in the United States as well as the international arts sector. The work will interest academic readers in the field and scholars...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Retire Right
8 Scientifically Proven Traits You Need for a Happy, Fulfilling Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The first scientifically backed guide to a happy, fulfilling retirement.
Over the years, Dr. Fritz Fraunfelder and Dr. Jim Gilbaugh have seen thousands of their patients respond differently to the challenges of retirement: some rose to new heights; others hit new lows. The doctors began to...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Financing Community Colleges
Where We Are, Where We're Going
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Grounded in an economic perspective, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going helps college leaders make sense of the challenges they face in securing and managing the resources needed to carry out the community college mission. Finance has perpetually been an Achilles heel for...
by James W. Sipe and Don M. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Offers a skills-oriented approach to acquiring the most critical competencies of effective servant leadership, all without overlooking matters of the heart and soul that make it
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations
New Thinking and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessary component of strategy and operations.
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred...