John David: 902 books
by David John Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Ministry in a small town or rural context is challenging. The minister and his or her family live in a fishbowl, with every aspect of life under constant scrutiny. In addition, few seminaries or Christian colleges and universities offer courses preparing people for small-town ministry. Throw in limited...
by John Charles Duffy, David J Howlett
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Although often regarded as marginal or obscure, Mormonism is a significant American religious minority, numerically and politically. The successes and struggles of this U.S. born religion reveal much about how religion operates in U.S. society. Mormonism: The Basics introduces the teachings, practices,...
by Dr K. Evans, Dr Markus Kellerhals, Dr Amit Dhingra
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
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Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood
International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.
In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
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...
Lead the Work
Navigating a World Beyond Employment
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implications
Lead the Work takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of work, and how it's affecting management and productivity at the organizational level. Where getting things done once meant assigning it to an employee,...
Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance
British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the...
Explaining Criminal Careers
Implications for Justice Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple but influential theory of...
Locked Down
Information Security for Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In an age where lawyers frequently conduct business across wireless networks using smartphones and laptops, how can attorneys safeguard client data and confidential information? Locked Down explains the wide variety of information security risks facing law firms and how lawyers can best protect their data from these threats--with any budget.
by Chwan-Hwa (John) Wu, J. David Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
If a network is not secure, how valuable is it? Introduction to Computer Networks and Cybersecurity takes an integrated approach to networking and cybersecurity, highlighting the interconnections so that you quickly understand the complex design issues in modern networks. This full-color book uses a wealth of examples and illustrations to effective
by David Albert, Mike Chanslor, Carolyn L. Funk
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Candidate Images provides...
Chocolate and Health
Chemistry, Nutrition and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Following on from their previous volume on Chocolate as Medicine, Philip K. Wilson and W. Jeffrey Hurst edit this companion volume, Chocolate and Health, providing a comprehensive overview of the chemistry, nutrition and bioavailability of cacao and chocolate.
The book begins with a brief historical...
The Everything HR Kit
A Complete Guide to Attracting, Retaining, and Motivating High-Performance Employees
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
With The Everything HR Kit, whether you are a newcomer or a veteran, you can set up a stellar HR department from scratch. Packed with ready-to-go checklists, sample brochures, job descriptions, customizable forms, interview questions, performance review templates, and more, this one-stop book puts...