John R: 1297 books
by R. A.W. Rhodes, John Wanna, Patrick Weller
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
This book explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system. It examines in detail four interrelated features of Westminster systems. Firstly, the increasing centralisation in collective, responsible cabinet government....
17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong
Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The authors share lessons learned from an incredible 17,000+ classroom walkthroughs, distilling the insights into strategies for shifting the classroom dynamic from teaching to learning.
by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, John Rev. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical...
by Joseph I. Goldstein, Dale E. Newbury, Joseph R. Michael
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) for elemental microanalysis, electron backscatter diffraction analysis (EBSD)...
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
Resurgent Russia
An Operational Approach to Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Groundbreaking research on current Russian interference and aggression from six former US Army War College students who briefed the Pentagon.
Relations between the United States and Russia have recently escalated from strained to outright aggressive. From imperial expansion in Ukraine to intervention...
The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning
Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction,...
by Gerald B. Halt, Jr., John C. Donch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company’s development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual...
Navigating Commerce in Latin America
Options and Obstacles
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The forces of globalization, technology, and information diffusion, as well as the processes of democratic consolidation have served to improve and expand opportunities for business in Latin American markets. These changes have not occurred uniformly, and this insightful book will help future business...
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
by John W. Cusworth, T. R. Franks
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Covers the concepts, systems and skills of project management, identifying the three major elements of organisations: implementation, planning and procurement.
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century
The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces
Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Archaeologists and architects draw upon theoretical perspectives from their fields to provide valuable insights into the structure, development, and meaning of prehistoric communities.
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our...