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Becoming a Strategic Leader
Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming a Strategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic...
by M.L. Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
In democracy, the responsibility for delivering good government rests on the performance of the executive, yet the bureaucracy plays a significant part in its success. Though the bureaucracy is required to function under political direction, but their knowledge and erudition certainly facilitate success...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
by Alison Brooks, , Chanin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
Aging Heroes
Growing Old in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
First Chapters: Foreplay
First Chapters, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
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Looking for new romance books to read? Here’s your chance! 22 amazing Indie romance authors, from a wide range of sub-genres, have joined together to give you free peeks at their books! This is a compilation of the first one to three chapters of select books from...
Cien años de sueño
Antologíade cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Aquí se reúnen diecinueve cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX. La recopilación presenta un panorama de la literatura que empezó a escribirse en México mientras el país se conformaba como república. Los escritores incluidos en este libro reflejan un ánimo literario enfocado en relatar hechos sobrenaturales...
by M. L. Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Christmastime in the south of France is as beautiful as ever, but when a shady local businessman drops dead in the middle of the festivities, Verlaque and Bonnet must solve the case while keeping the holiday spirit alive
Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town of Aix-en-Provence,...
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands
Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...
The Dyslexic Advantage
Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Two neurolearning experts reveal the hidden benefits of having a dyslexic brain.
In this paradigm-shifting book, neurolearning experts Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide describe an exciting new brain science that reveals that dyslexic people have unique brain structure and organization. While the...
by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.
Contributors...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...