Lawler: 90 books
The Sexual Person
Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Two principles capture the essence of the official Catholic position on the morality of sexuality: first, that any human genital act must occur within the framework of heterosexual marriage; second, each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life. In this comprehensive overview...
The American Surfer
Radical Culture and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture,...
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
by Andrew Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Here, from award-winning writer Andrew Lawler, is what may be the worlds oldest true-life whodunit. The detective: Joan Oates, a diminutive 82-year-old grandmother, close friend of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie, and, as Lawler writes, one of the worlds most distinguished archaeologists. In Syria,...
The River and the Ravages
The River and the Ravages, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
When do you risk everything for love?
Maddalena and Aaliya Reiner have not been close as sisters, but the distance between them widens after the death of their mother.
While Aaliya is irresistibly drawn into a passionate and hidden love affair, her sister finds comfort in marriage...
by David Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The detached "Odd" trilogy of "Eggs for Eyes", "Of Great Gore and the Sleeping Beasts", and "The Children of the Land of Odd" conjoin several stories of apocalypse by different (and often hilarious) ways in David Lawler's short-story collection, "Trinity"....
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
The Faithful Departed
The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization.The collapse...
Useful Research
Advancing Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Features a who's who of leading management scholars Takes a stand on a major controversy in academia: should organizational research aspire to be relevant to practitioners? A sequel to the seminal book, Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice, also edited by Ed Lawler, Susan Mohrman,...
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management
An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) fifth study of human resources in large corporations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this text compares data from CEO's earlier studies to data collected...
Effective Human Resource Management
A Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010. Edward...
Global Trends in Human Resource Management
A Twenty-Year Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Since 1995, USC's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has conducted the definitive longitudinal study of the human resource management function in organizations. By analyzing new data every three years since then, the Center has been able to consistently chart changes in how HR is organized and...
The Agility Factor
Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A research-based approach to achieving long-term profitability in business
What does it take to guarantee success and profitability over time? Authors Christopher G. Worley, a senior research scientist, Thomas D. Williams, an executive advisor, and Edward E. Lawler III, one of the country's...
Human Resource Excellence
An Assessment of Strategies and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US,...