Marilyn: 1342 books
Make a PACT for Success
Designing Effective Information Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
At one time taking a public speaking course was sufficient to provide the skills necessary for effective presentations. Now, the Information Age makes the use of information technology mandatory, so that presentations are delivered not only through speech, but also using electronic communications,...
The Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The Knights of Pythias fraternal organization was founded in 1865 by an Act of Congress. When African American men were denied membership, they created their own organization in Vicksburg, MS, in 1880. Its founder, Thomas Stringer, believed that fraternal organizations could provide the black community...
Journalists under pressure
Unwarranted interference, fear and self-censorship in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Freedom of expression is one of the basic conditions for the progress of society. Without safeguards for the safety of journalists there can be no free media. Journalists are under threat in Europe. Different forms of violence against journalists have increased significantly over the last decade:...
by Peter Neaverson, Marilyn Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Two hundred years of industry have transformed the British landscape. This book enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry. The authors are industrial archaeologists of national standing whose concern is to use surviving material evidence and contemporary sources to study the...
by Marilyn Alston
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
There has never been a protocol Guide like this. protocol 32 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of protocol. Instead, it answers the top 32 questions that we are asked and those we come across in our forums, consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those...
The Found Generation
Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 and 1905 not only believed they had a duty to �save� their nation but pursued their goal through social and political experimentation....
by Marilyn Herbert, Allison Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live in Room, an 11 foot square shed in the backyard of their abductor and captor, Old Nick. Ma came to Room from outside, but Jack was born into it and has never known anything else. Despite their confinement, Ma creates an extraordinary situation for her son, filled with...
by Marilyn Alcorn
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Adrian's Revenge, a quasi-fiction/non fictional tale bathed in a spritual backwash with a protagonist who is haunted throughout the story.Comejoin in on the quest of this modern day hero of a sort that begins inhistoric Spain as its Kings and Queens send braveexplorers or not tothe foreign shores...
The Animal Who Writes
A Posthumanist Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write,...
Rhetorical Animals
Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
For this edited volume, the editors solicited chapters that investigate the place of nonhuman animals in the purview of rhetorical theory; what it would mean to communicate beyond the human community; how rhetoric reveals our "brute roots." In other words, this book investigates themes that...
On Being a Scholar-Practitioner
Practical Wisdom in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This book challenges the traditional dichotomy between scholars and practitioners and argues that Scholar-Practitioner is a mindset that educators bring to their work. This mindset comprises six qualities that can be cultivated over the course of one's professional life: Pedagogical Wisdom, Theoretical...
From Interrogation to Liberation: a Photographic Journey Stalag Luft Iii
The Road to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
During World War II, 300,000 United States Army Air Corps airmen were shot down. Of that number, 51,000 were prisoners of war or listed as missing in action. Bombardiers, positioned in the vulnerable bombardiers compartment at the front of the aircraft, were in high demand. The authors fathers were...
It’S Just You and Me God
Anytime! Anywhere! Anyhow! Anything!
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This devotional guide can be catered to fit your schedule and your study style and depth. My prayer is that God will use it to help you walk boldly into His presence and into His vision for your magnificent life! Knowledge is power. What greater power is there than to receive the abundance of Gods...
Sisters
And Other Fast Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Sisters Margo and Susie have learned to bury their differences and present a united front to the world. Although the sisters could not be more different, they have willingly come together to fulfill a requestto sit for a portrait for their parents upcoming fiftieth anniversary. But after they receive...