Michael William: 249 books
The Principal's Field Manual
The School Principal as the Organizational Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This user-friendly handbook focuses on five facets essential to successful organizations—mission, strategy, organizational structure, people, and leadership—to help principals become proactive, effective school leaders.
by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, Matthew H. Slater
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Original essays by leading scholars consider the environment from biological and ethical perspectives.
End of Academic Freedom
The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse...
Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
An Introduction to Fundamental Tools, Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This new Fourth Edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations, offers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making major capital investments;...
Getting Health Reform Right
A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account...
by Abdul Kasim, Prasanna Adhikari, Nan Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies
Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides,...
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
Globalization on the Ground
Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2001
This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international...
Shadowrun: Spells & Chrome
Shadowrun Anthology, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2072…
…And a world unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial...
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
Social Class and Stratification
Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The second edition of this strong collection brings together classical statements on social stratification with current and original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for students in courses on social stratification,...
by Thomas Hood, William Michael Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Thomas Hood was a British humorist, publisher and poet whose popular verse injected some much-needed levity and realism into early nineteenth-century literature. This volume collects a broad cross-section of his most important work, including "The Song of the Shirt," a moving portrait of poverty that garnered widespread acclaim in its day.
by Ahmed Khalifa, Michael DiBaggio, Jack McDonald Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution.
Imagine...a world where independent...