Richard J : 949 books
Designing School Systems for All Students
A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Designing School Systems for All Students provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students. The authors demonstrate how school leaders set the expectations for all students to learn and grow as...
Rules and Unruliness
Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and...
by Richard J. Gladon, William R. Graves, J. Michael Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The goal of this book is to make it easier for scientists, especially those new to scientific writing, to write about their results and to get their manuscripts accepted in peer-reviewed journals. The book covers each step throughout the submission process, from organizing and outlining the manuscript,...
by John J. Watkins, Richard J. Peltz-Steele, Robert Steinbuch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in...
Was Frankenstein Really Uncle Sam? Vol. Vi
Notes on the State of the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This is one of eight volumes on the Declaration. The fi rst four contain each 365 essays. These last four contain about 25 essays each. Rolwing examines nearly all the major writers on our Basic Charter, most of whom repudiate it. He focuses on their manifold criticisms and rejections, reveals their...
Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861
Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
A close look at the first eight weeks after Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, reveals a time when the fate of the nation's capital, certainly of the Lincoln Administration, and perhaps of the nation itself, seemed very much in doubt.
This is a story of a president uncertain and...
Life Reimagined
Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**Winner of the 2014 Silver Nautilus Award
Are You Ready for Your Life Reimagined Moment?
Are you at a point in your life where you're asking, “What's next?” You've finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us face these transitions at midlife, but they...
Horror Comics in Black and White
A History and Catalog, 1964-2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines imposed to placate public concern over gory and horrific comic book content, effectively banning genuine horror comics. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to...
Fixing Toyota
Quality Is Hard--Lean Is Much Harder
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A closer look at Toyota’s quality and lean manufacturing problems–and the powerful lessons and warnings they represent. In the general and business press, Toyota’s quality issues are just that: quality issues. The industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether Toyota’s...
Warren Buffett on Business
Principles from the Sage of Omaha
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
The proven business principles of Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is one of the most admired and prolific investors and managers in corporate America. Warren Buffett on Business is a timeless guide to strategies that can help you run a successful business. This book is a one-of-a-kind collection...
Restless Genius
Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media
In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy, near bankrupt New York financial paper—*The Wall Street Journal—*and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually...
平靜的心，專注的大腦 ： 禪修鍛鍊，如何改變身、心、大腦的科學與哲學
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 30, 2018
一心多用的分心年代
禪修是拉回你的注意力、強化心智的過程
脫去其宗教性、神秘性，從腦科學研究驗證
你我都能更專注、更慈心、擁有持續改變人生的力量
現代EQ情緒之父X腦神經科學權威
這是即將改變你生命的一本書！
有一種方法讓你不必被隨時冒出的心念、被恐懼和憤怒等情緒所掌控
東方智慧的心靈修鍊，啟動深層的大腦變化
禪修、正念過去經常被拿來強調於減壓、加強人際關係、甚至增進工作生產力，但在其神秘的儀式或簡單的方法中，不乏一些誤解與過度誇大的神話。到底禪修、正念可以為我們做什麼？不能做什麼？
心理學家也是暢銷科普作家丹尼爾・高曼，在二十年前著書揭露EQ是決定個人成功、快樂與否的關鍵；二十年後，他與大腦╱情緒研究國際權威的神經科學家理查‧戴維森博士，在達賴喇嘛的鼓勵下，從倆人的禪修經驗出發，佐以大量的腦神經科學研究，萃取出禪修有益於廣大世界的價值，進一步提出禪修科學。
心腦相依，鍛鍊心就能訓練大腦
禪修真正的好處是增強腦部的神經可塑性，改變大腦的結構和功能，帶來長期深層正向的生命轉變，遠超越以往心理學所能想像
禪修能重塑大腦的四種主要神經迴路
1.焦慮煩躁惱人的反應系統—受到壓力並從中恢復的迴路
2.提升專注力的神經迴路—禪修的核心就是重新訓練我們的專注習慣，減少分心散漫
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Mark Spitz
The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz:...
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop," "soul," "funk," "urban contemporary," or "hip-hop," R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes...