Ronald Alexander: 10 books
Wise Mind, Open Mind
Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Though it's nearly impossible to imagine, times of personal crisis and upheaval are opportunities for self-reinvention and heightened artistic expression. Whether you are healing from a severed relationship, experiencing a job loss, or coping with another traumatic life transition, you can renew your...
She Had the Three Gifts to Woman!
A Gift Can Be a Curse
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book is about a woman that couldnt have children. Something happens to her miraculously, and she ends up having children. On top of that, she gets the three gifts to woman, and her life takes a big turn. This book will take you to the edge, and just when you think things cant get any crazier,...
by Ronald Alexander Malloy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A 40 Chapter, fast-moving drama centered within Toronto's Downtown Core in the mid 1980's; several years after the 1970's Massage Parlor Era is phased out! As a consequence of mysterious deaths related to the Yonge Street Strip; its initial cause is mysterious! Initially defined as somewhat related...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.
Ron Heifetz...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Narrating Trauma
On the Impact of Collective Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups...
Staging Solidarity
Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims...
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
The Aging Workforce Handbook
Individual, Organizational and Societal Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This volume critically reviews the phenomenon of the aging workforce, adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that examines the challenges raised on an individual, organizational and societal level. Core issues framing the concept of the aging workforce and its consequences are presented by a team...