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The Power of Control Thought seeks to answer a fundamental question: how to live life. You have the freedom to create your own thoughts throughout your lifes journey. Cause and effect can be controlled by your own thoughts. Through a series of simple steps, you will be able to master all of...

Now, more than ever, the complexity and interconnectedness of the world’s challenges demand that we embolden young, capable, and inspired service leaders to conceive of novel ways to address them. Many young people express an interest in social issues, yet while thousands enter college each year...

Publishing continues to be a major industry worldwide, and this book is designed to assist the thousands of entities that regularly contract into a variety of agreements and need advice in drafting or negotiating the best terms for a deal, or otherwise employing or understanding specific terms used....

From the brain trust at The Atlanta Consulting Group comes a simple method hailed as a revolution in management practice: learning to care. Caring isn’t a frill. It delivers results. And for some unenlightened managers, learning to care can be a matter of corporate life or death. Managing...

Against the Wind: Memories of Days in the Field with Bird Dogs, Camera, and Gun is the day by day story of an epic bird hunting adventure across four western states. It tells of the coming of age for four English setter puppies, 12 weeks old at the beginning of the hunting season, as they learn how...

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...

Scores of examples and problems allow students to hone their skills. Clear explanations of fundamental tasks facilitate students’ understanding of important concepts. New! Chapters on shading models, shadow, and texture—including the Phong illumination model—explain the latest techniques and tools for achieving photorealism in computer graphics.

A LONG, WILD RIDE Paper Fortunes is the richly-detailed story of Wall Street from post-war heyday to present woes, from a player whose experiences, profiles of the colorful personalities involved and learned observations of the forces shaping the business make it insightful and timely. Smith,...

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years, and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study, it addresses one central question: If...

Sustainability Sutra addresses the pursuit of sustainability as crucial in the transformation from an industrial to an ecological civilization, exploring in succinct detail how sustainability can be accomplished through an ecological global growth strategy that makes economic growth mean ecological...

There has never been a Time Management manual like this. Time Management 62 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Time Management. Instead, it answers the top 62 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly...

The elections of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the 1990s saw the consolidation and completion of critical aspects of the Reagan-Thatcher fiscal agenda. This impressive book critically analyzes this process. It has been previously thought that this process of adopting common fiscal policies was caused by economic integration and globalization, Fisc

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront...

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates...