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The Leader's Window
Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
"A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 habits at work." - Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Do you know how to lead people? This is the toughest act required of every supervisor, manager, executive, and CEO. In the face of leadership challenges and increasing pressure to produce...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core
Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing...
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform...
Life After Residency
A Career Planning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Life After Residency: A Career Planning Guide is an insightful, step-by-step guide to achieving a successful and fulfilling career in medicine. As professors at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Melissa Berhow, William Feaster, and John Brock-Utne began running seminars to advise their residents...
U.S. Overseas Military Presence
What Are the Strategic Choices?
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....
by John W. Nieder, Thomas M. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This popular book, with over 130,000 copies in print, explores the importance of healing wounded relationships in a variety of settings: family, extended family, friendships, and workplace. Forgive and Love Again provides readers withhope that their wounded hearts can be healed and they can love again...
Twentieth-Century Suburbs
A Morphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.
This book describes the ways...
One God in Three Persons
Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
How do the three persons of the Trinity relate to each other? Evangelicals continue to wrestle with this complex issue and its implications for our understanding of men's and women’s roles in both the home and the church.
Challenging feminist theologies that view the Trinity as a model for...
Congress and Harry S. Truma
A Conflicted Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...
Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...
by Mithun B. Nasrin, W.A.M Van Der Wurff
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Colloquial Bengali provides a step-by-step course in Bengali as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Bengali in a broad range of...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Cross-Cultural Psychology is a leading textbook offering senior undergraduate and graduate students a thorough and balanced overview of the whole field of cross-cultural psychology. The team of internationally acclaimed authors present the latest empirical research, theory, methodology and applications...
Colombia's Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
From Uribe to Santos and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges...