William J: 1364 books
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
Scaling Leadership
Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Transform Your Organization by Scaling Leadership
How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders—the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders...
Maximizing the Value of Consulting
A Guide for Internal and External Consultants
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Provide organized, efficient, relevant consulting with lasting value
Maximizing the Value of Consulting is an indispensable, practical guide for managing, measuring, and delivering the results that make internal and external consulting a lasting value to clients and the company. Sponsored by...
Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover
All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover: All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems, Third Edition, provides a convenient source of reference for oil field workers who do not use formulas and calculations on a regular basis. This book is still intended...
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;...
A Glorious Disaster
Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Barry Goldwater's 1964 run for the presidency was one of the major political turning points of the twentieth century: The policy positions and electoral strategies of that campaign have become standard tenets of Republican politics. A member of the Draft Goldwater” movement as early as 1962, Bill...
by William G. Stripp, J.D., Philip R. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
With expanding world markets and increased international business competition comes a corresponding demand for organizations and individuals who are prepared to operate in these new arenas of global commerce. As a human resource professional, it is your job to ensure your team keeps pace with the...
Urban Sustainability
Reconnecting Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.
Urban Sustainability...
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...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Learning Communities 2.0
Educating in the Age of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today's coercive, 'inside-the-box,' Industrial Age testing and accountability movement, which authors Spady and Schwahn describe as a politically driven, backward-facing juggernaut masquerading as reform. They call...
by Carolyn J. Downey, Dr. William K. Poston, Dr. Fenwick W. English
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Clear, updated guidelines for increasing academic performance and providing educational equity for all students!
This revised guide outlines 50 strategies for developing high-performing schools. Emphasizing educational parity for all students, the book is organized around six standards:
Teach...
Educating through Popular Culture
You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed for a detailed examination of teaching with...
by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
**From the national bestselling authors of Stand Your Ground comes an explosive story of citizens’ rights, government wrongs, and freedom’s last stand—deep in the heart of Texas…
AMERICA UNDER FIRE**
G.W. Brannock is proud to be a rancher, a West Texan, and a American. The land...