William Michael: 249 books
Reagan and the World
Leadership and National Security, 1981--1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism....
Madness in Mogadishu
Commanding the 10th Mountain Division's Quick Reaction Company during Black Hawk Down
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the Somali capital of Mogadishu, leaving a handful of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators at the mercy of several thousand approaching militants. Ordered to "go find the glow"--the burning wreckage--hard-charging...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
1000 Years of Sobriety
20 People x 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Twenty people who have each been sober for more than fifty years tell their recovery stories--and offer actionable advice to others who are in recovery.
1000 Years of Sobriety features the moving personal accounts of twenty men and women who have each remained sober for more than fifty years....
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations
A Guide to Sustainable World-Class Capability and Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the...
Class and Power in the New Deal
Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates,...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
The Principal's Field Manual
The School Principal as the Organizational Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This user-friendly handbook focuses on five facets essential to successful organizations—mission, strategy, organizational structure, people, and leadership—to help principals become proactive, effective school leaders.
by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, Matthew H. Slater
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Original essays by leading scholars consider the environment from biological and ethical perspectives.
End of Academic Freedom
The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse...
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;...
Getting Health Reform Right
A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account...
by Abdul Kasim, Prasanna Adhikari, Nan Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies
Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides,...
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...