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Heroic Leadership
An Influence Taxonomy of 100 Exceptional Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Heroic Leadership is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from legends such as Mahatma Gandhi to the legions of unsung heroes who transform our world quietly behind the scenes. The authors argue that all great heroes are also great leaders. The term ‘heroic leadership’ is coined to describe how...
Collaborative School Improvement
Eight Practices for District-School Partnerships to Transform Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
How can districts bring instructional improvement to scale within and across schools?
The authors of Collaborative School Improvement argue that districts can play a powerful part in helping schools build the capacity to engage in inquiry-based reform—but that this effort requires a shift...
by The Learning Annex, Ian Blackburn, Allison Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Learn what you need to know about wine-in a single evening!
Though more and more Americans enjoy wine each year, many still feel intimidated by the subject. The image of the wine snob - swirling glass in hand, taking luxurious sniffs, and spouting obscure factoids about the vintage - persists,...
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Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...
Because I'm Suitable
The Journey of a Wife on Duty
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, he saw it all to be good except for one thing: man was alone. It was then that God created a suitable helper, a wife. Man would no longer be alone but the two would become one flesh. Being a wife is a journey of its own and being the wife...
Creating Digital Collections
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Libraries recognize the importance of digitizing archival material to improve access to and preservation of their special collections. This book provides a step-by-step guide for creating digital collections, including examples and practical tips that have never been published before.
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by Allison Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
You may not be able to bottle your favorite memories and save them forever, but drying flowers from a special occasion is a wonderful way to preserve those special moments. How to dry flowers will show you how to keep your posies picture-perfect.
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Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology
Essays in Honor of John S. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
John Feinberg is one of the premier evangelical scholars of the last thirty years. His work has influenced countless pastors, scholars, ethicists, and theologians.
Featuring essays by a host of colleagues and former students, such as Graham A. Cole, Bruce A. Ware, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Kevin...
American Military History
A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book offers a chronology, subheadings, and terms to provide the reader a pedagogical framework for understanding the central themes and events in the American military experience and their relation to American history. It serves as a foundation for undergraduate courses in military history.
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice
Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children’s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice...
Flames in Our Forest
Disaster Or Renewal?
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with consequences including the...
by Alison Rattle, Allison Vale
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well...
Understanding International Sport Organisations
Principles, power and possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations). The IOC, FIFA, IAAF and the FIA wield global influence, but how exactly do such complex organisations operate? This important book examines the rise of the SINGOs, their structures,...
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This dictionary provides a historical overview of the major architectural developments and styles, building materials and types, major structures and locations, sites and architects. Historical eras like ancient Egyptian architecture and the Renaissance in Europe and movements such as Art Deco are...