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by Gerald B. Halt, Jr., John C. Donch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company’s development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual...
Makers of Fortune
A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
So many businesses rose and fell in nineteenth-century Auckland that the city was called a ‘graveyard of enterprise'. By far the most serious and general collapse came during the decade of depression and banking crises which overtook the whole colony after 1885. Auckland's commercial elite, which...
Space Physics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This textbook, derived from courses given by three leading researchers, provides advanced undergraduates and graduates with up-to-date coverage of space physics, from the Sun to the interstellar medium. Clear explanations of the underlying physical processes are presented alongside major new discoveries...
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...
by Kelly Stone Gamble, Brenda Vicars, Kate Birdsall
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Wonder
This holiday season, twenty talented, award-winning, and bestselling authors have crafted never before released Yuletide-themed tales about their most beloved characters.
Magic
From murder to magic, love to loss, the past and the future, this multi-genre collection of poems...
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
by Susan R. Burgess, Kathryn C. Leeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This unique guide will provide an overview of radical U.S. political movements on both the left and the right sides of the ideological spectrum, with a focus on analyzing the origins and trajectory of the various movements and the impact that movement ideas and activities have had on mainstream American...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
by C. Jennings, W. E. J. McCarthy, R. Undy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book, first published in 1990, is a practical manual which presents guidance on how to carry out and evaluate an employee relations audit. This title also provides audits for five key areas of employee relations, including communication and consultation, equality of opportunity and disciplinary...
Supernatural Youth
The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are...
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled...
by Paul Green, Padmaprabha Dalby, Harriet Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
by T. R. Ashworth And H. P. C. Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009