Deborah Williams: 31 books
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
by Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
As a woman, you may face unfair challenges in the workplace--from being passed over for promotion to being ignored in conversation. Unconscious bias and negative assumptions are working against you. HBR's Women at Work Collection will help you break through these barriers and help you get what you...
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own
Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors...
by Krystine Donato, Maurice Feldman, Beverley Fedoroff
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
'A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.' - From the Foreword by Orville Endicott This wide-ranging volume provides a multidisciplinary...
Her Place at the Table
A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Thoroughly revised and updated and with a new Introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Her Place at the Table draws on extensive interviews with women leaders to help all women negotiate their path to leadership success.
A Woman's Guide to Taking Her Place at the Leadership Table
"It's...
by Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
The best articles HBR has published on gender and women in leadership and in the workplace.
The best articles on gender in the workplace, all in one place.
A resource for leaders who want to see change, no matter their own gender identity.
Includes both the frameworks that have stood the test...
Performance Standards for Restaurants
A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...
How Television Shapes Our Worldview
Media Representations of Social Trends and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
by Deborah Galloway, Jeanne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Coronado scorned this region as unpopulated when he labored through southeastern Arizona in 1540, but he could have found 12,000-year-old spear points in the remains of giant bison near Cave Creek Cienega, grinding hollows in boulders, and shamanic figures in high caves of the Chiricahuas towering...