Doug Jordan: 4 books

A year with a Champion Poodle. Maxim was a black Standard Poodle raised in Israel but returned to his breeder in Ottawa and then to live with the Jordans and pursue his destiny. "A charming medley of humour, information and storytelling, The Maxim Chronicles depicts a close-knit family's trials,...

This book is intended for people who are curious about management, career and life effectiveness. To be an effective manager, you have to find emotional and intellectual pleasure in the art and psychology of understanding and influencing others' behaviors.

Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...

Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature. Contents: Late Romanticism (1855-1870) Realism (1865-1890) Local Color (1865-1885) Regionalism (1875-1895)...