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The Harvard Business Review Leadership Library offers the most important leadership ideas from authors such as Michael D. Watkins, Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Porter, and John P. Kotter, to name just a few. This must-have digital collection includes The First 90 Days (Updated and Expanded),...

How to Master The Ancient Art of Moving Meditation! The practice of Tai Chi provides many benefits to the human body. Aside from the physical benefits, the practice of Tai Chi can bring improvements in different aspects:  Challenge – Learning to master Tai Chi challenges your physical...

This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...

Spiritual Embezzlement Made Easy (or How NOT to Run a Church) - The Christian church in America today is ineffective at transforming society. Most of our youth drop out after graduation and the average age of churchgoers keeps rising every year. Meanwhile its influence on society has declined almost...

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...

Why do those who disagree with you politically believe the ridiculous things they do? Why don’t they see what’s so obvious? How does the Progressive Mentality differ from the Conservative Mentality? What are their origins? Their motivation? Their goals? What part does religion play in political...

Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy. Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of...

Graduating from nursing school is a massive accomplishment, but those next steps-passing boards and starting a demanding new job as a nurse-can seem daunting. Never fear: This book will help any new nurse map out a clear path from commencement to successful career. A Nurse’s Step-By-Step Guide to...

Gothic Runes – The three aettir of futhark runes, how they were used for divination and their occult meaning. What are merkstave and bindrunes? For what esoteric purposes did the Nazis employ runes? Is there an occult link link between the modern peace symbol and the decline of Christianity in Western culture? Fully illustrated.

Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;  Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;  Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as color, flavor and tenderness

Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations...

LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they're from or what they look like. The...

M.E. Braddon was a popular British writer during the Victorian Era.  Among Braddon’s best known novels are Lady Audley’s Secret and Aurora Floyd.  This edition of Aurora Floyd includes a table of contents.