Gary Jeffrey: 15 books
by Gary Jeffrey
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Amanece en Laurasia occidental (actualmente Norteamérica). Un Estegosaurio se levanta, listo para comer. Junto a su grupo desayuna hojas de abeto, helechos y cícadas gigantes, mientras pequeñas Othnielias recogen los restos. Todo parece tranquilo, sin embargo, un Ceratosaurio –feroz carnívoro–...
by Gary Jeffrey
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Tres Elasmosaurios recién nacidos nadan en las frescas aguas del mar interior occidental, en lo que ahora es Kansas. La manada piensa estar en un lugar tranquilo, sin predadores a la vista, pero no saben que un par de Clidastes, pequeños reptiles marinos, las están observando. Y lo que es peor,...
by Jeffrey Liker, Gary L. Convis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIP
“This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both...
by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transformed television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television and became the leading force in cable programming. Having interests...
Making Work and Family Work
From hard choices to smart choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to identifying the smart choices that all parties involved—society, employers, employees and families—should make to promote greater work–life balance.
Leading...
Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Where Credit is Due
Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color;...
Local Content Requirements
A Global Problem
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of protection...
Roads Taken
The Professorial Life, Scholarship in Place, and the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Public liberal arts colleges are higher education’s gems, yet their intimate campus settings and locations outside of the intellectual-cultural capitals challenge the traditional rhythm of academic careers. Professors trained at elite research institutions, usually located in large urban centers, must...
Facets of Liberty
A Libertarian Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand...
An Atheist in Heaven
The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What happens when a lifelong skeptic dies and discovers he was wrong about life after death? Forrest J Ackerman (1916-2008), a luminary in the early history of science fiction and an ardent, lifelong atheist, promised that if he were wrong about the non-existence of an afterlife, he would attempt...
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