Ken James: 39 books
Procurement and Supply in Projects
Misunderstood and Under Researched
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Procurement Management is one of the nine Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK® Guide, but it is a relatively recent focus of academic study and in many business sectors the contribution of procurement is not fully realized or integrated into the strategic considerations of the business. Procurement and Supply in Projects: Misunderstood and Under-Researched examines this inconsistency.
Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT
Protectors Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
41 writers. One cause.
We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew...
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Solve a mermaid's problem…
Step off the edge of a roof…
Dig up a grave at midnight…
Take advice from a fortune cookie…
Visit the last library…
Meet a bridge troll…
And more…
In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
by Gardner Dozois, Allen Steele, Cory Doctorow
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes PEACEMAKER,...
by John Joseph Adams, Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Our lead story for February is “Long Enough and Just So Long” by Cat Rambo, the tale of two teen, Heinleinesque Moon-residents who meet a liberated sexbot from Earth.
Next up is “The Passenger” by Julie E. Czerneda, the tale of a man and a committee aboard a generation ship, that...
by Alex Cho, Veronika Tzankova, Jodi Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Investigations of affective experiences that emerge in online settings that range from Facebook discussion forums to “smart” classrooms.
Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
¡Cierre las brechas!
Diríjase a un desempeno mAs alto y ¡cons
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2017
«Si un desempeño pobre está atacando a su empresa, no se deje atrapar. Saque provecho de ¡Cierre las brechas!». —Harvey Mackay, autor del best seller del New York Times Nada entre tiburones sin que te coman vivo
«Este libro describe un enfoque, un marco para la acción y unas herramientas...
Deserts of Fire
Speculative Fiction and the Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Speculative fiction stories that explore the ambiguities of war—from award-winning, bestselling authors Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Kate Wilhelm, and others.
In the tradition of In the Field of Fire, a collection of stories with a Vietnam War theme, Deserts of Fire is a war-inspired anthology...
Spiritual Transmission
Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Most eastern religious traditions are based on the sacred bond between teacher or Guru and the student. This is one of the few books to delve deeply into the subject based on wide ranging interviews with both teachers and students.
The foreword by Ken Wilber, who is the foremost, widely recognized authority...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
And Dignity for All
Unlocking Greatness with Values-Based Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
And Dignity for All is about leading with values, leading by example, and - in so doing - unleashing the astonishing commitment and innovation that are buried within your organization right now. Discover how Jim Despain and his colleagues used values-based management to transform Caterpillar's Track-Type...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...