Laurie: 1609 books
Human Trafficking
Applying Research, Theory, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Human Trafficking: Applying Research, Theory, and Case Studies is a practical, interdisciplinary text that draws from empirically grounded scholarship, survivor-centered practices, and an ecological perspective to help readers develop an understanding of the meaning and scope of human trafficking....
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
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...
by Laurie Puhn
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Instant Persuasion is a unique communication book that offers a creative way to reduce stress, resolve conflict, and enrich our relationships with family members, friends, and coworkers. Laurie Puhn cleverly translates complex mediation skills into simple, practical communication rules that readers...
Closing the Shop
Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie...
Adaptive Coaching
The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The fully revised follow-up to Training Media Review's "BEST2BUY" Winner
If every person is unique, why do coaches use the same worn-out methods for everyone?
Employees seeking performance improvement require a coaching approach tailored to meet their specific needs and preferences....
The Four Conversations
Daily Communication That Gets Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Talk is powerful. Engaging in the right conversation at the right time is key to both personal and organizational success. And it isn’t just ‘difficult’ conversations that matter. The Four Conversations clearly demonstrates it is the everyday dialogue we have with one another that is critical....
Organizational Change
Creating Change Through Strategic Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices...
Apache: The Definitive Guide
The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. This versatile server runs more than half of the world's existing web sites. Apache is both free and rock-solid, running more than 21 million web sites ranging from huge e-commerce operations to corporate intranets and smaller...
Discordia
Six Nights in Crisis Athens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
DISCORDIA is a story of courage and collapse in a country and a culture struggling to map out its future. A short ebook combining a 24,000-word essay with 36 detailed drawings, DISCORDIA is a feminist-art-gonzo-journalism project conceived at Occupy Wall Street and created in the summer of debt and...
by Laurie Penman
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer’s Handbook provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock’s delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow...
by Laurie Olerich
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Some Scars Go Soul Deep
Stalked by evil...
Rori Austin’s life is over. She just doesn’t know it yet. Plagued by recurring nightmares and terrifying fugues, she’s hanging on by a thread. When she blacks out and wakes up in 1969, she knows she’s out of control. Broke and alone...
The Business Alchemist
A Fable to Free Your Money Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This is a delightful fable in the vein of Illusions by Richard Bach, but with a female protagonist and wise woman mentor. With the additional help of animal guides Hawk and Butterfly, Flo learns to overcome her Vows of Poverty and let her abundance in all things flow. Beautifully written and inspiring!...
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
THE FACTS • Julian Roman, age sixteen, is an escapee from the Fairmount County Juvenile Detention Facility. • His parents, Michael Roman and Jennifer Roman, are dead. • Julian is wanted for murder. THE QUESTIONS • Why is Julian Roman on the run? • Just how dangerous is he? • And who did...
A Darker Place
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known...