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by Tiffany A. Koszalka, Catherine M. Sleezer, Darlene F. RussEft
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book, Evaluator Competencies: Standards for the Practice of Evaluation, details the development and validation of evaluator competencies by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (ibstpi). Developing an understanding of the ibstpi Evaluator Competencies...
Restoring Democracy to America
How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades—a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large...
Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business
Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...
by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them-in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change, leadership, strategy, managing people,...
College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
The Power of the Stranger
Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar...
Women in the Academy
Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This edited collection examines women’s roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that women’s pay still lags behind men’s, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women—from...
by James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving...
Waitangi & Indigenous Rights
Revolution, Law & Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This landmark study examines issues surrounding New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, focusing on recent Fiji revolutions and indigenous customary rights to the seabed and foreshore. In this revised edition, the author approaches these complex and controversial matters with a careful, thorough, and...
by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Becoming a great leader takes work. This collection from Harvard Business Review offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection (4 Books) includes the popular books HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself,...
Project-Management in Practice
A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This practice-oriented book explores a variety of cross-project topics and specific aspects of different project phases. It also offers tips, examples, templates and checklists, and discusses concrete problems and solutions from project practice in IT and the automotive industry.
The authors...
The Entrepreneur-Mindset
Get up! Get out! Be awesome!
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
There are many good Books about Entrepreneurship, classical Management and Lean Startup. But to be an awesome Entrepreneur it takes more than just Planning-Strategies or Management-Tools. Most important is the right Attitude and an Entrepreneur-Mindset. Even Entrepreneurship Icons like Richard Branson,...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy
How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...