Michael J : 2158 books
Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry
A Guide to Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Now in its ninth edition, Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice, is fully updated with new legal information, data, statistics and examples. Taking a 'process' approach, it provides the reader with an essential understanding of the purpose, policies and processes...
The World's Water 2008-2009
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Produced biennially, The World’s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the msignificant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009...
Amplify Your Impact
Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs (Instructional Leadership Development and Coaching Methods for Collaborative Learning)
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Amplify Your Impact presents K-12 educators and school leadership with a framework for improving collaboration and teambuilding for teachers in their PLCs. The authors share best practices and processes teams can rely on to ensure they are doing the right work in a cycle of continuous improvement....
by Jim Maggiore, Michael J. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Professional golf came to Broome County in 1971 as the Broome County Open, a one-day event. By 1973, it had become a four-day stop on the PGA Tour called the B.C. Open. Over the next three decades, it hosted such luminaries of the links as Lee Trevino, Tiger Woods, and Fuzzy Zoeller, while national...
The New Psychology of Leadership
Identity, Influence and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Winner of the University of San Diego Outstanding Leadership Book Award 2012!
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2011!
Shortlisted for the CMI (Chartered Management Institute) Management Book of the Year Award 2011–2012!
According to John Adair, the...
Wildlife and Society
The Science of Human Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Winner of The Wildlife Society's 2009 Wildlife Publication Award for outstanding edited book
As human populations around the world continue to expand, reconciling nature conservation with human needs and aspirations is imperative. The emergence in recdecades of the academic field of human...
Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An example of such a novel threat is the use of cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by terrorist groups. Individual threats cannot be assessed...
by Michael J. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Searching for Justice After the Holocaust
Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate a frequently unclear path to recover their property from governments and neighbors who had failed to protect them and who often had been complicit...
by Michael J. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
A Gallery containing chilling tales of fear and horror.
In Mother Called Today A woman becomes increasingly frightened of phone calls from her mother. She knows a terrifying secret about her that she can't tell anyone.
In Speaking Of Death We're told by a greedy financial advisor why...
The Time of the City
Politics, philosophy and genre
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban...
Crowdsourced Data Management
Hybrid Machine-Human Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book provides an overview of crowdsourced data management. Covering all aspects including the workflow, algorithms and research potential, it particularly focuses on the latest techniques and recent advances. The authors identify three key aspects in determining the performance of crowdsourced...
The Takeover:
A Gathering of Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This story is about a normal American family intent on conducting their everyday lives as routinely as other families until univited visitors from the spirit world upset the tranquillity of their dream home. Reports that the eight year old son saw uniformed soldiers coming from his bedroom closet...
Saving Lake Tahoe
An Environmental History of a National Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The history of Lake Tahoe begins with the Washoe Indians who resided on its shores for thousands of years, with minimal impact on the landscape. The relatively brief American history at Lake Tahoe began in the mid-nineteenth century. Though awestruck by its beauty, the new arrivals were also intent...