Ruth James: 29 books

Book cover of Senior Leadership Teams

Senior Leadership Teams

What It Takes to Make Them Great

by Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008

An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO-right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives...
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Health Promotion

Planning & Strategies

by Professor Jackie Green, Ruth Cross, James Woodall
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019

Globally recognized as the definitive text on health promotion, this fourth edition becomes ever more useful for public health and health promotion courses around the world. It offers a firm foundation in health promotion before helping you to understand the process of planning, implementing and assessing...
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The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

by Sunya T. Collier, Dean Cristol, Sandra Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
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The Bioregional Imagination

Literature, Ecology, and Place

by Anne Milne, Bart Welling, Chad Wriglesworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...
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Been There. Done That. Try This!

An Aspie's Guide to Life on Earth

by Debbie Denenburg, Paul Isaacs, Henny Kupferstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

If you only buy one book to improve your life this year, make it this one. Temple Grandin, Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Stephen M. Shore, and many other Aspie mentors, offer their personal guidance on coping with the daily stressors that Aspies have identified as being the most significant,...
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Weaving the Cradle

Facilitating Groups to Promote Attunement and Bonding between Parents, Their Babies and Toddlers

by Camille Kalaja, Bobby Taylor, Jessica James
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more attuned, sensitive and empathic towards their child. Contributors bring together a range of...
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On New Shores

Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America

by Carl F. Auerbach, James D. Bachmeier, John W. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Book cover of The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
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Globalization and America

Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

by Amy E. Ansell, Cynthia Bejarano, Judith R. Blau
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008

As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
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Video Interaction Guidance

A Relationship-Based Intervention to Promote Attunement, Empathy and Wellbeing

by Sandra Strathie, Penny Forsyth, Katerina Silhánová
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an effective intervention which builds positive relationships through filming and feedback sessions. By micro-analysing actions and communications in this way, clients are supported to resolve their current difficulties and increase their sensitivity and attunement...
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The Sustainable Forestry Handbook

A Practical Guide for Tropical Forest Managers on Implementing New Standards

by Neil Judd, Sophie Higman, Stephen Bass
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is widely considered to be the essential aid to understanding and implementing sustainable forest management. Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of implementing international standards for sustainable forest management, this fully updated second...
Book cover of Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
by Mike Alvarez, David Boromisza-Habashi, Charles A. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
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Comrades in Health

U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

by Walter J. Lear, Jane Pacht Brickman, Bernard Lown
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
Book cover of Health Promotion

Health Promotion

Planning & Strategies

by Professor Jackie Green, Professor Keith Tones, Ruth Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015

The definitive text on health promotion, this book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of planning, implementing and evaluating successful health promotion programmes. This new edition features a companion website developed with an international team of contributors to support teaching...
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