Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
The One-Hour Activist
The 15 Most Powerful Actions You Can Take to Fight for the Issues and Candidates You Care About
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
No matter what your political persuasion, The One-Hour Activist is your guide to influencing lawmakers, candidates, and reporters. The One-Hour Activist reveals fifteen powerful, proven grassroots actions that persuade lawmakers and candidates to see things your way. Each action is designed to grab...
Planning Programs for Adult Learners
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Planning Programs for Adult Learners, Third Edition covers the development of adult education programs in clear, specific detail. This popular step-by-step guide contains information on every area of program planning for adult learners, from understanding the purpose of educational programs to obtaining...
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom
The Realities of Online Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom, Second Edition
The second edition of the classic resource Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom offers a comprehensive reference for faculty to hone their skills in becoming more effective online instructors. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent...
The Heart of Higher Education
A Call to Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.
From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this...
The Embodiment of Leadership
A Volume in the International Leadership Series, Building Leadership Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume integrates critical theory with authentic leadership development, exploring the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity. Each year the International Leadership Association publishes a book that captures...
Coaching Corporate MVPs
Challenging and Developing High-Potential Employees
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
"Coaching Corporate MVPs provides a very effective guide for developing this small group of high-impact performers within an organization. It makes a compelling case for a customized approach with coaching at its core, and also provides very practical examples of approaches that have been successful...
A Higher Bid
How to Transform Special Event Fundraising with Strategic Auctions
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction advice
A Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fundraiser, speaker, and professional...
Timeless Learning
How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Reinvent public schools with proven, innovative practices
Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education system today. We see no...
Ethics in Health Services and Policy
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
HANDBOOK OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT, THIRD EDITION
The practice of public human resource management has evolved significantly in recent years due to increased outsourcing, privatization, and the diminution of public employee rights. This thoroughly revised and updated edition...
Error Reduction in Health Care
A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Error Reduction in Health Care
Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact...
Introduction to Health Care Quality
Theory, Methods, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Introduction to Health Care Quality explores the issues of quality management in today's health care environment, and provides clear guidance on new and perennial challenges in the field. The idea of 'quality' is examined in the context of a variety of health care situations, with practical emphasis...
The Stress Effect
Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Reveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it
The ability to make sound and timely decisions is the mark of a good leader. But when leaders with otherwise strong track records suddenly begin making poor decisions-as seen in the...
The Public Relations Writer's Handbook
The Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The second edition of the Public Relations Writer’s Handbook offers a simple, step-by-step approach to creating a wide range of writing, from basic news releases, pitch letters, biographies, and media alerts, to more complex and sophisticated speeches, media campaign proposals, crisis responses,...