Christopher Thomas: 128 books
Assessing Organization Agility
Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In-depth agility evaluation for a more efficient response to change
Assessing Organization Agility provides a clear, concise roadmap to improved implementation of change. Written by two organizational researchers at USC's Center for Effective Organizations and a management consultant with Strategy&...
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The most dangerous boy in the world?
Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of this birth, he is fascinated by the current...
by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
TIMOTHY...A VILLAIN?
After learning how his powerlessness can be used as a weapon in the world of magic and defeating Nicodemus's plan to overthrow the government, Timothy travels to a war-torn dimension to help the Wurm, fierce magicians and warriors descended from an ancient dragon race. But while...
by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
IS LEANDER THE ENEMY?
After shunning Timothy since his arrival in Arcanum, Parliament has finally turned to him for help. Raptus, the vicious leader of the Wurm, is determined to break through the magical barrier that separates his world from Sunderland and exact vengeance upon the mages. Parliament...
by Abou Ba, Yanik Bruno, Zamori Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The following stories were written by students who participated in the Art of Storytelling Apprenticeship with Citizen Schools at the Urban Assembly Unison School. In this Apprenticeship, students researched, wrote, and published their own original stories. Students had creative control of the writing and illustrations in the story.
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
Handbook of Soccer Match Analysis
A Systematic Approach to Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Appealing to a wide audience, this ground-breaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies now being used by professional soccer clubs around the world.
Bridging the gap between research, theory...
I'll Never Be Long Gone
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The lives of brothers Charlie and Owen Bender are changed forever on the night their father walks into the Vermont woods with a death wish and a shotgun. The second shock comes when his suicide note bequeaths the family's restaurant to Charlie alone, while leaving Owen with instructions to follow...
by Carson Bergstrom, Sandro Jung, Christopher R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact...
Essential Perennials
The Complete Reference to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size,...
The Proven Winners Garden Book
Simple Plans, Picture-Perfect Plants, and Expert Advice for Creating a Gorgeous Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Garden with the confidence of a winner!
Proven Winners is America’s #1 plant brand. And now they are sharing their expert plant knowledge and creative design ideas in their first book, The Proven Winners Garden Book. This definitive guide starts with lessons on how to prepare a space, tips...
A World-Systems Reader
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...