Philip Michael: 73 books
by World Bank; Finger J. Michael; Schuler Philip
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge-rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is about increasing the earnings of poor people in poor countries from their innovation, knowledge, and creative skills. Case studies look at the African music industry; traditional crafts...
“I’Ll Try” Is Not Good Enough …
What It Takes to Make Change Happen in the Workplace!
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
If people could change their competencies and characteristics at will, personal development would be a relatively simple matter. However, there are many reasons why people consciously or unconsciously tend to resist change. The purpose of this book is to make you aware of techniques for overcoming...
Organizational Stress
A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its...
Developing Writers of Argument
Tools and Rules That Sharpen Student Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Better Arguments Make Better Students — and Better Citizens
The ability to make effective arguments is not only necessary in students’ academic lives, it’s a transferable skill essential to students’ future success as critical thinkers and contributing members of society. But how do...
Multi-Dimensional Education
A Common Sense Approach to Data-Driven Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
A comprehensive guide to data-driven school improvement
Look beyond student test scores with a practical and multidimensional data gathering approach. The authors detail the steps for identifying, collecting, analyzing, and using data as a basis for making instructional and schoolwide decisions....
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
The Modern Stephen King Canon
Beyond Horror
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the “Master of the Macabre.” The authors write about King works that have received little critical attention...
by Philip Child, Michael Gnarowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Author is a recognized standard-bearer for an era in Canadian literature when traditional forms and subjects were being challenged by radical social and cultural change
A classic novel by the Governor General’s Award winner (1949)
Author served in the First World War and used his experiences for the novel
metamorphosen 11 - Außenrum
Magazin für Literatur und Kultur
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Seit 2013 erscheinen die "metamorphosen" vierteljährlich in Berlin. Im jungen "Magazin für Literatur und Kultur" stehen unveröffentlichte, neue Lyrik und Prosa neben Essays, Rezensionen, Porträts und ausführlichen Interviews. Hier und jetzt, mit der elften Ausgabe, wird ein...
Planetary Politics
Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
The World Turned Upside Down
Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions...