Tom Jenkins: 5 books

Book cover of Innovation Nation

Innovation Nation

How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, Happier

by David Johnston, Tom Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a...
Book cover of Abolishing Performance Appraisals

Abolishing Performance Appraisals

Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead

by Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2002

Performance appraisals are used in the overwhelming majority of workplaces. Yet, most organizations that use appraisal-and a similar percentage of givers and receivers of appraisal-are dissatisfied with the process. Many are beginning to deeply question whether appraisal is necessary and consistent...
Book cover of Civic Media

Civic Media

Technology, Design, Practice

by Peter Levine, Ethan Zuckerman, W. Lance Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Book cover of The Methodology of Political Economy

The Methodology of Political Economy

Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix

by William Ashton, J.I. Bakker, Kenneth Bessant
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
Book cover of Der Talisman

Der Talisman

Earthdawn-Zyklus 5

by Sam Lewis, Louis J. Prosperi, Christopher Kubasik
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2019

Nachdem die Völker der Welt vierhundert Jahre lang in ihren magischen Festungen dem Eindringen der Dämonen getrotzt haben, öffnen sich nun wieder die Pforten ihrer selbstgewählten Gefängnisse. Doch die Bewohner Barsaives müssen feststellen, dass ihre Welt vollständig verwüstet wurde und ihre...
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