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Miseducating for the Global Economy
How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators – and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump – cry out for new “education for the twenty-first century economy.” Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure jobs. But the...
by Nancy Duarte
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
TAKE THE PAIN OUT OF PRESENTATIONS.
Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results.
Written by presentation expert Nancy Duarte,...
Elizabeth I, the People's Queen
Her Life and Times, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
One of England’s most fascinating monarchs is brought to life in this hands-on study for young minds. Combining projects, pictures, and sidebars with an authoritative biography, children will develop an understanding of the Reformation, Shakespearean England, and how Elizabeth’s 45-year reign...
Audacity of Hops
The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in The Audacity of Hops, the first book on American craft beer's history. First published in May 2013, this updated, fully revised edition offers the most thorough picture yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative...
Oddball Illinois
A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In this updated edition, it’s plain to see that the state of Illinois has only gotten weirder. Where there was once just a single Popeye statue in downstate Chester, today the town has monuments to Olive Oyl, Swee’ Pea, Bluto, the Sea Hag, and more. The creepy Piasa Bird petroglyph on the bluff...
Oddball Ohio
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
This off-the-wall travel guide presents an Ohio odder than imagined. It wastes no time describing Cedar Point or suggesting scenic bike rides through the Hocking Hills; instead, this entertaining travel companion directs out-of-state adventurers and Buckeye state residents to the home of the world's...
Bad Leadership
What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2004
How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman,...
How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals
Simple, Effective, Done Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Do you supervise people? If so, this book is for you.
One of a manager’s toughest-and most important-responsibilities is to evaluate an employee’s performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they’ve done well and where they need to improve.
In How to Be Good at Performance...
Build an A-Team
Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.
Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing,...
The Architecture of Innovation
The Economics of Creative Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Find the right innovation model
Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just...
Race to Hawaii
The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast. But almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-wracking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter...
Immunity
How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site...
Crying at Movies
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this comic, witty memoir, John Manderino shows us how the pivotal points of his life have been enmeshed with movie moments. "Crying at Movies" presents thirty-eight succinct chapters, each bearing the title of a film. It is at once a love-letter to an art form and a humorous appreciation of the distinctions between movie scenes and life's realities.
Oddball Minnesota
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Land of the world’s largest prairie chicken, birthplace of Spam, and home of the world’s oldest rock, this is Minnesota, where summers are short, winters are long, and back-road wonders abound. This entertaining guide wastes no time with descriptions of scenic lakes, pristine bike trails, or quaint...