Charles J: 545 books

This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges...

Senior executives, however, sometimes require a richer feedback experience — one which might also include one or more of the following: detailed verbatim descriptions of performance, observations from family members and friends, psychometric measures of personality and motivation, and data on early...

Battery Park City is a special place, and superlatives have come easily to those who have written about it. It is one of the most significant new towns ever built in America, constructed by private developers on landfill, with an infrastructure financed by the sale of bonds by a state-created public...

Because of the profound effects of the built environmon the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability.This...

The leading green building reference, updated with the latest advances in the field Sustainable Construction is the leading reference for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. With broad coverage including architecture, engineering, and construction, this...

Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today's coercive, 'inside-the-box,' Industrial Age testing and accountability movement, which authors Spady and Schwahn describe as a politically driven, backward-facing juggernaut masquerading as reform. They call...

Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a former patient, he joins the Death...

The history of the use of ultrasound in medicine has been one of evolution of technology and innovative methods of applying this technology to imaging body structures. Many scientists and clinicians have contributed to this evolution. Ophthalmic ultrasound has become an indispensible tool in ophthalmic...

Comprehensive and complete, Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract delivers the definitive, clinically oriented, cutting-edge guidance you need to achieve optimal outcomes managing the entire spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders. Make effective use of the latest endoscopic, robotic, and...

The book gives an overview of developments in Quantitative Genetics and variance component analysis in an era of Big Data and Sequenced Genomes. It provides a detailed description of a direct method of estimation that will be a useful means of extracting information from a large set of data that was...

A prevalent way of viewing leadership is as a process of social influence. In this report, the authors offer an alternative perspective: seeing leadership as a process of social meaning-making. The practical and research implications of such a view are considered.

This groundbreaking look at deer behavior is packed with research that will enhance your hunting and wildlife viewing experience. Whitetails: A Photographic Journey through the Seasons chronicles the life of six white-tailed deer, sharing a journey through the seasons from the viewpoint of...

Rooted in the ongoing and ever-changing interplay of the authors life and mother tongue, the poems in this anthology touch on a variety of themes, including spirituality, intimacy, identity, loss. Some of these poems are based on poetic material written by the author in the late 1960s, while some...

This is the autobiography not of a captain of industry or wealthy celebrity but that of an average man who instilled his family with values through his example of hard work, love and respect for others. In his 93 years of life he has always put family first and demonstrated that through his love and...