George E : 326 books
Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management
Strategies for Prediction, Diagnosis, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
The theme permeating this book on assessment centers is "continuity and change", describing what has remained the same and what has changed in the 50-year history of the assessment center method. One of the important changes explored is the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs...
Just a Job?
Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
From cartoons to boardrooms comes the statement, "It's not personal. It's just business." Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life offers a provocative perspective on ethics at work. The book questions the notions that doing ethics at work has to be work, and that work is...
The Great Catalyst
European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. However, the EU project has also made visible that...
Macroprudential Regulatory Policies
The New Road to Financial Stability?
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This book is a collection of papers presented in the conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in September 2010, that examines the role of macroprudential regulation in the financial industry. Shocked by the experience of the last few years, many argue that the more traditional microprudential...
Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
Shared Vision
Transformational Leadership in American Community Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Based on a study of 256 exemplary community college presidents, this book examines the attributes of outstanding leaders and their ability to orchestrate organizational change. Chapter 1 provides the background for the study, emphasizes the importance of leadership, and identifies attributes common...
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
Children's Stories from Zanzibar
10 Children's Stories from East Africa's Spice Islands
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Herein you will find 10 tales from the tiny island archipelago of Zanzibar - “The Spice Islands” of old. Stories like “The Kites and the Crows” – which tells why African Kites always fly away from Crows. The story of “The Ape, The Snake, And The Lion” which tells of poor ’Mvoo Laana,...
The Future of Prejudice
Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.
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...
by A.E., George W. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In The Avatars, AE presents his own picture of what might happen if the socialistic State assumed control. So efficient has it become, that no one is homeless or insecure; everything is taken care of by the State. Yet, there is something in man that rebels against it. "The spirit of man has lost...
by David Fletcher, Arthur George, Karl E.H. Seigfried
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
There is a world, or perhaps a heaven, of deities outside of the Greco-Roman context, and this book looks to take you on a divine ride through those cultures to meet the gods and goddesses of ancient eras. David Fletcher, with the help of an array of sumptuous illustrations, weaves the ancient with...
Codename Revolution
The Nintendo Wii Platform
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Nintendo's hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during...
Managing & Using MySQL
Open Source SQL Databases for Managing Information & Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
MySQL is a popular and robust open source database product that supports key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. MySQL is free for nonprofit use and costs a small amount for commercial use. Unlike commercial databases, MySQL is affordable and easy to use. This book includes introductions...