Gregory: 2919 books
Successful Project Management
A Step-by-Step Approach with Practical Examples
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
The Fourth Edition of this internationally bestseller details the quick and easy way to master the basics of project management. Using a lively, conversational style, project management gurus Mickey Rosenau and Gregory Githens equip readers with fundamental principles and "tested-in-the-trenches"...
The Motivated Brain
Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is...
by Gregory P. Hickman, Randy S. Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
For years, we have considered school dropout rates as a problem occurring at the high-school level. However, this is actually an issue that originates and develops in elementary school. In Do Children Drop Out of School in Kindergarten? Gregory Hickman and Randy Heinrich show how high school dropouts...
Beauty and the Business
Practice, Profits and Productivity, Performance and Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
New technologies and social networks have dramatically changed the way we communicate. But with this sweeping change, some things remain the same. First and foremost, treat your customers right. In BEAUTY and the BUSINESS, authors Gregory Buford, MD and Steven House present a framework for the highly...
Straight to the Top
CIO Leadership in a Mobile, Social, and Cloud-based World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Essential reading for IT professionals with aspirations toward the top IT spot, and for sitting CIOs looking to refine their mobile, social and cloud strategies and knowledge
The definitive work on how to achieve leadership success in IT, Straight to the Top, Second Edition reveals how the...
More Agile Testing
Learning Journeys for the Whole Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked...
The Journey
Tips and Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Steve Gregory grew up in a rural area of Ontario and had a variety of broadening experiences while you such as living overseas for 3 years.
Steve excelled scholastically and started his Master’s on the second best scholarship in Canada. During this time he developed psychosis which went undiagnosed...
by Steven Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It's a jungle out there...and in the cubicle. If you want to be a technical writer, or already are one, you have to learn how to survive in the field in order to move ahead. This work condenses 20 years of technical writing survival techniques and tips into an easy-to-read guide that will help...
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
A Global Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them...
Your Job Survival Guide
A Manual for Thriving in Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Selected by IBM Competitive Edge Book Club Selection. "The beauty of this book on top of its life-saving timeliness is its capacity to give the reader concrete steps to live the good life and enjoy it. The book made me understand that work can be more fun than fun.” –Warren Bennis, Ph.D.,...
The Labor-Managed Firm
Theoretical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
In previous work, Gregory K. Dow created a broad and accessible overview of worker-controlled firms. In his new book, The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations, Dow provides the formal models that underpinned his earlier work, while developing promising new directions for economic research....
Homeschooling
A Family's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college.
What is it that homeschoolers do that the public schools can’t or won’t? There are at least...
Systemic Choices
Nonlinear Dynamics and Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The revolution in social scientific theory and practice known as nonlinear dynamics, chaos, or complexity, derived from recent advances in the physical, biological, and cognitive sciences, is now culminating with the widespread use of tools and concepts such as praxis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence,...
by Lena Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
When an ice cream vendor discovers a frozen stiff, Florida diner owner Gia Morelli has to serve up some just desserts . . .
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Gia has become good friends with Trevor, a fun, flirtatious bachelor who owns the ice cream parlor down the street from her popular All-Day Breakfast Café. Trevor has the...