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Good Birders Don't Wear White
50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
David Sibley, Don and Lillian Stokes, and many more share their inside tips—and witty observations—on the birding life.
The biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level—on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding—in...
Overreach
Leadership in the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy...
The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower
Campus Crime as a Social Problem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
A cursory reading of the history of US colleges and universities reveals that campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era, yet it was not until the late 1980s that it suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass media and scholarly sources and using...
by Lynn T. White III
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
China’s economic and military rise dominates discussions of the world’s most populous country. Resilient authoritarian government is credited with great successes, but this book expands the discourse to include governance by village heads - who often ignored central politicians. Chinese reforms...
by Caleb Pirtle III
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
In the mid 1970s a band of men with little expertise in the oilfield defied the hard ground of Giddings Texas to search for oil in a barren poverty-stricken land that was littered with dry holes shattered hopes and empty pockets. Max Williams the former hot-shot basketball player at SMU and Irv Deal...
by James Cox III,John Schleier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth...
by Joseph O. Oluwole, Preston C. Green III
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
While freedom of speech is a defining characteristic of the United States, the First Amendment right is often regulated within certain environments. For years, schools have attempted to monitor and regulate student communication both within the educational environment and in student use of social media...
by Carl L. Bankston III
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015
In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings migrants from some countries...
A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities
Service-Learning and Model Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A Glorious Revolution integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic. Specifically, the book argues that through service-learning an educator can teach higher-order thinking,...
PSP Hacks
Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Gaming and Entertainment Handheld
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
Sure, it's just what you've been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony's new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn't just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and spectacular widescreen LCD for unparalleled game play,...
The Power of Pull
How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they’ve carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap...
The Retirement Challenge
Will You Sink or Swim?: A Complete, Do-It-Yourself Toolkit to Navigate Your Financial Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
“Imagine that you board an airliner and are told that you will be piloting the plane. Such is the plight of tens of millions of Americans, on whom have been foisted a jumble of 401(k), 403(b), and 457 defined contribution plans, and are as well qualified to manage their retirement portfolios as...
A Simple Will for Dying Well
How to Handwrite Your Own Will Without Witnesses, Notaries, or Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Despite the certainty of our own mortality, most people in America have not prepared a will. Upon their deaths, this leaves the distribution of their assets at the mercy of the laws of their state. The best way to prevent complications and headaches for those left behind to create a willeven if it...
Capital For Keeps
Limit Litigation Risk While Raising Capital
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Raising Capital for Your Company or Your Real Estate Acquisition?
Russell Weigel has been practicing securities law since 1990. For more than ten of these years he was an attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission. Since 2001, he has been in private practice counseling public and...