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The Search for a New Order
Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement...
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...
What to do after you have been in a car accident.
Negotiating the personal injury business
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Dr. James Granger provides useful information for those injured in auto accident and personal injury cases. Information on attorney and health care provider selection and how to negotiate the "personal injury business" is provided in a brief and useful format.
Agile Energy Systems
Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies.
The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California,...
A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education
Ensure all students master content by designing and implementing a PCBE system
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In K–12 education’s growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized...
Assessing Organization Agility
Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In-depth agility evaluation for a more efficient response to change
Assessing Organization Agility provides a clear, concise roadmap to improved implementation of change. Written by two organizational researchers at USC's Center for Effective Organizations and a management consultant with Strategy&...
by James Cox III,John Schleier
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
The purposes of this chapter are to provide guidance in using the Evaporating Cloud (EC) technique to resolve chronic conflicts for both internal and external conflicts to achieve life's goals; understanding the differences between necessary conditions and goals; establishing personal life goals and...
The Teacher Exodus
Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their career choice. American culture is...
The Curious Man
The Life and Works of Dr. Hans Nieper
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Curious Man documents Dr. Hans Nieper’s career and extensive experiences at the cutting edge of alternative, innovative, life-saving medicne and clinical research.
This book details the evolution and rise of metabplic medicine as a successful non-toxic alternative to toxic chemotherapy...
by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...
by Shepard Krech, III
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North...
Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about...
Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals
Justice on the Ark
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship. Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and increased protection through the criminal...
Business Case Analysis with R
Simulation Tutorials to Support Complex Business Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This tutorial teaches you how to use the statistical programming language R to develop a business case simulation and analysis. It presents a methodology for conducting business case analysis that minimizes decision delay by focusing stakeholders on what matters most and suggests pathways for minimizing...