J David: 1790 books
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
Imperialism, Power, and Identity
Experiencing the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism,...
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
The Hubble Space Telescope
From Concept to Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe. Within weeks of its launch in 1990, however, the space community was shocked to find out that the primary mirror of the telescope was flawed. It was only the skills of scientists and engineers...
Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility
An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Use Lean Techniques to Integrate Enterprise Systems Faster, with Far Less Cost and Risk By some estimates, 40 percent of IT budgets are devoted to integration. However, most organizations still attack integration on a project-by-project basis, causing unnecessary expense, waste, risk, and delay....
by David J. Finch, Ray DePaul, S.R. Ringuette
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Designing YOU is written for a specific time in your life. High school is probably behind you. Suddenly, you need to make some weighty, often intimidating, decisions for yourself.
"What will I do when I graduate?"
"Am I on the right path?"
"How will I know if I'm...
Natural Hazard Mitigation
Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and mcostly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.*Natural Hazard...
6 Leadership Principles from Gospels
Getting Things Done in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What Jesus did with twelve men in just three years is extraordinary. Using an array of strategies and principles, he created a conducive environment for collaboration and success and was able to turn simple disciples into transformational leaders.In Six Leadership Principles from the Gospels, David Felter...
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis...
War, Media, and Propaganda
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices....
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has...
by David J. T. Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...
by David J. Schow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Everyone wants to be good in bed ... but what if it's the bed that makes you good?It's said the dead live on in our memories, but what if only the dead remember you?What if the most infernal dealmaker in creation visited Hollywood, where everyone's a dealmaker, to get a little help from his friends?The...
Biotechnology
Applying the Genetic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Unlike most biotechnology textbooks, Dr. David P. Clark's Biotechnology approaches modern biotechnology from a molecular basis, which grew out of the increasing biochemical understanding of physiology. Using straightforward, less-technical jargon, Clark manages to introduce each chapter with a basic...