North: 717 books
Whole-Farm Planning
Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:
Lessons from systems science (including tools)
Assessing the whole farm (what are we managing? the people, physical and mental assets, money)
Understanding the farm ecosystems (the water and mineral cycles, dynamics of the biological community,...
Capping Costs
Putting a Price Tag on School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding. They insisted that they needed it to protect children, the economy, and the nation. This book uses the case method to analyze the budgets that they proposed, the rhetoric that they employed, and the resistance that they encountered.
Common Sense Questions about Tests
The Answers Can Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized...
Why the Principalship?
Making the Leap from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification. Each chapter's snapshots illustrate key challenges that face principal candidates. The last third of the book includes exercises that help candidates and mentors,...
by Michael North, David Ormrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced,...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Ocean Greens
Explore the World of Edible Seaweed and Sea Vegetables: A Way of Eating for Your Health and the Planet's
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A 2017 IACP Award Finalist
A beautifully photographed, innovative guide to edible seaweed and sea vegetables with vegan recipes—for your health and the planet’s
“One of the world’s most sustainable and nutritious crops,” according to The New Yorker, “seaweed could be a miracle...
Managing Business Complexity
Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand data and generate information that...
The Rise of the Western World
A New Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1976
First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.
The Quality Business
Quality Issues in the Smaller Firm
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:
* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms
* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business...
by John North
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
It's a common question but what makes a successful entrepreneur?
Of course, this question starts a whole conversation about the definition of success.
It's my belief that success isn't just about making money. Most people start a business for the freedom they expect it to give to them....
Serious Fun
Ingenious Improvisations on Money, Food, Waste, Water & Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Creative and innovative solutions to difficult issues are presented in this practical guidebook for environmentally friendly living. Low-tech exercises for saving water, reducing waste, and preparing food help readers take communal actions to benefit their own neighborhoods, and the world at large, while...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
by Justin North
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The culinary heart and soul of the beautiful and culturally fascinating Piemonte region of northwest Italyfrom Crissini con le Noci to Fritatta Gialla e Verde, and from tiny countryside trattorias to opulent Torino cafesis explored in this alluring account that is equal parts memoir, local history, and...