Robert H: 655 books
Healthy Living on a Small Farm
A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What a pity it is that the young will not learn from the experience of those who have gone before them!
Could they only do so, how much suffering and woe could be avoided in this world. Unfortunately, however, there are few men so constituted that they are willing to be guided by the experience...
by Robert T. Gordon, Mark H. Brezinski
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Two highly successful veterans in the restaurant industry offer surefire tips to lower the risks of failure, avoid the common pitfalls, and make day-to-day operations smooth and profitable. Highlights of this practical handbook ---- menus: samples, special promotions, and charts and instructions to...
Voluntary Simplicity
Responding to Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
A simpler life. In a shadow cast by the jarring beginning of the new millennium, simplicity has an undeniable appeal. Global conflicts, domestic security concerns, and a stalling economy can make keeping up with the Joneses feel like, at best, a misguided luxury. Now is not a time for excess; it is...
by S. Keoki Sears, Glenn A. Sears, Richard H. Clough
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
A thoroughly updated edition of the classic guide to project management of construction projects
For more than thirty years, Construction Project Management has been considered the preeminent guide to all aspects of the construction project management process, including the Critical Path Method...
by Robert Tannenbaum, Warren H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
You're the boss: Should you call all the shots? Pick a course of action, then "sell" your idea to employees? Gather input from subordinates but make final decisions yourself? Let your group solve problems? Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
by Midwest Journal Press, H. L. de Bussigny, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
...Ladies certainly do not care to passage in the streets, but they do want to know how to stop their horses cleverly when they take fright, to turn their corners neatly at the trot without danger of a fall, and to avoid instantly any obstacle they may unexpectedly meet. It is also well to understand...
Keeping Your Dairy Healthy
An Outline of Bateriology
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Modern dairying is attempting to build its more accurate knowledge upon a broader and surer foundation, and in doing this is seeking to ascertain the cause of well-established processes. In this, bacteriology is playing an important rôle. Indeed, it may be safely predicted that future progress...
Kids Left Behind, The
Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education
A Guide for Trustees, Leaders, and Aspiring Leaders of Two- and Four-Year Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
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"The book is content rich for those looking for detailed background information on a wide range of topics. The list is far too long to repeat here, but suffice it to say that this is a comprehensive work that addresses issues related to organizational dynamics, policy frameworks,...
Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs
Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...
Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was...
Y de noche…
Historias de espectros, fantasmas y otras visiones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Este sorprendente volumen reúne narraciones de escritores famosos de distintas épocas y nacionalidades, algunos insospechados para el género de lo extraordinario, desde Bécquer, Chéjov o Stevenson, hasta Twain y Rilke. Los fantasmas son una extensión de lo desconocido; no sólo han muerto (nada...