University: 748 books
by Robert McCrie, Professor & Chair, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Security Operations Management, 3rd edition, is the latest edition the seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today’s security management professionals and students.
The bookexplores the characteristics of today’s globalized workplaces, why security has a key...
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This is Book 5 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Treating analysis as both a mechanical and a cognitive process, Book 5 begins by describing why analysis and interpretation of data are necessary. In the first two chapters the book points out the importance of beginning ethnographic...
China’s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, February 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The research team makes the following forecasts: First, in 2013 China’s growth will remain stable and reach 8.23 percent, an increase of 0.43 percentage points compared with the previous year; even though there is inflation pressure resulting from global monetary easing, severe inflation in China...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
Dancing with the Dragon
China's Emergence in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
For the past several decades, China has been transforming itself from an isolated and backward agrarian society into an economic superpower with global interests and responsibilities. Over 300 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty and China now enjoys the fastest growing and third largest...
Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...
by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit, EdD, University at Buffalo; author
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Parents and educators expect gifted children to be well-behaved, studious, and hard working. Why, then, do so many have trouble in school? According to Dr. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, perfectionism—the number one social-emotional trait of gifted children—can actually immobilize some children and...
All These Things Added
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
By the author of As A Man Thinketh. In seeking for pleasures here and rewards hereafter men have destroyed (in their hearts) the Temple of Righteousness, and have wandered from the Kingdom of Heaven. By ceasing to seek for earthly pleasures and heavenly rewards, the Temple of Righteousness is restored...
by Herbert J. Mattord, Ph.D, Nova Southeastern University
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Inthe Business Continuity State of the Industry Report, authorsHerbert Mattord and Michael Whitman provide a comprehensive overview of recent research and news related to business continuity programs. Using the most recent surveys, reports, and research data available, the authors provide an objective...
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,...