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Palgrave Macmillan Leadership in Conflict The Lessons of History
Book SynopsisToday's sustained and violent political conflicts raise the issue of how a single leader can successfully resolve such persistent turmoil. Steven Davis uses a sample of 25 effective leaders drawn from a wide historical universe to determine that the paradigm of effective leadership consists of strong direction, acute sensitivity to followers' needs and sustained energy in pursuing this direction. Finally Mr Davis shows how this historical model is relevant for the use of today's leaders.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Terms of Reference - PART 1: LEADERSHIP PROFILES - PART 2: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS - Direction: The Role of Vision and Values - Mobilizing Support: Putting Human Insight to Work - Disciplined and Relentless Pursuit - The Profile and Impact of Leadership - The Moral Dimension: Leadership for What? - Conclusions for Leadership Today - Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Renaissance Monarchy The Reigns of Henry VIII Francis I and Charles V Reconstructions in Early Modern History
Book SynopsisGlenn Richardson is Senior Lecturer in History at St Mary's University College, UKTrade Review'In its lucid treatment of so many themes, this book will be invaluable to students of the early modern period.' History 'Richardson's book is fluently written, clearly structured and judicious in its conclusions; it will provide a useful introduction to the work done in recent decades on these three fascinating princes.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIdeals; warriors; warfare; peacemakers; political patrons; governor; artistic patrons; Venice.
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WW Norton & Co The Natural History of the Rich A Field Guide
Book SynopsisA tantalizing, droll study of the idiosyncratic existence of the very rich, through the unexpected lens of the naturalist.Trade Review"Clever, perceptive and unfailingly interesting." -- Jonathan Yardley - Washington Post"Droll and delightful…Mr. Conniff's charm and fun-loving approach make his book a pleasure from start to finish." -- New York Sun"Amusing and insightful." -- Boston Herald"A witty compendium of gossip, anecdotes, history and sociobiological research." -- Town and Country"Hilarious." -- New York Magazine"This book...may change for ever our perception of the urge to make money." -- Financial Times"A literate, gossipy and altogether engaging romp." -- Smithsonian Magazine"Anecdotal, witty, and wonderfully informative." -- Dominick Dunne"In this witty, well-written field guide, Richard Conniff studies the rich as a biologist studies the mighty mountain gorilla. In the process, he brings the rich down to earth as not only merely human, but distinctly animal." -- Frans de Waal, author of Mama’s Last Hug"A delightful field-study of the habits of the rich and famous, full of acutely observed insights." -- Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape
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WW Norton & Co 6000 Years of Housing Revised Expanded
Book SynopsisThe fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present.Trade Review"Accessible not only to the architectural community . . . but to anyone with a passion for housing . . . issues are expressed clearly, and details serve a larger context." -- Elizabeth MacKenzie, MAIBC - APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge Supplement 19912000 Cambridge University Historical Register Supplements
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Music World Publishing, LLC Destinys Child The Untold Story
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Cobb and Co. Books Along the tracks of Cobb and Co. Back to the Beginning
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Random House USA Inc Engineers of Dreams
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Abingdon Press The Story of American Methodism A History of the United Methodists and Their Relations
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Like Our Very Own
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US From Alchemy to IPO The Business Of Biotechnology
Book SynopsisA tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth.-Frederick Frank, Senior Managing Director & Vice Chair, Lehman BrothersFrom Alchemy to IPO tells the dramatic story of this revolutionary industry as only an insider can.-George Rathmann, President and CEO, ICOS Corporation, Chairman Emeritus, AmgenWritten by a well-known industry insider, From Alchemy to IPO addresses the coming-of-age of biotech products and companies and traces the history of biotechnology from its early inception in the seventies to today''s heyday of new solutions and breakthrough treatments. It describes the amazing entrepreneurial trail of product development, novel business models, and critical trials that eventually pave the way to market. This is the first book to accurately record the inner workings of an industry-biotechnology-that''s on the verge of living up to its monumental promise to change the world as we know it.Trade Review"A fascinating glimpse inside the life-and-death business of biotechnology. A tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth." -Frederick Frank, Senior Managing Director & Vice Chair, Lehman Brothers "From Alchemy to IPO tells the dramatic story of this revolutionary industry as only an insider can." -George Rathmann, President and CEO, ICOS Corporation, Chairman Emeritus, Amgen"
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Pluto Press Ecocide A Short History of the Mass Extinction of Species
Book SynopsisWe are wilfully destroying our worldTrade Review'Helps us choose to take collective responsibility. Essential reading for anybody who cares about the future of humanity and the diversity of species' -- Vandana ShivaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Human Odyssey: From Biological To Cultural Evolution 2. Problematic Society-Nature Relations Before The Modern Era 3. The Modern Assault On Nature: The Making Of Ecocide 4. The Planet As Sacrifice Zone 5. Ecocide And Globalization Epilogue: Living In The Age Of Ecocide Glossary Tables Index Selected Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Violence and Crime among the Palestinian Minority in Israel
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AuthorHouse Keeping Watch Reflections on American Culture Education Politics
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Motorbooks Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting Drowned
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Running Press,U.S. Freezing Cold Takes NFL
Book SynopsisSports fans love holding media 'experts' accountable for bad predictions.Since 2015, Fred Segal has chronicled “unprophetic” sports predictions on the internet. His Freezing Cold Takes social media pages feature quotes and predictions from members of the sports world that have aged poorly or were, in hindsight, flat-out wrong. The pages have become a guilty pleasure for hundreds of thousands of sports fans who love to see (okay, and mock in good humor) sports media’s infamous “hot takes” that went cold. With this book, Segal focuses on the NFL, and provides a vast collection of poorly aged predictions and analysis from NFL media members and personalities about some of the most famous teams and players in the league’s history. He also explores ill-fated commentary related to draft picks, hiring decisions, and some of the NFL’s most notable games. But this book is not simply a list of quotes. It del
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Popular American Marbles
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Henry Holt & Company Inc American Mafia A History of Its Rise to Power
Book SynopsisReppetto's book earns its place among the best ...he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling. The New York Times Book Review Organized crime the Italian American kind has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise from the 1880s to the post-WWII era that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence unTrade ReviewThe subject is sensational, but the work is never sensationalistic ... Any serious mob-watcher ... will want to have this book. Anyone who reads it with interest will join me in hoping that Reppetto writes a sequel swiftly and as well. The Sun (Baltimore) The Sun (Baltimore) "
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Wayne State University Press Peripheral Visions The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisThe eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.
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Wayne State University Press Jewish Womens History from Antiquity to the Present
Book SynopsisExplores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focuses on reconstructing the experiences of ordinary women and situating those of the extraordinary and famous within the gender systems of their times and places.
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New York University Press Dreaming of Fred and Ginger Cinema and Cultural Memory
Book SynopsisOne of the leading voices in cultural studies today examines the habits of British cinema audiences in the 1930s to reveal the role that cinema played in shaping their lives.Trade Review"Annette Kuhn explores the significance of memories of 1930s filmgoing to study patterns of remembrance and their potential causes. This is an exceptional example of the value of ethnohistory and psychological theory combined with speculation about the meanings of cinema in lives. It sets important standards in researching memories of movies." -Janet Staiger "The main spine of this book stems from a comprehensive series of interviews with subjects recalling their experiences of 1930s cinemagoing. Your feel the breath of life in these spectators, a rarity in film studies, thanks to the painstaking work contracting the interview subjects and recording and tabulating their testimony." -JUMPCUT
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Story of Libraries Second Edition
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which records of human experience are collected. This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to us in stages over many years), the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe.Trade Review"'We now have a book with ideas to impress general readers from the outside and stretch library-history insiders, especially those of us who are lucky enough to be teaching library history courses, for which this should now be the text of choice.' Librari"Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; 1. The Earliest Libraries; 2. Libraries of Classical Antiquity; 3. Lanterns of the Dark Ages; 4. Libraries of the Orient; 5. Libraries of the Islamic World; 6. The High Middle Ages; 7. Gutenberg's Legacy; 8. Treasuries of the Book; 9. The Repositories of Knowledge; 10. Libraries for the People; 11. The Rising Generation; 12. Putting Knowledge to Work; 13. The Craft of Librarianship; 14. Libraries of the Future; Notes; Principal Works Consulted; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thinking Geographically Space Theory and Contemporary Human Geography Continuum Studies in Geography
Book SynopsisThe 1990s saw geography transformed by a range of cultural and philosophical approaches. Designed for students as an introduction to these ideas, this book covers the history of geographic thought and explores world issues in social, cultural, political and economic geography using modern theory.Trade Review"Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and status of the discipline, and will stand as a milestone in the discipline's conceptual understanding over the next decade or more." Barney Warf, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsHistory of geographic thought; new geographies; geographies of the body; geographies of text; geographies of money; geographies of governance; geographies of globalization.
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Vanderbilt University Press Vanderbilt Divinity School
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Vanderbilt University Press Peabody College
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AEI Press The The WalMart Revolution How BigBox Stores Benefit Consumers Workers and the Economy
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Building Popular Power Workers and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution
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George Ronald Publisher The North of Iran
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Oneworld Publications Victims of the Cultural Revolution
Book SynopsisThe very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao’s China, an all-out assault on ‘class enemies’ took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers’ skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies. Ordinary people condemned ‘counter-revolutionaries’ to execution - and then went home and ate their dinner. This was less than fifty years ago. But the victims are being forgotten already. Wang Youqin unmasks the true brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Documenting the deaths of over six hundred individuals, Victims of the Cultural Revolution calls on us to remember the evil ideological fanaticism wreaks and pays tribute to all those who suffered.Trade Review'Carefully composed and captivating... May Wang Youqin’s monumental book reach beyond the narrow confines of the ivory tower and attract the many readers it so obviously deserves.' -- Frank Dikötter, TLS'In 1966, Wang was a schoolgirl who witnessed the hounding of Bian Zhongyun. Her response was to gather oral histories of the period, which are published . . . as Victims of the Cultural Revolution in a lucid translation by Stacy Mosher. Her book is . . a chronicle of deaths until now untold. Her teacher’s death is described, but so are countless others, mostly far less high-profile, like the 60-year-old Li Jingpo, who worked at the elite Jingshan high school in Beijing and was killed in August 1966. But he was not a teacher or administrator: he was just the doorman. Being a bona fide proletarian didn’t save him from the students who used to call him “Uncle Li”. Wang’s account of what happened during one of China’s darkest moments is a powerful companion to [Tania] Branigan’s compelling account of why it still haunts the very different country of today.' -- Rana Mitter, Guardian‘I find this book to have enormous historical value, and believe it will serve as a foundation for future historians carrying out research into the political, educational, and social history of this period.’ -- Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University‘Wang Youqin is one of a number of Chinese-born scholars in the United States who have been undertaking the Cultural Revolution research that cannot be done in China. In this book, Professor Wang takes a very important step in the direction of making her fellow Chinese confront their recent past.’ -- Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University‘Insightful… Mosher has abbreviated the work to great effect, taking away some of its encyclopedic nature and duplicative material while also adding new information that Wang collected in the intervening 20 years… [the book] gives a sense of the enduring nightmare of this period… The broader significance of this book and these developments is that the Chinese Communist Party has not been able to erase or control history the way it would like. Overseas scholars like Wang now feed into a broad discussion in China, challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground: its control of history.’ -- The China Project
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American Federation of Astrologers,U.S. History of Horoscopic Astrology
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Education for Development or Underdevelopment Guyanas Educational System and its Implications for the Third World 02 Development Perspectives
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PL & Ev Rockwell Out of the Darkroom A Short History of the Photofinishing Industry
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Julian Jaynes Society The Julian Jaynes Collection
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Natural Energy Works Saharasia The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse SexRepression Warfare and Social Violence In the Deserts of the Old World
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Extremis Publishing Limited The Spectrum of Adventure A Brief History of Interactive Fiction on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
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Daily Grail Publishing Stranger Than Fiction Essays by Mike Jay
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Funny Food Stories
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White Soup Press How Jane Austen Kept Her Cool
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Lulu.com Bibliography of Women in the Bible Midrashim Jewish HIstory and Jewish Law
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Legare Street Press The American Journal of Psychology 13
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Legare Street Press Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous
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Legare Street Press Psychological Monographs
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