Search results for ""Author Ron Williams""
McGill-Queen's University Press Landscape Architecture in Canada
The largest and most pervasive of human artifacts, landscapes are both cultural expressions and environments that shape our actions. Playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, historic sites, public squares, gardens, industrial rehabilitation sites, wild national parks, and manicured urban parks provide the settings for work, recreation, commerce, memorialization, and mourning and shape the experience and meaning of these activities in Canada. In the first critical history of designed landscapes in our country, Ron Williams approaches landscape architecture as a social art that creates places for people to use and as an environmental art through which practitioners act as stewards of the natural world. Landscape Architecture in Canada provides a detailed panorama of the man-made landscapes that vary as widely as the country's geography. The book profiles the projects and people that defined landscape architecture, illuminating the motivations and aspirations that drove landscape architects and explaining the intellectual climate in which they worked. Williams casts a wide net and examines the varied traditions and impacts of Canada's first peoples, its early colonists, later immigrant communities, the remarkable landscape innovations of nineteenth-century industrial cities as well as agricultural landscapes and the protected natural environments of national parks. He also shows how stimulating new ideas from recent decades have expanded landscape architecture and opened the door to projects that embody a distinctive Canadian approach, reflecting the social and natural diversity of contemporary society and its responses to rapid change. Thoroughly researched, practically oriented, and grounded in the country's many regions, Landscape Architecture in Canada is a richly illustrated and affecting narrative of the ways in which we have shaped our environment and an inimitable lens through which to view the story of Canada.
£54.00
Greenleaf Book Group LLC Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization
This master class on leadership, written by one of America's most prominent and successful health-care executives, enables readers at any career stage to learn the leadership strategies that deliver personal, interpersonal, and organizational success. In Learning to Lead, Ron Williams provides practical, tested leadership advice for readers searching for a new career, professionals looking for proven management solutions, and executives seeking to transform their organizations. Developed from Williams's own personal and professional journey, these strategies emerge boldly from his engaging stories, outlined with practical steps for readers to accomplish goals such as- * Improving career focus * Avoiding professional pitfalls, wrong turns, and wasted effort * Overcoming interpersonal challenges and conflicts * Building and leading an effective team * Prioritizing and solving problems from multiple perspectives * Developing a leadership voice and mastering communication * Casting a vision and changing the culture of an organization After finishing Learning to Lead, readers will be well equipped to take the next step to success in their personal and professional leadership journeys.
£21.50
