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Role montage practice is an exciting new technique that allows leaders to access and discover the people (mentors and role models) who have inspired them to succeed. These inspiration sources include various people, both real and imaginary, they've encountered along the way, including various...

The Where I Live series provides a glimpse of everyday life in a variety of settings. Each book introduces a different type of location from the viewpoints of children who live there. The interesting, on-level information satisfies beginning readers' curiosity and the simple language...

"If you want to become a doctor, practice in a war; if you want to become an economist, practice in Vietnam". 1 Phan Van Tiem Vietnam is one of many countries presently undergoing fundamental institutional change: the market mechanism is replacing central planning. So...

It was during a pleasant and warm (both literally and figuratively) two- week period in October, 1991 that a number of researchers, scholars and c1inicians from diverse lands gathered at the beautiful Chateau de Bonas, near Toulouse, France to discuss psychological, neuropsychological and neurolinguistic...

Whether it's Sherlock Holmes solving crimes or Sheldon and Leonard geeking out over sci-fi, geniuses are central figures on many of television's most popular series. They are often enigmatic, displaying superhuman intellect while struggling with mundane aspects of daily life. This collection of new...

Most histories of World War I revolve around gruesome battles, ribboned generals and feats of military heroism. All too often the acts of those who tried to stop the fighting by word or deed have been drowned out by the roar of cannons. Yet...

In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively over cultural lines. Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham...

The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagination of children worldwide. This book examines the performance of masculinity in these stories, particularly in light of the waning years of Victoria's reign when changing...

Though Marxism is the dominant philosophical theory applied to class in academia, its real-life inconsistencies, particularly stereotyping, have troubling effects on working class studies. As a result of its hegemony, alternative discourses have been effectively shut out of the academic world. This critical work...

Among the most intriguing questions of neurology is how conceptions of good and evil arise in the human brain. In a world where we encounter god-like forces in nature, and try to transcend them, the development of a neural network dramatizing good against evil...

Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory sportswriting collects 48 pieces from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt,...

This compilation of essays examines the rise of Western journalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Offering a cross-cultural record of the Western print media's growth, it devotes individual chapters to each of six countries: Great Britain, France, the United States, Canada, Australia...

Claimants of paranormal abilities have always attracted controversy and fascination, and sometimes rigorous study by scientists. Charles Bailey, an Australian medium, was seemingly able to materialize different objects--animate and inanimate--under conditions which made it difficult to conceive how they could have been normally produced....

Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens, self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity and quality of services desired by...

An eclectic look at mass media and popular culture from contributors including Bell Hooks, Noam Chomsky and Manning Marable. One Step Forward traces radical politics and culture in the US through the Cold War, the swinging sixties and the conservative era of Reagan and...

Divine Message keeps in President Trump to protect & restore America in God's power and righteousness. The Democratic Party- controlled by the Socialist&Communist technological evil powers. Arise to God's Truth Restore and Keep America's Freedom In His days Judah, shall be saved, and Israel...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

What is happening to our world?George Bryant touched on a number of issues in his book Life Is...In More Thinking About Life he explores some new ones - diminishing empathy, freedom of speech, our obsession for always wanting more, the importance of the words...

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep? If it is possible, is the learning that takes place during sleep efficient enough to be of practical as well as theoretical significance? These are the...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep? If it is possible, is the learning that takes place during sleep efficient enough to be of practical as well as theoretical significance? These are the...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep? If it is possible, is the learning that takes place during sleep efficient enough to be of practical as well as theoretical significance? These are the...

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform...

Author: Glen Grant,David KalakauaISBN-10: 0935180869ISBN-13: 9780935180862Publisher: Mutual PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1990Pages: 576Format: Mass Market PaperboundWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.20w x 1.30d

With his filtration model, and filtration unit, dialysis of the entire system was performed. Contamination from the oil, plus contamination caked in pipes and components immersed in oil was removed.Removing friction increases the life of components immersed in oil and that of the oil....

The police car races down the street. Its lights flash. Its siren screams. Police cars are important and interesting emergency vehicles. Readers will race through infographics, action-packed photography, and expertly leveled Spanish text to learn all about this fascinating transportation topic. From the vehicles'...

Why is there so much racism in America, when most of us claim we are not racists?Drawing on evolutionary insights, the latest research on the human brain, and wisdom from religious traditions, Mark Ellingsen and James Woodall explore this question with a unique perspective....

Flourishing for All argues that humanity stands at a civilizational crossroads. Drawing on Gerard K. O'Neill's vision of free-floating space habitats ("Green-place In Free-space" communities), the book demonstrates that genuine abundance - unlimited energy, materials, and living space - is technologically achievable beyond Earth....

Author: Nolan HigdonISBN-13: 9798218923174Publisher: Third Rail CommunicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2026Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Unleashing the Rebel WithinHow to Break Free From the Hidden Programming That Shapes Your Life: A Manifesto for the New Era There comes a moment when awareness is no longer enough.When the lies on television feel unbearable.When politics reads like theater.When "normal life" starts...

In The Unknowable Body, Lisa Jean Moore explores the profound disconnect between how we experience our bodies and how the medical world interprets them. Drawing on her own journey through DCIS diagnosis, mastectomy, and reconstruction - alongside her family's navigation of her ex-partner's brain...

The Midwest is often described as simple - fields, factories, small towns, and polite people. But the truth is far more complex. The Soul of the Midwest uncovers the real story of America's Heartland: a region shaped by ancient Indigenous civilizations, waves of immigration,...

Author: James West,Ilene Busch-VishniacISBN-10: 3032209218ISBN-13: 9783032209214Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2026Pages: 167Format: Paperback

The inspiration for this work began during AJ's second visit to Sierra Leone from the USA, when he noticed the changing landscape in his hometown and witnessed the crowning of his older brother as Paramount Chief Bai Kelfa Sankoh, II. It was then that...

When being right becomes more important than being human, we all lose.An eighteen-year-old brings flowers to dinner, hoping to make a good impression on a girl's family. By the end of the evening, he's rejected-not for anything he said or did, but for a...

This book traces the origins of using sea journeys to treat mental illness, a practice recommended within the medical community through the nineteenth century. It also explores the profound consequences of such experiences on the health of writers who sought such cures as exemplified...

The Werewolf in Medieval Romance argues that in Guillaume de Palerne, Bisclavret, Arthur and Gorlagon, Melion, William of Palerne, and Biclarel the werewolf's identity incorporates a variety of assemblages, including human and animal bodies, and physical spaces and the animate and inanimate beings or...

Author: Max RangeleyISBN-10: 3032118131ISBN-13: 9783032118134Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2026Pages: 799Format: Paperback

SIX is for 6enocide is not a quiet book. It is a howl, a cry, and a refusal to look away. Through poems, reflections, and unapologetic rants, Daniel S. Reyes, carves language into witness. Their pieces are raw and urgent, confronting violence, displacement, and...

This book is a somewhat unscientific attempt by a provincial dude to demonstrate that wars fundamentally cannot have a positive outcome, that human lives and property are senselessly destroyed, especially those of those who have no direct influence on the events and who are...

In this book, the author critically interrogates the construction of gender, community and nation in the work of progressive women poets. The book combines the study of nation and community through a close engagement with Urdu literary culture in the twentieth century and particularly...

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth...

The journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz, who spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. Born in 1962, in an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas, he was politically active from a young age and was captured by Turkish authorities...

Imagine no more wars: so far at least 18 wars have occurred that ended with the lost of our husbands, brothers, fathers, nephews, and other family members died in the name of 'power to control.'Imagine no more need for politicians: we have had numerous...

The book, "" An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern...

The articles collected in "Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics focus on the significance of Franz Rosenzweig's work far beyond the realms of theology and philosophy of religion. They engage with a wide range of issues in philosophy and offer new...

Part One The Islamic Monuments of Bhadreśvar Introduction History The Site of Ancient Bhadreśvar and the Shrine of Ibrāhīm The Ancient Site The Shrine of Ibrāhīm The Mosques The Solahkhambī Masjid The Chhoṭī Masjid Other Architectural Remains The Chatri The Dūdhā Wav Conclusion Appendix:...

Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental...

The volume SocioAesthetics: Ambience - Imaginary collects scholars from social science, aesthetics, arts, and cultural studies in case-driven debate, ranging from biometrics to luxury commodities, on how a new alignment of aesthetics and the social is possible and what the possible prospects of this...