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Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development
Joyce Osland, Mark E. Mendenhall, Allan Bird, Gary R. Oddou, Martha L. Maznevski, Michael Stevens, and Günter K. Stahl
This book is the only overview and compendium of research published to date in the nascent field of global leadership. It describes the global context in which leaders of multinational enterprises work, the difference between domestic and global leaders, and the multidisciplinary roots of this field. In addition to reviewing the literature and practical recommendations on global leadership competencies, assessment, process models and development methods, the book also discusses global teams, knowledge creation and transfer, and change.
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Food and Culture
Kathryn P. Sucher
Research based coverage of health culture, food and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic, religious, and regional groups living the United States. Chapters include information on traditional and acculturated health beliefs and practices, food and religion, and intercultural communication. The book is widely used in nutrition and dietetic education programs, as well as by other allied health professionals.
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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups.
Randall Stross
For the project, I took a two-semester DIP leave and acted as an ethnographer, closely observing a group of software entrepreneurs as they were selected for seed funding and then worked on their products under the supervision of partners at Y Combinator, a seed fund in Mountain View. The resulting narrative presents an inside view of the process of angel investing on a large scale---there were 64 startups that were funded simultaneously----and of startup creation at the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Better Angels
Harold W. Peterson
Betrayed by love and forever scarred by a war in Vietnam, Henry Allen has had enough of life in Michigan and sets out on a journey home to Alaska. Although hopeless and unconvinced that there is anything left to live for, Henry holds fast to a promise made to an old friend during the war and an overpowering desire to return home after 20 years. While the long and winding road takes him back in miles and memories, he must once again confront shadows from his past that for so long he has been able to avoid knowing that the darkest of them still awaits at his journey's end.
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Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film
Mike Adams
Yale Ph.D. Lee de Forest took 19th Century science and turned it into the electronic entertainment media of the 20th Century. In 1907 he patented his signature invention, the vacuum tube, to be a transmitter, receiver and amplifier of sound. He experimented with the broadcast of music and started several radio stations. Beginning in 1918 he patented a system of writing sound on motion picture film for synchronized talking pictures. His tube was the key as it allowed amplification of sound using loudspeakers and made it possible for audiences to experience both radio and talking pictures. He supplied the missing voice to the motion picture for which he received an Oscar.
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Wicked Hill
Edwin Sams
Wicked Hill is an American Gothic tale of suspicion and superstition set in the Smoky Mountains of the Eastern United States.
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Bean Bags to Bod Pods: A History of 150 years of San José State University's Department of Kinesiology
Shirley Reekie
This book chronicles the development of what started as the first public system of physical activity (now typically housed in departments of Kinesiology) in higher education in the west and one of the earliest in the entire US. In common with most programs, it began as a physical education teacher education program but in the last 50 years has diversified into preparing students for many careers including personal training, sport management, athletic training, adapted physical activity, cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, exercise physiology, coaching, and sport psychology. It is not a history of athletics but this does form a strand in the narrative, which is set in the context of the major social and political movements of the times.
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Forensic Engineering Sciences: American Academy of Forensic Sciences Reference Series - A Decade of Research and Case Study Proceedings
Anastasia Micheals, Laura L. Liptai, Sonya R. Bynoe, and Anne Warren
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Reference Series is the largest collection of forensic case studies and research abstracts worldwide spanning eleven fields of forensic science. Established in 1948, the AAFS represents over 6,260 members from all fifty US states, all ten Canadian provinces and 62 other countries worldwide. This first of its kind twelve volume collection contains a decade of proceedings from many of the most prominent forensic scientists worldwide.
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Nava-yi Nai (Sound of Reed)
Najia Karim-Qayoumi
A native of Afghanistan and a registered dietitian, Najia Karim is also a Persian poet whose work has been published in several Afghan and Iranian magazines in the US. She is a regular guest with the on one of the local Afghan Satellite television stations.
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Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering
Louis E. Freund and James C. Spohrer
This book describes the emerging field known as the human-side of service engineering. If there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered. Contributors to this book explore the wide range of ways in which Human Factors Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, Attitude and Opinion Assessment, Servicescape Designs and Evaluations, Cognitive Engineering, Psychometrics, Training for Service Delivery, Co-Creation and Co-Production, Service Levels and Cost Effectiveness, Call Center Engineering, Customer Support Engineering, and many other areas relate to and impact the human-side of engineering service systems.
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Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction
Winifred Schultz-Krohn and Heidi McHugh Pendleton
This comprehensive textbook addresses the provision of occupational therapy services for those with physical disabling conditions and is widely used throughout the United States and internationally, being translated in several languages. In the 7th edition the editors, who also authored several of the chapters, sought to infuse clinical reasoning, analysis and practical intervention methods throughout the textbook with case presentations to help the reader apply the information to clinical practice. Over 50 expert occupational therapist were sought as contributors to this textbook providing the most contemporary and well researched methods for occupational therapy intervention. This textbook has received wide acclaim as being the “OT Bible” for occupational therapists working with individuals with physical disabilities.
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Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach
V. Gregory Payne and Larry D. Isaacs
This is a leading text in Human Motor Development. It describes the normal changes in human movement progressions (e.g., infant reflexes, crawling, walking, hand writing, skilled movement) across the lifespan, as well as the issues related to these changes. The book was originally published in 1987, and is now in its 8th edition. It has been used throughout the world, and has been translated into other languages.
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Versos Sencillos
José Martí, Anne Fountain, and Lisa Vollendorf
A introduction and notes in both English and Spanish along with a bilingual presentation of the poems of José Martí. "One of the best works of translation...of Cuba's most universal and most-admired hero" - Hispania
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Global Rights and Perceptions
Avantika Rohatgi
In Global Rights and Perceptions students read from a wide variety of original sources—foreign policy journals, non-fiction books, medical journals, and current affairs magazines on how human rights are currently being violated through practices such as human trafficking, female genital mutilation, organ trade, and female feticide. This varied exposure gives students several gateways through which to approach complex social issues, think and write about them with awareness and engagement. Based on the premise that students must be pulled away from a highly commercial, digitally perfect present, and encouraged to intelligently and passionately examine an imperfect world with a view to changing it, the book provides a well-rounded education on global rights, and the lack thereof, in our modern world.
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The LinkedIn Essentials: Leveraging LinkedIn to Grow Your Business
Peter F. Young and Asia Bird
The LinkedIn Essentials shows you proven techniques for attracting quality clients using LinkedIn, and provides you with the essential elements for successfully marketing your business on LinkedIn, the largest PROFESSIONAL social network in the world, and the perfect place to target B2B customers.
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Some Same but Different: Unlearning the Concept of Disability
Bettina Brockmann
The book exemplifies how working with leads to a product that can help create an inclusive academic environment. The author worked with 7 students with disabilities to better understand their successes and struggles within higher education. Together, they explore the social construct of disability and offer ways on how to unlearn this learned concept. Guiding exercises and thought-provoking ideas challenge the reader to investigate his/her own attitudes and beliefs. In addition, the book offers guidelines on how students and instructors can engage one another in constructive dialogue across difference. This book is applicable across a broad array of courses and disciplines.
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Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 12/13
Ellen Junn and Chris J. Boyatzis
Annual Editions: Child Growth & Development is a compilation of current and provocative articles on a large range of issues in child growth and development that is used nationwide as a supplementary reader in child development and psychology courses.
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Daily Life Through History: Women and Civil Rights Movement in America
Danelle Moon
Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era looks at the variety of women’s experiences in promoting social justice and human rights in the US from 1920 to the 1980s. It gives an audience a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender, class, and race in America.
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Coordinating the Communication Course: A Guidebook
Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren
Written by two experienced course directors and graduate teaching associate supervisors, this book is designed to help both novice and experienced course coordinators effectively manage the challenges associated with large, multi-section communication courses. Topics range from selection, training and evaluation of faculty to assessment and advocacy.
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After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic
Richard Tieszen
This book presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in the great logician Kurt Gödel's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic. The argument is structured around Gödel's three philosophical heroes, Plato, Leibniz and Husserl, and includes treatment of the incompleteness theorems and other technical results.
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Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
John Loomis
This book examines the convergence and collision of architecture, ideology, and culture in 1960s Cuba through the architectural design for the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte. The attention that his book brought to these works of architecture prodded the Cuban government to commit to their restoration, and to declare them national monuments in November 2010. In addition, the book has provided the inspiration for a documentary film, Unfinished Spaces by Alysa Nahmias, an art installation Utopía Posible at the 2009 Gwangju Biennial by Felipe Dulzaides, and an opera, Revolution of Forms, being developed with Robert Wilson as director.
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Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution
Ruma Chopra
Thousands of British Americans in the thirteen colonies rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. These loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.
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Information Security: Principles and Practice
Mark Stamp
Information security is a rapidly evolving field. As businesses and consumers become increasingly dependent on complex multinational information systems, it is more imperative than ever to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Featuring a wide array of new information on the most current security issues, this fully updated and revised edition of Information Security: Principles and Practice provides the skills and knowledge readers need to tackle any information security challenge.
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T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe
Paul Douglass
T. S. Eliot’s response to Dante includes aesthetic, philosophical, and religious convictions, his formative influence upon literary modernism’s “classicism,” and his desire to promote European unity. The book’s deals with Eliot’s engagement through Dante with concepts of immediate experience, primary consciousness, and “unified sensibility,” as well as with Hindu-Buddhist and Christian themes and motifs. The book also deals with Eliot as a modernist writer, asking how Dante influenced Eliot, and through Eliot many other writers. Dante’s importance to Eliot’s promotion of an “idea of Europe” is related to his notion of “tradition.
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Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the US
William T. Armaline
"An accessible and highly readable collection that pulls together a wide range of information and analyzes it through the lens of sociology. The book makes a significant contribution to emerging literature that applies human rights principles to U.S. policy and practice."—Martha F. Davis, Northeastern University
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