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The 'Psychology Express' undergraduate revision guide series will
help your students to understand key concepts quickly, revise
effectively and make their answers stand out.
Impelled by runaway spending and rampant corruption, America's
much-beloved games of college basketball and football are being
threatened. The specter of billion-dollar sums being showered on
coaches, voracious athletic directors, hordes of support staff and
lavish comforts for fans has led to a near-deafening roar to pay
the players. The injustice of such sums being amassed, in the main,
from the labor of young men of color many of whom come from
disadvantaged backgrounds cannot be justified; and yet, American
society has allowed this intractable problem to fester for more
than half a century. Lured by the glitter of untold riches, naive
young players enroll year after year in colleges and universities
expecting the ultimate reward of a highly paid career as a pro.
Only a minuscule few will advance that far; even fewer will reap
significant financial rewards. Instead of educating them, colleges
and universities force them into full-time athletic jobs in which
their labor is shamelessly exploited. Small wonder that outraged
critics demand compensation for the players, but these same critics
only present vague answers when asked how such a radical change
would work. College Sports on the Brink of Disaster, first
published as Marching Toward Madness and now newly updated, cites
twenty-one reasons why the pro-pay position is wrong, among them
the prospect that the player talent pool will be concentrated to
even fewer rich schools; recruiting wars will lead to more frequent
scandals; and the regulatory powers of the NCAA will exponentially
increase. Worst of all, pay-for-play will encourage schools to
shirk even further the imperative to educate the young athletes.
College Sports on the Brink of Disaster presents comprehensive
reforms to end cheating and corruption in college sports, to put
academics first, and to end the peonage of non-white athletes once
and for all.
Entire first series of the popular TV show. In 'Encounter at
Farpoint', a double length story, the Enterprise encounters a
planet that is being threatened by an alien creature - and to make
matters worse, Picard is called before the super-being Q to answer
questions on behalf of humanity. 'The Naked Now' has the cew
infected by a deadly virus which manifests itself in such symptoms
as intoxication and promiscuity. 'Code of Honour' sees Tasha
kidnapped by an alien who wants her as his mate. 'The Last Outpost'
finds the Enterprise coming face-to-face with the Ferengi for the
first time. In 'Where No One Has Gone Before', a warp experiment
goes wrong and flings the Enterprise into a strange galaxy billions
of light-years from its starting point. 'Lonely Among Us' has
Picard's body becomes the host for an alien entity. 'Justice' sees
the unfortunate Wes Crusher sentenced to death for violating a
local custom on an alien world. 'The Battle' finds Picard taking on
DaiMan Bok, who wants revenge for the death of his son. 'Hide and
Q' has the crew of the Enterprise D plagued once more by the cosmic
trickster Q. 'Haven' sees Riker's heart set to break when Deanna is
forced into an arranged marriage. In 'The Big Goodbye', Picard
indulges his love of film noir detective stories on the holodeck,
only to end up trapped when the system malfunctions. 'Datalore' has
the crew of the Enterprise discover the component parts of Lore,
Data's twin brother, on a devastated planet. 'Angel One' sees Riker
caught up in the politics of a planet ruled entirely by women.
'11001001' finds the Enterprise hijacked by an alien race called
the Bynars, who upgrade the ship's computer to their own ends. 'Too
Short a Season' has the Enterprise accompany the ageing Admiral
Mark Jameson to Mordan IV, where his mission is to secure the
release of Federation hostages. 'When the Bough Breaks' sees Wesley
and various other children from the Enterprise kidnapped by the
technologically advanced but sterile civilisation on the planet
Aldea. In 'Home Soil', it transpires that the Enterprise is under
attack from Microbain, a microscopic life-form, after Data is
attacked by a laser drill. 'Coming of Age' finds Wesley preparing
to sit an Academy exam, while Picard is investigated by the
unpopular Lt Commander Dexter. 'Heart of Glory' has the Enterprise
play host to two Klingons who claim to have been attacked by
Ferengi. 'The Arsenal of Freedom' sees Picard lead a team to the
lifeless planet Minos to search for the USS Drake. 'Symbiosis'
finds Picard caught in the middle of a war between the
narcotics-addicted Ornarans and their enemies the Brekkans, who
possess a possible cure. In 'Skin of Evil', an Enterprise
shuttlecraft crash lands on Vagra II and is captured by the evil
Armus. 'We'll Always Have Paris' sees the man married to Picard's
first love create a hole in the universe. 'Conspiracy' has Picard's
best friend suffer from an acute paranoia which leads to the
destruction of his starship being destroyed. Finally, in 'The
Neutral Zone', the crew encounter an enemy stronger than any they
have come across before.
The Caucasus region, which forms a natural boundary between Asia
and Europe, has always been of great strategic importance. Russia's
expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought
conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention
between these two states, and the borderlands remained in a state
of intermittent conflict until the end of the First World War. This
volume, first published in 1953, discusses the four major conflicts
which took place in the region during the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Focusing on military strategy, the book
describes in great detail battles, skirmishes and logistical
problems of warfare in a mountainous and remote region. Illustrated
with thirty-nine maps, it provides a wealth of information for
military historians and remains an authoritative account.
In From Honey With Love, Honey-a swamp dog living in the wild-tells
her own harrowing story in a charming southern voice. Barely a year
old, her high-stakes drama begins when she gets trapped and nearly
shot. Convinced that she's a coyote or a "ditch dog," trappers want
to wipe out her breed, perhaps the oldest in North America. But
Honey gets rescued by Miss Jane and taken to Banbury Cross Farm,
where she rescues and raises Honey's breed-the Carolina Dog or
American Dingo. At the farm, Honey quickly bonds with Mr. Billy,
the Field Master for fox hunters, and Ace, the farm manager. They
quickly bond as a pack, like the one Honey left in the swamp.
Honey's quickness causes Ace, Miss Jane, and Mr. Billy to train her
to become an agility champion. How she runs the race of her life,
and how the killers in the swamp get caught, lives in legend. Along
the way, Honey learns a lesson she'll never forget: the strength of
the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.
How do the most resilient companies survive—and even
thrive—during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on
surviving a tough economy and coming back stronger, read these 15
articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review
articles and selected the most important ones to help your company
persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow while
your competitors stumble. This book will inspire you to: Harness
your resources to pull through a pandemic Learn the right lessons
from previous recessions Minimize pain while cutting costs and
managing risk Foster a healthy culture during anxious times Make
smart moves to protect your own job Seize the opportunity to
innovate and reinvent your business This collection of articles
includes "Seize Advantage in a Downturn" by David Rhodes and Daniel
Stelter; "How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A
Research Roundup" by Walter Frick; "How to Bounce Back from
Adversity" by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rohm and
Haas's Former CEO on Pulling off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market" by
Raj Gupta; "How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy" by Robert I.
Sutton; "Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company" by Sandra J. Sucher
and Shalene Gupta; "Getting Reorgs Right" by Stephen
Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood; "Reigniting Growth" by Chris
Zook and James Allen; "Reinvent Your Business Model Before It's Too
Late" by Paul Nunes and Tim Breene; "How to Protect Your Job in a
Recession" by Janet Banks and Diane Coutu; "Learning from the
Future" by J. Peter Scoblic; "5 Ways to Stimulate Cash Flow in a
Downturn" by Eddie Yoon and Christopher Lochhead; "The Case for
M&A in a Downturn" by Brian Salsberg; "Include Your Employees
in Cost-Cutting Decisions" by Patrick Daoust and Paul Simon; and
"Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World" by Carsten Lund
Pedersen and Thomas Ritter. HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is
the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders
alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide,
both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies,
should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the
core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership,
strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard
Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and
selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title
includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an
ever-changing business environment.
Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist
account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the
20th century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and
massive deportation of so-called "bourgeoisie elements" to Siberia.
Today, these brutal events are symbolized by one word, Katyn--a
crime that still bitterly divides Poles and Russians. Paul's richly
updated account covers Russian attempts to recant their admission
of guilt for the murders in Katyn Forest and includes recently
translated documents from Russian military archives, eyewitness
accounts of two perpetrators, and secret official minutes published
here for the first time that confirm that U.S. government cover-up
of the crime continued long after the war ended.Paul's masterful
narrative recreates what daily life was like for three Polish
families amid momentous events of World War II--from the
treacherous Nazi-Soviet invasion in 1939 to a rigged election in
1947 that sealed Poland's doom. The patriarch of each family was
among the Polish officers personally ordered by Stalin to be shot.
One of the families suffered daily repression under the German
General Government. Like thousands of other Poles, two of the
families were deported to Siberia, where they nearly died from
forced labor, starvation, and neglect. Through painstaking
research, the author reconstructs the lives of these families
including such stories as a miraculous escape on the last transport
of Poles leaving Russia and a mother's daring ski trek over the
Carpathian Mountains to rescue a daughter she had not seen in six
years. At the heart of the drama is the Poles' uncommon belief in
"victory in defeat"--that their struggles made them strong and that
freedom and independence, inevitably, would be regained.
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