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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Just Like Jesse Owens (Hardcover)
Andrew Young; As told by Paula Young Shelton; Illustrated by Gordon C James
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Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J.
Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years
old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a
duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he
continued to build businesses, amassing one of the nation’s most
profitable minority-owned conglomerates. In Building Atlanta,
Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame
racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one
of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta
civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not
just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success
through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning
advice throughout. As a millionaire builder before the civil rights
movement took hold and a friend of Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and
Andrew Young, he quietly helped finance the civil rights crusade,
putting up bond for protestors and providing the funds that kept
King’s dream alive. He provides a wonderful behind-the-scenes
look at the role the business community, both black and white
working together, played in Atlanta’s peaceful progression from
the capital of the racially divided Old South to the financial
center of the New South.
Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage
Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition,
is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding
to high risk negotiation incidents. This revision includes the
current research on negotiating high-risk incidents in the
classroom and the field. It includes an applied analysis of the
value of psychopathology to high-risk perpetrators. It refines the
"empirical eclecticism" introduced in the fourth edition to provide
a conceptual basis for crisis negotiations. The authors include
summary bullet points at the end of each chapter for easy reference
when negotiators are in the field and a review of the literature
since the last edition appeared. Their discussion of the strategic
planning process involved in high-risk negotiation incidents
focuses clearly on the critical questions negotiators need to ask
themselves about any high-risk incident and provides a practical
approach to the psychology of individuals that engage in high-risk
incidents. Known as "the bible" to experienced professionals in the
field, this sixth edition of Crisis Negotiations is vital for
practitioners as well as for criminology, criminal justice or
psychology courses in crisis management, applied psychology, and
special operations in law enforcement and corrections. Instructors
will find it well supported by ancillary materials including
discussion questions, slide presentations, and a test bank, as well
as case studies and self-assessment quizzes for students, making it
easy to develop a first-time course or to integrate it into an
existing course.
Basketball demands a level of leadership that can consistently
create teams with both personal responsibility and the autonomy to
make split-second decisions in incredibly high-stakes situations.
Does this sound familiar? Well it should this is the current
environment for corporate, political, nonprofit, and educational
leadership! In LEADING HIGH PERFORMERS, Snow develops his
experience on the court into a formula to help corporate and
organizational leaders understand how to get their high performers,
MVP's, and top new recruits to perform better and follow their
leadership. Because like basketball players today's organization
leaders must be "fast, fluid, and flexible" to be successful, these
new times, demand new leaders. Throughout the book, Snow examines
the most crucial aspects of leadership development, including: The
secrets of self-confidence The keys to powerful communication Tips
for managing conflict And... Methods of obtaining peak performance
from yourself and those around you Snow also frequently breaks away
from his own lessons to bring readers the thoughts on leadership of
some of the high-profile coaches and teammates throughout his
college and pro careers, including Larry Brown, LeBron James, Tom
Izzo, Allen Iverson, Nate McMillan and Jud Heathcote. Snow
understands what it is like to be the new guy on the team, thrust
into leadership the first day on the job and charged with leading
legends of the game. It's not as simple as pointing in the right
direction and expecting everyone to follow with a high-five and no
ulterior motives. High performers have high expectations, high
skill levels and high egos that must be catered to rather than
ignored. It can be a job within a job leading these rock stars to
winning results and woe to those who are unprepared.
Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage
Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition,
is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding
to high risk negotiation incidents. This revision includes the
current research on negotiating high-risk incidents in the
classroom and the field. It includes an applied analysis of the
value of psychopathology to high-risk perpetrators. It refines the
"empirical eclecticism" introduced in the fourth edition to provide
a conceptual basis for crisis negotiations. The authors include
summary bullet points at the end of each chapter for easy reference
when negotiators are in the field and a review of the literature
since the last edition appeared. Their discussion of the strategic
planning process involved in high-risk negotiation incidents
focuses clearly on the critical questions negotiators need to ask
themselves about any high-risk incident and provides a practical
approach to the psychology of individuals that engage in high-risk
incidents. Known as "the bible" to experienced professionals in the
field, this sixth edition of Crisis Negotiations is vital for
practitioners as well as for criminology, criminal justice or
psychology courses in crisis management, applied psychology, and
special operations in law enforcement and corrections. Instructors
will find it well supported by ancillary materials including
discussion questions, slide presentations, and a test bank, as well
as case studies and self-assessment quizzes for students, making it
easy to develop a first-time course or to integrate it into an
existing course.
This practical handbook provides a broad overview of the major
elements of pattern recognition and image processing (PRIP).
Currently the only handbook in the field, it is designed as a
source of "quick answers" for those interested in the theoretical
development and practical applications of PRIP techniques.
Twenty years of research, development, and innovations in
applications are documented in this comprehensive work. Written by
leading researchers in the field, chapters deal with
statistical and syntactic pattern recognition
feature selection and extraction
cluster analysis
image enhancement and restoration
shapes, texture, and motion
computer vision
computer systems and architectures for image processing and various
industrial and biomedical applications.
Engineers, computer scientists, other professionals, and students
interested in applying PRIP techniques will find the Handbook of
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing to be an invaluable
reference source.
This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and
excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most
important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from
south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession
of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th
centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late
Saxon precursor. Detailed analysis of the structural sequence
offers a new regional perspective on pre-Conquest earthfast timber
architecture and its subsequent (12th-century) replacement by
masonry traditions. Culminating in a richly preserved 14th-century
farmhouse, including a very complete assemblage of structural and
domestic objects, the structural archaeology provides an unusually
refined picture of the internal organisation of later medieval
domestic space within a rural farming setting. Detailed analytical
attention is given to the abundant artefactual and environmental
datasets recovered from the excavations (including prolific
assemblages of medieval pottery and palaeonvironmental data) with a
nuanced appraisal of their interpretative implications. Anyone with
an interest in the dynamics and regional complexity of medieval
rural communities will find this a stimulating and enlightening
read.
This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and
excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most
important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from
south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession
of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th
centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late
Saxon precursor. Detailed analysis of the structural sequence
offers a new regional perspective on pre-Conquest earthfast timber
architecture and its subsequent (12th-century) replacement by
masonry traditions. Culminating in a richly preserved 14th-century
farmhouse, including a very complete assemblage of structural and
domestic objects, the structural archaeology provides an unusually
refined picture of the internal organisation of later medieval
domestic space within a rural farming setting. Detailed analytical
attention is given to the abundant artefactual and environmental
datasets recovered from the excavations (including prolific
assemblages of medieval pottery and palaeonvironmental data) with a
nuanced appraisal of their interpretative implications. Anyone with
an interest in the dynamics and regional complexity of medieval
rural communities will find this a stimulating and enlightening
read.
By 2050, the global population of humans is predicted to
increase by 35%. Approximately 70% more food may be required, and
this will take place against a backdrop of 15-40% land degradation.
This book examines land use intensification and biodiversity
conservation and its impacts. It also discusses whether suites of
species, and/or functional groups of taxa will either benefit or
suffer from land use intensification and whether it is possible to
make robust predictions of biotic responses across landscapes,
regions, and continents.
Featuring contributions from Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis,
George McGovern, Rosa Parks, and others, this inspiring collection
features the milestone speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one
of the greatest orators of the 20th century.
Deciphers amylin's physiology and reveals previously unrecognized
mechanisms fundamental to control body weight and fuel homeostasis.
Also discusses therapeutic utility of amylin as the first new
medicine to treat diabetes since insulin.
*Provides a current comprehensive treatment of amylin the
hormone
*Identifies the majority of amylin's physiologic functions
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the
potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation.
The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data,
however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about
open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and
more generally about its possible contributions to economic and
social development. Open Data for Developing Economies features
in-depth case studies on how open data is having an impact across
the developing world-from an agriculture initiative in Colombia to
data-driven healthcare projects in Uganda and South Africa to
crisis response in Nepal. The analysis built on these case studies
aims to create actionable intelligence regarding: (a) the
conditions under which open data is most (and least) effective in
development, presented in the form of a Periodic Table of Open
Data; (b) strategies to maximize the positive contributions of open
data to development; and (c) the means for limiting open data’s
harms on developing countries.
From her unique vantage point in New Orleans, Sybil Haydel
Morial’s life spans one of the most critical periods in our
country’s history. In this remarkable memoir, Morial chronicles
her life as both witness to and catalyst for sweeping
changes—desegregation, the end of Jim Crow, and the fight for
voting rights. These changes transformed the nation during her
lifetime. Morial’s story is welcome inspiration for the struggle
for political empowerment that continues. As Ambassador Andrew
Young, a childhood friend and later Sybil’s prom date, relates in
his foreword: “It is doubtful that New Orleans could have
produced two mayors with the dynamic, creative, and visionary
leadership of 'Dutch' and Marc Morial without a wife and mother of
Sybil’s loving strength, intelligence, and moral courage. But the
life she lived in the crucible times and her perception of the
civil rights movement in New Orleans goes far beyond that.”
First selection of Andrew Young's best-known short poems and the
long mystical poem Into Hades. The volume is illustrated by Joan
Hassalal's powerful wood-engravings.
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