|
Showing 1 - 25 of
98 matches in All Departments
GLOBAL HIT-Finally, a book that shows you how to replace career
uncertainty with career confidence, step-by-step Before they make
important decisions, entrepreneurs, scientists, and other
professionals maximize results and minimize risk by testing future
scenarios using models. Now you, too, can use models to test career
decisions: with the single-page visual method that's already
helping hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide. Careers
were complicated enough before explosive changes swept the world,
igniting even greater complexity and triggering uncertainty--along
with hidden opportunities. All of this compels professionals to
reinvent how they work. But how? The key is to draw a visual
"picture" of your work--a model--that quickly gives you an entirely
new understanding of what your work means to employers, customers,
colleagues--and you. This model instantly triggers new insights and
identifies next career moves you can make with confidence. Readers
of the first edition of Business Model You will find this all-new,
full-color book deepens their understanding of the method with new
tools and techniques including the Work Model Canvas, Outward
Focus, Third Objects, The Three Questions, the "Passion" Myth, the
Valuable Work Detector, and Reasons to Choose You. Examples
covering 50 occupations in both commercial and not-for-profit
sectors are features, all alphabetically indexed at the front of
the book. A global hit available in 20 languages, Business Model
You pioneered the model-based approach to work reinvention that's
been adopted for use by thousands of corporations, universities,
and not-for-proit organizations worldwide. Want to replace career
uncertainty with career confidence? Reinvent the most important
model of all: Business Model You.
This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to be integrated with all aspects of the design process. eBook available with sample pages: 0203482611
This book focuses on queering texts with lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and/or transgender (LGBT) themes in collaboration with students -
young to young adult - and their teachers - both pre- and in-
service. It strives to generate knowledge and deeper understandings
of the pedagogical implications for working with LGBT-themed texts
in classrooms across grade levels. The contributions in this book
offer explicit implications for pedagogical practice, considering
literature for children and young adults, and work in elementary
school, high school, and university classrooms and schools. They
give insights on exploring how queer and trans theories might
inform the teaching and learning of English language arts with
great respect to people who live their lives beyond hegemonic
heternormativity and cisnormativity. They provide wisdom on how to
provoke, foster, and navigate complicated conversations about
sexuality, queer desire, gender creativity, gender independence,
and trans inclusivity. In addition, they show how all of these are
informed by an epistemological and ontological understanding of
gender embodiment as a process of becoming. They offer insights
into how queer and trans theories, as informed and driven by trans,
non-binary and gender diverse scholars themselves, can move all of
us beyond LGBTQ-inclusivity and inform reading, discussing,
teaching, and learning in all of the classrooms and school contexts
where we live and work. This volume was originally published as a
special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of
Education.
This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second
edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes
the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of
ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to
be integrated with all aspects of the design process.
This book focuses on queering texts with lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and/or transgender (LGBT) themes in collaboration with students -
young to young adult - and their teachers - both pre- and in-
service. It strives to generate knowledge and deeper understandings
of the pedagogical implications for working with LGBT-themed texts
in classrooms across grade levels. The contributions in this book
offer explicit implications for pedagogical practice, considering
literature for children and young adults, and work in elementary
school, high school, and university classrooms and schools. They
give insights on exploring how queer and trans theories might
inform the teaching and learning of English language arts with
great respect to people who live their lives beyond hegemonic
heternormativity and cisnormativity. They provide wisdom on how to
provoke, foster, and navigate complicated conversations about
sexuality, queer desire, gender creativity, gender independence,
and trans inclusivity. In addition, they show how all of these are
informed by an epistemological and ontological understanding of
gender embodiment as a process of becoming. They offer insights
into how queer and trans theories, as informed and driven by trans,
non-binary and gender diverse scholars themselves, can move all of
us beyond LGBTQ-inclusivity and inform reading, discussing,
teaching, and learning in all of the classrooms and school contexts
where we live and work. This volume was originally published as a
special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of
Education.
Stepping Up! offers inspiring suggestions for ways teachers and
teacher educators can stand up and speak out for students to create
welcoming classroom climates for LGBTQ and gender diverse youth.
Building from ten years of collaborative longitudinal inquiry,
including interviews with parents, students, teachers, and
administrators, the authors share stories from different
perspectives to support teachers with concrete examples of
advocacy. The authors show teachers how to 'step up' by working
with students, through and beyond curriculum, and by working with
families and administrators to improve school culture for LGBTQ and
gender diverse students. Additionally, they explore the potential
constraints involved in such social justice work, and share
strategies and resources for transforming schools to be more
queer-friendly.
This timely volume provides innovative perspectives on the
management advice industry from leading contributors in critical
theory, organizational behaviour, sociology, psychology,
actor-network theory and narrative analysis. It addresses such
fundamental questions as:
What is management knowledge?
How is it created and sold?
What is the role of consultants, gurus, academics in this process?
Does the management advice industry add value?
What is the nature of the client-consultant relationship?
The development of interest in the management advice industry,
both within the business press and the social sciences, reflects
the need to answer these questions. The critical analysis presented
here evaluates what management consultants offer as well as
investigating the emergence of their industry as a contemporary
social phenomenon.
This volume provides the first critical evaluation of the
different actors and activities that comprise the management advice
sector, and will be invaluable both to those teaching courses in
consultancy and to analysts who are trying to make sense of the
explosion in the management knowledge industry.
Stepping Up! offers inspiring suggestions for ways teachers and
teacher educators can stand up and speak out for students to create
welcoming classroom climates for LGBTQ and gender diverse youth.
Building from ten years of collaborative longitudinal inquiry,
including interviews with parents, students, teachers, and
administrators, the authors share stories from different
perspectives to support teachers with concrete examples of
advocacy. The authors show teachers how to 'step up' by working
with students, through and beyond curriculum, and by working with
families and administrators to improve school culture for LGBTQ and
gender diverse students. Additionally, they explore the potential
constraints involved in such social justice work, and share
strategies and resources for transforming schools to be more
queer-friendly.
In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston
evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and
architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and
visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into
the ""Athens of America,"" neighborhoods were leveled, streets
straightened, and an ambitious set of architectural ordinances
enacted. However, even as residents reveled in a vibrant new
landscape of landmark buildings, art galleries, parks, and bustling
streets, the social and sensory upheaval of city life also gave
rise to a widespread fascination with the unseen. Focusing his
analysis between 1820 and 1860, Justin T. Clark traces how the
effort to impose moral and social order on the city also inspired
many-from Transcendentalists to clairvoyants and amateur artists-to
seek out more ethereal visions of the infinite and ideal beyond the
gilded paintings and glimmering storefronts. By elucidating the
reciprocal influence of two of the most important developments in
nineteenth-century American culture-the spectacular city and
visionary culture-Clark demonstrates how the nineteenth-century
city is not only the birthplace of modern spectacle, but also a
battleground for the freedom and autonomy of the spectator.
In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston
evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and
architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and
visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into
the ""Athens of America,"" neighborhoods were leveled, streets
straightened, and an ambitious set of architectural ordinances
enacted. However, even as residents reveled in a vibrant new
landscape of landmark buildings, art galleries, parks, and bustling
streets, the social and sensory upheaval of city life also gave
rise to a widespread fascination with the unseen. Focusing his
analysis between 1820 and 1860, Justin T. Clark traces how the
effort to impose moral and social order on the city also inspired
many-from Transcendentalists to clairvoyants and amateur artists-to
seek out more ethereal visions of the infinite and ideal beyond the
gilded paintings and glimmering storefronts. By elucidating the
reciprocal influence of two of the most important developments in
nineteenth-century American culture-the spectacular city and
visionary culture-Clark demonstrates how the nineteenth-century
city is not only the birthplace of modern spectacle, but also a
battleground for the freedom and autonomy of the spectator.
This new edition of An Aquinas Reader contains in one closely knit
volume representative selections that reflect every aspect of
Aquinas's philosophy. Divided into three section - Reality, God,
and Man - this anthology offers an unrivaled perspective of the
full scope and rich variety of Aquinas's thought. It provides the
general reader with an overall survey of one of the most
outstanding thinks or all time and reveals the major influence he
has had on many of the world's greatest thinkers. This revised
third edition of Clark's perennial still has all of the exceptional
qualities that made An Aquinas Reader a classic, but contains a new
introduction, improved format, and an updated bibliography.
|
Hawthorne Manor
Bryan T. Clark
|
R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This book makes available, for interested scientists to procure,
absorb, and evaluate, the vast body of information on the research
and results of the work on the chemistry of penicillin done in
England and the United States during the war. The National Academy
of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, Dr. H. T.
Clarke and Dr. J. R. Johnson representing the United States on the
editorial board, and Sir Robert Robinson representing Britain. The
body of the work was prepared by more than 60 outstanding
biochemists and biophysicists, who describe the phases of research
to which they contributed the most. The work of 23 academic,
medical, industrial, and government laboratories is reported.
Originally published in 1949. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
A principal forbids same-sex prom dates. A community group tries to
prohibit gender-neutral bathrooms. Despite growing acceptance of
2SLGBTQ+ rights, schools still regularly become battlegrounds in
clashes between the expression of gender or sexual identity and a
perceived threat to religious identity or values. Making the Case
explains the position of Canadian law. It demonstrates that
Canadians have rights to both religion and rights to gender
expression or sexual orientation. It then provides evidence from
case law to show that sexual minority rights do not undermine
rights to religious freedom. This book is an important tool for
anyone working to create an inclusive school environment or respond
to rights-based conflicts within the school system.
|
You may like...
Ab Wheel
R209
R149
Discovery Miles 1 490
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|