Download or read book Why Men Fight written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Management for Results written by Linda L. Brennan and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Management for Results: Strategies for Sustainable Outcomes teaches graduate students of management about strategic planning and decision making. Unlike many traditional textbooks that focus on strategy in an overly broad or theoretical manner, this reader approaches strategy as results-driven, data-driven, and dynamic. Featuring contemporary topics that are of high interest to students, the book emphasizes the practical, rather than the theoretical. The book is divided into four sections. The first, "Charting the Direction of the Organization," helps students understand the management process and define a meaningful vision. The second, "Understanding the Organization in Context," addresses governance, social responsibility, corporate and resource sustainability, and the external environment. In the third section, "Considering Strategic Options," the selected readings talk about assessing an organization's capabilities, evaluating the value chain, and examining innovation. The final section, "Managing for Results," offers insight into ensuring that strategies are complete and clear, placing strategies in a global context, and leading strategically. Each section ends with a written case study for class discussion which can be supplemented with a recommended video case. Vignettes before each chapter talk about hot topics, and the trends companies are currently following. Throughout the book, global and multinational strategic plans are considered from a results-orientation, supported by extensive research and practical experience. Strategic Management for Results is appropriate for graduate-level strategic management courses, upper-division electives on management, and MBA courses on strategic management. The material has been extensively class-tested, and is also helpful to professionals in both for-profit and non-profit business environments.
Download or read book The Hope Circuit written by Martin E. P. Seligman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past trauma creates present symptoms. Today, thanks in large part to Seligman's Positive Psychology movement, it is ever more focused not on what cripples life, but on what makes life worth living -- with profound consequences for our mental health. In this wise and eloquent memoir, spanning the most transformative years in the history of modern psychology, Seligman recounts how he learned to study optimism -- including a life-changing conversation with his five-year-old daughter. He tells the human stories behind some of his major findings, like CAVE, an analytical tool that predicts election outcomes (with shocking accuracy) based on the language used in campaign speeches, the international spread of Positive Education, the launch of the US Army's huge resilience program, and the canonical studies that birthed the theory of learned helplessness -- which he now reveals was incorrect. And he writes at length for the first time about his own battles with depression at a young age. In The Hope Circuit, Seligman makes a compelling and deeply personal case for the importance of virtues like hope, gratitude, and wisdom for our mental health. You will walk away from this book not just educated but deeply enriched.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Introduction to Political Thought written by James T. McHugh and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive Introduction to Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Traditions familiarizes students with global political theories and perspectives. The book addresses Western and non-Western traditions of political thought, including a traditional emphasis on modern ideology such as liberal democracy. It also includes diverse traditions such as Confucianism in modern China, feminist political thought, and pan-African political thought. This book demonstrates how political theories have emerged from evolving conditions and historical circumstances that continue to influence modern politics. Dedicated chapters explore the ideological principles of conservatism, liberalism, liberal democracy, Marxism, and social democracy. Additional chapters examine the political thought of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, ancient Roman republicanism, feudalism, Indigenous political thought, Machiavelli, modern republicanism, and the range of ideas that have defined the general science of politics. Students read about the origins of ideology, the political ideals of the Enlightenment, the emergence of democratic norms, and utilitarian methods, plus principles that have contributed to the introduction of socialism, populism, modernism, progressivism, postmodernism, and other critical ideas that influence politics today. Developed to provide students with a diverse, expansive overview, A Comprehensive Introduction to Political Thought is an exemplary resource for courses and programs in political science and the overall study of politics, public policy, and government.
Download or read book Hearing Gesture written by Susan Goldin-Meadow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers—adults and children alike—by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking.
Download or read book Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood written by Mary Lee Hummert and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-09-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, this volume provides a unique and broad-based perspective on communication and ageing. This integrative approach brings together the best of current research and theory from communication, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics and medical sociology. Centring on three topics - cognition, language and relationships - the book explores the individual areas as well as the ways in which they intersect. It brings to light the implications of individual differences among members of the elderly population as they affect communication, and illustrates the positive as well as the negative effects of the ageing process on language production, relational satisfaction an
Download or read book The Genius of Dogs written by Brian Hare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for dog lovers and readers of Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz—this New York Times bestseller offers mesmerizing insights into the thoughts and lives of our smartest and most beloved pets. Does your dog feel guilt? Is she pretending she can't hear you? Does she want affection—or just your sandwich? In their New York Times bestselling book The Genius of Dogs, husband and wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods lay out landmark discoveries from the Duke Canine Cognition Center and other research facilities around the world to reveal how your dog thinks and how we humans can have even deeper relationships with our best four-legged friends. Breakthroughs in cognitive science have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom. This dog genius revolution is transforming how we live and work with dogs of all breeds, and what it means for you in your daily life with your canine friend.
Download or read book Survival of the Friendliest written by Brian Hare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness “Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring—and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.”—Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened? Since Charles Darwin wrote about “evolutionary fitness,” the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the “self-domestication theory,” Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive. But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an “outsider.” The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare’s groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest. Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Necessary Man written by Agnes Logan and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Interval written by Babbot (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reminiscences of life in India, 1932-1950, by a woman now resident in New Zealand"--Bagnall.
Download or read book The First Look at Strangers written by Robert Bunker and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ford Boy with Ideas written by Hazel B. Aird and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early life of the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.
Download or read book The Providence of God written by Georgia Elma Harkness and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational work on the efficiency of prayer, showing that God's providential care embraces every individual.
Download or read book Principles of Animal Virology written by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical introduction to animal virology. A general outline of the problems of animal virology. The normal cellular and tissue background to virus infection. The physical and chemical structure of infective virus particles. The initiation of cellular infection. Multiplication and liberation of virus. Morphological and functional changes in cells infected with viruses. Interference between viruses and other aspects of intracellular replication. The pathogenesis of virus disease. The significance of immunity in virus disease. The detection, titration, and properties of neutralizing antibodies. Active and passive immunization against virus diseases. Latent infections. Viruses in relation to neoplastic disease. Ecological aspects of virus disease. Influence of ecological circumstances on the character of the virus. Variation in animal viruses. Recombination and other genetic interactions in animal viruses. The evolution of animal viruses. The classification and nomenclature of animal viruses.
Download or read book This is the American Earth written by Ansel 1902-1984 Adams and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Hangman s Country written by Lewis B. Patten and published by Center Point Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Spur Award-winning author. A range feud between the small ranch owners against the powerful Post family threatened to make a shambles of a peaceful valley – and changed the life of young Stuart Post. He heard the arrogant voice of his father, Milo, the master of Spur Ranch, as he accused Hugh Shore of helping himself to his cattle. Even with a noose around his neck, Shore stood his ground – and he died. Right then and there, Stuart Post learned that a man has to stand up and take what he wants – or die trying.
