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Keys to Employee Success in Coming Decades

Sims, Ronald R. / Veres, John G.
Keys to Employee Success in Coming Decades
This text examines the skills and personal resources that people will need to do their jobs and to help their organizations succeed in an increasingly globalized and competitive world economy. It seeks to prepare employees for future success, focusing on different levels in the organization.

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Relating in Psychotherapy

Birtchnell, John
Relating in Psychotherapy
In his earlier book, How Humans Relate, John Birtchnell proposed that relating occurs along two axes, a horizontal one concerning becoming close versus being distant and a vertical one concerning being upper versus being lower. He called closeness, distance, upperness, and lowerness the relating objectives, and he proposed that people need to acquire competence in attaining and maintaining these objectives. In this book, he argues that the tas...

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The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration

Weingartner, Rudolph H.
The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration
BDWhat distinguishes academic administration from administration or managing in business? Rudolph Weingartner, arugues that colleges and universities are founded to serve certain purposes, they are supported by governments and private individuals, and, as professional institutions, they have students, among others, as clients to whom they owe education services in ways analogous to the obligations hospitals have via-^-vis their patients. Acade...

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The House of Atreus

Bohan, James F.
The House of Atreus
Using clear language and unconventional examples, this book argues that abortion is not merely a medical or religious issue, but one that goes to the very heart of our conception of human rights. It explains that the unborn are living and human beings, that all human beings have a right to life, and that denying the right to life of some weakens the right to life of all. Bohan supports his thesis by pointing to human rights treaties, the Decla...

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Contemporary African American Novelists

Nelson, Emmanuel
Contemporary African American Novelists
During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This force has been gathering momentum since the 1950s, when James Baldwin published some of his most compelling works and Ralph Ellison stunned the literary establishment with his dazzling Invisible Man (1952). Empowered by the Civil Rights Movement and revitalized by the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, this force became ...

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Practical Pedagogy for the Jewish Classroom

Kohn, Daniel B.
Practical Pedagogy for the Jewish Classroom
Designed for everyone involved in Jewish education, this handbook provides advice on how to confront such issues as classroom discipline, improve the quality of Jewish studies, and deal with current controversies in Jewish education.

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Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth...

Tennyson, R. C. / Kleiman, J.
Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment
This publication presents the proceedings of ICPMSE-3, the third international conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment, held in Toronto April 25-26, 1996. The conference was hosted and organized by Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc, (ITL), and held at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), where ITL is located. Twenty industrial companies, seven wliversities a...

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Facing the Consequences

Schmidt, W. H. / McKnight, Curtis C. / Houang, Richard T. / Jakwerth, Pamela M. / Cogan, Leland S.
Facing the Consequences
Facing the Consequences presents a perspective on US mathematics and science education that is developed from data gathered as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS is the most extensive and far-reaching cross-national comparative study of mathematics and science education ever attempted. It includes comparing official curricula, textbooks, teacher practices, and student achievements for many countries (f...

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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems

Goodchild, Michael / Egenhofer, Max J / Fegeas, Robin / Kottman, Cliff
Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
Geographic information systems have developed rapidly in the past decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management, agriculture, Earth science, and planning. But a lack of standards has led to a general inability for one GIS to interoperate with another. It is difficult for one GIS to share data with another, or for people trained on one system to adapt easily to the ...

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Rivers of Fire

Soffer, Arnon / Rosovsky, Murray / Copaken, Nina
Rivers of Fire
In a never-ending battle to match population growth with food and energy production, the countries of the Middle East have been frenziedly developing water resources without considering their neighbors' needs. The inevitable result has been more frequent and increasingly bitter conflicts. At the same time, a halting Arab-Israeli peace process continues. Are we indeed entering a new era in a new Middle East? Focusing on international rivers and...

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Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs

Barnett, Robert / Blumner, Jacob
Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
Writing Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. At the same time, faculty in all disciplines have come to stress the importance of good writing, and institutions have created Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Programs to address this concern. Often, the interests of Writing Centers conflict with those of WAC programs, and the theoretical foundations of the two may not necessarily be the sa...

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Law and the Arts

Tiefenbrun, Susan
Law and the Arts
This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. The goal of the essays is to promote exchanges of ideas in such diverse, but related fields as law, literature, film, theater, communication, art, and architecture and to inspire readers to think about the laws hidden in the interstices of the arts as well as the artistry of the law.On the one side, chapters focus attention on legal restraints in the media,...

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Patton at Bay

Rickard, John Nelson
Patton at Bay
For General George S. Patton, Jr., the battle for Lorraine during the fall and winter of 1944 was a frustrating and grueling experience of static warfare. Plagued by supply shortages, critical interference from superiors, flooded rivers, fortified cities, and the highly-determined German army, Patton had little opportunity to wage a fast armored campaign. Rickard examines Patton's generalship during these bitter battles and suggests that Patto...

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Social Networks, Drug Injectors¿ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

Friedman, Samuel R. / Curtis, Richard / Des Jarlais, Don C. / Jose, Benny / Neaigus, Alan
Social Networks, Drug Injectors¿ Lives, and HIV/AIDS
Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn...

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Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens

Rapoff, Michael A.
Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens
1. It is incumbent on medical providers that they are asking patients to - here to regimens with demonstrated eficacy, Providers need to remind themselves of the Hippocratic oath: "I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit ofmy patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous" (as cited in Cassell, 199 1, p. 145). 2. Providers need to abandon the "blame and sh...

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