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I know it seems silly. I know it's not right, but these silly Blue Boo are just afraid of the night! The Boo Eating Snark is one book in a series of children's stories by Uncle Jake called Tales of the Boo. Uncle Jake takes a whimsical look at the magical, mystical world of the Boo - fanciful creatures who live along Lake Walleywakoo. The Boo Eating Snark is a wonderful story of how we all, at times, can be afraid of things we cannot see. A tr...

Japan differs from other industrialized democracies in having many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why it has developed as it has.

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With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors reveal how these maladies -- freighted with contentious ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans -- became topics of biological fascination and crucibles of social debate. They unveil a complex story: about different kinds of suffering and faith, about unequal access to the promises and perils of modern medicine, and about how Americans consume in...

Alexander's linked essays on the African American male experience.

< p>Three times a year, this extraordinary reference series provides biographical profiles of important persons of African heritage. Whether they are personalities from the news, selected 20th-century notables, or individuals who are not yet household names, these are the men and women who are changing today's world and shaping the world of tomorrow.< p>Each volume of < I>Contemporary Black Biography< /I> contains at least 65 full-length biogr...

George Quasha's extraordinary sculptures unite natural stones in a state of breathtakingly improbable balance. The stones are not altered physically or bonded in any way, rather, Quasha discovers an unknown axis that brings them into radical alignment. The stones "learn" this state of levity in contrast to their ordinary state of gravity, resulting in a new art form that feels alive with its own individual energy and personality. Here, 37 axia...

Entrepreneurship is essential for international social and economic well-being, as new ventures are the dominant source of job creation, market innovation, and economic growth in many societies. In "The Psychology of Entrepreneurship, " a noted group

Over the past 50 years more than 100, 000 scientific papers, not to mention popular articles and books, have been written about Selenium. These publications continue to appear without showing any sign of diminution today. This mass of writing makes it very difficult for anyone, who is not a dedicated and specialized scientist, to get a clear picture of what is now known about the element and its role in human health. The second edition of Se...

Eine grundlegende Einführung in die erlebnisaktivierende Praxisberatung: Konzept, Einsatzbereiche, Fallbeispiele. Jenseits traditioneller Verhaltensschulung wird hier ein anderer Weg des Erlernens von sozialer Kompetenz vorgestellt. Persönliche Selbsterfahrung und das Entstehen der Lösungen aus dem Gruppenprozess heraus stehen im Mittelpunkt.Seminare bleiben oft folgenlos, wenn ein Verhalten eingeübt wird, das unter Schulungsgesichtspunkten gü...

The purpose of this book is to address one of the most rapidly growing and important areas in the field of organization development. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about international and global organization development. This book is designed to summarize and apply the existing knowledge in international and global organization development in such a fashion as to provide insight, knowledge, and application in a way that ...

What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? The author, John J. Sosik, answers this question by reviewing what is known about the connection between authentic transformational leadership and positive psychology. He summarizes a wealth of leadership knowledge in a unique collection of captivating stories about 25 famous leaders from ...

What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? The author, John J. Sosik, answers this question by reviewing what is known about the connection between authentic transformational leadership and positive psychology. He summarizes a wealth of leadership knowledge in a unique collection of captivating stories about 25 famous leaders from ...

Written in the 1950s, Hunter recounts the career of John A. Hunter, a professional big-game hunter and former chairman of Tanganyika National Parks. J A. Hunter led a life of adventure, but, perhaps, the most astonishing tale in this book is his incredible adventures while hunting rhino. As a game ranger, he was ordered by the Tanganyikan government to clear out dozens of rogue rhinos from the area around Makueni, and the accounts of his exper...

The colorful characters of East Africa's early colonial period walk across the pages of this powerful book by John Hunter and Dan Mannix. Meet Tippu Tib, the greatest of all slave traders and the man who owned the slave responsible for killing the elephant with the biggest tusks ever recorded. Read how Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo and how Joseph Thompson faced not only the ferocious Masai but also incredible hardships during his ...

This book is all about the emotions that you may feel and also about how you could imagine living in a peaceful and a contented world.Each poem depicts life as it is or how, in reality, we would like it to be. This book, I feel, portrays real life.

You need to make change- that's what you were hired for! Where do you start? First, you need to make people want to change! You need to be people-focused - they need to have a positive perspective on tomorrow and their future! You know that you need to do something different, yet surprisingly, it's OK to make mistakes. Refocus, adjust and move forward-that's right-change! This book is an excellent how-to book for managers hired to implement ch...

Ian Rankin's Rebus and Quintin Jardine's Skinner were the grandfather and father of modern day known crime characters in Edinburgh. But the next best thing, the new generation, and the new kid on the block has to be Mark Danno, the long lost grandson who they have never met until now. It all started when he was made a broken man, financially and emotionally and had nowhere to turn to. There he dreamt to be a bestseller writer, as he said to hi...

When I sat down to write this book, it was not an attempt to create a renowned literary work, nor was it about money or profit. I had become deeply saddened and angered, to the verge of outrage, due to the venal actions of my (elected?) government. This book speaks to the lies, hypocrisy and nefarious activities of this Bush bastard and his "colleagues-in-crime". I have no political affiliation per se. This is not about "Right" or "Left"--in t...

Pondering the immensity of our bond with Earth carries us beyond Faith I-low love a wave apart from the ocean waving? Only in the context of the story of the Universe is Earth intelligible, so whatever love we feel for her extends naturally to the Universe as a whole, and to the magical dynamic conceiving and unfolding it across literally billions of years. The year-by-year blossoming of a human child that so rightly astounds and delights us m...