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This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic premise is that, in order to understand why organizations do the things they do, or perform the way they do, we need to deeply comprehend the people at the top - their experiences, abilities, values, social connections, aspirations, and other human features.

David Cronenberg has become one of North America's most respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy with a steady stream of shock--sex crazed parasites in Shivers (1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986), car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun violence in ...

This is the first book exclusively about L. C. Tiffany's glass mosaic masterpieces, created from 1880 to 1931 at the Tiffany Studios in New York City for clients across the continent. Fascinating and well-researched text combines with over 700 color photographs to showcase Tiffany's magnificent art. Many of the images are published here for the first time, highlighting over 70 luminous installations in private mansions, public buildings, and c...

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Was sind menschliche Personen? Was zeichnet sie aus? Sind alle Menschen Personen? Sind sie es während ihres ganzen Lebens? Diese Fragen bewegen. Von ihrer Beantwortung hängt viel ab: für unser Selbst-Verständnis, für unseren Umgang miteinander. Der Zugang zur Klärung des Begriffs der Person in diesem Buch ist akttheoretisch. Die Inspiration dazu stammt von der aristotelisch-thomistischen Tradition, wonach die typischen Tätigkeiten eines Lebewe...

Band 2 deckt die Inhaltsfelder 5 - 8 des neuen Kernlehrplans ab.Inhalt:Was Menschen im Mittelalter voneinander wusstenNeue Welten und neue HorizonteEuropa wandelt sich: Absolutismus und Französische RevolutionDeutschland nimmt Gestalt an: Nationale, politische und soziale Probleme prägen das "lange" 19. JahrhundertVom Imperialismus in den Ersten Weltkrieg

Standardwerk zur Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen und Klassenarbeiten: der Lehrstoff der Kfz-Technik in Frage und Antwort mit Fragen für unterschiedliche Anforderungsniveaus.Die klare und systematische Strukturierung des Stoffes ermöglicht eine gezielte Vorbereitung.

Das klassische Werk zur Privatrechtsgeschichte der Neuzeit erscheint nunmehr in 2. Auflage. Das bewährte Konzept wurde beibehalten und durch die Rechtsentwicklungen der letzten Jahre auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Das Buch spannt den weiten Bogen von der mittelalterlichen Privatrechtsgeschichte über die Vorbereitung des modernen Privatrechts und der modernen Privatgesetzgebung und Wissenschaft im 18. Jahrhundert bis hin zu den Kodifikationen...

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Fort Monroe was once a powerful symbol of America's national defense system. From 1823 to 1945, its primary military mission was to protect Hampton Roads and the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay from enemy attacks. Over the years, as military technology advanced, Fort Monroe's defensive posture changed. To counter potential threats, American coastal defense installations such as Fort Monroe developed sophisticated steel disappearing guns, mortar...

WIVK was established in 1953 and quickly became one of Knoxville's most popular radio stations, featuring programs that would become part of broadcasting lore in both the city and East Tennessee. The station went much further than anyone ever expected. It climbed through the ranks of broadcasting to become regarded as one of the United States' premier full-service country music radio stations. Its unique style of music, news, weather, and info...

Born out of the 1859 Pikes Peak gold rush, Boulder sits along the Front Range where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains. Discoveries of gold, silver, telluride, and coal nearby put the little supply town on the map, and early miners, farmers, and businessmen prospered there. The railroad's arrival in 1873 brought more newcomers who cultivated a diverse community full of new businesses, social organizations, and schools, and the town flourished...

In 1953, developer Sam Hoffman set out to build modern brick homes in a brand-new neighborhood north of Denver. He envisioned a planned community with land reserved for schools, churches, and shopping centers. Many veterans of World War II, with their young families, moved into houses built by Hoffman's F&S, Construction, and these new citizens formed the Thornton Community Association, which eventually led the effort to incorporate the city i...

Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd's calendar -- of Josephine Dickinson's marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer, a man more than twice her age, and their life together, until his death in 2004.During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was introduced to Josephine Di...

A volume concentrating on the maritime history of Cardiff and Penarth.

Play The Foundation of Culture" is a compilation of essays dealing with the author's reflections on play, dialogue, boredom, culture of poverty, urban culture, kitsch, myth, pornography, Eros, art, taste, photography, fashion and humor. He asserts that everyone can have leisure, but not everyone can be idle. For him, today everything ends up in photography in order to exist. He claims that art and pornography are essentially in opposition to e...

When Officer Andy Myers met Loraine Phillips, he had no interest in her son. And he certainly never dreamed he'd respond to a call, finding that same boy in a pool of blood. Even more alarming was the father standing watch over his son's body. Myers had never seen a man respond to death-particularly the death of a child-in such a way. When the father is charged with murder and sentenced to death, he chooses not to fight but embrace it as God's...

Laos File is a 2011 gold medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America! The death of a salty old senior NCO who ran special operations in Vietnam leads Marine Gunner Shake Davis on a shocking and potentially lethal quest to find out what happened to hundreds of American POWs. Written by the bestselling author of 'Platoon, ' Dale A. Dye.