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Presents research and theory on management concerns at the international as well as national levels. This title demonstrates a linkage in four major sections: organizational behavior and performance, strategy, structure, and performance, cognition, common sense, and effectiveness, and, entrepreneurship as a whole.

Guppys sind gemeinsam mit den Goldfischen die weltweit bekanntesten und zugleich beliebtesten Aquarienfische. Diese lebendgebärenden Zahnkarpfen lassen sich in jedem Zoogeschäft bewundern. Zudem sind die Guppys in zahllosen subtropischen und tropischen Gewässern außerhalb ihres natürlichen Verbreitungsgebietes ausgesetzt worden, so dass sie heute zu den "Global Playern" unter den Fischen zählen. Die meisten Menschen verbinden mit den Guppys bu...

A thorough overview of a thriving sector of cultural production, the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet still produce accessible feature films that find wide audiences and enjoy considerable box office appeal.

The popular self-help book Charge Up Your Life outlines the six components necessary for love, happiness, and success while introducing the Take Charge Solution. This unique model for personal growth has helped readers become aware of their personal stumbling blocks and move beyond them. An excellent addition to Charge Up Your Life, this workbook offers a new set of engaging exercises designed to help you improve your life . . . without changi...

In a small village nestled against a green forest and a babbling brook . . . miracles do happen and all things work together for good. Kimberly, her older brother, Jimmy, and their friends learn biblical truths in "The Old Rusty Train" and other stories. These stories capture the colorful imaginations of youth and inspire children to learn more about Jesus. About the Author Susan K. Sellers is also the author of Kimberly's Adventures.

In the pages of Freedom, Nancy Douglas (Olive Leaf Ministries) candidly shares the pain, grief, and trials of having a disabled child. From the initial storm of discovering her daughter was Autistic, deaf, and Failure to Thrive, to the agony of knowing she would never receive physically healing, her compelling and honest account of life with a special needs child will transform the heart of all who read it. Walk with Nancy through the pages of...

Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

CFS is an elusive, difficult to treat condition. Symptoms include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, felling unwell after exercise, unrefreshing sleep, and memory/concentration problems. This groundbreaking book directly addresses the myriad causes of CFS and offers restorative vitamin and other treatments capable of safely reducing symptoms. CFS is an elusive, difficult to treat condition. Symptoms include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, felling...

Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, "Gendered Transformations" offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from ess...

If you want to learn about the early origins of English and related languages, and of many of our familiar customs such as feasting on holidays and exchanging gifts, this book provides a lively and richly informed introduction. Along the way you will learn when and why horses were domesticated, when people first rode horseback, and when and why swift chariots changed the nature of warfare."--Peter S. Wells, author of "The Battle that Stopped R...

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa" reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. ...

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa" reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. ...

The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country's best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. "The Law and the Prophets" is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977, it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the...

The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country's best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. "The Law and the Prophets" is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977, it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the...

The fifteen essays in" Nature and History in Modern Italy" investigate that nation's long experience in managing domesticated rather than wild natures and offer insight into these conflicting visions. Italians shaped their land in the most literal sense, producing the landscape, sculpting its heritage, embedding memory in nature, and rendering the two different visions inseparable. The interplay of Italy's rich human history and its dramatic n...

Is Italy il bel paese--the beautiful country--where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifteen essays in "Nature and History in Modern Italy" investigate that nation's long experience in managing domesticated rather than wild natures and off...

Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. "Trustee for the Human Community" is the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an international diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective. These commissioned es...

Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. "Trustee for the Human Community" is the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an international diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective. These commissioned es...

Rural places and their schools have a long history of community-based traditions, political and cultural conservatism, and intergenerational construction of local and community identity. However, the face of rural communities, both in the U.S. and abroad, is being radically transformed by the economic effects of multinational free trade agreements, the proliferation of mass media and information technology, and educational reforms such as No C...

Anglo-American social psychology is not much more than a century old despite having its roots in a broad philosophical tradition. Alternately, the Zen version of Buddhism can trace its historical origins to roughly 1, 500 years ago in China. This title hows how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective.