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Drawing from the contributions of 20 academic and public library middle managers, this book reveals knowledge, expertise, and insights on a variety of management topics and responsibilities.¿ Addresses a wide range of middle management topics such as managing new managers of supervisors in the public library and balancing middle management and tenure-track responsibilities in an academic library¿ Includes information contributed by knowledgeab...

World-renowned analytic philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom, dubbed "Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelians, " recently engaged in an intriguing debate about perception. In "The Intentional Spectrum and Intersubjectivity "Michael D. Barber is the first to bring phenomenology to bear not just on the perspectives of McDowell or Brandom alone, but on their intersection. He argues that McDowell accounts better for the intelligibility of empirical cont...

This in-depth analysis shows how the high stakes contest surrounding open source information is forcing significant reform within the U.S. intelligence community, the homeland security sector, and among citizen activists.

This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays.

This training system is well adapted to child development in preschool age and upon entering the first grade. It has been tested on many thousands of children of nursery-school and grade-school age and fosters their intellectual abilities, particularly the phonological components that facilitate learning to read and write. Scientifically backed is also the fact that children who are experiencing delayed development or are disadvantaged in some...

The period since the mid-1990s is distinguished by radical change in the housing sector in Ireland. During this time, house prices rose at an unprecedented rate. Between 1993 and 2003 the average price of a new house in the State increased by 220 percent. Private rents also grew and waiting lists for social housing lengthened. At the same time, new house building increased rapidly to one of the highest rates in the European Union. This develop...

Rare, comic play about football (soccer) with broad popular appeal.

Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this third edition offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.

Even with significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, a certain degree of climate change will inevitably occur. Adapting to climate change, then, will become a necessary step in reducing the vulnerability of many regions across the globe. This is especially true for urban areas where climate change has been shown to have particularly destabilizing effects. Through the identification and analysis of the most relevant impacts facing urba...

In "Smith Blue, " Camille T. Dungy offers a survival guide for the modern heart as she takes on twenty-first-century questions of love, loss, and nature. Dungy explores the dual nature of our presence on the planet, juxtaposing the devastation caused by human habitation with our own vulnerability to the capricious whims of our environment. In doing so, she reveals with fury and tenderness the countless ways in which we both create and are vict...

Of all winter sports, none is so widely watched and commented upon by the media as figure skating, which is often considered the Winter Olympics' centerpiece. This critical text examines the ways in which media attention has gradually altered and affected the sport, from the early appearances of Sonja Henjie, skating's gradual audience growth via television, and the ramifications of the scandals in the 1994 and 2002 Olympics. The topic is illu...

Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker... Las Vegas lures you to shed moral responsibility and piss away your money on indulgences like decadent food, entertainment, gambling, and sex. If you don't enjoy these pastimes, then what's the point of visiting the land of compromised values? Where else can you get a cheap steak, crash a Mexican wedding, get cold-decked in blackjack ...

This handy volume is a one-stop source for comprehensive information about books on early American history and culture published between 1996 and 2000.

Corporate Social Responsibility is about how organizations develop the society and how they reflect society's interests in addition to their own commercial priorities.The objectives of the study were to: determine how the provision of physical learning facilities, instructional materials and learning support infrastructure influenced performance of Public primary Schools. The study covered twenty five Public Primary Schools. The study findings...

HTML, JavaScript, and PHP are Web-based programming languages that can be used to solve computational problems in an online environment.This easy-to-read, informative guide/reference will enable readers to quickly develop a working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and PHP – a valuable skill for any scientist or engineer. Updating and expanding upon the author’s previous Springer titles, An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript and An Introduction t...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Informatik - Wirtschaftsinformatik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Handel ist eine sehr personalintensive Branche. Zur Kostensenkung und Umsatzsteigerung bietet der effiziente Personaleinsatz sehr viele ungenutzte Hebel. In diesem Zusammenhang kommt dem strategischen Workforce Management eine zentrale Rolle zu. Denn bisher wurde die Personalstruktur meist nur mit Tabellenkalkulatio...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: Article-publications, , course: Management, language: English, abstract: The North East of India comprising of the 8 states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, is a reservoir of rich natural resources and a beautiful amalgamation o...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Heilpädagogik, Sonderpädagogik, Mariaberg e.V., Fachschule für Sozialwesen (-), Veranstaltung: Fachrichtung Heilpädagogik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit greife ich zunächst zwei für das Thema relevante theoretische Ansätze auf: Zum einen die theoretischen Grundlagen zum Krankheitsbild Depression. Zum anderen die bewegungsbezogenen Grundlagen, die explizit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, BA Hessische Berufsakademie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Man kann nicht nicht Kommunizieren" Dieses berühmte Zitat von Paul Watzlawick stellt eine der Grundannahmen der Kommunikationswissenschaft dar. Da sich also niemand der Kommunikation entziehen kann, erscheint es in der heutigen schnelllebigen, hektischen Zeit sinnvoll, Möglichkeite...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1, 0, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das in der Forschung kontrovers diskutierte Zeugnis der ersten Verfassung Spartas, gemeinhin als Große Rhetra bezeichnet, und die damit verbundenen, in Fragmenten enthaltenen Ausführungen von Tyrtaios, unterliegen in der Forschung differenzierten Betrachtungsansätzen und hinterlassen z...