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In 1992, the author began writing a genealogical column, titled, "What's in a Name, " for the Suwanee Democrat in Live Oak, Florida. Upon the request that he publish his findings in book form, he compiled the information into the work provided here. Mr. Bennett was able to find significant amounts of information dealing with Suwanee County, and although the county was not officially formed until 1858, he "discovered a great deal of information...

Das Interesse an einer außergerichtlichen Einigung und Konfliktvermittlung hat in den letzten Jahren enorm an Zuspruch gewonnen. Familiäre Konflikte, die die sehr sensible Privatsphäre betreffen, können mit Hilfe eines Mediators auf einem konsensualen Weg bestens gelöst werden. Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick der Anwendung von Mediation speziell im Familienbereich, Berufsvoraussetzungen, sowie die verschiedenen Scheidungstypen, mit den damit v...

Whether Turkey's high and fast economic growth is a result of the Customs Union between Turkey and the EU or not has been among one of the most discussed topics in Turkey. This controversial issue in recent years is escalated among the discourses by most Turkish business people. While analyzing these discourses, the author crosschecked their justifications with empirical data and found that Turkish business people have changed their attitudes ...

Het vakgebied van de psychotherapie is een lappendeken van allerlei therapierichtingen. Voor (aspirant)therapeuten is het dan ook een hele klus om door de bomen het bos nog  te zien, laat staan dat het lukt om een keuze te maken tussen de gespecialiseerde therapiescholen. Psychotherapie. Van theorie tot praktijk is een onmiskenbare wegwijzer in het onoverzichtelijke landschap van de moderne psychotherapie. Op heldere en toegankelijke wijze wor...

This book analyses and explains the principles behind Safety-I and Safety-II and approaches and considers the past and future of safety management practices. The analysis makes use of common examples and cases from domains such as aviation, nuclear power production, process management and health care.

Five adventures of Leigh Hobbs' much loved characters, Old Tom and Angela Throgmorton, in one delightful collection.

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If you are dissatisfied with an approach to strategy based on simple backward looking analysis, management controls and problems solving after the fact, but would like to make a positive contribution to thinking about the future, Scenario-based Strategy offers the instruments to turn your intention into practice.

The story of the German design school, and its relocation to London in the 1930s.

Christian churches across the world such as the Lutheran church in Madagascar have long been engaged in what we would today term «development». The church has been deeply involved in humanitarian assistance and development work, especially in the areas of education and health. Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar analyzes this phenomenon and presents stories of human dignity in the lives of the people in this society, a society that...

Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, «The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice». This is true, but the moral arc doesn't bend on its own. We must lean into the task. Making Room for One Another is the story of how one kindergarten teacher did just that. This critical ethnography lies at the intersection of democratic, transformative pedagogy and differences that impact an urban kindergar...

Transparency 2.0 investigates a host of emerging issues around the collision of information and personal privacy in a digital world. Delving into the key legal concepts of information access and privacy, such as practical obscurity, the U.S. Supreme Court's central purpose test, and Europe's emerging concept of the «right to be forgotten», contributors examine issues regarding online access to court records, social media, access to email, and ...

A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication calls for a revisioning of second language and literacy teaching, arguing for a move away from skills-based ESL instruction where communication is treated as a set of pedagogical techniques, toward a pedagogy of powerful communication that views communication as necessary for effective participation in school, relationships, local/global communities, and democratic society. This pedagogy promotes critical m...

Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting 'development, ' highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in 'post-colonial' Africa. It offers cautionary words to field practiti...

Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey is written for the next generation of public relations professionals. It takes account of the changing needs of the PR industry, where strategic thinking is needed in abundance but tends to be in short supply among many people who are just launching their careers. This book is designed to address this shortfall by providing a multi-level understanding of strategy to show how it dir...

Sex in the media is one of the hottest topics of the day. We know that advertising, television, cinema, and other forms of communication use sex to sell us products and pump up story lines. The question is: why are sex and sexuality such effective tools for getting our attention? Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It is a textbook that explores answers to this question through historical, sociological, psychological, and ideological perspecti...

Ryker wakes up face down in beach sand, the sky is blue, the sea placid. But his clothes are ripped and torn, he has one boot on, driftwood abounds, all testimony to the sea's devastating fury. But where is Tiara? After hours of wondering about the island, he spots her in what seems to be captivity of a giant, with muscles and beads on his wrists and chest. Ryker believes he will have to fight this giant. He rushes forward to unleash a blow to...

Communication scholarship has not enjoyed the same kind of theoretical cohesion or ontological security as some disciplines. The field's intellectual «roving eye» and resistance to establishing a single core body of knowledge has inspired serial rounds of soul-searching and existential doubt among communication scholars, on one hand, and celebration and intellectual adventurism, on the other. The theme of the 2013 ICA annual conference thus ra...

Callahan Coffee Roasters has fallen on bitter times. Faced with an unexpected dip in revenue, the company brings in Max Anderson, a well-known turn-around man, to get earnings back on track. From all appearances, Max should be the one teaching the employees and managers at Callahan about best business practices--but from day one, nothing goes as Max expects. Max ends up on a journey through Callahan with his little rolling desk in tow, meeting...

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