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Black males have the lowest graduation rates of any population in the country, graduating from high school at the rate of just 59%. They are suspended and referred to special education classes at rates three times higher than any other population. They make up just 6% of the US population yet account for nearly a third of the American prison population. The graduation gap between White and Black males is currently 21% and growing. Research has...

Resolving the Crisis in Higher Education: The Key Role of Business Continuity Planning asks and answers probing questions affecting higher education in the post-COVID-19 educational landscape. The book examines whether private universities, particularly liberal arts colleges, have viable business models and discusses the risk posed by a faulty business model. It fits a liberal arts foundation into a sustainable value chain for a university and...

In this lined journal, each page has ample space for your thoughts and notes, and features a key, insightful quote from Sun Tsus famous and much-read work. iThe Art of War Journal/i is the perfect place for you to record your thoughts and be inspired by ancient Chinese military wisdom.

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896-1949' picks up the story of New Orleans' Creole community where Caryn Cossâe Bell ends her highly-regarded 'Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868' (LSU Press, 1997). Using Bell's work as a starting point, Darryl Barthâe moves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, suggesting that the process of 'becoming American' for them occurred due...

Resolving the Crisis in Higher Education: The Key Role of Business Continuity Planning asks and answers probing questions affecting higher education in the post-COVID-19 educational landscape. The book examines whether private universities, particularly liberal arts colleges, have viable business models and discusses the risk posed by a faulty business model. It fits a liberal arts foundation into a sustainable value chain for a university and...

This book explores the benefits of applying Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking to sustainable management and offers a vital toolkit for purpose-driven practitioners, researchers, students, entrepreneurs and change-makers to reinvent, create and mindfully manage sustainable, agile organizations that drive systemic transformation.

Their imaginations have been the genesis of our nightmares, the elevation to the fantastic realms of our dreams and a reflection of our true selves. They are four of the most respected genre authors in the last 50 years. It's not that these authors are simply best sellers, but have, in their own ways, transformed our culture and transcended the written word into new media. This collection of biographies of J.R.R Tolkien, George RR Martin, Neil...

This book¿s key purpose is to contribute to the ongoing "theoretical" discussion in the field of international relations concerning the status of grand theories.

This book summarizes state-of-the-art antiviral drug design and discovery approaches starting from natural products to de novo design, and provides a timely update on recently approved antiviral drugs and compounds in advanced clinical development. Special attention is paid to viral infections with a high impact on the world population or highly relevant from the public health perspective (HIV, hepatitis C, influenza virus, etc.). In these cha...

*Wem sollen wir in einer Welt voller Intrigen und Machtspielchen noch vertrauen? Lassen wir unsere Gefühle zu, stürzen wir alle um uns herum ins Verderben.*¿ Nach einer durchzechten Nacht reist Lauren gemeinsam mit ihrer feierwütigen Freundin Jane für ein Jahrespraktikum ins Schloss des Königs von Wittles Cay Island. Und das, obwohl ihr der Abschied von ihrer Familie alles andere als leichtfällt, denn diese ist ihr größter Halt, nachdem ihr V...

An excellent overview about modern heterogeneous photocatalysis is given in this reference: Accompanied by chemical and physical fundamentals, it presents the latest research in energy conversion and environmental depollution reactions.

J. W. Finson: Was Richard Wagner >Leipsical< Too? - M. Heinemann: Manfreds Erlösung. Zu Schumanns Byron-Lektüre - J. Lebelt: »Ich schreibe für's Geld.« - Richard Wagner und die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik - S. Nickel: Die Dresdner Liedertafel unter Wagner und Schumann - D. Ortuno-Stühring: »Lost in translation«: Robert Schumann als Repräsentant der »Music of the Future« - Facetten eines kulturellen Transfers im Spannungsfeld musikjournalistisch...

This book examines the interactions and dynamics between one cross-border joint-university and its social environment in the process of institutional transplantation and organizational adaptation.

A major contribution to ecumenical reflection on the doctrine of God. The past century has seen renewed interest in the doctrine of God. While theological traditions disagree, their shared commitment to Nicene orthodoxy provides a common language for thinking and speaking about God. This dialogue has deepened our understanding of this shared way of thinking about God, but little has been done across ecumenical lines to explore God's hiddenness...

Louis Pepe does not shy away from providing insight into the more challenging sides of leading a team -what he calls "the tougher side of HR"-including delivering honest and critical feedback to allow for growth and suggesting someone leave the team to be successful elsewhere. With relevant anecdotes and a fresh perspective, this book provides leaders a path to getting the best out of their team.

Though there are books on environment and climate change, there is lack of a textbook/sourcebook which focuses on organisational sustainability. This book bridges the gap and would be appropriate for business schools offering MBA courses on strategic management, CSR, corporate governance and sustainability.

Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties of their cultures. This book investigates horror cinema around the globe with an emphasis on how the genre has developed in the past ten years.

With relevant anecdotes and a fresh perspective, this book provides leaders a path to getting the best out of their leadership team.

This book presents up-to-date concepts and design methods relating to space dynamics and control, including spacecraft attitude control, orbit control, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), summarizing the research advances in control theory and methods and engineering practice from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering over the years. The control schemes and systems based on these achievements have been successfully applied to remot...

This book introduces the study of stochastic volatility (SV) models via Malliavin Calculus. Malliavin calculus has had a profound impact on stochastic analysis. It shows that Malliavin calculus is an easy-to-apply tool that allows us to recover, unify, and generalize several previous results in the literature on SV modeling.