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Author
Publisher
HRD Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Based on Bruce Tulgan's classic study of Generation X in the workplace, Managing Generation X, as well as his ongoing research into the working lives of people born after 1963, The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X is a concise, hands-on guide that will enable managers to recruit, train, motivate, develop, and retain the best and brightest among Generation X employees. Learn from the first-hand stories of X'ers describing their own positive and...
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 524 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Language
English
Description
Addresses what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for benchmarks, and explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects exploring green building technologies.
Author
Publisher
Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations. The theory provides the conceptual underpinnings for a new approach which moves away from expert defined standardised metadata to a user driven approach with users as metadata co-creators. Moving away from definitive, authoritative, metadata to a system that reflects...
Author
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective provides rigorous insights into the current complexities, synergies and conflicts within air transportation and tourism, presenting a balanced, comprehensive, contemporary, and global analysis that thoroughly examines the links between theory and practice. The book offers readers a multi-sector, global perspective on the practical implications of the link between air transport and tourism. By using a novel approach,...
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This fourth volume of a four volume set, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in Image, Video Processing and Analysis, Hardware, Audio, Acoustic and Speech Processing. With this reference source you will: Quickly grasp a new area of research Understand the underlying principles of a topic and its applicationAscertain how a topic...
Author
Language
English
Description
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity. With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a spirited and gifted, but poor, black girl growing up in the South in the 1930's. Tells how she came into her own, experiencing prejudice, family difficulties, and a relationship with a teacher who taught her to respect books, learning, and herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston’s swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage (“can’t divorce until we get it right....
Kingston’s swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage (“can’t divorce until we get it right....
13) Mom & me & Mom
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old...
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Language
English
Description
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor, " or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice--Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women...
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Language
English
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Description
"A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance. Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the "oh my god" moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo...
16) Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults: a biographical dictionary
Author
Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 2157
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Third edition /
Physical Desc
xxiii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Open heart
Author
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
Author
Language
English
Description
""Sean of the South" Sean Dietrich is known for his stories of steel workers, small towns and trusty bloodhounds, but most of all, the small, everyday evidences of true good in the world. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is his story - told for the first time - of love, loss, and the unlikely hope that we're gonna be alright"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1940 Richard Wright wrote his most famous book, Native Son. It was the first best-selling novel by an African American writer. Because the influence of this novel was so far-reaching, Wright is considered one of America's greatest novelists."--Page 4.
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