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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book--against a background of today's "sculpture wars"--Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the "twelve Caesars," from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Most people will experience psychometric testing at some time or another when applying for a job & many fail to make the best of the opportunity to showcase their talents. 'Brilliant Psychomatric Tests' seeks to turn this around by providing practical help to anyone undertaking formal assessment procedures at interview.
Author
Publisher
HRD Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (v, 198 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to lead? Are there natural born leaders? Can leadership be taught? Throw out everything you thought you knew. Leaders Without Titles challenges the way we determine who our leaders should be and uncovers the factors that really influence the ability to lead.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
In The Well-Balanced Leader, top experiential, accelerated-learning trainer Ron Roberts shows you how to identify your strengths and weaknesses in the nine most critical behavioral areas. He helps you "unstick" yourself from behavioral patterns that damage your influence as a leader, your relationships with those you lead, and the effectiveness of your organization.
With The Well-Balanced Leader, you'll learn how to alter your behavior in ways that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages)
Language
English
Description
This much needed book is the first to show how dominant forms of masculinity are implicated in the traditions of social theory that have emerged since the Enlightenment. The author shows how an 'unreasonable' form of reason has emerged from the separation of reason from emotion, mind from body, nature from culture, public from private, matter from spirit - the dualities that have shaped our vision of modernity. The book argues that men need to explore...
Publisher
La Universidad
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
[1o edici©đn].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (108 pages)
Language
Español
Description
The Anahuac Journal Business and Economics es una revista académica publicada en forma conjunta por la Facultad de Negocios de la Universidad Anahuac-México Sur y LID Editorial Mexicana en los meses de enero y julio. Incluye articulos de investigacion y estudios con resultados originales que tratan problemas de economia y negocios. Esta edicion presenta una seleccion de cuatro de los articulos mas destacados publicados por el journal en los ultimos...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leadership doesn't have to be a top-down proposition. In fact, the best leaders influence those who are below and above them, as well as people external to the organization, such as customers and partners. This 360 degrees of influence is what separates the good leader from the great leader. Founder of the global executive coaching firm GuruMaker, Harrison Monarth makes a living helping top figures in business and politics hone their influencing,...
Series
American periodical series 1850-1900 volume 767-771
Publisher
Ginn and Co
Pub. Date
1886-
Physical Desc
volumes ; 22-24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xvii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted--except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, scientists invented...
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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,...
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