“…All of these health risks and news stories took us by surprise, caused great alarm, and created controversyÑuntil they quietly dropped off our collective radar screens and we forgot about them. …”

“…., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it is amazing that so little scientific attention has been given to the act of promising. A great deal of research has been done on the moral development of children, for example, but not on the child's ability to make and keep a promise, one of the highest moral achievements. …”

“…While there have been great leaps for women in the workplace in the last decade, women of color still fall behind. …”

“…This book is to the point, focusing on the key topics readers need to know about this popular programming language. Great for supplementing classroom learning, reviewing for a certification, or staying knowledgeable on the job…”

“…Gravitas unpacks the essential speaking skills, strategies and techniques that great leaders use to communicate effectively. This book reveals the ways and means that were essential two thousand years ago and remain essential today. …”

“…Detailed instructions for the plotter and the software Use of different materials such as paper, vinyl, flex and flock foil, balsa wood and foam rubber Numerous projects and ideas for easy imitation Plotting offers you endless possibilities, with many different materials great projects such as ornaments, accessories, decorations or to create gift items, cards and much more. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ungar -- Evolution of the primate brain / Dean Falk -- Primate life histories / Elke Zimmermann, Ute Radespiel -- The biology and evolution of ape and monkey feeding / Joanna E. Lambert -- Great ape social systems / Angela Meder -- Primate intelligence / Richard W. …”

“…Richardson also illuminates James's hugely influential works. One of the great figures in mysticism here brought richly to life, James is a man "whose leading ideas are still so fresh and challenging that they are not yet fully assimilated by the modern world they helped to bring about."…”

“…The previously unknown source of Book 3 of Cardinal Bessarion's 'In calumniatorem Platonis'. Cardinal Bessarion's great defense of Plato, the 'In calumniatorem Platonis', written in response to George of Trebizond's 'Comparatio philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis' and first published in 1469, was the first substantial statement of Platonism in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Starting PowerPoint -- Navigating the PowerPoint Interface -- Unraveling the Ribbon -- Telling PowerPoint What to Do -- The View from Here Is Great -- Taking the Backstage Tour -- Creating a New Presentation -- Editing text -- Adding a new slide -- Moving from slide to slide -- Choosing a design -- Displaying Your Presentation -- Saving Your Work -- Opening a Presentation -- Closing a Presentation -- Getting Help -- Exiting PowerPoint -- Chapter 2 Editing Slides -- Moving from Slide to Slide -- Working with Objects -- Selecting objects -- Resizing or moving an object -- Editing a Text Object -- Selecting Text -- Using Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Duplicating an Object -- Using the Clipboard Task Pane -- Oops! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Starting PowerPoint -- Navigating the PowerPoint Interface -- Unraveling the Ribbon -- Telling PowerPoint What to Do -- The View from Here Is Great -- Taking the Backstage Tour -- Creating a New Presentation -- Editing text -- Adding a new slide -- Moving from slide to slide -- Choosing a design -- Displaying Your Presentation -- Saving Your Work -- Opening a Presentation -- Closing a Presentation -- Getting Help -- Exiting PowerPoint -- Chapter 2 Editing Slides -- Moving from Slide to Slide -- Working with Objects -- Selecting objects -- Resizing or moving an object -- Editing a Text Object -- Selecting Text -- Using Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Duplicating an Object -- Using the Clipboard Task Pane -- Oops! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Book of Job in Form; CONTENTS; PREFACE; This English Version; PART I: INTRODUCTION; A GREAT WORK OF POETRY AND THE COMPETENT READER; Poetics and Competent Reading; How Quality and Quantity Work Together: Two Examples; The Way to the Text Itself: Knowledge and Foreknowledge, Decisive Authority; Remarks on the Translation; NOTES TO PART I; PART II: THE BOOK OF JOB: A LITERARY TRANSLATION IN STROPHIC FORM; INTRODUCTORY PROSE AND JOB'S PROLOGUE (CURSES AND COMPLAINT), CHS. 1-3; THE FIRST ROUND OF THE DEBATE, CHS. 4-14; First Speech by Eliphaz, Chs. 4-5; Job's Answer to Eliphaz, Chs. 6-7…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Leading the Epic Revolution -- Contents -- Foreword: Innovating for Continual Growth and Prosperity -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Innovation Challenge -- The Psychology of Innovation -- An Expanding Range of Influence -- Speed and Failure Are Essential in Continuous Innovation Strategies -- Fail Fast and Fail Smart -- The New Speed of Change -- Focus on the Business Challenge, Not on the Technology -- In the Modern Enterprise, True Innovation Takes Many Shapes and Forms -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Governance Trumps Process -- Being a Leader of Innovation at an Innovative Enterprise -- Great Companies Avoid the "Me Too" Syndrome When Innovating -- Cycles of Innovation and Adoption -- Good CIOs Are Leaders at All Stages of Innovation -- From Enabler to Innovator: The Evolving Image of the CIO -- Replacing Up and Down with Left to Right -- Creating a Culture of Innovation -- Converting Ideas into Successful New Products and Services -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Leveraging Multiple Skill Sets -- Networking and Connecting -- Overcoming Obstacles to Innovation -- Two Types of Thinking -- Overcoming Habits -- Breaking Through and Moving Forward -- Professor of Innovation -- Leveraging the Cloud and Thriving on Innovation -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Accelerating Innovation -- In the Modern Enterprise, IT Is the Backboneof Innovation -- Underlying Principles of Innovation -- A Practical Taxonomy of Innovation -- The Mouse in the Maze -- Managing Innovation Across the Enterprise -- Eight Action Steps for Driving Innovation -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Innovation Begins with Business Strategy -- The New Face of IT Executive Leadership -- Improvisational Skills Can Elevate Innovation Leadership Capabilities -- Blending Innovation and Operations -- Innovating in the Battle Against Cancer…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 4 Digital business: Success in a virtual world -- Hedgehog strategy -- Umpqua Bank -- Creating and capturing value -- Understanding company affect -- Digital hedonic rhetoric -- Conflicting affect messaging -- Case Study Falling in Burberry Love -- The digital challenge in luxury fashion -- Business case: Burberry -- The five digital campaigns -- My Burberry My Fragrance -- Burberry Kisses -- Burberry Acoustic -- Burberry Bespoke -- The Art of the Trench -- Analysing Burberry's success -- Company and customer engagement -- Designing digital channels -- Digital customer experience -- Impact and challenges of emotion-driven digital innovation -- Part III Affective strategy -- Chapter 5 Designing affect: The Digital Affect Framework -- Loyalty is a rarity -- Deconstructing the Digital Affect Framework -- Value proposition: Understanding your industry -- Digital hedonic rhetoric: Understanding your customer -- Digital stimulus: Understanding your digital engagements -- Think before you post -- Examples of aligning values to experiences -- Affected principles -- Like all great design, less is more. -- If you created it, you need to maintain it. -- Don't follow the trend. -- Alignment is crucial. -- Your customers are your greatest asset. -- We might not remember the details, but we will remember how it made us feel. -- Case Study Affect in the aviation industry -- The changing dynamics of tourism -- The aviation industry -- Digital trends at airports -- The study -- The airport's challenge -- An emotional design approach -- Designing a bespoke digital channel -- Designing a digital solution -- Chapter 6 Managing affect: Digital strategy in the real world -- Innovating the bigger picture -- Apple -- Samsung -- Configuration -- Offering -- Experience -- A job for a Fox -- Implementing affect -- Step 1: A Fox's company and customer strategy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Marketization and Post-Marketization in Education -- Large-Scale Assessment for Accountability Purposes -- Digital Technologies and Educational Change -- Toward a Theory of Teacher Education for Social Justice -- Connecting Learning Communities: Capacity Building for Systemic Change -- International Comparisons of Student Learning Outcomes -- Teaching and Educational Transformation -- Levels of Change -- The Legacy of the School Effectiveness Research Tradition -- Professional Learning Communities at the Crossroads: How Systems Hinder or Engender Change -- New Teacher Induction and Mentoring for Educational Change -- Smart School Improvement: Towards Schools Learning from Their Best -- How Successful Leadership Influences Student Learning: The Second Installment of a Longer Story -- The Moral Character of Academic Learning: Challenging the Exclusivity of the Reigning Paradigm of School Learning -- Teacher Leadership: Developing the Conditions for Learning, Support, and Sustainability -- On Personalizing Learning and Reculturing Teaching in Large High School Conversions to Small Schools -- Improving Schools in Challenging Contexts -- Knowledge-Based Organizational Learning for Instructional Improvement -- Federations and System Leadership -- Every School a Great School – Realising the Potential of System Leadership -- School-Based Networking for Educational Change -- Travel of District-Wide Approaches to Instructional Improvement: How Can Districts Learn from One Another? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Critique the Idea, Not the Person -- Using Metrics to Optimize Community Spaces and Experiences -- Chapter 7 Activating Community Engagement -- Engagement Is a Constant Experiment -- Personal Invitations and "Doing Things That Don't Scale" -- Ask for Permission -- Don't Fear the Crickets -- Talk Funny -- Find the Funny in Failure, Frustration, and Pain Points -- Use the Rule of Three -- Put the Word the Humor Hinges on at the End of the Sentence -- Crowdsource Your Comedy -- Call Out Awkward Silences -- How to Spark Great Debates…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Commonsense Talent Management: Using Strategic Human Resources to Improve Company Performance; Copyright; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Discussions; Preface; Chapter 1: Why Read This Book? The Good, the Great, and the Stupidus Maximus Award; 1.1 How This Book Is Structured; 1.2 The Role of HR Technology in Strategic HR; 1.3 Why This Book Matters; Notes; Chapter 2: Strategic HR: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and Why It Is Often Difficult; 2.1 The Fundamental Processes of Strategic HR; 2.2 Why Do We Need Strategic HR Departments?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cultivating Core Creativity Seeing More Deeply Multi-Visioning Great Stories Practice From Fear to Flow 11. Achieving an Iconic Brand Branding and Totems Overcoming Brand Blind Spots: A Case Study Brands and Archetypes Storytelling The Business Panorama Creating Your Icon 12. …”