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School Leadership : Heads on the block?
Abstract : Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking openly about stress and leaving the job. Many teachers now see headship as a risky business, and succession planning, while necessary, will not on its own be sufficient to attract the diverse range of applicants required to satisfactorily fill leadership positions. School Leadership: Heads on the Block addresses this shortage. It suggests there is no crisis in supply per se, but that schools in some locations find it difficult to attract the ‘right people with the right stuff’. The book examines the expectations of heads, the hours they are expected to work and the nature of everyday demands. It proposes that ‘sudden death’ accountabilities act as a major disincentive to potential applicants, and outlines a series of policy measures to tackle the kinds of daily pressures heads now experience
Science Education from People for People
Abstract : Opposing the tendency to teach and do research as if science, science education, and scientific literacy could be imposed from the outside, the authors want science education to be for people rather than strictly about how knowledge gets into their heads. Taking up the challenges of this orientation, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people. Utmost attention has been given to making this book readable by the people from whose lives the topics of the chapters emerge, all the while retaining academic integrity and high-level scholarship.
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence
Abstract : This book is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. The book provides a stronger basis for understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world today, one that adds a different dimension to the dominant focus on finding proximate causes and making quick responses. Too often the arenas of violence have been represented as if they have been triggered by reassertion of traditional and tribal forms of identity, primordial and irrational assertions of politics. Such ideas about the sources of insecurity have become entrenched in a wide variety of media sources, and have framed both government policies and academic arguments. Rather than treating the sources of insecurity as a retreat from modernity, this book complicates the patterns of global insecurity to a degree that takes the debates simply beyond assumptions that we are witnessing a savage return to a bloody and tribalism world. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, gender studies and globalization studies.
Go For Broke! : Tales of Technopreneurship
Abstract : This book is about the Malaysia technopreneurs. It is about the information and communications technologies. Each of them has their own unique story to tell and each story contains important lessons.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street
Abstract : This entertaining but poignant novel captures the essence of Wall Street and high-stakes finance. Published the same year as the Panic of 1907, Lefèvre's tale of a high-powered mogul's questionable actions resonated with the financial community and gained instant acclaim. Sampson Rock of Wall Street tells the story of stock market manipulations made by a rail-road tycoon as he wheels and deals his way into wealth. His scheme to increase his already vast wealth of holdings by depressing the stock in one of his properties becomes known to his son who then sets out to seize control of the rail road himself. A true classic, this timeless tale of stock market games and the machinations of a master market manipulator is as relevant today as it was a century ago. The book's Introduction, written by best-selling author William Bernstein, contributes many insights and context including the following: “Financial loss has many parents: inadequate quantitative ability, overconfidence, underestimation of risk tolerance, ignorance about the knowledge and competence of those on the other side of your trades, and the granddaddy of them all, unawareness of financial history. Sampson Rock will teach you about all of them.
Not Everyone Gets A Trophy
Abstract : This book will frame Generation Y, which refers to the children born between 1978-1991 for corporate leaders and managers at time when the corporate world is desperate to recruit and retain worked in this age group. It will debunk dozens of myths, including that young employees have no sense of loyalty, won't do grunt work, won't take direction, want to interact only with computers, and are only about money.
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
Abstract : In her new book, Alexandra Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned. And then she will celebrate them. In this ever-conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society, the innovation, courage, and differences of outcasts - nerds, freaks, weirdos, punks, Goths, etc. - are crucial to America’s progress. No Child Left Behind and the homogenization of the US education system have made outcasts bolder and more important than ever.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Abstract : One of the major issues dividing the critics was whether Carr's claim that the Internet has shortchanged our brain power is, essentially, correct. Many bought into his argument about the neurological effects of the Internet, but the more expert among them (Jonah Lehrer, for one) cited scientific evidence that such technologies actually benefit the mind. Still, as Lehrer, in the New York Times Book Review, points out, Carr is no Luddite, and he fully recognizes the usefulness of the Internet. Other criticism was more trivial, such as the value of Carr's historical and cultural digressions--from Plato to HAL. In the end, Carr offers a thought-provoking investigation into our relationship with technology--even if he offers no easy answers.
The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
Abstract : John Gottman, the premier thinker and experimenter in the science of couple relationships, has done it again. In his earlier concept of bids, he brought clarity to the murky idea of connection. Now, in the concept of attunement, he brings clarity to the even murkier idea of trust. (Dan Wile, author of After the Honeymoon ) As always, John Gottman’s cutting edge science and wide-ranging wisdom about relationships astounds and inspires. This book tells us that the science of love relationships is well on its way. We really can grasp and shape our most important relationships. (Dr. Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight ) John Gottman has produced, through a lifetime of research and clinical observation, some of the most authoritative and profound insights on the inner workings of couple relationships. The work in this book takes a quantum leap further. It is a thorough and comprehensive study of one of the least understood and most important building blocks of a relationship: trust and betrayal. The Science of Trust may represent Dr. Gottmans's greatest contribution to decoding the mysteries of healthy and unhealthy relationships. (Paul R. Peluso, PhD, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University )
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Abstract : Near the end of World War II, a plane carrying 24 members of the United States military, including nine Women’s Army Corps (WAC) members, crashed into the New Guinea jungle during a sightseeing excursion. 21 men and women were killed. The three survivors--a beautiful WAC, a young lieutenant who lost his twin brother in the crash, and a severely injured sergeant--were stranded deep in a jungle valley notorious for its cannibalistic tribes. They had no food, little water, and no way to contact their military base. The story of their survival and the stunning efforts undertaken to save them are the crux of Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and inspiring narrative.
Organ Transplantation, Euthanasia, Cloning and Animal Experimentation : An Islamic View
Abstract : This book is about the islamic foundation which is an educational and research organization devoted to making Islam a living reality in our age. For this purpose, it aims to improve human communication and develop a better understanding of Islam among all people of the world, Muslim and non Muslim, so as to galvanize man to the message and ideal of the One God and the unity of mankind, as brought by all the Prophets of God throughout the ages, last of whom was the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
Who's Your Gladys : How To Turn Even The Most Difficult Customer Into Your Biggest Fan
Abstract : This book is about a classic customer services. It share a proven ways to attract happy customees and skillfully manage even the most challenging ones. Through inspiring, true stories, thay had reveal what successful companies know about creating strong meotional connections with customers. It also filled with an innovative insights sure to provide an advices to even the most experienced customer service provider.
Silicon Dragon : How China is Winning The Tech Race
Abstract : This book is about how China has now become the US's most serious challenger as a leader of tech innovation and investment opportunities. Its emerge as a technological giant and important subjects in business and economics. It performs an invaluable service in detailing China's growth into the tech engine of the 21st century.
Planet Water : Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource
Abstract : This book describes the challanges and opportunities of investing in the water industry from a unique perspective shaped by formal scientific and resource economics training and years fo experience consulting with and investing in water related companies. Regardless of whether he's describing water rate structures, potential technology applications, service solutions or identifying of how water permeates every aspects of our lives, butmore importantly provide a framework for understanding the relevant investment risks and rewards of the water industry. This book is a valuable resorce for investors and industry participants alike.
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Abstract : Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic. In "The World Turned Upside Down" Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs.
Historians on History
Abstract : This book is about the substantial survey that charting historical developments over the past sixty years. Each section of readings that follow includes a brief scene-setting introduction and illiminates the political, social and personal assumptions which have governed and sustained historical practice and theory. The selection of readings has been carefully revised to reflect the latest trends. The anthology strikes a balance between the academic mainstream and recent, more radical voices within the discipline. Students that have access to a wide range of themes and others. It also promote further debate across related disciplines including philosophy and literature.
His Little Princess : Treasured Letters from Your King
Abstract : If we can help our daughters learn from a young age that they are God’s chosen princesses, we will help them to win the identity struggles they will face as teens. While we have influence in their lives, we need to deposit in their hearts and minds how much they are loved and how important they are in God’s kingdom. This book will give girls godly confidence that they are chosen by the King of all kings. Read one each day to them and watch them grow into the princesses they are destined to be!
Handbook of Motivation Science
Abstract : This book is about the integrating significant advances in motivation science that have occurred over the last two decades, this volume thoroughly examines the ways in which motivation interacts with social, developmental, and emotional processes, as well as personality more generally. The Handbook comprises 39 clearly written chapters from leaders in the field. Cutting-edge theory and research is presented on core psychological motives, such as the need for esteem, security, consistency, and achievement; motivational systems that arise to address these fundamental needs; the process and consequences of goal pursuit, including the role of individual differences and contextual moderators; and implications for personal well-being and interpersonal and intergroup relations.
Groundswell : Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Abstract : This book is about the corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now. When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable.
Green Electronics : Design & Manufacturing
Abstract : This state of the art resource brings together contributions by a team of experts from the entire electronics supply chain who show how to master the strategy, design, testing and implementation issues of meeting global environmental regulations. Its also a guidance for lead-free conversions that maintain the quality and reliability of printed circuit board production and the rework of surface mount technology and planted through holes.
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