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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary look at the way the world works by the New Yorker's Financial Page columnist. "The Wisdom of Crowds" is the biography of an idea with profound implications for how people run their businesses, organize society, structure their political system, fight terrorism, and think about the future.
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This volume presents current controversies that surround controversial issues in United States history since 1945 in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. The issues are arranged in chronological order and can be easily incorporated into any American history survey course. It doesn't concentrate on when events happened, rather focusing on why, and on specific events rather than on the significance...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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, foreign...
50) What is
Pub. Date
19xx
Language
English
Description
Explores fundamental concepts of history and economics and provides criteria enabling students to become critical thinkers about each discipline and the world.
Author
Publisher
L. Erlbaum Associates
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
This is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The second edition includes: a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This is an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. All the "givens#x94; of civic life are no longer given. From the fracturing of the major political parties, to the spread of bottom-up movements like Black Lives Matter and $15 Now, citizens across the country and across the political spectrum are reclaiming power. It is no longer the exclusive domain of CEOs, political elites, and insiders from...
Publisher
Colorado Office of the State Court Administrator
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Colorado has come to understand that problem-solving courts (for example: drug courts, treatment courts, and mental health courts) have been shown by a growing body of research to be a very effective means of reducing substance abuse, managing mental illness, and increasing the likelihood that people will remain in recovery and reintegrate into their communities as productive and contributing members.
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice is the first resource to synthesize key theories, research, and practices of conflict communication in a variety of contexts. Editors John Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey, as well as expert researchers in the field, emphasize constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict...
Author
Language
English
Description
This product is an authorized edition published by the Meredith Corporation and sold by Amazon. This edition is printed using a high quality matte interior paper and printed on demand for immediate fulfillment.
This commemorative special edition honoring basketball legend Kobe Bryant is divided into two sections: "Kobe Is Gone, Never to Be Forgotten," which includes intimate coverage from the week of Bryant's death, including appreciations of both...
60) Salt and sugar
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Trust neither thin-bottomed frying pans nor Molinas. Lari Ramires has always known this to be true. In Olinda, Brazil, her family's bakery, Salt, has been at war with the Molinas' bakery across the street, Sugar, for generations. But Lari's world turns upside down when her beloved grandmother passes away. On top of that, a big supermarket chain has moved to town, forcing many of the small businesses to close. Determined to protect her home, Lari does...