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“philip simmons”

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  • Learning to Fall

    The Blessings of an Imperfect Life

    by Philip Simmons ...
    A “reflective, eloquent [and] inspiringly written” (The New York Times) collection of essays about learning to live richly in the face of loss“Astonishing . . . sometimes heartbreaking . . . sometimes hilarious.”—The Boston GlobeWINNER OF THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD’S BEST SPIRITUAL BOOKPhilip Simmons was just thirty-five years old in 1993 when he learned that he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism as Motors for Development

    Case Studies from Developing Regions of the World

    Edited by Willy Legrand, Claudia Simons-Kaufmann, Philip Sloan ...
    It is now widely agreed that the climate is changing, global resources are diminishing and biodiversity is suffering. Developing countries – many of them considered by the World Tourism Organization to be 'Top Emerging Tourism Destinations' (UNWTO, 2009) – are already suffering the full frontal effect of environmental degradation. The challenge for developing countries is a triple-edged sword, how ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Jury and Democracy

    How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    by John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess, Philip J. Weiser, Cindy Simmons ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands of juror surveys, and court and voting records from across the United States, the authors ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Jury and Democracy

    How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    by John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess, Philip J. Weiser, Cindy Simmons ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands of juror surveys, and court and voting records from across the United States, the authors ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Transcultural Leadership

    by Carmen Vazquez, George F Simons, Philip R Harris ...
    Supervisors, project managers and CEOs should find this book useful as it deals with an emerging global reality - culturally diverse people of both genders in the workplace. The new workplace environment demands that employees be selected, evaluated and promoted on the basis of performance competency, regardless of sex, race, religion or place of origin. Focusing on workplace diversity instead of ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

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    The Age of Sacred Terror

    Radical Islam's War Against America

    by Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simons ...
    Narrated by Philip Bosco ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 14 min

    Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

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  • 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore

    by Chye Kiang Heng ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning urban planning in Singapore; the second section, 'The Built Environment as a Sum of Parts', delves ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

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  • Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right

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  • Change Leader

    Learning to Do What Matters Most

    by Michael Fullan ...
    We live in a challenging, complex, inter-connected and unpredictable world beset by a range of seemingly insoluble problems. But, says Michael Fullan—an internationally acclaimed authority on organizational change—we have an increasing understanding of how to tackle complex change. This involves developing a new kind of leader: one who recognizes what is needed to bring about deep and lasting ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Strategy Safari

    A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Mangament

    by Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel, Henry Mintzberg ...
    Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD