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Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice
Peter G. Northouse · SAGE Publications, Inc; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Offering a straightforward introduction to the basic principles of leadership, Peter G. Northouse’s Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice, Third Edition provides readers with practical strategies for becoming more effective leaders in organizational settings and in their... |
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Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia
Victor D Cha · Princeton University Press
Pages: 330
Format: Print book
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While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently... |
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
Joel Whitney · Or Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures - including Peter... |
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South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
SCOTT A SNYDER · Columbia University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder... |
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How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America
Brion McClanahan · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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He's the subject of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the ten-dollar bill, and one of the most popular founding fathers. But what do you really know about Alexander Hamilton? Hamilton was no American hero, says author Brion McClanahan. In fact, he spent his life working to make sure... |
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Library Service Design: A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement
Joe Marquez · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 156
Format: Print book
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Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services. Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with directions for how to create... |
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Information Privacy Fundamentals for Librarians and Information Professionals
Cherie L. Givens · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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As more information is collected, shared, and mined, the need to understand and manage information privacy has become a necessity for information professionals. Governments across the globe have enacted information privacy laws. These laws continue to evolve and the information privacy... |
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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
James Pogue · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation... |
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Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity
Brant Rosen · Just World Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Wrestling in the Daylight is an insightful conversation on Zionism initiated by Rabbi Brant Rosen, a prominent Jewish activist from Chicago, on his social-justice blog Shalom Rav. After Israel's brutal military attack on Gaza in 2008-2009, Rosen began to question his lifelong Zionist... |
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Searching for Boko Haram: A History of Violence in Central Africa
Scott MacEachern · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book... |
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Inward Yearnings: Jamaica's Journey to Nationhood
Colin A Palmer · University of the West Indies Press
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
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Inward Yearnings: Jamaica's Journey to Nationhood is a pioneering case study of an Anglo-Caribbean island's search for a racial selfhood, its nervous embrace of its African heritage and ultimately a nationalism that reflected those inner longings. These complex and interrelated... |
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Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Amy Knight · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Vladamir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that even... |
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Gideon Rachman · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing... |
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
William MacAskill · Gotham Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions... |
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