Authors:Leslie Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: nonprofits, impact, practices, six, forces
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0787986127
ISBN-13: 9780787986124

An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world. This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating signific

Authors:Karen McLeod, Heather Leslie, Marco (Octavio) Aburto
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: oceans, management, based, ecosystem
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2009-05-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1597261556
ISBN-13: 9781597261555

Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach. At its core, ecosystem-based management (EBM) is about acknowledging connections. Instead of focusing on the impacts of single activities on the delivery of individual ecosystem services, EBM focuses o

Authors:McLeod, Judyth A. McLeod,
Publisher: Pier 9
Keywords: judyth, mcleod, history, sized, bite, vampires
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-10
List price: $17.25
ISBN-10: 1741967732
ISBN-13: 9781741967739

Vampires offers a bite-sized overview of the ever-mutating vampire, a phenomenon created by primal human fears of blood-sucking monsters. The book delves into Gothic horrors from the late Middle Ages and takes a fresh look at Vlad Dracula, defender of Wallachia and the Christian faith who was also a feared warrior with grisly torture methods and the basis for Stoker’s Count Dracula. The evolution of vampires in literature, film and television is comprehensively covered, from the iconic Dracula tale, Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to Stephanie Meyer’s ’Twilight’

Authors:Heather Grace, Tony Lewis-Jones, Heather Bryant,
Publisher: Bewrite Books
Keywords: routes
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $17.80
ISBN-10: 1904492606
ISBN-13: 9781904492603

Fresh poetic gems from today’s wordsmiths. This sparkling new anthology is a rich expression of 21st century world culture and perspective. With more than 150 works from twelve contemporary talents. A dozen Routes to the beauty of truth. Includes works by Tony Lewis-Jones, Jan Oskar Hansen, Dazz Jackson, John G Hall, Heather Grace Stewart, John Thomson, Clive Warner, Kathryn McL Collins, Paul Morgan, Heather Bryant, Tom O Campbell and Andrew Proudfoot.

Authors:Ulysses S. Grant,  Jesse Grant Cramer,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: youngest, sister, father, grant, ulysses, letters
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1417911247
ISBN-13: 9781417911240

1912. With portraits. A collection of letters written by the 18th president of the United States, who was a puzzling figure in American public life. He was a failure in his early ventures into both business and military life. In four years of commanding Union forces he climbed to the highest rank in the U.S. Army and directed the strategy that successfully concluded the Civil War in 1865. His two terms as president of the United States are considered by many historians to be the most corrupt in the country’s history. Yet from accounts of Grant’s contemporaries, as well as from his

Authors:Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: series, evolutionary, biology, princeton, finches, multiply, radiation, darwin, species
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0691133603
ISBN-13: 9780691133607

Charles Darwin’s experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations, and that the driving mechanism of evolutionary change was natural selection. In this concise, accessible book, Peter and Rosemary Grant explain what we have learned about the origin and evolution of new species through the study of the finches made famous by that great scientist: Darwin’s finches. Drawing upon their unique observations of finch evolution over a thirty-four-y

Authors:Jon Grant, S.W. Kim, Jon Grant, Gregory Fricchione,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: stop, behavior, impulsive, taking, myself, control
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0071433686
ISBN-13: 9780071433686

Millions of Americans wrestle with irresistible urges--to shop, steal, gamble, and more--that wreak havoc on their lives. Drs. Jon Grant and S. W. Kim, the nation’s leading specialists on impulse control disorders, offer the latest research and practical help for those who engage in all types of impulse-related behaviors. Highlights include: Clues for identifying impulse control behavior Information on treatments Biological and emotional causes Mood disorders and their effects on families Where to get help