Author: Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Ph.D.Prof. Ngina S.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: states, current, issues, united, color, accumulation, communities, wealth
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472069586
ISBN-13: 9780472069583

"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the perspective and insight of scholars of color that are too often missing from information produced by the asset building field (people and organizations seeking to help low-income people develop assets). Communities served by the asset building field are disproportionately made up of people of color. This book captures work produced by scholars representing these communities and offers innovative and thought provoking analyses of wealth inequality. Decision-making o

Author: Prof. Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: threat, islamic, russia
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-09
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 030012077X
ISBN-13: 9780300120776

The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia’s emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of it

Author: Prof. F. Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: calvin
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300120761
ISBN-13: 9780300120769

During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin’s vision of the Christian religion has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.  The book

Author: Prof. Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: turning, soul, art, discussion, teach, learning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0300120001
ISBN-13: 9780300120004

This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon’s acclaimed Turning the Soul: TeachingThrough Conversation in the High School presents a case study of two people learning to teach. It shows them engaging two groups of fourth grade students in discussion about the meaning of texts—what the author calls “interpretive discussion. The two groups differ with respect to race, geographical location, and affluence. As the novice teachers learn to clarify their own questions about meaning, they become better listeners and leaders of the discussions. Eventually, they mix the students from the two classroo

Authors:Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M. Scheiner, Gordon A. Fox
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Keywords: second, plants, ecology
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 0878932941
ISBN-13: 9780878932948

This thoroughly revised and updated book is now in full colour and augmented by many new illustrations and references. Brighter than ever, "The Ecology of Plants" covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Throughout the text, human environmental influences are discussed, as well as the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology.

Authors:PROF GORDON BROWN, Claudette Fortin, Ian Neath, Marie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: journal, psychology, international, special, term, issues, working, memory, issue, short
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0863776531
ISBN-13: 9780863776533

This special issue of the International Journal of Psychology had its origins in the Quebec 98 Conference on Short-Term Memory, held in Quebec City, Canada, in June 1998. Following this conference, participants were invited to submit contributions based on, and expanding upon, their presentation at this conference. The enthusiastic response made it possible to collect the exciting selection of articles that you will find herein. It must be noted that because of the finite journal space available, the editors and reviewers were faced with the difficult problem of selecting only a limited number

Author: David A. Nembhard
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: training, cross, workforce
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0849336325
ISBN-13: 9780849336324

In today’s ultra-competitive global business environment, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to reduce spending while simultaneously improving their efficiency and productivity. To achieve this goal, many organizations are opting to implement cross training programs in order to maximize the potential of their existing workforce, thus avoiding the need to outsource. Filling a gap in the literature, Workforce Cross Training presents a pioneering overview of the currently available research on this topic and provides invaluable insight into the design of successful cross tr