Author: Richard A. Slaughter
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: futures, new, studies, education, series, base, thinking, millennium, knowledge
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-05-08
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0415129435
ISBN-13: 9780415129435

In this book, Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking.

Author: Richard A. Slaughter
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: futures, education, series, foresight, social, dystopia, creating
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-12-22
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0415302706
ISBN-13: 9780415302708

This analysis of current futures practice is split into six sections: the case against hegemony, expanding and deepening a futures frame, futures studies and the integral agenda, social learning through applied foresight, strategies and outlooks, and the dialectic of foresight and experience.

Author: Richard A. Slaughter
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: futures, education, series, foresight, social, dystopia, creating
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-01-20
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415302692
ISBN-13: 9780415302692

This analysis of current futures practice is split into six sections: the case against hegemony, expanding and deepening a futures frame, futures studies and the integral agenda, social learning through applied foresight, strategies and outlooks, and the dialectic of foresight and experience.

Author: J. W. Slaughter
Publisher: Hadley Pre
Keywords: adolescent
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 140977290X
ISBN-13: 9781409772903

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Sheila Slaughter
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: higher, education, suny, series, frontiers, formation, policy, dynamics, learning, technology
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $64.50
ISBN-10: 0791400484
ISBN-13: 9780791400487

In this critical new work, Slaughter investigates how university involvement in high technology influences higher education policy. By conducting a case study of the Business-Higher Education Forum, a liaison organization consisting of Fortune 500 Chief Executive Officers and presidents of well-known research universities, the author explores the policy agenda of the Forum, the historical and structural antecedents of that agenda, and its organizational implications for various post-secondary sectors and their faculty.

Author: Karin Slaughter
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: novel, undone
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440244455
ISBN-13: 9780440244455

In this suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves together the powerful human stories of three unforgettable characters from her New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured, who collide here for the first time in an electrifying race against unspeakable human evil.When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand be

Author: Karin Slaughter
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: county, grant, indelible
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060567112
ISBN-13: 9780060567118

Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors -- including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton -- are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting -- with her ex-husband on the threshold of death -- Sara must search for answers and an escape in the memories of a time at the start of their relationship when another brutal, shocking crime shattered their small-town world. Be