Author: Robert H. Thompso
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: leadership, challenge, posner, kouzes, fable, offsite
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0470189827
ISBN-13: 9780470189825

Drawing on the leadership theories in the management classic The Leadership Challenge, Robert Thompson effortlessly incorporates these ideas into a fable of leadership and growth. Based on a company’s three-day offsite meeting, we follow this tale of transition through the eyes of two former rival pharmaceutical companies creating a joint sales strategy. The characters ultimately learn how to adopt the five practises that form the Leadership Challenge: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart. The book also explores the dynamic

Authors:Robert Laurini, Derek Thompso,
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: studies, data, processing, apic, systems, spatial, information, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 1992-04-02
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0124383807
ISBN-13: 9780124383807

The study and application of spatial information systems have been developed primarily from the use of computers in the geosciences. These systems have the principle functions of capturing, storing, representing, manipulating, and displaying data in 2-D and 3-D worlds. This book approaches its subject from the perspectives of informatics and geography, presenting methods of conceptual modeling developed in computer science that provide valuable aids for resolving spatial problems. This book is an essential textbook for both students and practitioners. It is indispensable for academic geographe

Authors:David Marc, Robert Thompso,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: history, concise, antenna, television
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0631215441
ISBN-13: 9780631215448

Television in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium’s history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an art—the book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate. Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sideb

Authors:Robert Ornstein, Richard Thompso,
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: brain, amazing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-07-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0395585724
ISBN-13: 9780395585726

Beginning with the simplest view of brain anatomy and operations and using the latest research available, Ornstein and Thomoson give the reader both an actual and a metaphorical picture of the human brain.

Authors:Robert W. Mitchell,  Nicholas S. Thompso,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: suny, series, behavior, deceit, nonhuman, perspectives, human, deception
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1986-02-01
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0887061079
ISBN-13: 9780887061073

Authors:Paul Austerlitz,  Robert Farris Thompso,
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: dominican, identity, music, merengue
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-01-22
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1566394848
ISBN-13: 9781566394840

Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music. Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreograph

Author: Rob Thompso
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: weight, reversing, insulin, resistance, losing, program, load, diet, powerful, new, glycemic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-03-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071462694
ISBN-13: 9780071462693

A cardiologist’s revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weight The glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn’t take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson’s breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat mo