Author: Thomas B. Wilson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: workplace, changing, systems, reward, innovative
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0071402942
ISBN-13: 9780071402941

Innovative Reward Systems for the Changing Workplace explains the compensation and reward strategies successful companies use to focus, encourage, and achieve high performance. Reward systems authority Thomas Wilson has made this updated edition much more "how-to" and covers important new pay strategies such as "flex compensation," stock options, 360 feedback, and employee ranking. The book includes dozens of creative suggestions and ideas for compensation strategies in any organization.

Author: Thomas D. Wilson
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: fund, development, series, afp, winners, gifts, donors, winning
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-01-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0470128348
ISBN-13: 9780470128343

The secret to getting gifts and making donors feel like winners. Know the best approaches to people-centered fundraising. Understand the role of executive director, fundraisers, program managers, and volunteers in the win-win framework, the importance of listening, the case for a donor-centered approach, and the direct ways these concepts can be applied in a variety of fundraising settings. Includes numerous real-world examples taken from the author’s own experience as chief philanthropy officer in nonprofits and as a leader in a well-known national nonprofit consulting company. Thom

Author: Wilson Thomas
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: rhetorique, arte, wilson
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2009-08-19
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1113498641
ISBN-13: 9781113498649

Author: Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: identity, alcohol, cultures, drinking
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-07-22
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859738737
ISBN-13: 9781859738733

Alcohol is not only big business. It is an essential part of social relations in so many cultures that its global importance may be outdistancing its critics. What does sake tell us about Japan or burgundy about France? How does consuming or indeed abstaining from alcohol tie in with self-presentation, ethnicity, class and culture? How important is alcohol to feelings of belonging and notions of resistance? Answering these intriguing questions and many more, this timely book looks at the meanings of alcohol consumption across cultures. Contributors look at the interplay of culture and power in

Author: Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: european, studies, culture, history, politics, series, interdisciplinary, europe, drink, food, identity
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9042020865
ISBN-13: 9789042020863

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which food and drink have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the contributions which food and alcohol make to contemporary European identities, including the part they play in proce

Authors:Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: national, discourse, documenting, transformed, higher, education, american
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0801886716
ISBN-13: 9780801886713

This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith’s classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Science, the Endless Frontier; the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and Sweezy v. New Hampshire; and Adrienne Rich’s challenging essay "Taking Women Students Seriously." The wid

Authors:Hastings Donnan, Thomas M. Wilson,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: state, nation, identity, frontiers, borders
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1859732461
ISBN-13: 9781859732465

Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows for the analysis of ’self’ and ’other’. In representing invisible demarcations between nations and peoples who may have much or very little in common, borders exert a powerful influence and define how people think as well as what they do. Without borders, whether physical or