Author: Eric F. Douglas
Publisher: Inkwater Press
Keywords: create, performing, organization, innovation, spark, light, speed, build, leading
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2010-01-18
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1592994369
ISBN-13: 9781592994366

How do you build a great organization in a time of accelerating complexity and change? What are the specific things that leaders must do? In this fascinating book, entrepreneur and business consultant Eric Douglas draws on his work with large and small corporations, public agencies, and non-profit organizations to paint a clear picture of the specific practices that distinguish the high performers from all the rest. This is an indispensable guide for anyone in a position of leadership - or for anyone who aspires to be. It reveals both the fundamental systems at work in high-performing compani

Author: The Dads Group
Publisher: Inkwater Press
Keywords: dads, mornings, tuesday
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2009-08-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1592994342
ISBN-13: 9781592994342

This book is a love letter that will open hearts that pain and grief have closed. It is important reading for anyone who has lost a child, or loves someone who has. Bless these fathers and their sons and daughters. Their deeply moving stories demonstrate the sun rises even on the darkest night. - Anne Ryder, Speaker, Former NBC-affiliate (WTHR) News Anchor The death of a son or daughter feels like a cosmic injustice, an agony many dads suffer in silence and isolation. But the stories of these courageous dads show that grappling with grief together can bring hope and healing, even amidst

Author: John W. Cassell
Publisher: Inkwater Press
Keywords: odyssey
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2005-10-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1592991629
ISBN-13: 9781592991624

Odyssey:1970 is the story of a young man’s life on the road during one of the pivotal years in modern American history. The sequel to Crossroads: 1969, it picks up with the story of John Cassell, a twenty-two year old college graduate, just returned from Europe and North Africa. Miraculously freed from the Vietnam War by a high draft lottery number in December of 1969, he decides to devote the year 1970 to exploring his own country… to enjoy being young… to revel in the life of the Counterculture before the War Machine comes for him in 1971. The long, uncertain hitchhike between A

Authors:T. Virgil Parker, Jessica Hopsicker, Carri Anne Yage
Publisher: Inkwater Press
Keywords: interviews, freaks, famous, infamous, crier, factory, college, sausage
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2009-03-12
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1592993613
ISBN-13: 9781592993611

The editorial crew of an unruly publication for college students tracks down the famous, the infamous and the strange in this unique collection of interviews. An indie musician is worshiped as a god in the South Seas. Hunter S. Thompson conducts what may have been his last interview with the press. Is the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir an anarchist or a monarchist? Will Elvira, Mistress of the Night, save the Sea Monkeys? Will the mad Dr. Steel succeed in building his Utopian Playland? Will the university where The Lizardman studied philosophy ever give him the recognition he deserves? Why did

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ

Author: Lorae Parry
Publisher: Victoria University Press in association with the Women’s Play Press
Keywords: playscripts, zealand, new, eugenia
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864733046
ISBN-13: 9780864733047