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Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations

Creating Contexts Where People Flourish

By: Justin A. Irving

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Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations

Creating Contexts Where People Flourish

By: Justin A. Irving

The devastating effects of toxic work environments are top news. Everyone seems to understand that healthy organizations nurture flourishing individuals and societies--what Jesus desires for all. How can Christian business and ministry leaders create a positive organizational culture and identity? Justin Irving has spent twenty years studying, teaching, and reflecting on organizational leadership. Drawing wisdom from the Bible, contemporary leadership theory, and the insights of over two hundred executive leaders, Irving provides a theological framework that makes human flourishing the driving motivation for leading organizations well. He helps readers invest in their own growth to become leaders who motivate, inspire, and nurture. But he broadens the view to help readers see how different levels of leadership--the dynamics and interdependence of teams and of the whole organization--work together. He then offers practical insights on building teams, culture, and effective communication and on navigating the storms of crisis and change.

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Baker Books

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1493442821

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9781493442829

Culture and Experience

By: A. Irving Hallowell

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Culture and Experience

By: A. Irving Hallowell

This volume of selected papers celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Dr. A. Irving Hallowell.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512816604

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9781512816600

Books of the Brave

Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World

By: Irving A. Leonard

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Books of the Brave

Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World

By: Irving A. Leonard

Since its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and argues that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their experiences. UC Press's 1992 edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources—nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction reaffirms the lasting value of Books of the Brave and chronicles developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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Univ of California Press

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0520309944

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9780520309944

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

By: William Berens,A. Irving Hallowell,Jennifer Brown

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Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

By: William Berens,A. Irving Hallowell,Jennifer Brown

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576533

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9780773576537

Leadership in Christian Perspective

Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leaders

By: Justin A. Irving,Mark L. Strauss

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Leadership in Christian Perspective

Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leaders

By: Justin A. Irving,Mark L. Strauss

This book brings the best of leadership theory and research together with biblical reflection and examples of leadership in action to offer a practical guide to Christian leaders. Combining expertise in leadership studies and biblical studies, Justin Irving and Mark Strauss explore how leadership models have moved from autocratic and paternalistic leader-centered models toward an increased focus on followers. The authors show how contemporary theories such as transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and servant leadership take an important step toward prioritizing and empowering followers who work with leaders to accomplish organizational goals. Irving and Strauss organize their book around "nine empowering practices," making it accessible to students, church leaders, and business leaders. Integrating solid research in leadership studies with biblical and theological reflection on the leadership ideas that are most compatible with Christian faith, this book is an important resource for all Christian students of leadership.

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Baker Academic

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1493418084

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9781493418084

Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB

By: Ke Chen,Peter J. Giblin,A. Irving

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Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB

By: Ke Chen,Peter J. Giblin,A. Irving

This book is about the kind of mathematics usually encountered in first year university courses. A key feature of the book is that this mathematics is explored in depth using the popular and powerful package Matlab. The emphasis is on understanding and investigating the mathematics, and putting it into practice in a wide variety of modelling situations. In the process, the reader will gain some fluency with Matlab, no starting knowledge of the package being assumed.

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324

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Cambridge University Press

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0521639204

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9780521639200

The Social Credit Movement in Alberta

By: John A. Irving

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The Social Credit Movement in Alberta

By: John A. Irving

On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from New York and London, headlines in newspapers, spot news in broadcasts, had confirmed the slogan of Social Crediters, 'The Eyes of the World are on Alberta.' The morning after the election a number of people lined up at the city hall in Calgary to collect the first installment of the Social Credit dividend of $25 monthly, which, they confidently believed, would be immediately forthcoming from their new government." This quotation from Professor Irving's book indicates how the apparent suddenness of the Social Credit rise to power and the magnitude of the victory aroused world-wide comment. Why had the doctrines of Social Credit, promoted unsuccessfully in the British Commonwealth and the United States for nearly twenty years, achieved political acceptance in Alberta? Why had the people of Alberta elected to public office persons so little experienced in the economic and political world as William Aberhart and his Social Credit colleagues? Professor Iving answers these questions and analyses systematically and comprehensively the rise of the movement as a phenomenon of mass psychology. His study, based mainly on interviews, supplemented with references to private papers, newspapers, and government sources provides a truly fascinating record.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590458

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9781487590451

In Good Faith

Schools, Religion and Public Funding

By: Marie Parker-Jenkins,Dimitra Hartas,Barrie A. Irving

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In Good Faith

Schools, Religion and Public Funding

By: Marie Parker-Jenkins,Dimitra Hartas,Barrie A. Irving

First published in 2005, this timely volume challenges those who see faith schools as contributing positively to the well-being of society and responding to parent choice to think through the implications of September 11 for our multi-ethnic and multi-faith society without taking a position on the ultimate necessity of faith schools. The authors conducted research in several faith-based schools representative both of older religious traditions in England and Wales, and of those which have been more recently established. The focus was on state-funded faith-based schools, but a range were visited to provide an overview of issues facing all faith-based schools, as well as those specific to newly funded institutions.

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Routledge

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0429767153

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9780429767159

Contributions to Ojibwe Studies

Essays, 1934-1972

By: Alfred Irving Hallowell

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Contributions to Ojibwe Studies

Essays, 1934-1972

By: Alfred Irving Hallowell

From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake?s east side. He traveled up the Berens River several times to other Ojibwe communities as well, under the guidance of William Berens, the treaty chief at Berens River from 1917 to 1947 and Hallowell?s closest collaborator. Contributions to Ojibwe Studies presents twenty-eight of Hallowell?s writings focusing on the Ojibwe people at Berens River. ø This collection is the first time that the majority of Hallowell?s otherwise widely dispersed essays about the Ojibwe have been gathered into a single volume, thus providing a focused, in-depth view of his contributions to our knowledge and understanding of a vital North American aboriginal people. This volume also contributes to the history of North American anthropology, since Hallowell?s approaches to and analyses of his findings shed light on his role in the shifting intellectual currents in anthropology over four decades.

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0803223919

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Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations

Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations

Culture and Experience

Culture and Experience

Books of the Brave

Books of the Brave

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

Leadership in Christian Perspective

Leadership in Christian Perspective

Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB

Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB

The Social Credit Movement in Alberta

The Social Credit Movement in Alberta

In Good Faith

In Good Faith

Contributions to Ojibwe Studies

Contributions to Ojibwe Studies

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