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The Board Member's Playbook

Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board

By: Miriam Carver,Bill Charney

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The Board Member's Playbook

Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board

By: Miriam Carver,Bill Charney

The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through a proven problem-solving sequence that allows them to find solutions consistent with the values and policies of their organizations. Designed to be flexible, the book's problem-solving methods are applicable to any challenge boards may face.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787972290

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9780787972295

The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics

By: Bill Bowring

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The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics

By: Bill Bowring

Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order? argues passionately for a rehabilitation of the honour of historic events and processes, and of their role in generating legal concepts. Drawing primarily from the Marxian tradition, but also engaging with a range of contemporary work in critical theory and critical legal and human rights scholarship, this book analyses historical and recent international events and processes in order to challenge their orthodox interpretation. What is thus proposed is a new evaluation of international legal principles and human rights norms, the revolutionary content of which, it is argued, turns them from mere rhetoric into powerful weapons of struggle. Accessibly written, but theoretically sophisticated, this original and timely book is intended for critical teachers and students of international law, human rights, and international relations, as well as legal and political activists.

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252

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Routledge

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1135330913

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9781135330910

Green Development

Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

By: Bill Adams

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Green Development

Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

By: Bill Adams

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. Green Development explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about sustainable development and offers a critique of the ideas behind them. It draws a link between theory and practice by discussing the nature of the environmental degradation and the impacts of development. It argues that, ultimately, ‘green’ development has to be about political economy, about the distribution of power, and not about environmental quality. Its focus is strongly on the developing world. The fourth edition retains the broad structure of previous editions, but has been updated to reflect advances in ideas and changes in international policy. Greater attention has been given to the political ecology of development, market-based and neoliberal environmentalism, and degrowth. This fully revised edition discusses: the origins of thinking about sustainability and sustainable development, and its evolution to the present day; the ideas that dominate mainstream sustainable development (including natural capital, the green economy, market environmentalism and ecological modernisation); critiques of mainstream ideas and of neoliberal framings of sustainability, and alternative ideas about sustainability that challenge ‘business as usual’ thinking, such as arguments about limits to growth and calls for degrowth; the dilemmas of sustainability in the context of forests, desertification, food and farming, biodiversity conservation and dam construction; the challenge of policy choices about sustainability, particularly between reformist and radical responses to the contemporary global dilemmas. Green Development offers clear insights into the challenges of environmental sustainability, and social and economic development. It is unique in offering a synthesis of theoretical ideas on sustainability and in its coverage of the extensive literature on environment and development around the world. The book has proved its value to generations of students as an authoritative, thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development.

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Routledge

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1136734694

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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind

A Natural History of Moving Air

By: Bill Streever

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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind

A Natural History of Moving Air

By: Bill Streever

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.

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Little, Brown

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0316410586

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9780316410588

Keep Watching the Skies!

American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition

By: Bill Warren

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Keep Watching the Skies!

American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition

By: Bill Warren

Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in hardcover format (ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0).

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McFarland

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1476625050

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9781476625058

Following The Fugitive

An Episode Guide and Handbook to the 1960s Television Series

By: Bill Deane

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Following The Fugitive

An Episode Guide and Handbook to the 1960s Television Series

By: Bill Deane

The Fugitive made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1963. Over the next four seasons, the show enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success. Millions of fans followed the heroic exploits of Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) as he eluded police lieutenant Philip Gerard (Barry Morse) and doggedly pursued the killer of his wife, the notorious one-armed man. The four-year television run was a commercial and critical success and the 1993 movie of the same name sparked renewed interest in the show. The coverage is episode-by-episode: title, cast lists, director, writer, original airdate, and a comprehensive plot synopsis.

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McFarland

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1476607567

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192647504

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9780192647504

Happy

By: Bill and Em Johnson

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Happy

By: Bill and Em Johnson

Welcome to this, a genuine happy place. In Happy, authors Bill and Em Johnson present the simple truths about being happy. They show you how to turn impossible dreams into realities, gain more faith than fear, more trust than suspicion, and be filled with rich experiences rather than poor excuses. Through quotes, tips, advice, and anecdotes from professionals, authors, historic figures, and the Bible, Happy communicates that the garments of love and happiness never fade and that genuine love and happiness is cheap enough, even though we pay dearly for its counterfeit. It demonstrates how the happiest people think happy, look happy, talk happy, walk happy, and act happy, and it returns to them in abundance. An open door that invites you into lasting happiness, Happy provides a host of basic principles to guide you to becoming a happy person a special gift to others.

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Inspiring Voices

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1462405878

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9781462405879

Geography 11 - 16 (1995)

Rekindling Good Practice

By: Bill Marsden

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Geography 11 - 16 (1995)

Rekindling Good Practice

By: Bill Marsden

Published in 1995, this book seeks to show how geography teachers can meet the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4 without abandoning principles of good practice. It considers geographical education in the contexts of geography itself, society and education. Deriving principles of good practice from these contexts, the author gives guidance on how to produce case studies (or curriculum units) that both reflect these principles and respond to the requirements of the National Curriculum following the Dearing Revised Order.

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Routledge

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1351032682

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9781351032681

An Enormous Crime

The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia

By: Bill Hendon,Elizabeth A. Stewart

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An Enormous Crime

The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia

By: Bill Hendon,Elizabeth A. Stewart

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973, what these brave men have endured, and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them. This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly, harrowing, and true.

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Macmillan

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0312385382

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9780312385385

Engaging with Brecht

Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century

By: Bill Gelber

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Engaging with Brecht

Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century

By: Bill Gelber

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht’s continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht’s ways of working onstage using the 2015 Texas Tech University production of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children as a model for exploration. Particular Brecht concepts—the epic, Verfremdung, the Fabel, gestus, historicization, literarization, the “Not...but,” Arrangement, and the Separation of the Elements—are explained and applied to scenes and plays. Brecht’s complicated relationship with Konstantin Stanislavsky is also explored in relation to their separate views on acting. For theatrical practitioners and educators, this volume is a record of pedagogical engagement, an empirical study of Brecht’s work in performance at a higher institution of learning using graduate and undergraduate students.

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Springer Nature

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3031203941

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9783031203947

Hot from Harlem

Twelve African American Entertainers, 1890-1960

By: Bill Reed

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Hot from Harlem

Twelve African American Entertainers, 1890-1960

By: Bill Reed

From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of some of its most famous as well as others of its practitioners. The book moves from the beginning of African American participation in show business up through the present age. Will Marion Cook and Billy McClain are discovered in action at the very dawn of black parity in the entertainment field; six chapters later, the young Sammy Davis, Jr., breaks through the invisible ceiling that has kept those before him "in their place." In between, the likes of Valaida Snow, Nora Holt, Billy Strayhorn, Hazel Scott, Dinah Washington, and others are found making contributions to the fight against racism both in and out of "the business.

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McFarland

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0786457260

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9780786457267

Frommer's Canada

By: Shawn Blore,Wayne Curtis,Hilary Davidson,Herbert Bailey Livesey,Bill McRae

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Frommer's Canada

By: Shawn Blore,Wayne Curtis,Hilary Davidson,Herbert Bailey Livesey,Bill McRae

Life is short. Vacations are shorter. Relax! Trust your trip to Frommer's. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You: Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. The latest, most reliable information—all completely up-to-date! Dozens of easy-to-read color maps. The widest and best selection of hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid, in-depth reviews. All the practical details you need to make the most of your time and money. One-of-a-kind experiences and undiscovered gems, plus a new take on all the top attractions. Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not. A fresh, personal approach that puts the fun and excitement back into travel! It's a Whole New World with Frommer's. Find us online at www.frommers.com

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*Frommers

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0028636279

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9780028636276

Frommer's Canada

By: Wayne Curtis,Herbert Bailey Livesey,Bill McRae,Anistatia R. Miller,Jared M. Brown,Marilyn Wood

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Frommer's Canada

By: Wayne Curtis,Herbert Bailey Livesey,Bill McRae,Anistatia R. Miller,Jared M. Brown,Marilyn Wood

It's a Whole New World with Frommer's. Frommer's is packed with completely up-to-date practical information, exact prices, and candid insider advice. It's the most authoritative, easy-to-use guide you can buy. Everything You Need for the Perfect Trip: Inviting places to stay: landmark hotels, mountain lodges, coastal inns, intimate B&Bs, campgrounds, and more Fabulous dining, from fresh Atlantic lobster to Alberta steaks and B.C. salmon The best of the outdoors: wildlife watching, canoeing, hiking, fishing, skiing, and white-water rafting—plus details on the top national and provincial parks All the sights, from the cities to great small towns Tips on shopping, from haute couture to outdoor gear What to do after dark, from the best ballet and regional theater to dance clubs and cowboy bars Detailed, accurate two-color city, park, and regional maps Frommer's. The Name You Can Trust. Find us online at www.frommers.com

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Frommers

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0028620518

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9780028620510

The Board Member's Playbook

Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board

By: Miriam Carver,Bill Charney

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The Board Member's Playbook

Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board

By: Miriam Carver,Bill Charney

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787972290

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9780787972295

Bill Nye's Western Humor

By: Bill Nye

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Bill Nye's Western Humor

By: Bill Nye

Although Bill Nye (1850-1896) was America's best known humorist in the late 1880's and early 1890's, his work is little known today--his books long out of print and his columns yellowing in newspaper files. Now T. A. Larson, a dyed-in-the-wool Nye fan for more than thirty years, has assembled the best of Bill Nye's work, most of it dating from the seven Wyoming years when Nye made his name. The selections are chosen from Laramie, Cheyenne, and Denver newspapers and from six books published in the 1890's. The resulting collection is both good fun and a valuable picture of a lively period.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803258216

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9780803258211

Bill Nye's Red Book

By: Bill Nye

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Bill Nye's Red Book

By: Bill Nye

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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Alpha Edition

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9354941419

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9789354941412

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