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Leading Coherently

Reflections From Leaders Around the World

By: Nancy Stanford-Blair,Michael H. Dickmann

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Leading Coherently

Reflections From Leaders Around the World

By: Nancy Stanford-Blair,Michael H. Dickmann

Leading Coherently draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance, and sustainability. Through sharing their leadership stories, leaders from across the globe reveal prominent themes about how leaders are formed to the role of influencing others toward the achievement of goals. Leaders also reveal how leaders perform such influence on others, and how leaders sustain themselves and their leadership influence over time and adversity. Key Features: References leadership wisdom born of rich experience from a very diverse group of credible and respected leaders Describes elements of leadership formation, performance and sustainability that cut across gender, culture, and context Observes a dynamic relationship between leadership values, character, behavior, and dispositions Presents a model for assessing, and advancing coherent leadership Presents practical examples of how real-world leaders advance the coherency of their leadership practice This would be an ideal text for students in leadership programs at the bachelor′s, master′s and doctoral level. Aspiring and practicing leaders across all fields who are interested in understanding powerful influences within their formation, improving their performance, and sustaining themselves and their purpose will also find this book extremely helpful.

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SAGE Publications

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1452266743

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9781452266749

Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

By: Sara Blair

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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

By: Sara Blair

This 1996 book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and engagement with, popular culture. Arguing against recent trends in critical studies which locate racial resistance in popular culture, Sara Blair uncovers this resistance within literature and high modernism. She analyses a variety of texts from early travel writing to The Princess Casamassima, The American Scene and The Tragic Muse, always setting the scene through descriptions of key events of the time such as Jack the Ripper's murders. Blair makes a powerful case for reading James with a sense of sustained contradiction and her project absorbingly argues for the historical and ongoing importance of literary texts and discourses to the study of culture and cultural value.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521497507

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9780521497503

A Life Well Led

The Biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British Anthropologist

By: Mary Ellen Blair

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A Life Well Led

The Biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British Anthropologist

By: Mary Ellen Blair

Blair profiles Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, a remarkable second-generation British anthropologist who lived with Native American pueblo people and visited reservations in the Southwest United States, contributing to the knowledge about and understanding of these people.

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310

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Sunstone Press

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0865344965

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9780865344969

Bringing Home the White House

The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century

By: Melissa Estes Blair

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Bringing Home the White House

The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century

By: Melissa Estes Blair

In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet largely unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved presidents. By examining the roles of these political strategists in affecting the outcome of presidential elections, Blair sheds light on their historical importance and the relevance of their individual influence. In the middle decades of the twentieth century both major political parties had Women’s Divisions. The leaders of these divisions—five women who held the job from 1932 until 1958—organized tens of thousands of women all over the country, turning them into the “saleswomen for the party” by providing them with talking points, fliers, and other material they needed to strike up political conversations with their friends and neighbors. The leaders of the Women’s Divisions also produced a huge portion of the media used by the campaigns—over 90 percent of all print material in the 1930s—and were close advisors of the presidents of both parties. In spite of their importance, these women and their work have been left out of the narratives of midcentury America. In telling the story of these five West Wing women, Blair reveals the ways that women were central to American politics from the depths of the Great Depression to the height of the Cold War.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820365122

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9780820365121

Why Architecture Matters

Lessons from Chicago

By: Blair Kamin

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Why Architecture Matters

Lessons from Chicago

By: Blair Kamin

This text collects the best of architecture critic Blair Kamin's columns. Using Chicago as a barometer of national design trends, the book sheds light on the state of American architecture during 'the Nervous Nineties'.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226423220

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9780226423227

Early Settlers of Alabama

By: James Edmonds Saunders,Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs

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Early Settlers of Alabama

By: James Edmonds Saunders,Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs

A reprint of the 1899 Publication with two parts bound in one volume.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806303085

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9780806303086

Marguerite's Diary

By: Michael Blair

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Marguerite's Diary

By: Michael Blair

If you don’t read anything else, please read this. It is OK to be different. Went I went to school there wasn’t anything as a LD student. If there were I would have been classified as LD. If your speech was slow and you were tongue tied or couldn’t hear to good or if you had dyslexia or couldn’t see too well you would end up in the back of the room. Kids would beat up on me because they though I was different. I was chased home by some of the schoolboys until I found it was a game for them. Since I was in the back of the room I couldn’t hear the teacher too well. When the teacher discovered that I hadn’t done what she said, she came back and hit me with her first in the middle of my back. That was sixty-three years ago and I still have pain in my back. Sometimes I have not been able to walk from this. You should not laugh or make fun of others or old people. After they get up around seventy they mostly talk about sickness and doctors. Some people are Paralyze from the neck down. Some people have dysconia which can give you pain and cripple you. Some people have Parkinson decease or even hiccups or stutter for years. Some people are Mongoloid or have Down syndrome and some have tourette. Or other decease. Some have Lupus.

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AuthorHouse

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1463405170

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9781463405175

Working Verse in Victorian Scotland

Poetry, Press, Community

By: Kirstie Blair

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Working Verse in Victorian Scotland

Poetry, Press, Community

By: Kirstie Blair

This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.

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Oxford University Press

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0192581961

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9780192581969

Tea at Miss Cranston's

By: Anna Blair

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Tea at Miss Cranston's

By: Anna Blair

In Tea at Miss Cranston's Anna Blair recreates a bygone era through the recollections of countless Glaswegians who shared their memories with her during extensive interviews. Nostalgic, yet never rose-tinted or bitter, they offer a candid picture of the joys and hardships - as well as of the mundane and everyday occurrences - of past times. This omnibus edition of her much acclaimed books is a feast of history and together provide a fascinating glimpse into the vibrant and intimate insides of a great city in years gone by.

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Birlinn

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0857905937

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9780857905932

Making Our Way Home

The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

By: Blair Imani

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Making Our Way Home

The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

By: Blair Imani

A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected--and continues to affect--Black identity and America as a whole. Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America's workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey.

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194

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Ten Speed Press

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1984856936

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9781984856937

A Politician Goes to War

The Civil War Letters of John White Geary

By: William Alan Blair,Bell Irvin Wiley

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A Politician Goes to War

The Civil War Letters of John White Geary

By: William Alan Blair,Bell Irvin Wiley

This last known work of noted historian Bell Irvin Wiley reveals the private mind of John White Geary, a Union general from Pennsylvania, through his Civil War letters to his wife, Mary. Wiley had selected these roughly 200 letters for publication, but the unfinished manuscript lay undiscovered for twelve years after the historian's death. The letters provide a rare glimpse of the two main theaters of war through the eyes of a general officer. Geary saw action at Cedar Mountain and Gettysburg in the Virginia theater and in the major campaigns in the west&—from lifting the siege at Chattanooga to marching with William T. Sherman through Georgia and the Carolinas. The fascination Geary's letters held for Wiley, the quintessential scholar of the common person, is clear: the letters of an uncommon man reveal ordinary concerns about children, money, home, and religion that linked Geary to many on both sides of the war. Geary's letters also show another side of the officer, that of the consummate politician who knew that military service provided capital for future political campaigns. Through intense self-promotion, he had fashioned a reputation that served him well in gaining respected political posts both before and after the war: he fought in the Mexican War and served as the first mayor of San Francisco and as territorial governor of Kansas during the period known as &"Bloody Kansas,&" in addition to winning two terms as governor of Pennsylvania after the war. Ultimately, the letters of John White Geary show how a political general plied his trade. They reveal the complexities of any historical figure, for Geary had both the admirable qualities of loyalty to the Union and the less attractive need to exaggerate his abilities to enhance his career.

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Penn State Press

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0271038667

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9780271038667

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

By: Peter Hunter Blair

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An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

By: Peter Hunter Blair

This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole. For this edition, Simon Keynes has prepared a thoroughly updated bibliography.

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442

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Cambridge University Press

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0521537770

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9780521537773

Thinking About Psychology, High School Version

By: Charles Blair-Broeker,Randal Ernst

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Thinking About Psychology, High School Version

By: Charles Blair-Broeker,Randal Ernst

Written by a distinguished team of teachers, this fourth edition of Thinking About Psychology reflects up-to-date DSM-5 content and research, emphasizes psychology as a science, answers goal-oriented guiding questions, and provides a vast amount of assessment opportunities for students to regularly test their understanding. Students are sure to be engrossed by the engaging and conversational tone of authors Charlie Blair-Broeker and Randy Ernst, who have a combined 54 years of high school teaching experience and have led Psychology workshops in more than 30 states!

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1855

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319121624

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9781319121624

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

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Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

Among the laws agreed upon in England for the governing of the Province of Pennsylvania was one providing for a registry of marriages, births, and deaths. Marriage licenses were issued from the Office of the Provincial Secretary, those listed in this work dating from 1742. Some earlier registers of licenses and some kept at a later date are missing, yet this work still features a base list of 6,500 marriages, to which we have added a further 3,500 marriages from articles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. All 10,000 marriages are based on public records as opposed to church records.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307099

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9780806307091

The Blackbird's Tale

By: Emma Blair

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The Blackbird's Tale

By: Emma Blair

From Glasgow on the brink of the Great War to the cut-throat world of London publishing - the spellbinding saga of three remarkable generations. Cathy: a Glasgow factory-girl who experiences love, its loss and a kind of victory in the space of two turbulent wartime years . . . Hannah: the daughter whose marriage enjoys the fruits of undreamt prosperity. But her love must learn to endure the turmoil of a very personal hurt . . . Robyn: the product of her generation. Modern, extrovert and vivacious, her heart is broken by the only man she'll ever love. Yet she finally comes to control her destiny - and that of the lover she never really lost... This is the unforgettable story of three women united in their love for books, for life, and for their men. A story which began with the little bookshop that Cathy fell in love with thirty years before. The Blackbird . . . Praise for Emma Blair: 'An engaging novel and the characters are endearing - a good holiday read' Historical Novels Review 'All the tragedy and passion you could hope for . . . Brilliant' The Bookseller 'Romantic fiction pure and simple and the best sort - direct, warm and hugely readable. Women's fiction at an excellent level' Publishing News 'Emma Blair explores the complex and difficult nature of human emotions in this passionately written novel' Edinburgh Evening News 'Entertaining romantic fiction' Historical Novels Review '[Emma Blair] is well worth recommending' The Bookseller

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Piatkus

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0349415129

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9780349415123

Thinking about Schools

A Foundations of Education Reader

By: Eleanor Blair Hilty

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Thinking about Schools

A Foundations of Education Reader

By: Eleanor Blair Hilty

This book considers how American public education came to be the way it is today. It helps students to have a better sense of how the past informs the present and how questions regarding who is served best by the schools tell us about the goals and aspirations of present-day schools in America.

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Routledge

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0429975309

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9780429975301

The Christian Souvenir; Or, the Beauties of Blair and Jortin, Extracts From Sermons

By: Hugh Blair,John Jortin

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The Christian Souvenir; Or, the Beauties of Blair and Jortin, Extracts From Sermons

By: Hugh Blair,John Jortin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338514311X

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9783385143111

De-demonising the Old Testament

An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible

By: Judit M. Blair

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De-demonising the Old Testament

An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible

By: Judit M. Blair

Judit M. Blair challenges the common view that azazel, lilith, deber, qeteb and reshef are names of 'demons' in the Hebrew Bible, claiming that major works on the subject proceed from the assumption that these terms were demons in the ancient Near East and /or later, or that they were deities who became 'demonised' by the authors of the Hebrew Bible. Without questioning the validity of traditional methods she supplements the existing works by making an exegesis based on a close reading of all the relevant texts of the Hebrew Bible in which these five terms occur. Close attention is paid to the linguistic, semantic, and structural levels of the texts. The emphasis is on a close examination of the immediate context in order to determine the function of each term. The author notes different signals within the texts, especially the use of the various poetical/rhetorical devices: personification, parallelism, similes, irony, and mythological elements.

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292

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161501314

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9783161501319

Battlefields of the Civil War

By: Blair Howard

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Battlefields of the Civil War

By: Blair Howard

Harper's Ferry, Fort Sumter, Richmond, Cumberland Gap, Appomattox, Andersonville, the Peninsula campaign, Sherman's march through Georgia, the Shenandoah Valley.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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1556506856

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9781556506857

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