Brook Ashley's Books

The Abused Ballet

By: Ashley Brook Smith

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The Abused Ballet is the culmination of a three-year project written in honor of my mother. My work is educational and entertaining intended to promote healing and growth. Like learn and share or; watch, perform and educate. At the very least, have some enriched fun.

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The Abused Ballet Choreography

By: Ashley Brook Smith

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The Abused Ballet Choreography

By: Ashley Brook Smith

This is the Choreography from The Abused Ballet. In it's entirety it contains a symphony and individual scores. The work as is will be an adventure within a masterpiece. With an educational and entertaining purpose you can't make many wrong turns.

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The Abused Ballet Vocals

By: Ashley Brook Smith

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The Abused Ballet Vocals

By: Ashley Brook Smith

The Abused Ballet Vocals is an adventure inside a masterpiece. This work is intended to promote knowledge, healing, and growth. Vocals is a fun and educational piece sure to challenge even the most sophisticated singer.

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The Abused Ballet PIANO

By: Ashley Brook Smith

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The Abused Ballet PIANO

By: Ashley Brook Smith

The Abused Ballet is an entire production. This is the piano part of the entire symphonic score. A lot of hard work, dedication and love went into this work. The pieces are dark, melodic, eery and classical. With all of the parts it forms a masterpiece and with one part it forms an adventure.

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The Marriage Test

Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"

By: Jill Andres,Brook Silva-Braga

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The Marriage Test

Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"

By: Jill Andres,Brook Silva-Braga

A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.” Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields. Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...

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0425282759

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9780425282755

Forty Years of Airfix Toys

By: Jeremy Brook

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Forty Years of Airfix Toys

By: Jeremy Brook

Airfix acquired the first plastic injection moulding machine in the U.K. in the mid 1940's and was soon manufacturing vast numbers of plastic toys. By 1981, when Airfix's financial woes led to takeover and the end of all production save for plastic model kits, it had made a wide variety of toys, games, arts, crafts, building sets, racing sets, model trains and even Meccano and Dinky toys. Profusely illustrated with over three hundred photographs, Forty Years of Airfix Toys gives the full history of the Airfix toy range including year-by-year listings of all the toys sold by Airfix; logs and packaging; Airfix's magazines and a full listing of Airfix pattern numbers. It is a comprehensive guide to the history of the toys produced by the iconic brand Airfix.

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The Crowood Press

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1785005367

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9781785005367

Conjugality

Marriage and Marriage-like Relationships before the Law

By: H. Brook

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Conjugality

Marriage and Marriage-like Relationships before the Law

By: H. Brook

Conjugal Rites explores the legal shape of marriage as it has been determined by countless decisions concerning entry and exit into the ancient rite. Heather Brook examines the countless rules and protocols governing marriage that make it valid in the eyes of the law. She argues that the various sexual performatives associated with marriage can establish, reinforce, or rupture conjugal unity while exploring the historical and politcal regulations and prohibitions marriage has faced. Brook unites past and present, public and private, to investigate the changing meanings and effects of conjugality, and challenge the way we think about sex, gender and relationships.

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Springer

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0230609376

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9780230609372

First Blood

By: Erin McCarthy,Meljean Brook,Chris Marie Green

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First Blood

By: Erin McCarthy,Meljean Brook,Chris Marie Green

This collection of four original stories explores the darker side of desire and includes Susan Sizemore's "Cave Canem," a story of forbidden passion that contains characters from her Laws of the Blood novels, as well as works by Erin MCarthy, Chris Marie Green, and Meljean Brook. Original.

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0425224007

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9780425224007

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

By: Daniel Brook

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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

By: Daniel Brook

A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of segregation. The Accident of Color asks why. Searching for answers, Daniel Brook journeys to the places that resisted Jim Crow the longest. In the cosmopolitan port cities of New Orleans and Charleston, integrated streetcars plied avenues patrolled by integrated police forces for decades after the Civil War. This progress was ushered in during Reconstruction when long-free, openly biracial communities joined in coalition with the formerly enslaved and allies at the fringes of whiteness. Tragically, their victories—including integrated schools—and their alliance itself were violently uprooted by segregation along a stark, new black-white color line. By revisiting a turning point in the construction of America’s uniquely restrictive racial system, The Accident of Color brings to life a moment from our past that illuminates the origins of the racial lies we live by.

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0393247457

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9780393247459

Examples & Explanations for Sales and Leases

By: Scott J. Burnham,James A. Brook

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Examples & Explanations for Sales and Leases

By: Scott J. Burnham,James A. Brook

Examples & Explanations: Sales and Leases, Ninth Edition, provides an organized way of working through the various sections, definitions, concepts, and controversies that make up the modern law of sale and lease of goods as rendered in Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code. The unique Examples & Explanations series provides clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom. Use this study aid throughout the semester to deepen your understanding with clear explanations, corresponding hypothetical fact patterns, and analysis. Then use it to study for finals by reviewing the hypotheticals as well as the structure and reasoning behind the accompanying analysis. Designed to complement your casebook, Examples & Explanations: Sales and Leases, gets right to the point in a conversational, often humorous style that helps you learn the material each step of the way and prepare for the exam at the end of the course. New to the Ninth Edition: Discussion of changes made to the U.C.C. by the 2022 Amendments, primarily to address hybrid transactions and electronic commerce Professors and students will benefit from: Organization of the book follows a fairly standard order in which the various topics are taken up in courses related to sales Each chapter is structured in the same way: introductory text, followed by a set of examples, ending with explanations of the questions asked and issues raised by the examples The text provides an alternative perspective to help students understand their casebook and class lectures.

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9798892073868

Secret Flotillas

Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany, 1940–44

By: Brook Richards

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Secret Flotillas

Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany, 1940–44

By: Brook Richards

As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These "secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in and from France, and ferried Allied evaders and escapees. This activity was crucial to the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) and the SOE (Special Operations Executive). This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during WWII. The account has been made possible through Sir Brooks' access to closed government archives, combined with his own wartime experiences and the recollections of many of those involved.First published in 1996, the original edition included descriptions of naval operations off French North Africa. The history has now been amended and expanded by Sir Brooks and is now published in two volumes. This first volume concentrates on the sea lines to Brittany.This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War Two.

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1783035706

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9781783035700

Between Nature and Culture

The Aesthetics of Modified Environments

By: Emily Brady,Isis Brook,Jonathan Prior

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Between Nature and Culture

The Aesthetics of Modified Environments

By: Emily Brady,Isis Brook,Jonathan Prior

Within philosophy, a new interest in aesthetics beyond the arts has encouraged the rapid growth of environmental aesthetics. Within this literature, however, less attention has been given to the spaces and places that emerge from various nature-culture interactions. This has meant the relative neglect of types of environments to which the majority of people have access, and interact with, in a sustained manner. In this respect, these are the environments in which many of us understand and value nature. Through a greater understanding of how humans interact with these environments and the types of relationships that emerge through this interaction, we address seek to address this gap. Between Nature and Culture provides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues and problems that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between (non-human) nature and (human) culture, including gardens, agricultural and ecologically restored landscapes, and land and ecological art works.

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1786610779

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Demon Marked

By: Meljean Brook

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Demon Marked

By: Meljean Brook

Nicholas St. Croix knows the evil of demons intimately-he was raised by one. Now the woman he loves has disappeared, and he knows his "mother" is responsible. But Nicholas swears he'll find her, even if he has to go to Hell and back.

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1101543795

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The Civic Bargain

How Democracy Survives

By: Brook Manville,Josiah Ober

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The Civic Bargain

How Democracy Survives

By: Brook Manville,Josiah Ober

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance is being “tested” or is “under attack.” But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a “civic bargain” with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity. That bargain also requires them to fulfill the duties of democratic citizenship: governing themselves with no “boss” except one another, embracing compromise, treating each other as civic friends, and investing in civic education for each rising generation. Manville and Ober trace the long progression toward self-government through four key moments in democracy’s history: Classical Athens, Republican Rome, Great Britain’s constitutional monarchy, and America’s founding. Comparing what worked and what failed in each case, they draw out lessons for how modern democracies can survive and thrive. Manville and Ober show that democracy isn’t about getting everything we want; it’s about agreeing on a shared framework for pursuing our often conflicting aims. Crucially, citizens need to be able to compromise, and must not treat one another as political enemies. And we must accept imperfection; democracy is never finished but evolves and renews itself continually. As long as the civic bargain is maintained—through deliberation, bargaining, and compromise—democracy will live.

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0691230447

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Mr. Selden's Map of China

Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer

By: Timothy Brook

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Mr. Selden's Map of China

Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer

By: Timothy Brook

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China. Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library-where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The “Selden Map,” as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620401444

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9781620401446

Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence

By: Judith Brook,Barry Stimmel

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Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence

By: Judith Brook,Barry Stimmel

This timely volume explores the possible reasons that young people turn to drugs, the most effective methods to manage those who are afflicted, and ways to educate youth to prevent their initial drug involvement.

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Routledge

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1317774280

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Buried in the Stacks

By: Allison Brook

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Buried in the Stacks

By: Allison Brook

Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost? In winter, the Haunted Library is a refuge for homeless townspeople. When a group purchases a vacant house to establish a daytime haven for the homeless, Carrie offers the library as a meeting place for the Haven House committee, but quickly learns that it may be used for illegal activities. As the new Sunshine Delegate, Carrie heads to the hospital to visit her cantankerous colleague, Dorothy, who had fallen outside the local supermarket. She tells Carrie that her husband tried to kill her--and that he murdered her Aunt Evelyn, the library's resident ghost, six years earlier. And then Dorothy is murdered--run off the road as soon as she returns to work. Evelyn implores Carrie to find her niece's killer, but that's no easy task: Dorothy had made a hobby of blackmailing her neighbors and colleagues. Carrie, Evelyn, and Smoky Joe the cat are on the case, but are the library cards stacked against them?

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164385139X

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9781643851396

Examples & Explanations for Sales and Leases

By: James A. Brook,Scott J. Burnham

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Examples & Explanations for Sales and Leases

By: James A. Brook,Scott J. Burnham

A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding hypothetical fact patterns, and analysis. Then use to study for finals by reviewing the hypotheticals as well as the structure and reasoning behind the accompanying analysis. Designed to complement your casebook, the trusted Examples & Explanations titles get right to the point in a conversational, often humorous style that helps you learn the material each step of the way and prepare for the exam at the end of the course. The unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations series is invaluable to teach yourself the subject from the first day of class until your last review before the final. Each guide: helps you learn new material by working through chapters that explain each topic in simple language challenges your understanding with hypotheticals similar to those presented in class provides valuable opportunity to study for the final by reviewing the hypotheticals as well as the structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor remains a favorite among law school students is often recommended by professors who encourage the use of study guides works with ALL the major casebooks, suits any class on a given topic provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures

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Aspen Publishing

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1543817068

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The Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook

Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level

By: Ron Ashkenas,Brook Manville

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The Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook

Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level

By: Ron Ashkenas,Brook Manville

The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills. Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today." The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time--are well established. They're about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious. In this comprehensive handbook, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the field--all to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact. In the HBR Leader's Handbook you'll find: Concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Porter In-depth case studies of senior leaders such as Jim Wolfensohn at the World Bank, Paula Kerger at PBS, Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation, and Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters Step-by-step guidance to help you understand and start implementing six core leadership practices: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading yourself

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1633693775

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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye

Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By: Brook Noel,Pamela D Blair PhD

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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye

Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By: Brook Noel,Pamela D Blair PhD

The most helpful grief book to read when you're ready to start healing after the loss of a loved one. Discover the transformative power of healing and hope with this top-rated grief book and compassionate guide for those navigating the challenging journey of grief and loss. Written with profound wisdom and heartfelt empathy, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye gently walks readers through the stages of grief, providing practical tools and empowering strategies to cope with the pain and confusion that accompany the loss of a loved one. Whether you've experienced the recent passing of a family member, friend, or even a pet, this book offers solace and guidance to help you navigate your unique grieving process. Features include: Practical Guidance: Learn effective coping strategies and practical tools to navigate the grieving process. Empathy and Understanding: Feel understood and supported through heartfelt anecdotes and relatable experiences. Personal Growth: Find solace and meaning in your grief journey as you embark on a path of healing and personal growth. Comprehensive Resource: Access a comprehensive guide that addresses various aspects of grief, including anticipatory grief, sudden loss, and long-term complicated grief. Hope and Inspiration: Embrace a message of hope and inspiration, knowing that healing is possible even in the face of profound loss. Whether you are at the beginning of your grief journey or further along the path, this book will help you find the strength to heal, honor your loved one's memory, and rediscover joy and purpose in your life. Praise for I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: "I highly recommend this book, not only to the bereaved, but to friends and counselors as well."— Helen Fitzgerald, author of The Grieving Child, The Mourning Handbook, and The Grieving Teen "This book, by women who have done their homework on grief... can hold a hand and comfort a soul through grief's wilderness. Outstanding references of where to see other help."— George C. Kandle, Pastoral Psychologist "Finally, you have found a friend who can not only explain what has just occurred, but can take you by the hand and lead you to a place of healing and personal growth...this guide can help you survive and cope, but even more importantly... heal."— The Rebecca Review "For those dealing with the loss of a loved one, or for those who want to help someone who is, this is a highly recommended read."—Midwest Book Review Named a Best Book on Losing a Parent for 2022 by Choosing Therapy.

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1402234333

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Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook

Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level

By: Ron Ashkenas,Brook Manville

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Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level

By: Ron Ashkenas,Brook Manville

The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills. Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today." The critical leadership practices—the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time—are well established. They're about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious. In this comprehensive handbook, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the field—all to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact. In the HBR Leader's Handbook you'll find: Concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Porter In-depth case studies of senior leaders such as Jim Wolfensohn at the World Bank, Paula Kerger at PBS, Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation, and Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters Step-by-step guidance to help you understand and start implementing six core leadership practices: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading yourself HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.

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Business Benchmark Upper Intermediate BULATS and Business Vantage Personal Study Book

By: Guy Brook-Hart

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Business Benchmark Upper Intermediate BULATS and Business Vantage Personal Study Book

By: Guy Brook-Hart

Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS. The Personal Study Book is intended as reinforcement of the material studied in the Business Benchmark Student's Book. It contains extra vocabulary, grammar and writing skills activities, based on the Student's Book units and a full answer key to all its exercises. This pocket-sized book is compatible with either the BULATS or Business Vantage version of the course.

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Operation Yao Ming

The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Super star

By: Brook Larmer

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Operation Yao Ming

The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Super star

By: Brook Larmer

The riveting story behind NBA giant Yao Ming, the ruthless Chinese sports machine that created him, and the East-West struggle over China’s most famous son. The NBA’s 7‘6" All-Star Yao Ming has changed the face of basketball, revitalizing a league desperate for a new hero while becoming a multimillionaire pitchman for Reebok and McDonald’s. But his journey to America—like that of his forgotten foil, 7‘1" Wang Zhizhi—began long before he set foot on the world’s brightest athletic stage. Operation Yao Ming opens with the story of the two boys’ parents, basketball players brought together by Chinese officials intent on creating a generation of athletes who could bring glory to their resurgent motherland. Their children would have no more freedom to choose their fates. By age thirteen, Yao was pulled out of sports school to join the Shanghai Sharks pro team, following in the footsteps of Wang, then the star of the People’s Liberation Army team. Rumors of the pair of Chinese giants soon attracted the NBA and American sports companies, all eager to tap a market of 1.3 billion consumers. In suspenseful scenes, journalist Brook Larmer details the backroom maneuverings that brought China’s first players to the NBA. Drawing on years of firsthand reporting, Larmer uncovers the disturbing truth behind China’s drive to produce Olympic champions, while also taking readers behind the scenes of America’s multibillion-dollar sports empire. Caught in the middle are two young men—one will become a mega-rich superstar and hero to millions, the other a struggling athlete rejected by his homeland yet lost in America.

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1101216611

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9781101216613

Queering Families, Schooling Publics

Keywords

By: Anne M. Harris,Stacy Holman Jones,Sandra L. Faulkner,Eloise D. Brook

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Queering Families, Schooling Publics

Keywords

By: Anne M. Harris,Stacy Holman Jones,Sandra L. Faulkner,Eloise D. Brook

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of scholarship on queerness in families and how families intersect with schools, schooling and educational institutions more broadly, this book considers how we are taught to enact family at home, at school and through the media, and how this pedagogy has shifted and changed over time. Conceived as a collection of keywords that take up the vocabulary of queerness, queering practices, and queer families, the authors employ a nuanced intersectional approach to connect the damaging and persistent invisibility of their subject to the complex and dominant and normalizing discourses of marriage and family. Offering post-structural, post-humanist, and new materialist perspectives on kinship and the family, this book moves the conversation forward by critically interrogating and expanding upon current knowledges about gender diversity, queer kinship, and pedagogy.

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1134869282

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9781134869282

Blue Architecture

Water, Design, and Environmental Futures

By: Brook Muller

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Blue Architecture

Water, Design, and Environmental Futures

By: Brook Muller

2023 Finalist, PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning A guide to water-focused and climate-resilient architectural and urban design. Le Corbusier famously said, “A house is a machine for living in.” We now confront the litany of environmental challenges associated with the legacy of the architectural machine: a changing climate, massive species die-off, diminished air and water quality, and resource scarcities. Brook Muller offers an alternative: water-centric urban design that fosters sustainability, equity, and architectural creativity. Inspired by the vernacular, such as the levadas of Madeira Island and both the arid and drenched places of the American West, Muller articulates a “hydro-logical” philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop. From these interactions—and the new technologies and approaches enabling them—aesthetic, spatial, and experiential opportunities follow. Not content merely to work around sensitive ecology, Muller argues for genuinely climate-adapted urban landscapes in which buildings act as ecological infrastructure that actually improve watersheds while delivering functionality and beauty for diverse communities. Rich in images and practical examples, Blue Architecture will change the way we think about our designed world.

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University of Texas Press

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1477325123

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American State Universities, Their Origin and Progress

By: Andrew Ten Brook

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American State Universities, Their Origin and Progress

By: Andrew Ten Brook

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385373050

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Radiology Structured Reporting Handbook

Disease-Specific Templates and Interpretation Pearls

By: Olga Brook,Wieland H. Sommer

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Radiology Structured Reporting Handbook

Disease-Specific Templates and Interpretation Pearls

By: Olga Brook,Wieland H. Sommer

A practical guide for radiologists on providing high yield disease-specific reports Multiple studies show that referring physicians have a clear preference for structured radiology reports due to clarity and ease of interpretation, yet a one-size-fits all approach does not address disease complexities. Concurrently, the use of structured radiology templates has increased, driven in part by the need to comply with big data and artificial intelligence as well as reimbursement. Standardization of reporting is one of the first essential steps in the transformation of radiology from "the art of imaging" to a robust data science. Radiology Structured Reporting Handbook: Disease-Specific Templates and Interpretation Pearls by Professors Olga R. Brook, Wieland H. Sommer, and esteemed colleagues is a highly practical guide on structured reporting for every major area of radiology. Featuring disease-specific templates, the book is organized in six sections and 53 chapters. Section one covers core foundation topics, from different definitions of structured reporting and pros and cons to change management and how to build templates. Five disease-specific sections encompass specific cancers and a variety of abdominal, thoracic, neurological, and cardiovascular diseases and conditions. Key Highlights Downloadable disease-specific templates for a variety of clinical entities including cardiovascular, thoracic, abdominal, oncological, and neuroradiology Essential interpretation pearls for specific diseases from top experts in a bullet format, accompanied by relevant figures and tables Together, the templates and pearls provide an essential and unique practice resource for optimal and clinically relevant reporting. The book also serves as a succinct educational tool for radiology trainees and practicing radiologists who may not interpret specific highly specialized types of studies on a daily basis.

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Thieme

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1638536783

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The World Rejoices

The Good News of Christmas Devotional

By: Eliza Huie,Brook Taylor,Ashley Arey,Cyndi Logsdon

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The World Rejoices

The Good News of Christmas Devotional

By: Eliza Huie,Brook Taylor,Ashley Arey,Cyndi Logsdon

The World Rejoices combines Scripture reading from the Gospel of Luke with short, practical daily reflections to help focus your heart on Jesus throughout the Christmas season.

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