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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Micro Shifts, Macro Results

By: Esther Derby

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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Micro Shifts, Macro Results

By: Esther Derby

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it. Even if you don't have change management in your job description, your job involves change. Change is a given as modern organizations respond to market and technology advances, make improvements, and evolve practices to meet new challenges. This is not a simple process on any level. Often, there is no indisputable right answer, and responding requires trial and error, learning and unlearning. Whatever you choose to do, it will interact with existing policies and structures in unpredictable ways. And there is, quite simply, a natural human resistance to being told to change. Rather than creating more rigorous preconceived plans or imposing change by decree, agile software developer turned organizational change expert Esther Derby offers change by attraction, an approach that is adaptive and responsive and engages people in learning, evolving, and owning the new way. She presents a set of seven heuristics—guides to problem-solving—that empower people to achieve outcomes within broad constraints using their personal ingenuity and creativity. When you work by attraction, you give space and support for people to feel the loss that comes with change and help them see what is valuable about the future you propose. Resistance fades because people feel there is nothing to push against—only something they want to move toward. Derby's approach clears the fog to provide a new way forward that honors people and creates safety for change.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523085800

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9781523085804

The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals)

The English Tourists 1540-1840

By: Esther Moir

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The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals)

The English Tourists 1540-1840

By: Esther Moir

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain. It focuses, neither on foreign tourists coming to Britain, nor on British tourists travelling abroad, but on British people exploring their native land in the three centuries from 1540 to 1840. During this period, it became a popular pastime amongst gentlemen of leisure to travel for weeks, even months, in discovery of their own country and this book describes both the pleasure taken by tourists of Britain and the hardships they endured. Tracking these journeys over three centuries, the book presents a changing English landscape, a changing economy, and a change in people’s tastes as the interests and concerns of the tourists evolve over the timeframe covered.

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Routledge

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1136767800

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9781136767807

Handmaid of the Holy Spirit

Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie

By: Esther S. Cope

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Handmaid of the Holy Spirit

Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie

By: Esther S. Cope

Prophecy, madness, and the history of war and revolution in 17th-century Britain color this study of the life of Eleanor Davies

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University of Michigan Press

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0472103032

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9780472103034

Korle Meets the Sea

A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

By: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

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Korle Meets the Sea

A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

By: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019506061X

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9780195060614

Life Is a Gift

By: Esther Portalatin

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Life Is a Gift

By: Esther Portalatin

Life is a Gift, is a story about a young girl's faith in the midst of very troubled times. After being involved in a serious accident the struggles of wanting to live become alive, even as her world quickly becomes dark. No one but God can work the miracles that Skye prays for. Will her life change forever? Or will she stand firm believing that God works all things for good to those who love him?

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Certa Publishing

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0990945723

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9780990945727

Return to Africa

A Journal

By: Esther L. Megill

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Return to Africa

A Journal

By: Esther L. Megill

Real Family is a fictional story with many complex issues interlocked throughout the journey. The foundation of the story deals with relationships. It may be father to son, sister to brother, teacher to student, friends to family, friends to acquaintances, lovers to partners and rivals, colleagues to boss It also could be relationships lost, missed, or by chance. Everyone needs someone to rely on for unconditional love and support. People may learn the hard way that those people are our Real Family. Stop and reflect on the relationships in your life and who has been there for you regardless of time. It is a curious thing to see how people relate to one another and the circumstances that if a bit different may have a different outcome. But life does not allow us to change a decision made. We may be able to continually affect the circumstance but it can never be undone. Lessons in life are what define who we are as a person. It is never the soul individual who is responsible for who they are, people that we don't control may affect who we become.

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1434375285

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9781434375285

Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics

By: Esther K. Chung,Lee R. Atkinson-McEvoy,Naline L. Lai,Michelle Terry

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Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics

By: Esther K. Chung,Lee R. Atkinson-McEvoy,Naline L. Lai,Michelle Terry

Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics is organized by presenting symptom - "scalp swelling," "lumps on face" - and present a table of differential diagnoses, with corresponding images placed side by side for comparison. It's an incredibly user friendly, easy-to-read format, and provides physicians a way to approach their patients, rather than presenting them paragraphs of dense clinical information.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469889455

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9781469889450

The Finkel Family Memoirs

By: Murray I. Finkel,A. Allan Finkel,Finkel A Dotty Finkel and Esther Kasden

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The Finkel Family Memoirs

By: Murray I. Finkel,A. Allan Finkel,Finkel A Dotty Finkel and Esther Kasden

Both Max and Bessie arrived in the United States in 1905, after having fled the tyrannies, anti-Semitism, persecutions, poverty, and hunger of Eastern Europe. Grandpa was twenty years old at the time. He took up the trade of carpentry, as his father before him. Grandma was fifteen years old and had seen the horrors of a pogrom which had killed her mother. She was unhappy with her stepmother and lonely for her older sister, who was already in the United States. Grandpa and Grandma settled in the Lower East Side of New York, met each other, and married in 1910. They had simply moved from one shtetel to another. Yiddish was the primary language spoken at home by the entire family. By the time Murray was born in 1922, Belle was twelve, Esther was nine, and I was five years old. We had been exposed to English, which became our second language." -A. Allan Finkel Four generations after Max and Bessie's arrival in America, we Finkels have multiplied and thrived in our new home. From the Old World to Ellis Island, from the Lower East Side to Brooklyn, from Long Island and South Fallsburg, these memoirs tell our story.

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iUniverse

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1450213928

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9781450213929

Threads and Flames

By: Esther Friesner

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Threads and Flames

By: Esther Friesner

It's 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. It's overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sewing bodices on the popular shirtwaists. Raisa makes friends and even-dare she admit it?- falls in love. But then 1911 dawns, and one March day a spark ignites in the factory. One of the city's most harrowing tragedies unfolds, and Raisa's life is forever changed. . . . One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, this moving young adult novel gives life to the tragedy and hope of this transformative event in American history.

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Penguin

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1101445386

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9781101445389

Making Sense of Leadership

Exploring the Five Key Roles Used by Effective Leaders

By: Esther Cameron,Mike Green

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Making Sense of Leadership

Exploring the Five Key Roles Used by Effective Leaders

By: Esther Cameron,Mike Green

Making Sense of Leadership identifies the five key roles used by effective leaders. A practical, accessible and solution-focused book, it helps entrepreneurs, managers and leaders develop their leadership skills. The authors examine successful leaders to determine the type of leadership roles which succeed. This allows them to present five distinct roles of leadership, which are used to promote positive change and innovation. The authors encourage the reader to play with these, recognizing and taking on those elements which most appropriately suit their situation. Discovering these roles offers an important guide to the new leader, in order for them to shape their own leadership approach. It also provides interesting challenges to the existing leader who wants to refresh their stance in order to tackle a new situation. The book is supported by exercises for both individuals and groups, so that the text can also be used as a learning and development resource and for team facilitation and one-to-one coaching.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749455586

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9780749455583

Piloting the Panama Canal

By: Charles P. Gaines,Esther E. Miles

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Piloting the Panama Canal

By: Charles P. Gaines,Esther E. Miles

Through the eyes of the author who spent many exciting years as a pilot responsible for guiding American and foreign vessels through the treacherous waters of the Panama Canal, the reader sees life as it truly was along the most famous canal in the world. Along the way, the reader will meet the famous, as well as the more notorious people who moved through this intriguing land, such as Noreiga. The reader will be introduced to the Americans living and working the waterway, referred to as “Zonians.” The job of the pilot was to guide ships through the Panama Canal. It was a challenging, but essential job that called for great expertise. With the job came respect and close working relationships with captains of ships from around the world. A good paying, but dangerous duty on board ship meant for a fast life in the Canal community. In this book, the author shares with the reader the intimate details of the life he lived while plying his trade in one of the most exotic spots to be found on this Earth.

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iUniverse

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0595181074

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9780595181070

Bearing the Dead

The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria

By: Esther Schor

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Bearing the Dead

The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria

By: Esther Schor

Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history.

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Princeton University Press

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1400821487

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9781400821488

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley

By: Esther K. Sheldon

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Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley

By: Esther K. Sheldon

This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information about Sheridan’s relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater historians. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400876222

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9781400876228

Street Scenes

Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880-1924

By: Esther Romeyn

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Street Scenes

Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880-1924

By: Esther Romeyn

Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816645213

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Y/N

A Novel

By: Esther Yi

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A Novel

By: Esther Yi

My definition of an unputdownable book . . . witty, astute, and self-aware." —Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed “Wondrous and weird.” —New York Times "Gorgeous." —New Yorker "High Brow x Brilliant." —NY Mag (Approval Matrix) "Piercing, feverish, and frequently astonishing." —Entertainment Weekly "Utterly brilliant." —Cosmopolitan "A true novel of the era." —Elle "Freakish and hallucinatory." —Vulture "Absurdly funny." —Ms. Magazine "Haunting." —Esquire "Riveting and innovative." —TIME "Sophisticated." —Chicago Review of Books "Strange, haunting, and undeniably beautiful." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "One of the most daring novels of the year." —Bookpage (Starred Review) "Witty, self-knowing and, extraordinarily, far beyond categorization." —The Times UK Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction. It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic—in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star. Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our narrator, too, journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. An escalating series of mistranslations and misidentifications lands her at the headquarters of the Kafkaesque entertainment company that manages the boyband until, at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art and real life approach their final convergence. From a conspicuous new talent comes Y/N, a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Crackling with the intellectual sensitivity of Elif Batuman and the sinewy absurdism of Thomas Pynchon, Esther Yi’s prose unsettles the boundary between high and mass art, exploding our expectations of a novel about “identity” and offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life.

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Astra Publishing House

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1662601549

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Paul Revere and the World He Lived in

By: Esther Forbes

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Paul Revere and the World He Lived in

By: Esther Forbes

Recounts the life and times of Paul Revere of Massachusetts.

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0618001948

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9780618001941

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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

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The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals)

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Handmaid of the Holy Spirit

Handmaid of the Holy Spirit

Korle Meets the Sea

Korle Meets the Sea

Life Is a Gift

Life Is a Gift

Return to Africa

Return to Africa

Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics

Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics

The Finkel Family Memoirs

The Finkel Family Memoirs

Threads and Flames

Threads and Flames

Making Sense of Leadership

Making Sense of Leadership

Piloting the Panama Canal

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