A small-town girl, unjustly fired from her first job at a community bank, slowly overcomes great personal and professional challenges to become the founder and owner of what became the biggest sale of a private company in the history of Kentucky. Based on a true story, Dana Smolenski Bowers rises from the ranks of the unemployed to take on the old boys' club of bankers and businessmen, and create iPay - the largest independent bill pay provider in the United States. Call Me Bill is a work of fiction that is based on a true story, with a word count of 146,800. Readers of this book also would read titles such as "The Maid," "The Blindside," "Push," and "Educated."In "Call Me Bill," Dana Smolenski's initial job at the First Citizens Bank in Radcliff, Kentucky puts her in charge of a new initiative to set up allotments to pay monthly car and insurance payments for deploying soldiers at Ft Knox Army Post. Some accounting errors, caused by problems converting the bank's paper ledgers into a new computerized accounting system, is just the ammunition her new, misogynistic boss needed to fire her - while she was on maternity leave - so he wouldn't have to pay the large incentive bonus she was due. After six months of unemployment, three local businessmen who are aware of the financial success of her allotment initiative at First Citizens Bank, offer to set up Dana to work for them, incorporating allotments into their businesses. After nine years of growing this business into a great success for them, while receiving little financial benefit herself, Dana realizes she needs to overcome her lack of self-confidence and her naivety, and take ownership of the business in order to finally achieve the personal and professional success she knows should be hers. But the certain battle necessary to do so is nearly overpowering. This book follows the adversities, the failures, the serendipity, the people who helped her along the way, and ultimately the hard-won phenomenal success of the company.
Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This book will be the first work devoted exclusively to providing brief biographies of the forty-three wives o...
Chipping Norton today is a thriving Oxfordshire market town of some 6,500 people at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds. Its handsome Georgian houses and iconic tweed mill are well known, but the town's history goes back much further, and by looking closely at its buildings and streets we can find survivals from earlier times all the way back to its medieval origins. This beautifully illustrated book – the result of a two-year project by the Chipping Norton Buildings Record – is divided into two parts. The first traces the development and changing fortunes of the town from its beginnings to about 1750, using new evidence from documents and buildings for an overview of Chipping Norton and its people in the past. The second part looks at each of the central medieval streets in turn and takes the reader on a walk to explore both what remains of its early fabric and what was once there.
Simulation can be a valuable tool in academic or clinical settings, but technology changes quickly, and faculty, students, and clinicians need to know how to respond. Understanding simulation scenarios and environments is essential when designing and implementing effective programs for interdisciplinary learners. In this fully revised second edition of Mastering Simulation, nationally known experts Janice Palaganas, Beth Ulrich, and Beth Mancini guide students and practitioners in developing clinical competencies and provide a solid foundation for improving patient outcomes. Coverage includes: · Creating simulation scenarios and improving learner performance · Designing program evaluations and managing risk and quality improvement · Developing interprofessional programs and designing research using simulation
Animal Behavior, Third Edition covers animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The book's authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors, much of that teaching animal behavior. Chapters cover this social behavior and the relationship between parasites, pathogens and behavior. Thoughtful coverage has also been given to foraging behavior, mating and parenting behavior, anti-predator behavior, and learning. The book addresses the physiological foundations of behavior in a way that is both accessible and inviting, with each chapter beginning with learning objectives and ending with thought-provoking questions. Additionally, special terms and definitions are highlighted throughout, making this book an essential work for students and academic seeking a foundation in the field. Provides a rich resource on animal science and behavior for students and professors from a wide range of life science disciplines Features updated and revised chapters, with new case studies and high-definition illustrations Highlights new focuses on animal welfare issues and companion animal behavior
Combining real examples with a roadmap of how to construct studies, analyze results, and share work, this book serves as a primary research methodology text for the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume seeks to explore key aspects of SoTL that are often missing in past frameworks: research-based ontologies, epistemologies, and ethical axiologies. Chapters map out the expansive continuum of SoTL by detailing its history and key work while incorporating Indigenous perspectives on pedagogy and research methodologies. The text also features methods of qualitative and quantitative data generation essential for SoTL such as conducting interviews and focus groups, procuring data through questionnaires and artifact observation, and sharing results for dissemination in traditional and public scholarship. A comprehensive guide for conducting SoTL research, this book illustrates a broad array of contexts and a spectrum of research methodologies to expand, enrich, and support both novice and experienced SoTL practitioners and researchers in answering the contexts and questions at the heart of teaching and learning.
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