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Change the Game

The leader's route map to a winning, gender-balanced business

By: Julia Muir

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Change the Game

The leader's route map to a winning, gender-balanced business

By: Julia Muir

Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive for the benefit of the economy and society. But how? And what does that mean for YOUR business? This pioneering book is a route map to help leaders get started and navigate the way to leading a high-performing gender-balanced business. It features: An easy-to-follow 6-step guide with practical advice and solutions Case studies to illustrate how businesses like yours have implemented winning ideas A compelling 5-minute pitch to inspire your team to take action Fixing the gender gap is a key indicator of an effective leader in the 21st century, and gender balance is essential to enable transformational business growth. Julia Muir is the award-winning Founder of the Automotive 30% Club and CEO of Gaia Innovation Ltd.

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228

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Practical Inspiration Publishing

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ISBN 10

178860217X

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9781788602174

They Came to Wisconsin

By: Julia Pferdehirt

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They Came to Wisconsin

By: Julia Pferdehirt

They Came to Wisconsin presents three themes of the state's immigrant history: leaving the homeland, making the journey, and enduring the first year of settlement. Journal and diary entries and letters from European groups and oral histories from African American, Latino, Hmong, and Amish sources make this book dynamic and wholly inclusive. They Came to Wisconsin breaks fresh ground in presenting document-centered Wisconsin history to a young audience. More important, these firsthand stories add a real human dimension to history, helping students to compare the experiences of the varied groups who came to Wisconsin in the last two hundred years.

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138

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870203282

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9780870203282

Reconfiguring Modernity

Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology

By: Julia Adeney Thomas

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Reconfiguring Modernity

Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology

By: Julia Adeney Thomas

Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle, to a celebration of Japan as a nation uniquely in harmony with nature. The so-called traditional "Japanese love of nature" masks modern state power. Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it.

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257

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Univ of California Press

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0520926846

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9780520926844

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions

The Curious World of the Demoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machi nes - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to ElectricCarpets and SmokingC

By: Julia Suits

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The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions

The Curious World of the Demoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machi nes - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to ElectricCarpets and SmokingC

By: Julia Suits

This stuff is more than just fancy pranks. It's Americana. Never has nonsense been taken so seriously...This book is a fascinating, appetite- whetting glimpse for the, if you'll pardon the expression, uninitiated." -David Copperfield, from the foreword At the beginning of the twentieth century, 40 percent of American men belonged to a lodge, and they were hazing their newbies with cigar- smoking camels, spankers, and even fake guillotines. Nearly all their prank devices came from the same place: catalogs published by the DeMoulin Brothers Company from 1896 to 1930. Julia Suits discovered one of these all-but-forgotten catalogs at a flea market. Its pages were full of bizarre hazing props: old-fashioned telephones that squirted water, bucking goats attached to tricycles, Victorian- looking furniture that sent electric shocks. These prank machines are the relics of mischief and daredevilry, produced for the country's original fraternity- hazing culture, and created by America's original high-tech geeks of the electric age. The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions offers a peek into twentieth-century American culture that most people have never seen. At its core are hundreds of the most inventive DeMoulin prank machines, complete with their original, quirky descriptions and eccentric line art. Alongside the catalog pages are newspaper clippings, lodge trivia, quotes, and stories that show the true side of America's original hazing culture.

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362

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Penguin

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1101545763

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9781101545768

Legacy of Luna

The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

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Legacy of Luna

The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought would be a two- to three-week-long "tree-sit." The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been stripped and, because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping out many homes. Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story--written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground--is one that only she can tell. Twenty-five-year-old Julia Butterfly Hill never planned to become what some have called her--the Rosa Parks of the environmental movement. Shenever expected to be honored as one of Good Housekeeping's "Most Admired Women of 1998" and George magazine's "20 Most Interesting Women in Politics," to be featured in People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of the Year" issue, or to receive hundreds of letters weekly from young people around the world. Indeed, when she first climbed into Luna, she had no way of knowing the harrowing weather conditions and the attacks on her and her cause. She had no idea of the loneliness she would face or that her feet wouldn't touch ground for more than two years. She couldn't predict the pain of being an eyewitness to the attempted destruction of one of the last ancient redwood forests in the world, nor could she anticipate the immeasurable strength she would gain or the life lessons she would learn from Luna. Although her brave vigil and indomitable spirit have made her a heroine in the eyes of many, Julia's story is a simple, heartening tale of love, conviction, and the profound courage she has summoned to fight for our earth's legacy.

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290

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Harper Collins

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0062028561

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9780062028563

My Irish Enchantress

By: Julia Hanlon

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My Irish Enchantress

By: Julia Hanlon

Sweeping from the lush green hills of medieval Ireland to the majestic mountains of 19th century Montana, this stunning time-travel novel is an extraordinary tale of magic, destiny . . . and two lovers determined to save their countries.

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324

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Zebra Books

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0821762834

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9780821762837

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Change the Game

Change the Game

They Came to Wisconsin

They Came to Wisconsin

Reconfiguring Modernity

Reconfiguring Modernity

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions

Legacy of Luna

Legacy of Luna

My Irish Enchantress

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