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The Hidden Leader

Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

By: Scott Edinger,James M. KOUZES,Laurie Sain

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The Hidden Leader

Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

By: Scott Edinger,James M. KOUZES,Laurie Sain

This book helps managers recognize hidden gems in the workplace and learn how to utilize them for their greatest impact. Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don’t assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable customer loyalty. These are more than “good employees”, these are “hidden leaders” and they are critical to an organization’s long-term success. Managers today need to make the most of all their resources—and The Hidden Leader shows them how to identify and cultivate these talented but under utilized employees, who: Demonstrate integrity Lead through authentic relationships Focus on results Work from clear customer purpose Fulfill the value promise of the company Don’t settle for the traditional feedback that tells you these are “good employees” who deserve a pat on the back and a 3 percent increase at the end of the year. These hidden leaders will soon be pulled out by another organization giving them the opportunity they deserve. Supported by real-world examples of hidden leaders in action--and QR codes readers can scan for instant access to online assessments--The Hidden Leader helps managers discover these secret saviors and enable them to deliver even greater value to customers.

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AMACOM

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0814434002

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Fire Logic

By: Laurie J. Marks

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Fire Logic

By: Laurie J. Marks

Marks is an absolute master of fantasy in this book." --Booklist (starred review) Earth * Air * Water * Fire These elements have sustained the peaceful people of Shaftal for generations, with their subtle powers of healing, truth, joy, and intuition. But now, Shaftal is dying. The earth witch who ruled Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. Shaftal's ruling house has been scattered by the invading Sainnites. The Shaftali have mobilized a guerrilla army against these marauders, but every year the cost of resistance grows, leaving Shaftal's fate in the hands of three people: Emil, scholar and reluctant warrior; Zanja, the sole survivor of a slaughtered tribe; and Karis the metalsmith, a half-blood giant whose earth powers can heal, but only when she can muster the strength to hold off her addiction to a deadly drug. Separately, all they can do is watch as Shaftal falls from prosperity into lawlessness and famine. But if they can find a way to work together, they just may change the course of history. "A work that is filled with an intelligence that zings off the page."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Macmillan

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081256653X

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9780812566536

Earth Logic

Elemental Logic:

By: Laurie J. Marks

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Earth Logic

Elemental Logic:

By: Laurie J. Marks

A sweeping drama of war, intrigue, magic, and love With Earth Logic, Laurie J. Marks continues the epic of her stunningly imagined world of Shaftal, which she first introduced in Fire Logic. Shaftal has a ruler again, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites from Shaftal. Or it would have a ruler if the earth witch Karis G'deon consented to rule. Instead, she lives in obscurity with the fractious family of elemental talents who gathered around her in Fire Logic. She is waiting for some sign, but no one, least of all Karis herself, knows what it is. Then the Sainnite garrison at Watford is attacked by a troop of zealots claiming to speak for the Lost G'deon, and a mysterious and deadly plague attacks the land, killing both Sainnites and Shaftali. Karis must act or watch her beloved country fall into famine and chaos. And when Karis acts, the very stones of the earth sit up and take notice.

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Macmillan

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0765348381

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9780765348388

Water Logic

By: Laurie J. Marks

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Water Logic

By: Laurie J. Marks

By water logic, a cow doctor becomes a politician. A soldier becomes a flower farmer. A lost book contains a lost future. The patterns of history are made and unmade. Amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government forms in the land of Shaftal--a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. Zanja na'Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has fallen under the ice. Now, by water logic, the logic of patterns repeated, of laughter and music, the lost must be found--or the found may forever be lost. Laurie J. Marks teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of five previous novels, and her first two Elemental Logic novels (Fire Logic and Earth Logic) won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and received multiple starred reviews. She is a recipient of the Fairy Godmother Award (James D. Tiptree, Jr. Award) and a founding member of Broad Universe.

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355

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Small Beer Press

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1931520232

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9781931520232

2020 Vision

By: Laurie Pegrum

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2020 Vision

By: Laurie Pegrum

2020 Vision chronicles a tale of futuristic science blended with crime and drama. After making a significant discovery, Priya has doubts about how she will be treated by her employer. From within a male-dominated industry, she elects to try and make a name for herself. Little does she realise that her road to fame and fortune will be perilous. There are those who would kill to gain the information she now possesses.

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Lulu.com

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1365573451

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9781365573453

Asia

A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues

By: Kevin Hillstrom,Laurie Collier Hillstrom

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Asia

A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues

By: Kevin Hillstrom,Laurie Collier Hillstrom

A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the world's largest and most populous continent—Asia. Asia tackles the tough issues, the complex problems, and the political controversies surrounding the environment of this vast landmass. This volume encompasses everything from economics, land use, energy and transportation, to air pollution, rivers and lakes, oceans, and species and habitat protection. In Malaysia, unchecked discharges of industrial waste and human sewage led the government to label 42 of its rivers officially "dead." According to some estimates, Southeast Asia alone accounts for more than half of the world's total transport of sediment to the oceans. In the Philippines, the Chico River dam project, which would have subjected 100,000 tribespeople to relocation, was canceled when the World Bank withdrew funding after fierce resistance from the indigenous people. This fascinating book offers a comprehensive look at how the most populated continent on earth contends with its complicated environment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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157607689X

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9781576076897

Who Owns Religion?

Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Laurie L. Patton

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Who Owns Religion?

Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Laurie L. Patton

Who Owns Religion? focuses on a period—the late 1980s through the 1990s—when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies involving scholarly claims about religion are nothing new, this period saw an increase in vitriol that remains with us today. Authors of seemingly arcane studies on subjects like the origins of the idea of Mother Earth or the sexual dynamics of mysticism have been targets of hate mail and book-banning campaigns. As a result, scholars of religion have struggled to describe their own work to their various publics, and even to themselves. Taking the reader through several compelling case studies, Patton identifies two trends of the ’80s and ’90s that fueled that rise: the growth of multicultural identity politics, which enabled a form of volatile public debate she terms “eruptive public space,” and the advent of the internet, which offered new ways for religious groups to read scholarship and respond publicly. These controversies, she shows, were also fundamentally about something new: the very rights of secular, Western scholarship to interpret religions at all. Patton’s book holds out hope that scholars can find a space for their work between the university and the communities they study. Scholars of religion, she argues, have multiple masters and must move between them while writing histories and speaking about realities that not everyone may be interested in hearing.

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University of Chicago Press

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022667603X

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9780226676036

Dream States

Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France

By: Jennifer Laurie Shaw

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Dream States

Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France

By: Jennifer Laurie Shaw

This illustrated book is the first full-length examination of Puvis's murals and their critical reception during the artist's lifetime. Jennifer L. Shaw explains that Puvis's paintings were imagined to embody a vision of France. Although his regional images, allegories of the French heritage, and evocations of the nation as an embracing motherland were all part of a grand tradition of public art, Puvis's painting style was more closely alligned with the avant-garde. Rather than providing a specific narrative or allegory of France, Puvis's murals provoked viewers to experience their own fantasies of Frenchness; rather than using the close brushwork favored by most of his contemporaries, Puvis used large, flat areas of color to render his subjects. Shaw persuasively argues that Puvis was the only painter of the period to unite the traditions of public art and modernist form. Her original analysis of Puvis's art underlines his importance to the history of modernism; her examination of the public response to his art illuminates debates about art, subjectivity, and national identity in fin-de-siecle France."--BOOK JACKET.

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268

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Yale University Press

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0300083823

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9780300083828

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

By: Laurie Finke

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Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

By: Laurie Finke

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Cornell University Press

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1501726250

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9781501726255

Watching English Change

An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the 20th Century

By: Laurie Bauer

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Watching English Change

An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the 20th Century

By: Laurie Bauer

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred.

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Routledge

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1317894049

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The Irish Classical Self

Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Laurie O'Higgins

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The Irish Classical Self

Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Laurie O'Higgins

The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages and learning in the construction of cultural identities in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. Focusing in particular on the "lower ranks" of society, it explores this unusual phenomenon through analysis of contemporary writings and records of classical hedge schools.

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Oxford University Press

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0198767102

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9780198767107

The Hidden Leader

Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

By: Scott Edinger,James M. KOUZES,Laurie Sain

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The Hidden Leader

Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

By: Scott Edinger,James M. KOUZES,Laurie Sain

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The Hidden Leader

The Hidden Leader

Fire Logic

Fire Logic

Earth Logic

Earth Logic

Water Logic

Water Logic

2020 Vision

2020 Vision

Asia

Asia

Who Owns Religion?

Who Owns Religion?

Dream States

Dream States

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Watching English Change

Watching English Change

The Irish Classical Self

The Irish Classical Self

The Hidden Leader

The Hidden Leader

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