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Best Practices in Talent Management

How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

By: Marshall Goldsmith,Louis Carter,The Best Practice Institute

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Best Practices in Talent Management

How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

By: Marshall Goldsmith,Louis Carter,The Best Practice Institute

Praise for BEST PRACTICES in TALENT MANAGEMENT "This book includes the most up-to-date thinking, tools, models, instruments and case studies necessary to identify, lead, and manage talent within your organization and with a focus on results. It provides it all from thought leadership to real-world practice." PATRICK CARMICHAEL HEAD OF TALENT MANAGEMENT, REFINING, MARKETING, AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS, SAUDI ARAMCO "This is a superb compendium of stories that give the reader a peek behind the curtains of top notch organizations who have wrestled with current issues of talent management. Their lessons learned are vital for leaders and practitioners who want a very valuable heads up." BEVERLY KAYE FOUNDER/CEO: CAREER SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AND CO-AUTHOR, LOVE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM "This is a must read for organization leaders and HR practitioners who cope with the today's most critical business challenge talent management. This book provides a vast amount of thought provoking ideals, tools, and models, for building and implementing talent management strategies. I highly recommend it!" DALE HALM ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MANAGER, ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE "If you are responsible for planning and implementing an effective talent and succession management strategy in your organization, this book provides the case study examples you are looking for." DORIS SIMS AUTHOR, BUILDING TOMORROW'S TALENT "A must read for all managers who wish to implement a best practice talent management program within their organization" FARIBORZ GHADAR WILLIAM A. SCHREYER PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, POLICIES AND PLANNING SENIOR ADVISOR AND DISTINGUISHED SENIOR SCHOLAR CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FOUNDING DIRECTOR CENTER FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS STUDIES

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470555238

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9780470555231

Charles H. Thompson

Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Louis Ray

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Charles H. Thompson

Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Louis Ray

During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson’s Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially segregated public education was inherently discriminatory, hence, unconstitutional. Between 1932 and 1954, Thompson’s editorials provided a nuanced, insider’s account of one of the most successful policy research ventures in American history: the movement to overturn racial segregation as public policy, chronicling the rise during the Depression, World War II and the postwar period of a policy community committed to expanding human rights nationally and internationally. A brilliant essayist, Thompson sought to close the gap between America’s democratic precepts and its undemocratic practices by molding public opinion favorable to a significant expansion of civil rights among scholars, policymakers and the public. An expert witness in several landmark higher education cases argued before the U. S. Supreme Court including Sipuel (1948), Sweatt (1950) and McLaurin (1950), Thompson’s editorials provided an informed, eyewitness account of African-American teachers’ pivotal role in the NAACP litigation campaign culminating in the landmark Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka et al (1954) desegregation ruling. As the first, full-length study of Charles H. Thompson’s contributions to American education and the civil rights movement, Derrick P. Aldridge has described this study as a “widely anticipated,” and a valuable addition to the literature.

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Fairleigh Dickinson

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1611475228

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9781611475227

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr

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The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr

Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise. From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his current writings on the history and science of African American genealogy, the essays collected here follow his path as historian, theorist, canon-builder, and cultural critic, revealing a thinker of uncommon breadth whose work is uniformly guided by the drive to uncover and restore a history that has for too long been buried and denied. An invaluable reference, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader will be a singular reflection of one of our most gifted minds.

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Civitas Books

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0465029248

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9780465029242

Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia

A Long-Term Demographic Perspective

By: Peter John Smailes,Trevor Louis Charles Griffin,Neil Michael Argent

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Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia

A Long-Term Demographic Perspective

By: Peter John Smailes,Trevor Louis Charles Griffin,Neil Michael Argent

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia’s heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions. It presents a longitudinal study, over the period 1947-2011, of the extensive functional regions centred on six rapidly growing non-metropolitan cities in south-eastern Australia, emphasising rapid change since 1981. The selected cities are dominantly service centres in either inland or remote coastal agricultural settings. The book shows how intensified age-specific migration and structural ageing arising from macro-economic reforms in the 1980s fundamentally changed the economic and demographic landscapes of the case study regions. It traces the demographic consequences of the change from a relative balance between central city, minor urban centres and dispersed rural population within each functional region in 1947, to one of extreme central city dominance by 2011, and examines the long-term implications of these changes for regional policy. The book constitutes the first in-depth longitudinal study over the entire post-WWII period of a varied group of Australian regional cities and their hinterlands, defined in terms of functional regions. It employs a novel set of indices which combine numerical and visual expression to measure the structural ageing process.

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Springer

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9811311110

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9789811311116

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray -- all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. They are people, Gates writes, "who have shaped the world as much as they were shaped by it, who gave as good as they got." Three are writers -- James Baldwin, who was once regarded as the intellectual spokesman for the black community; Anatole Broyard, who chose to hide his black heritage so as to be seen as a writer on his own terms; and Albert Murray, who rose to the pinnacle of literary criticism. There is the general-turned-political-figure Colin Powell, who discusses his interactions with three United States presidents; there is Harry Belafonte, the entertainer whose career has been distinct from his fervent activism; there is Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer, whose fierce courage and creativity have continued in the shadow of AIDS; and there is Louis Farrakhan, the controversial religious leader. These men and others speak of their lives with candor and intimacy, and what emerges from this portfolio of influential men is a strikingly varied and profound set of ideas about what it means to be a black man in America today.

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Vintage

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0307765652

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9780307765659

Dopey Bastid

(a sequel to “8” Center Field in New York, 1951-1957)

By: Louis Saulino

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Dopey Bastid

(a sequel to “8” Center Field in New York, 1951-1957)

By: Louis Saulino

DOPEY BASTID is the sequel to “8” Center Field in New York, 1951 – 1957, the historical fiction account of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider, as told by three thirteen year old friends in 1957. The ‘best buds’ discuss their baseball idols as they complete a book report in their 8th grade class. Well, the three friends are now at it again twenty years later. One of the three has become a noted sportswriter for the NY Daily News and decides to compose a sports novel. His two amigos offer their help as the recollections of dumb decisions made by players, managers, owners and sportswriters are brought to light. The true accounts of such blunders, predominantly in baseball, football, basketball and boxing will have you scratching your head, as you laugh out loud, perhaps shed a tear, and reflect about the meaning of friendship. Oh yeah, I guarantee that you call at least one individual described herein a “dopey b-------”!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479724122

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9781479724123

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.

By: Louis J. Palmer, Jr.

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Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.

By: Louis J. Palmer, Jr.

This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases decided since publication of the first edition. Entries are also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has ever rendered a capital punishment opinion. Entries on jurisdictions cite present-day death penalty laws and judicial structure state by state, with synopses of common and unique features. Also included are entries on significant U.S. capital prosecutions; legal principles and procedures in capital cases; organizations that support and oppose capital punishment; capital punishment's impact on persons of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent, on women, and on foreign nationals; and the methods of execution. Essential facts are also provided on capital punishment in more than 200 other nations. A wealth of statistical data is found throughout.

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McFarland

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0786451831

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9780786451838

A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger

By: Louis Eisenstein,Elliot Rosenberg

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A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger

By: Louis Eisenstein,Elliot Rosenberg

This book is a highly personal glimpse into the world of precinct, district, and county politics. It deals with several stripes of the Tammany Tiger and brings into close focus some of the most forceful background figures in New York City's political framework. Primarily, it is a forty-year panorama of Tammany practices and personalities."-from A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger In this fascinating book, first published in 1966, Louis Eisenstein, a Tammany precinct captain from Manhattan's Lower East Side, sets out with his coauthor Elliot Rosenberg to chronicle the evolution-or rather devolution-of New York City politics through the first seven decades of the twentieth century. Eisenstein imbues his lively narrative with an overarching theme: that personal interactions and good faith between those at all levels of power are of paramount importance both for sustained political success and for competent municipal administration.

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Cornell University Press

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0801468361

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9780801468360

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3

1889-95. Assistant Editors, Stuart B. Kaufman and Raymond W. Smock

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R. Harlan,Raymond W Smock

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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3

1889-95. Assistant Editors, Stuart B. Kaufman and Raymond W. Smock

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R. Harlan,Raymond W Smock

Washington's gradual rise to prominence as an educator, race leader, and shrewd political broker is revealed in this volume, which covers his career from May 1889 to September 1895, when he delivered the famous speech often called the Atlanta Compromise address. Much of the volume relates to Washington's role as principal of Tuskegee Institute, where he built a powerful base of operations for his growing influence with white philanthropists in the North, southern white leaders, and the black community.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252004108

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9780252004100

O'Neill

Son and Playwright

By: Louis Scheaffer

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O'Neill

Son and Playwright

By: Louis Scheaffer

The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1461741211

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9781461741213

The Dons of Necropolis

By: Richard Louis

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The Dons of Necropolis

By: Richard Louis

Ricky needs to unearth why his father committed suicide on Christmas Eve twenty years ago. He returns to New York as a Funeral Director to investigate rumors that his father's suicide was murder.

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Infinity Publishing

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0741432250

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9780741432254

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13

1914-15. Assistant Editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. Harlan

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R Harlan

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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13

1914-15. Assistant Editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. Harlan

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R Harlan

The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252011252

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9780252011252

Free Jazz/Black Power

By: Philippe Carles,Jean-Louis Comolli

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Free Jazz/Black Power

By: Philippe Carles,Jean-Louis Comolli

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound’s ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of Black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown. The authors reached radical conclusions—free jazz was a revolutionary reaction against white domination, was the musical counterpart to the Black Power movement, and was a musical style that demanded a similar political commitment. The impact of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African American music. In some cases, it changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. Free Jazz/Black Power remains indispensable to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and realigned that zeitgeist.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1626743398

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9781626743397

The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine

By: Peregrine Acland,Pauline Johnson,Roger Lemelin,Hugh Garner,Patrick Slater,Louis Hemon,Wyndham Lewis

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The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine

By: Peregrine Acland,Pauline Johnson,Roger Lemelin,Hugh Garner,Patrick Slater,Louis Hemon,Wyndham Lewis

Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is Folly, a classic tale of Irish immigration (The Yellow Briar), and great novels from the renowned Hugh Garner (The Storm Below) and Wyndham Lewis (Self Condemned). Any reader with an interest not only in Canadian literature, but in great fiction in general, will find this collection of great works an essential addition to their collection. Includes All Else Is Folly Pauline Johnson The Town Below Self Condemned Storm Below The Yellow Briar Maria Chapdelaine

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Dundurn

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1459729064

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9781459729063

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Best Practices in Talent Management

Best Practices in Talent Management

Charles H. Thompson

Charles H. Thompson

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia

Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Dopey Bastid

Dopey Bastid

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.

A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger

A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3

O'Neill

O'Neill

The Dons of Necropolis

The Dons of Necropolis

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13

Free Jazz/Black Power

Free Jazz/Black Power

The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

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