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Environment and Experience

Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon

By: Peter Boag

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Environment and Experience

Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon

By: Peter Boag

The pioneer battling with a hostile environment—whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters—is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing that settlers viewed their new surroundings positively and attempted to create communities in harmony with the landscape. Using Oregon's Calapooia Valley as a case study, Boag presents a history of both land and people that shows the process of change as settlers populated the land and turned it to their own uses. By combining local sources, ranging from letters and diaries to early maps and local histories, and drawing upon the methods of geography, natural history, and literary analysis, Boag has created a richly detailed grass-roots portrait of a frontier community. Most significantly, he analyzes the connections among environmental, cultural, and social changes in ways that illuminate the frontier experience throughout the American west. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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Univ of California Press

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0520311140

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9780520311145

The New World of Work

Shaping a Future that Helps People, Organizations and Our Societies to Thrive

By: Peter Cheese

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The New World of Work

Shaping a Future that Helps People, Organizations and Our Societies to Thrive

By: Peter Cheese

Work has changed forever. How can HR and leaders adapt? How can they deal with the wellbeing and productivity crisis, address the skills gap and build better organizations? This book has the answer. Written by a leading voice in the people profession, The New World of Work takes an evidence-based approach to provide practical advice on how the business and employees can succeed. It covers how to combat stalling productivity, poor wellbeing and the increase in mental health issues in the workplace as well as the need for agile learning, ways to close the skills gap and a refreshingly realistic look at the impact of technology. There is also essential discussion of job design, flexible working, diversity and inclusion (D&I) and how to engage both an ageing workforce and new Gen Z recruits. This book also includes guidance on how to build a business which is responsible, trustworthy and transparent, is based on the principles of 'good work' and is one that employees are proud to work for. With global examples and case studies from private and public sector organizations, The New World of Work is the book that HR and business professionals need to seize the opportunity and allow both the business and its people to succeed.

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401

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1398602108

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9781398602106

Business Communication

By: Peter Hartley,Clive Bruckmann

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Business Communication

By: Peter Hartley,Clive Bruckmann

This is a wide-ranging, up-to-date introduction to modern business communication, which integrates communication theory and practice and challenges many orthodox views of the communication process. As well as developing their own practical skills, readers will be able to understand and apply principles of modern business communication. Among the subjects covered are: interpersonal communication, including the use and analysis of nonverbal communication group communication, including practical techniques to support discussion and meetings written presentation, including the full range of paper and electronic documents oral presentation, including the use of electronic media corporate communication, including strategies and media. The book also offers guidelines on how communication must respond to important organizational issues, including the impact of information technology, changes in organizational structures and cultures, and the diverse, multicultural composition of modern organizations. This is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates studying business communication, and through its direct style and practical relevance it will also satisfy professional readers wishing to develop their understanding and skills.

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Routledge

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1134645716

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9781134645718

Help! For Writers

210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

By: Roy Peter Clark

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Help! For Writers

210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

By: Roy Peter Clark

The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head. In Help! For Writers, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. Help! For Writers offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316192759

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9780316192750

Leading With Intention

How School Leaders Can Unlock Deeper Collaboration and Drive Results

By: Peter M. DeWitt,Michael Nelson

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Leading With Intention

How School Leaders Can Unlock Deeper Collaboration and Drive Results

By: Peter M. DeWitt,Michael Nelson

Deepen your connections with students, staff, and your larger community. Behind every thriving school or district are deeply interconnected teams that consistently engage in a reciprocal transfer of learning. Leading With Intention aims to make this process visible by helping leaders and teachers understand how their thinking impacts their decision-making and the overall well-being of their learning communities. Through five highly practical chapters, authors DeWitt and Nelson explore self-awareness, nurturing human interconnectedness, collective inquiry, establishing a learning network, and crafting a personal learning environment. Filled with research, stories, and places to process information, this timely book is focused on how educators think, the choices they make, and how they develop deeper academic and social-emotional connections. Other features include: Success criteria to help readers identify personal goals Suggested activities to apply knowledge Reflection sheets with guiding questions In-depth examples to illustrate content School-leaders will come away with a deeper understanding of the importance of self-awareness in leadership and the pedagogical knowledge required to focus initiatives on student learning. Leading with Intention helps education leaders go from being merely ‘on task’ to deeply engaged and reconnected with why they entered the education profession in the first place.

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Corwin Press

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1071947877

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9781071947876

Writing Tools

55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

By: Roy Peter Clark

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Writing Tools

55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

By: Roy Peter Clark

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316028401

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9780316028400

Flying Blind

The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

By: Peter Robison

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Flying Blind

The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

By: Peter Robison

NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BEST SELLER • A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. An "authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies" (New York Times Book Review), from the award-winning reporter for Bloomberg. Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. The planemaker remains a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, as well as a linchpin in the awesome routine of modern air travel. But in 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 killed 346 people. The crashes exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company’s history—and one of the costliest corporate scandals ever. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing? Flying Blind is the definitive exposé of the disasters that transfixed the world. Drawing from exclusive interviews with current and former employees of Boeing and the FAA; industry executives and analysts; and family members of the victims, it reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe. It shows how in the race to beat the competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight. It examines how the company, once a treasured American innovator, became obsessed with the bottom line, putting shareholders over customers, employees, and communities. By Bloomberg investigative journalist Peter Robison, who covered Boeing as a beat reporter during the company’s fateful merger with McDonnell Douglas in the late ‘90s, this is the story of a business gone wildly off course. At once riveting and disturbing, it shows how an iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, threatening an industry and endangering countless lives.

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Anchor

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0593082516

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9780593082515

A Social History of the Media

From Gutenberg to the Internet

By: Asa Briggs,Peter Burke

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A Social History of the Media

From Gutenberg to the Internet

By: Asa Briggs,Peter Burke

Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of the Media became classic textbooks, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to bring the text up to date with the very latest developments in the field. Increased space is given to the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the globalization of media. Additionally, new and important research is incorporated into the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication. Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. In an age of fast-paced media developments, a thorough understanding of media history is more important than ever, and this text will continue to be the first choice for students and scholars across the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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074569943X

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9780745699431

Microsoft Word 5.5

PC Version

By: Peter Rinearson

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Microsoft Word 5.5

PC Version

By: Peter Rinearson

A great computer-side problem solver, this compact, action-oriented quick reference provides users with instruction on all of Word's features. Updated to cover Microsoft Word 5.5.

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155615352X

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9781556153525

The Road Ahead

By: Bill Gates,Nathan Myhrvold,Peter Rinearson

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The Road Ahead

By: Bill Gates,Nathan Myhrvold,Peter Rinearson

Bill Gates, the chairman, chief executive officer and cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, is the principal architect of the information super-highway that will shape the future. It will affect everyone as well as businesses of every type in ways more pervasive than people recognise. In this book Bill Gates explains the information super-highway, what it is, what it isn't, how individuals and institutions can prepare for it, and how these emerging technologies will transform human existence in unprecedented ways.

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0140243518

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9780140243512

Microsoft Word Style Sheets

By: Peter Rinearson,JoAnne Woodcock

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Microsoft Word Style Sheets

By: Peter Rinearson,JoAnne Woodcock

Explains how to create, use, and modify style sheets for a variety of uses such as business letters, outlines, reports, and press releases, and includes short style sheet modules for indexes, block quotations, and other frequently used elements

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1556150040

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9781556150043

Quick Reference Guide to Microsoft Word for the IBM PC

By: Peter Rinearson

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Quick Reference Guide to Microsoft Word for the IBM PC

By: Peter Rinearson

Delineates the features of the Word word processing program for the Macintosh, offering a command index and keyboard shortcut summary that allows users to look up tasks without knowing specific commands

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1556151942

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9781556151941

Penguin Reader Level 3

The Road Ahead Sampler

By: Bill Gates

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The Road Ahead Sampler

By: Bill Gates

The computer has already changed our lives - now they are about to change again! How will our lives be in ten years' time? What will we be doing and seeing? This book is full of questions and answers about the future. Bill Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with a friend Paul Allen when he was only nineteen years old. Now Microsoft makes more money than some of the biggest companies in the United States."-- Cover.

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Penguin Longman

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058281703X

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9780582817036

La route du futur

By: Bill Gates,Nathan Myhrvold,Peter Rinearson

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La route du futur

By: Bill Gates,Nathan Myhrvold,Peter Rinearson

Le monde change. Henry Ford produisait des automobiles, Boeing construisait des avions. Bill Gates, lui, produit de l'intelligence et la met au service de l'humanité tout entière. Aujourd'hui cet enfant prodige, ce "Mozart de l'informatique", est l'homme le plus riche du monde. Si vous voulez apprendre de quelle façon, dans ce XXIème siècle si proche, nous dialoguerons avec les machines qui pensent... Si vous voulez comprendre comment des milliards d'hommes, demain, pourront travailler, bavarder, rire ou s'émouvoir ensemble, à des kilomètres de distance, grâce aux nouvelles autoroutes de l'information... Si vous voulez savoir comment votre vie de famille, vos loisirs, votre travail vont se transformer en profondeur...

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Robert Laffont

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2221080599

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9782221080597

Book's by Peter Rinearson

Environment and Experience

Environment and Experience

The New World of Work

The New World of Work

Business Communication

Business Communication

Help! For Writers

Help! For Writers

Leading With Intention

Leading With Intention

Writing Tools

Writing Tools

Flying Blind

Flying Blind

A Social History of the Media

A Social History of the Media

Microsoft Word 5.5

Microsoft Word 5.5

The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead

Microsoft Word Style Sheets

Microsoft Word Style Sheets

Quick Reference Guide to Microsoft Word for the IBM PC

Quick Reference Guide to Microsoft Word for the IBM PC

Penguin Reader Level 3

Penguin Reader Level 3

La route du futur

La route du futur

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