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Lifelong Leadership by Design

How to Do More Good for Kids and Feel Better About Your Life's Work

By: Robert D. Ramsey

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Lifelong Leadership by Design

How to Do More Good for Kids and Feel Better About Your Life's Work

By: Robert D. Ramsey

This book offers aspiring and veteran school leaders insightful, practical, and proven strategies to successfully acquire and thrive in meaningful professional positions."--David Freitas, ProfessorIndiana University South Bend Build a dynamic career by design--not by default! Given the challenges of today′s educational environment, a school leader′s career is far from predictable--but it can be a purposeful and successful journey. This essential guide helps educators take charge of their careers, advance professionally, and leave a legacy of stronger schools and improved learning opportunities for children. Based on the best-selling author′s extensive school leadership experience, this book helps readers wisely navigate their careers and stay true to their values. The author addresses concerns for readers at every stage of professional life--from highly experienced administrators to those aspiring to leadership positions. Readers will find personal coaching on leading both oneself and others, including: The seven critical choices that shape school leadership, from setting goals to choosing the right battles Guidance on making tough calls and hard choices Advice on finding the right position and work environment and how to flourish personally and professionally Numerous real-life examples of how education leaders face and overcome challenges and build effective learning environments Take action today to build a purposeful career in school leadership and make a positive difference in children′s lives!

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Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century

By: Robert Justin Goldstein

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Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century

By: Robert Justin Goldstein

Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe presents a comprehensive account of the attempts by authorities throughout Europe to stifle the growth of political opposition during the nineteenth-century by censoring newspapers, books, caricatures, plays, operas and film. Appeals for democracy and social reform were especially suspect to the authorities, so in Russia cookbooks which refered to 'free air' in ovens were censored as subversive, while in England in 1829 the censor struck from a play the remark that 'honest men at court don't take up much room'. While nineteenth-century European political censorship blocked the open circulation of much opposition writing and art, it never succeeded entirely in its aim since writers, artists and 'consumers' often evaded the censors by clandestine circulation of forbidden material and by the widely practised skill of 'reading between the lines'.

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Springer

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1349201286

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Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems

Status and Future Options

By: Deanna J. Stouder,Peter A. Bisson,Robert J. Naiman

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Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems

Status and Future Options

By: Deanna J. Stouder,Peter A. Bisson,Robert J. Naiman

The symposium "Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems: Status and Future Options',' and this book resulted from initial efforts in 1992 by Robert J. Naiman and Deanna J. Stouder to examine the problem of declining Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.). Our primary goal was to determine informational gaps. As we explored different scientific sources, state, provincial, and federal agencies, as well as non-profit and fishing organizations, we found that the information existed but was not being communicated across institutional and organizational boundaries. At this juncture, we decided to create a steering committee and plan a symposium to bring together researchers, managers, and resource users. The steering committee consisted of members from state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private industry (see Acknowledgments for names and affiliations). In February 1993, we met at the University of Washington in Seattle to begin planning the symposium. The steering committee spent the next four months developing the conceptual framework for the symposium and the subsequent book. Our objectives were to accomplish the following: (1) assess changes in anadromous Pacific Northwest salmonid populations, (2) examine factors responsible for those changes, and (3) identify options available to society to restore Pacific salmon in the Northwest. The symposium on Pacific Salmon was held in Seattle, Washington, January 10-12, 1994. Four hundred and thirty-five people listened to oral presentations and examined more than forty posters over two and a half days. We made a deliberate attempt to draw in speakers and attendees from outside the Pacific Northwest.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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California

An Illustrated History

By: Robert Joseph Chandler

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California

An Illustrated History

By: Robert Joseph Chandler

Thirty-five million Americans live in California, more than any other state. Robert Chandler's sweeping history begins with the area's indigenous inhabitants, and leads through the era of Spanish colonization, conquest by the United States, the Gold Rush, the founding of Hollywood, and the present. California remains prominent in America's and the world's culture and economy. This is an introduction to the events and people that have shaped this great state.--From publisher description.

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Hippocrene Books

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

A Reader

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

A Reader

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Until the First World War he was one of the most famous of all composers. this Reader hopes to reflect something of the immense fame, prestige and love in which this composer was once held, the voices of doubt and dismissal that began to be heard even in his lifetime, and the enduring witness to his fame and worth evinced by those who have continued to believe in him in the face of the encroaching collective disparagement. Since the centenary of his death in 1964, there has been growing rediscovery of his life and re-evaluation of his art. While the revival of his work is not universal, at least a slow but steady process of recovery and exploration has begun.The forty contributions chosen for this Reader follow a chronological course, from the days of Meyerbeer's international acclaim after the premieres of his first two French operas, through the critical discussion of his art that began to take place during the mid-years of the nineteenth century, to the growing hostility induced by the advent of Wagner and his ideological following. The line of enquiry then leads into the dark days after the First World War when critical hostility was at its peak, on to the more reflective mood emerging during the 1950s, to the period of reassessment heralded by the centenary of his death in 1964. Finally, it surveys the critical rediscovery that was initiated by the bicentenary of his birth in 1991, a process that is still developing apace.The Reader also presents a series of portraits of the composer, and some images from his operas, an icongraphical commentary running parallel to the texts.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443800996

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Robotics in Space

By: Robert Snedden

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Robotics in Space

By: Robert Snedden

Space exploration and robotics are both exciting scientific frontiers, and readers discover the many ways they intersect as they explore the history of robots in space. The accessible text presents STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math, concepts in a clear way. Fact boxes are also included to provide additional insight into the role robots have played in the evolution of space exploration. As readers take in the compelling text and vibrant photographs, they will be transported on a journey into space that they won't soon forget.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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Palace of Culture

Andrew Carnegie's Museums and Library in Pittsburgh

By: Robert J. Gangewere

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Palace of Culture

Andrew Carnegie's Museums and Library in Pittsburgh

By: Robert J. Gangewere

Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the world's great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his personal book collection to laborer's apprentices. That early experience inspired Carnegie to create the "Free to the People" Carnegie Library in 1895 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1896, he founded the Carnegie Institute, which included a music hall, art museum, and science museum. Carnegie deeply believed that education and culture could lift up the common man and should not be the sole province of the wealthy. Today, his Pittsburgh cultural institution encompasses a library, music hall, natural history museum, art museum, science center, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Carnegie International art exhibition. In Palace of Culture, Robert J. Gangewere presents the first history of a cultural conglomeration that has served millions of people since its inception and inspired the likes of August Wilson, Andy Warhol, and David McCullough. In this fascinating account, Gangewere details the political turmoil, budgetary constraints, and cultural tides that have influenced the caretakers and the collections along the way. He profiles the many benefactors, trustees, directors, and administrators who have stewarded the collections through the years. Gangewere provides individual histories of the library, music hall, museums, and science center, and describes the importance of each as an educational and research facility. Moreover, Palace of Culture documents the importance of cultural institutions to the citizens of large metropolitan areas. The Carnegie Library and Institute have inspired the creation of similar organizations in the United States and serve as models for museum systems throughout the world.

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0822979691

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Immunodermatology

By: Bijan Safai,Robert A. Good

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Immunodermatology

By: Bijan Safai,Robert A. Good

By 1940, immunological mechanisms had been proved to have fundamental influ ences on a great number and variety of skin reactions, and skin diseases had brought to light a great number of fundamental immunological mechanisms that were basic to a wide range of different diseases, dermatological and nondermato logical. The preeminence of dermatological research in the advancement of immu nological knowledge should not astonish anyone. For the skin is not only the most easily accessible tissue for producing and studying immunological reactions, it is also the great organ of protection that meets the first onslaughts of inimical environmental forces and agents-potential enemies, both living and dead. And protection is in essence what immunology is all about. To get an idea of the long-established role that testing the skin and the study of its many reactions has played in advancing general immunology, one need recall only smallpox vaccination; tuberculin testing; testing with fungal extracts; skin testing in hay fever, asthma, and serum sickness; skin tests with toxins and toxoids; the patch test; the passive transfer of skin-adhering antibodies (reagins); skin sensitization by simple chemicals; and similar dermatological procedures that have exerted their influence on medical and scientific disciplines far beyond dermatology.

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1461572282

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Poetry Into Song

Performance and Analysis of Lieder

By: Deborah Stein,Robert Spillman

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Poetry Into Song

Performance and Analysis of Lieder

By: Deborah Stein,Robert Spillman

When Franz Schubert put Goethe's poem "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to music in 1814, he created a musical form that has captivated audiences ever since. In Poetry into Song, Deborah Stein and Robert Spillman challenge readers to seek a richer, more imaginative understanding of Lied - the nineteenth-century German art song. Written for students of voice, piano, and theory and for all singers and accompanists, Poetry into Song establishes a framework for the analysis of song based on a process of performing, listening, analyzing, and performing again. This unique approach emphasizes the reciprocal interaction between performance and analysis. Focusing on the masterworks, Poetry into Song features numerous poetic texts, as well as a core repertory of songs. Examples throughout the text demonstrate points, and end of chapter questions reinforce concepts and encourage directed analysis. While numerous books have been written on Lieder and German Romantic poetry, Poetry into Song is the first to combine performance, musical analysis, textual analysis, and the interrelation between poetry and music in a truly systematic, thorough way.

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Oxford University Press

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0199754306

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Ernst Kantorowicz

Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt

By: Robert L. Benson

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Ernst Kantorowicz

Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt

By: Robert L. Benson

�Vorliegender Sammelband spiegelt die internationale Diskussion, die derzeit ueber Kantorowicz gefuehrt wird; er liefert ueber E. Gruenewalds Studie (Ernst Kantorowicz und Stefan George, 1982) und O. G. Oexles verdienstvollen Aufsatz (Das Mittelalter als Waffe 1996) hinaus dazu einen weiteren bedeutsamen Beitrag.� Das Historisch-Politische Buch �Trotz K's Vernichtungsauftrag zu seinem Nachla� werden hier bisher unver�ffentlichte Dokumente vorgestellt. Fundierte Analysen seiner Gedankenwelt wechseln sich ab mit pers�nlichen Erinnerungen an den Gelehrten.� Historisches Jahrbuch Inhalt: R. L. Benson / J. Fried: Einleitung � M. Gr�fin D�nhoff: Ernst Kantorowicz � R. E. Lerner: �Meritorious Academic Service� � O. G. Oexle: The Middle Ages as a Weapon � H. Belting: Images in History and Images of History � R. E. Lerner: Kantorowicz and Continuity � D. Abulafia: Kantorowicz, Frederick II and England � P. Sch�ttler: Ernst Kantorowicz in Frankreich � J. Fried: Ernst H. Kantorowicz and postwar historiography � R. L. Benson: Kantorowicz on Continuity and Change in the History of Medieval Rulership � C. Landauer: The King's Two Bodies and Kantorowicz's Constitutional Narrative � Ralph E. Giesey: The Two Bodies of the French King � A. Boureau: Comment penser la th�ologie politique m�di�vale 30 ans apr�s Kantorowicz? � C. Davis: Kantorowicz and Dante � J. P. Genet: Kantorowicz and The King's Two Bodies.

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3515069593

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

By: Ernst Robert Curtius

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

By: Ernst Robert Curtius

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

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Princeton University Press

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0691157006

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The World Class Project Manager

A Professional Development Guide

By: Robert K. Wysocki,James P. Lewis

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The World Class Project Manager

A Professional Development Guide

By: Robert K. Wysocki,James P. Lewis

A soup-to-nuts guide to developing superior project-manager skills and competencies--from two of the most respected authorities in the field.

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Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems

By: Robert W. Proctor,Trisha Van Zandt

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Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems

By: Robert W. Proctor,Trisha Van Zandt

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices, globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require significant input and evaluation from human factors specialists. Accordingly, this textbook has been completely updated, with some chapters folded into other chapters and new chapters added where needed. The text continues to fill the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between the conceptual and empirical foundations of the field.

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Sonic Technologies

Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process

By: Robert Strachan

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Sonic Technologies

Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process

By: Robert Strachan

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018 In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records to the ubiquitous remix that has become a marker of Web 2.0, the emergence of new music production technologies have had a transformative effect upon 21st Century digital culture. Sonic Technologies examines these issues with a specific focus upon the impact of digitization upon creativity; that is, what musicians, cultural producers and prosumers do. For many, music production has moved out of the professional recording studio and into the home. Using a broad range of examples ranging from experimental electronic music to more mainstream genres, the book examines how contemporary creative practice is shaped by the visual and sonic look and feel of recording technologies such as Digital Audio Workstations.

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Getting What You Came For

The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D.

By: Robert Peters

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Getting What You Came For

The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D.

By: Robert Peters

Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less trouble. Based on interviews with career counselors, graduate students, and professors, Getting What You Came For is packed with real-life experiences. It has all the advice a student will need not only to survive but to thrive in graduate school, including: instructions on applying to school and for financial aid; how to excel on qualifying exams; how to manage academic politics—including hostile professors; and how to write and defend a top-notch thesis. Most important, it shows you how to land a job when you graduate.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374614172

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The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz,Robert J. Hasenfratz

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The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz,Robert J. Hasenfratz

From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old love affair with British literature. Unlike previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen, or particular texts such as Frankenstein, or particular literary periods such as Medieval, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed British literature as a cinematic subject in its own right-one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In what ways has the British literary canon authorized and influenced the history and aesthetics of film, and in what ways has filmed British literature both affirmed and challenged the very idea of literary canonicity? Seeking to answer these and other key questions, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501329855

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The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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Doctrinal Controversy and Lay Religiosity in Late Reformation Germany

The Case of Mansfeld

By: Robert J. Christman

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Doctrinal Controversy and Lay Religiosity in Late Reformation Germany

The Case of Mansfeld

By: Robert J. Christman

In recent years, historians have questioned the notion that belief was central to the Reformation’s success, arguing rather for a variety of social, political, economic, and psychological forces. This study examines one of the intra-Lutheran doctrinal debates, the Flacian controversy over original sin, as means to analyze lay religiosity in the late Reformation. It focuses on the German territory of Mansfeld, where the conflict had miners brawling in the streets, and where a wealth of sources from the laity have survived. This extraordinary evidence demonstrates that although diverse forces were at work, by the late sixteenth century many commoners had developed a complex understanding of Lutheran doctrines, and these beliefs had become informing factors in the laity’s lives.

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BRILL

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9004215662

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The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German

By: Robert B. Dewell

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The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German

By: Robert B. Dewell

This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the expressions durch (‘through’), über (‘over’), unter (‘under’), and um (‘around’) occur either as inseparable verb prefixes or as separable verb particles. Based on that evidence, the author argues that the prefixed verb constructions and particle verb constructions themselves have meaning, and that this meaning involves subjective construal processes rather than objective information. The constructions prompt us to distribute focal attention according to patterns that can be articulated in terms of Talmy’s notion of “perspectival modes”. Among the other topics that play an important role in the analysis are incremental themes, reflexive trajectors, fictive motion, “multi-directional paths”, and “accusative landmarks”.

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9027283656

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Worlds Of Experience

Interweaving Philosophical And Clinical Dimensions In Psychoanalysis

By: Robert Stolorow,George Atwood,Donna Orange

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Worlds Of Experience

Interweaving Philosophical And Clinical Dimensions In Psychoanalysis

By: Robert Stolorow,George Atwood,Donna Orange

The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it is one of the most powerful concepts to be introduced into the post-Freudian era. In Worlds of Experience, Dr. Stolorow and two eminent colleagues elaborate on intersubjectivity, going beyond the clinical and theoretical questions of earlier work to explore the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The culmination of three decades of collaborative work, this book will be essential reading for academics, students, and clinicians.

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Basic Books

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Reviewing Leadership (Engaging Culture)

A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches

By: Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter,David C. Greenhalgh

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A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches

By: Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter,David C. Greenhalgh

Evaluating Current Approaches to Leadership This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of current approaches to leadership from a discerning Christian perspective. Combining expertise in leadership, theology, and ministry, the authors take a historical look at leadership and how it is viewed and used in today's context. The book is informed by both biblical and leadership studies scholarship and interacts with a number of popular marketplace writings on leadership. It also evaluates exemplary role models of Christian leadership. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.

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1441227180

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David Zwirner: 25 Years

By: Richard Shiff,Robert Storr

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David Zwirner: 25 Years

By: Richard Shiff,Robert Storr

Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary of David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery’s growth and development through the lens of the artists that have shaped it. Since its founding in 1993, David Zwirner has above all else been guided by its artist-centric ethos. Beginning with the gallery's early days on Greens Street in SoHo, to its transition and expansion to Chelsea, London, the Upper East Side, and Hong Kong, this book captures David Zwirner's devotion to its inimitable roster of artists and estates. The heart of the publication is a wide-ranging, dynamic selection of the gallery's standout exhibitions—in many cases handpicked by David Zwirner himself. Many of these exhibitions highlight the countless works that ended up in major museum and private collections around the world. Also featured is an extensive gallery history that details all of the exhibitions by every artist and estate presented at David Zwirner, accompanied by archival imagery. With contributions by Richard Shiff and Robert Storr, as well as a foreword by David Zwirner, this publication offers rare insights into the growth of a commercial gallery through its long-term commitment to artists.

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1941701779

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The Income Tax

A Study of the History, Theory, and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad

By: Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

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The Income Tax

A Study of the History, Theory, and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad

By: Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

Seligman, Edwin R.A. The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory, and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged with a New Chapter. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003052763. ISBN 1-58477-385-5. Cloth. $140. * Reprint of second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman [1861-1939], an eminent economist and authority on tax issues, argued that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. This was a persuasive idea. "In fact, Professor Seligman's advocacy of the income tax in the various papers which were incorporated in [this book] was an important factor in educating the American public to the point where the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment and of the law of 1913 was possible": Columbia Law Review 15:292 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 852. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretical argument with a historical examination of income tax in Europe and the United States. In Part I he looks at the income tax in the middle ages, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. In Part II he covers the history of the income tax in the United States from the New England colonies through the income tax of 1913, and includes discussion of the historical antecedents of the Direct Tax Clause, a description of the historical context of the Civil War income tax and the income tax in the Confederacy, and a consideration of the constitutionality of the income tax. With a useful index and a thorough bibliography.

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1584773855

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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By: Robert E. Quinn,Anjan V. Thakor

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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By: Robert E. Quinn,Anjan V. Thakor

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line. What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. Workers resent these systems, and performance suffers. To address the performance issues, managers double down on the coercion, creating a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there is a better way. Quinn and Thakor show that when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees see themselves as working together toward an inspiring goal, not just trying to hit quarterly targets. They fully engage, become proactive contributors, and, ironically, easily exceed those quarterly targets. Based on their widely acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, Quinn and Thakor offer eight sometimes surprising steps for shifting from a transaction-oriented mind-set focused on constraints to a purpose-oriented mind-set focused on possibility. This iconoclastic book will help any organization discover its authentic purpose and weave it into the fabric of everything it does, leading to unprecedented levels of personal satisfaction, service and product innovation, and economic growth.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523086416

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9781523086412

Linmill Stories

By: Robert McLellan

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Linmill Stories

By: Robert McLellan

Introduced by J.K. Annand. Best known as the playwright of Jamie the Saxt and Jeddart Justice, Robert McLellan has been called the finest writer of Scots prose in our time. His ‘Linmill’ stories were broadcast by the BBC, one of which, ‘The Donegals’ was made into a film. But for the most part McLellan’s prose work has appeared in magazines or anthologies without being fully collected in book form. Their popularity has endured and now all twenty-four of his tales are available in one volume. Based on the author’s youthful memories of his grandparents’ fruit farm near Lanark, these finely observed stories give us a priceless insight into a generation now lost to us, and a timeless evocation of the world seen through the eyes of a young boy. There is honesty, compassion, harshness and humour in these stories, and McLellan’s quiet voice adds a unique wit and an unsentimental authenticity to the telling. ‘This must rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have.’ Douglas Gifford ‘It is possible to find light and depth in each of these stories, yet their common engine is neither plot nor character, but McLellan’s use of language. It is hard not to agree with J.K. Annand’s final assessment that Robert McLellan is “the greatest writer of Scots prose in the twentieth century”.’ Books in Scotland

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Canongate Books

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184767545X

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9781847675453

God, How Much Longer?

Learning to Trust God's Timing in Your Life

By: Robert Stofel

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God, How Much Longer?

Learning to Trust God's Timing in Your Life

By: Robert Stofel

Dear God, I cordially invite you to work on my timetable. In our own ways, even when we may not realize we’re doing it, we often approach God just in this way. After all, don’t we feel like we need something to happen NOW; we want what we want NOW; we need the answer NOW? (Are you seeing a theme emerging?) All too often, we want God to work on our timetable, even when we know he sees the big picture and we don’t have a clue. Here’s the truth: The Christian walk is about patience, perseverance, longsuffering, and delayed gratification—things the Bible calls virtues. Things we tend to call impossible! If you need answers NOW, start with this book. Robert Stofel will show you how to get beyond the pain and struggle of waiting to that perfect place of peace and trust in God’s timetable. Soon you’ll stop asking, “God, how much longer?” and you’ll be able to truly sit back and enjoy the ride! Readers’ Guide included for group study or personal reflection.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153269668X

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