Social Innovation

Social Innovation Author: A. Nicholls,A. Murdock
Publisher: Springer
Summary: Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finall...

The Wounded Minister

The Wounded Minister Author: Guy Greenfield
Publisher: Baker Books
Summary: Every church deals with personality conflicts and intermittent discord. But in some churches, what should be normal clashes has become a devastating form of abuse-pastoral abuse. A growing phenomenon that cuts across denominational lines and impacts every level of ministry, pastoral abuse leaves in ...

Yenni

Yenni Author: Eugenia Jenny Williams
Publisher: DoctorZed Publishing
Summary: The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the growing tension in Eastern Europe ruptured into World War II in 1939, unleasing a succession of disasters that would redefine the borders, ideologies and cultures of this region for years to come. Against this backdrop, Jenny Williams tells a vivid and rem...

Thinking Games and Activities

Thinking Games and Activities Author: Kelley Dos Santos Kremer
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Summary: Research supports the premise that students learn most quickly when they are provided instruction that requires a variety of creative and critical thinking skills, study techniques and metacognitive strategies. Each quick, little- or no-prep activity in Thinking Games and Activities utilizes these s...

Perspectives in Environmental Management

Perspectives in Environmental Management Author: Ralf Buckley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Summary: The author, experienced in industry and academia, presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues of environmental management. Topics covered include environmental accounting, economics and taxation, environmental audit and insurance, institutional and ad...

What is Global Engineering Education For The Making of International Educators Part I II

What is Global Engineering Education For  The Making of International Educators  Part I   II Author: Gary Downey,Kacey Beddoes
Publisher: Springer Nature
Summary: Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work through collaboration and mobility. Its biggest challenge to engineers, however, is more fundamental and difficult: to better understand what they know and value qua engineers and why. This volume reports an...

The Report Jordan 2014

The Report  Jordan 2014 Author: Oxford Business Group
Publisher: Oxford Business Group
Summary: A number of Jordan’s key economic indicators have improved over the last year and GDP is forecast to grow by 3.5% in 2014. Jordan’s reliance on energy imports is being addressed with increased focus on domestic oil shale reserves and nuclear energy, while plans to build a pipeline through the co...

Conflict And Commerce On The Rio Grande

Conflict And Commerce On The Rio Grande Author: John A. Adams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Summary: Laredo is a city at the crossroads of North American history. Founded by the Spanish in 1755, it has stood at the intersection of regional commerce since its earliest days. Now, John A. Adams, Jr. provides the first-ever panoramic business and economic history of Laredo. He traces the evolution of t...

Representative Men

Representative Men Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Summary: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it wou...

Last Ride

Last Ride Author: Laura Langston
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Summary: A year after he accidentally killed his best friend while street racing, Cody has stopped racing and is trying to work off the cost of repairing his car, until his boss announces he will keep the car if Cody doesn't pay it off at once....