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  • Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction

    Managing Disasters in Small Steps

    by Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe ...
    Series series World Bank Training Series
    Many areas of the world are at risk from landslides and their consequences; rainfall-triggered landslides particularly affect developing countries in the tropics. Rapid urbanization and the associated growth of unauthorized and densely populated communities in hazardous locations, such as steep slopes, are powerful drivers in a cycle of disaster risk accumulation. Frequently, it is the most ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Shared Leadership in Higher Education

    A Framework and Models for Responding to a Changing World

    Edited by Elizabeth M. Holcombe, Adrianna J. Kezar, Susan L. Elrod, Judith A. Ramaley ...
    Today’s higher education challenges necessitate new forms of leadership. A volatile financial environment and the need for new business models and partnerships to address the impact of new technologies, changing demographics, and emerging societal needs, demand more effective and innovative forms of leadership. This book focusses on a leadership approach that has emerged as particularly effective ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Prophet, Priest, and King

    Christology in Global Perspective

    by Zondervan ...
    Series series Theology Together
    How might different voices from the global church help all Christians understand the person and work of Jesus Christ better? Written by a team of leading Majority World scholars, this joint project explores and articulates a doctrine of Christ by appealing to his threefold office as prophet, priest, and king. Thus, it considers Christology not only as a central tenet of the Christian faith but, by ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century

    Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model

    by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Elizabeth Holcombe, Ann E. Austin, Andrea G. Trice, William T. Mallon, Arleen Arnsparger, Joanna Drivalas, Malcolm Brown0, KerryAnn O'Meara1, Lauren DeCrosta2, Richard Allan Gillman3, Nancy Hensel4, David A. Salomon5, William Plater6, R. Eugene Rice7, Leslie Gonzalez8, Aimee LaPointe Terosky9 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. Today, the majority of faculty positions are part-time or limited-term appointments, a radical change that has resulted more from circumstance than from thoughtful planning. As colleges and universities evolve to meet the changing demands of society, how might their leaders design viable ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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  • Diversity at Work

    The Practice of Inclusion

    by Barbara R. Deane ...
    Series Book 33 - J-B SIOP Professional Practice Series
    Diversity at Work: The Practice of InclusionHow can organizations, their leaders, and their people benefit from diversity? The answer, according to this cutting-edge book, is the practice of inclusion. Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion (a volume in SIOP’s Professional Practice Series) presents detailed solutions for the challenge of inclusion—how to fully connect with, engage, and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Speaking Christian

    Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power—And How They Can Be Restored

    by Marcus J. Borg ...
    In Speaking Christian, acclaimed Bible scholar Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, argues that the very language Christians use has become dangerously distilled, distorted, and disconnected from the beliefs which once underpinned it.Stating a case that will resonate with readers of N. T. Wright’s Simply Christian, Borg calls for a radical change to the language we use to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Inclusion Revolution Is Now

    An Innovative Framework for Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

    by Maura G. Robinson MPA ...
    Take an innovative approach to a climate of change within your workplace or organization with this guidebook on diversity and inclusion.Author Maura G. Robinson, an authority on diversity and inclusion, has been helping companies create systemic process of change for more than twenty years. In the Inclusion Revolution Is Now, she explores as you cancreate an environment of inclusion where all ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The End of Diversity As We Know It

    Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed

    by Martin N. Davidson ...
    "In plain English, Martin Davidson explains how diversity can make a company more efficient and innovative, which leads to greater profits." —Reginald Hudlin, producer/director and former President, Black Entertainment Television, Inc.A conversation with a CFO he worked with led Martin Davidson to explore the flaws in how companies typically manage diversity. They don't integrate diversity into ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practicing Christian Doctrine

    An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically

    by Beth Felker Jones ...
    This introductory theology text explains key concepts in Christian doctrine and shows that doctrine is integrally linked to the practical realities of Christian life. In order to grow into more faithful practitioners of Christianity, we need to engage in the practice of learning doctrine and understanding how it shapes faithful lives. Beth Felker Jones helps students articulate basic Christian ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Life After Death

    A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion

    by Alan Segal ...
    A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A renowned scholar, Segal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bias Interrupted

    Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good

    by Joan C. Williams ...
    A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sin

    The Early History of an Idea

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.Long before ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD