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Community Development – Current Issues Series eBook Series

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  • Food & Fitness Community Partnerships

    Edited by Laurie Lachance, Laurie Carpenter, Mary Emery, Mia Luluquisen ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities. This important study introduces the Food and Fitness community partnerships and their work to increase access to healthy, locally grown ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It

    by Jeffrey Pfeffer ...
    In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop.In this timely, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The No Club

    Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work

    by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, Laurie Weingart ...
    In this “long overdue manifesto on gender equality in the workplace,” (Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit), The No Club offers a timely call and an action plan to unburden women from work that goes unrewarded.The No Club started when four women, crushed by endless to-do lists, banded together to get their work lives under control. Working harder than ever, they still trailed behind their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Organizational Behavior

    A Management Challenge

    by Linda K. Stroh, Gregory B. Northcraft, Margaret A. Neale, (Co-author) Mar Kern, (Co-author) Chr Langlands ...
    This textbook in Organizational Behavior is appropriate for undergraduate as well as MBA students of management and psychology. Very readable, this textbook, authored by accomplished Management professors, will focus on the latest research in OB. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching 2030

    What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future

    by Barnett Berry, the TeacherSolutions 2030 Team ...
    In the raging controversy over how to fix the nation’s underperforming schools, the voices of America’s best teachers are seldom heard. Now, in a provocative book about the future of teaching and learning, 12 of America’s most accomplished classroom educators join a leading advocate for a 21st-century teaching profession to bring expert classroom know-how and fresh policy ideas to the school ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Social Marketing and Social Change

    Strategies and Tools For Improving Health, Well-Being, and the Environment

    by R. Craig Lefebvre ...
    How can we facilitate more effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems that confound our communities and world? Social marketing guru R. Craig LeFebvre weaves together multi-level theories of change, research and case studies to explain and illustrate the development of social marketing to address some of society’s most vexing problems. The result is a people-centered ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Excellence Through Equity

    Five Principles of Courageous Leadership to Guide Achievement for Every Student

    by Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro Noguera, Lorena Kelly ...
    Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive. In these schools, educators understand that equity is not about treating all children the same. They are deeply committed to ensuring that each student receives what he or she individually needs to develop their full potential and succeed.To help educators with ... Read more

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  • Leading Public Health

    A Competency Framework

    by Jan Malcolm, James Begun, PhD ...
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    Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs

    by Barbara Orser, Catherine Elliott ...
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  • Improving Schools through Community Engagement

    A Practical Guide for Educators

    by Kathy Gardner Chadwick ...
    Engage your community and help students achieve their full potential!Americans see public schools as a critical community resource and rank education as a priority second only to the economy. How can educators harness this public interest in education to bring parents, families, and communities to action for our schools? Improving Schools Through Community Engagement addresses these questions and ... Read more

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  • Social Entrepreneurship

    How to Start Successful Corporate Social Responsibility and Community-Based Initiatives for Advocacy and Change

    by Manuel London, Richard G. Morfopoulos ...
    What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information and training for anyone who wants to start a community-based social advocacy and change initiative or ... Read more

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