Product Description: In this book, Patterson, Goens, and Reed draw upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: "How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?" This book benefits leaders who have confronted adversity in the past, struggle with adversity right now, or will likely encounter setbacks in the future...read more

Blending research with real stories from educators, introduces three dimensions of resilience and describes guiding principles that every educator can live by.

Product Description: An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance...read more

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Product Description: Here's what Blackjack: A Winner's Handbook will do for you: * Reveal new information about the automatic shuffling machines, both the two-shoe type and the continuous shufflers, including a proven winning system * Disclose that card counting does not always work and describe what you can do to avoid losing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job. These outstanding superintendents provide insights that can't be gained in any educational administration program about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of school leadership...read more

Product Description: Casino Gambling can increase your chances of winning and decrease your chances of losing in your next casino session. Chapters 9 – 14, a lesson on dice control, shows you how to create your own advantage over the casino by minimizing the chances of throwing the losing seven and how to throw the long hand and score on your point numbers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Coming Clean About Organizational Change, explains how you can increase organizational, individual and personal resilience by acknowledging "A Dirty Dozen Realities" of organizational change. Author Patterson explains why many of the assumptions upon which school leaders base change efforts are incorrect while revealing some of the realities school leaders must acknowledge in order to help schools and school systems stretch to new levels...read more

Product Description: In this insightful and encouraging book, Jerry L. Patterson presents a vision of leadership at work in the schools of tomorrow, schools that he says will be "pulled by the future" rather than "pushed by the past." To meet the challenges of the future, says Patterson, we must rethink our beliefs about leadership and adopt new organizational values...read more

Product Description: Later printing paperback with worn cover.

Discusses the basic strategies of blackjack and offers tips on playing blackjack at Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos

Explains betting terms, gives advice on handicapping college and professional football, baseball, and basketball games and tells how to select a sports service

Compares casinos in Nevada and Atlantic City, traces the history of four casino games, and recommends winning gambling strategies

Explains the basics of blackjack and describes methods of card-counting for successful gambling in the styles of blackjack played in the casinos