Product Description: Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century. Yet surprisingly little is known about how contemporary universities are shaped by the formal and multiple demands they face from national policy requirements, particularly performance measurement...read more

Product Description: Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis’s search for her lost father—the young South Wales Borderer who led his troops across the desert by starlight in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, and a mixture of formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq war seen from a woman’s point of view—the horror of sons and daughters being sent into battle, the struggles of widows and orphans...read more

Product Description: Discover how the Midwest refined the nation's sweet tooth through a delicious mix of immigrant traditions and American ingenuity. Chef Jenny Lewis dips a spoon into generations of homemade desserts and examines the cogs and wheels of some of the biggest brands of the baking industry...read more

Product Description: (Vocal Selections). Ten songs from the hit Disney animated movie about a TV star dog's cross-country journey to rescue his human co-star. Features PVG arrangements of two original songs "I Thought I Lost You" by Bolt 's stars John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, and "Barking at the Moon" by Jenny Lewis plus piano solo arrangements of eight pieces from John Powell's score...read more

Product Description: This collection of poetry touches on themes of family, childhood, memory, and loss. The title poem of the collection adopts the ocean as a metaphor for the realm of the collective unconscious where creativity lives, memories are stored, poetry is created, and where the dead struggle to visit...read more

In order to live in a tree where only red birds are allowed, Sereena--a green bird--covers herself in red sand to be accepted, but when she hatches a green baby, she realizes she has to be herself and convince the other birds that living with birds of all colors is best. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Aqui estan las causas, sintomas y tratamientos de la migrana.

Product Description: This text looks at the mystery and social stigma of migraine from various perspectives, details its symptoms, and addresses the question of whether it is hereditary. The book discusses how it relates to hormone levels, age, factors such as noise, light, certain types of dairy foods, caffeine-rich foods and food additives, and overwork and excessive exercise...read more

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Product Description: Increasingly, managers are assuming direct responsibility for the assessment of organizational performance, as well as contributing to that performance itself. This book provides an invaluable theoretical and practical guide to the issues involved in the measurement and assessment of organizational performance...read more

Product Description: Starting any business is a risky venture, but more and more people in Britain are choosing to start in business as co-operatives. This in-depth study looks at the causes of the success and failure of co-operatives, and provides the most complete survey of British co-operatives to date...read more