Product Description: A concise, practical volume that identifies seven basic imperatives for effective leadership: be sure, be focused, be humble, be discerning, be complementary, be uncompromising, and be encouraged. Author Joseph Robinson Jr. draws these imperatives from the life and character of the biblical wild man, John the Baptist, and then offers concrete illustrations of those characteristics at work in the lives of contemporary leaders, both religious and secular, from Mother Teresa to Michael Jordan, from Pastor Tony Evans to Coach Tony Dungy as well as characters from movies such as Mr...read more

Product Description: This text is an ideal way to integrate discussion of diversity into the student success course, while demonstrating to students how ordinary people can transform obstacles into opportunity and accomplish extraordinary things. The subjects profiled in African American Master Student Profiles represent a wide range of fields, including politics, business, academics, sports, and the arts...read more

This book argues the case for the arts in schools and considers the consequent implications and conclusions. It maintains that schools must develop broader nor narrower curricula and that the arts have an important place within this approach.

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Product Description: A practical guide written for undergraduate students of business and for professionals from other countries who are new to the US. It combines business communication and workplace etiquette in one text. The topics are relevant and based in reality: young Morgan Stanley bankers fired for passing around racy e-mails, job applicants who can't get past "voice mail jail," and the ubiquitous question of what to wear, now that the days of the business suit seem numbered...read more

Product Description: The particular contribution of the Cambridge Conferences on Development was to gather together practical administrators and technical specialists in many fields so that they can examine together a particular problem in development strategy for the Third World...read more

Product Description: Since the day James Joseph Robinson Jr. was born in 1952, life had gone on swimmingly. His childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was mostly normal. He attend a prestigious university, married, and had three children. But then he hit his mid-thirties, and suddenly everything went topsy-turvy...read more

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Product Description: Habitats - Evan Moor (Grades 1-3)

Product Description: Description: How should followers of Christ live in a multi-religious world? This book argues that the example of Jesus has something fresh and helpful to say to those who ponder the question. It takes something old--the example of Jesus--to say something new to our pluralist world...read more

Product Description: This story takes place in the Projects of a South Boston neighborhood in the mid-sixties, when life was laid back. It's here that a boy named Sniffles finds delight in the simple pleasures of riding a bike his own little red bike!

Product Description: This groundbreaking book tells the incredible stories of black Dallas women who survived and prospered despite overwhelming obstacles. From Dallas’s earliest days to the present, these amazing women have made outstanding contributions in education, religion, civil rights, business, clubs, politics, the arts, and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)