L Richard: 579 books
Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing
Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity, a 20-year, $187 million philanthropic initiative intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effective...
Transforming Health Care Leadership
A Systems Guide to Improve Patient Care, Decrease Costs, and Improve Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities
From Tactics to Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book is intended to serve as a road map for strategy creation and execution for leaders and decision makers who, by choice or by necessity, are looking to use strategy to optimize the development of their institutions. It is the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on strategy as it applies...
Discipline with Dignity
How to Build Responsibility, Relationships, and Respect in Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective. Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and self-control, the authors...
Strategic Leadership
Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market...
Affirmative Classroom Management
How do I develop effective rules and consequences in my school? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences.
The CMIO Survival Guide
A Handbook for Chief Medical Information Officers and Those Who Hire Them, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The CMIO Survival Guide is the handbook for the new Chief Medical Information Officer, as well as for those recruiting or planning to recruit a CMIO. This quick reference is organized by real-world topics that CMIOs need to know, as well as the criteria that the CIO, CMO or CEO should consider in...
by Richard L. Itteilag
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Electricity capacity in the Unitrd Global Warming States (U. S.) Is severely constrained. And that constraint is exacerbated by global warming concerns. In order to alleviate that constraint, new, high effi ciency technology must be utilized primarily in commercial and industrial applications. These...
An Introduction to World Politics
Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In today’s world, students need to know that there is more to politics than just politics. This clearly written text introduces students to world politics as a combination of comparative politics and international relations in an increasingly interconnected globe and explores topics that are sometimes...
by Kirsten L. Taylor, Richard W. Mansbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The fully updated third edition of Introduction to Global Politics continues to provide a vital resource for students looking to explain global politics using an historical approach, firmly linking history with the events of today. By integrating theory and political practice at individual, state,...
Natural Gas Future
A World Without Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Natural gas is a vital component of the world's supply of energy. It is one of the cleanest, safest and most useful of all energy sources. Despite its importance, however, there are many misconceptions about natural gas. For instance, the word 'gas' itself has a variety of different uses, and meanings....
by John R. Fanchi, Richard L. Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Presents key concepts and terminology for a multidisciplinary range of topics in petroleum engineering
Places oil and gas production in the global energy context
Introduces all of the key concepts that are needed to understand oil and gas production from exploration through abandonment
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by S. Keoki Sears, Glenn A. Sears, Richard H. Clough
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
A thoroughly updated edition of the classic guide to project management of construction projects
For more than thirty years, Construction Project Management has been considered the preeminent guide to all aspects of the construction project management process, including the Critical Path Method...