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The Imagineering Pyramid: Using Disney Theme Park Design Principles to Develop and Promote Your Creative Ideas

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Report copyright infringementby Louis J. Prosperi (Author)Learn from the Disney ImagineersCreativity. Innovation. Success. That's Disney Imagineering. It was the Imagineers who brought Walt Disney's dreams to life. Now you can tap into the principles of Imagineering to make your personal and professional dreams come true.Even if you're not building a theme park, the Imagineering Pyramid can help you plan and achieve any creative goal. Lou Prosperi designed the pyramid from the essential build...

The Art of Impact: Action Principles for a World in Crisis from the Extraordinary Life of Hansjörg Wyss, an Authorized Biography - Hardcover

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by Paul Orzulak (Author), Seth Schulman (Author), Vice President Al Gore (Foreword by)"One of the most significant conservationists of our time--indeed, of all time." --Vice President Al Gore, from the Foreword He is the most impactful conservationist in the world, a man responsible for protecting more than one hundred million acres of land and more than three million square kilometers of ocean. Yet, chances are, you have never heard of him. Hansjörg Wyss grew up in a working-class family in...

There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Evers (Author)A smart, page-turning exploration of the business and creative decisions that transformed Taylor Swift into an unprecedented modern cultural phenomenon.Named one of "Thirty books we're excited to read in the first half of 2025" by The Sydney Morning HeraldNamed to the Financial Times "What to Read in 2025" listSinger-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The Beatles of her generation. From her genre-busting rise in country music as a teenager...

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Report copyright infringementby Roderick Campbell (Author) Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 10, 2025

Unstoppable Women: Owning Our Voices and Leading Change

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Holt (Author)Potential is just unharnessed power. Unleash your potential and step into your power. For generations, women have been told to stay small-be agreeable, avoid making waves, put others first. But what if stepping into your power, speaking up, and leading with confidence is exactly what you were meant to do - what you need?It's time to break free from limiting expectations, claim your voice, and own your leadership. Unstoppable Women is a powerf...

Improving Instructor Hiring and Development at the Emergency Management Institute

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick S. Roberts (Author), Rebecca Herman (Author), Samantha Ryan (Author)The Emergency Management Institute is revising how it secures qualified, effective instructors. Researchers analyzed how instructors are hired and developed, pinpointed strengths and challenges, and identified best practices. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: April 14, 2025

Non-Capital Wealth: On the Transformation of Money Into Its Other Forms

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Report copyright infringementby Ajani Abdul-Khaliq (Author)When we spend money, what is it that we're buying? Most of the time we're not buying more money. Instead we're buying the necessary items for health, leisure, or security. We trade in talents, labor, or relationships. Where many of us struggle to make enough money, we still manage to obtain the things we need through our relationships with others, the use of our skills for their benefit, or the attitudes we adopt for needing to buy wh...

Islamic Microfinance: Landscape, Models and Future Prospects

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Report copyright infringementby Hussain Mohi Ud Din Qadri (Author), Hassnian Ali (Author)Islamic microfinance is one of the most important sectors of Islamic social finance, which plays a very important role in curbing poverty and improving the standard of living, per capita income, employment level as well as achieving Maqasid al-Shariah, profitability and sustainability. This role of Islamic microfinance has become more crucial in the pandemic period. It has been clearly witnessed in develo...

Manipulation: The Most Powerful Techniques to Influencing People, Persuasion, Mind Control, Reading People, NLP. How to Analyze People and Mind Contro

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Bennis (Author)Do you know people who are forever pushing your buttons to get you to do think and act in a way you wouldn't otherwise do for fulfilling their personal agenda? Don't you wish you also possessed the super power of persuasion, influencer, and manipulation that can allow you to get people to do exactly what you want?Don't you wish you possessed the ability to convince, influence, manipulate and persuade people to do think and act as you want th...

Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Francesca Sobande (Author)How is morality understood in the marketplace? Why do brands speak out about certain issues of injustice and not others? And what is influencer culture's role in social and political activism? Big Brands Are Watching You investigates corporate culture, from the branding of companies and nations to television portrayals of big business and the workplace. Francesca Sobande analyzes media, interviews, survey responses, and ephemera from ...

Feeding Cities: Improving Local Food Access, Security, and Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Bosso (Editor)There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity. The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical issues associated with food systems. The...

Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behavior

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Report copyright infringementby Chandrani Singh (Author), Aditi Khatri (Author)This book offers perspectives, insights, techniques, and approaches for efficient and contemporary management practices in an organization. It provides a comprehensive insight into the traditional and contemporary approaches of organizational behavior and their impact on organizational performance in the global era. Ranging from planning to staffing, and controlling to strategic decision-making, the case studies in...

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by Michael Pollan (Author)The bestselling author of the Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century. Number of Pages: 710 Dimensions: 1.44 x 8.46 x 5.57 IN Publication Date: April 24, 2007 Large Print: Yes Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat Interest Level: Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up ...

Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Dyson (Author)A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during which the population grew from just a handful of people to reach almost 1.4 billion, and a time when the fact of death had a huge influence on the nature of life. This book con...

Clout: Either You're Born With It, or You Gotta' Go Get It!

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Francis (Author)"Clout" introduces an interesting perspective about ambition and leveling-up in a day and age where opportunities and possibilities are seemingly endless. From high hopes to unimaginable success, realizing your dreams has never been so accessible as it is today. Social mobility is hinged upon an individual's ability to grasp certain concepts and seizing the moment. Certain opportunities may only come once in a lifetime, but they're guarante...

Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan P. Higgins (Author), Latrice Royale (Foreword by)A celebration of (and how to find your own) queer intersectional identity through the lens of media In Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices (in Media) and Learning to Love Yourself, educator and media critic Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins--aka Doctor Jon Paul--delivers an honest and extraordinary new take on how the author, and other Black Fat Femmes like them, have come to find and u...

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism - Hardcover

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by Mary Anne Hunting (Author), Kevin D. Murphy (Author)A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and grow...

Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods - Paperback

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by Kris Spisak (Author), Gennarose Nethercott (Foreword by)Explore the folklore of the trickster, villain, and rescuer known as Baba Yaga in a new light. "With Becoming Baba Yaga, Kris Spisak presents a robust work of scholarship. Baba Yaga is a wily shapeshifter, nearly impossible to pin down--but Spisak miraculously transforms alongside her, ever keeping up." --from the foreword by GennaRose Nethercott, bestselling author of Thistlefoot When darkness, fear, and instability inundate our da...

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor - Paperback

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by Alice Sparkly Kat (Author)Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. Too often, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism, used as a force of oppress...

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Budrys (Author)Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care including what it would look like if the business sector would do a better job of organizing our health care arrangements and remove any governmental components built into the system. As a sociologist interested in health care, Budrys focuses on the impact our health care arrangements have on not just an eco...

Why Change Dies: Unleashing Your Potential for Social Impact

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Dearing (Author)How can you make a greater impact?Why Change Dies: Unleashing Your Potential for Social Impact is for changemakers determined to make a difference. It traces the stories of past change efforts to better understand why some have succeeded and others have failed. The book analyzes power structures across the three common domains of social change - the private sector, public sector, and social sector - to illuminate opportunities for individ...

America's Cigar Story: The History, Politics, and Legacy of Cigars from 1762 to the Modern Era

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Report copyright infringementby Sebastian Saviano (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 25, 2025

Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions

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Report copyright infringementby Patrik Aspers (Author)This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Hoang (Author)Welcome to Economics for Kids: Lessons from Fables & Fairy Tales featuring Canberra - the capital city of Australia's landmarks.This book was inspired by a curious boy's endless questions about the world, how the economy works, and my passion for making complex ideas accessible and enjoyable for children. As a mother, economist, author and educator, I've always believed that learning should be an adventure filled with fun, curiosity, and...

The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation

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Report copyright infringementby Aitor Jim?nez (Author)How technology companies profit from our increasing dependence on digital infrastructure and the privatization of data The Crimes of Digital Capitalism proposes the first comprehensive theory of corporate crime for the digital age. Aitor Jim?nez explores the criminal structure of digital capitalism fostered by states and corporations along the supply chain, illustrating how the rise of algorithmic racism, the Googlization of education, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherif Khalifa (Author)In Geography and the Wealth of Nations, Sherif Khalifa argues that geography influences the factors that determine economic performance, such as the quality of institutions, the adopted cultural values, the systems of governance, the likelihood of conflict, the historical experiences, and the integration into the global economy. Number of Pages: 294 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Augus...

On the Job: An Encyclopedia of Unique Occupations around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Margo Demello (Author)This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India. It's not surprising that the first question we are asked by strangers often has to do with what we do for a living. It's another way of asking, "Who are you, and what are you about?" But what happens when...

Reuniting the Nation: A Blueprint for Unity and American Identity

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Report copyright infringementby Demetri D. Long (Author)Why does progress feel impossible in the wealthiest, most resourceful nation on Earth? Why are we still grappling with challenges like healthcare access, economic inequality, and cultural division? And most importantly, what can we do about it?In Reuniting the Nation, the author delves into the forces tearing us apart-political polarization, economic inequality, media-driven division-and exposes how these fractures stifle our collective ...

Fundamentals of business ethics: A Developing Country Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Manuel Elegido (Author)This book has been written specifically for the needs of plasticising executives, primarily those working in Nigeria. It covers the main issues that arise in the field of business ethics both at the corporate level and at the level of the individual manager. At the corporate level, it discusses in detail the main responsibilities of business firms towards their employees, providers of funds, customers, suppliers, distributors, compet...

Excel 2019 for Human Resource Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. Quirk (Author), Julie Palmer-Schuyler (Author)Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean.- 2 Random Number Generator.- 3 Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing.- 4 One-Group t-Test for the Mean.- 6 Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.- 7 Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression.- 8 One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- Appendix A: Answers to ...

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Rofel (Author), Sylvia J. Yanagisako (Author)In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitali...

An Analysis of William H. Whyte's the Organization Man

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Springer (Author)William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic. This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group. To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years interviewing the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies when he was an...