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Book Synopsis A Kaleidoscope of Choices by : Beth Holley
Download or read book A Kaleidoscope of Choices written by Beth Holley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1995, helps librarians develop skills and strategies to cope effectively with the myriad changes affecting their profession due to the rapid evolution of technology. Informative chapters address the impact of technology on libraries, scholarly communication, vendors, and the publishing industry. They analyses managing change, managing the virtual library, roles of vendors and publishers in providing access to electronic information, and innovations for the bibliographic control of electronic publications.
Book Synopsis Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment by : Chris Maser
Download or read book Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment written by Chris Maser and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability, and social justice for all generations. As such, it demands a systemic point of view. Decision Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach gives readers the tools to replace the dysfunctional, symptomatic decision making that has plunged the world into environmental crises with a systemic approach that fosters social-environmental sustainability. A New Paradigm for Environmental Decision Making Based on the author’s more than 45 years of research and broad, international experience, this book guides policy makers and managers to work with—rather than within—theoretical and methodological frameworks to achieve multidimensional and multilayered policy decisions. It discusses systemic thinking as a rational, viable alternative to competitive, materialistic, and symptomatic decision making. Insights, Approaches, and Examples for Leadership Organized into three parts, the book begins by describing the inviolable biophysical principles that define the limitations of human choices. The second part examines in depth why the conventional command-and-control form of decision making tends to become dysfunctional and fails. It also explains how to break the cycle of such behavior. A case study by Jessica K. La Porte explores the challenges of creating a program of environmentally sustainable decision making. The third part of the book explores what it takes to be a psychologically mature decision maker. A Peaceful Path toward Social-Environmental Sustainability for All Generations Proposing new ways of thinking and problem solving, this book provides readers with the ideas, language, approaches, and examples to move toward genuine social-environmental sustainability. It offers counsel on how to be a psychologically mature trustee of planet Earth and leave a more viable legacy for future generations.
Book Synopsis Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career by : S. Gayle Baugh
Download or read book Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career written by S. Gayle Baugh and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the series, Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career, examines how individuals enact and keep their career vital over their work life. Awarding-winning, internationally renowned researchers, including Daniel Feldman, Jennifer Deal, Phyllis Tharenou, and Terry Beehr examine the dynamic nature of contemporary careers and how careers change as individuals change in response to such factors as aging, learning, experience or contextual changes. Volume 1 includes theoretical perspectives on maintaining person-environment “fit” over the course of the career, the shifting constellation of developmental relationships over time and place, a new framework for examining midcareer renewal, a reconceptualization of the retirement transition, and potential gender differences in self-initiated international careers. Empirical studies in volume 1 examine provocative questions including: Is the traditional career really dead? Are there significant generational differences in learning and development? Can career plateauing be positive for the individual or the organization? The focus throughout this volume is on how careers unfold over time and how individuals remain productive and successful as they navigate career changes.
Download or read book Choices written by Merle Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” —Gloria Steinem In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion and women's right to choose. Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every woman’s right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother. Now, amidst the aftermath of the Dobbs Decision, Hoffman has carefully compiled her decades of analysis, research, and experience into a tour de force manifesto that sheds light on the catastrophic repercussions of overturning Roe, and what we must do moving forward to ensure the safety and legality of abortion nationally. In Choices, Hoffman expresses her views on where we are and what lies ahead. She covers topics ranging from: revamping the healthcare system to support women’s rights; combatting rising authoritarianism; the weaponization of religion; fighting the antis; practicing courage; sabotage from within the movement; and activating the next generation in the fight for reproductive justice.
Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by Lori Holt and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Resolving Environmental Conflicts, Second Edition by : Chris Maser
Download or read book Resolving Environmental Conflicts, Second Edition written by Chris Maser and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True progress toward an ecologically sound environment and a socially just culture will be initially expensive in money and effort. The longer we wait, however, the more disastrous the environmental condition will become, the more disputes will arise as a result of our declining quality of life, and the more expensive and difficult the necessary social changes will be. The second edition of a bestseller, Resolving Environmental Conflicts demonstrates how to practice the type of conflict resolution that not only settles a dispute but also heals the people. Once the consultants and mediators leave, the work must go on. This second edition covers the basic transformative concepts vital for resolving environmental conflicts. It includes discussions of the inviolate biophysical principles, how the English language is changing, as well as the critical principles of social behavior. It also examines new dynamics in making decisions along with the effects of the younger generations shifting their interests from nature-oriented interest to technologically oriented interests and their subsequent lack of understanding the importance of the natural environment to a sustainable society. No biological shortcuts, technological quick fixes, or political rhetoric can mend what is broken. Dramatic, fundamental change is necessary if we are really concerned with bettering the quality of life. It is not a question of can we change or can't we, but one of will we change or won't we. Change is a choice, a choice of individuals reflected in the collective of society and mirrored in the landscape throughout the generations. Considerably more than a "how to" directive, this book examines the "whys" of the mediation process and broadens the knowledge base by providing the philosophical underpinnings of "a new environmental responsibility."
Book Synopsis Nature's Choice by : Cheryl L. Weill
Download or read book Nature's Choice written by Cheryl L. Weill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both a comprehensive review of findings from over twenty years of research on the factor of biology in the determination of sexual orientation and a fresh perspective on this complex and politically charged subject.
Book Synopsis Resolving Environmental Conflicts by : Chris Maser
Download or read book Resolving Environmental Conflicts written by Chris Maser and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations. Written in a clear, concise style, Resolving Environmental Conflicts: Principles and Concepts, Third Edition is a valuable, solution-oriented contribution that explains environmental conflict management. This book provides an overview of environmental conflicts, collaborative skills, and universal principles to assist in re-thinking and acting toward the common good, integrates a variety of new real-world conflicts as a foundation for building trust, skills, consensus, and capacity, and explains pathways to collectively construct a relationship-centric future, fostering healthier interactions with one another and the planet. The new edition illustrates how to successfully mediate actual environmental disputes and how to teach conflict resolution at any level for a wide variety of social-environmental situations. It adds a new chapter on water conflicts and resolutions, providing avenues to healthy, sustainable, and effective outcomes and provides new examples of conflicts caused by climate change with discussion questions for clear understanding. Land-use planners, urban planners, field biologists, and leaders and participants in collaborative environmental projects and initiatives will find this book to be an invaluable resource. University students in related courses will also benefit, as will anyone interested in achieving greater social-environmental sustainability and a more responsible use of our common natural resources for themselves and their children.
Book Synopsis Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963 by : Adam S.R. Bartley
Download or read book Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963 written by Adam S.R. Bartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a rational decision-making model, Bartley highlights the contradictions of adopted presidential decision-making processes and the nature of domestic politics as playing prejudicial and debilitating roles. The book demonstrates that elite decision-making processes interacted with assumptions made about Chinese behavior, interests, and attitudes only superficially and in some cases not at all. Misinformation and misperception were the natural outcomes. Reinforced by the politics of McCarthyism at home, intellectual debate on China policy was squashed, parochialism and nuance were shunned, and information was closed off. Ultimately, a divorce between the norm of behavior and the search for rational policy was registered in each administration. The net result was a lasting and destructive cognitive dissonance: to fit expectations of a China reality constructed, information was ignored, overlooked, and distorted. Offering new insights into the China policies of consecutive administrations from 1941 to 1963, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of American foreign policy, security studies, and international relations.
Book Synopsis Resolving Water Conflicts Workbook by : Lynette de Silva
Download or read book Resolving Water Conflicts Workbook written by Lynette de Silva and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills. Built on case-studies analysis and hands-on real-life applications, it addresses issues of water insecurity of marginalized systems and communities, global water viability, institutional resilience, and the inclusion of faith-based traditions for climate action. The authors assess the complexities of climate challenges and explain how to create sustainable, effective, and efficient water approaches for an improved ecological and socioeconomic future within the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Download or read book The Choice written by Lost Lenny and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Nicholas was born in New York City in 1947 and went to public school on Long Island. After graduating high school, he attended Oswego State University in upstate New York and earned a teaching degree in Industrial Arts. The author is now retired from education and spends his time ( when not writing) with his family, riding his BMW motorcycle, or driving his 1931 Model A Ford.
Download or read book The Choice written by Marge Brantmeyer and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bad news: suicide is a large and growing public health problem. Human beings are the only creatures in the natural world that can suffer from a hopelessness so deep that suicide seems like the only relief from the anguish. Human beings are also the only species that fall prey to chemical dependence and an associated downward spiral of mental health that can end in suicide. This book presents the stories of individuals struggling with terminal illness, grief, alcoholism, prison, drug addiction, compulsive gambling, PTSD, depression, and abuse (including cyberbullying). All of these individuals find themselves at a decision point where they must choose to find a way to Survive or take their own life through Suicide. Almost everyone has fleeting thoughts of suicide at least once during their lifetime. Most people do not want to discuss their thoughts of suicide with anyone for fear of being negatively judged or labeled by others. The good news: the vast majority of people with suicidal thoughts can be treated with therapy and/or medication. This book is intended to be a reference guide with information about depression, alcoholism, addiction, and associated therapy avenues.
Book Synopsis Motherhood and Choice by : Amrita Nandy
Download or read book Motherhood and Choice written by Amrita Nandy and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan.
Book Synopsis A Daughter's Choice by : June Francis
Download or read book A Daughter's Choice written by June Francis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen year old Katie is about to discover a devastating family secret... Katie is the apple of her mother’s eye and is being groomed to take over the family business. But when Celia, her natural mother, re-enters her life, her world is turned completely upside down. Tormented by her divided loyalties, Katie is plagued by a question Celia refuses to answer – who is her real father? (Note: Originally published as Somebody Else's Girl)
Download or read book Choice written by L.A. Smith and published by Lisa Smith. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man’s shadowed destiny leads him to the past... where he could change our world forever. Thomas McCadden is caught in a time not his own, swept away by forces he struggles to understand. HIs encounter with the diabolical Traveller, Wulfram, left Thomas Bound by Fey power to a slave boy. His tenuous acceptance in both the Seelie Court and King Oswy’s hall in Bebbanburg is being eroded by whispers and lies spread by Wulfram’s agents. Yet Thomas’ task remains: to stop Wulfram from twisting history to bring about the supremacy of the Fey. But time is running out, and his friends are falling away. The final chapter in The Traveller’s Path trilogy throws Thomas deeper into the world of 7th-century Northumbria and its dangerous clash of kings and cultures. And deeper into the shadowy world of the Fey, who think nothing of exploiting Thomas and his wilding Fey power for their own advantage. Thomas will lose all that he holds dear and history will be irrevocably altered unless he can thwart Wulfram’s scheme. The only option remaining is a wild gamble which reveals an impossible choice: save the world at a terrible cost or sweep away all that is good. The mist is rising, and evil is growing. The choice awaits.
Author :Meira Chand Publisher :Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN 13 :9814828890 Total Pages :706 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (148 download)
Download or read book A Choice of Evils written by Meira Chand and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic novel is set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese war, from the time Japan annexed Manchuria in the early 1930s until the end of the Second World War. During these years, a militaristic Japan pursued an aggressive dream to colonize not only China but also the whole of Southeast Asia and beyond. The brutal sacking of Chiang Kai-shek’s new capital, Nanking, which refused to surrender to the Imperial Army, was a graphic example of Japanese retribution in a war of punishment. The story of these tumultuous years is told through the lives of a disparate group of fictional characters: a young Russian woman émigré caught between her complex love affair with a British journalist and a liberal-minded Japanese diplomat, an Indian nationalist working for Japanese intelligence, a Chinese professor with communist sympathies, an American missionary doctor and a Japanese soldier, who are all brought together by the monstrous dislocation of war. Enmeshed in a savage world beyond their control, each character turns to the deepest part of themselves to find a way to survive.
Book Synopsis A Choice of Treasons by : J. L. Doty
Download or read book A Choice of Treasons written by J. L. Doty and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping military science fiction novel of imperial power, politics, and loyalty starring the hero of J. L. Doty’s Treasons Cycle Lieutenant York Ballin is a lifer in the Imperial Navy, fighting in a war that has lasted generations, whose only hope for an honorable discharge is the grave. His best option is to hunker down, keep his crew in top condition, and try not to get them all killed. But matters take a turn for the worse when he’s forced to hijack the cruiser Cinesstar in order to evacuate the empress and her daughter just before the planet Dumark falls to their adversaries. While deep behind enemy lines, the empress’s dangerous agenda becomes clear and even their comrades in the Empire are hell-bent on turning Cinesstar into a cloud of radioactive vapor. It falls to Lieutenant Ballin to save them all, but every option leads to a quandary—and he finds himself faced with a high-stakes choice of treasons. A Choice of Treasons is an action-packed novel with expert plotting, a well-drawn hero, and enough technology to satisfy every science fiction fan.
