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The Immigrant Advantage
From an award-winning journalist comes a fascinating exploration of the life-enhancing customs that immigrant groups have brought with them to the U.S. and of how Americans can improve their lives by adapting them.
The Spider and the Fly
Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching, The Spider and the Fly is not just a superb true-crime story but an insightful investigation of the nature of evil, the fragility of good, and the crooked road that can turn human beings into monsters. A must-read.' GILLIAN FLYNN, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl 'Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I'll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you're honest, as honest as any reporter . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn't it?' Kendall Francois, serial killer In this extraordinary, white-knuckle account of a series of horrifying...
Understanding and Managing Strategic Governance
Explore the interplay between corporate governance and strategic decision-making in this startling new resource In Understanding and Managing Strategic Governance, strategy and management experts Dr. Wei Shi and Robert E. Hoskisson deliver an insightful exploration of the influence that governance actors, like the board of directors, activist investors, institutional investors, and securities analysts, have on important strategic decisions. Based on surveying the latest research and analyzing unique datasets compiled by the authors, the book explains the impact that governance actors have on a firm’s strategic choices and the quality of such choices as well as the unintended consequences o...
Feel-Bad Education
Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.” And Time magazine has called him “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” Here is challenging and entertaining writing on where we should go in American education, in Alfie Kohn’s unmistakable voice. He argues in the title essay with those who think that...
Power to the People
Vaitheeswaran covers the economic, political and technological forces that are reshaping the world's management of energy resources. He documents an energy revolution already underway and exposes both the enormous risks to humanity and planet Earth and the opportunities afforded by our limitless hunger for energy.
Beyond Repair?
Can the death penalty be administered in a just way - without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? All new, the essays in this collection focus on the period since 1976.
Eating Asian America
"Fully of provocation and insight." - Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of War, Genocide, and Justice
Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)
Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details and a readiness to ask hard questions and give honest, even brutal, answers. Her willingness to "put it all down—the painful, the funny, the mundane, the embarrassing" has won legions of readers for her print and online columns. Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away) collects forty-six essays, which initially appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Austin Chronicle, Dallas Mo...
Growing Up and Parenting: Two Score and Four Years Ago
This book is a collection of growing up and parenting narratives from medical doctors, professors, managers, accountants, nurse, researcher, financial analyst, engineer, consultant and mentor - who graduated from the UEC High School Two Score and Four Years ago. The 10 narratives and supporting materials share the "lessons learned" and "best practices" as well as the shortcomings and tragedies from childhood to adolescence, to adulthood, into the 40s, 50s, 60s, and the golden years - which are timeless and repeated by each generation across communities, cultures and borders. The stories are intended as reference materials and transformative roadmap for adolescents, would-be parents, parents, guardians, mentors, teachers, social workers, and other parties who have an interest in the adversities, challenges and in managing growing up and parenting.
