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Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go
Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process to help with career development.
How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography
Responding to increasing interest in fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in geography, Guo Chen and LaToya E. Eaves lead a rich volume of three parts from over 40 authors from leading geographers, diverse intellectuals, and advocates from various subdisciplinary fields and interconnected world regions. This book engages readers in historical and empirical facts and epistemic interventions from Black, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian-American geographies, as well as Women of Colour, queer, trans, and disabled geographers, offerings abundant practical examples on how to foster DEIJ, and introduces new directions and methods.
The Wedding Planner's Daughter
Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham loves the sea and eating chocolate-coated cherries. But what she'd love more than anything is a dad. It's a shame her mum, Stella, is so unromantic. When Stella falls for the poet next door, Willa can't believe her luck. Then everything starts to go wrong ... Can Willa put things right and get her mum to say 'I do'?
A Life in Movies
“A lively memoir . . . a first-hand work of cinema history . . . the testament of a pivotal figure in American moviemaking.” —Martin Scorsese The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve. In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the...
Uncivil Wars
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that s...
Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Policy decisions are already being made to limit or adapt to climate change and its impacts, but there is a need for greater integration between science and decision making. This book proposes six priorities for restructuring the United States' climate change research program to develop a more robust knowledge base and support informed responses: Reorganize the Program Around Integrated Scientific-Societal Issues Establish a U.S. Climate Observing System Support a New Generation of Coupled Earth System Models Strengthen Research on Adaptation, Mitigation, and Vulnerability Initiate a National Assessment of the Risks and Costs of Climate Change Impacts and Options to Respond Coordinate Federal Efforts to Provide Climate Information, Tools, and Forecasts Routinely to Decision Makers
Forever House
Timothy Ruger has special gifts. He can talk to people across the country with a simple thought. He can project an image for them to see. He just has one problem, his father. Timothy s dad is quite gifted himself and he his determined to keep Timothy s gifts a secret. He is so determined that he has kept Timothy locked in a small room his entire life. It is the forever room and Timothy is sure that he will die in this room unless he can get help. He uses his gifts to call nine strangers to the farm house where his father has imprisoned him. Nine strangers travel from places across the country to find the little boy. They have come to save him from his sadistic father, but they haven t come alone. The father has called on a killer to stop them. To save the boy they will have to stop the killer and face the very gates of Hell.
