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Swell
Sailing Ten Years and 20,000 Miles In Search of Surf and Self
Witness to the Age of Revolution
This stunning graphic history tells the story of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, a descendant of the last Inca rulers. After participating in his half-brother's massive rebellion that stretched across Peru from 1780 to 1783, Juan Bautista spent forty years imprisoned by the Spanish, on an "odyssey" that took him from Cusco to Lima to Rio de Janeiro to Cádiz to Ceuta, the African presidio, and back to South America.
Abina and the Important Men
This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.
The Essence of Change
Liz Clarke explores how businesses can survive and grow through the 1990s.
The Business Enterprise Handbook
About this book Introduction 1 Pt. 1 Where are we now? 7 1 Your mission 15 2 Opportunities and threats 23 3 Strengths and weaknesses 38 4 The financial position 57 5 How to diagnose your organisation 97 6 Assessing people, structure and systems 114 Pt. 2 Where are we going? 143 7 Marketing options 147 8 Marketing strategy: focus and priorities 152 9 Choosing between alternatives 162 10 Financing growth 178 11 Acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and divestments 219 12 Visionary leadership 238 Pt. 3 How will we get there? 253 13 The marketing plan 257 14 The people plan 270 15 Managing change 285 16 The financial plan 302 17 Writing and presenting your business plan 322 18 Exit routes 337 References 352 Index 354 Index of advertisers 356.
Undue Process
Based on 300 hours of interviews with coaches, athletic directors, student-athletes, and NCAA officials, Undue Process examines the NCAA's system of "justice" -- the organization's history and its growth in power over the years, the lack of due process for its accused, its guilty-until-proven-innocent attitude, and its 100 percent conviction rate.
The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook
Exploring the characteristics of 'champion' enterprises, this guidebook helps entrepreneurs develop professionally and grow their business. It charts the problems owner-managed firms are likely to encounter and suggests ways to anticipate and resolve them.
Realities of Teachers' Work
The Realities of Teacher' Work: Never a Dull Moment follows the fortunes of the teachers at Hillview Primary School over ten years. It explores what it is like to be a primary or elementary school teacher in an urban school with about 200 children, mixed in social class and ethnicity, and suggests what we may learn from them for the future.Sandra Acker links her research with other literature on teachers' work, and describes the school as a workplace, focusing on four key features: the characteristics of the children, the school's physical setting, the available resources, and the ethos of the school.She successfully places us in the classroom giving vivid images of daily interactions with t...
History, Theory, Text
A historian of early Christianity considers various theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Clark argues for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades.
Mendoza the Jew
Mendoza the Jew combines a graphic history with primary documentation and contextual information to explore issues of nationalism, identity, culture, and historical methodology through the life story of Daniel Mendoza. Mendoza was a poor Sephardic Jew from East London who became the boxing champion of Britain in 1789. As a Jew with limited means and a foreign-sounding name, Mendoza was an unlikely symbol of what many Britons considered to be their very own "national" sport.
