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This comprehensive book describes how proactive behavior, driven by a proactive personality, contributes to individual and organizational productivity. A consolidation of available research on the nature of proactivity in the workplace, this book explo
El cambio climático global es inevitable y tiene efectos a diferentes escalas espaciales, incluyendo la urbana. El Área Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile se ve enfrentada a mayores eventos de calor extremo, inundaciones y desafíos con la disponibilidad de agua y energía. Mediante el estudio de experiencias de otras ciudades latinoamericanas, esta investigación contribuye en términos teóricos y metodológicos a una mejor comprensión de esta temática, estimulando la implementación de medidas concretas de adaptación.
Make sure you have the most up-to-date edition of this indispensable reference for researching and planning a career in health care. Health Professions Career and Education Directory 2007-2008 contains the most current and comprehensive information on more than 70 health professions and the educational programs available for a career in health care. No other reference available gives greater in-depth information about more health professions. Detailed descriptions are provided for each profession, including information on profession history, occupation and job descriptions, employment outlook and characteristics and more. Educational programs are listed and include contact information, class...
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier an...
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For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle--with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre--maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach "post" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped o...