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Want to become a better leader? Want to help others accelerate their own leadership development? Leadership Haiku is an inviting and inventive exploration of how to become a better leader - without all the clutter of unnecessary words! Newer managers will welcome its insights and perspectives. More seasoned leaders will appreciate its relevance and range. _____ Most Learning Takes Time. A Surprising Amount, Though, Takes But A Hai...

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Kings in Disguise (ISBN 978 0 393 32848 6) won two Eisner Awards and was hailed by The Guardian as one of the ten best graphic novels of all time. This highly anticipated sequel tells the story of a young man's coming of age in a world where the capacity to dream may be a fatal flaw. On the Ropes is a breathtaking visual achievement that delivers a powerful, timeless story.

A guidebook tells visitors how to travel in a recognisable but dreamlike United States where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat, a supervisor in a department store must discipline his employees for failing to smile enough at their customers and finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all, a woman agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet to help her cope after a divorce, then is horrified when her lit...

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word meanings and syntax and semantics more generally.

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This study is the contribution of the ECE Region to the eleventh session of the UN Forum on Forests. Using the best available data, it examines progress of the forest sector in the ECE Region towards the achievement of the four Global Objectives on Forests, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007. Thirteen major challenges for the forest sector in the region are identified and analysed.

This volume contains data on energy supply and consumption in original units for coal, oil, gas, electricity, heat, renewables and waste. Complete data are available for 2012 and 2013 and supply estimates are available for the most recent year (i.e. 2014). Historical tables summarize data on production, trade and final consumption. The book also includes definitions of products and flows and explanatory notes on the individual country data. In...

This volume contains data on the supply and consumption of coal, oil, gas, electricity, heat, renewables and waste presented as comprehensive energy balances expressed in million tonnes of oil equivalent. Complete data are available for 2012 and 2013 and supply estimates are available for the most recent year (i.e. 2014). Historical tables summarise production, trade and final consumption data as well as key energy and economic indicators. The...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Provides analysis of production trends and complex, quantified distribution patterns of the principal traded sigillatas and slipped table wares in the Roman East, from the early Empire to Late Antiquity.

By openly bringing issues of sexuality and gender to the forefront of dance education and training, this book addresses critical challenges for engaged dance educators interested in a variety of issues. These issues include age appropriate content, theme and costume, the hyper-sexualization of children and adolescents, sexual orientation and homophobia, the hidden curriculum of sexuality and gender, sexual identity, the impact of contemporary ...

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacleto examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to ourcontempor...

Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more than just new ways to deliver public infrastructure. They are neoliberal projects that privatize and corporatize the basis of public services.Analyz...

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Examines how susceptible East African Community (EAC) economies are to asymmetric shocks, assesses the value of the exchange rate as a shock absorber for these countries, and reviews adjustment mechanisms that would help ensure a successful experience under a common currency. The report draws on analysis of recent experiences and examines likely future changes in the EAC economies.

This book provides an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim economic and trade history, making it a valuable contribution to understanding of the increasing global importance of this region.

This book analyses the radical political transformation of eastern Congo through the lens of cross-border risk management.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry's unique psychological qualities.

This book explains how military coalitions form, as well as their implications for war, peace, and the spread of conflicts.