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On macro-scale, the nonprofit sector is grapping with a leadership crisis. This book is the tool to help you become a coaching manager, and provides a good supply of questions for you to use in specific situations. The authors share what they discovered and learned as coaches in nonprofit sector. They offer insights and the experience of managers and leaders who are using the coaching skills to complement other management and leadership approaches. Judith Wilson is one of only six hundred International Coach Federation-master certified coaches. She regularly provides leadership coaching and training. Michelle Gislason is a senior project director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and certified organization coach. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a consulting, research, and training organization for nonprofits.
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AltaMira: Anthropology
AltaMira Press publishes the leading textbooks in anthropological theory and anthropological methods. The AltaMira is also building lists of books in medical anthropology, museum anthropology, international development indigenous peoples, and environmental anthropology, among the subdisciplines.
Vision of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Third Edition by Jerry D. Moore published by AltaMira in 2009. Years ago, a young man stood up and said that he starts off with Edward Tylor, but Professor X tells that Tylor was just an armchair anthropologist; so he reads Malinowski, but Professor X said Malinowski was a racist. Them he reads Margaret Mead, and Professor X says Mead was a liar. Anthropology is in a crisis…
Vision of Culture is written as an introduction to the principal theorists and theories that shaped ...
and continue to shape the modern anthropology. The chapters are organized into 6 thematic sections beginning with a brief introductory essay outlining the problems and issues common to the anthropologists discussed in the section. This book is a brief, readable treatment of theoretical developments. Jerry D. Moore is an author and professor of anthropology at California State University.
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John Wiley & Sons: Jossey-Bass: Counseling
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The Handbook of Career Advising by Kenneth F. Hughey, Dorothy Burton Nelson, Joannek K. Damminger, Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, and associates published by Jossey-Bass in 2009. This book is a resource to assist you in making career advising an integral part of academic advising; it provides the theory and foundations of career advising, hands-on strategies and applications you can utilize on your campus. Career advising is an increasingly important activity for academic advisors. This title adds value to the career advising and as a result, the academic and career planning and development of students will be enhanced. Kenneth F. Hughey is professor and chair of the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs at Kansas State University in
Manhattan, Kansas. Dorothy Burton Nelson directs the Center for Student Excellence at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Joanne K. Damminger is director of Student Transition ...
and Leadership program at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Betsy McCalla-Wriggins is director emeritus of the career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.
Counseling the Culturally Diverse Theory and Practice (5th Edition) by Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D. and David Sue, Ph.D. published by John Wiley & Sons in 2007. This title (since its publication in 1981) has become a classic in its field. The 5th edition does not change its basic formula, which continue to make it success in the academic and clinical markets. In this edition, the readers will find major updating of references, an introduction of concepts and new research, and future directions in counseling, mental health, and therapy. The 14 specific population chapters, including several new ones, continue to be hailed as among the best sketches of how multicultural counseling relates to the various marginalized populations. Many of the additions and revisions arose from instructor and student feedback.
A series of videotapes/DVDs in lecture format produced and developed independently by Micro-training Associates to accompany specific chapters of this book. This completely updated 5th edition offers essential and thought provoking material on theory, research, and practice. Pioneers in this field, authors Derald Wing Sue and David Sue analyze the meaning of diversity and multiculturalism and include coverage of racial/ethnic minority groups and multiracial individuals, women, gays and lesbians, the elderly, and those with disabilities.
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University Of Iowa Press: Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War
Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War: German Stage Directing In The Late Twentieth Century by Marvin Carlson published by University of Iowa Press in 2009. The German theatre of the past 40 years has constantly achieved a level of distinction unique in the worldwide community. Its theatres remain among the best funded in the world. There is little doubt that this theatrical culture has encouraged a remarkably large number of outstanding actors, designers, and directors. Following WWII, the German theatre was reestablished with rapidity even in burned-out cities. The idea of theatre as art removed from the political realm and a variety of approaches arose. A distinctly different theatre scene emerged in Germany since the turn of the century. Two major new directors have appeared, both entering their 40s: M. Thalheimer and T. Ostermeier. This informative title will give an idea of the richness and variety of theatre traditions and periods, general characteristics and contributions.
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O'Reilly: CSS: The Missing Manual, Netbooks: The Missing Manual, JUNOS High Availability, and more
CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book assumes you’ve already got some knowledge of HTML. Cascading Style Sheets give you creative control over the layout and design of your web pages. The purpose of CSS is to streamline the process of styling web pages. In this important title reader will find info about the basics of CSS, creating a CSS-powered web pages, and much more. CSS works with HTML, but it’s not HTML. It is a different language. This book will teach you how to think like a CSS ...designer, develop timesaving CSS practices, design elegant layouts, add navigation bars and rollover links, learn with CSS 3 properties work. David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He is been building Web sites since 1995, when he designed his 1st website: an online magazine for communication professionals. He is also writer, trainer, and instructor.
Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J. D. Biersdorfer published by O’Reilly in 2009. The decision to buy a netbook means you have to make a few other choices like what kind a netbook. Mini-Me Pcs become more popular. In July 2009, Google announ
ced it was working on an operating system aimed squarely at netbooks. The Chrome OS should show up on netbooks by the end of 2010.…
This book is not a guide to a specific model of netbook or a single operating system. It is a guide to the hardware realities, the software possibilities, and the potential of your netbook to be something more than the 21st century version of a portable typewriter. This informative title will give you information you need to know, how to master netbook basics for Windows and Linux, connect all your hardware, learn the joys of living online, get down to business with Microsoft Office, Google Docs and OpenOffice, edit photos, play games, and much more.
J.D. Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book. She is co-author of iPhoto ‘09: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual.
JUNOS High Availability: Best for High Network Uptime by James Sonderegger, Orin Blomberg, Kieran Milne & Senad Palislamovic published by O'Reilly in 2009. This informative tittle will help you manage network equipment with Best Common Practices, enhance scalability, perform network audits, combine the IGP platforms.
and BGP networks of two merging companies, and much more. The authors explain how to intelligently modify multi-vendor networks. You'll learn how to adapt new devices to existing protocols and platforms...
James Sonderegger manages the Americas Division of Jupiter Networks Training Delivery organization. Orin Blomberg is the technical lead for SSL, VPNs and remote accessat the Washington State Department of Inforrmation Services. Kieran Milne is a training developer at Jupiter Networks. Senad Ppaloslamovic is a professor services engineer at Jupiter Networks.
Mobile
Design and Development: Practical Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps by Brian Fling published by O'Reilly in 2009. This informative book will help you understand how the mobile ecosystem works, how it differs from other mediums, how to design p roducts for the context, learn the pros and cons of building native apps sold through operators or stores versus mobile webs ites or web apps... In this book, there's something for everyone who is interested in designing in developing for mobile devices, regardless of experience and of the application. This title is for a web designer and developer, information architect and product manager, usability professional and content publisher. Author Brian Fling has been working in mobile for over 10 years, and worked with hundreds of businesses.
Programming the Semantic Web: Build
Flexible Applications with Graph Data (1st Edition) by Colin Evans, Toby Segaran, Jamie Taylor published by O'Reilly in July, 2009. This fabulous title will show you how the Semantic Web allow new uses of data to emerge; will help to understand how semantic technologies promote data portability with a simple model for knowledge representation... You will become familiar with semantic standards, such as Resource Description framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology language (OWL) and much more.
Every chapter explores a single piece of semantic technology and gives an explaination how you can use it to solve your problems.
Using Google App Engine: Start Building and Running Web Apps on Google’s Infrastructure by Charles Severace published by O’Reilly in 2009. This title is aimed at anyone who wants to get started with Google App Engine. You will learn how to build exciting, scalable web applications confidently and quickly.
Even if you have no experience in programming. App Engine is the most appealing technology to appear in the last year. By the end of this account, reader will know how to build complete, interactive apps and deploy them to the cloud using the same servers that power Google apps.
Charles Severance is a Clinical Assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and works with the IMS Global Learning Consortium as the IMS Developer Network Coordinator.
The Art of Concurrency: A Thread Monkey’s Guide to Writing Parallel Applications by Clay Breshears published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book
from serial to parallel code, will give you advice for avoiding mistakes that programmers make. This is one of the few sources that explore implementing algorithms in the shared-memory architectures. Written by a senior Intel engineer with experience of parallel and concurrent programming, this book explores the differences between programming for shared memory and distributed memory; guidelines for designing multithreaded applications, including testing and tuning; how to implement concurrent algorithms that involve sorting, searching, graphs, and much more.
Android: Application Development by Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks & Blake Meike published by O’Reilly in 2009.
This title is an ideal complement to Android’s documentation and provides the concepts and code to start building smartphone applications with the Android programming environment. Android is the most popular open source platform for mobile app development. This book will help you create a complete modular application that makes use of Android’s UI elements; apply ready-to-run code to implement each feature; write android applications that take advantage of any core function; learn advanced topics, such as 2D and 3D graphics, performance analysis, and debugging. Rick Rogers is a professional embedded software engineer; John Lombardo is author of Embedded Linux (Sams), worked on several Linux products; Zigurd Mednieks is chief user interface architect at D2 Technologies and consultant; Blake Meike has developed applications using GUI toolkit and Java mobile device platform.
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Tate Publishing: Bringing The Better Deal
Bringing The Better Deal: A Changing Men’s Guide To Approaching, getting, And Most Importantly, Keeping The Women They Desire by Phil Gilliam published by Tate Publishing in 2009. This book is the guide that will help to nice men get off the sidelines...Phil will help you to create a Unique Appealing Persona. This is not a guide “to be a player and get girls.” This title helps to nice guys to be nice and to enhance their genuine personality and create situations in which the women will be attracted to the real you, without fake personalities and lines.
Phil Gilliam has spent the last 10 years studying, researching and attending trainings and seminars on the subject of personal relationships. From his 300 interviews with over 300 women and man, Gilliam noted the most primary desires of men and women to develop his coaching strategy. Gilliam created AverageGuy, Inc. Gilliam’s goal is to transform the personal lives of 1,000 000 men.
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Rocky Nook: Photography
Photographic Multishot Teckniques: High Dynamic Range, Super-Resolution, Extended Depth of Field, Stitching by Juergen Gulbins and Riner Gulbins published by RockyNook in 2009. Photographers are just beginning to realize the potential if high dynamic range imaging. Now, the newest technologies based on a bracked series of exposures make it possible to go beyond HDRI. Phot
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AltaMira: Anthropology
AltaMira Press publishes the leading textbooks in anthropological theory and anthropological methods. The AltaMira is also building lists of books in medical anthropology, museum anthropology, international development indigenous peoples, and environmental anthropology, among the subdisciplines.
Vision of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Third Edition by Jerry D. Moore published by AltaMira in 2009. Years ago, a young man stood up and said that he starts off with Edward Tylor, but Professor X tells that Tylor was just an armchair anthropologist; so he reads Malinowski, but Professor X said Malinowski was a racist. Them he reads Margaret Mead, and Professor X says Mead was a liar. Anthropology is in a crisis…Vision of Culture is written as an introduction to the principal theorists and theories that shaped ...
and continue to shape the modern anthropology. The chapters are organized into 6 thematic sections beginning with a brief introductory essay outlining the problems and issues common to the anthropologists discussed in the section. This book is a brief, readable treatment of theoretical developments. Jerry D. Moore is an author and professor of anthropology at California State University.
=============================================================================================
John Wiley & Sons: Jossey-Bass: Counseling
The Handbook of Career Advising by Kenneth F. Hughey, Dorothy Burton Nelson, Joannek K. Damminger, Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, and associates published by Jossey-Bass in 2009. This book is a resource to assist you in making career advising an integral part of academic advising; it provides the theory and foundations of career advising, hands-on strategies and applications you can utilize on your campus. Career advising is an increasingly important activity for academic advisors. This title adds value to the career advising and as a result, the academic and career planning and development of students will be enhanced. Kenneth F. Hughey is professor and chair of the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Dorothy Burton Nelson directs the Center for Student Excellence at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Joanne K. Damminger is director of Student Transition ...and Leadership program at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Betsy McCalla-Wriggins is director emeritus of the career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.
Counseling the Culturally Diverse Theory and Practice (5th Edition) by Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D. and David Sue, Ph.D. published by John Wiley & Sons in 2007. This title (since its publication in 1981) has become a classic in its field. The 5th edition does not change its basic formula, which continue to make it success in the academic and clinical markets. In this edition, the readers will find major updating of references, an introduction of concepts and new research, and future directions in counseling, mental health, and therapy. The 14 specific population chapters, including several new ones, continue to be hailed as among the best sketches of how multicultural counseling relates to the various marginalized populations. Many of the additions and revisions arose from instructor and student feedback.
A series of videotapes/DVDs in lecture format produced and developed independently by Micro-training Associates to accompany specific chapters of this book. This completely updated 5th edition offers essential and thought provoking material on theory, research, and practice. Pioneers in this field, authors Derald Wing Sue and David Sue analyze the meaning of diversity and multiculturalism and include coverage of racial/ethnic minority groups and multiracial individuals, women, gays and lesbians, the elderly, and those with disabilities.
=============================================================================================
University Of Iowa Press: Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War
Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War: German Stage Directing In The Late Twentieth Century by Marvin Carlson published by University of Iowa Press in 2009. The German theatre of the past 40 years has constantly achieved a level of distinction unique in the worldwide community. Its theatres remain among the best funded in the world. There is little doubt that this theatrical culture has encouraged a remarkably large number of outstanding actors, designers, and directors. Following WWII, the German theatre was reestablished with rapidity even in burned-out cities. The idea of theatre as art removed from the political realm and a variety of approaches arose. A distinctly different theatre scene emerged in Germany since the turn of the century. Two major new directors have appeared, both entering their 40s: M. Thalheimer and T. Ostermeier. This informative title will give an idea of the richness and variety of theatre traditions and periods, general characteristics and contributions. ================================================================================================
O'Reilly: CSS: The Missing Manual, Netbooks: The Missing Manual, JUNOS High Availability, and more
CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book assumes you’ve already got some knowledge of HTML. Cascading Style Sheets give you creative control over the layout and design of your web pages. The purpose of CSS is to streamline the process of styling web pages. In this important title reader will find info about the basics of CSS, creating a CSS-powered web pages, and much more. CSS works with HTML, but it’s not HTML. It is a different language. This book will teach you how to think like a CSS ...designer, develop timesaving CSS practices, design elegant layouts, add navigation bars and rollover links, learn with CSS 3 properties work. David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He is been building Web sites since 1995, when he designed his 1st website: an online magazine for communication professionals. He is also writer, trainer, and instructor.Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J. D. Biersdorfer published by O’Reilly in 2009. The decision to buy a netbook means you have to make a few other choices like what kind a netbook. Mini-Me Pcs become more popular. In July 2009, Google announ
ced it was working on an operating system aimed squarely at netbooks. The Chrome OS should show up on netbooks by the end of 2010.…This book is not a guide to a specific model of netbook or a single operating system. It is a guide to the hardware realities, the software possibilities, and the potential of your netbook to be something more than the 21st century version of a portable typewriter. This informative title will give you information you need to know, how to master netbook basics for Windows and Linux, connect all your hardware, learn the joys of living online, get down to business with Microsoft Office, Google Docs and OpenOffice, edit photos, play games, and much more.
J.D. Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book. She is co-author of iPhoto ‘09: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual.
JUNOS High Availability: Best for High Network Uptime by James Sonderegger, Orin Blomberg, Kieran Milne & Senad Palislamovic published by O'Reilly in 2009. This informative tittle will help you manage network equipment with Best Common Practices, enhance scalability, perform network audits, combine the IGP platforms.
and BGP networks of two merging companies, and much more. The authors explain how to intelligently modify multi-vendor networks. You'll learn how to adapt new devices to existing protocols and platforms...James Sonderegger manages the Americas Division of Jupiter Networks Training Delivery organization. Orin Blomberg is the technical lead for SSL, VPNs and remote accessat the Washington State Department of Inforrmation Services. Kieran Milne is a training developer at Jupiter Networks. Senad Ppaloslamovic is a professor services engineer at Jupiter Networks.
Mobile
Design and Development: Practical Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps by Brian Fling published by O'Reilly in 2009. This informative book will help you understand how the mobile ecosystem works, how it differs from other mediums, how to design p roducts for the context, learn the pros and cons of building native apps sold through operators or stores versus mobile webs ites or web apps... In this book, there's something for everyone who is interested in designing in developing for mobile devices, regardless of experience and of the application. This title is for a web designer and developer, information architect and product manager, usability professional and content publisher. Author Brian Fling has been working in mobile for over 10 years, and worked with hundreds of businesses. Programming the Semantic Web: Build
Flexible Applications with Graph Data (1st Edition) by Colin Evans, Toby Segaran, Jamie Taylor published by O'Reilly in July, 2009. This fabulous title will show you how the Semantic Web allow new uses of data to emerge; will help to understand how semantic technologies promote data portability with a simple model for knowledge representation... You will become familiar with semantic standards, such as Resource Description framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology language (OWL) and much more. Every chapter explores a single piece of semantic technology and gives an explaination how you can use it to solve your problems.
Using Google App Engine: Start Building and Running Web Apps on Google’s Infrastructure by Charles Severace published by O’Reilly in 2009. This title is aimed at anyone who wants to get started with Google App Engine. You will learn how to build exciting, scalable web applications confidently and quickly. Even if you have no experience in programming. App Engine is the most appealing technology to appear in the last year. By the end of this account, reader will know how to build complete, interactive apps and deploy them to the cloud using the same servers that power Google apps.
Charles Severance is a Clinical Assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and works with the IMS Global Learning Consortium as the IMS Developer Network Coordinator.
The Art of Concurrency: A Thread Monkey’s Guide to Writing Parallel Applications by Clay Breshears published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book from serial to parallel code, will give you advice for avoiding mistakes that programmers make. This is one of the few sources that explore implementing algorithms in the shared-memory architectures. Written by a senior Intel engineer with experience of parallel and concurrent programming, this book explores the differences between programming for shared memory and distributed memory; guidelines for designing multithreaded applications, including testing and tuning; how to implement concurrent algorithms that involve sorting, searching, graphs, and much more.
Android: Application Development by Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks & Blake Meike published by O’Reilly in 2009.
This title is an ideal complement to Android’s documentation and provides the concepts and code to start building smartphone applications with the Android programming environment. Android is the most popular open source platform for mobile app development. This book will help you create a complete modular application that makes use of Android’s UI elements; apply ready-to-run code to implement each feature; write android applications that take advantage of any core function; learn advanced topics, such as 2D and 3D graphics, performance analysis, and debugging. Rick Rogers is a professional embedded software engineer; John Lombardo is author of Embedded Linux (Sams), worked on several Linux products; Zigurd Mednieks is chief user interface architect at D2 Technologies and consultant; Blake Meike has developed applications using GUI toolkit and Java mobile device platform.============================================================================================================================
Tate Publishing: Bringing The Better Deal
Bringing The Better Deal: A Changing Men’s Guide To Approaching, getting, And Most Importantly, Keeping The Women They Desire by Phil Gilliam published by Tate Publishing in 2009. This book is the guide that will help to nice men get off the sidelines...Phil will help you to create a Unique Appealing Persona. This is not a guide “to be a player and get girls.” This title helps to nice guys to be nice and to enhance their genuine personality and create situations in which the women will be attracted to the real you, without fake personalities and lines. Phil Gilliam has spent the last 10 years studying, researching and attending trainings and seminars on the subject of personal relationships. From his 300 interviews with over 300 women and man, Gilliam noted the most primary desires of men and women to develop his coaching strategy. Gilliam created AverageGuy, Inc. Gilliam’s goal is to transform the personal lives of 1,000 000 men.
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Rocky Nook: Photography
Photographic Multishot Teckniques: High Dynamic Range, Super-Resolution, Extended Depth of Field, Stitching by Juergen Gulbins and Riner Gulbins published by RockyNook in 2009. Photographers are just beginning to realize the potential if high dynamic range imaging. Now, the newest technologies based on a bracked series of exposures make it possible to go beyond HDRI. Phot|
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