The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career
The Essential College Professor is about the "how" and "why" of being a faculty member today. Based on the author's series of highly successful faculty development workshops, each chapter deals concisely with the most important information college professors need at their fingertips when confronted by a particular challenge or faced with an exciting opportunity.
Featuring more than 600 questions about dinosaurs—such as What dinosaurs are thought to have evolved into birds? Did dinosaurs travel in herds? and Where and what is the Dinosaur Freeway?—this fun-filled fact-book provides a wealth of information on the lives and habits of these astonishing creatures. From the Tyrannosaurus rex to the Stegosaurus, the guide profiles numerous species, chronicling their time on earth and exploring their roles in archaeological expeditions and museums today.
An Hour To Live, An Hour To Love: The True Story Of The Best Gift Ever Given
On their 18th wedding anniversary, in 2003, Richard Carlson presented his wife, Kristine, with a short manuscript called An Hour to Live. He imagines he has an hour to live and poses questions originally asked by spiritual guide and author Stephen Levine: whom would you call? what would you say? and why are you waiting? Uncannily, the text foreshadowed Carlson's death three years later, at age 45, of a pulmonary embolism.
The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy ManagersManagers need top-flight communication skills to keep their staffs productive and collaborative. But often, those who manage lack the ability to get things back on track once miscommunication occurs. This book helps readers analyze their communication skills and challenges and explains how they can use simple problem-solving techniques to resolve the people issues that derail productivity at work. Easily accessible and filled with real world management examples. This no-nonsense guide is packed with practical tools
The NeXt Revolution: What Gen X Women Want at Work and How Their Boomer Bosses Can Help Them Get itWritten by a Boomer mother and Gen X daughter, this perceptive book explores the deep satisfaction that professional Gen Xers are experiencing at work-especially women who expected to enter the equal-opportunity workplace their feminist mothers fought for
