Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player.Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book. Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, Maxwell identifies the seventeen qualities that make up an in-demand team player while outlining how to embody those qualities.In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been:Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goalRelational – focused on othersSelfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the teamTenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacksThis instructional resource shows how these qualities, among many others, impact the team and its success. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player is not feel-good platitudes and abstract thinking, but concrete actions designed to improve the value of every team player.

    Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip. The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken.

    Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before.We have built large numbers of prisons, but they are overflowing with non-violent drug offenders. The huge profits made from drug sales are corrupting people and institutions here and abroad. And far from being protected by our drug prohibition policy, our children are being recruited by it to a lifestyle of drug use and drug selling.Judge Gray's book drives a stake through the heart of the War on Drugs. After documenting the wide-ranging harms caused by this failed policy, Judge Gray also gives us hope. We have viable options. The author evaluates these options, ranging from education and drug treatment to different strategies for taking the profit out of drug-dealing.Many officials will not say publicly what they acknowledge privately about the failure of the War on Drugs. Politicians especially are afraid of not appearing "tough on drugs". But Judge Gray's conclusions as a veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor are reinforced by the testimonies of more than forty other judges nationwide.

    In this new book, Ramadan addresses Muslim societies and communities everywhere witha bold call for radical reform. He challenges those who argue defensively that reform is a dangerous and foreign deviation, and a betrayal of the faith. Authentic reform, he says, has always been grounded in Islam's textual sources, spiritual objectives, and intellectual traditions. But thereformist movements that are based on renewed reading of textual sources while using traditional methodologies and categories have achieved only adaptive responses to the crisis facing a globalizing world. Such readings, Ramadan argues, have reached the limits of their usefulness.Ramadan calls for a radical reform that goes beyond adaptation to envision bold and creative solutions to transform the present and the future of our societies. This new approach interrogates the historically established sources, categories, higher objectives, tools, and methodologies of Islamic lawand jurisprudence, and the authority this traditional geography of knowledge has granted to textual scholars. He proposes a new geography which redefines the sources and the spiritual and ethical objectives of the law creating room for the authority of scholars of the social and hard sciences. Thiswill equip this transformative reform with the spiritual, ethical, social and scientific knowledge necessary to address contemporary challenges. Ramadan argues that radical reform demands not only the equal contributions of scholars of both the text and the context, but the critical engagement andcreative imagination of the Muslim masses. This proposal for radical reform dramatically shifts the center of gravity of authority. It is bound to provoke controversy and spark debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

     While children and adults alike know Shel Silverstein for his classic books The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, they may be less aware that Silverstein also created a dazzling series of illustrated comic travelogues published by Hugh M. Hefner in Playboy. Playboy's Silverstein Around the World not only reproduces these fascinating articles in facsimile form, it also provides an introduction with never-before-seen photos and drawings and rare, illuminating biographical detail. Beginning in May 1957 with "Return to Tokyo," the pieces reproduced in this book took Silverstein from Scandinavia to Africa and the Middle East, from Paris and London to Moscow, ending in the summer of 1968 with the two-part epic "Silverstein Among the Hippies." This unique collection is a legacy of the close relationship between Silverstein and Hefner, who saw the great potential of this particular combination of artist and assignment, and the social revolution led by Playboy in the 1950s and 1960s. With its wry, ribald humor and beautifully produced color illustrations, this tableau of the mid-twentieth-century world is sure to please and fascinate Silverstein's millions of fans.

    Susan Campbell provides simple yet practical awareness practices — culled from her 35-year career as a relationship coach and corporate consultant — that require individuals to “let go” of the need to be right, safe, and certain. Such questions as “In what areas of my life do I feel the need to lie, sugarcoat, or pretend?” help guide the reader toward self-realization. The ten truth skills include Letting Yourself Be Seen, Taking Back Projections, Saying No, Welcoming Feedback, Expressing Taboo Thoughts and Emotions, Revising an Earlier Statement, Holding Differences, Sharing Mixed Emotions, and Embracing the Silence of Not Knowing.

    Each year, six to twelve individuals document, examine, and analyze new forms and mutations of urbanity through particular areas or topics undergoing dramatic change, in order to develop a conceptual framework and vocabulary for phenomena that defy traditional categories. Even though research is formally conducted as graduate-level thesis projects advised by Rem Koolhaas (Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Design School), the Project represents "an important reversal, in the sense that teaching is no longer the distribution of a central knowledge, but is more the assembly of different insights and different experiences, where the students often represent deeper knowledge of a very specific condition than the teacher can ever hope to represent," according to Koolhaas. The Harvard Design School Guide To Shopping, the second volume of the Project on the City series, is an incisive, in-depth look at the culturally defining activity of modern life that has affected almost every aspect of the contemporary city. Through a battery of increasingly mutable forms, shopping has infiltrated-even replaced-almost every aspect of urban life. Town centers, suburbs, streets, airports, train stations, museums, hospitals, schools, the Internet, and even the military, are shaped by the mechanisms and spaces of shopping. The extent to which shopping pursues the public has, in effect, made it one of the principal-if only-modes by which we experience the city. The Harvard Design School Guide To Shopping explores the spaces, people, techniques, ideologies, and inventions by which shopping has so dramatically reconfigured the city. The book's 14 authors examine the nature of this experience in 45 essays covering topics such as air conditioning, the dying mall, mechanically enhanced plants, how the military is so compatible with shopping, how "high" architecture disdains yet embraces shopping, how American downtowns have become indistinguishable from the suburbs, how women were "liberated" as consumers, and how shopping spies on us. The book is a fascinating analytical survey of the evolutionary forms and pervasive influences of shopping around the world.

    As always, Supermuscleman, Chief Executive Dictator of the Universe, lurks in the background, trying—unsuccessfully and incompetently—to make Sardine and her crew behave.

    Combining firsthand accounts of employees' escapes with an in-depth look at the structural reasons behind the towers' collapse, Chiles addresses the question, Were the towers "two tall heroes" or structures with a fatal flaw?

    How could she have known, in the years to follow, just how many strong and independent women would step forward to forge new paths in their fight for equality?From Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman to the less well-known but equally important Belva Lockwood and Maya Ying Lin, Remember the Ladies spans the centuries to provide an engaging look at one hundred outstanding women who have helped shape our great nation.Contents:Virginia DarePocahontas --Priscilla Mullins Alden --Anne Dudley Bradstreet --Phillis Wheatley --Mercy Otis Warren --Abigail Adams --Betsy Ross --Sybil Ludington --Margaret Corbin --Deborah Sampson --Sacagawea --"Mother Ann" Lee --Emma Hart Willard --Dolley Madison --Sarah Grimke --Abigail Scott Duniway --Elizabeth Cady Stanton --Lucretia Mott --Amelia Bloomer --Elizabeth Blackwell --Susan B. Anthony --Harriet Tubman --Sarah Emma Edmonds --Belle Boyd --Clara Barton --Victoria Woodhull --Louisa May Alcott --Sarah Winnemucca --Sarah J.B. Hale --Emily Dickinson --Annie Oakley --Calamity Jane --Nellie Bly --Belva Lockwood --Mary Cassatt --Lucy Stone --Carry Nation --Helen Keller --Jane Addams --Mary Harris Jones --Harriet Quimby --Isadora Duncan --Madame C.J. Walker --Mary Pickford --Juliette Gordon Low --Margaret Sanger --Ida Bell Wells-Barnett --Elizabeth Gurley Flynn --Alice Paul --Carrie Chapman Catt --Annie Smith Peck --Gertrude Ederle --Clara Bow --Annie Jump Cannon --Frances Perkins --Mary McLeod Bethune --Marian Anderson --Laura Ingalls Wilder --Shirley Temple --Amelia Earhart --Jacqueline Cochran --Eleanor Roosevelt --Katherine Dunham. Babe Didrikson Zaharias --Georgia O'Keeffe --Margaret Bourke-White --Rosa Parks --Margaret Mead --Lucille Ball --Maria Tallchief --Wilma Rudolph --Jacquelin Kennedy (Onassis) --Sylvia Earle --Rachel Carson --Betty Friedan --Shirley Chisolm --Jeannette Rankin --Dian Fossey --Joan Ganz Cooney --Julia Child --Gloria Steinem --Barbara Jordan --Sarah Caldwell --Barbara Walters --Katharine Graham --Billie Jean King --Maya Ying Lin --Grace Hopper --Sandra Day O'Connor --Antonia Novello --Sally Ride --Oprah Winfrey --Martha Stewart --Maya Angelou --Madeleine Albright --Toni Morrison --Jody Williams --Julie Taymor --Ruth Simmons --

    Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls embodied interaction--an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationality--reflects the phenomenological approaches of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other twentieth-century philosophers. The phenomenological tradition emphasizes the primacy of natural practice over abstract cognition in everyday activity. Dourish shows how this perspective can shed light on the foundational underpinnings of current research on embodied interaction. He looks in particular at how tangible and social approaches to interaction are related, how they can be used to analyze and understand embodied interaction, and how they could affect the design of future interactive systems.

    This latest addition to The New Press’s People’s History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront.The protagonists in Neale’s history of the “American War” (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage—American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt.His narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world’s most powerful military machine.

    Next time you're stuck, just flip open The Writer's Block to any page to find an idea or exercise that will jump-start your imagination. Many of these assignments come straight from the creative writing classes of celebrated novelists like Ethan Canin, Richard Price, Toni Morrison, and Kurt Vonnegut: Joyce Carol Oates explains how she uses running to destroy writer's block. Elmore Leonard describes how he often finds ideas just by reading the newspaper. E. Annie Proulx discusses finding inspiration at garage sales. Isabel Allende tells why she always begins a new novel on January 8th. John Irving explains why he prefers to write the last sentence first. Fresh, fun, and irreverent, The Writer's Block also features advice from contemporary editors and literary agents, lessons from the awful novels of Joan Collins and Robert James Waller, a filmography of movies concerning writer's block (e.g., The Shining, Barton Fink), and countless other surprises. With this chunky little book at your side, you may never experience writer's block again!

    

    Stunning close-ups from the world s great breeders are accompanied by concise information about growing characteristics and bud quality. Engaging essays offer insights into marijuana s special botany and the culture that surrounds this controversial plant."

    He describes efforts to develop democratic alternatives to Empire, such as the founding of the United States and shows how elitists with an imperial agenda have undermined the "American experiment." Empire is not inevitable, and we can turn away from it. Korten draws on evidence from evolutionary theory, developmental psychology, and religious teachings to show that a life-centered, egalitarian, sustainable, democratic "Earth Community" is possible.

    The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament Details how anti-gun laws undermine the sanctity of human life, how gun control laws violate self-rights

    The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese. From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies.

    Her latest book, Working Woman's Art of War is the book of strategy that allows the 21st Century working woman to have it all. She interprets timeless, Eastern philosophy derived from the 2,500 year-old Chinese classic, Sun Tzu's Art of War, into practical everyday Western strategies for making decisions and creating results, showing women how to easily get ahead whether their sights are set on being a corporate CEO, entrepreneur, teacher, stock broker, astronaut or a good mother.Working Woman's Art of War is about the Art, not the War!In order for women to have all that they want -- the right to choose to wear glass slippers and/or combat boots -- they need to have the courage to learn how to think like effective strategists and warriors. This ancient warrior philosophy is the premier vehicle for mastering strategic thinking in the corporate world as well as daily life.You will learn: What the difference is between the Eastern and Western art of war strategies.What the five essential elements of victory are according to Sun Tzu's Art of War.Turning your liabilities into assets.How to swing your blue moments into opportunities.Utilizing the feminine and masculine energies with equal proficiency to achieve your goals.What the difference is between a trophy wife and the working woman.When to wear Nike shoes, glass slippers or combat boots in the corporateoffice.How to overcome other women's professional jealousy.Converting sexuality into advantages.Channeling the rage of sexual harassment for advancement.How you can embrace your family and career at the same time.The most effective tool for overcoming gender discrimination.Why it is so important for working women to possess style as well as substance.What the strategies are for New Feminism's Battle and why.Why Sun Tzu said, Know thyself, know thy opponents -- One hundred battles, one hundred victories.

    Such is the pattern revealed by this historical mosaic. --From the Preface Weaving historical source material with his own incisive analysis, Jack Beatty traces the rise of the American corporation, from its beginnings in the 17th century through today, illustrating how it has come to loom colossus-like over the economy, society, culture, and politics. Through an imaginative selection of readings made up of historical and contemporary documents, opinion pieces, reportage, biographies, company histories, and scenes from literature, all introduced and explicated by Beatty, Colossus makes a convincing case that it is the American corporation that has been, for good and ill, the primary maker and manager of change in modern America. In this anthology, readers are shown how a developing "business civilization" has affected domestic life in America, how labor disputes have embodied a struggle between freedom and fraternity, how corporate leaders have faced the recurring dilemma of balancing fiduciary with social responsibility, and how Silicon Valley and Wall Street have come to dwarf Capitol Hill in pervasiveness of influence. From the slave trade and the transcontinental railroad to the software giants and the multimedia conglomerates, Colossus reveals how the corporation emerged as the foundation of representative government in the United States, as the builder of the young nation's public works, as the conqueror of American space, and as the inexhaustible engine of economic growth from the Civil War to today. At the same time, Colossus gives perspective to the century-old debate over the corporation's place in the good society.A saga of freedom and domination, success and failure, creativity and conformity, entrepreneurship and monopoly, high purpose and low practice, Colossus is a major historical achievement.From the Hardcover edition.

    Powerful yet intimate, the stories in this volume present the real voices of America speaking out on the impact of race in their daily lives. The result of a virtually unprecedented commitment of talent and resources, the New York Times landmark series "How Race Is Lived in America" captured the cultural landscape of the nation in provocative, eye-opening articles following people from all backgrounds and every corner of society. The stories in the series are enhanced by additional commentary from the writers, photographers, and editors; results and analysis of an extensive Times poll on attitudes about race; and selected reader responses. Together they offer a highly personal yet panoramic view of real-world conflict and aspiration.

    The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory--a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Ron Eyerman offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, and provides a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity.

    The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all musical parameters in their historical context, and his reflections upon this task lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. In the various notes and texts brought together in Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction, one finds Adorno constantly circling around an irresolvable paradox: interpretation can only fail the work, yet only through it can musics true essence be captured. While he at times seems more definite in his pronouncement of a musical scores absolute value just as a book is read silently, not aloud his discourse repeatedly displays his inability to cling to that belief. It is this quality of uncertainty in his reflections that truly indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought and practice today.

    He believes that such distress can be tackled far more effectively by social than by therapeutic procedures. He examines how the dominant values of society and politics can have devastating effects on the individual, and consequently that counsellors and therapists can have limited success in treating such problems - that in fact it is the circumstances and not the individual, that need to be altered.

    Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father - Bret's grandfather - was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one "t," becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings," now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem resulted in his family's ridicule. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." His formal schooling ended when he was 13 in 1849. He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior.

    By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and national politics, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a major social factor in South Asia during the interwar period. The empirical material provides compelling insights into what it meant to be poor and how the impoverished dealt with their predicament. In this way, the book contributes to some of the most crucial debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.

    Firmly adhering to the belief that African American families should themselves collect and preserve their cultural history, Bill and Camille Cosby have accumulated an exceptional collection of more than three hundred representative paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings. David C. Driskell, curator of the Cosby collection and a close friend of the Cosbys, has selected almost one hundred images from the assemblage and, through detailed yet very readable text, explores the significance of each plate.Taking the reader from the late 1700s to today, Driskell thoroughly explains the significance of the presented works within the historic, social, and political background of the eras. Often poignant, the narratives trace the history of African American art in this country, revealing the fortitude, talents, and spirit of the artists. Among the artists whose lives and works are discussed are Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Edmonia Lewis, Palmer Hayden, Beauford Delaney, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Horace Pippin, Ellis Ruley, Lois Mailou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Colescott, Faith Ringgold, Emma Amos, Keith Morrison, and Mary Lovelace O'Neal.The Other Side of Color, with its wealth of information and visual bounty, will appeal to all lovers of art -- regardless of their color -- and students of history. It is a forceful reminder that the world of art can and should belong to every-one and a long overdue tribute to the African American men and women who struggled and endured to bring their vision to the world.

    . . Places in Time offers a bird’s-eye view of twenty sites where American history was made. Each page opens an unforgettable window to the past, where you can find out just what it was like to live in one place on one day in our nation’s history.

    Yet students are usually confused and intimidated by this prospect. In many cases they are unsure what is meant when they 'must have an argument'. 'How to Argue' aims to address these fears.

    Of late this combination has also affected the methodology. The present work is a revisit to the contemporary situation of tribals in India. The official tribal policy, tribal movements and other aspects of primitive life have been critically examined in this book. It also looks at Indian social anthropology from new conceptual, theoretical and field work perspective. This concise and legible book will provide key text to all students of social and cultural anthropology. Central topics covered in this book are culture, races, family, marriage, kinship, clan, religion, rituals, etc.

    Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir's discovery of a new way to philosophize--a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of The Second Sex, Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical.