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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Less than three months after retiring from a thirty-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their works brings, and this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"This guide which, for years, has prepared military, emergency, and first responders to face psychological, social, and physical challenges of leading in dangerous contexts has been updated. The author team has integrated current research findings, incorporated topics not covered in the prior edition, and has created a reference work relevant to leaders at all levels in organizations that operate in dangerous contexts. This second edition includes...
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Language
English
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Description
"When a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial, a city of eleven million people takes notice. Waldman, a former bureau chief for the New York Times, explores a diversity of viewpoints around this fictional event, bringing in politicians, businessmen, journalists, activists, and normal people whose lives--whether by happenstance, choice, or even due to their country of origin--get caught up in the controversy. Incredibly,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Leadership can be learned: new evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage with and motivate others, allowing them and their organizations to continue discovering their potential. This book provides leaders and managers with a guide to practical, effective actions, based on neuroscience, explained in an accessible way. It focuses on the competencies and capabilities that leaders and managers...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Key international contributors come together to create a definitive map of the subject. Framed by an authoritative introductory chapter, 'The SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society' offers a critical overview of the most significant themes and topics, with discussions of current research, theoretical controversies and emerging issues.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A survival expert’s guide for every family to prepare and educate themselves about the skills and mentality necessary to survive a disaster anywhere.
This is not your father's scout manual or a sterile FEMA handout. Entertaining and informative, When All Hell Breaks Loose describes how to maximize a survival mindset necessary for self-reliance. According to the book, living through an emergency scenario is 90 percent
10) Outrage machine: how tech is amplifying discontent, disrupts democracy, and what we can do about it
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news,...
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