Irwin
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different adult outcomes.
How did we get to a place...
How did we get to a place...
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English
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The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.
Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities-having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner-it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia's...
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English
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What causes a leader to fail? What can we learn from those who have fallen? How do we avoid failure of our own? These are just a few of the questions answered in Derailed: 5 Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership, a book for leaders and aspiring leaders of all levels by Tim Irwin, Ph.D. Derailed chronicles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs, the factors that drove their downfalls, and the lessons that we can learn to stay on track...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains)...
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It was supposed to be a normal camping trip. But her mother's purchase at a garage sale is haunting Brianne. When she and her new friend, Sarah, discover their creepy neighbors in the woods, their adventure becomes spookier than any of her father's ghost stories. Can they escape before disaster happens?
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English
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A veteran corporate psychologist examines the seven critical factors for a successful and satisfying work life, and the six most common career derailers.
In “Run with the Bulls Without Getting Trampled”, Tim Irwin presents the distilled essence of what makes some succeed and others derail in the workplace. Using compelling real-life stories to launch each chapter, not only is Irwin transparent with the lessons he has learned from his own experiences,...
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A dead man's briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime Pilot Douglas Grimes's best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake...
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Windy Irwin is a holistic healer, herbalist, author, entrepreneur, and a true creative force for a joyful life style; She developed over the last 30 years personalized mantras, herbal recipes, and the use of gemstones linking them to the zodiac, she has chosen sound production by performing music on crystal and Tibetan singing bowls that brings solfeggio frequencies for your listening and viewing pleasure on her YouTube channel.
Windy now provides...