Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons on All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success describes how to retain employees without monetary rewards while building successful business leaders. Preparing for and completing a marathon is the perfect backdrop for examining the problems and challenges faced by today's business leaders. They must incorporate change, manage risk, and motivate people to go up hill at a time when they want to quit. All of this must be achieved in a str...

Anthony Reed, MBA, MS, CPA PMP is a very unique individual with very unusual experiences as an African American executive and world history making athlete. He has over thirty years in management and executive positions where he managed multi-million dollar budgets and international project teams. He was a trailblazer for African-American information technology (IT) professionals. In many organizations, he was either the first Black IT professional, the highest ranking Black in the IT depar...

If you're a parent raising a young basketball player and you want to learn more about the game so you can have a greater impact on your athlete's development, enjoy watching the game more, learn to talk basketball or provide constructive criticism, this Ebook is for you.I'm going to increase your Basketball I. Q. with fun, interactive learning videos! You can now learn more about the game of basketball from the comfort of your home.This Basketball Parent Toolkit includes In...

For more than 50 years, James Bond has enthralled, excited, energized and entertained different generations like no other screen hero has done.Since his initial portrayal by Sean Connery, James Bond has become a timeless icon worldwide. His world full of glamour, mystery and intrigue, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide.Following the sincere descriptions of the James Bond movies and books, readers will dis...

The SMART (Systems, Management, Accounting, and Related Technologies) Degree is a career planning guide for college students. It focuses on the reality of today's job market and your career. It covers the material, that's not mentioned in college classes, such as office politics, back stabbers, and unethical co-workers. This is based on a series of ComputerWorld articles written by the author.

The thorough manual Mastering Stress Management: Techniques for a Calmer, Healthier Life is intended to assist readers in managing stress and living a more balanced, satisfying existence. Stress has become a regular companion in today's environment, impacting physical health, emotional stability, and mental clarity. This book examines the science underlying stress and provides useful strategies for enhancing resilience and lessening its effects.This book gives readers the tools to ...

PROSE Awards Category Winner—Media and Cultural Studies, 2025Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies.Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers is the...

Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia, the African continent, and beyond. To study Langston Hughes is to develop a new sense of the twentieth century. He was more than a man of his times; emerging as a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems, plays, journalism, translations, and prose fiction documented and shaped the world around ...

This book details the exploratory stages of a research study that produced a framework for entrepreneurial endeavour and enterprise. It presents an unfolding discussion, throughout its chapters, regarding the entrepreneurial nature potential within us all, and the modes by which those involved in such activity, and associated innovative discoveries, can be informed by the skills and experience already in their possession.The book also provides, through its structure, a tool by whic...

In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially. Soundwork is Reed’s term for that material and concep...

Experimental poetry and prose by black writers rejects traditional interpretations of social protest and identity formation to reveal radical new ways of perceiving the world.Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationStandard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era segregation. Histo...

Basketball Parents and Siblings! Today I'm challenging your family to Double the benefits of your fitness routines! This Ebook will show you how you can lose 10lbs while helping your youth basketball player improve their shooting percentage. I'm going to teach you how to become thinner, leaner and stronger. Learn a simple shooting and rebounding routine that will increase your player's shooting percentage by 10 percent. Let's go Double the benefits of your family's exercise routine through...