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Nathan Bennett, Stephen Miles

In today's fast-moving business world, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) plays a critical yet often misunderstood role. Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles's Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO offers a deep dive into what it takes to succeed as a second-in-command.This insightful book explores how COOs support CEOs, drive strategy, and ensure smooth day-to-day operations. Drawing from real-world examples and extensive research, Bennett and Miles uncover the unique challen...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

The volume LNAI 15398 constitutes the revised selected papers of the 28th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2024, held in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 7, 2024.The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The workshop focuses on both scientific and technological aspects of social coordination, organizational theory, artificial (electronic) institutions, a...

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Robert Nathan

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Stephen R. Thorne

The haunting novel of a strange love…Michael Robb, a young journalist and aspiring author, has just landed a dream assignment: interviewing the renowned but reclusive author Edward Granville. The famous writer and his devoted wife, Virginia, have for many years lived in isolation on the Pacific Coast at their hilltop retreat, Stonecliff. Not long after Michael's arrival, strange things begin to happen. Granville's wife disappears, and Michael meets Nina, an unforgettably b...

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Katherine Dunn, N. Lee Wood, Priya Sharma, Nick Mamatas, A.C. Wise, Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Glen Hirshberg, Jeffrey Ford, Dennis Danvers, Genevieve Valentine, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert Shearman, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Livia Llewellyn

Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.With an introduction from Katherine DunnLadies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow as the ringmaster.In Stephen Graham ...

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SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership, teams, and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations.Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapid...

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Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour

This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in a convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. The book is an ideal reference for experienced Perl programmers and beginners alike.With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl is proving to be the best language for the...

February 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Inquiry into the events surrounding the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. This book marks this anniversary and examines various dimensions of the impact of Lawrence on policing policy and practice.It identifies a series of dimensions and processes associated with British policing in terms of the role that the Lawrence agenda has had on forming and/or shaping policy and practice in that particular are...

This fourth edition of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery keeps readers up-to-date on recent developments in the field, including microvascular techniques, minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, and unique applied technologies. Along with comprehensive surgical chapters, the text addresses practical issues driving changes in facial plastic surgery practice: ethnic variations, anti-aging strategies, ambulatory surgical concerns, and evidence-based decision making.Key...

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Ruth Kinna, Jon Burnett, Harry Blagg, Joy James, Micheal Dellwing, Viviane-Salah Hannah, Johannes Feest, Chloe Taylor, Thalia Anthony, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, Caius Brandão, Lisa Guenther, Andrea Brock, Hannah Bowman, Valeria Vegh Weis

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how abolitionist ideas have continued topicality and relevance in the present day and how...

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Stephen Kershnar, Nathan Bray

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Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion

Many worldviews assume that God exists and is the greatest possible being. Religious traditions, philosophical arguments, and billions of believers hold that God is perfectly good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on the philosophy of religion and moral responsibility literatures in original and insightful ways:Impossibility: God is not responsible because respons...

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Routledge Annals of Bioethics

Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to concrete applications.Part 1 analyzes human dignity through a worldview lens, exploring the source and meaning of human dignity from naturalist, postmodernist, Protestant, and Cat...

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Ronald E. Chennault, PhD, Ronald E. Chennault, PhD, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Traki Taylor, Lasana Kazembe, Karen Johnson, Alexis Johnson, PhD, Kristal Moore Clemons, PhD, Lauren Lefty, PhD, Adrienne Dixson, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Talia Esnard, Maria Migueliz Valcarlos, Wintre Foxworth Johnson, Derrick P. Alridge, PhD, Linda Perkins, Worth Hayes, PhD, Samiha Rahman, Johari Harris, PhD, Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, PhD, Corey Walker, Jerome Morris, PhD, Luimil Negron-Perez, James Stewart, PhD

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New Directions in the History of Education

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people have developed ways to free themselves mentally from the legacies of slavery, the view ...