Important insights into the life and mind of one of the most significant civil rights leaders of the twentieth centuryA. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du B...

This Journey of living life with sickle Cell, my Faith in God and Teaching students with Autism has been precious and priceless. My continued prayers on this journey is for the Lord to walk with me. Jesus ids the best thing that ever happened to me.May God's love, joy, peace and blessings to you all. According to Psalms 34:1, "I will bless the Lord at all times and his Praise shall continually be in my mouth." Hallelujah

This book is written for human resource, organization development, and training professionals who need real-world best practices that show who actual workplace learning approaches work and how they can be applied. Co-published with the acclaimed Center for Creative Leadership, this important book offers a compendium of best practices, tools, techniques, processes, and other resource resources to harness the developmental power of work experiences for leadership development. In addition the...

Speaking with a powerful voice is the backbone of successful leadership. A leader needs their voice to calm people down, reassure people with certainty and hope, foster connection, build trust, convey the vision, inspire teams, and drive results. This book shows you that the voice you were born with can be changed.Through proven, step-by-step exercises, readers will learn how to:Project gravitas and exude executive presenceCut through the noise and command p...

Originally published in 1993, Assertion and Its Social Context notes that assertive behaviour does not always bring the rewards that trainers and others claim for it, especially when the assertive person is female. This seems to be because assertive communication often goes against the grain of deeply held social values. Furthermore, this problem is often masked by research which falsely assumes a shared base of meanings and attitudes among different people. These findings have le...

Timely and updated to reflect the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, Fourth Edition (OTPF-4), Cases and Concepts in Occupational Adaptation: Translating Theory into Action contains all the pertinent information regarding occupational adaptation theory combined into one easy-to-digest textbook.Cases and Concepts in Occupational Adaptation: Translating Theory into Action expands upon the groundwork laid in Janette K. Schkade and Melissa McC...

This book focuses on the investigation of the sustainability of technology integration in the context of language programs and is based on an 18-month longitudinal study of a blended EAP (English for Academic Purposes) language program situated within a university pathways course.The integration of technology into language teaching and learning in academic English programs often demands substantial investment in professional development, curriculum change, and technological resourc...

The fourth edition of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling is the most comprehensive book available dedicated to training mental health practitioners in the performance of animal-assisted therapy in counseling.This edition includes material on real-world animal-assisted interventions featuring counselor-client dialogues and sample therapeutic opportunities. Each chapter includes the most recent research and practice, and a wide variety of case examples present animal-assi...

In A Pedagogical Design for Human Flourishing: Transforming Schools with the McCallister Model, Cynthia McCallister presents a revolutionary paradigm for education that is practical, conceptually convincing, and grounded in contemporary behavioral science theory. Beginning with the assertion that equality of educational opportunity depends on access to experiences that are sufficiently appropriate and rich to enable the achievement of diverse human potentials, she provides a compr...

The Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century. The main objectives of the book are for students to understand the decision to migrate, the impacts of immigration on markets and government budgets, and the consequences of immigration policies in a global context.Students will develop an appreciation of the importance of immigration as a separate academic field within l...

An accessible introduction to the technical and social construct of digital identity, this book helps students understand how the data they generate through online activities and apps is used and the implications it can have.Each of us has a digital identity, compiled of multiple identities, which has been built over the years as we have interacted with various technologies and apps. This book explores how the data generated through these online activities is used by third parties ...

The memoir of small-town librarian Jan Louch, whose pair of Scottish Fold cats became the mascots of the company Baker & Taylor--and beloved by librarians and readers nationwide. It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish Fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines' mild temperaments, and because she ...