In Designing a Successful KM Strategy, Stephanie Barnes and Nick Milton present a practical, step-by-step guide to crafting a KM strategy that supports your organization's unique needs and goals. Based on more than 20 years of experience, this insightful book equips KM pros toWhether you need to retool your current Knowledge Management strategy or build an effective KM program from the ground up, Designing a Successful KM Strategy is the comprehensive, no-nonsense guide you're look...

"Opens up possibilities for dozens of skills, from printing to origami, from soap-making to patchwork; tie-dying, weaving, embroidery, and more." — Foreword ReviewsIn 2009, tastemaker and bestselling author Lena Corwin turned the top floor of her Brooklyn brownstone into a studio and began hosting classes for local crafters. In Lena Corwin's Made by Hand, she recreates and builds upon her popular workshop series in order to reach crafters in Brookl...

Are you bored of kind and selfless fairies? Do the words 'and they all lived happily ever after' make you yawn? Inspired by Brothers Grimm and other sinister tales, Dark & Darker Faerie Tales is a collection of dark stories about evil faeries, corrupted heroes, vengeful innocents and malicious monsters. Delving into the darker side of fairy tales, each story offers a twisted journey that'll make you wish for a happy ending.Written and illustrated by Two Sisters, witness an unlikely...

The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal rituals. Neither did indigenous forms of peacemaking fit the conception of modernization and development of the new ruling elites who inherited the postcolonial state. The new profession of Al...

Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models is an exploration of human interaction, conflict, and conflict resolution in the incredibly diverse region that consists of South, East, and Southeast Asia. It examines how traditional, indigenous, and culturally based conflict resolution processes interact with more formal legal systems to build infrastructures that address conflicts at the interpersonal to international levels in ways that maintain social harmony. This book...

Descubra em A semana de 4 dias como repensar a atual jornada de trabalho pode ser a solução para a economia no século XXI.O mercado de trabalho vem passando por grandes transformações: a segurança e os benefícios geralmente associados a um emprego fixo estão perdendo espaço em meio à instabilidade e à intensa flexibilização da atual economia. As condições de trabalho vêm piorando e o estresse laboral aumenta em proporções endêmicas.Com o objetivo de encontrar uma nova maneir...

An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade ago, they began their first year-long project together, posting a photo from each of their mornings on their blog, 3191 Miles Apart, named for the distanc...

After the fires are out, the smoke has cleared, the divorce is over, the widow has stopped wearing black, the sun has risen, the monsters are dead, the world is saved (or destroyed!), the storm has calmed, and the trouble is over……what do you do next?Find out in the first anthology of work by the Pikes Peak Writers. From mystery to romance and science fiction—from heartfelt essays to poetry that moves the soul.We can’t promise only happy endings. Just that moment wh...

This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.

Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal work on the ‘Ideal Victim’ is reproduced in full in this edited collection of vibrant and provocative essays that respond to and update the concept from a range of thematic positions.Each chapter celebrates and commemorates his work by analysing, evaluating and critiquing the current nature and impact of victim identity, experience, policy and practice. The collection expands the focus and remit of ‘victim studies’, addressing key themes around race, ...

Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia’s most celebrated living director.The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker’s unique aesthetic sensi...

Dyani: The Sunflower PrincessBy: Stephanie M. BarnesWhen Dyani has a wonderful dream about a beautiful yellow sunflower, she wakes up and runs to her mom, telling her they need to leave right away to find it! On this beautiful autumn day, will they have any luck at the town’s fall festival in finding Dyani’s dream sunflower?Dyani: The Sunflower Princess is a story about making memories and the bonds between a mother and a daughter. Meant to inspire and uplift single...