Imprevu Sojourn is Mr. Knapp's fourth published book. He is a Vietnam War era Veteran.Currently, he lives in Missouri with his lovely wife Patrica, where they enjoy attending church, bowling, travel and spending time with friends and family.You may contact him by email at: [email protected]

This book argues that the appropriate application of the principles and practices of corporate governance to organisational portfolio, program, and projects (‘3P’) governance brings about highly engaged, knowledgeable, and effective governance practices, which in turn substantially improves business case success.The book addresses all three layers of portfolio, program, and project within an integrated governance framework, and it answers the fundamental questions everyone involved...

Buying the Farm captures a newsworthy topic of the day: the fight for survival by America's family farmers against the power and influence of corporate farming. While written as a novel, it is rooted in the truth of an actual lawsuit. The roles of environmental activist groups for good and bad are woven into the struggle, as are the voices of outdoor journalists, informed or uninformed, and the power of the U.S. Forest Service and the Justice Department, whether manipulated or fighting rig...

A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies on the planet today. Western visitors have been astounded by the success of their project, a communally organised democracy which considers women's equality indispensable and rejects reactionary nationalist ideology whilst being fiercely ant...

La seconda metà degli anni Dieci passerà alla storia per ciò che sta accadendo in Medio Oriente dove, respingendo gli attacchi delle bande fasciste dell’Isis e resistendo alle aggressioni dell’esercito turco, la regione curda del Rojava si sta organizzando su basi completamente diverse rispetto a quanto è possibile osservare nel resto del pianeta.In questa zona, infatti, la democrazia è davvero un fenomeno partecipato dal basso nell’ambito di una società antirazzista e multietnica, ...

La seconda metà degli anni Dieci passerà alla storia per ciò che sta accadendo in Medio Oriente dove, respingendo gli attacchi delle bande fasciste dell’Isis e resistendo alle aggressioni dell’esercito turco, la regione curda del Rojava si sta organizzando su basi completamente diverse rispetto a quanto è possibile osservare nel resto del pianeta.In questa zona, infatti, la democrazia è davvero un fenomeno partecipato dal basso nell’ambito di una società antirazzista e multietnica, ...

A manual for anyone wishing to market higher or further education. It offers business-oriented guidance for readers whose main preoccupation may not be marketing itself, but who nonetheless need access to promotion skills, and it covers theory, practice and case studies.

Die Studie von Michael Knapp befasst sich mit den sozialen Netzwerkbeziehungen von Freelancer*innen im Kontext von Coworking Spaces als flexibel nutzbare Büro- und Arbeitsräumlichkeiten. Dabei wird insbesondere auf die Bedeutung dieses Kontexts in Bezug auf die Beziehungs- und Netzwerkbildung eingegangen und gezeigt, wie die Nutzung eines Arbeitsplatzes in diesem zur organisationalen Einbettung im Freelancing beitragen kann. Dazu greift die Arbeit auf Methoden der egozentrierten Netzwerkan...

Chaos doesn't announce itself. It moves into the spaces left by neglect: the abandoned shrine, the community that stopped gathering, the village that forgot how to tend to its magic.When a traveling storyteller and his snarky drake companion return to Elderglen, he finds the village dying and Chaos at its roots. After hundreds of years of wandering, he's fought this battle more times than he can count.But this village is special to him.A bu...

Das Buch "… Weil Gott es so will - Frauen erzählen von ihrer Berufung zur Diakonin und Priesterin" ist innerhalb wie außerhalb der Kirche auf enorme Resonanz gestoßen und hat das Thema Ämter für Frauen in der Kirche erneut in den Fokus der Diskussion gerückt, auch im Synodalen Weg.Das jetzige Buch macht den nächsten Schritt: 100 Männer der Kirche, darunter viele Prominente - Priester, Diakone und Ordensleute, auch eine Reihe Bischöfe - solidarisieren sich mit dem Anliegen der Fraue...

Missions from the Extinction Cycle, Volume 2The bestselling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced readers to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Billions died, civilization collapsed, and the human race teetered on the brink of extinction. Humanity’s only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed, it killed ninety percent of the infected, but the remaining ten percent transformed into e...

Esta nueva traducción y versión crítica de los Principios de fonología, Esther Herrera Zendejas y Michael Herbert Knapp no se limitan a trasvasar el texto del alemán al español, sino que logran con gran acierto actualizar el contenido de la obra póstuma de Trubetzkoy, rectificar errores y ofrecernos con ello un texto claro y terso en cuyas líneas transcurre el pensamiento genial de su autor. Obra fundacional de la ciencia fonológica, la indiscutible vigencia de los Principios reside en la ...