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 Dial It Down: A Wellness Approach for Addressing Post-Traumatic Stress in Veterans, First Responders, Healthcare Workers, and Others in This Uncertain World by Judith Kimball OTR/L FAOTA English | August 18th, 2021 | ISBN: 1098374665 | 298 pages | True EPUB | 7.33 MB Trauma is perhaps the defining feature of our time. Millions of Americans have recently experienced trauma through their work as military servicemembers, first responders, and frontline medical workers. Millions more have faced unprecedented levels of loss and traumatic stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But very little has been written that directly speaks to these trauma survivors, offering proven daily strategies and hope for reclaiming a sense of safety, connectedness, and self. Dial It Down offers innovative yet simple ways for readers to understand and recover from post-traumatic stress. It is also an invaluable resource for the practitioners who treat these individuals.  Developing a High-performance Organization: A Practical Guide (Skills) by Sorin Dumitrascu English | November 13, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NF349PG | 188 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb Organizations no longer just compete with local rivals. Better and faster communications and transportation mean that distant concerns can easily become local rivals. Also, new competitors are coming onstream all the time. In order to compete in this fast changing environment, your organization needs to become high performing. You should examine your organization, identifying where it excels and where there's room for improvement, and implement changes where necessary. Encourage those who work with you to excel at what they do, giving their best to making yours a high-performance organization. There are five cornerstones of a high-performing organization. Any examination of your organization for high performance should take each of these into account. First there's the mission statement, embodying your organization's strategy. Second is performance measurement - how you examine internal progress. Third, there's customer orientation, how you're positioned to deal with customers. Fourth is leadership, how you lead for high performance. And finally, there's organizational culture, the way your organization is geared toward high performance. Using each cornerstone as a guide, you can ensure your organization is poised for high performance in its internal configuration and how it deals with external factors. You should select the right strategy and focus on your customers. Quality leadership is also important, as are the right human resources policies and management practices. Overall, your organizational culture needs to be geared toward success. These should lead to greater value creation for your organization going forward. This course will help you gauge your organization's potential for high performance in terms of its mission statement, performance measurement strategies, customer orientation, leadership, and culture. It will also point to how each of these can be fully harnessed to make yours a high-performing organization with a competitive edge.  Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul By Stuart Cosgrove 2015 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 1501075985 | PDF | 8 MB The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music SceneIt's January 1967-and one of the worst snowstorms in decades is blanketing Detroit, Michigan. Berry Gordy, owner of Motown Records, is trapped in his home, unable to do anything about the internal war ravaging his most successful group, The Supremes. Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard are imploding as Ballard battles alcoholism and the aftermath of rape. But soon, even more chaos will descend on Detroit. As the year heats up, melting the snow, Gordy and his city face one of the most challenging periods of its existence.Detroit 67is the story of Detroit in the year that changed everything. Twelve monthly chapters take you on a turbulent year long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967. Over a dramatic 12-month period, the Motor City was torn apart by personal, political and inter-racial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the breakup of The Supremes and the implosion of the most successful African-American music label ever.Set against a backdrop of urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam and police corruption, the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age, and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power and local guitar-band MC5 -self-styled "holy barbarians" of rock went to war with mainstream America. A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth, known for its unique creativity, its unpredictability and self-lacerating crime rates.1967 ended in social meltdown, personal bitterness and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unraveled.Detroit 67is the story of the year that changed everything.  Selin Metin Camgöz, "Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice" English | ISBN: 1800431813 | 2021 | 360 pages | PDF | 4 MB When evaluating leadership, bad events 'have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good'. Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice provides detailed insights into conceptualizations of destructive leadership, instruments of measurement in this area, and reviews studies about the concept's antecedents and consequences.  Matt Elliott, "Dave Gallaher: The Original All Black Captain" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1869509684 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1.3 MB A brilliant rugby player and a war veteran, Dave Gallaher symbolizes the two elements on which New Zealand formed its identity: our wartime triumphs and disasters, and our peacetime success on the football field. Dave Gallaher was an Irish immigrant who became one of the most famous people in his adopted land, a man whose skills and character were crucial in shaping rugby and our national team. Gallaher captained the 1905 All Blacks team - the first New Zealand national rugby team to tour the United Kingdom and North America. It is still considered the most important tour undertaken by the All Blacks, with only one game controversially lost out of 35 played. Historians point to Gallaher as the template for All Black captains: tough, uncompromising, letting his deeds on the field do his talking, never asking anyone to do a job he wouldn't do himself, and having an astute mind for the way the game is played. But Gallaher was much more than a brilliant rugby player. Like many of his teammates, he served in the First World War. this was an age when a sense of loyalty to the Empire meant men chose to serve on battlefields 12,000 miles from home. He lied about his age to volunteer for more war service at the age of 43. this is the story of Dave Gallaher's peacetime success on the football field and his wartime service in the New Zealand army. His influence and inspiration live on in the contests named in his honour.  Mark R Horowitz, "Daring Dynasty: Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England" English | ISBN: 152750378X | 2018 | 375 pages | PDF | 2 MB He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to become King Henry VII, he possessed the most anemic claim to the throne since William the Conqueror. In defiance of the norms of medieval rule, he transformed England from an insolvent, often divided country in the waning years of the Wars of the Roses into an emerging modern state upon his death in 1509, a legacy inherited by his larger-than-life heir, Henry VIII. How did this happen? Through impressive archival research over several decades and a provocative perspective, Daring Dynasty illuminates what occurred by exploring key aspects of Henry's reign, which included a dark side to royal policy. It will provide historians, students, history enthusiasts and devotees of "all things Tudor" with an understanding of how the populace and political players melded into a nation through the efforts of its king and his government.  Rokelle Lerner, "Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics: For Adult Children of Alcoholics" English | 1996 | ISBN: 0932194273, 0932194273 | 372 pages | EPUB / AZW3 | 1.6 MB [center]  Martyn Bennett, "Cromwell at War: The Lord General and his Military Revolution" English | ISBN: 1784535117 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 36 MB Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution. After commanding a small troop in 1643 and, without prior military experience, Cromwell rose to lead the cavalry regiments of the Eastern Association Army and the New Model Army to final victory at Worcester in 1651 and sealed the victory of the Parliamentary forces in Ireland and Scotland, becoming Lord General in 1650. Martyn Bennett analyses Cromwell's military talents and generalship, in addition to his well-attested powerful and even brutal discipline and religious fervour. He examines the controversial Irish campaigns as well as modern accusations of genocide. In providing new perspectives on Cromwell's military career, Bennett adds to our understanding of England's only non-royal head of state.  Jane Bottomley, "Critical Thinking Skills for your Education Degree " English | ISBN: 1912508575 | 2019 | 96 pages | PDF | 26 MB Critical Thinking Skills for your Education Degree provides you with a sound knowledge and understanding of:  Anthony Bateman, "Cricket, Literature and Culture" English | ISBN: 1138261963 | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 6 MB In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts. |
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