Achieving results presents a simple, time-tested process that will guide your journey towards success. By following this road map, you"ll save time, energy, and resources. Learn to solve problems, manage risk and change, develop leadership skills, and grow personally, professionally, and spiritually

This book begins with the common need in business to address multiple points of view successfully. Achieving Consensus looks at consensus as a process and acts like a guidebook helping you with choosing a destination and what you need to bring along; understanding your traveling companions on the journey and selecting the best route to take

American Ways focuses on the traditional values that have attracted people to the United States for well over 200 years and traces the effect of these values on American life. Chapter themes include diversity, the family, education, government and politics, religion, business, and recreation

The reader will enjoy watching Tree-ear work patiently toward his goal of becoming a potter, but perhaps more importantly, will see him learn the importance of sacrifice. The wise and fatherly Crane-man helps him learn how to become a respectable man and teaches him to be kind and charitable. Potter Min is crusty and curt, but his gentle wife is the epitome of soft kindness. In the end, even curmudgeonly Min is won over by the brave and loyal Tree-ear. Although the book is set in 12th century Korea, it does not feel like an ancient story. This book will be enjoyed by all

Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them

This book examines how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries―Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda― through the lens of agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock. Determinants of innovation are not viewed individually but within the context of a complex agricultural innovation system involving many actors and interactions

Why abolish school fees in Africa? The answer seems obvious: to achieve the right to education for all and thus promote equitable participation in economic growth and political action

An African exploration of the East Asian Education Experience takes stock of education development in East Asia over the past five decades, offering case studies on four East Asian countries

Applying the framework of the world development report 2007, this report examines the five life-changing transitions that all youth confront: leaving school and continuing to learn, starting to work, developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, forming a family, and exercising citizenship

This Review was undertaken by the Networks of Ministry of Education HIV&AIDS Focal Point from countries in sub-Saharan Africa participating in the Accelerate Initiative, together with stakeholder and partner representatives.The education sector has become increasingly recognized as playing a key ‘external’ role in prevention and in reducing stigma, and an important ‘internal’ role in providing access to care, treatment and support for teachers and staff, a group that in many countries represents more than 60% of the public sector workforce