In Leadership on the Line, authors show how it is possible to make a difference without getting "taken out" or pushed aside. They present everyday tools that give equal weight to the dangerous work of leading change and the critical importance of personal survival. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, the authors present straightforward strategies for navigating the perilous straits of leadership

Cultures of Commerce explores the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature. While both the structural changes in American business and their impact on workers have been explored in depth by historians, the broader impact of business on other cultural forms, and vice versa, is only now beginning to be studied

Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 is the first comprehensive survey of Asian American modernism. This exhibition of works by artists of Asian ancestry who lived and worked in the United States seeks to showcase some of the most important individuals contributing to the canon of Asian American art and advance awareness of this under-represented group in American art history. Their art reflects the currents of identity and style that shift between aesthetics of diverse international geographies

This book is an engaging survey of circus imagery in twentieth-century American art. Author chronicles the history of the American circus, showing how and why it came to be an important subject for American art and she examines how the circus has been represented both as a microcosm of society and as an alternative reality

This book presents an original and effective way to think more flexibly about innovation, strategy, change, and problem solving. Throughout the book, the authors include triggers for exploring how these ideas apply to an organization`s unique circumstances

This book will provide you with the tools you will need to become a succesful enterpreneur. You will learn about it takes to go into business for yourself and what enterpreneurship is and about your potential to become an enterpreneur

This volume brings together a collection of essays from researchers engaged in, or concerned with, the politics of global health. It addresses the power relations which drive global health strategies, frustrate the possibility of effective engagement and operate to relegate billions of people to a vulnerable and bleak future

This book is about America's first great architect, father of american architect and architectural history of America

This book is intended for researchers and policy analysis involved in poverty research and policy making

The book gives practical guidance to policy makers, project managers, and practitioners on how to work with the most vulnerable urban communities to mitigate landslide disasters