JosseyBass: All New Titles

The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools, Second Edition

Helen D. Hume — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Easy ways to infuse art into classroom learning

One of the most popular books in the Jossey-Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media--from drawing to digital--plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education

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Responses to Change: Helping People Make Transitions

CCL, Kerry Bunker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The ongoing state of many organizations is one of change. People who experience major change tend to exhibit one of four patterns of response: entrenched, overwhelmed, poser, or learner. As a leader, you need to understand the patterns of response that people express and to customize intervention strategies to help them make the transition. People can pass through a given response stage and move to one that is more effective--especially if you provide

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Leadership Coaching: When It's Right and When You''re Ready

CCL, Douglas Riddle — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Leadership in the top management ranks is often an isolated business. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering leadership coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what leadership coaching is and cna help you decide whether it is appropriate for your situation

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Becoming a Better Value Creator: How to Improve the Company's Bottom Line--and Your Own

Anjan Y. Thakor — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Why do some companies perform beyond expectation year after year while others start out strong but quickly fizzle? The answer lies in their ability to create long-term value. In this book, a leading professor at the top-ranked University of Michigan Business School presents five keys to creating value by incorporating the efforts of marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and finance in a strategy for continuing bottom-line success. His fresh look

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Facilitative Coaching: A Toolkit for Expanding Your Repertoire and Achieving Lasting Results

Dale Schwarz, Anne Davidson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Many facilitators realize that the basic methodologies they use often fail to take their clients to a place of deeper learning and growth required when addressing complex issues. This book offers over seventy exercises, along with tips and tools for expanding the professional coach's repertoire and includes a full range of interventions. The book also includes step-by-step guidance on how to use these innovative methods with clients. Based on the

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Answering the Ultimate Question: How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business

Richard Owen, Laura L. Brooks, PhD — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question, that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"-challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company, introducing a quantitative measure

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Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes

Kelsey Timmerman — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

A journalist travels to Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Honduras, and back to the U.S. to trace the origins of our clothes

Globalization makes it difficult for anyone to know very much about the origin of the products they buy. When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. On the way, he

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Assessing the Online Learner: Resources and Strategies for Faculty

Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, experts in the field of online teaching and learning, this hands-on resource helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment. It offers guidance for designing and implementing creative assessment practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. The book is filled with illustrative case studies, authentic assessments based in real-life

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Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice

Stephen Preskill, Stephen D. Brookfield — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

This book offers a systematic look at the connections between learning and leading and the use of learning to inspire and organize for change. It explores two interrelated dimensions of learning leadership: the ways leaders themselves learn about leadership practice, and the way leaders foster the learning of those they work with. The book focuses on a number of important leadership activities and adopts a case study approach to illuminate how leaders

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Youth, Violence, and Social Disintegration, Number 119

Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Editor), Sandra Hupping (Editor) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 26, No. 1

CRQ (Conflict Resolution Quarterly) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Microeconomics for Public Managers

Barry Keating, Maryann Keating — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Microeconomics for Public Managers presents a rigorous non-mathematical introduction to the study of microeconomics geared towards managers of nonprofit institutions.

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Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart

Doug Silsbee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Presence-Based Coaching offers coaches a hands-on resource for developing the capacities and skills needed to be reliably present in all situations, and shows how to let go of habitual—and often ineffective—ways of responding. As author and leadership expert Doug Silsbee explains, once a coach has mastered the inner moves of directing their own attention, they can work to develop the same capability in their clients. The ability of a coach to facilitate

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Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology

Michael Winkelman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural

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Spiritual Development: New Directions for Youth Development Issue 118

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Drawing on the global research and field-building efforts of Search Institute s Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence, this volume frames a new, deeper dialogue about the intersections between youth development and spiritual development. Contributors explore ways to integrate spiritual development and youth development in order to strengthen theory, research, and practice. They ask:

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Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches: Practical Strategies for the Inclusion of Special Needs in Primary School

Jill Jenkinson, Tessa Hyde, Saffia Ahmad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Occupational Therapy Approaches for Primary Special Needs is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field. It shows how the implications of physical, psychological, social, and learning difficulties impact upon children’s abilities. This highly practical book will help readers recognize when a student’s poor performance within the classroom is a result of a medical condition or underlying

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Designing Matrix Organizations that Actually Work: How IBM, Proctor & Gamble and Others Design for Success

Jay R. Galbraith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly. This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many customer segments

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Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand

Shel Holtz, John C. Havens, Lynne D. Johnson (Foreword by) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

While exposing the risks inherent in maintaining a nontransparent relationship with customers, Tactical Transparency provides a methodology that will help your organization create its unique plan to bring greater authenticity to your company and your brands. Drawn largely from interviews with leaders in companies that have achieved measurable success in this arena, authors Shel Holtz and John C. Havens provide step-by-step details on how executives

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The Credible Company: Communicating with a Skeptical Workforce

Roger D'Aprix — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

In The Credible Company, communication expert Roger D Aprix provides a logical and tested strategy to inform skeptical employees in a time of turbulent change. With information being the lifeblood of today s intellectual-capital assembly line, D Aprix explains, the internal communication task has taken on an unprecedented importance. Drawing on his experience as a corporate communication executive and consultant, the author offers a practical prescription

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Public Health Genomics: The Essentials

Claudia N. Mikail — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recognized genomics as a priority area in public health education. To help public health students and professionals achieve proficiency in the language of genetics and attain genomics competencies delineated by the CDC, this book offers an introduction to basic molecular genetics and discusses the relevance of genomics to such key public health issues as environmental health, ethnic health disparities, health

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