Patrik Henry Bass & Jerry Craft: 2014 National Book Festival
Patrik Henry Bass and Jerry Craft appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Patrik Henry Bass is books editor of Essence magazine. He is the author of "Like a Mighty Stream: The March on Washington," for which he drew from photographs, news articles and eyewitness accounts. His current book (with illustrator Jerry Craft) is "The Zero Degree Zombie Zone" (Scholastic). Bass, a former professor at New York University, is also an award-wi
Aimer à Sumer et à Bagdad (audio) Conférence du 28 mai 2014 sur "Aimer à Sumer et à Bagdad" par Véronique Grandpierre et Malek Chebel, dans le cadre du cycle "Décalages : les autres et nous" de l'Université populaire du quai Branly (UPQB).
15.812 Marketing Management (MIT)
This course is an introduction to marketing: the study or practice of providing goods or services that satisfy human desires. To illustrate and discuss marketing concepts, we will read articles from scientific journals, chapters from marketing textbooks, newspaper clippings, and selections from popular literature. We will also use case studies to illustrate marketing principles and to apply marketing concepts to the real world. These case studies will involve a wide variety of products, includin
U.S. History
Boundless U.S. History is a college-level, introductory textbook that covers the exciting subject of U.S. History. Volume I covers early American history through 1865. Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality, and create introductory, college-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of university students.'Table of contentsPre-Columbian America: Before 1492The New World: 1492-1600Britain
The impact of enterprise focussed modules
This presentation outlines the use of a tested research instrument (Bandura's self efficacy theory) and students own perceptions of their enterprise skills and abilities
Embedding enterprise in the curriculum
This presentation discusses the pioneering approach to the embedding of enterprise in the curriculum through people and pedagogy
Laura Overdeck: 2014 National Book Festival
Laura Overdeck appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Laura Overdeck received her BA in astrophysics from Princeton University and her MBA in public policy from the Wharton School. She is the founder of Bedtime Math, a nonprofit that works with community partners that support strong K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. As the creator of Bedtime Math, her goal is to pair the habit of reading with numbers
2.2 Regulatory initiatives ‘We know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is political will.’ Prime Minister Tony Blair, World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2 September 2002 1.2.2 Choosing keywords Keywords are significant words which define the subject you are looking for. The importance of keywords is illustrated by the fact that there is a whole industry around providing advice to companies on how to select keywords for their websites that are likely to make it to the top of results lists generated by search engines. We often choose keywords as part of an iterative process; usually if we don't hit on the right search terms straight off, most of us tweak them as we go along based on t 1.3 Chemical compounds Chemical elements contain atoms of the same atomic number. But most materials consist of chemical compounds. These are a combination of the atoms of two or more chemical elements. Such combinations often occur in simple numerical ratios. Thus, when sodium metal (Figure 2b) and chlorine gas ( Great Decisions 2015 - Syria's Refugee Crisis - Dr. Larry Goodson References Purdue Learning Communities: College of Liberal Arts Now Hiring: Family Offices in Asia Panama: consolidating democracy, growth and human development [Audio] Mending a broken heart - a big role for small RNAs Heading Home Hennepin Using the GIR Annual Survey to Identify Trends and Provide Information for Educational Technology Ma PES Celebration Business Can Tackle Climate Change
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As Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and other neighbors strive to accommodate the millions of Syrians, the risk of allowing Syrians to become dependent on emergency aid and forming a “lost generation” remains.
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As a vehicle for wealth management, the family office is still relatively new in Asia, but that’s now changing. Opportunities abound for managing this family wealth.
Speaker(s): Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado | Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, Vice-President and Foreign Minister of Panama, will discuss her nation’s role as a geo-strategic gateway in the Americas. Her talk will focus primarily on Panama’s transformation into a world-class services economy, and the new responsibilities derived from this evolution as the country asserts its place in tackling international corruption and financial criminality, mitigating the effects of climate change, and
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an international competition for research students to showcase their research. Students have to talk about what their research is and why it is important in plain language for three minutes, with only a single PowerPoint slide. The ANU 2014 3MT final was held on Wednesday 17 September, and 11 representatives from the University’s seven Colleges competed.
This case highlights the integrative leadership practices of several people and groups that organized the campaign to end homelessness in Hennepin County, Minnesota by 2016. Integrative leadership, as defined by Crosby and Bryson (2010) is the work of integrating people, resources, and organizations into semi-permanent arrangements that bridge multiple boundaries and achieve the common good. This material is part of The Hubert Project collection, the premier hub for open educational resources in
This artefact outlines the creation of a new website for Innovation North students holding details of all work placements (short, long term, voluntary, paid).The Institute for Enterprise funded the project and the money helped pay a student to maintain the website for a year
Government efforts to tackle global warming are significant but insufficient. Business should and can do more.
