 | | Jay Nathan
The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management
Kazakhstan's New Economy:
Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era
2012
This book is about how proper management can benefit Kazakhstan
and many other developing nations. The present, especially in
transitional economies, does compete with past values. Formerly
colonized countries suffer from the inherited mindset that prevents
them from learning from the developed countries and the free market
system. This is a major challenge. The nascent industries, if
managed well, can be engines of growth, and therefore can create
wealth and promote quality of life for modernization. The details
of the emerging industries, their performances thus far, analyses,
strategies, evaluation and control of recommended management ideas
to modernize, internationalize, and grow in a global era is
presented in this book. |
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 | | Kazakhstan's New Economy:
Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era
2007
Kazakhstan has faced severe economic challenges since it gained
independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Kazakhstan’s
New Economy explores how the country might shed the outdated
business practices that continue to hamper its growth. Jay Nathan
first provides a historical overview of the economy and then delves
deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of nine major industries,
including oil and gas, banking, telecommunications, and
transportation. Nathan’s careful analysis and recommendations will
provide valuable insight for anyone interested in Central Asia’s
economic growth.
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 | | William Nester
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Government and Politics
Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy:
How War and Hubris Determined the Rise and the Fall of the French
Empire
2012
Although a small library could be filled with books on Napoleon,
Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy is the first
comprehensive exploration of Napoleon the diplomat and how his
abilities in that arena shaped his military campaigns and the rise
and fall of the French empire. |
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 | | Haunted Victory: The American
Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy in Iraq
2012
Haunted Victory explores the dynamic trajectory
of beliefs, actions, and their consequences in what will forever be
debated as among the most controversial and costly operations in
American history in terms of security, power, wealth, and
honor. |
| | | |
 | | From Mountain Man to
Millionaire: `The Bold and Dashing Life' of Robert Campbell
(revised and expanded edition)
2011
From Mountain Man to Millionaire tells the
fascinating story of Robert Campbell, who came to America from
Ireland in 1822, and entered the Rocky Mountain fur trade soon
after. He quickly rose from trapper to brigade leader to partner-
all within a half dozen years. In the mid-1830s, having amassed
considerable wealth, Campbell retired from the mountains and
embarked on a new career. He returned to St. Louis and built up a
business empire that embraced the mercantile, steamboat, railroad,
and banking industries. Hold up a mirror to Robert Campbell's life
and you see reflected much of America's nineteenth century. |
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 | | The Revolutionary Years: The Art
of American Power during the Early Republic
2011
The Revolutionary Years reveals how the nation's
leaders asserted power during the fourteen years from the
Revolution’s first shots at Lexington in April 1775 to the adoption
of the Constitution in 1789. |
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 | | Shondel J. Nero, Ed.
The School of Education, Human Services and
Counseling
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and
Education
2006
This edited volume brings together a multiplicity of voices, both
theoretical and practical, on the politics, challenges and
strategies of educating students who are speakers of diverse or
nonstandard varieties of English, Creoles and hybrid varieties of
English such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean
Creole English, Tex Mex, Indian English and West African Pidgin
English, among others. |
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 | | William R. Nester
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Government
and Politics
The Frontier War for American Independence
2004
Although the American Revolution is commonly associated with
specific locations such as the heights above Boston or the frozen
Delaware River, important events took place in the wooded,
mountainous lands of the frontier. The vicious war on the frontier
significantly altered the course of the Revolution and involved
regular troops, volunteers and Indians who clashed in large-scale
campaigns and bloody fights for land, home and family. Nester
brings this long-obscured chapter of the War for Independence out
from the shadows of Concord and Brandywine and reshapes how we
understand American history. |
| |
 | | Globalization: A Short History
of the Modern World
2011
Today all humans are formally tied to all others through
their country's membership in the United Nations and numerous other
international organizations, along with the immediate benefits of
global trade, telecommunications, travel and the internet. Yet
globalization has a dark side - it destroys, as well as creates
jobs, wealth and lives, while every human lives under the shadow of
potential nuclear and ecological extinction. Globalization: A Short
History of the Modern World explores that all powerful force for
good and evil from Renaissance through today and beyond.
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 | | Globalization, War, and Peace in
the Twenty-First Century
2011
Many a war has been fought under the lofty banner of justice,
freedom and equality. Many more, however, are provoked by the far
darker motives of greed, aggression, fear, vengeance, hatred and
ignorance. Globalization, War and Peace in the Twenty-first
Century explores humanity's most persistent and tragic
problem. |
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 | | Globalization, Wealth and Power
in the Twenty-first Century
2011
Disputes over trade, intellectual property, economic development,
multinational corporations,industrial policy and the environment
are among the most prominent geo-economic conflicts. Globalization,
Wealth and Power in the Twenty-first Century offers an in-depth
exploration of all dimensions of the subject. |
| |
 | | The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga,
1758
2008
On July 8, 1758, British General James Abercromby ordered a
controversial frontal assault of the French defenses on the
Ticonderoga peninsula in upstate New York. Outnumbering the French
by four to one, the capture of their fort, named Carillon, seemed
all but assured. Once the fort — called the “key to a continent” —
was in British hands, the road would be open to invade Canada,
capture Montreal and Quebec and end the French and Indian War. This
book examines the skirmishes and raids in the months leading up to
the battle, discusses Abercromby’s campaign in the larger context
of British grand strategy for the year 1758, the roles of key
military and political figures on both sides and the conflict’s
aftermath. |
|
 | | Jeffrey S. Nevid
with Spencer A. Rathus
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Psychology
Psychology and the
Challenges of Life, 9th Edition
2004
From adjusting to college life and deciding on a career to coping
with negative emotions and relieving stress—Nevid and Rathus’s
Psychology and the Challenges of Life, Ninth Edition reports on
relevant psychological theory and current research, and shows you
how to apply this information to your daily life. Now thoroughly
updated, this Ninth Edition features references to the latest
scientific findings, integrated coverage of human diversity, new
and revised pedagogical features and more. |
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 | | and Beverly Greene
with Spencer A. Rathus
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Psychology Abnormal Psychology in a Changing
World, 6th Edition
2005
Abnormal psychology is more than the study of the features,
causes and treatments of psychological disorders. This new edition
of a leading college text incorporates a first-person perspective
in which
people struggling with the challenges of mental disorders tell
their own stories in first-person accounts and accompanying video
case interviews. |
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 | | Essentials of Psychology:
Concepts and Applications
2005
This first edition of the an introductory psychology text carries
the unique pedagogical framework of a concept-based modular
approach to teaching introductory psychology. The author’s research
on textbook pedagogy provides an empirical foundation supporting
the learning benefits of this pedagogical approach. |
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 | | Psychology: Concepts and
Applications, 2nd Edition
2006
A mainstream textbook used in introductory psychology
courses, it adopts a unique pedagogical framework based on the Four
Es of Effective Learning: engaging interest; encoding important
information; elaborating meaning; and evaluating progress. The
author draws upon evidence from his research on pedagogical
effectiveness in developing the book's pedagogical framework and
introduces a new study tool, concept signaling. This edition also
introduces the use of concept maps for the first time in
introductory psychology. |
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 | | Abnormal Psychology
in a Changing World, 7th Edition
2009
A textbook for college level courses in abnormal psychology, the
text
covers the major classes of psychological disorders with respect
to their features or symptoms, underlying causal factors and ways
of treating them. More than a compendium of diagnoses, causes and
treatments, this text puts a human face on the study of abnormal
psychology by bringing students into the world of people who are
struggling with many kinds of psychological disorders through
first-person accounts, illuminating case studies and videotaped
interviews. |
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 | | Co-Author: Spencer Rathus
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Psychology Psychology and the Challenges of
Life: Adjustment and Growth, 11th Edition
2010
This was the first college textbook I authored (with my colleague
Spencer Rathus) and is now in the 11th edition, published in 2010.
The text is used in courses in psychological adjustment and human
relations. The text focuses on applications of psychological
knowledge to the challenges we face in life, from building and
maintaining relationships and learning to manage stress more
effectively to adopting healthier habits and lifestyles. |
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 | | Mary Noe
College of Professional Studies, Legal
Studies
IEP Workshop: Building
Teacher-Parent Partnerships
2011
A parent's guide to navigate the school and legal systems
regarding the Individual with Disabilities Education Act. |
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