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Leader Development in Army Units
Summarizes discussions with over 450 Army officers (lieutenants through colonels) about leader development in Army units. These discussions revealed that the type and extent of leader development activities vary greatly across units, but that they are generally informal and most heavily influenced b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English
Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of thes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and fo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Hoosier Philanthropy: A State History of Giving
by James H. Madison • Peter Weber • Nicole Etcheson • David P. King • Xiaoyun Wang • Tyrone McKinley Freeman • William H. Schneider • Katherine Badertscher • Clay Robbins • Ruth C. Crocker • James J. Connelly • Paul C. Pribbenow • Caitlin Crowley • Elizabeth J. Van Allen • Chen Ji • Amanda Koch • Ruth K. Hansen • Philip D. ByersThe first in-depth history of philanthropy in Indiana. Philanthropy has been central to the development of public life in Indiana over the past two centuries. Hoosier Philanthropy explores the role of philanthropy in the Hoosier state, showing how voluntary action within Indiana has created and supp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All
by Edgar Allan Poe • Ambrose Bierce • Arthur Machen • Bram Stoker • Robert W. Chambers • Dion Fortune • Arthur Conan Doyle • Ralph Adams Cram • Aleister Crowley • H. P. Lovecraft • J. Sheridan Le Fanu • Edward Bulwer Lytton • Montague Rhodes James • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • Frank Belknap LongFrightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe. Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014