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Shit Show: An Unexpected Life in Crisis and Risk Management

Author(s): Matt Charles

A colorful walk through the life and career of a person who has served as a special investigator, nonprofit foundation communications director, university spokesperson, professor and was a high-end EF3 tornado and bus crash survivor, Dr. Matt Charles provides case studies from a guy who generally en...

Amelia's Teacher: The Neta Snook Southern Story

Author(s): Jeanne Snook Anderson

Mary Anita “Neta” Snook was born on February 14, 1896, in the small northeast Illinois town of Mount Carroll. As far back as she could remember, she had an interest in all things mechanical and was considered a prodigy. Little did she know, this interest would put her in a position to teach the woma...

An Autoethnographic Journey to the Self

Author(s): Michael Taylor

It would appear bookshelves are replete with the author’s account of ascending some metaphorical mountain with various trials and tribulations along with the pathway of life. So why the inclusion of another work that runs the risk on the precipice of the dustbin of vanquished literary works? Potenti...

Hemingway's Earliest Heroes Nick Adams and Jake Barnes

Author(s): Donald Daiker

Nick Adams is Ernest Hemingway’s most important and best-liked character.  Nick is, in many ways, Hemingway himself, his alter ego: his remembered or imagined self in the earlier stories and his projected better self in many of the later ones.  Once Ernest Hemingway created the character of Nick Ada...

No More Boring Classes: Active Learning for Operations Management

Author(s): Benton Jones

Any course containing math has the potential to be boring for students and for instructors.This workbook offers engaging active learning exercises to bring Operations Management to life!Research shows that active learning helps students learn faster and retain concepts longer.Here are 9 tabletop act...