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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the forces driving the decisions of today's most sought after consumers
According to recent statistics, members of Generation Y shop 25 percent to 40 percent more than the average consumer. In Gen BuY, Yarrow and O'Donnell argue that these voracious and fearless consumers have revolutionized the way Americans shop by turning traditional sales and marketing strategies upside down. Based on solid research, the book offers an
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
This guide to rewriting the rules of management is perfect for millennials looking to achieve career and professional success.
Millennials have begun moving into management positions everywhere and are shaking up the workplace as they go. The generation that was raised in an age of instant communication, and questioning authority has begun tearing down the corporate ladder, communicating on the fly, and bringing play to work.
...3) Farmland
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth documentary covering multiple personal stories of young US farmers and ranchers. Most Americans have never stepped foot on a working farm or ranch or ever had the opportunity to talk to the people who grow and raise the food we eat.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty. Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, ethnic studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Part I focuses on establishing sound personal health practices, increasing awareness of body language, learning principles of stress management, time management and setting priorities. Part II focuses on knowing how to make good objective observations, gather the client's subjective input, report and record these observations.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Federal Agent Richard Chance has a score to settle, and he's through playing by the rules. Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter. As the stakes grow higher, Chance's obsession with vengeance might ultimately destroy him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this program we examine how teachers think about guidance and discipline, the influences affecting them in determining what they consider either acceptable or challenging behaviour. Teachers also discuss the importance of teamwork and staff support in helping them deal with the challenging behaviour more prevalent in the new millennium.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty in the workplace hurt the morale of teams and lead to pessimism, poor focus and subpar performance. Jon Gordon's strategies for successfully uniting teams center on his belief that communication is key. Start by sharing a unifying vision that rallies a team toward a common purpose. Stay positive on a daily basis, celebrate successes, and deal with negativity head on. Engage employees by helping them find their own personal vision...
14) Skin Deep
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A multi-racial group of college students in a weekend racial sensitivity workshop discuss affirmative action, self-segregation, internalized racism and cultural identity. Skin Deep chronicles the eye-opening journey of a diverse and divided group of college students as they awkwardly but honestly confront each other's racial prejudices. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances Reid follows students from the University of Massachusetts, Texas A&M,...
15) ABCD
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1999
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an Indian family living in the suburbs of New Jersey. Anju is a widow who believes in tradition and is reluctant to accept the mores of American society. Her main goal is to see that her two children get married to respectable Indian partners. Raj is the "good son", engaged to a devoted and traditional Indian girl. While Nina is the wild child, rebelling against her mother and all Indian customs. Both of the childrens' lives are...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the struggle, a skeptical American is won over by their cause and even goes to jail with them. The activists, whether clashing with police or squatting in an old factory, risk everything to live their politics....
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