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Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations. This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future directions for improving gender equity. With contributions from leading international sport scholars and…

The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism…

What the heck is Facebook? Twitter? Blogging? This book answers these questions and explains how to use a variety of social networking sites to keep in touch, stay in business, and have fun. This book covers the main social networking “spaces,” and introduces some of the ways people are enjoying them within a family or…

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BLOCKBUSTER REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK NOW AN APPLE TV+ LIMITED SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD The “page-turning, exhilarating” (PopSugar) and “heartfelt thriller” (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a…

THE BOOK THAT’S CHANGING THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION “A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education.” ―Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great “A terrific read; it must become a blueprint for educational transformation.” ―Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education Studies in…

Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. In The Mystery of Economic Growth, Elhanan Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains…

The blood-brain barrier, a concept including all morphological and functional mechanisms that restricts or facilitates the passage of substances from blood to brain, enables the brain environment to be regulated relatively independently from concentration and fluctuations in plasma constituents. The various aspects on the blood-brain barrier have been extensively discussed in a number of recent…

Your business's success depends on how you prepare for the future. While business leaders of the past looked in the sideview mirror to predict the road ahead, we must now look at the greater forces affecting the social, business and economic world today-megatrends. Fortunately, world-renowned scholars and professors Terence Tse and Mark Esposito are here…

Señor Alex Ferguson entrega la Administración, en la cual el mayor coche de fútbol de todo el tiempo analizará las decisiones de liderazgo giratorias de sus 38 años como un director. La administración es tan inspiradora como es práctico, y un ir - para referirse para cualquier líder en el negocio, deportes, y la vida.…

Los estudios internacionales ponen de manifiesto que un buen liderazgo es un factor determinante de la calidad de la educación y dentro de todos los factores internos de la escuela, después de la labor del profesorado en el aula, el liderazgo de la dirección es el segundo factor que contribuye a lo que aprende el…