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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There are no easy solutions to the complexities faced by nonprofit leaders and managers. This textbook addresses the governance, leadership, and management functions of the thousands of organizations in the nonprofit sector that provide an enormous range of services. This thoroughly revised fourth edition of Understanding Nonprofit Organizations does not simply recount and summarize seminal literature; it presents 22 of the most important and informative...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Supply chain bottlenecks, labor and transportation costs, tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and industrial policies are driving a resurgence in U.S.-based manufacturing. The authors discuss six key factors that business leaders should consider as they decide whether to reshore their manufacturing operations to the United States.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This set provides a transnational view of US history, focusing on the role of Americans and the US while analyzing how the world has influenced the US and Americans. It examines the impact of US policies on the world, as well as on the domestic agenda and discusses the increasingly important role of the US, from the early days of the republic to the present.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Burlingame is one of the foremost authorities on Abraham Lincoln in the world; as James McPherson wrote in The New York Review of Books, "The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person." The author or editor of over a dozen volumes about Lincoln, he is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. This book represents an abridgement of his magisterial 2-volume...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Leaders seeking to hire across all racioethnic groups in order to foster a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace are likely to find that recruitment will become more challenging in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions. Considering candidates from a wider range of institutions rather than favoring graduates of elite universities is among the tactics the author suggests for surfacing...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Comprehensive coverage of more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists. Information is presented in two distinct sections, essays and directory listings describing the historical development of religious families and providing factual information about each group within those families. Includes, when available, rubrics for membership figures, educational facilities and periodicals.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Money laundering is endemic. As much as 5 percent of global GDP ($3.6 trillion) is laundered by criminals each year. It's no wonder that every financial institution in the United States must comply with complex requirements mandated by a welter of federal anti-money laundering (AML) laws. Financial institutions and businesses that unknowingly serve as conduits for money laundering are no less liable to prosecution and fines than those that condone...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art - as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A weaker dollar buys less in foreign goods. This increases the price of imports, contributing to inflation. As the dollar weakens, investors in the benchmark 10-year Treasury and other bonds sell their dollar-denominated holdings. Contracts for oil and other commodities are usually denominated in dollars. As a result, historically, there has been an inverse relationship between the value of the dollar and commodities prices. Essentially, as the value...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Provides answers on all questions related to the variety of ways by which the American people govern themselves - from their constitutions and governments to the political norms and ideals that guide their actions as citizens and leaders; to local communities, civic associations, and political associations people form for collective deliberation and action; and to the relationships they form with their elected representatives.
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Examines the men and women who initiated or participated in social movements, including those willing to participate in a silent Negro protest march against lynching, a physician who violated the law and strictures of his community to offer birth control information, a mother's feverish attempts to ban action comics, and a businessman willing to raise money to aid the post-World War Jewish refugees of Poland.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This work includes 23 new ethnic groups and contains 152 revised ethnic entries on specific minority groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book cultivates the capacity of educators to respond to the changes that come along with the increasing number of culturally diverse students in American classrooms. The way educators respond and pivot their pedagogies to be inclusive of all cultures will determine the future of not only American schools, but American society. This book provides educators and families with a connection to educational outcomes with a deeper understanding of the...
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