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Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace: Aligning Initiatives with Strategic Business Goals

Robertson, Robert W.; Aquino, Carlos Tasso Eira de (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

This edited collection offers a nontraditional approach to diversity management, going beyond gender, race, and ethnicity. Examining ageism, disability, and spirituality, the book provides a discussion of different DandI ...

Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe

Kaplan, Benjamin J. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)

As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern ...

Divinely Abused: A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin

Verbin, Nehama (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)

A solution to the problem of theodicy, that is, the reconciliation of the existence and effect of evil with the righteousness of the traditionally defined Jewish or Christian God is, to my mind, simply philosophically ...

The Docks

Sharpsteen, Bill (University of California Press, 2011)

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that ...

Documentary

Stallabrass, Julian (MIT Press, 2013)

After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous ...

Does God Exist? A Dialogue on the Proofs for God’s Existence

Moody, Todd C. (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2013)

In this engaging introductory dialogue, Todd Moody maps the spectrum of philosophical arguments and counterarguments for the existence of God. Structuring colloquial conversations along classical lines, he presents a lively ...

Doing Care, Doing Citizenship : Towards a Micro-Situated and Emotion-Based Model of Social Inclusion

Pratesi, Alessandro (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families. Grounded in empirical research ...

Doing Your Research Project

Bell, Judith (McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)

Step-by-step advice on completing an outstanding research project. Research can be daunting, particularly for first-timers, but this indispensable book provides everything you need to know to prepare for research, draft ...

Domestic law in international investment arbitration

Hepburn, Jarrod (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed. When should investment treaty tribunals engage with domestic law? How should investment treaty ...

Dominion undeserved: Milton and the perils of creation

Milton, John; Song, Eric B (Cornell University Press, 2013)

It may refl ect poorly on my character that I wrote a book about the loss of happy homelands while living in a number of delightful places. I started this project at the University of Virginia under the supervision of James ...

Don Delillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man

Olster, Stacey (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)

Each study in this series presents ten original essays by recognized subject specialists on the recent fiction of a significant author working in the United States or Canada. The aim of the series is to consider important ...

Done.: A Cook's Guide to Knowing When Food Is Perfectly Cooked

Peterson, James (Chronicle Books, 2014)

Done. answers the age-old question that stumps all cooks: "Is it ready yet?" In this infinitely handy kitchen guide, foremost cooking authority James Peterson gives at-aglance answers for more than 85 of the most vexing-to-cook ...

Dordogne & Southwest France

DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled ...

Dos and Don’ts in Human Resources Management: A Practical Guide

Zeuch, Matthias (Gabler Verlag, 2015)

With this book, an international group of approximate 50 HR leaders, professors and senior consultants compiled their knowledge and experience in an easy-to-navigate format to allow busy HR executives finding exactly the ...

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Dosage calculations and basic math for nurses demystified

Keogh, James Edward (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)

Calculating the correct dose to administer to the patient is challenging unless you follow a proven approach that is used in Dosage Calculations Demystified. Topics are presented in an order in which many nurses and nursing ...

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective Bibliography of Publications About his Plays and their Conceptual Foundations

Carpenter, Charles A. (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.