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Save time with ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: INTEGRATING INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND ORGANIZATIONS! Clear and concise, this management text provides you with the tools you need to be successful in this course. Biz Flix boxes, found in every chapter, highlight short film scenes and exercises that help you relate to the chapter material. Examples found throughout make the material easy to understand. Online features such as exercises and practice problems will help reinforce your knowledge of chapter content and master difficult content.

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Organizational Behavior: Integrating Individuals, Groups, and Organizations

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More than a textbook—it's also a valuable reference book for researchers and crop science professionals!

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Handbook of Statistics for Teaching and Research in Plant and Crop Science.(BOOKSHELF): An article from: Food Trade Review
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48 full color Hubble science cards. Great fun for teaching and learning about the Universe in which we live. Learn about the universe, black holes, galaxies, radio jets, dark energy, star formation, neutrinos, the big bang and much much more! A fantastic teaching tool loaded with hours of fun.

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Ideal for undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in chemical bonding, Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From Lewis to Electron Densities can also be used in inorganic chemistry courses. Authored by Ronald Gillespie, a world-class chemist and expert on chemical bonding, and Paul Popelier of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, this text provides students with a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the principal models and theories of chemical bonding and geometry. It also serves as a useful resource and an up-to-date introduction to modern developments in the field for instructors teaching chemical bonding at any level. Features: * Shows students how the concept of the chemical bond has developed from its earliest days, through Lewis's brilliant concept of the electron pair bond and up to the present day * Presents a novel, non-traditional approach that emphasizes the importance of the Pauli principle as a basis for understanding bonding * Begins with the fundamental classical concepts and proceeds through orbital models to recent ideas based on the analysis of electron densities, which help to clarify and emphasize many of the limitations of earlier models * Provides a thorough and up-to-date treatment of the well-known valence-shell electron pair (VSEPR) model (which was first formulated and developed by author Ronald Gillespie) and the more recent ligand close-packing (LCP) model * Presents a unique pictorial and nonmathematical discussion of the analysis of electron density distributions using the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory * Emphasizes the relationships between these various models, giving examples of their uses, limitations, and comparative advantages and disadvantages

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Chemical Bonding and the Geometry of Molecules

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Chemical bonding and the geometry of molecules (Selected topics in modern chemistry)

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Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how knowledge, skills and capabilities are developed in organizations--and how this process offers deep insights into the predictable barriers to success. Written in a clear, accessible style, it highlights the crucial part "disconnects" play in the learning cycle--a role that it is essential to understand in today's increasingly knowledge-driven work systems. The conceptual framework of the text is grounded in scholarly research and detailed case studies that focus on an organization's front-line operating practices, the governance of training and learning activities, and ties to the strategic level. The book highlights six types of organizational learning--including learning that is incremental, experimental, continuous, synergistic, entrenched, and revolutionary--all of which have different implications for theory and practice. The book is organized into three parts. Part I, Bold Visions, introduces the importance and great potential of systems for learning, training, and knowledge. Part II, Harsh Realities, takes a detailed look at the dynamics of "disconnects," "divergence," and "dilemmas" in the learning process. Finally, Part III, Integration, highlights the interconnections between the Bold Visions and the Harsh Realities. Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities is essential reading for organizational leaders at all levels and it is ideal for courses in industrial/organizational psychology, business, and public policy.

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Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch, novelist
Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure.
Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--where a high-placed uncle helped speed his advancement to post captain--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles. Readers will witness the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson crushed a French squadron of
thirteen ships of the line, and the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died at the moment of his greatest triumph. What emerges is a man of strength of mind amounting to genius, frequently generous, always fascinated with women, often uneasy with his superior officers, and absolutely fearless. Nelson was
a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him.

Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life.

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One of the better biographies on Admiral Nelson.......2006-08-30

Novelist and historian Terry Coleman's "The Nelson Touch" may be regarded as the first of the three great biographies of Admiral Nelson published in the first decade of the 21st Century. However, in stark contrast to John Sugden's monumental two volume work (The second volume is in preparation, covering the period from 1797 to 1805, when Nelson had his greatest triumphs and defeats.) and Roger Knight's biography published last year, Coleman's extensively researched tome reads more like a negative "Cliff Notes" review of the admiral's life, focusing on Nelson's career in the 1790s and 1800s, devoting as much time to the great British admiral's flaws as well as his successes. Indeed, I suspect that the title "The Nelson Touch" is a bit misleading, since Coleman doesn't dwell much on those facets of Nelson's personality which made him into an inspirational naval commander well respected - if not loved - by his celebrated "band of brothers" such as Captains Berry, Hallowell, Hardy and Hoste, and Admirals Collingwood and Hood. Speaking of which, to my utter amazement, there is not much for the reader to discern regarding Nelson's strong ties to fellow officers such as Captains Berry and Hardy and especially, Admiral Collingwood. Only Rear Admiral Troubridge is discussed at any length, and it is more from the perspective of Nelson's perceived rivalry with Troubridge dating from the latter's appointment to the Admiralty in 1801, than the close comradeship which had developed while serving together in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1790s.

Yet Coleman's negative appraisal of Nelson's life and career is important for two major reasons. First it demonstrates convincingly how disastrous Nelson's conduct was at Naples in 1799, condoning acts which would be charitably described as running counter to the spirit, if not the actual letter, of dignified conduct against the enemy; in other words, Nelson acted as a war criminal. How, you might ask? He abrogated a treaty signed by one of his subordinates and representatives of Naples's Republican government and misled defending Neapolitan and French troops holding out in impregnable forts near the city who had been guaranteed safe conduct to Toulon, but instead, found themselves sent via safe conduct only to the gallows. He also arranges for the summary execution of the Neapolitan naval officer in charge of the city's defense, who had become a close colleague and friend of Nelson's, before switching his loyalty to the Republican government. Coleman also delves deeply into Nelson's relationship with Emma Hamilton, demonstrating how it evolved slowly into a passionate love affair, beginning innocently enough via Emma's diplomatic work on behalf of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies's Bourbon royal family. At any rate, Coleman's fine scholarship puts to rest any notion that theirs was love at first sight. Despite my own misgivings regarding Coleman's coverage, I still strongly recommend this book as an excellent biography of Admiral Nelson, especially in its coverage of Nelson's actions at Naples and his love affair with Emma Hamilton.

Rehumanization of a Legend from Primary Source Material.......2006-01-09

I admire _The Nelson Touch_ in the way that, Nelson-like, author Terry Coleman ties up alongside and lets the broadsides rip at his subject from the get-go:

"Nelson was a paramount naval genius and natural born predator, and those who look to find a saint besides will miss the man. The strength of mind is everywhere obvious. He knew he was right, and in action was daring and direct. His originality asserts itself again and again, and so does his quixotic generosity. But in private life, as in war, he was ruthless whenever he had to be, and he could be pitiless. He was a fanatic for duty, at times beyond all sense, and a royalist so infatuated with the divine right of kings that he began to see himself, in revolutionary times, as the instrument of God. This made him a good hater. He hated the American rebels of the thirteen colonies, and the harmless liberal rebels against the Bourbon king of Naples, as unforgivingly as he hated the revolutionary French and then Napoleon."

That's the first paragraph from page one, and in excellent journalistic style, Coleman, having layed out his thesis, succintly expands upon it in the next 343 pages (a very small number of pages relative to most modern biographies.) Coleman does not discuss Nelson's military strategy to a great extent. Nor does he fill in the many gaps in the historical record with generalized discussions of the social milieu of the time; for example, little is known about Nelson's boyhood, and Coleman does not have any sections that choose to draw in sources about what it might have been like from contemporary accounts of other persons of the same period. The author does not bother filling in the vast background story of the sociopolitical upheavals of the time, and approaches Nelson's life with a certain expectation of familiarity on the part of the reader of its general outline. Far from detracting from its subject matter, the relative tautness and focus of this approach make it one of the most readable biographies I've encountered in recent years.

What Coleman does rather superbly is go back to truly original source material on Nelson, and more or less reconstruct a portrait of the man he was. The surviving primary material, in the form of Nelson's letters and those few letters to Nelson which survive, are meticulously examined. Any contradictions and inconsistencies are investigated, the factual basis often being compared to subsequent distortions. This book might be labeled 'revisionist' because of Coleman's insistence on unraveling the origins of the many myths and distortions that have developed over the centuries concerning Nelson; however, my impression is more that Coleman simply tries to get at the truth of the matter under the layers of hogwash without any agenda per se. If that results in a revision in the general public understanding of Nelson, that's where the chips have fallen.

A constant theme of the book is deconstructing the myth, the legend, the hagiography that's been built up around Nelson since his death. Indeed, Coleman manages to convey that it was Nelson's very nature that started building up the legend in the first place. It remains dubious about the extent to which Nelson's military acumen was or was not responsible for victories at St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, but there's no doubt that Nelson thought that Nelson was responsible almost wholly for those victories. (Nelson was quite fond of referring to himself in the third person.) And the tenor of the times was ripe for mythologizing a hero, particularly in a Britain that was in such dire straits in its continental struggle and in fear of popular uprisings.

Nelson's strange sojourn as a sort of minister of war cum loose-cannon warlord supporting the King of Naples is given a great deal of attention. It's a sorry episode where Nelson's reactionary political leanings, love of royalty, desire for self-aggrandizement, and failure to obey his superiors combined in a rather nasty and bloody counter-revolution. The current controversy about whether Nelson's unilateral abrogation of a treaty, which resulted in the execution of several hundred prisoners who had been promised safe conduct by the British, is discussed in significantly greater detail than Nelson's fleet exploits. I came at this book without any sense of national pride (or disgust, as some contemporary Italian scholars have because of the incident, to the point of calling Nelson a war criminal) in the Nelson legend, but with considerable familiarity with his military record, and as such I found this material very interesting.

What I do find somewhat missing in Coleman's account is an explanation of 'The Nelson Touch' that so inspired his contemporaries (at least the ones who didn't hate his guts). Nelson cheerfully explains it about himself in laying out his battle plans for Trafalgar, but as Coleman notes, there are zero accounts from his captains about the same meeting at which Nelson describes himself so glowingly. Was the 'Touch' an invention? If it was real, what was it about Nelson's personal qualities that made him an inspirational leader? This subject is not addressed, leading one to the conclusion that it perhaps might have been a contemporary invention of the glory-seeking Nelson and his acolytes. I don't know this to be so, but this is not the book that explores those issues. And, as noted, there is little in the way of revisionism in looking at the claims of Nelson's military genius, which are certainly overstated in many other sources and which is taken as a given by Coleman.

One item of particular note: Coleman does a superb job of looking at the visual record of Nelson in terms of the contemporary portraits done of him during his lifetime. Often in biographies the illustrations are unremarked upon by the author, almost afterthoughts. Coleman treats these, too, as primary sources, and this greatly enlivens the text.

Regardless of how one approaches Nelson as man or legend prior to reading this book, this is an excellent modern biography that rehumanizes him, and well recommended.

Fun read.......2004-05-21

I don't feel outraged that Coleman's treatment of Nelson is harsh. Why make Nelson something he wasn't: a saint.

What's wrong with saying that Nelson was not perfect?.......2004-05-10

I notice that Joel Hayward's new book also points out Nelson's flaws as a warrior and as a captain and as an officer. Maybe Hayward wrote it all in a more balance way, and with more context, but he still said similar things to Mr Coleman. Yet Coleman seems to have been singled out for criticism for merely showing that Nelson was human and used his legal disciplinary rights more often than we assumed. Big deal. He was a great admiral but just a man.

A highly negative view of Nelson.......2003-07-19

Coleman has written a highly negative biography of Nelson that stresses Nelson's faults while ignoring his accomplishments. Coleman believes that Nelson was engaged in war crimes at Naples since he decieved the rebels with a truce and than slaughtered them. Also Nelson bluffed his way to victory at Coopenhagen by overstating his strength to the Danish king in order to achieve a truce. Finally Coleman is critical of the way that Nelson treated his first wife with his affair with Emma Hamilton. Even though this is a highly negative biography of Nelson it is highly readable.

Terry Coleman. The Nelson Touch: the Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson.(Book Review): An article from: Albion

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Terry Coleman. The Nelson Touch: the Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson.(Book Review): An article from: Albion
Oded Lowenheim
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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 976 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The Nelson Touch : The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

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