Home to the United States Naval Academy since 1845, Annapolis and its busy harbor attract visitors from around the world.  Since its founding in the 1600s, Annapolis has played an important role in American history. The area became Maryland's capital in 1694, and its capitol building is the longest in continuous use in the United States. John L. Conley is an Annapolis area writer. The historic images in this book are from his personal collection.

Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather than simply mirroring or describing it. This collection illustrates the variety of organizational phenomena that might be studied and the range of epistemological and methodological approaches ...

Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size.Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from all over the state - including, for...

There have been many studies analyzing the philosophy of Blaise Pascal, but this book is the first full-length study of the philosophies of his sisters, Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal Périer, and his niece, Marguerite Périer. While these women have long been presented as the disciples, secretaries, correspondents, and nurses of their brother and uncle, each woman developed a distinctive philosophy that is more than auxiliary to the thought of Blaise Pascal. The unique philosophical ...

Immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Madison Cawein, a renowned American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This third volume of his collected poems offers a captivating journey through his poetic landscapes, where nature's beauty, love's passion, and the human spirit intertwine. From the vibrant hues of Kentucky's countryside to the ethereal realms of imagination, Cawein's verses paint vivid pictures that linger in the mind. Prepare to be enchanted by the timeless melodie...

Just as Arihito and his party are in the midst of quelling a stampede, a foe more formidable than any other appears—one capable of overwhelming even Arihito’s support and defense skills. Yet all hope is not lost, for they still have a secret weapon: the powers of a Hidden God on their side. Will Arihito succeed at advancing his party to District Seven…and get one step closer to his goal of restoring Theresia’s humanity?

The husband never really understood where his wife went during the day, what she was doing or why she came home so late. The neighbors were beginning to talk. Then, things got really fishy when their baby was born. She was half shark, half dolphin. The Catfish was now out of the bag! His wife had been secretly having an affair! There are many questions that Sharkdolph must seek the answers to: who she really is, why she is so different from the other dolphins, but more importantly, who her...

Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do they contribute to and detract from the meaningfulness of lives, and how might we improve them so...

Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable.T...

Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relations and institutions. The book begins by ex...

This book provides practical guidance on processes of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, planning and writing a literature review.

The Second Edition of Cunliffe′s Management covers topics that are central to management, organizational behaviour or leadership courses, with updated international content referring to current issues such as the economic crisis and unemployment.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head ...