Peter M. Senge

Charlotte Roberts

Art Kleiner

A guide to establishing learning organizations within existing companies provides exercises for individuals and teams, suggested approaches, and success stories

Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

Bryan Smith

George Roth

Richard Ross

Outlines the challenges faced by managers and executives in a changing organization, and details how to maintain a progressive business after initial changes are introduced

The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

The Dance of Change

Keith Manchester

The Archaeology of Disease

Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' and in his posthumously published 'Memoirs' demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. Roberts explores the 'Decline and Fall' as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details.

Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History

Fear has so many meanings, but when perceived as a way of life, it has the potential to drive a person to the edge of their own existence. Each day was a new challenge for Ava as she struggled to simply survive her life; psychologically, emotionally, and physically. In a story of a life that was anything but happy; filled with horrifying and devastating abuse, terrible mistakes, disheartening failures, and physical discoveries, Ava does all she can to be happy. Based on a true story, The Black Maze is filled with virtually countless challenges that many people face, but may not be open about. Avas constant struggles prove to be a challenge for even the strongest of people - will life ever be bearable for her? Is happiness even an option? Will she ever make it through her black maze?

The Black Maze

Mark Pollard

John Hunter

Anthony Martin

Carol Heron

Geoffrey Knupfer

The study of forensic evidence using archaeology is a new discipline which has rapidly gained importance, not only in archaeological studies but also in the investigation of real crimes. Archaeological evidence is increasingly presented in criminal cases and has helped to secure a number of convictions. Studies in Crime surveys methods of searching for and locating buried remains, their practical recovery, the decay of human and associated death scene materials, the analysis and identification of human remains including the use of DNA, and dating the time of death. The book contains essential information for forensic scientists, archaeologists, police officers, police surgeons, pathologists and lawyers. Studies in Crime will also be of interest to members of the public interested in the investigation of death by unnatural causes, both ancient and modern.

An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology

Studies in Crime

Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity; oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The constant interplay between style and substance, or between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from his reception of established and innovative historiographical conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.

This book is for people who want to learn, especially while treading the fertile ground of organizational life. The idea of a learning organization has become increasingly prominent over the last few years. This book's predecessor, The Fifth Discipline, helped give voice to that wave on interest by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of the work of building learning organizations. Since its publication in 1990, Peter Senge et al. have talked to thousands of people who have committed themselves to the idea of building a learning organization. However, many of them are still not certain how to put the concepts into practice, asking questions like 'What do we do Monday morning? How do we navigate past the many barriers and roadblocks to collective learning? How do we discover exactly what kind of learning organization we wish to create? How do we get started?' No one person has THE answers to these questions, but there are answers. It is time for a 'fieldbook' - a collection of notes, reflections and exercised 'from the field'. This volume contains 172 pieces of writing by 67 authors, describing tools and methods, stories and reflections, guiding ideas and exercises and resources which people are using effectively.

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