Jennifer George

Follows a young Rube Goldberg from morning until night as he uses one complicated invention after another to "simplify" his life.

Rube Goldberg's Simple Normal Humdrum School Day

Celebrates Rube Goldberg's life and collects his body of work including his drawings, iconic inventions, comic strips, advertising work, political cartoons, and sculpture.

(A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius

The Art of Rube Goldberg

Learn all about opposites with Baby Rube Goldberg in this innovative accordion-fold board book This inventive board book combines the STEAM themes and hilarious hijinks of the Rube Goldberg brand with a unique and exciting format to explore the key concept of opposites in a whole new way. On one side of the accordion-fold pages, discover 12 pairs of opposites--from hot and cold to young and old and shallow and deep to awake and asleep. Turn the book over to discover Baby Rube Goldberg's hilarious and out-of-the-box invention that includes all 12 sets of opposites and demonstrates a "simple" way to dunk a cookie in milk! Written by Jennifer George, Rube Goldberg's granddaughter and the legacy director of Rube Goldberg, Inc., and featuring the brilliant illustrations of Vin Vogel, Baby Rube's Opposites is chockful of silly surprises for the youngest aspiring inventors.

Baby Rube's Opposites (a Rube Goldberg Book)

Follow along with young inventor Rube Goldberg on his day off from school in this wacky, STEAM-focused picture book A “definitely different” follow-up to Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day, written by Jennifer George, the granddaughter of Rube Goldberg, and illustrated by award-winning artist Ed Steckley. In their latest collaboration, they imagine Rube Goldberg as a young inventor who builds complex machines to solve simple, everyday problems. Follow along as he invents zany chain-reaction contraptions to have the best day off from school ever—including a simple way to play fetch in the yard without leaving his bedroom, a self-operating swing, and a super simple series of movie snacking machines.

Rube Goldberg's Simple Normal Definitely Different Day Off

Gareth Jones

Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of "Making It Real" for students. As a team, they are uniquely qualified to write about the organizational challenges facing today's managers. No other author team in the management discipline matches their combined research and text-writing experience. Essentials of Management concisely surveys current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies the reader learns how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; but the content is flexible and encourages instructors to use the organization they are most comfortable with. The themes of diversity, ethics, and information technology are clearly evident through in-text examples, photographs, "unboxed" stories, and the end-of-chapter material – all areas of importance that truly serve to bring to life the workplace realities that today's student will encounter in the course of a career.

Essentials of Contemporary Management with Student CD-ROM

Jones/George, Essentials of Contemporary Management is the concise edition of Contemporary Management. Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of “Making It Real“ for students. The authors present management in a way that keeps it relevant to students even if they lack exposure to a “real-life” management context. This is accomplished thru a diverse set of examples and the most popular feature of the text, “Manager as a Person” (Ch. 2). This chapter discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems. This theme is carried thru-out the remaining chapters. Discussions take place regarding the importance of Management Competenciesthe specific set of skills, abilities, and experiences that gives one manager the ability to perform at a higher level than another in a specific context. The themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology are integrated throughout.

Essentials of Contemporary Management

Are you a healthcare provider who wants to go above and beyond to transform patients' lives? Do you want to be respected as a leader in your field? Can you imagine working with passion and purpose every day despite organizational demands? Do you have a desire to grow professionally? This is a practical and intuitive guide for current and future healthcare providers who want to communicate with dignity, empathy, and compassion. Discover how to develop strong communication skills and lead your patients to their highest level of recovery function and independence. In Communication is Care you will find out how to: 1. Define and align your purpose. 2. Practice with compassion and empathy. 3. Listen presently and completely. 4. Guide from a place of integrity. 5. Empower patients to be their own advocates. 6. Focus on solutions, not barriers. 7. Create a safe therapeutic environment. 8. Prevent unnecessary conflict. 9. Reflect and grow with impact.

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