C Dennis
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
The leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental illness and addiction, Dual Disorders Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric or emotional disorders must battle an equally menacing and powerful disease--chemical dependency. First published in 1993, Dual Disorders is the leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...
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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In the hellish chaos of Bosnia, U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Ted "Grim" Reaper disobeyed a direct order from a corrupt superior officer, hoping to prevent a massacre -- and he paid with his careet. Forced to retire or face court martial, he left the military life. But now his war has come home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A playbook for long-term value creation. Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Typical HR talent-planning processes (which are too expensive and take too long to implement) are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have...
