books about: consensus     books:     Consensus      Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming Patrick J. Michaels Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005 "Denier"? A comment on the reviewers here. When I see the word "denier" used as in "Global Warming Denier" it tells me everything I need to know about the person. They are ignorant of scientific method and the difference between hypothosis, theory and fact. And that is a shame, ...             Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) Elizabeth R. Varon The University of North Carolina Press, 2008 A sublimely adaptable concept For the definition of a word, we consult the dictionary and find the current acceptable definition of the word. Words can have much more than a definition. Words can have meaning and emotions that change with time and place. Disunion is a word with a definition that ...             The Owner-Builder Book: How You Can Save More Than $100,000 in the Construction of Your Custom Home, 4th ... Mark A. Smith, Elaine M. Smith Consensus Group; 4th edition (January 15, 2007), 2007 THE GREATEST BOOK EVER!! well, i've read so many how to books, i've read tips and traps, the idot's guide, and the dummy's guide. the owner builder book surpases them all! it taught me so much about being my own contractor to build my house myself. i've had a lot of friends who custom ...             Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus (3rd Edition) Lawrence M. Hinman Prentice Hall, 2005 It was a great book!!!!!!! It had valuable information, and I wish I could get a copy of it. (I borrowed this book from my friend's father.) I had to do a research about the death penalty, and this book got me an A!!             Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein Nation Books, 2009 A brilliant narrative history of the underdog American conservative movement of the 1960s ~Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus~ is a sweeping narrative history of the American conservative movement in the 1960s. The author Richard Perlstein, a liberal journalist, actually offers a fairly balanced and objective view ...             Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results Lawrence E. Susskind, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Great tool for developing effective communication This book has great value whether you are a business owner, politician or public agency staffer, an environmentalist, a facilitator, mediator or any other interested party. It provides a simple, concise and easy-to-understand review of the consensus building process. ...             The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki Anchor, 2005 Important and Paradoxical Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds documents and analyzes an extremely important phenomenon. When people guess at a question to which nearly no one knows the answer but most people can make a sensible guess (e.g., what proportion of the world's airports are in the ...             Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, ... Jossey-Bass, 2007 Great decision-making facilitation! The 1st edition of Sam Kaner's book was a fairly thin volume that diagramed his divergent-convergent thinking model. It made me laugh when he named the struggle to reach convergence the `groan zone'! Most who have facilitated decision-making have experienced this, the ...             How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions David Straus, Thomas C. Layton Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002 Terrific Book from a National Leader in Group Empowerment Just plain terrific. David Straus's second book is useful for anyone involved in groups, whether at work, at home, or in the community-- and isn't that all of us? He covers it all-- from very basic details such as how to arrange the furniture in your meeting room, to ...             Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 If you have children or grandchildren - you need to buy and read this book Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen's laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of ...             Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement Wendy Wall Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. ...             The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance (Initiative for Policy Dialogue) Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Paul Krugman, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington ...             The Facilitator Excellence Handbook (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals) Fran Rees Pfeiffer, 2005 This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective ...             One Faith: The Evangelical Consensus InterVarsity Press, 2004 Remarkable Book Built Around a Simple Idea The quarrels among evangelicals have led some evangelicals and most non-evangelicals to believe that a theological consensus is lacking within this group. The two authors, representing "two distinguishable [but] related wings of modern evangelical history" (p. 15) show ...             Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance (J-B Warren ... George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass, 2006 Inspiring - how "soft stuff" can transform lives of employees and leaders in corporate world Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance (J-B Warren Bennis Series) Inspiring must-read :-) This book translates profound psychological concepts into easy-to-grasp ideas and insights, which speak strongly to ...          products you might be interested in search for books collaboration, decision-making, owner-builder, participatory, professionals, reconsidered      toavi.com    web we recommend Important and Paradoxical randomly chosen book: A Place Where Sunflowers Grow