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Commitment
'Quietly devastating writing' The Observer'Commitment is a majestic novel' Yiyun Li, author of The Book of GooseA masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from LA to college, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression.A single mother who believes that her children can attain all the things she hasn't, she's worked hard to secure their future.But when she enters hospital, her closest friend must keep the children safe and their mother's dreams for them alive. At Berkeley College, Walter discovers a passion for architecture just as he realises his life as a student may end for lack of funds.Back home in LA, his sister Lina works in an ice-cream parlour while her wealthy classmates prepare for Ivy league schools, as she wages a high-stakes gamble to go there with them. And Donny, the little brother everybody loves, begins to drift towards a life on the beach, where he falls into an escalating relationship with drugs. A resonant story about family, duty, and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill, it honours the spirit of imperfect mothers, and the under-chronicled significance of friends.With Commitment, Mona Simpson has written her most important and unforgettable novel. 'Moving . . . [Simpson] is up there with Anne Tyler and Barbara Kingsolver when it comes to great chroniclers of American families'The Spectator'Simpson is a national treasure . . . I was immersed in their world and in Simpson's masterful vision for them.Simpson is so attuned to the family heart and oh dear Walter, Lina, and Donnie, have you forever moved mine'Weike Wang, author of Joan Is Okay
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Avoiding Commitment
Book 1 of the Avoiding seriesJack and Lexi never had a typical relationship. After 2 years without speaking, she receives a phone call that changes everything. He unexpectedly asks her to convince the new girl, Bekah, that he's ready to commit. Jack is calling now after everything they had been through because there is another woman. She can't believe it.Follow Lexi in this heart wrenching drama as she relives her past relationship, or lack thereof, with Jack, and not just in her own mind, but to his fiance-to-be. Throw in Bekah's hot brother who always seems to be in the right place at the right time, a past with more secrets to unravel than you can even imagine, and you get a recipe for disaster.Find out what happens to Lexi as she travels to Atlanta to get the closure she so desperately desires from Jack, and how the bumps of life seem to keep getting in the way.
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Leading Through Quality Questioning : Creating Capacity, Commitment, and Community
"A leader's job is not to have all of the right answers, but to ask the right questions.Not only does this book address self-inquiry for school leaders, it offers tools and learning support for leaders committed to improving and refining their inquiry-based leadership."—Betty Burks, Deputy SuperintendentSan Antonio ISD, TX"One does not immediately think of questioning as a leadership tool.Yet the compelling and engaging strategies thoughtfully described in this book will make any leader realize the power of an artful question.This is an invaluable handbook for those eager to listen differently to people, enter into dialogue about sensitive topics, and structure opportunities for people to talk constructively."—Joellen Killion, Deputy Executive DirectorNational Staff Development Council"Walsh and Sattes have captured the essence of one of the key features of a good leader: the ability to coach others.Their quality questioning framework helps school leaders understand that the way they structure a question can be the key to building organizational capacity."—Yvonne V.Thayer, Certified Professional CoachSenior Director, Making Middle Grades Work, Southern Regional Education Board, GA"A must-read for all school leaders.This practical guide on how to create an inquiry-oriented approach to decision making enables adult learners in the school to sustain school improvement."—Betsy Rogers, School Improvement SpecialistJefferson County School District, AL"The focus of the book complements the work we are currently doing in our school district to create reflective practitioners.The Leading through Quality Questioning Framework is a clear and concise way to get the big picture of how questioning can be used to foster a culture of continuous improvement.The chapters that follow allow the reader to put the meat on the bones of the framework!"—Christopher Corallo, Director of Staff DevelopmentHenrico County Public Schools, Richmond, VAUse quality questioning to bring out the best in your learning community!Quality questioning is a process for engaging individuals in reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration.The authors demonstrate how questions, not answers, drive school improvement and growth for a learning community.This handbook for school and district leaders applies the principles of the best-selling book Quality Questioning to four critical leadership functions: Maximizing individual and organizational capacityMobilizing individuals and groups to build ownership and commitment across a communityMediating conflict by helping individuals find common ground and focus on shared purposeMonitoring progress toward identified goals
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Mr Commitment
Number One bestselling author Mike Gayle returns with this wickedly observed novel about modern relationships: does Mr Irresponsible have what it takes to become Mr Commitment?Duffy is engaged.He accepted Mel's proposal. But the trips to IKEA, dinner parties for couples and talk of babies are giving him itchy feet and now he's not sure if he can say goodbye to his extended adolescence and face up to that final walk down the aisle. How does he know if she's The One? Can he cope with responsibility? Does he have what it takes to become Mr Commitment? Because if he doesn't, he may just find that he's lost Mel - forever...
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Visual Teams : Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance
Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today's work environment.As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts. Visual Teams shares best practices and uses visualization as a power tool for process improvement by providing teams with a common language for high performance.The book: Explores how any kind of team can draw on the principles and practices of creative design teams in the software, architectural, engineering, and information design professionsIntroduces the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model and related tools—a system used throughout companies such as Nike, Genentech, Becton Dickinson, Chevron, and others Visual Teams presents a comprehensive framework, best practices, and unique visual tools for becoming an innovative, high-performance team.
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Commitment : My Autobiography
The story of one of the most recognisable and successful players in world football.Didier Drogba is renowned for his heading ability, sharp shooting and sheer strength.He has played for his native Ivory Coast and for clubs in France, China and Turkey, but it is as a Chelsea striker that he is best known.His feats with Chelsea have made him a cult hero among supporters. In Didier Drogba's honest and revealing autobiography he will talk about life as an immigrant in Paris, the importance of his education and how finding success later than most professional footballers has kept him grounded. In 2012 Didier was voted Chelsea's greatest ever player.He talks from a privileged behind-the-scenes position about tactics and how he felt mentally and physically as well as anecdotes from the dressing room.Didier provides unique insight into important and controversial matches from the first trophy he won with them in 2005 to the Premier League title a decade later; as well as what persuaded him to stay when he was at his lowest ebb. Away from football Drogba has been widely applauded for his involvement in trying to broker peace in the Ivorian civil war - he is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and does a huge amount of work with the Didier Drogba Foundation - Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.Go behind the scenes at Stamford Bridge and find out about life on and off the field for this humble Chelsea hero.
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Engineering Culture : Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation.Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date.In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated u0022corporate culture.u0022 Kunda uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life, excerpts from in-depth interviews and a wide variety of corporate texts to vividly portray managerial attempts to design and impose the culture and the ways in which it is experienced by members of the organization. The company's management, Kunda reveals, uses a variety of methods to promulgate what it claims is a non-authoritarian, informal, and flexible work environment that enhances and rewards individual commitment, initiative, and creativity while promoting personal growth.The author demonstrates, however, that these pervasive efforts mask an elaborate and subtle form of normative control in which the members' minds and hearts become the target of corporate influence. Kunda carefully dissects the impact this form of control has on employees' work behavior and on their sense of self. In the conclusion written especially for this edition, Kunda reviews the company's fortunes in the years that followed publication of the first edition, reevaluates the arguments in the book, and explores the relevance of corporate culture and its management today.
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Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment
The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs.For this reason, many have argued that the only rational response to religious disagreement is to adopt a religious skepticism that eschews confident religious belief.Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment contests this skeptical conclusion, explaining how it could be rational to maintain confident belief even in the face of the epistemic worries posed by disagreement.John Pittard argues against the commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality that underlies the case for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism, while also critiquing approaches to disagreement that allow for the unproblematic privileging of one's first-person perspective.He emphasizes the importance of having rational insight into reasons that favor one's outlook; however, he challenges narrowly intellectualist accounts of insight, arguing that many of the rational insights crucial to assessing religious outlooks are not achievable through analytical reasoning, but only through relevant emotional experiences. In the second part of the book, Pittard considers the implications that accepting the impartiality requirement favored by "disagreement skeptics" has for religious commitment.He challenges the common assumption that a commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality would rule out confident religious belief.He further argues, however, that such an impartiality commitment would likely make it irrational to pursue one's favored form of religious life and might prevent one from rationally engaging in any religious or irreligious way of life whatsoever.This troubling conclusion gives reason to hope that the arguments against impartiality are correct and that one can justify conviction despite widespread disagreement.
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