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Why It's Hard To Be Good
Al GiniThis practical guide to ethics in everyday situations explores just how difficult it is to do the right thing. Gini argues that being good only has meaning in relation to other people.
The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, ...
Al GiniWe know how to work hard but not how to play. we really need, argues Al Gini, is >me time off. The Importance of Being izy takes us on family road trips, to isneyland, on shopping sprees, on xtreme sports adventures, and into the ultimate ...
African-American law & policy report
More editionsGini Sikes new book, 8 BALL CHICKS, is an example of this growing phenomenon. Sikes spent a year immersed in the world of female gang life in three different cities South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. See GINI SIKES ...
Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day
Joanna Bourke64 Joseph Mallia, 'Violence by Female Teens Growing at Alarming Rate', Boston Herald, 9 March 1 997, 1 , and Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chick: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters (London, 1997), 101—2. 65 Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chicks: A ...
Gangs: Opposing Viewpoints
More editionsGirl Gangs Are a Growing Problem Gini Sikes, interviewed by Lori Leibovich The following viewpoint is an interview of Gini Sikes, author of 8 Ball Chicks: A Hear in the Violent I/Vorld of Girl Gangsters, by Lori Leibovich, a writer for Salon, ...
Importance of Being Funny
Al GiniAs the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: 'If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!' This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.
My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual
Al GiniIn Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
Importance of Being Lazy
Al GiniFrom shopping sprees and extreme sports to the ultimate vacation - retirement - The Importance of Being lazy demonstrates that without true leisure, we are diminished as individuals and as a society.
The Ethics of Business: A Concise Introduction
Al GiniThey present to students the essential concepts, ideas, and issues involved in ethics in business and emphasize the individual acting person and what it means to have character and integrity when doing business.
Building a Winning Sales Team: How to Recruit, Train, and ...
Gini Graham ScottThe book includes charts, templates, and other materials you can adapt for your own organization. The book is ideal for both entrepreneurs starting their own company and company owners and managers in a corporate setting.
Metropolis
More editionsASSOCIATE EDITORS Victoria Geibel Gini Sikes COPY EDITOR Barbara Bedway ART DIRECTOR Helene Silverman CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Regina S. Baraban Akiko Busch Peter Lemos Michael Winkleman Kevin Wolfe ...
Why It's Hard To Be Good
Al Gini... 43 Fukuyama, Francis,165–167 G Gabbard, GlenO., 206–207 Gangster films/ television, 108–112, 115, 203–207 Gender issues,46, 60–61 Genovese, Catherine(“Kitty”), 65–69 Genovesesyndrome, 69–73 Geoghegan,Thomas, 122 Gilligan, ...
Seeking the Truth of Things: Confessions of a (Catholic) ...
Al GiniPart memoir, part introduction to key philosophical concepts, this book describes life events, ideas, and sources of philosophical and religious inspiration that have shaped the author, a Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University of ...
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002
Preview... Cal Ripken, Jr. Roberta Newman Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations Paul D. Staudohar Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since ¡985 Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer PART 3.
Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character
Al GiniArguing that an individual’s character—particularly as constituted by ten particular virtues—is the core factor in determining leadership ability, this book offers a fresh perspective on a subject which has spawned hundreds of books ...
In the Land of Difficult People: 24 Timeless Tales Reveal ...
Terrence L. GARGIULO24 Timeless Tales Reveal How to Tame Beasts at Work Terrence L. GARGIULO, Gini Graham SCOTT. Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations.
Nova Scotia Birds
More editions... Andrew Horwood, Corkie Horwood, Harold Horwood, Leah Horwood, Clifford Jones, Scott Leslie, Laurie McGowan, Valerie Mount, Kati Poikonen, Gini Proulx, Joe Proulx, Frances Rafuse, Charlie Richards, Valerie Richards, Mick Scromeda, ...
Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, ...
PreviewGini Sikes, 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters, xiii. 23. See Celeste Fremon, "Homegirls," review of Locas, by Yxta Maya Murray, Los Angeles Times Book Review (15 June 1997): 10. 24. See Jody Miller, "Two Authors ...
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