New Releases by Michael Richards

Do You Want To Dominate Social Media? Have you ever wondered if there was an exact blueprint on how to dominate social media marketing? Do you want to grow your followers and your brand? Are you looking to increase your online presence? When you buy Social Media: Dominating Strategies for Social Media Marketing with Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn and Instagram, your followers and social media will start to grow rapidly! Every business owner or marketing executive now agrees to the fact that their business has to adapt to social media or end up losing touch with its customers. You will discover everything you need to know about Social Media Marketing! This book breaks training down into easy-to-understand modules. It starts from the very beginning of social media marketing, so you can get great results - and grow your business!

Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices: Ethics and Internal Hiring discusses how fresh perspectives can be incorporated into hiring and promotional practices with a city used to cronyism. This e-book offers hiring teams alternative methods for managing the local governments'' human resources.

One of the most institutionalised features of growing up in the UK, whatever background you are from, involves religion in some form. The main religions teach society about good morals and values, which are a marker to bring out the best of who we are, to live good lives, but essentially dominate and control how people want to be and how they feel too. In recent years, people''s bad experiences of religion have emerged and through the media heart breaking stories have brought religion into question more than ever and its relevance to society. In this book, I want to tease out and unpack some of the questionable ways and practices that bring out the worst in religion, in my experience, specifically about the Roman Catholic Church.

Identity is an important part, if not the most important part, of what makes us who we are and how we feel. What we identify with and connect ourselves with allows us to be who we are. This collection of poems reflects on my identity as a Welsh person. In this book, I want to share some of my thoughts and feelings about what it means to be Welsh in terms of its culture, politics, nature and national identity.

The Spanish Civil War was fought not only on the streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also through memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book reassesses the eras of war, dictatorship and transition to democracy in light of the memory boom in Spain since the late 1990s. It explores how the civil war and its repressive aftermath have been remembered and represented from 1939 to the present through the interweaving of war memories, political power and changing social relations. Acknowledgement and remembrance were circumscribed during the war''s immediate aftermath and only the victors were free to remember collectively during the long Franco era. Michael Richards recasts social memory as a profoundly historical product of migration, political events and evolving forms of collective identity through the 1950s, the transition to democracy in the 1970s, and in the bitterly contested politics of memory since the 1990s.

This short collection of poems reflects upon the past thirty years of my life. The thirty poems are a blunt and intimate recollection on the good & bad times and how my resilience in adversity has brought hope and success. The collection reflects the journey of a young man who has been naïve and innocent and yet so experienced and knowledgeable too. The poems are dedicated to the hundreds of men I have worked with in the community in similar situations, but have not been able to find the resilience I have found.

A Liberian folktale about why the crocodile allows the plover bird to clean his teeth.

The University of Kansas Medical Center''s Emergency Department is adopting a new residency program. In the past, generalized Residents have supported attending physicians during a required three month rotation in the Emergency Department. As of July 2010, the University of Kansas Medical Center''s Emergency Department has switched to a dedicated Emergency Medicine Residency program that allows recently graduated physicians the opportunity enter the field of Emergency Medicine. This thesis shows that although not initially a dedicated residency program provides an advantage to the Emergency Department. Discrete Event Simulations have been used to predict changes in processes, policies, and practices in many different fields. The models run quickly, and can provide a basis for future actions without the cost of actually implementing changes in policies or procedures. This thesis applies a learning curve in a Simulation Model in order to provide data that the University of Kansas Medical Center''s Emergency Department can utilize to make decisions about their new Residency Program. A generalized learning curve was used for the base model and compared to all alternatives. When it was compared with an alternative curve following a Sigmoid Function (Logistic Function), there were no significant differences. Ultimately, a Gompertz Curve is suggested for hospitals attempting to develop or improve their residency programs using learning curves because it is easily fitted to their desired shape. This thesis shows the effect that Residents have on the performance of the Emergency Department as a whole. The two major components examined for the generalized learning curve were the initial position for first year residents determined by the variable [alpha], and the shape of the curve determined by the variable [beta]. Individual changes the value of [alpha] had little effect. Varying values of [beta] have shown that smaller values elongate the shape of the curve, prolonging the amount of time it takes for a resident to perform at the level of the attending physician. Each resident''s personal value of [beta] can be used to evaluate the performance in the emergency department. Resident''s who''s [beta] value are smaller the emergency department''s expected value might have trouble performing.

Simon Quinn may be short, but he casts a tall shadow. Standing only three-and-a-half feet tall, he has risen above his lifelong struggles with dwarfism, and has become a legend in his own time. A world renowned sculptor, Simon has created works for celebrities and royalty the world over. He had no intention of becoming a detective, until his world was shattered by the horribly brutal murder of his fiancee. When local police are unable to find the killer, Simon becomes determined to track him down. He uses his unique size and talent for squeezing in tight spaces to his advantage, and the hunt is on. Will he be able to catch the killer, or will he come under suspicion himself, and be charged for a murder he didn''t commit?

The book Democratic Imperialism serves as an educated, moderate Muslim''s response to the West, particularly to the United States in the ways it attempts to impose its brand of democracy on the Muslim people. Many Americans have never been exposed to this perspective, either through the news media or in personal conversations. This book poses and clearly answers a compelling question: Are Americans qualified to export or impose their brand of democracy in the Middle East? Middle Easterners were once upon a time the pioneers of knowledge, science, justice, and education in their own history and civilization. Islam even helped pave the way for the Renaissance in Europe. Farid Younos, as a scholar of not only social sciences, but also the culture of the Middle East, namely Islam, argues that democracy in the land of Islam is not functional. The deeply rooted value system and way of life of Islam calls for a different system, especially when western democracy has its own problems and has failed to bring justice for all at home. Liberal democracy as a secular system negates the role of faith in the political system of the Middle East, and this negation is the main concern for many Muslims worldwide. The question arises as to why the United States of America tries to impose its brand of political system in the Middle East while knowing that it is not a workable idea. Democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq proved to be fatal. The first objective of any political system should be to bring peace for its people. Unfortunately not only is peace in these countries an elusive idea, but also the needs of the underprivileged, the destitute and the poor are not met. This study provides an alternative approach for Muslim countries: an Islamic political system from a fresh view point. An Islamic system could be an ideal system for Muslim countries if Muslims would make an effort to not only meet the needs of their people, but also meet the needs of the international community. The purpose, presumably, of all parties, is peace in the region, and that peace is not possible if Islamic economic, social and political ideas are ignored and replaced by a manifesto of globalization.

Regreening the earth and the environment can be symbiotic with existing and future development by implementing sustainable practices of planning and design. Green infrastructure can be networked and coupled with alternative modes of transportation to reduce vehicle congestion, highways, and impermeable surfaces. This, in turn, can facilitate the restoration of ecosystems and natural habitat, unite fragmented communities, and link social activity and cultural heritage both within and between communities, cities, and entire regions. Such regreening strategies will promote sustainability on environmental, social, and economical levels and ultimately ameliorate the wounds inflicted upon our planet.

This manual provides practical methodological guidance for the economic analysis of stakeholder incentives in participatory forest management (PFM) situations, it also aims to make economics more accessible to a wider audience promoting PFM.

Organizes significant twentieth-century political, social, economic, and social events covered by world history curricula into chronological order, and suggests six term paper ideas for each event.

Recoge: La guerra civil y la autosuficiencia: la reconstrucción franquista de la nación y del estado; Purificar España: eliminación de las disidencias; La "verticalización" de España: el estado y el trabajo; Política y economía de la autarquía; Austeridad y resistencia.

An account of the fierce repression and economic misery in wartime Spain 1936-45.