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The Refractive Thinker: Vol: VII: Social Responsibility (Chapter 5)

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Chapter 5: The Value of Innovative Leadership Practices on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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Dr. Emad Rahim, Dr. Darrell Norman Burrell, Dr. Vishakha Maskey

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The Complete Guide to Small Scale Farming: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Beef and Dairy Cattle, Rabbits, Ducks, and Other Small Animals

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Starting a small scale farm is the dream of Americans young and old, from those who watched the majesty of the great western farm in films during their youth to those who spent their childhood actually working on a farm. However, for many of these individuals it is a matter of logistics and cost that keeps them from realizing their dreams. Raising beef cattle, ducks, rabbits, and any other small animals such as sheeps, goats, or chickens takes not only a decent amount of money to get started, but knowhow that doesn’t come in textbooks while in school.

This book was written with the intent of providing anyone who has ever wanted to start their own small scale farm the necessary resources and information needed to start raising small animals and cattle. You will learn everything you need to know to raise a wide variety of small animals. You will learn how to care for chickens, from choosing the right breed to raising them for egg production. You will learn how to handle geese and ducks, choosing the correct breeds, feeding, housing, breeding, and selecting the right ones for egg production. You will also learn about egg incubation, maintaining poultry health, and how raise them for meat. Other animals you will learn how to care for include rabbits, goats, sheep, dairy cows, and beef cattle.

Small farmers and animal experts have been interviewed in detail and their responses added to this book to provide additional insight into every aspect of raising farm animals. This includes details about how to purchase, house, feed, breed, record, and butcher animals of all types as well as how to gather milk, use goats and cows for maintaining your fields, and even keeping records of births and selling babies. Everything you might need to know about raising small animals for your farm is included in this guide to provide you the first steps to raising domesticated poultry and livestock.

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The Complete Guide to Making Environmentally Friendly Investment Decisions: How to Make a Lot of Green Money While Saving the Planet

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Today, the world has awakened to a monumental, historic crisis

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Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates Explained Simply: Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates Explained Simply

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Few people want to think about what would happen to their family if they become disabled or die; however, planning for these occurrences in advance will reduce potential stress on your family later in life. This new book will take the guesswork out of planning your estate and help you finally understand the complex processes. The right plan can protect the value of your estate and spare your loved ones unnecessary hassles and legal conflicts. Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates will help you glide through this complicated process. This new book has been adapted to offer Ohio residents state-specific advice for estate planning. Author Linda C. Ashar, attorney at law, has crafted an estate planning primer, allowing Indiana residents to become more informed and more involved during the process. Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates will provide all the information you need to choose, set up, and execute a will, trust, or estate. You will learn the legal terminology, including beneficiary, probate, trustor, trustee, assets, guardianship, and executor. You will also learn about trust agreements, trust property, settlement costs, life insurance, durable power of attorney, marital deductions, gift splitting, survivorship deeds, gift tax issues, generation skipping transfer tax, tax deferred accounts, and advance directives. Indiana -specific information is offered throughout this book, including: Indiana probate code; Indiana rules, regulations, and laws specific to estate planning; elements of a valid Indiana will; planning your living will in Indiana; explanations of Indiana laws regarding durable health care power of attorneys, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and directives to withhold CPR. The book s easy-to-understand context clarifies this complicated and sensitive subject and gives readers the power to take control of their future. Whether you are writing your will, establishing a trust, planning your estate for the first time, or updating and revising your previous plans, Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates will give you all the tools and knowledge you need to decide where and to whom your assets will go when you die. Other books offer a non-state-specific overview of estate planning, causing many readers to be misinformed about rules and regulations particular to their state; but, this new book provides information Indiana residents need to know. Do not get outdated or wrong information that does not pertain to you specifically. Use this new book to craft an estate plan that is not only legally sound but also fully carries out your last wishes and protects your loved ones.

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How to Pay Little or No Taxes on Your Real Estate Investments: What Smart Investors Need to Know: Explained Simply

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Many investors today are making huge profits on real estate investments. The key, however, in investing is not the profit, but what you actually get to keep after taxes. This new book will provide a road map with hundreds of methods and insider tax secrets to help you keep more of what you earn. Real estate investors face unique tax problems from the sale of real estate. You will learn how to implement tax savings programs successfully to reduce or eliminate the resulting income tax from the sale of real estate. You will learn how to use the IRS tax code to your advantage through depreciation, 1031 exchanges, shielding income, deferring income taxes, handling capital gains taxes, building wealth, creating a self-directed IRA, making installment sales, setting up annuity trusts and charitable remainder tax-advantaged trusts. You will learn about exemptions, exchange rules, tax shelters, tax-exclusion credits, sheltering your assets from creditors, and ultimately you will learn how you can retire rich and early with tax-free real estate investments.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol II: Research Methodology, Second Edition (Chapter 2)

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Chapter 2: Innovative Qualitative Multiple Case Study Methodology

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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The Secret Power of Blogging: How to Promote and Market Your Business, Organization, or Cause with Free Blogs

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Blog is short for Weblog. A Weblog is a journal (or type of newsletter) that is updated often and intended for the general public. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site owner. In July 2006, the Pew Internet & American Life Project estimated that the U.S."blog population has grown to about 12 million Americans,"some 8% of U.S. Internet users. The number of U.S. blog readers was estimated at 57 million (39% of the U.S. online population). If you have a product, service, brand, or cause that you want to market inexpensively online to the world, you need to look into starting a blog. It is an ideal marketing vehicle. You can use it to share your expertise, grow market share, spread your message, and establish yourself as an expert in your field for virtually no cost. A blog helps your site to rank higher in the search engines because Google and other search engines provide references to blogs and their content. Tiny one-person part-time businesses and mega companies like Microsoft, Apple, Nike, General Motors, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! use blogs as well as. Most Fortune 1000 firms are using responsible blog marketing as well as advertising on blogs for one simple reason: it works! It generates profits immediately and consistently! In addition, many blogs earn additional revenue by selling advertising space on their niche-targeted blog.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol I An Anthology of Higher Learning (Chapter 9)

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Chapter 9: A Quantitative Analysis of Strategic and Financial Changes in Small Private Higher Education Institutions

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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The Commercial Real Estate Investor's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Road Map to Financial Wealth

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February 22, 2006 - Annual investment returns for U.S. holdings in commercial real estate hit an unprecedented high of 34 percent in 2005, the MIT Center for Real Estate announced today. Now you can discover how to make money investing in commercial buildings, warehouses, apartments, mobile home parks, shopping centers, hotels, and other commercial income property. This comprehensive book provides invaluable information about how to identify opportunities, determine property value, acquire, finance, and manage commercial real estate. This book is a must-have for beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, sellers, and buyers. Real estate investing has created more millionaires than any other investment vehicle in this country. This comprehensive step-by-step proven program shows beginners and seasoned veterans alike the ins and outs of commercial real estate investing. This book is a road map to successful investing in real estate. You do not need to re-invent the wheel, and you won t have to make the same mistakes others have. Investing in real estate is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. This new exhaustively researched book will arm you with hundreds of innovative ideas that you can put to use right away. This book gives you the proven strategies and actual case studies from experts to help you invest better and wiser with less time and effort. A sampling of what is covered in this encyclopedic book includes: how to find below-market deals, how to invest with little or no down payment, how to obtain seller financing, and how to conduct foreclosures and REOs. Once you have found your investment property, you will know how to negotiate, how to make purchase offers, how to manage a rental property, and how to flip. These terms will become part of your everyday vocabulary: auction, tax sales, financing, mortgage, agent, cash flow, inspection, contract, tenant, lease agreement, insurance, taxes, accounting, and escrow. Also included is information on development, taxation, and exchange rules and regulations. This book is loaded with case studies and success stories--from real people--as well as essential mathematical calculations and sample forms. You will uncover secrets that expert real estate investors use every day. This comprehensive resource contains a wealth of modern tips and strategies for getting started in this very lucrative area. This book is the foundation for understanding how to invest in real estate.

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Sell Your Home Now: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Common Mistakes, Selling Faster, and Making More Money

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Approximately 20 percent of the real estate market is comprised of “for sale by owner” listings. Put your home at the head of the market with the help of Laura Riddle’s expertise. Riddle, a master’s-level, award-winning real estate broker, walks today’s home sellers through everything they need to know to get the best price in today’s real estate market. This complete guide includes information about:

•   Techniques for selling up to 80 percent faster
•    Advertising to sell for 15-20 percent more
•    Where to list your home online to get the most exposure
•    Staging the home for the quickest sale
•    Gaining an advantage over foreclosures in your neighborhood
•    Common mistakes home sellers often make that could hinder your efforts
•    Contracts and Home Inspection reports

Riddle guides readers through the basics of the home-selling process, as they learn how to determine the value of their home, prepare the home for sale, and choose the right times to list the home, plan for showings and open houses, accept an offer, ultimately selling your home for top dollar.

Sell Your Home Now also includes timely information for sellers and buyers, including resources for short sale and foreclosure options and foreclosure prevention programs.  The book also compares FHS, USDA, and VA loan programs, allowing readers to choose the loan that works best for them. With information about the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Act, passed in Febrauary 2009, along with options for loan modifications and assistance programs for down payments, this complete guide gives you everything you need to put your house up “for sale by owner.”

Riddle has included case studies from agents and sellers around the country to provide readers with proven tips and tricks for selling a home in the quickest manner possible. This book is a must-have for any individual looking to effectively sell their home for the best price.
•    Selling techniques for a 80 percent faster sale
•    Advertising to sell for 15-20 percent more
•    Where to list the home on the Internet to get the most exposure
•    Staging the home for the quickest sale
•    Gaining an advantage over foreclosures in your neighborhood
•    Common mistakes home sellers often make that could hinder your efforts
•    Contracts and Home Inspection reports

Laura guides readers through the basics of the home selling process. Readers will learn how to determine the value of their home, prepare the home to be sold, stage the home inside and out, know when the time is right to list the home, plan for showings and open houses, accept an offer, and ultimately sell for top dollar.

Sell Your Home Now also includes timely information for sellers and buyers, including resources on:

•    Short sale versus foreclosure options
•    FHA, USDA, and VA loan programs
•    Foreclosure prevention programs
•    Down payment assistance programs
•    The Homeowner Affordability and Stability Act passed in February 2009
•    Loan modification options
•    Selling the home “for sale by owner”

Laura has included case studies from agents and sellers around the country to provide readers with proven tips and tricks for selling a home in the quickest time possible and for the most money. This book is a must-have for any individual looking to effectively and quickly sell their home for the best price.

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The Complete Guide to Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens & Deeds: How to Earn High Rates of Return - Safely REVISED 2ND EDITION

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If you are searching for a new way to invest that can challenge your investing skills and potentially make you a bundle, look no further than investing in real estate tax liens and deeds. If you’ve considered this path before and found it too complicated, not to worry. The Complete Guide to Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens & Deeds: How to Earn High Rates of Return – Safely REVISED 2ND EDITION is here to help. With all the information from the first edition, plus updated laws, websites, and a new chapter guiding you through the exact steps you’ll need to start your tax lien investment portfolio, this book will have you making money in no time.

Investing in tax liens and deeds can be very rewarding. Tax liens can be tax deferred or even tax-free. You can purchase them in your self-directed IRA. Interest rates vary but average between 4% and 18%. The interest rates are fixed by local governments, essentially a government-guaranteed loan. Additionally, the investment is secured by real property (real estate). This sounds great, but what is the catch? There really is none, except you must know what you are doing! This groundbreaking and exhaustively researched book will provide everything you need to know to get you started on generating high-investment returns with low risk, from start to finish. You will learn what property tax liens and tax lien certificates are; how to invest in tax lien certificates; how to buy tax lien certificates; insider secrets to help you double or even triple your investment; how to start with under $1,000; the risks, traps, and pitfalls to avoid; and a detailed directory of states that sell tax lien certificates with contact information. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to purchase tax liens and deeds and earn enormous profits, then this book is for you.

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The Complete Guide to Selling and Marketing to Affluent Customers: Everything You Need to Know to Attract and Keep Wealthy Customers

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The world is full of potential customers, but there are none more desirable than those considered among the wealthiest – the affluent top percent that carry a huge percentage of the world’s wealth. Careful about their investments and largely careful about their purchases, it can be hard to effectively market a product or service to the affluent, but for those that manage to do so, it is possible quickly join their ranks, building on word of mouth and effective service to become a top service or producer to the world’s most prominent, richest people.

This book guides you through the tightrope walk that is selling to the affluent – showing you how you too can attract the world’s top customers and keep them with you for the long haul. In this book, you will learn everything you need to know to start selling yourself and your ideas to anyone, especially the affluent. You will learn what sells an idea and what sinks it. Then you will carry on learning the various different styles of persuasion and how to read your audience so that you know which style to use to effectively reach them. You will learn how to contact people and how to start connecting ideas to human beings and what they want. You will learn the fundamental process of building a working relationship with your target audience and how to present yourself as they would like to see you, mirroring their ideals and beliefs.

Both successful salespeople and affluent men and women have been interviewed for this book and their advice has been compiled to show you exactly what you can do to reach this highly sought after demographic. Learn how to know what rich people want and what they are willing to buy. Learn how they think about their purchases and how you can speak a common language and respect their beliefs to build rapport. Give them reasons to say yes and state your case clearly with memorable personal touches in your sales pitch, as outlined in this guide, and you will start successfully reaching your audience exactly as outlined in this book.

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101 Recipes for Preparing Food in Bulk: Everything You Need to Know About Preparing, Storing, and Consuming

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The price of food is rising in a drastic way. In the 1970s, shoppers paid around 98 cents for a pound of ground beef and 59 cents for a dozen eggs. Today, consumers pay around $3.69 a pound for ground beef and around $1.40 for a dozen eggs. The simple truth is a dollar doesnt go as far as it used to because of inflation and the rising cost of transporting food. One of the best ways to combat the increasing price of groceries is to start buying in bulk and cooking food in large batches you can store in the freezer for later meals. Besides saving money, cooking in bulk also saves time; you wont need to figure out what to cook every night with delicious, pre-made meals waiting in your freezer. To make bulk cooking truly cost effective and time saving, you need to know the right recipes and tips. Learn everything you need to know with help from 101 Recipes for Preparing Food in Bulk: Everything You Need to Know About Preparing, Storing, and Consuming.

This book will guide you through every aspect of cooking in bulk to make it as manageable as cooking regular-sized meals. The book details all the essential appliances and utensils you need in your kitchen, as well as how to take inventory of the supplies and foods you already have. This book provides tips so you know where and how to do your grocery shopping. In addition to these basic details, you will learn everything you need to know on cooking day from deciding whether you should cook solo or with a partner, to how to prepare, cook, cool, and properly store your meals. Once youre ready to eat your frozen meal, this book tells you how to thaw and reheat each recipe and how to detect foods gone bad which probably wont happen if you follow the simple instructions in this book.

More than 100 recipes are provided to help you cook delicious meals you can make any time during the day, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, soups, salads, appetizers, sides, and sauces. Every recipe includes an ingredient list and specific instructions that take you through the entire bulk cooking process. Tips are even included with several recipes to make healthier or vegetarian versions of the dishes.

We interviewed dozens of experts from the food service industry, as well as experienced individuals who bulk cook at home. Their insight into the nature of bulk food preparation, storage methods, and professional tips and tricks will help you keep your food fresh as long as possible. For anyone who has ever considered creating and storing their own bulk foods, 101 Recipes for Preparing Food in Bulk will give you everything you need to know to get started.

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The Complete Dictionary of Mortgage & Lending Terms Explained Simply: What Smart Investors Need to Know

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Lenders and prospective homebuyers alike have turned their attention to financial news, carefully watching the market since the 2007 housing and credit crisis. In early 2010, mortgage rates continued to drop to historic lows, changing on a daily basis. With their fluctuating rates and the current economic climate, mortgages are as complicated as ever. Anyone interested in acquiring a mortgage, refinancing a current mortgage, or starting a business career in lending has probably heard financial professionals use unfamiliar terms. But, with a little help from this comprehensive dictionary, you can easily converse with professionals and understand industry jargon. The Complete Dictionary of Mortgage & Lending Terms Explained Simply explains all the important financial terms you will encounter as you navigate the mortgage market. With easy-to-understand definitions, this dictionary covers everything from accrued interest to wraparound mortgages. It covers types of mortgages, parts of loan agreements, types of insurance, and even home-inspection terms. This resource uses simple language to describe the many concepts it covers, ensuring that even those without any financial or real estate experience will understand the definitions. With more than 1,800 terms, this dictionary allows you to understand almost every term you come across during your encounter with the lending process, whether you are researching the difference between trusts and liens or examining a prospective home s features. In addition to outlining terms associated with lending, it also includes information about important legislative acts and federal agencies that affect financing. The handy A-to-Z organization allows you to quickly find any information you need, even during nerve-wracking negotiations. The definitions also include any abbreviated forms of the terms, so you will be able to tell your ARMs (adjustable-rate mortgages) from your REITs (real estate investment trusts). This guide defines the players, the problems, the process, and the procedures. Whether you are looking to buy a home, trying to refinance, taking a finance class, or simply curious about the mortgage and lending industry, this dictionary is an indispensable guide to the many terms, tools, and agreements you will encounter at every step of the complex lending process.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol IV: Ethics, Leadership, and Globalization (Chapter 4)

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Chapter 4: Behavioral Integrity: The Precursor to Ethical Leadership

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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The Complete Guide to Your First Rental Property: A Step-by-Step Plan from the Experts Who Do It Every Day

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The Complete Guide to Your First Rental Property: A Step-by-Step Plan from the Experts Who Do It Every Day You are ready to take the plunge and begin investing in your first rental property. Congratulations, but now what do you do? You do not have to go it alone with this new comprehensive book that will guide you step-by-step upon the road to the financial success you desire. Investing in rental properties is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. With the sound guidance in this book you will be able to add to your monthly income, build equity and if you wanted to, retire comfortably and EARLY. Rental property investing is a perfect part-time business because real estate is a business where the assets appreciate and cash flow is generated even when you are absent. The book contains over 25 forms that you will need in your business and an excellent section on the use of the Internet and computerizing your business. The book covers property selection, tenant selection, inspecting premises, marketing and advertising of property, showing the property, tenant application, credit verification, employment and income verification, reference verification, lease agreement, deposits, walkthrough with tenant, collection of rent, late notices and collecting fees, statements, owner's proceeds, tenant complaints and requests, repairs, use of contractors, compliance with state and local regulation, property inspection after tenant leaves, deposit refund, accounting and computer software, income and expense, depreciation, a special section on using computers and the Internet, landlord tenant laws for all 50 states, federal housing regulations and disclosure information, legal issues, real estate terminology, techniques, advice, real estate management tools and software. Includes over 25 forms for use in the business.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol: VII: Social Responsibility (Chapter 12)

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Chapter 12: Epilogue: Refractive Thinking: Where do we go from here?

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol VI: Post-Secondary Education (Chapter 7)

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Chapter 7: A Leaders Influence on Employee-Students Seeking Post-Secondary Education

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.

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Understanding Cholesterol: A Study Guide

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This flip chart offers an overview of cholesterol. The flip chart covers anatomical and physiological topics as well as pages on atherosclerosis.

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The Refractive Thinker: Vol II Research Methodology (Chapter 4)

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Chapter 4: Stages of Internet Adoption in Preventive Health:An Exploratory Diffusion Study of a Community-Based Learning Venue for 60+ Year-Old Adults

Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker offers commentary from the perspective of multiple authors--each offering a chapter based on their specific expertise.