San Antonio College Library

Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects--broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings--as grandiose and unnecessary. In this masterful analysis, William H. Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

To make sure library customers are satisfied with what the modern library has to offer, one of the leading reference researchers has outlined practical methods for evaluating reference services. Whitlatch's library-tested tools will make it easy to determine what is working and what is not in the reference department. Her proven techniques will help you to: -- Create a planning strategy. -- Select the best evaluation tools for specific needs. -- Understand...

Abstract: More women are entering into the administrative end of the workforce and are beset by problems of adjustment; some unique to women and some merely problems of learning to lead. The author gives advice on how to become an effective leader and requires the reader to answer questions and practice new techniques. The reader is asked to evaluate whether she really wants to be a leader and then determine what she knows, or needs to know, to be...

"Future Wealth relies on three major consequences of the newly connected economy: risk as opportunity, not only as threat; the growing efficiency of financial markets for human capital; and the need for new forms of social capital. These three developments are combining in ways that will forever change how individuals, companies, and societies create, accumulate, control, and distribute wealth."--Jacket.

"What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future." "The pressures on organizations...

Unlike the changemongers pitching the latest blueprint for business success, Robbins and Finley consider the most neglected aspect of the whole change process: the human factor. They examine the psychological and physiological barriers to change that are built into individual and group behavior and show how managers at all levels can learn to work around these obstacles. They also identify: A continuum of management's approaches to change - from "Pummel"...

Women's rights. Women -- Social conditions. Women and religion.

Study of communist political leadership and the economic development of China from 1949 to 1969 - covers the evolution of the communist political party, reproduces the text of the party constitution of 1969, and examines political problems, social reforms, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary social movements, national planning, economic policy, the role of USSR in providing economic aid, industrial development, rural development, education, etc....