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Be assertive : a practical guide for human service workers / by Sundel, Sandra Stone, 1948-

Subjects: “…Assertiveness (Psychology)…”

Finding your leadership style a guide for educators / by Glanz, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Dynamic aggressives -- Dynamic assertives -- Dynamic supportives -- Adaptive aggressives -- Adaptive assertives -- Adaptive supportives -- Creative assertives -- Using leadership qualities effectively -- Courage -- Impartiality -- Empathy -- Judgment -- Enthusiasm -- Humility -- Imagination -- Importance of leadership virtues -- Actualizing natural leadership qualities -- Tips for enhancing your leadership virtues -- Applying leadership potential.…”
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Shrinking violets and Caspar Milquetoasts shyness, power, and intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 / by McDaniel, Patricia (Patricia A.)

Table of Contents: “…The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.…”
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Surrender : How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution / by Meeropol, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- Testing the various assertions -- Failures, real and imagined -- The Bush presidency and Clinton's first two years : the end of Reaganomics? …”
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Unlocking energy innovation how America can build a low-cost, low-carbon energy system / by Lester, Richard K. (Richard Keith), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond wishful thinking : facts, deductions, and grounded assertions about climate and energy -- An energy innovation system that works -- Electric utilities and the three waves of energy innovation -- The first wave : unlocking innovation in building energy efficiency -- The second wave of innovation-Part 1 : Low-carbon electricity supply -- The second wave of innovation-Part 2 : The rest of the electricity system -- The third wave of innovation : creating breakthrough options -- Building a new American energy innovation system : a ten-point framework.…”
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African American bioethics culture, race, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Garcia -- The moral weight of culture in ethics / Segun Gbadegesin -- Whitewashing black health : lies, deceptions, assumptions, and assertions : and the disparities continue / Annette Dula -- Race, equity, health policy, and the African-American community / Patricia A. …”
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Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / by Towne, Stephen E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Vallandigham, the Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863, and plots to release Confederate POWs in the fall of 1863 -- "It is impossible to doubt this": army intelligence in the Northern Department in early 1864 -- "What I say about secret dangers is well considered and based on fact": how Rosecrans's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in early 1864 -- "When government determines to act": how Carrington's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in 1864 -- "I feel provoked beyond measure at the indifference of the president": convincing Lincoln of the danger of insurrection, summer 1864 -- A "narrow escape from a Civil War": the triumph of military intelligence in august 1864 -- "I make no assertions without proof": preserving the northwest in the fall of 1864 -- Postscript: the evidence of conspiracy.…”
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From colony to superpower U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / by Herring, George C., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…"To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778 -- "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801 -- "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815 -- "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837 -- "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 -- "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877 -- "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 -- The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 -- "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913 -- "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921 -- Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931 -- The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941 -- "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945 -- "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953 -- Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961 -- Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969 -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974 -- Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981 -- "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991 -- The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007.…”
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Change and the 2020 census not whether but how /

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Neo-conned! just war principles : a condemnation of war in Iraq /

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My unsentimental education / by Monroe, Debra

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The Great Debate on Banking Reform : Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed / by Wicker, Elmus

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Queer Roots for the Diaspora : Ghosts in the Family Tree / by Hayes, Jarrod

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God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War / by Stevens, Jason W., 1975-

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A Criminal Power : James Baldwin and the Law / by Miller, D. Quentin (Daniel Quentin), 1967-

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Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930 / by Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-

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Our Limits Transgressed : Environmental Political Thought in America / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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A taste of power : food and American identities / by Vester, Katharina

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