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Bob Silverman: Vélorutionnaire (Biographies et mémoires)
by Stéphane Desjardins John SymonAvec une poignée de militants du Monde à Bicyclette (MàB) et quelques alliés, Robert « Bicycle Bob » Silverman a réussi l’impensable : transformer Montréal, en l’espace de trois décennies, d’un désert cyclable en véritable capitale nord-américaine du vélo. Leur moyen d’action : les « cyclodrames », des spectacles de rue hauts en couleur!Personnage anticonformiste, ce défenseur infatigable du cyclisme urbain a mené une vie hors du commun. Poète, libraire, restaurateur, voyageur, éducateur et propriétaire de galerie, il a côtoyé une incroyable bande d’artistes, d’intellectuels et de musiciens, dont Leonard Cohen et Armand Vaillancourt. En 1962, il se rend dans le Cuba de Fidel Castro pour participer à la révolution et rencontre Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Quelques années plus tard, il travaille dans un kibboutz israélien et devient le rare juif à serrer la main de Yasser Arafat.Passionné du vélo, Bob a mené sa vélorution (un terme qu’il a été le premier à populariser au Canada) avec authenticité, ingéniosité et une créativité sans limites.
Bobbie D'Alessandro and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
by Linda A. Hill Kristin C. Doughty Ellen PruyneBobbi D'Alessandro, the superintendent of the school system in Cambridge, MA, has just hired a new principal to lead a major redesign effort in the city's only high school. The need for reform had been evident since the late 1980s when school statistics highlighted substantial disparities in academic achievement rates across race and income level. Reform efforts over the past decade have met with little success. One of the most significant challenges in undertaking school redesign is managing the complex constituencies involved with the Cambridge school system, including students, parents, teachers, the teachers' union, and the school committee. D'Alessandro has been in the superintendent role less than two years and wonders how she can best create the conditions under which the new principal and the redesign effort will achieve success.
Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America
by Burton HershNOW WITH A NEW PREFACE In this riveting account of the explosive relationship between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, renowned journalist and author Burton Hersh sets their highly publicized clashes in the context of Joe Kennedy’s ongoing manipulation of Congress and his children’s careers, and his lifelong connections to organized crime. Theirs was a unique triumvirate, marked by conflict and betrayal, and culminating in a near-Shakespearean tragedy. Based on compelling new research, and told in gripping anecdotal style, Hersh chronicles the complex relationship between the two antagonists, from their early brushes during the McCarthy years to their controversial deaths.
Bodega Aurrera: eCommerce at the Base of the Pyramid
by Michael Chu Carla Larangeira Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago Ãlvaro RodrÃguez ArreguiBodega Aurrera, serving the base of the pyramid and Walmart's main Mexican format, is considering launching a full eCommerce channel as Covid-19 has erupted in the country. In 2019, Bodega Aurrera accounted for 45% of revenues and 2,748 of Walmex's 3,416 stores. Having introduced eCommerce with the high-income segments served by its Walmart and Superama formats, Walmart Mexico (Walmex) had slated an online channel for Bodega Aurrera in the next three or four years, considering that its core clients belonged to the C and D socioeconomic segments. However, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, retail store sales plummeted and analysts around the world began to note that sales on digital channels were surging. In late April 2020, Lilia Jaime, the CEO of Bodega Aurrera, wondered if this was an opportunity she had to seize. If so, she had to act right away, ahead of her competition. Yet, normally, the established procedure to introduce a full online channel involved the Walmart Bentonville, AR headquarters at both business and Information Technology (IT) levels, and it would take several months. The only way to launch quickly, the experienced Walmex eCommerce team told her, was by bringing in an outside firm with an eCommerce framework already in place and mounting Bodega Aurrera on top of it. To their knowledge, this had never been done at Walmart before. Also, she would have to carve the initiative out of her own approved budgets, at the expense of projects she already considered a priority. But were the families at the base of the pyramid ready to place grocery orders online and trust paying through digital channels? And if Lilia went ahead and it didn't work, she would risk inflicting serious damage to one of Mexico's most beloved brands.
Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
by Edward SlavishakBy the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh's essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images. Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh, the men engaged in the arduous physical labor demanded by the city's metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout Bodies of Work: in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labor and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a statewide workmen's compensation system.
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
by Annie CheneyBODY BROKERS is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of a little-known aspect of the "death care" world: the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these "body brokers" capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army landmine explosion tests. A single corpse used for the purposes can generate up to $10,000. As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subject over the course of three years, when there's that much money to be made with no federal regulation, there are all sorts of shady (and fascinating) characters who are willing to employ questionable practices-including deception and outright theft- to acquire, market, and distribute human bodies and parts. In Michigan and New York she discovers funeral directors who buy corpses from medical schools and supply the parts to surgical equipment companies and associations of surgeons. In California she meets a crematorium owner who sold the body parts of people he was supposed to cremate, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. In Florida she attends a medical conference in a luxury hotel where fresh torsos are delivered in large coolers and displayed on gurneys in a room normally used for banquets. "That torso that you're living in right now is just flesh and bones. To me, it's a product," says the New Jersey-based broker presiding over the torsos. Tracing the origins of body brokering from the "resurrectionists" of the nineteenth century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium, and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities. Gripping, often chilling, and sure to cause a reexamination of the American way of death, Body Brokers is a captivating work of first-person reportage.
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
by Annie CheneyBody Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these "body brokers" capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land-mine explosion tests. A single corpse used for these purposes can generate up to $10,000. In Michigan and New York she discovers funeral directors who buy corpses from medical schools and supply the parts to surgical equipment companies and associations of surgeons. In California, she meets a crematorium owner who sold the body parts of people he was supposed to cremate, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. In Florida, she attends a medical conference in a luxury hotel, where fresh torsos are delivered in Igloo coolers and displayed on gurneys in a room normally used for banquets. "That torso that you're living in right now is just flesh and bones to me. To me, it's a product," says the New Jersey-based broker presiding over the torsos. Tracing the origins of body brokering from the "resurrectionists" of the nineteenth century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities. Gripping, often chilling, and sure to cause a reexamination of the American way of death,Body Brokers is both a captivating work of first-person reportage and a surprising inside look at a little-known aspect of the "death care" world.
Body Factory: Exploiting University Athletes' Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room (Sporting)
by Kaitlin PericakA university’s athletic training room is meant to care for and heal college athletes and ensure they are receiving the help they need. Although sports medicine staff members are sincere in their goal of centering athletes and providing the best healthcare possible, organizational constraints affect their approach. Chief among them is the pressure sports medicine staff members feel to keep athletes from profit-generating sports healthy enough to perform. Body Factory enters an NCAA Division I athletic training room to examine the disconnect between what the NCAA states as its goal of athlete healthcare and what is actually happening. Kaitlin Pericak conducts observations in this space and interviews injured athletes and sports medicine staff members to show how institutional control over “best interests” often ends up exploiting the individual athlete. The influences at work are part of a neoliberal paradigm that explains why interest in an athlete’s care is greatly diminished once they are injured and can no longer play. Body Factory considers how race, gender, and health before and after injury are deciding factors in these university training centers. The bureaucratic organization has a goal of maintaining power to generate profit, and Pericak shows this is almost always at the expense of the athlete.
Body Language
by Hedwig LewisA command over body language has become an important skill in today's world. It is the X-factor that completes the personalities of executives, entertainers, politicians, celebrities, and many more. After the thumping success of the previous edition of Body Language: A Guide for Professionals, SAGE has come out with this exciting third edition. Since the last edition of this book more than a decade ago, Internet and media have brought renewed interest to non-verbal communication, particularly to body language. The author has painstakingly combed through the existing text and has extensively researched online resources to add new insights to this edition, making it a cutting-edge reference on the subject. Some of the significant new features of this edition are: - Latest developments in the field of non-verbal communication - Extra details that add greater depth, clarity and comprehensiveness to the text - Modern-day observations of human behaviour and body-talk - Coverage of typical Indian gestures where relevant - A new section on 'Body Language in Sleep' - Additional practical tips and suggestions The reader is also challenged with tests and practice sessions that help develop special skills to interpret body language. With its various improvements, this edition presents a systematic, in-depth, and comprehensive approach to body language.
Body Language
by Robert PhippsBody language matters. From getting a job to getting a pay rise, and from closing a deal to managing the people around you, it makes a big difference. Robert Phipps, one of the world's leading body language experts shows you how to make it work for you. Busting some of the biggest body language myths, Phipps shows how to read other people's body language and to use yours to succeed in business and life.Loaded with practical tips, this book covers everything you ever need to know about body language, in a variety of business situations:GreetingsMeetingsPartingsPresentationsNegotiationsMotivationDeceptionManagingInterviewingDisciplining
Body Language 101: The Ultimate Guide to Knowing When People Are Lying, How They Are Feeling, What They Are Thinking, and More
by David LambertThis amazing, revealing handbook contains all anyone will ever need to know about reading body language. With it, you can become a veritable human lie detector, spotting exactly when people are telling the truth, when they are lying, and even how they are feeling. What can you tell by folded arms, by the distance away someone stands when talking to you, from facial expressions, or from blinking eyes? The answer? Almost everything! With hundreds of examples illustrated in full color, Body Language 101 can help anyone from any culture know more about his or her friends, spouse, colleagues, lovers, competitors, and enemies.
Body Language In Business
by Adrian Furnham Evgeniya PetrovaThis innovative new work clarifies the misconceptions aroundbody language while providing a scientific approach to understanding non-verbal communicationat work. The authors explain why it is so important to understand body language in business, combining hard research evidence with unambiguous tips and practical applications.
Body Language Sales Secrets: How to Read Prospects and Decode Subconscious Signals to Get Results and Close the Deal
by Maryann Karinch Jim McCormickOrdinary salespeople sell. Extraordinary sales professionals engage. Part of what sets them apart is their ability to understand body language, both their prospect&’s and their own, and use it to their advantage.Body Language Sales Secrets directly addresses the need of sales professionals to help them: Baseline their prospects—recognize the body language that says &“I&’m at ease with you right now.&”Identify the ways a prospect expresses stress.Spot their prospects&’ moment-to-moment nonverbal cues.Understand how and why a prospect&’s body language can send very different messages within minutes.Better yet, after identifying a change in body language, know exactly what to do to either capitalize on it or counter it.How to apply body language skills to a wide variety of sales techniques, including relationship selling, solution selling, expertise selling, ROI selling, fear selling, and more.Body Language Sales Secrets helps salespeople at any level build rapport through active listening, invitational body language, and mirroring and reveals how their own body language can reinforce the perception of competence, relevance, and truth. You will learn a wide variety of action-forcing movements and quest
Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations: How to Read Any Opponent and Get What You Want
by Greg Williams Pat Iyer“Full of techniques from deciphering hidden body language messages to enhancing your negotiation strategies. . . . your go-to resource for stellar results.” —Harvey Mackay, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten AliveThe success of a negotiation is profoundly affected by how well you read body language. How can you learn to read the subtle clues—many lasting a fraction of a second—that your opponent projects? Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations will help you discover what the “other side” is revealing through body language and microexpressions, and how to control your own. It will help you become more adept at leveraging your knowledge of emotional intelligence, negotiation ploys, and emotional hot buttons. Through engaging stories and examples, Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations shows you how to employ a wide range of strategies to achieve your negotiating goals. You will learn:• How to employ your knowledge of body language to instantly read the other negotiator’s position.• Insider secrets that will give you an advantage in any negotiation.• Techniques to overcome common obstacles that hamper your negotiationsLearning to read and send body language signals enables anyone, anywhere, to gain an advantage in any negotiation, from where to go for brunch to what price to pay for a global corporate acquisition.“A book that should be on everyone’s must-read list.” ?Roger Dawson, author of Secrets of Power Negotiating“This practical book is loaded with proven strategies and tactics to negotiate effectively and get a better deal every time.” ?Brian Tracy, author of The Power of Self-Confidence“Greg Williams, the Master Negotiator, could sell ice to Eskimos.” ?Neil Cavuto, Fox Business News Anchor
Body Language Secrets: Teach Yourself
by Diana MatherResearch shows that our body language accounts for more than 50% of the success (or lack of it) of our communication. This book tells you how to give out the right signals, and read other people's body language. As well as body movements, this book (complete with photos) includes specific chapters on situations such as networking, meetings, public speaking, interviews, and dating.
Body Language Secrets: Use body language to succeed in any situation
by Diana MatherResearch shows that our body language accounts for more than 50% of the success (or lack of it) of our communication. This book tells you how to give out the right signals, and read other people's body language. As well as body movements, this book (complete with photos) includes specific chapters on situations such as networking, meetings, public speaking, interviews, and dating.
Body Language at Work: Learn the Secret meaning Behind Every Move
by Adams MediaRaised eyebrows, rubbing one’s chin, angled shoulders - what’s it all mean? Master the art of nonverbal communication and you’ll unlock these secrets and more. Body Language at Work is your quick course in interpreting office place body language. Now you’ll know just what your bosses and coworkers are thinking - without them having to say a word.
Body Language for Business: Tips, Tricks, and Skills for Creating Great First Impressions, Controlling Anxiety, Exuding Confidence, and Ensuring Successful Interviews, Meetings, and Relationships
by Max A. EggertBody Language for Business will show you how to understand the intricacies of body language and how to maximize your interpersonal skills in all your relationships-in your personal life and at work. This handy guide holds successful tips for not only reading others, but also showing confidence to friends, coworkers, and your boss.With Body Language for Business you'll learn:The basics of body languageHow to make a positive impact every timeTechniques for controlling anxietyWays to exude personal confidenceAnd much more!Never again will you panic during a job interview or when asking for a raise! With the help of world renowned psychologist Max A. Eggert, you'll gain insight into how to interact with colleagues in a professional and courteous manner. This guidebook is filled with life lessons that everyone, young and old, should read and abide by.
Body Language for Women: Learn to Read People Instantly and Increase Your Influence
by Dr. Donna Van NattenBodies talk. Do you know how to listen? A quick glance, a twist of the hips, or a biting of the lower lip can speak volumes about what someone is thinking or feeling. The powerful messages our bodies send can make all the difference when interviewing for a new job, going on a date, or detecting when a person is lying to you. In Body Language for Women, body language expert Dr. Donna Van Natten provides you with the tools and resources that you need to analyze the movements of those around you. She helps you detect what you are subtly and unconsciously saying with your own body and the implications these communications are having on your life. Further, Dr. Van Natten challenges you to understand the nonverbal cues of other women and men in general, your family members, and your romantic interests. Finally, she fine-tunes your gut instinct to confirm the truth or deception of what others are saying. Clear, concise, and filled with expert knowledge, Body Language for Women will help you win in the workplace, successfully navigate social situations, and gain a greater understanding of what's really going on when we communicate with others.
Body Language: Come Migliorare La Tua Relazione Usa Il Linguaggio Del Corpo Nascosto
by Christopher CuddyTi piacerebbe capire cosa sta succedendo dentro la testa di qualcun altro? L'autore parla di tutto, dai gesti, alla postura, allo spazio personale e fisico. Sin dai tempi antichi, abbiamo usato il nostro linguaggio del corpo per comunicare, trasmettendo le nostre emozioni e pensieri a coloro che ci circondano. Ogni persona là fuori ha un linguaggio del corpo diverso, che comprende non solo espressioni facciali ma anche posture e gesti del corpo. Anche il movimento degli occhi è considerato parte della comunicazione non verbale, essendo strettamente seguito dal tatto e usando il proprio spazio personale. Se sei pronto per agire e cambiare la tua vita in meglio, questo libro ti guiderà sicuramente nella giusta direzione!
Body Language: Come Padroneggiare L'arte Della Comunicazione Non Verbale
by Steven PinkerImparando ad usare questi principi, sarete in grado di migliorare diversi aspetti della vostra vita, come le vostre relazioni, la vostra carriera e la vostra vita sociale in generale. Le informazioni contenute in questo libro vi forniranno indicazioni su come attuare una comunicazione efficace e su come utilizzarla in maniera attiva. Se siete pronti ad agire e a cambiare la vostra vita in meglio, questo libro vi guiderà sicuramente nella direzione giusta!
Body Language: I Migliori Consigli Per Migliorare Il Tuo Linguaggio Del Corpo
by Carol ClarkQuesta guida fornisce tecniche altamente efficaci per condurvi lungo un celere percorso che incrementerà la vostra intelligenza emotiva. Imparerete a coltivare relazioni più proficue, a comunicare con maggiore efficacia, a stabilire obiettivi per il futuro, ad adottare una prospettiva più positiva, soddisfatta e gioiosa e, più importante, a controllare le emozioni negative e a prendere le redini della vostra vita, al sicuro dalle influenze esterne. Questo libro vi spiegherà come funziona il linguaggio del corpo e vi insegnerà a comprendere meglio ciò che le altre persone comunicano con espressioni e movimenti. Ottieni il libro oggi stesso!
Body Language: Migliore Guida Per La Comunicazione Non Verbale
by Desmond RowneyI benefici di tenere sotto controllo il vostro linguaggio corporeo non finiscono qui. E' ampiamente stabilito che uno degli elementi più indispensabili di attrazione è il linguaggio del corpo. Conoscendo tali argomenti non solo vi aiuterà ad interpretare i gesti del vostro partner, ma anche a controllare le vostre espressioni non verbali a vostro massimo vantaggio. Dopo aver letto questo libro, sarete più sicuri di assicurarvi un punto sicuro in campo amoroso, matrimoniale, e romantico. Questo libro abbatte l'esercizio in moduli di facile comprensione. Inizia dal principio dell'apprendimento del linguaggio corporeo Scaricate questo grande libro oggi!
Body Language: Semplici Modi Per Comprendere La Comunicazione Non Verbale
by Turid LetheChe ci crediate o no, la maggior parte della comunicazione avviene in maniera non verbale. Perché molte persone si chiedono come mai i messaggi che cercano di trasmettere sembrano non essere mai recepiti o come mai sembra non riescano ad interpretare quelli che li circondano. Molti problemi nel farsi capire e nel capire chi ci sta intorno sono da collegare alla scarsa conoscenza del linguaggio del corpo. Preferiresti impiegare ore nel cercare risorse limitate e di bassa qualità sul linguaggio del corpo e la comunicazione non verbale? Se sei pronto a passare all'azione e cambiare in meglio la tua vita, questo libro ti guiderà esattamente in quella direzione!