1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450804403321

Autore

Dittmar Trudy <1944->

Titolo

Fauna and flora, earth and sky [[electronic resource] ] : brushes with nature's wisdom / / Trudy Dittmar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003

ISBN

1-58729-442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Sightline books

Disciplina

508.78

818.6

Soggetti

Natural history - West (U.S.)

Mountain animals - West (U.S.)

Human ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Prologue; Pronghorn; Cows, Arrogance, the Natures of Things; The Porcupine's Old Clothes; Moose; Going to Rainbow; Paedomorph Pools and Other Blighted Bounties; Cache; Still Point; Wolf Show, Truman, Ersatz Moon; Men and the Blue Lights of Nature

Sommario/riassunto

""[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power."" --Robert Finch,Los Angeles Times Book Review""Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates o



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962120803321

Autore

Scott Jon <1955->

Titolo

Achieving consensus : tools and techniques / / Jon Scott, Eileen Flanigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Menlo Park, Calif., : Crisp, c1996

ISBN

1-4175-2473-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Collana

A fifty-minute series book

Altri autori (Persone)

FlaniganEileen

Disciplina

0

Soggetti

Group decision making

Consensus (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Defining Consensus -- WHAT IS CONSENSUS? -- REACHING CONSENSUS IS LIKE TAKING A JOURNEY -- HOW CONSENSUS FITS WITH OTHER DECISION STYLES -- SOURCES OF DIFFICULTY -- YOUR JOURNEY -- PART II Your Role on the Road to Consensus -- DECIDING WHAT TO PACK -- TAKING INVENTORY -- THINGS TO LEAVE BEHIND -- FOCUS ON STRENGTHS, NOT WEAKNESSES -- PART III Meeting to Achieve Consensus -- YOU CAN'T ACHIEVE CONSENSUS BY YOURSELF -- LET'S MAKE STEEL -- ARE YOU A CONSENSUS MASTER? -- PART IV Tools and Techniques -- USING YOUR TOOL KIT -- ADDRESSING BEHAVIORAL OBSTACLES -- YOUR ROLE -- PART V More Tools and Techniques -- USING YOUR TOOL KIT FOR DECISION OBSTACLES -- WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS -- PART VI Arriving At Consensusville -- WHERE YOU START YOUR JOURNEY IS NOT WHERE YOU END -- WALKING THE TALK.

Sommario/riassunto

The ability to work together, make decisions together, and implement them is critical for success in group activities.