First Steps: A Guide to Social Research, Fifth Edition, encourages students to recognize the importance of learning about research methods both for academic purposes as well as to be a critical consumer of research results. It leverages students’ personal interests, experiences and knowledge as starting points for learning and applying social science research skills. Michael Del Balso and Alan Lewis cover the entire research process, from formulating questions to writing reports. This text also stresses the important role of the Internet on current research, shows students how to search for and use Internet resources and shows how research methods are being adapted to the Internet. The authors emphasize Canadian examples throughout and sustain the reader’s interest by using boxes, tables and newspaper excerpts to illustrate a variety of research techniques. With their hands-on, non-technical, multi-disciplined approach, the authors have created a text that actively involves the student in the research methods process.

First Steps (A Guide to Social Research)

Michael Del Balso

Alan Lewis

Science & Math

Nelson

Let's Model (Starting Points)

Children's Books

Evans Brothers, Ltd.

Driving With No Brakes is a fascinating, inspirational book about how two courageous leaders built a remarkable company that can thrive in change and succeed in an unpredictable world. The book offers important lessons for any business leader trying to create value in the 21st century. In Driving With No Brakes, Alan and Harriet Lewis, owners of Grand Circle Corporation, reflect on the company's successes and failures and highlight important business strategies that have propelled it to be held by many as the world's best travel company. Through the lens of Grand Circle, they demonstrate how they were able to achieve sustained business success amidst the tumultuous and highly competitive travel industry by fostering a values-based organization that embraces risk while maintaining focus on people and social mission. In 1986, shortly after Alan and Harriet Lewis bought Grand Circle Travel, a competitor remarked that there was no way a bunch of hooligans from Boston could run a worldwide travel business. At the time, Grand Circle was a travel company with one office, $27M in sales, and was losing more than $2 million a year. Twenty-five years later, Grand Circle has grown nearly 20% per year into a highly profitable company with annual sales in excess of $600 million. The company owns or charters 60 ships, operates 80 trips in 100 countries, and employs 2,300 people in more than 30 offices worldwide. With social mission tightly woven into Grand Circle's business strategy, the company has donated or pledged more than $50 million USD to educational, humanitarian, and cultural organizations worldwide since 1992. Grand Circle is beloved by its customers (American travelers), more than 125,000 of whom travel with Grand Circle Travel and its affiliate, Overseas Adventure Travel, each year. The company has served more than 1.5 million travelers over the years and prospered through more than 300 crises, including the 9-11 attacks, the rise of online competitors, and ongoing global political, economic and environmental challenges. Despite it all, Grand Circle continues to increase its profitability and grow at a rate of nearly 20 percent per year. It has been a wild ride, and there were times when Alan and Harriet were literally driving with no brakes. This book tells the story of Grand Circle and of a remarkable couple's dream to build a company that would help change people's lives and of the long, hard, and fun-filled journey they took to get there. Read what our travelers are saying about Driving With No Brakes: This is the business person's Three Cups of Tea. Be prepared for a rip-roaring page turner. Alan and Harriet Lewis have written a book that will inspire and surprise the reader. It is full of funny and revealing stories about how and why they built this company into a world-class success. I have been traveling with the company for years and until now had little idea of the impact that they make in the lives of the people in the countries we visit. After well over a dozen wonderful trips with Grand Circle companies, we finally discovered the secrets that made them so meaningful and informative. The Lewises have the vision and ability to really listen and learn from their associates and travelers, and then change and improve the operation. Their many stories of successes and failures make this an interesting read.

Driving With No Brakes

Harriet Lewis

Alan and Harriet Lewis

A Journey of the Heart: Explorations into the Experience of Prayer

Albatross Books Pty Ltd

Dying for Ireland: The Last Days of Roger Casement

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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