At the heart of the economic changes in central and eastern Europe has been an explosion in management training, generally supported by Western academics and consultants in business education and financial management. This work analyzes the developments in this area, and the way educational approaches are moulded by the various pressures shaping these emerging market economies. The writers are educators and trainers at the forefront of initiatives funded by the West. They explain the kind of management education and training which is taking place now and is set within the context of current international debates on the issues involved, questioning many of the assumptions on which Western approaches to management education are based.

Management Education in the New Europe: Issues of Content and Process

Business & Money

Lee, Monica

Thomas, Michael

Letiche, Hugo

Crawshaw, Robert

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Cengage Learning EMEA

Human Resources, Care Giving, Career Progression and Gender: A Gender Neutral Glass Ceiling (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development)

This book presents a challenge to feminist perspectives that see the glass ceiling as the exclusive domain of women's careers and work life. The authors address existing debates and extend them to include original empirical evidence from several US and UK comparative studies that look at the effect of caring for dependents (including care for children and elder care) upon the careers and aspirations of both men and women.

Coyne, Edward J.

Editor), Monica Lee (Series

Business Culture

Routledge

"It will get worse before it gets better," I heard the full-bosomed tarot card reader tell my husband, who was being investigated for raping one of his drum line students.  Two weeks later, my husband of 11 years was officially charged with forcing himself on his student, and the crime was reported in detail in the newspaper. I wanted to categorize the whole mess as a foolish choice made by my husband. What I simply could not absorb -- even when it was presented to me in the black and white of a dispassionate newspaper story -- was the impact of his sexual encounter with a high school senior in my home while I was out of town.   The fortune teller was right. It got worse. And the "better" was nowhere in sight.  ***  Author Monica Lee explores themes of fidelity, faith and justice in "The Percussionist's Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal," the true story about the demise of a marriage after revelations of adultery and criminal sexual conduct. In a perverse age when politicians hide children bred by their mistresses and coaches prey upon their charges, "The Percussionist's Wife" is a modern parable on the nature of betrayal and atonement for those who have endured the shame and mystery of unspeakable secrets.  Monica Lee, a former journalist and writer, draws on her skills as a daily newspaper reporter and relies on the police evidence file to recreate her husband's ongoing philandering with his students throughout their marriage and to illustrate how she coped -- or didn't -- with the criminal charges against him.

The Percussionist's Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Monica Lee

330 Arden

North Beach Pr

Can you look and feel better in twenty-one days? Absolutely, you can. But Monica Lee didn’t always think so. When she entered that phase of womanhood called perimenopause, she fell into a rabbit’s hole where the world was filled with muffin tops, aches and pains, and indelible wrinkles.   If you, too, are sick and tired of being sick and tired, this plan is just the jump-start you need. Or maybe you’re staring down a big event like a class reunion or a big wedding. This plan is for you, too.  You’ll look and feel your absolute best after twenty-one days and be ready to circulate your confident self among all your adoring fans—friends, we mean friends!   Who is Monica Lee to be writing a beauty book? She’s not a model or a movie star. Her biggest claims to fame are that she once introduced new scrapbooking products to convention halls of screaming women, and she wrote a memoir, The Percussionist’s Wife. She’s pretty much standard issue in the beauty department. She does, however, encounter people all the time who guess her age to be younger—sometimes much younger—than she really is.   How to Look Hot & Feel Amazing in Your 40s: The 21-Day Diet, Exercise & Everything Makeover Plan is a combination health-and-fitness memoir and a to-do list. Lee shares her formula for being healthier, stronger and hotter in this step-by-step plan she herself used to recapture her youth. Adapt each day in this doable plan to suit your body, your means, your tastes.

How to Look Hot & Feel Amazing in Your 40s: The 21-Day Age-Defying Diet, Exercise & Everything Makeover Plan

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

1006 Books

In a world before social networks made it a routine act performed with a click, “like” is a state of mystery and meaning among teenagers navigating the halls of Wadena Senior High School. Fifteen-year-old Monica is sure she would be happy if only she had a boyfriend, but first she endures a litany of boys who think flirting is accomplished with insults and other shenanigans. After her first kiss, performed on a dare and described in the pages of Dear Diary as “the pits! Gross! Dirty!” Monica learns the truth about French kissing from a charming outsider. Navigating relationships and learning the meaning of like—or love—is far trickier. Set in a “hick town” on the windswept plains of Minnesota where a teenager’s social calendar is marked by basketball games, cafeteria dances and playing Pac-Man at the bowling alley arcade, Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Promise or Repeat examines the fateful year Monica devotes to reeling in a keeper of a boyfriend like so much walleye. With self-deprecating humor, authenticity and awkward details captured on the pages of the diaries Monica faithfully kept at the time, it’s a story that reminds us what it feels like to be a teenager again, grappling with timeless questions of desire, loyalty and finding answers. This book is for every teenager trying to navigate the maze of finding true love, or at least true “like,” and for every woman who grew up in the ’80s who might have forgotten all she learned during those seemingly simpler times.

Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Promise or Repeat: On Finding the Meaning of "Like" in 1982

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

After buying an old Methodist church to renovate into their home, a plucky 50something couple who gets excited by reclaimed wood and deals on Craigslist goes to work, undaunted by risks to their marital relationship, creaky bodies and bank account.The 126-year-old structure has been stripped of pews, the altar, even the kitchen sink. The wiring is a Frankenstein mix of early 20th century knobs and tubes, copper wire and modern Romex. And the seller discloses the 40-foot bell tower is "rooted," which the intrepid homebuyers Tyler and Monica take to mean as "rotted." Friends wonder if there are bats in their belfry, literally and metaphorically, as the pair spends months juggling contractors of varying dependability, wandering around a thousand home improvement stores and sanding miles of wood floors, laboring to prove the doubters wrong. Based on the real-time memoir Monica blogged by night, Church Sweet Home chronicles the amusing, exhausting and ultimately satisfying fixer-upper follies of turning a derelict community treasure into a dream home.

Church Sweet Home: A Renovation to Warm the Soul

Management & Leadership

On the Nature of Human Resource Development: Holistic Agency and an Almost-Autoethnographical Exploration of Becoming (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development)

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic – the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee’s seminal 2001 paper which refused to define the discipline of HRD, but has been accentuated by increasing globalization, political unrest, inequality and the erosion of boundaries. Should HRD now be seen as more than ‘training,’ or a sub-function of large western bureaucracy? This book represents a very wide view of HRD: that it is at the core of our ‘selves’ and our relationships, and that we continually co-create ourselves, our organisations and societies. These ideas are hung upon a model of Holistic Agency, and supported from sources as diverse as evolutionary psychology, science fiction, the challenges of transitional economies, and the structural uncertainties of contemporary society. Examining the tensions between self and other, agency and structure, the book draws inspiration from an almost-autoethnographic approach. This yields a text that is personal, entertaining, and easier to read than many academic tomes – yet considers the depth and development of the human condition, and locates HRD within that.

Job Hunting & Careers

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic – the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee’s seminal 2001 paper which refused to define the discipline of HRD, but has been accentuated by increasing globalization, political unrest, inequality and the erosion of boundaries. Should HRD now be seen as more than ‘training,’ or a sub-function of large western bureaucracy? This book represents a very wide view of HRD: that it is at the core of our ‘selves’ and our relationships, and that we continually co-create ourselves, our organisations and societies. These ideas are hung upon a model of Holistic Agency, and supported from sources as diverse as evolutionary psychology, science fiction, the challenges of transitional economies, and the structural uncertainties of contemporary society. Examining the tensions between self and other, agency and structure, the book draws inspiration from an almost-autoethnographic approach. This yields a text that is personal, entertaining, and easier to read than many academic tomes – yet considers the depth and development of the human condition, and locates HRD within that.

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