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Competency Management involves understanding and replicating the competencies and/or behaviours of top-performing employees, developing and leveraging organizational competencies through deployment of suitable competency models and, finally, identifying the core competence of the organization that would provide leverage for gaining a competitive advantage.The objective of the book is to help create a customized framework for individuals and organizations to discover and harness their 'core competence' for self-sustenance and attaining the pole position in their respective domains. This practical handbook will prove to be indispensable to corporate honchos--C Level Executives, Human Capability Management Experts, Policy Makers, HR Managers--besides being a comprehensive reference to postgraduate and graduate students of management.

Many modern ecological problems such as rain forest destruction, decreasing marine harvests, and fire suppression are directly or indirectly anthropogenic. Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology presents an argument that conservation biology and wildlife management cannot afford to ignore zooarchaeological research.

Brings together new and previously published essays to cover the diverse scope of scriptures in Latter Day Saint traditions

Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy rescues an exciting true tale of international intrigue from 150 years of neglect. It tells of the travails of Henrietta Polydore, a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains by her Mormon-convert mother and aunt to live in Salt Lake City under an alias in the polygamous household of a Latter-day Saint leader with five wives and twenty children. Midway through Henrietta's secret sojourn in the City of the Saints, she was caught up in the Utah War of 1857-1858, President Buchanan's attempt to suppress a perceived Mormon rebellion with nearly one-third of the U.S. Army. MacKinnon and Alford present Henrietta's story through their editing for twenty-first-century readers of a "lost" non-fiction novel about Polydore's saga published during 1877 in Boston's Atlantic Monthly. This short piece--dubbed a "novella" and titled The Ward of the Three Guardians--was the work of Albert G. Browne, Jr., a Boston Brahmin with two Harvard degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, who, at age twenty-three, was in Utah as the war correspondent for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune. Browne reported on and then became part of Henrietta's story using his legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in England through a sensational legal case. Her return home precluded an early, perhaps polygamous, marriage as a teenager. Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy is the work of two historian-editors with disparate backgrounds working collaboratively as professional colleagues as well as personal friends. MacKinnon, an independent historian from upstate New York now living in California, is a Presbyterian, veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and former vice president of General Motors Corporation. Colonel Alford, a Latter-day Saint and Utahn, is a professor teaching at Brigham Young University after a thirty-year career as a U.S. Army officer with teaching assignments at the U.S. Military Academy and National Defense University. MacKinnon and Alford have brought their decades of research on the subject to bear on a re-publication of Ward that helps readers separate Browne's telling of Henrietta's story into its strands of fact and fiction. Sit back and savor Albert Browne's newly recovered tale and its rich blend of fact and fantasy. With the guidance of editors MacKinnon and Alford, determining the difference is half the fun and much the value of revisiting The Ward of the Three Guardians. Number Seventeen in the Series Utah, the Mormons, and the West Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library

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Stories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud.

In time for the centennial of the United States' entry into World War I, this collection of essays explores the war experience in Utah from the multiple perspectives of soldiers, nurses, and ambulance drivers who experienced the horror of the conflict firsthand to those on the home front whom the war transformed.

The life story of Elizabeth Campbell, who homesteaded at the edge of what is now Joshua Tree National Park and whose pioneering work founded landscape archaeology

Compares how photographers in Norway and the US represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed, developed, and photographed. Making images while traversing almost inaccessible terrain, photographers created a visual language that came to symbolize each nation.

In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they needed a protected beach. They made landfall in what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', thought to be in California. This book unravels the mysteries surrounding Drake's voyage and summer sojourn in this bay.

Takes a detailed look at the Mormon colonization of the Bighorn Basin in 1900-1901, placing it in the political and socioeconomic climate of the time while examining whether the move to this out-of-the-way frontier was motivated in part by the desire to practice polygamy unnoticed.

Tells the story of author Wallace Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during its transition from the Valley of Heart's Delight to Silicon Valley. In this tudy of the novels Stegner wrote in California, readers are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West.

Many people appreciate the stunning vistas of the Great Basin desert; understanding the region's geological past can provide a deeper way to know and admire this landscape. In The Great Basin Seafloor, Frank DeCourten immerses readers in a time when the Basin was covered by a vast ocean in which volcanoes exploded and sea life flourished.

Historical archaeologists explore landscapes in the American West through many lenses, including culture contact, colonialism, labor, migration, and identity. This volume sets landscape at the centre of analysis, examining space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in their myriad permutations.

Describing the meaning of artifact spatial patterning can be highly subjective, yet many patterns can be quantified to create general models that are comparable across time and space. This book employs various techniques in this endeavour, including large sample sizes, model-driven analyses of the ethnographic record, and bone and lithic refitting.

Investigates plainwares from the far west, stretching into the Great Basin and the northwestern and southwestern edges of Arizona. Contributors use and explain recent analytical methods, including neutron activation, electron microprobe analysis, and thin-section optical mineralogy.

Hot, arid, and uninhabited, the western Midriff Islands lie in the Gulf of California, surrounded by an often treacherous sea. Given these conditions, why would ancient people go there, and why would anybody go there today? Thomas Bowen addresses these questions in the first comprehensive history of these islands.

What are the connections between past and present peoples in the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected? Contributors leverage diverse source materials rooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historical documents to offer novel answers to these questions.

Ninety years ago Great Plains archaeologists made foundational contributions to American archaeology, enabling new discoveries and interpretations. This volume explores how twenty-first-century archaeologists have built upon, remodeled, and sometimes rejected the inferences of these earlier scholars with updated overviews and analyses.

West Portal is the name of the neighbourhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that 'the local is the only thing that is universal', West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there.

Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park's natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph.

Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Utah's American West Center, Western Lands, Western Voices explores the many dimensions of public history. This collection of thirteen essays is rooted in the real-world experiences of the authors and is the first volume to focus specifically on regional public history.

Presents a critical synthesis of Patagonian prehistory, bringing an evolutionary perspective and unconventional evidence to bear on enduringly contentious issues in New World archaeology, including initial human colonization of the Americas, widespread depopulation between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago, and the transition from foraging to farming.

In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Drawing from a broad range of primary sources, Kerns retrieves Sally from obscurity and reconstructs her complex life before, during, and after captivity.

The toil of several million peasant farmers in Aztec Mexico transformed lakebeds and mountainsides into a checkerboard of highly productive fields. This book charts the changing fortunes of one Aztec settlement and its terraced landscapes from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.

Because of the sheer volume of industrial debris and the limited information it yields, quarries are challenging archaeological subjects. Michael Shott tackles this challenge in a study of flakes and preforms from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries of North America's Great Basin.