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Coaching the abrasive personality
Dr. Alexander is an extremely competent neurosurgeon. He has aspirations of becoming chief of neurosurgery in a top-tier academic medical center....
Physician Executive, 09/01/09 by Robert Hicks; John McCracken · More from publication -
Mentoring vs. Coaching—do you know the difference?
Because you are an experienced physician leader, your colleagues likely look to you for guidance and support on both personal and professional...
Physician Executive, 07/01/09 by Robert Hicks; John McCracken · More from publication -
The coaching mindset
Everyone has a built-in desire to set things right. It's part of our nature. When we see something wrong we naturally want to fix it; we want to...
Physician Executive, 05/01/09 by Robert Hicks; John McCracken · More from publication -
The art of bones: British artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who sparked dinosaur mania in the nineteenth century, still influences how natural history museums represent prehistoric life today
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reconstructed skeletons of dinosaurs and life-size models of how they may once have appeared are...
Natural History, 12/01/08 by Robert McCracken Peck · More from publication -
Icy embellishments: Arctic imagery and the decorative arts
In the summer of 1869, after serving two terms as governor of New York, eleven years as a United States senator, and eight years as secretary of...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/07 by Robert McCracken Peck · More from publication -
Calling all medals
While surveying the coast of South America between 1826 and 1830, the officers of HMS Adventure and her better known sister ship, HMS Beagle,...
Americas (English Edition), 05/01/05 by Robert McCracken Peck · More from publication -
Cabinet of curiosities
In "A Room Revisited" [9/04], Rosamond Purcell modestly told only part of the story about the recreation of Ole Worm's museum. Her painstaking...
Natural History, 12/01/04 by Robert McCracken · More from publication -
Cutting up Audubon for science and art
In 1826 John James Audubon left his adopted homeland and traveled to Great Britain with the intention of publishing a book on the birds of America....
Magazine Antiques, 10/01/03 by Robert McCracken Peck · More from publication -
A Conversation With Alexander F. Skutch
A naturalist who has revealed the private lives of Neotropical birds A naturalist who has revealed the private lives of Neotropical birds For...
Natural History, 02/01/01 by Robert McCracken Peck · More from publication -
Audubon, Bachman, and the quadrupeds of North America - John James Audubon and the Reverend John Bachman, environmentalists
They were the most unlikely friends: the hard-living, hard-drinking bastard of a French sea captain and the quiet, teetotaling pastor of a...
Magazine Antiques, 11/01/00 by ROBERT McCRACKEN PECK · More from publication
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