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Thrangu Rinpoche (Author) & Yeshe Gyampso (Tr.) Illustrator: NA: Pointing Out the Dharmakaya of the Ninth Karmpa Wangchung Dorje, Sri Satguru Publications 2001 ISBN: 9788170307174

New Hardcover NA In the Kagyu tradition, the Writing down of the oral instructions happened primarily during the time of the ninth Karmapa. Wangchug Dorje, who lived in the fifteenth century. He wrote three main expositions of Mahamudra practice: The Ocean of the Definitive Meaning; Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance; and Pointing out the Dharmakaya. The present book Pointing out the Dharmakaya gives a full treatment of mahamudra practice. This book has several sections. The first part of the text is devoted to the four preliminaries of mahamudra practice, and the bulk of the text describes the actual practice, divided into the practice of Insight meditation. Because of its brevity, the text is a convenient practical manual for mahamudra practitioners. It is easy to use and it is easy to keep the instructions in mind. The instructions enable the practitioner to get directly at the Nature of hir or her mind. Contents: 1. An Introduction to the Text 2. The Preliminaries 3. Tranquillity Meditation 4. Insight Meditation 5. The Nature of Mind 6. Questions for the Practitioner 7. Looking at the Mind within Appearances 8. Looking at Body and Mind 9. Looking at the Stillness and Movement of Mind 10. Pointing-out in Insight Meditation Printed Pages: 124. First edition

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Michel Syrett Illustrator: NA: Successful Strategy Execution: How to Keep Your Business Goals on Target, Viva Books 2008 ISBN: 9781861978943

New Softcover NA However smart your business strategy is in theory, it will have little effect if you fail to carry it out. A survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit suggests that companies typically realise only about 60% of their strategyaEUR s potential value because of failures in planning and execution. Corporate politics, personalities and turf wars, and misunderstood intentions and silo thinking combined with changing circumstances result in the strategic focus becoming dimmed or distorted. And this loss of focus is rarely noticed because few companies track performance against long-term plans. Drawing on original research, together with work carried out by London Business School, Cranfield School of Management, UCLA and consulting firms, this book outlines the ways in which organisations such as Reuters, Diageo, Pfizer, Deutsche Bank and IBM are carrying out their strategy more effectively by aEURc clearly identifying priorities aEURc considering the deployment of resources well in advance aEURc monitoring performance continuously aEURc breaking strategy down into easily achieved objectives aEURc intensive team-based coaching that ensures everyone understands their role an priorities aEURc fostering a risk-friendly culture that encourages freedom of action if it supports key strategic goals. Contents: Setting the scene aEURc The problem defined: vision is nothing without execution aEURc Looking back: British Airways aEURc Looking back: General Electric aEURc Looking at the present: Domaine Chandon aEURc Looking at the present: case examples in this book aEURc Friction aEURc General Electric: turning slogans into mantras in Hungary aEURc Pfizer: dealing with discordancy aEURc Friction: the military provenance aEURc Friction: the business version aEURc Strategy: the make-or-break role of the line aEURc From friction to focus aEURc Focus aEURc Luxfer Gas Cylinders: moving beyond operational excellence aEURc Focusing on aEURoehot spotsaEUR aEURc Domaine Chandon: from focus to clarity aEURc Lipper: clarity as bedrock aEURc Pfizer: turning around its teams aEURc Delegation and discretionary powers: the essence of military command aEURc From clarity to communication aEURc Communication aEURc Diageo MA et Hennessy Japan: words really matter aEURc Communication or consultation: the new realities aEURc IBM: test-marketing new values aEURc Networks not hierarchies: the new social imperative aEURc Reuters: fast forwarding corporate transformation aEURc Behaviour aEURc Luncheon Vouchers in 1989: creating a competitive environment aEURc Behaviour and how it is shaped aEURc Deutsche Bank and employee commitment: a new area of risk aEURc Behaviour: the strategy execution challenge aEURc Coaching and personal support: the learning agenda aEURc Internal and external consultancy support: the changing agenda aEURc From coaching to measurement aEURc Measurement aEURc HSBC Rail (UK): charting the future through corporate cartography aEURc Strategic Management Tool 1: the strategy map aEURc Strategy execution: the importance of effective performance measures aEURc Strategic Measurement Tool 2: the balanced scorecard aEURc British Telecom: aligning human resources to the business strategy aEURc Strategic Measurement Tool 3: the mission dashboard aEURc Thomson Financial: using clear measures to achieve great performance aEURc From measurement to leadership aEURc Leadership aEURc Six leadership roles for successful strategy execution aEURc Instilling focus and clarity aEURc Generating commitment and engagement aEURc Allocating scant resources aEURc Creating the right milestones of achievement aEURc Fostering collaboration aEURc Managing pace aEURc Change aEURc Reuters: shifting gear as circumstances demand aEURc Strategy change management: the new context aEURc Managing uncertainty: a new management discipline aEURc Innovation aEURc East African Breweries: exploring the links between clarity and creativity aEURc The underlying need and desire for innovation aEURc Fostering innovation: eight roles aEURc Look below the surface aEURc Goldman Sachs: bringing organisational deviants t Printed Pages: 176. First edition

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Gebhardt, Matthias: The Turn-Taking system in British news interviews, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 363867133X
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, printed single-sided, grade: 1,3, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar - Abteilung Englische Sprache und ihre Didaktik), course: Introduction to Pragmatics, 2 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Working with the terms 'turn-taking' and 'adjacency pairs' I want to examine to what extent the linguistic turn-taking system applies to British news interviews. Whether they do or do not follow this idea of a communicational ordering or even have their own turn-taking system shall be found out by looking at an excerpt from a British news interview. , abstract: Being informed ist what most people consider the most important thing in these days. Everybody wants to know everything about present events and their circumstances, future conditions regarding politics, etc. and also be able to discuss them with other people. This often requires having a lot of background knowledge. But as the facts are often too complex and not all information needed is accessible to each and every person, there has to be some way to easily inform all people who are interested in a comprehensible manner. What once was the herald, who was sent out by the king, may now be the interviewer in a TV-Show or on the radio. He gets the information directly from politicians who are involved or in charge, victims of a crime, eye-witnesses and so on. In so doing, he passes everything he learns to the audience who may not only consist of a third person participating in the discussion but of thousands or sometimes millions of people.Consequently news interviews have become more and more important as they convey important issues to the public e.g. considering elections or a party manifesto. Since these interviews need to get across important facts it is imperative that in no case they are blurred by a disorderly held conversation. To guarantee this, the interview has to follow specific rules which preserve its informational character. News interviews often consist of an interviewer and one or more interviewee(s) who alternately talk in a specific way: one asks a question and the other person(s) give(s) a more or less appropriate answer. This may change on some occasions, though, depending on the number of participants, their knowledge about the topic or their degree of involvement in the current case.Pragmatics, as a branch of linguistics, deals with language and communication and provides us with the possibility to analyze this orderly communication in a scientific context. From a linguistic point of view the constant change of the active speaker may be described by a turn-taking system and by the use of adjacency pairs.Working with the terms 'turn-taking' and 'adjacency pairs' I want to examine to what extent the linguistic turn-taking system applies to British news interviews. Whether they do or do not follow this idea of a communicational ordering or even have their own turn-taking system shall be found out by looking at an excerpt from a British news interview.

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Busnaina, Ahmed: Nanomanufacturing Handbook, CRC Press Inc, ISBN: 0849333261
Leichte Lagerspuren Kurzbeschreibung\nBreakthroughs in nanotechnology have been coming at a rapid pace over the past few years. This was fueled by significant worldwide investments by governments and industry. But if these promising young technologies cannot begin to show commercial viability soon, that funding is in danger of disappearing as investors lose their appetites and the economic and scientific promise of nanotechnology may not be realized. Scrutinizing the barriers to commercial scale-up of nanotechnologies, The Nanomanufacturing Handbook presents a broad survey of the research being done to bring nanotechnology out of the laboratory and into the factory. Current research into nanotechnology focuses on the underlying science, but as this forward-looking handbook points out, the immediate need is for research into scale-up, process robustness, and system integration issues.Taking that message to heart, this book collects cutting-edge research from top experts who examine such topics as surface-programmed assembly, fabrication and applications of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) including nanoelectronics, manufacturing nanoelectrical contacts, room-temperature nanoimprint and nanocontact technologies, nanocontacts and switch reliability, defects and surface preparation, and other innovative, application-driven initiatives. In addition to these technical issues, the author provides a survey of the current state of nanomanufacturing in the United States-the first of its kind-and coverage also reaches into patenting nanotechnologies as well as regulatory and societal issues. With timely, authoritative coverage accompanied by numerous illustrations, The Nanomanufacturing Handbook clarifies the current challenges facing industrial-scale nanotechnologies and outlines advanced tools and strategies that will help overcome them. \n\nSynopsis\nBreakthroughs in nanotechnology have been coming at a rapid pace over the past few years. This was fueled by significant worldwide investments by governments and industry. But if these promising young technologies cannot begin to show commercial viability soon, that funding is in danger of disappearing as investors lose their appetites and the economic and scientific promise of nanotechnology may not be realized. Scrutinizing the barriers to commercial scale-up of nanotechnologies, The Nanomanufacturing Handbook presents a broad survey of the research being done to bring nanotechnology out of the laboratory and into the factory. Current research into nanotechnology focuses on the underlying science, but as this forward-looking handbook points out, the immediate need is for research into scale-up, process robustness, and system integration issues.Taking that message to heart, this book collects cutting-edge research from top experts who examine such topics as surface-programmed assembly, fabrication and applications of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) including nanoelectronics, manufacturing nanoelectrical contacts, room-temperature nanoimprint and nanocontact technologies, nanocontacts and switch reliability, defects and surface preparation, and other innovative, application-driven initiatives.<p/>In addition to these technical issues, the author provides a survey of the current state of nanomanufacturing in the United States-the first of its kind-and coverage also reaches into patenting nanotechnologies as well as regulatory and societal issues. With timely, authoritative coverage accompanied by numerous illustrations, The Nanomanufacturing Handbook clarifies the current challenges facing industrial-scale nanotechnologies and outlines advanced tools and strategies that will help overcome them. , ISBN-13: 9780849333262

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