John wiley sons jan 1997 (57 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Support for Parents Whose Children are Depressed Contrary to popular belief, young children do get seriously depressed, and many try to kill themselves. In Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts the authors, Shamoo and Patros, show parents: how to learn to talk, listen, and communicate effectively with a depressed child; what situations can cause a child or adolescent to wish to commit suicide; what signs to watch for; myths and misinformation about suicide; how to determine the risk of suicide; and How to intervene. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This program translates each style into a mode of thinking so groups and departments can realize the talents at their disposal to accomplish various goals. Using Enneagram personality styles, this program helps people: - Recognize their strengths in resolving problems - Tailor communication style to be most effective in various situations - Optimize interactions with people of differing styles to deter conflict - Understand their role in problem-solving processes . . . and more! This is an excellent tool for furthering process improvement, management skills, team development, and more! Be sure to give each participant a set of reminder cards to use as a daily and spur-of-the-moment reminder of behaviors as they work to improve their problem-solving skills.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From planning human resources through recruitment and selection, training and development, appraisal and reward management to welfare and redundancy, this introductory text follows the natural cycle of HRM activity in a way that is intuitive and accessible to the student. The international and European content gives a broader context for the student than any other text in the field, and makes it essential reading for those taking BA business studies, and other management degree programmes and profession Diploma and Certificate courses in peresonnel and human resource management.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a member of the board of directors of several major international financial services corporations, Patricia Pitcher was in a privileged position to observe the inner workings of the corporate world. What she witnessed was a crisis of leadership rooted in a misunderstanding of what leading is all about. Not content to simply offer an opinion-opinions come cheap-she embarked on an eight-year research project to document the reasons for the rapid collapse of a global giant. That collapse, she shows us, began with one critical succession error and was compounded by a chronic failure to understand the importance of personality in the leadership equation. One wrong person at the helm turned a dream into a nightmare.In The Drama of Leadership, Patricia Pitcher shares her findings and, in the process, explodes a number of popular myths about leadership, including the one that leadership and vision are qualities that can be taught in management seminars. She refutes the common belief that leaders are in short supply and proves that the corporate talent pool abounds with potential leaders whose talents either go unrecognized or are tragically undervalued. And she explains why, at a time when vision, innovation, humanity, and passion are so desperately needed, so many companies cast in leadership roles people who possess none of these qualities, and who distrust anyone who does.But who are the good and bad leaders, and how do you identify them In answer to this question, Patricia Pitcher identifies three types of leaders: Artists, who are people-oriented, open-minded, intuitive, and visionary; Craftsmen, to whom the adjectives 'humane,' 'dedicated,' and 'wise' best apply; and Technocrats - brilliant and well-schooled in the latest theory, they are detail-oriented, rigid, methodical, self-centered, and, when left in control, pose a serious threat to corporate competitiveness. The power struggles between these types are dramas being played out in companies everywhere. Whether the story has a happy or an unhappy ending depends entirely upon which type gets top billing.The author also offers her wise recommendations on what companies can do to protect themselves against a technocratic hegemony and how to cultivate the talents of Artists and Craftsmen. She also tells you how to determine what type of leader you are and how to interact with other types to achieve both personal and corporate success.The Drama of Leadership is an articulate, insightful, passionate appeal to develop the kind of leaders and organizations that can take us into the twenty-first century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All new resources . 24 activities, 6 instruments, 18 presentation and discussion resources \* Resources Experiential learning activities, instruments, and presentation and discussion resources covering a variety of topics. And all can be customized for your specific needs. \* Contributors All materials are written by active HRD practitioners. And just like you, they are consultants, university professors, and private industry professionals. You get a variety of perspectives from well-known and up-and-coming professionals from all over the world! \* Topics You get materials for a variety of needs, from team building to improving processes to implementing organizational change. Be prepared for the new training year with this must-have resource exclusively from Pfeiffer.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another sensory modality. For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a colour. This volume brings together what is known about this fascinating neurological condition. The above questions, and new issues arising from the recent wave of cognitive neuroscientific research into synaesthesia, are debated in a series of chapters by leading authorities in the field.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Small Store Survival should challenge retailers' views of small store retailing by questioning key areas of business. What is the vision for the store in 10 years How have the customers changed over the past few years How current are the managers about what customers genuinely like and dislike What is being done to attract, educate, and motivate the best retail talent in the area How effective is the merchandising strategy What plans exist for succession.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE ON MAXIMUM ADVERSE EXCURSION - A POWERFUL NEW TOOL FOR DRAMATICALLY LESSENING TRADING RISKS 'Trading successfully, like everything else, is built upon solid preparation. It is the well-prepared individual who will be able to cope in today's competitive market. John Sweeney's Maximum Adverse Excursion will provide you with the steps to perform the analytical review of your trading system that you should undertake before you ever risk your capital.'-Thomas Hartle, Editor Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 'Maximum Adverse Excursion deals with a much overlooked subject: how to minimize losses. If every trader took John Sweeney's advice and learned how to minimize losses before trying to make profits, they would be financially ahead.'-Martin J. Pring, President The International Institute for Economic Research 'John Sweeney has done it again. As with Campaign Trading, he takes a complex set of ideas and explains them in a simple, easy-to-understand manner, in a form that traders can use to help them make informed and profitable buy-sell decisions.'-Clifford Sherry, PhD, author The Mathematics of Technical Analysis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume provides a wide-ranging and lucid introducing to the major ethical theories found in the history of Western philosophy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A much-needed approach to career counseling that integrates traditional techniques with psychological methods of assessment and intervention. The step-by-step methodology applies to all types of clients and can be used successfully by practitioners with diverse professional backgrounds.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals, and management trainees. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A one-of-a-kind book that shows you how to cash in on the latest investing trend--short selling.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and critical agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African-American philosophy. With many leading contributors, this collection of newly-commissioned work provides key coverage of the postcolonial and the postmodern; the critique of eurocentrism in philosophy; philosophy in post-independence Africa and post-civil rights black America; multi-culturalism; and inter-cultural dialogue between contemporary African and western philosophy in the academy. In addition, it includes important interventions on the historical, political, and cultural situations of Africa and America at the end of the twentieth century, and philosophy's role in this milieu. Designed to complement Emmanuel Eze's Racist Enlightenment (1996) and African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997) also published by Blackwell, these volumes represent powerful new intervention in a fast developing area of study and research.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A complete blueprint for all types of restaurant development--from concept through constructionWhether you are planning a small neighborhood bistro or an expansive hotel eatery, Restaurant Planning, Design, and Construction provides you with the specific information and in-depth guidance you need to navigate the restaurant development process effectively. With easy-to-use worksheets, checklists, review procedures, and guidelines, this comprehensive manual can help you to avoid the pitfalls of miscommunication, omission, and faulty execution that can mean the difference between your success and failure. Taking you step by step through each phase of the development process, the book shows you how to: Assemble and manage your restaurant development team Prepare a marketable business plan to use when seeking financial backing Approach site evaluation, budgets, scheduling, and more Write a detailed operational plan of how the restaurant will function Prepare an effective design program to fulfill your operational requirements Coordinate key elements of planning and design Manage the construction phase, pre-opening activities, and follow-upNo matter what your business background--catering, marketing, management, or finance--this self-contained guide is one resource you will not want to be without.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This unique collection of the writings of Rudolf Klein - historian, journalist, political scientist and policy analyst - represents the products of his career as an observer of politics and society over the last four decades.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book engages with the politics of social and environmentaljustice, and seeks new ways to think about the future ofurbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishesfoundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place andnature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted andrepresented through social practices, not as separate elements butin relation to each other. It describes how geographicaldifferences are produced, and shows how they then becomefundamental to the exploration of political, economic andecological alternatives to contemporary life.The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes theproblematic nature of action and analysis at different scales oftime and space, and introduces the reader to the modes ofdialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout theremainder of the work. Part II examines how 'nature' and'environment' have been understood and valued in relation toprocesses of social change and seeks, from this basis, to makesense of contemporary environmental issues.Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography andculture, explores the meaning of the social 'production' of spaceand time, and clarifies problems related to 'otherness' and'difference'. The final part of the book deploys the foundationalarguments the author has established to consider contemporaryproblems of social justice that have resulted from recent changesin geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in thepace and quality of urbanization.Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a widereadership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory andof the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincingdemonstration that it is both possible and necessary to valuedifference and to seek a just social order.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces students to the practice of reading scripture theologically and shows how explicitly theological concerns can be brought to bear on the interpretation of scripture. While the volume offers some methodological essays, it does not lay out a single method; it points to the variety of questions that can and have been raised about interpreting scripture theologically.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stereotyping - the process of perceiving and reacting to people in terms of their group membership - is a widespread phenomenon, and one of the most widely investigated topics in social psychology. This new book is about the causes and consequences of stereotyping. It begins from the premise that, in order to understand the nature and function of stereotyping, it is essential to understand its role in, and relationship to, the activities of social groups. In so doing, it provides an alternative to more cognitive approaches that regard stereotyping primarily as a bias produced by the limits of individual information processing. The contributors debate and challenge a range of traditional beliefs about stereotyping by exploring its social functions in intergroup contexts. They also tackle a range of thorny problems in sterotyping and related literatures: including the question of sterotype accuracy, why stereotypes develop and are widely shared, and how stereotypes and sterotyping impact upon people's self-esteem and self-definition. In short, this book examines how stereotypes are structured by social identities and the relations between groups.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Credit Union Investment Management provides an in-depth examination of the methods executives use to achieve investment objectives and maximize returns on invested capital, while measuring and minimizing risk. Complete coverage includes: detailed features of investment vehicles, yield measures and their limitations, total return analysis, and stress testing.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedgingand arbitrage for professional traders and money managersWatch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The authors have done an admirable job.This book is a revealing and fascinating glimpse of the technologies which may rule the financial world in the years to come. --The Financial Times, February 1997 [This] new book looks at the progress made, both in practice and in theory, toward producing a usable model of the market. Some of the theoretical foundations of efficient market theory are being demolished.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second, fully revised edition of this best-selling handbook features wide ranging, updated overviews of developments worldwide by leading international specialists of developments worldwide from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia as well as ccontributions on all aspects of HRM practice including, for the first time in this edition, chapters on HRM in public sector organizations, its role in the development of business ethics, and HRM in Information technology. The cases retain updated studies of Ford, Sainsbury and the controversial Rosyth Royal Dockyard as well as new cases of teamworking in an electronics multinational and two studies from Ghana and Korea on the impact of national culture on management.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive theoretical and practical presentation on theassessment and treatment of adult children of alcoholics. In Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics, renowned psychologist,researcher, and author Stephanie Brown develops an in-depth,integrated theory linking childhood experiences with an alcoholicparent to developmental difficulties. She emphasizes the importanceof the traumatic family environment and provides rich clinicaldescriptions, linking systems theory and literature of thehandicapped to the experience of children of alcoholics. Dr. Brown connects environmental issues with individualdevelopment. She details the defensive maneuvers required to copewith an alcoholic parent and explores their impact on thedevelopment of the self. Finally, she outlines the process ofrecovery, continuing to emphasize the link between environment andindividual development. She traces the recovery process from itsfirst step--admitting parental alcoholism--through thereconstruction of personal identity based on incorporating therealities of parental alcoholism into a new vision of theself. For mental health professionals, alcoholism counselors, graduatestudents, recovering alcoholics and their families, and adultchildren of alcoholics, Treating Adult Children of Alcoholicsprovides a clear understanding of the impact of parental alcoholismon the developing child. It also opens the door to a solid,realistic course of treatment that offers hope to thousands ofadult children of alcoholics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Das Umweltrecht nimmt an Umfang und Bedeutung zu, die Terminologie wird immer technischer und für den Laien undurchschaubarer. Für die juristische Praxis ist es jedoch unerläßlich, der Beweisführung Sachverständiger folgen zu können und möglichst auch die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen jedes Falles zu durchdringen. Dieses Nachschlagewerk erklärt Termini und Konzepte mit vielen Diagrammen, Tabellen und Abbildungen, ohne naturwissenschaftliche Kenntnisse vorauszusetzen.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. As well as being of wide general interest, this book will appeal to students of the Roman Empire and of the history of religion.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive practical guide to understanding and solving seepageand drainage problems Now in its third edition, this unique resource offers simplemethods for analyzing and designing seepage and groundwater controlsystems for all major types of civil engineering works. Completewith solid coverage of seepage principles and flow netconstruction, this book is an invaluable aid to engineeringprofessionals and students in mastering this vital subject. Seepage, Drainage, and Flow Nets, Third Edition, features: \* Clear explanations of Darcy's law, permeability, and other coreconcepts \* Seepage analyses and drainage designs for earth dams, levees,foundations, earth slopes, roads, airfields, streets, parking lots,and more \* Information on contemporary topics, including 'wick' drains,'fin' drains, and the protection of groundwaters from contamination \* An assessment of computer solutions to seepage and drainageproblems \* Over 100 examples of flow nets, ranging from the simple to thecomplex --accompanied by step-by-step instructions \* Useful chapter references to facilitate further study.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unifies the field of optimization with a few geometric principles.The number of books that can legitimately be called classics in their fields is small indeed, but David Luenberger's Optimization by Vector Space Methods certainly qualifies. Not only does Luenberger clearly demonstrate that a large segment of the field of optimization can be effectively unified by a few geometric principles of linear vector space theory, but his methods have found applications quite removed from the engineering problems to which they were first applied. Nearly 30 years after its initial publication, this book is still among the most frequently cited sources in books and articles on financial optimization.The book uses functional analysis --the study of linear vector spaces --to impose simple, intuitive interpretations on complex, infinite-dimensional problems. The early chapters offer an introduction to functional analysis, with applications to optimization. Topics addressed include linear space, Hilbert space, least-squares estimation, dual spaces, and linear operators and adjoints. Later chapters deal explicitly with optimization theory, discussing Optimization of functionals Global theory of constrained optimization Local theory of constrained optimization Iterative methods of optimization.End-of-chapter problems constitute a major component of this book and come in two basic varieties. The first consists of miscellaneous mathematical problems and proofs that extend and supplement the theoretical material in the text; the second, optimization problems, illustrates further areas of application and helps the reader formulate and solve practical problems.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Application of heat to clay transforms it into a ceramic, and thus the history and technical features of structures supplying that heat - kilns - are of considerable importance. The 14 chapters in this volume discuss ancient and historic kilns from the viewpoint of their excavation, their operational principles, and their contributions to an understanding of ceramic production within ancient economies.…