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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The next best thing to having an experienced Greyhound owner living with you.' -Joan Belle Isle, President, Greyhound Project 'Anyone who reads this book and follows its guidance will have a happier, healthier dog and be a happier, more relaxed dog owner.' -Hal and Karen Hawley, Greyhound Friends Northwest The Greyhound has been celebrated in song and legend for thousands of years. Nowadays, Greyhounds are bred almost exclusively for racing. In the bad old days, prior to the 1980s, dogs that didn't make the grade at the track, and those past their primes, were destroyed. According to official estimates, 60,000 of these noble, mild-mannered dogs were destroyed each year! Fortunately, a number of organizations now exist devoted to rescuing these unwanted dogs and placing them in good homes. Thinking about adopting a retired racing Greyhound Or maybe you're already sharing your life with one of these charming animals. Either way, this friendly guide tells you everything you need to know to: Understand the Greyhound personalityFind a retired racing Greyhound to adoptChoose the right ex-racer for you and your familyEducate yourself and your retired racerGive your new pal the diet and exercise it needsKeep your dog healthy and happy for years to come With plenty of good humor and straight-talk, Lee Livingood drawing on her forty-years of experience training adult rescue dogs to cover all the pros and cons of being a retired racing Greyhound owner, and she fills you in on: The amazing 8000-year history of the GreyhoundDeciding whether an ex-racer is the right do for you and your familyPhysical and behavioral characteristicsHow to get a retired racer used to living in a home and be a companionDealing with common behavioral and health problemsFeeding, grooming, and exercising a GreyhoundFun things to do with your hound Bursting with expert advice on all aspects of living with an ex-racer, Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies is must reading for anyone considering adoption or who's already taken the leap.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sponsored by the International Network of Principals' Centers'This unique book leads to higher levels of student performance by providing a thoughtful context and practical framework for understanding the potential of technology to enrich teaching and learning.' --Lois B. Cohn, IBM certified business transformation consultant 'At last educators have a resource that offers a user-friAndly approach to applying technology to student learning and organizational growth.' --Judith R. Fox, superintendent of schools, Byram Hills School District, Armonk, New York The push for higher educational standards and greater accountability has increased the demand for better information on the progress of schools and their students. Yet few schools and districts have the technological infrastructure to gather useful and credible data. This timely volume explores the ways in which educators can use technology to improve academic environments, school operations, and learning outcomes. From the classroom to the school district, Information Technology for Schools presents successful approaches to using technology to serve different educational priorities. The contributing authors discuss the challenge of planning integrated information systems, establishing benchmarks to measure overall progress, and harnessing technology to improve curriculum and teaching practice. They highlight practical questions for educational stakeholders and provide sound advice on building effective information technology systems. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The buzz about The ebay Phenomenon 'David Bunnell's portrayal of eBay paints a picture of one of the most daring, fanatically innovative, customer-centric companies on the planet. It demonstrates how a small, driven group of people can listen to customers and reinvent the world-inspiring!'-David Siegel, author, Futurize Your Enterprise 'Read The eBay Phenomenon if you want the inside account of how this innovative company became one of the decade's greatest business success stories. Regardless of what business you're in, David Bunnell's exciting chronicle offers valuable lessons and a riveting narrative.'-Eric Nee, Senior Writer, Fortune; Mehr als 10 Millionen Nutzer in 90 Ländern und eine Million Auktionen täglich - das ist eBay, das weltweit größte Online-Handelsunternehmen. Aufmerksame Manager und Unternehmer erkennen, wie sehr dieses Unternehmen die Geschäftswelt beeinflußt hat mit der Erfindung einer ganz neuen Industrie und seinem sensationell-originellen Beispiel für den Internethandel. Dieses Buch ergründet die Dynamik und die Strategien, die eBay zu einem der profitabelsten E-Commerce Unternehmen weltweit gemacht haben. Es enthüllt, wie Kunden ihren Schnitt gemacht haben und von jener Internetadresse profitierten, die alles handelt - von der Briefmarke bis zur Limousine. High-Tech Guru David Bunnell analysiert Philosophie und Funktionweise eines digitalen Riesen und ermöglicht einen unvergleichlichen Einblick in ein Unternehmen, das beständig neue Wege findet, Konkurrenten auszustechen und enge E-Gemeinschaften zu knüpfen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Durch die zunehmend härter werdende Wettbewerbssituation müssen Unternehmen ständig neue Wege finden, um immer größerem Termin- und Innovationsdruck gerecht zu werden. Zu diesem Zweck setzen Unternehmen Projektteams ein, die verantwortlich sind für Planung und Umsetzung der wichtigsten Unternehmensziele. Doch die traditionellen Methoden der Teamarbeit sind für die neuen, grundlegend verschiedenen Anforderungen an diese Teams nicht mehr geeignet. 'The Radical Team Handbook' gibt Ihnen das Rüstzeug an die Hand, um einen radikal-neuen Teamstil einzuführen, der auf dem Lernen im Team basiert.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Organization in Crisis brings together a team of leading international researchers and practitioners to examine key issues associated with organizational change and suggest how such changes can be better managed in the future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of articles and cases helps readers develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that managers and human resource managers need for success when working in culturally diverse environments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Damn Right!From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .'Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual.' -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company'Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure.' -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America'For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger.' -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way'Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons.' -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp'Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful.'-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the concepts of clinical effectiveness, evidence based practise and clinical governance and discusses how these impact on everyday nursing practice. It considers what the term clinical effectiveness means and examines how it fits into the context of clinical governance. The book provides practical information on how to evaluate published research and looks at the implications for nurse education and continuing professional development. It also considers the implications for nursing, particularly their role and relationship with patients, and the need for multidisciplinary working. Finally the book provides some helpful resources and methods of tapping into health information.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* Complete coverage of administration, scoring, interpretation, andreporting \* Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls \* Conveniently formatted for rapid reference Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidentlyadminister, score, and interpret the Kaufman assessment tests The seven Kaufman measures include the Kaufman Adolescent and AdultIntelligence Test (KAIT); Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children(K-ABC); Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT); KaufmanFunctional Academic Skills Test (K-FAST); Kaufman ShortNeuropsychological Assessment Procedure (K-SNAP); Early ScreeningProfiles (ESP); and Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and LanguageSkills (K-SEALS). In order to use them properly, professionals needauthoritative advice and guidance on how to administer, score, andinterpret these tests. Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAITand Other Kaufman Measures is that source. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessmentseries, this book is designed to help busy mental healthpractitioners quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need tomake optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments.Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlightingkey concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material,as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce yourgrasp of the information covered. Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other KaufmanMeasures includes vital information about each of the seven Kaufmantests, including information on how to integrate the measures andrecommendations of related readings. In addition to step-by-stepguidance on test administration, scoring, and interpretation, theauthors provide their expert assessment of the tests' relativestrengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on their clinicalapplications, and several illuminating case reports. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessmentseries: Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment Essentials of Bayley Scales of Infant Development-IIAssessment Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment Essentials of Rorschach Assessment Essentials of Career Interest Assessment Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The extensively re-written and updated edition of this highly acclaimed text provides a synthesis of the latest research on the cognitive defects of dyslexia and reviews evidence concerning its biological bases.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Melanie Klein and her followers caused a revolution in psychology; this is the first book to bring together and describe their pioneering work. A The book is a highly engaging read, combining lively biographical sketches with psychoanalytic theory and patient case studies.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best new scholarship on what is arguably the most important American social movement of the twentieth century. Designed for students, the volume contains twelve essays and supporting primary documents arranged chronologically and by topic with a detailed timeline and further reading lists. Emphasizing the wide chronological and geographic scope of the movement, this collection provides a perfect source for teaching the movement with a fresh perspective and new ideas.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using the concepts and practices of feminist literary criticism, this constantly challenging workbook not only makes the connection between women s writing and women s lives but breaks new ground in enabling students to apply critical concepts and to feel more at ease with the texts common to feminist literary theory.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book has been produced on behalf of the National Association of Neurological Occupational Therapists (UK) and is intended to guide newly-qualified occupational therapists (and those new to the field of stroke) through the complexities of treating people following stroke. Writen and edited by practising occupational therapists, the book acknowledges the many different techniques that may be used in stroke management and the scope of the occupational therapy role in the UK. This book will provide occupational therapists with the foundations for effective occupational therapy in stroke rehabilitation.Written in a user-friendly style, the book's chapters are presented in a form that enables the therapist to review the subject prior to assessment and treatment planning. Complex problems are grouped together to avoid confusion. This book encourages therapists to use their skills in observation and problem solving, adapting and building on the techniques seen on clinical placement and taught in college.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The work of professionals with children with disabilities affects the children's family, while events at home affect what professionals can achieve with the children. This text describes how professionals can form collaborative relationships with the parents of the children in their care, to optimise the children's development and to enable both family members and professionals to work in the children's interests. It describes experiences of families who have a child with a disability and takes a new look at old assumptions that disability necessarily has a negative effect on families or that families themselves are in need of therapy simply by virtue of having a child with additional needs. This text offers practical insights and guidelines for action by teachers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech pathologists and psychologists. It is a practical text that enables practitioners to offer a high-quality service to children while supporting the family in its role of nurturing their child with special needs.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates how children's imagination makes a continuing contribution to their cognitive and emotional development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of twentieth-century philosophy and social theory.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman s writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. As a whole, this is not only a guide to Bauman s way of thinking, but a guide to making sense of our times through the major work of one of the most important figures in late-twentieth-century social thought.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examining the key events and institutions of the period, and exploring how and what we know about them, England Under Edward I and Edward II uses a wealth of artistic material to capture the atmosphere of late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth century England in all its colour and diversity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transnational Urbanism is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith forges original and stimulating connections between urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies. With original and extraordinary insight, he addresses the central question of how and why immigrants, refugees, political activists, and institutions locate and maintain social relations in light of transnational urbanism.Brings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies.Offers a blueprint for reconstructing urban theory itself .Forges stimulating connections between the field of urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies .…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an introduction to Stress Control Method, a psycho-educational, didactic approach to therapy for anxiety and stress which has been developed and used extensively by the author and his colleagues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The breadth of this book is astounding-they have taken so much ofwhat mediators do and put it all into just this one book.' -DianeNeumann, diane neumann&associates, divorce mediationservices What is mediation and why is it needed Who can become a mediator How can you incorporate mediation into your practice Are there anypitfalls The Practitioner's Guide to Mediation answers all of these criticalquestions and much more as it guides you through the process ofbreaking into this lucrative field. Written by the leading expertson the subject and founders of the Erickson Mediation Institute,this practical guidebook will provide you with all the informationyou'll need to incorporate mediation into your existing range ofservices and build a successful practice. Packed with helpfuladvice and tips, Erickson and McKnight clearly show you how toconfidently mediate family, divorce, and workplace disputes. Theyalso take you step-by-step through their client-centered approachso that you can develop new ways of thinking to resolve conflictsthat will benefit everyone.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book develops the ideas presented in Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book I: A Psycholinguistic Framework by focussing on how the information gathered within a psycholinguistic framework can be used to plan intervention for children with speech, wordfinding and phonological awareness problems. It illustrates how the psycholinguistic approach has been implemented in different contexts and with different cases through a series of practical activities and discussion of current research relevant to practice. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fundamental to all areas of mathematics, algebra provides the cornerstone for the student's development. The concepts are often intuitive, but some can take years of study to fully absorb. For over twenty years, the author's classic three-volume set, Algebra, has been regarded by many as the most outstanding introductory work available. This work, Classic Algebra, combines a fully updated Volume 1 with the essential topics from Volumes 2 and 3, and provides a self-contained introduction to the subject.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the science, management and practice of the control of infection. The early part of the book is concerned with the science of infection control, providing the underpinning knowledge base as well as information regarding the laboratory services which will be of practical help to the reader. The book then discusses the role of the Infection Control Team, outbreak control and policy issues that are required in order to maintain a safe environment. The second half of the book concentrates on the practical application of the previously described principles to the reduction of infection risks and management of known infections in a range of clinical and social situations. The book reflects the current dynamics in health care provision and will equip the reader with the knowledge base to develop their skills in the control of infection in a variety of healthcare settings.…