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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Because You Can't Take it with You Getting Started in Estate Planning 'I think it's irritating that once I die, 55% of my money goes to the United States government. When you leave a house or money to people, then they're taxed 55%, so you've got to leave them enough so that once they're taxed, they still have some money.' -- Oprah Winfrey (from The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 1999) Few of us are as rich as Oprah, but whether your estate consists of an old Ford Thunderbird, your beloved dog, or millions of dollars in property and cash, in most cases, it will be left behind after you're gone. As baby boomers approach retirement age and 401 (k) plans, stock options, and inherited wealth continue their dramatic growth, estate planning is increasingly necessary. Unless of course, you are content to leave your assets to your silent heir--the IRS. Getting Started in Estate Planning helps you take control of the planning process by sharing easy to-understand, proven strategies that everyone can use, either alone or with a professional planner, to protect their heirs for the future. Personal finance columnist Kerry Hannon helps you stop procrastinating and start establishing your goals, with guidance on such critical issues as: \* Determining the best way to dispose of your assets--and take care of your liabilities \* Deciding who should receive what--and when \* Providing for the care of minor children \* Lowering taxes so your heirs get the maximum benefits of your estate \* Choosing executors \* Surrendering ownership of assets \* Making your wishes known \* Special situations, including those of gay and lesbian couples and small business owners \* Ruling from the grave--when to let go \* Making changes as you go along Filled with accessible strategies that are useful for all ages, Getting Started in Estate Planning will help you ensure that today's assets go where you want them to go tomorrow.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them From Behind is acommon sense guide for moms and dads of talented and giftedchildren. In this practical book, authors Dr. Ian Tofler andTheresa Geronimo--experts in the field of parenting--present theirSeven-Step Program for Encouraging and Protecting High-AchievingChildren. This innovative program offers guidance for establishinghealthy boundaries between parents' ambitions and the needs oftheir talented children and clear-cut instructions for helpingchildren balance achievement with happiness. To read Debating What is Best for Our Children, an excerpt fromthis book,click here.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - According to psychologist Blaine Fowers, the myth of marital happiness-that good communication, emotional gratification, and intimacy result in a healthy relationship-has made marriages more fragile than ever before and we must let it go. Does this mean that we should give up on love, satisfaction, intimacy, emotional support, good communication, and good sex in marriage That marriage must be continued solely on the basis of grim commitment That no one should divorce Not at all. Instead, Dr. Fowers shows how we can re-envision marriage as a wonderful opportunity to practice the virtues of friendship, loyalty, generosity, and justice in the shared pursuit of our deepest ideals.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles and extensive applications are presented.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this innovative, practical guide, Alvin H. Reiss shows howdozens of organizations have developed creative strategies fortackling the real-life fundraising, marketing, and managementchallenges that nonprofits face every day. In an easy-to-follow format, Reiss introduces a real Challengefaced by a nonprofit, guides readers through the steps theorganization took in developing a Plan to meet the challenge, andthen presents the Result of the organization's plan. The bookoffers accessible, adaptable strategies for dealing with a broadspectrum of nonprofit concerns, such as increasing attAndance atspecial events, stepping up board involvement in fundraising, andhandling negative press. Throughout the book, Reiss poses thepractical questions readers need to answer in order to apply thecase study strategies to their own organizations' experience.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Führungskräfte brauchen ein zuverlässiges, handliches und übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk, das ihnen dabei hilft, angesichts der heutigen Informationsflut die benötigte Information schnell zu finden. Gesucht werden z.B. Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Wie führt man ein effektives Bewerbungsgespräch, wie setzt man Veränderungen am Arbeitsplatz um, wie bekommt man Streß in den Griff, wie findet man kreative Problemlösungen, wie leitet man effektive Meetings und wie gestaltet man optisch attraktive Präsentationen Diese und andere Themen werden in 'The Smart Manager's FAQ Guide' ausführlich behandelt.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advance Praise for The Masterbrand Mandate 'The Masterbrand Mandate is an exceptional book that successfully demonstrates why it is the responsibility of the entire enterprise, led by senior management, to drive the masterbrand throughout the company as a critical part of its strategy.' -Bruce L. Claflin President and COO, 3Com Corporation 'The Masterbrand Mandate shows why successful brands must both reflect and guide the organizational values, culture, and business strategy in this Internet age. It is a now book that anyone managing an organization should read.' -David Aaker Vice Chairman, Prophet Brand Strategy and Coauthor of Brand Leadership 'The Masterbrand Mandate is a superb read for anyone involved in the management or building of brands.' -Steven McMillan President and COO, Sara Lee Corporation 'The Masterbrand Mandate is on the money-literally and figuratively! Both visionary and practical, it successfully tackles the modern challenges of brand-building head-on. This book is an invaluable guide for designing breakthrough brand strategies in the new economy.' -Kevin Lane Keller E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Dartmouth College 'Lynn Upshaw and Earl Taylor have written an extraordinary blueprint for building a formidable enterprise-wide masterbrand. Every CEO-and everyone who hopes to be a CEO-should read this book.' -Charles Brymer Group Chief Executive, Interbrand Corporation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Marilyn Bancel has written a highly accessible, readable guide toa very complex process, which is no mean feat. Even if you havebeen through a capital campaign before and think you're ready-andespecially if you're new to the capital campaign process-read it!Preparing Your Capital Campaign provides valuable insights andpractical planning tools that will bolster your capacity to take ona campaign's challenge.' --Clara Miller, president, Nonprofit Finance Fund In this hands-on workbook, fund raising expert Marilyn Bancel showsyou how to prepare your organization to embark on a successfulcapital campaign, detailing each step that must be taken before thelaunch. Preparing Your Capital Campaign--part of the Excellence in FundRaising Workbook Series--breaks down the preparation stage intopractical, manageable parts, outlining in straightforward languagesuch essentials as creating a campaign timetable, setting up thecampaign committee, determining a campaign goal, and getting thewhole organization ready for a fund raising drive. Packed withuseful resources, this nuts-and-bolts workbook includes a campaignskills checklist, strategies for estimating fund raising costs, asample campaign budget, and a list of Web sites tailored to thespecific needs of fund raisers. If you are brand-new to fund raising, the book offers a conciseintroductory chapter that lays out the basics and answers the keyquestions about capital campaigns. More experienced fund raiserswill benefit from a wealth of reminders for avoiding commonmistakes and a framework for staying focused on the factors thatare most important for success. Preparing Your Capital Campaignwill show you how to make the most of this critical fund raisingstrategy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty s substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called 'the most interesting philosopher alive.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for the First Edition of Virtual Teams'If you want to see where organizational communications are going in the future, heed what these pioneers have written today.' -Howard Rheingold, author, The Virtual Community, and founder, Electric Mind'Lipnack and Stamps have written an important book for the twenty-first-century corporation.' -Regis McKenna, The McKenna Group, author, Relationship Marketing'This book provides a long overdue perspective on how to apply the discipline of real teams in the fast-moving, increasingly dispersed information age of the future.' -Jon R. Katzenbach, author, The Wisdom of Teams'For those who want to lead the movement, catch up with it, or simply know where it is going, this book is packed with useful information and interesting stories.' -Dee W. Hock, founder and chairman emeritus, VISA'Virtual Teams provides valuable insights into global teamwork and management through network technologies now available to all companies, large or small.' -Jim Lynch, director, corporate quality, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Die ist die 2. komplett überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage des maßgeblichen Buches zum Thema Management erfolgreicher virtueller Unternehmen. Jessica Lipnack und Jeffrey Stamps haben in ihren Vorträgen und Schriften die 90/10-Regel populär gemacht - 90% Menschen und 10% Technologie. Diese 2. Auflage konzentriert sich darauf, die Menschen in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen und beschreibt, wie virtuelles Arbeiten funktioniert. Alle Beispiele und Fallstudien der Erstausgabe wurden umfassend aktualisiert; neue sind hinzugekommen, so z.B. von Shell Oil, Motorola und Pfizer. Darüber hinaus wird der Zugriff auf Informationen der Autoren-Webseiten ermöglicht.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This exceptional collection, the third in the Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy series, explores the profound changes currently underway which will have significant implications for the future of social policy. New Risks, New Welfare provides a look at the likely developments in social policy and welfare that will occur in the twenty-first century. Taking an historical as well as a speculative perspective, this book looks at social change, types of welfare systems and changes in work - including welfare work - to navigate a likely course in the new millennium.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* Complete coverage of interpretation, test construction,applications, and reporting \* Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls \* Conveniently formatted for rapid reference Confidently acquire the knowledge and skills you need to conduct,interpret, apply, and report career interest assessments Essentials of Career Interest Assessment provides step-by-stepadvice for interpreting and using today's most popular careerinterest assessments, including the Strong Interest Inventory(TM),the Campbell(TM) Interest and Skill Survey, the Self-DirectedSearch, and other innovative career interest assessment tools.Providing essential information required to understand and evaluatethese valuable instruments, this book will help you acquire theconfidence and skills Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessmentseries, this book is designed to help busy professionals quicklyacquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use ofmajor psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapterfeatures numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulletedpoints, and extensive illustrative material, as well as testquestions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of theinformation covered. Advance Praise for essentials of career interest assessment 'Presents easy-to-read, key practical information on the mostpopular career interest assessments. The chapters are clear andconcise, presenting valuable information for professionals inapplied settings.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn how personal and organizational conflicts can be resolved by listening closely to the 'stories' people tell when they are in conflict, understanding why people tell their stories in the ways they do, and creating a third story that brings them together. This visionary book is written by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith, two renowned mediators, who have used the narrative structure method successfully in their own mediation practice to move people in conflict from stubbornness, hostility, and fear to openness, collaboration, and forgiveness. Focusing on the transformative power of stories, Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict includes an array of case studies from the authors' first-hand experience with thousands of clients. These case studies include the perspectives of all the parties in the conflict and cover a wide range of conflicts and disputes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sponsored by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, formerly known as theSupport Center for Nonprofit Management/ Nonprofit DevelopmentCenter Nothing can be more important to an organization's health andsuccess than the quality of its financial reporting. Thiscomprehensive guide is for all nonprofits that are required tocomply with financial reporting standards set by the IRS andthirty-five state charity regulators (Form 990), FASB and AICPA(GAAP), grantmakers, and the like. It shows how to unify financialreporting requirements without compromising the organization'saccuracy and accountability. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray argues that liberal thought has always contained two incompatible philosophies. In one, liberalism is a theory of a universal rational consensus, which enables the achievement of the best way of life for all humankind.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is one of the most coherent and comprehensive theories ofevaluation yet formulated and one that makes a most valuablecontribution. The authors are pioneering in important newdirections.' --Ernest R. House, author of Professional Evaluation and Evaluatingwith Validity 'This book is the best I've ever read detailing a practical theoryof evaluation. It is comprehensive, beautifully written, and makessense of the evaluation enterprise. It does so by emphasizing themajor function of evaluation as sense-making about policies andprograms.' --Thomas D. Cook, professor, sociology, psychology, education, andpublic policy, Northwestern University Programs that serve the needs of the public continually facechanges brought by social, political, and economic forces. Tosurvive these changes, organizations must evaluate their programswisely and realistically. This book offers a new approach toevaluation, one that will encourage all kinds of organizations andagencies to improve their contributions to social betterment. Theauthors draw from three decades of evaluation practice and theoryto present their own framework for conceptualizing evaluation andfor pragmatically assessing social policies and programs. They analyze four purposes of evaluation: \* To review the merit of programs and their value to society \* To improve the organization and its services \* To ensure program compliance with mandates \* To build knowledge and expertise for future programs For the practitioner, these purposes help define the approach andmethods for an evaluation. The authors also enrich their discussionwith four possible modes of inquiry: description, classification,causal analysis, and values inquiry. Filled with tables, charts,and figures, this resource invites organizations to make the mostappropriate programming decisions based on thoughtful andsystematic methods. Evaluation: An Integrated Framework forUnderstanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs is atool that scholars can use to rejuvenate their view of evaluationand that practitioners can use to integrate the best techniqueswith a contemporary understanding of social policy and change.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by Anthony Kenny, a leading figure in contemporary philosophy, this volume guides the reader through a concise and accessible explanation and assessment of Frege s radical and lasting contributions to our understanding of language, meaning, and the foundations of arithmetic.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In today's volatile markets, managing risk is more important than ever. Investors are looking for downside protection while maintaining good returns--and market-neutral investing has become one of the hottest methods to meet that need. In this book, industry expert Joseph G. Nicholas explores new approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction through market-neutral strategies. Market-neutral investments are attractive because they have produced substantially better risk-adjusted returns than the market during the past ten years. The complexities created by the combination of longs, shorts, and leverage, however, make market-neutral strategies very different from conventional investments. Getting to know how these strategies work involves breaking them down into their basic components and then examining how those parts interact as a system with specific behavior characteristics. This book examines eight key strategies, revealing the source of their past returns and giving the investor tools with which to measure the possibility of repeat performance. Nicholas draws extensively on his company's database of overthree thousandhedge funds and from the daily portfolio analysis conducted for hedge fund portfolios. He has also incorporated extensive input and actual investment examples provided by managers and practitioners of each of the strategies discussed in the book. This is the one book that looks at market-neutral strategies head-on, assessing those that have worked and some notable ones that have failed--and explaining why. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Market-Neutral Investing is an invaluable guide for professional investors.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Makes Adorno's lectures on metaphysics available for the first time to English-speaking readersExamines the history of metaphysics from modern to classical timesAn ideal introduction to the central preoccupations of Adorno's difficult masterpiece, Negative Dialectics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by some of the world's leading academics and professionals in the field, this collection of essays brings together two complementary views on child development - the role of society and the role of cognitive growth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a cross-cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. With such a wide geographic and chronological scope, Slavery will provoke historians and sociologists to make new connections and see old problems in a fresh light. Turley analyses three key themes in the history of slavery: the social and economic importance of slavery within societies, the experience of slavery by both the slaves and those who control them, and the means by which slavery was reproduced and maintained in different societies. Employing this thematic approach, Turley acknowledges the historical diversity of slavery and develops two models of slave societies - those in which slavery was primarily a domestic institution (societies with slaves) and in those in which it was the mode of production on which the dominant group depended for its position (slave societies). The book also explains how slavery was maintained by discussing the role of race, ethnicity and religious differences in the functioning of slave systems. Turley completes this wide-ranging analysis of slavery by examining emancipation, showing that both the early modern expansion of slavery and its ending were paradoxically connected to different phases of European imperialism. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of the end .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This engaging story of an eighteenth century Scottish laird whose brief arranged marriage was annulled on the grounds of his mental capacity - which seen through modern eyes can be identified as autism. It is a story of villainy and innocence, and provides a fascinating historical context to which the latest theories on autism are applied.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This important book charts the development of philosophical thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder, Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy.An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Self and Society explores the ways in which society, culture, and history affect how we define our experiences and ourselves. This reader contains 24 essays divided into four topical sections: the social construction of reality, sociology of thought and emotions, the self in social context, and interaction and inequality. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first and only book to provide an introduction to the fundamental theoretical issues of phrase structure in the Principles & Parameters approach to syntax. It provides both in depth analyses of basic phrase structure concepts and detailed examinations of different theoretical positions from within the Principles & Parameters tradition.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book builds on the success of Glanville Price s The Languages of Britain , published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, reliable and comprehensive survey of the great number of languages that have at one time or another taken root in Britain.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The purpose of the book is to set up a framework for discussions on social and technical issues of online communities. Designing usability and supporting sociability lays a solid foundation on which online communities can grow and thrive. Intended for both students and computer professionals, the book addresses the development of new online communities as well as the improvement of existing ones. It is divided into two parts - Getting Acquainted with Online Communities and Developing Online Communities - along with a preface and a concluding chapter which explores the future of online communities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy, Robert E. Kuenne packages postwar classics with contemporary discussions to examine the impact of social welfare theory on policy development. The book introduces students to frameworks developed by scholars to monitor the market's inefficiencies, to modify its income distribution and resource allocation, and to make decisions for social investment. The readings cover practical issues of national and international concern, such as income and wealth distribution, the measurement of social welfare, recent movements in government regulation theory and practice, the economics of drug prohibition, and the role of the public's risk aversion in the determination of public investment. This book and its complement, Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions, are part of the Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics series.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Building on nearly eighty years of scientific work, The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence is the first definitive resource that brings together a stellar panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners, in the field. Sweeping in scope, the text presents information on the most important conceptual models, reviews and evaluates the most valid and reliable methods for assessing emotional intelligence, and offers specific guidelines for applying the principles of Emotional Intelligence in a variety of settings.…