wiley apr 1992 (76 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How long is the world's longest earthworm How tall was a brachiosaurus What's the average diameter of human hair What's the circumference of the earth at the equator Now you can discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about math. Packed with illustrations, Math for Every Kid uses simple problems and activities to teach you about measurements, fractions, graphs, problem solving, and much more! Using activities that relate math to everyday life, this book will help you feel comfortable with math--right from the start. You'll make a sun clock, create a thermometer from a straw, race a paper boat, grow your own bean plant, and even play a game of ring the bottle. Each of the many problems and activities is broken down into its purpose, a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an easy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom or at home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave: Astronomy for Every Kid Biology for Every Kid Chemistry for Every Kid Dinosaurs for Every Kid Earth Science for Every Kid Geography for Every Kid Geometry for Every Kid The Human Body for Every Kid Physics for Every Kid.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here is a book for the nine out of ten people who will eventually suffer from serious foot ailments. Written by a leading podiatrist, it provides the latest advances in treating and preventing foot problems and injuries--including the newest pain-free surgical techniques and laser surgery.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Builds on what you already know about communications as a basis for becoming an expert in getting messages out to your own marketplace. In-depth coverage explains how to create, manage and produce cost effective advertising, publicity, brochures, catalogs and public relations events. Provides succinct guidelines, step-by-step checklists, easy-to-use charts, money-saving tips for budgets of all sizes and real-world examples which demonstrate the concepts in action.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This practical change manual reveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change, using illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself. 'The indispensable leadership handbook for men and women who must manage the massive change, complexity, and opportunity that mark our time.'-Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, The Peter Drucker Foundation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Addressing parents and teachers, this straightforward exploration of motivation for learning as a lifelong trait is a significant contribution to the understanding of a complex process.' --Publishers Weekly.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents 101 simple math problems and experiments intended to introduce basic mathematical principles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Penned by a renowned naturalist, scientist and TV personality, it explores the fascinating world of insects. Packed with illustrations and full of amazing facts'' about moths, butterflies, bees, beetles, ants, spiders and many more of nature's smaller creatures.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intended to develop the essential selling skills needed to effectively market the broad range of credit and noncredit services banks now offer. Assist bankers in their roles as financial consultants to their customers. Updated and revised, it offers bankers a framework they can use to assess their sales effectiveness, improve their post-sales-call evaluation, and recover during a call.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This major introductory textbook examines the political and economic dimensions of twentieth-century industrialised societies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Behavioural Theory of the Firm has become a classic work in organizational theory, and is one of the most significant contributions to improving the theory of the firm. This second edition includes new material which puts the original text in a contemporary context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is a landmark in two fields. It is a practical guide to the reform of professional education. It is also a beacon to theoretical thinking about human organizations, about their interdepAndence with the social structure of the professions, and about theory in practice.'--Journal of Higher Education'This is a fundamentally important book. It strikes directly to the heart of real education--changing behavior.'--Administrative Science Quarterly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Should save graduate students years, pain, and money.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book reveals the common patterns adults experience in their careers, relationships, and development. The authors show how, by gaining an understanding of these patterns in their own lives, adults can find new meaning in their existence, work through problems, and explore opportunities for growth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Offering rich stories and insights from business, Quinn explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The aim of this book is to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of teaching language for communication. It is written primarily for teachers who wish to adopt a communicative approach and would like to reflect on the principles that underlie it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shows HRD professionals how to use a range of marketing tools, including client research, cost/benefit analyses, and promotional techniques, to heighten the visibility of HRD, earn employee commitment to programs, and ensure that programs are cost-effective and contribute to the corporate bottom line. Step by step, explains how to develop and implement a comprehensive strategic marketing plan.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Boom, bust, growth, stagnation, inflation. Every stage or season of the business cycle--including recession--has its own profitable investment strategy. The All-Season Investor is an invaluable handbook for anyone who's trying to make the most of their investments--no matter what the economic climate. The All-Season Investor shows you how allocating assets among several investment categories should be your cornerstone of a successful investment strategy for the '90s. You'll begin with a general introduction to asset allocation. The importance of diversification in successful asset allocation is discussed. The role of securities and mutual funds in the asset allocation mix is examined. And you'll learn how to earn above-average return by adding compounding and risk management to the mix. The All-Season Investor shows you how to read changes in the economic climate, the bond market, the stock market, and the index of leading economic indicators like a pro. This complete guide to modern methods of asset allocation shows you how to assess the economic climate on the basis of those figures and formulate a strategy for success using that knowledge. You'll learn how to track the business cycle--stage by stage--and how to identify cycle benchmarks that let you know when to make your moves. There's information on where gold fits into the cycle, and when it should be owned--or avoided. And detailed appendices offer analyses of the bond and stock markets as well as a historical analysis of market performance during each of the six stages. Let leading investment advisor and bestselling author Martin Pring show you the way to investor independence. Unsettling economic conditions need not prevent youfrom seizing control of your financial destiny. The All-Season Investor is packed with practical, straightforward methods for allocating assets that let you meet your personal investment goals.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to think about the learning society and how we are going to plan for it now and in the future.' --Adult LearningThis landmark work synthesizes the research and theory concerning adult learners and analyzes their potential impact on educational institutions. Includes a new preface.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays assesses the influence of Heidegger on 20th-century western thought. They also seek to show how Heidegger approached the ideas of being, mind, action and language, and explore the ways in which his thought relates to current philosophical inquiry.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shows entrepreneurs how to start up and run their own successful, self-replicating network--from picking the right product or service, to managing one's time, to tax and legal considerations. Also shows how to train and motivate network members, set goals, make sales, and maximize income.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The methods, instruments, and technologies used to manage risk in the foreign exchange markets are more complex than ever before. Banks, corporations, and financial institutions today must adopt new roles in order to compete successfully in the explosively evolving foreign exchange markets. Focusing on the new global electronic markets, Treasury Operations and the Foreign Exchange Challenge is a complete, practical introduction to today's foreign exchange operations, providing the techniques and insights needed to pinpoint opportunities and control risks. It shows how trading systems, computer-based models, and other analytical tools can be used to examine financial opportunities and help develop sound investment and hedging decisions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of Rowan's papers draws together in one volume his ideas and observations on a variety of theoretical and practical aspects of humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy. Throughout the text, the author has placed an emphasis on the social context within which all takes place.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this much-praised book, Edward Lawler offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. He details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high-involvement organizations really work at such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Xerox. And he shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups.'One of the strengths of Lawler's book is its readiness to confront directly the sort of questions that really worry most top managers.' --Financial Times.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Not only examines how to analyze industry structure and how to determine your company's competitive position within it, but also details how to use such analysis in order to gain the competitive edge by anticipating or changing the rules of the game--even changing the game itself. Provides clear, concise solutions to some major problems such as how to describe and communicate a strategy and how to determine what's feasible and what's not, depending on your company's position. Packed with case studies from such industries as AT&T, Federal Express, United Airlines and more.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mark Bookman provides nonprofit leaders with a comprehensive examination of federal, state, and local laws affecting nonprofit organizations, and recommends actions they can take to protect their organization's tax-exempt status. Using case studies extensively, the author explains such crucial matters as preparing for an IRS audit, reporting unrelated business income, responding to claims of unfair competition, and fighting challenges to nonprofits' property tax exemptions. Protecting Your Organization's Tax-Exempt Status demonstrates how federal tax law applies to specific segments of the nonprofit sector, discusses actual IRS audits of nonprofits, provides examples of how nonprofits have made their case for property tax exemption, shows how nonprofits can develop positive community relations, and reviews congressional hearings on federal tax exemptions for nonprofits.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first edition of Microbial Physiology achieved sales in excess of 5,700 copies (with strong US support) and earned the reputation of being the most up-to-date and concise introduction to the physiology of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. This new edition maintains that reputation. Written primarily for undergraduate students in microbiology, the text offers a detailed description of the basic areas of microbial structure and metabolism and also covers the dynamic aspects of growth, control and development of microorganisms T There have been significant advances in the understanding of the eukaryotic genome and this new edition takes into account the implications of this for the biochemistry of morphogenesis in the microbial life cycle. Coverage of the new developments is supported by the addition of a large number of new illustrations. This revised and rewritten text is currently the only publication to offer comprehensive coverage of this subject at this level. Areas covered in the new edition include: Chemical cytology of the microbial cell; Growth and death; Substrate uptake and entry to the cell; Energy production; Monomer synthesis; Polymer synthesis and metabolism; Regulation; Morphogenesis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Profiling has been acknowledged as a major contribution to the treatment of language disorder. First developed with reference to grammatical disability, profiling is extended in this book to cover segmental phonology, prosody and semantics. The book also includes a revised version of the grammatical profiling procedure, LARSP.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The global significance of tourism as an economic, environmental, and social force has never been greater. Modern methods of transportation enable growing numbers of people to travel to almost any area of the world; in the developed world, travel is now regarded as a right, rather than a privilege.Based on proven marketing principles, Marketing Tourism Destinations defines tourism and its 'product' and examines the nature of tourist businesses, with an emphasis on planning for tourism development. Comprehensive, readable chapters discuss such topics as: Regional goal and strategy formulation The strategic marketing planning framework Environment and resource analysis Target marketing and regional positioning strategy Regional marketing mix strategyand more, with cases and examples applicable to different parts of the world.From its thorough introduction, through each extensively referenced section to the final summary chapter with its valuable recommendations for regional tourism organizations, Marketing Tourism Destinations is an important step forward in the literature of tourism marketing and planning.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There are two components crucial to success in trading: the effectiveness of the system used and the money management skills of the trader. Yet, as important as money management is, comparatively little has been written about it. Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders is the first practical work to appear on this subject in years. Comprehensive in scope yet simple in its approach, it's the first modern hands-on guide to money management that shows you how to measure and limit risk--without compromising the huge potential for earnings that makes the futures market so attractive. It explains how to leverage intelligently. And it illustrates, with examples, how to harness the laws of probability to improve your odds of success. Best of all, Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders takes you beyond theory to offer proven, original techniques and strategies that work in today's turbulent markets. A key focus of the book is its clear explanation of why most traders lose at the futures game and why most mechanical trading systems are doomed to failure. As a practical alternative, it applies the rules of probability to trading. It shows you how to make stop-loss orders work for, not against, you. It also demonstrates how diversification, when properly executed, can significantly limit your risk. An indispensable tool for futures traders, including novice traders with little or no background in finance or probability, Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders deals with a subject no trader in today's markets can afford to overlook.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In origin, this book is the second edition of Fundamentals of Aquatic Ecosystems. However, it is not simply an update, and is thoroughly modified to become a new and very different book.