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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rich expose of twenty of the world's best team-based companies and a critical tool for anyone using teams as an integral part of reengineering initiatives. Each case history takes you behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the key practices used by such companies as Colgate-Palmolive, Miller Brewing Company, Texas Instruments, and Westinghouse Electric to successfully implement empowered teams--from gaining senior management support to designing team selection and training systems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Math skills you can count on! In this eagerly awaited sequel to the popular Rapid Math Tricks andTips, Professor Ed Julius shows you how to master difficultproblems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and divisionquickly, easily and without a calculator. And have fun while doingit! By learning one to two tricks a day for thirty days, you'll beamazed at the increase in your number power. Discover how you canquickly subtract by oversubtracting. Speed up your calculating withplace-value multiplication. See how to add in seconds by breaking anumber apart. More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips includes: \* Step-by-step examples to explain each technique \* Over 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises \* Challenging 'brain builders' to keep you on your toes \* Weekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress \* Fascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such asthe Amazing Age-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick Whether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout,reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on yourlatest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working withnumbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as wellas students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on aregular basis. 'Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitelyexcite the mind.' --Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra CanyonCollege Preparatory School, 'The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in myclassroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely anotherwinner!' --Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, aCalifornia/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department ofEducation Blue Ribbon Exemplary School. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the best techniques to maximize your sales Here is a proven, detailed selling system that gives you the toolsyou need to improve your sales results. Written by Jim Porterfield,an experienced marketing consultant, this accessible andeasy-to-follow guide shows you how to grab your listener'sattention over the phone--and effectively close the deals youwant. Fully updated to reflect the latest research about what reallyworks for telesellers, Teleselling is packed with examples, tips,and exercises that will help you: \* Design your own successful selling plan based on your strengthsand abilities \* Establish a call strategy \* Capture--and keep--a customer's undivided attention \* Develop techniques to improve your listening skills \* Decide when and how to ask for the order \* Close the deal Covering the ABCs of selling by phone, Teleselling will put you onthe right path to better results and increased sales success.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Build a thriving business while holding down a full-time job. Do you yearn to strike out on your own, take charge of yourdestiny, and create a better, more independent lifestyle foryourself Read this book and learn how to start your consultingbusiness while you still have the security of a regular job. Consulting on the Side is for the professional who longs forindependence but can't simply walk away from a steady paycheck andcompany health benefits. Successful consultant and business authorMary F. Cook shows you how to build a thriving consulting practicegradually, without leaving your full-time job. Drawing upon her ownexperiences and those of others who established successfulconsulting practices on the side, she covers all the bases andoffers sound, practical advice on everything from logistics tofinances, ethics to personal issues. You'll learn how to: \* Build a healthy client base while working a 9-to-5 job \* Market your services effectively without spending a fortune \* Respond to outside clients while staying productive at yourcurrent job \* Set fees and negotiate contracts \* Handle non-compete agreements and conflict-of-interest issues \* Develop an accounting/financial system that keeps your personaland business finances separate \* Set up and run a home office \* Learn to handle the stress of working two jobs \* Know when the time is right to quit your job and become afull-time consultant Consulting on the Side helps you realize your dreams of financialindependence without gambling with the job security you've workedso hard for.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I do not know whether I dozed off or passed out, but the nextthing I remember is gradually becoming aware of a blunt objectstriking my body over and over. Just as I realized it was a bootkicking me in the side, I felt my arm being grabbed roughly, and Ireturned to full consciousness. 'One GI had hold of my right arm, and another had his rifle pointedat me, nearly touching me. ''Don't move. We're taking you prisoner,' the one with the riflesaid.' On January 25, 1945, Private Ooka Shohei of the Japanese ImperialArmy was captured by American forces in the Philippines. Near deathfrom starvation and acute malaria, he was nursed back to health byhis captors and shipped off to a POW camp. Taken Captive is hispowerful and poignant account of life as a prisoner of war. Longregarded as a literary classic in Japan, this extraordinary memoiris appearing in English for the first time. There are no epic battles or grand scale heroics. This is anintimate, gripping, and ultimately enlightening true story of asophisticated, middle-aged scholar thrown into a primitive strugglefor survival. It is filled with moments of sublimeordinariness--prisoners passing time by playing '20 Questions'--andheartstopping encounters--a lone soldier decides whether or not toshoot an unsuspecting enemy soldier. The harsh conditions, the daily routines that occupy a prisoner'stime, and above all, the psychological struggles and behavioralquirks of captives forced to live in close confinement are conveyedwith devastating simplicity and candor. Throughout, the authorconstantly probes his own conscience, questioning motivations anddecisions. What emerges is a multileveled portrait of an individualdetermined to retain his humanity in an uncivilizedenvironment. In Taken Captive, Ooka Shohei provides much more than anunprecedented look at the POW experience from a Japanese point ofview. His stirring account offers a penetrating exploration ofJapanese society, and its values, as embodied by the microcosm ofhis fellow POWs. Recalling his wartime experiences, Ooka Shohei hascreated a brilliant work of rare honesty, insight, and emotionalsubtlety.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develop standard-setting customer service! Based on the best-selling book Fabled Service by BetsySanders! This program will help you develop exceptional customer servicethat puts your organization above your competition. InspiringFabled Service helps you assess your needs and select activities toimprove weak areas in your current customer service. Teach others vital customer service skills, such as how to: \* Positively represent the organization \* Satisfy customers so they will buy the product or service \* Encourage customers to return \* Understand what motivates people and initiates action \* Solve problems immediately and effectively. and more! Simply written, this program includes all necessary materials tocreate results-oriented, customized customer service training. ATrainer's Guide includes specific direction for administering theCustomer Service Survey, which assesses individual strengths andweaknesses in three learning areas: understanding him or herselfand others; planning for results; and product/service knowledge.The Guide also includes 12 prepared activities that correspond withthe three learning areas. Using results from the survey, you chooseactivities that will help your group improve in its weaker areas.Each activity specifies goals, materials needed, time required,physical setting, and process (including questions to help youreview what was learned and help people understand what can beapplied to every day situations). You will need to order a Participant Workbook for each personinvolved in the training. The Workbook includes a copy of thesurvey and participant materials for each activity. Create great service that gets customers talking.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exceptional job of refocusing the middle manager's role a mustread for practitioners and educators alike. --Jack Viega, editor, The Academy of Management Executives In their quest to become leaner, flatter, and reengineered,organizations have systematically cut out the very positions thatonce made them successful mid-level managers. In The StrategicMiddle Manager,management experts Steven Floyd and Bill Wooldridgedraw on a decade of research involving over 250 middle managers todemonstrate that the success of future organizations restsdecisively on strong middle management. The authors present the tools managers need to: \* Redefine their roles \* Increase their strategic value \* Secure their futures \* Identify the top performers in the ranks.and much more! Far from lacking perspective, middle managers have a unique,pivotal perspective that places them at the forefront oforganizational change. They can play the role of champion,synthesizer, facilitator, and implementer--and this book gives theadvice needed to energize management. A must-read for trainingprofessionals, managers, and top executives, Floyd and Wooldridge'swork will radically redesign--and drastically improve--yourorganization's effectiveness.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a parent and teacher Jean Augur learned to cope positively with dyslexia for over 20 years. This book records the stages in the development of the awareness of dyslexia both at home and in the classroom. It concludes by setting out the ways and means to help dyslexics to help themselves.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written specifically with beginning undergraduates with little or no previous knowledge of the subject in mind, this is a distinctive and thoughtful introduction to the main problems of philosophy structured around a philosophical argument which is clearly and carefully developed throughout the book.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marshal support throughout your organization Develop a communications strategy that works for -- not against -- you. Based on years of battle-tested principles and case-examples, Roger D'Aprix tells managers how they can avoid the communications breakdowns that sabotage attempts at change, and cause employees to lose faith in their leaders and the system itself. Instead, he shows how communications can be used strategically to connect an organization's vision, mission and business goals to the forces and opportunities in the marketplace -- the driving force behind all change. Includes D'Arpix's market-based strategic communications model for integrating and aligning communications at all levels.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Language Crimes tells the story of some of the remarkable criminal court cases in which Roger Shuy has served as a consultant or expert witness. These intriguing cases show how linguistic analysis can help the courts unravel the ambiguities of taped conversations used in evidence.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Children Doing Mathematics provides a reliable and up to datereview of the substantial recent work in children mathematicalunderstanding. The authors also present important new research onchildren s understanding of number, measurement, arithmeticoperation and fractions both in and out of school.The central theme of Children Doing Mathematics is that there arecrucial conditions for children s mathematical learning. Firstly,children have to come to grips with conventional mathematicalsystems. Secondly, but equally important, they have to be able topresent mathematical knowledge in a way that solves problems. Thebook also discusses how mathematical activities and knowledgeinvolve much more than what is currently viewed as mathematics inthe school curriculum. Most recent work illustrates how childrencan be successful in mathematical activities outside school whereasthey fail in similar activities in the classroom. Through these twounderlying themes the authors bring together discussions onconventional mathematical learning and on real life mathematicalsuccess. In so doing, they also highlight new and better ways ofanalysing children s abilities and of advancing their learning inschool.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Show me any civilization that believes that reality exists only because man can perceive it, that the cosmos was erected to support man on its pinnacle, that man is exclusively divine, and then I will predict the nature of his cities and its landscapes, the hot dog stands, the neon shill, the ticky-tacky houses, the sterile core, the mined and ravaged countryside. This is the image of anthropocentric man. He seeks not unity with nature but conquest, yet unity he finds, when his arrogance and ignorance are stilled and he lies dead under the greensward.' Ian L. McHarg Multiply and Subdue the Earth, 1969.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comprehensive guidance for more effective physical asset management Physical assets are costly to run, maintain, and operate, yet they are a critical part of a business's infrastructure; buildings, machinery, production lines, service equipment, and technology can be a company's largest expense - but without them, there is no business. The Economic Management of Physical Assets provides guidance on managing these expenses efficiently without sacrificing quality or reliability. Covering essential skills including life cycle costing, resource management, and more help readers gain the very best possible value by handling these important assets in the most economically advantageous way.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here is the ultimate handbook for engineers, architects, contractors, specifications workers, and hardware managers who need to deliver products and services at a consistently high level of quality. It introduces ISO 9000, a proven method of building a quality track record that will stand up under the closest scrutiny even in the most competitive environments.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction:English-Spanish/Spanish-English offers the first bilingual updateof civil engineering terminology in forty years. With more than50,000 entries in each language, it provides comprehensive coverageof a broad range of industrial disciplines, including architecture,engineering, surveying, building, heavy construction, and municipalengineering. Entries include technical terms and phrases not found in anygeneral translation dictionary--many of these are taken directlyfrom The Contractor's Dictionary by L. F. Webster, officialpublications, engineering specifications, and engineeringtextbooks. Virtually all terms and their functions were supplied byworking professionals and experts in each field. Each translationhas been confirmed by teams of reviewers in the United States andLatin America to ensure accuracy and reflect a wide range ofSpanish dialects. Since there is considerable overlap amongengineering disciplines, many of the terms in this book are alsoapplicable to electrical, mechanical, and structuralengineering. The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction:English-Spanish/Spanish-English is an indispensable resource forcivil engineers and contractors, translating correspondence,specifications, and working drawings; marketers for engineeringfirms, preparing bids and proposals for international contracts;and engineering students, struggling to understand complex coursetextbooks in a foreign language. It is the only source foraccurate, reliable, up-to-date translations of the entire spectrumof engineering and construction terminology.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Human Error Reduction and Safety Management Dan Petersen Now in an expanded and updated Third Edition, Human Error Reduction and Safety Management illustrates how managers, by controlling the physical and psychological situations under which workers operate, can modify employees' behavior in such a way as to reduce error, accidents, and consequently on-the-job injuries and illnesses. While retaining the previous editions' focus on the role of line management in maximizing safety in the workplace, the book also details the role that upper and middle management must play in implementing programs that can reduce system-caused human error. The Third Edition contains a wealth of new, updated, and expanded information that incorporates Dan Petersen's comprehensive knowledge and innovative theories, including \* A revised model of accident causation that exemplifies the processes and procedures of today's safety technology \* Expanded treatment of the managerial sources of error \* A new chapter on the ways in which the 'culture' of an organization determines what methods will and will not succeed \* A discussion of ergonomics -- how design causes error and cumulative trauma disorders \* Insight into how to reduce psychological overload on the job \* New material on risk assessment techniques An original, multidisciplinary approach to workplace safety that integrates safety management, business management, psychology, and ergonomics, the Third Edition of Human Error Reduction and Safety Management is required reading for every safety manager, safety and health professional, and quality and risk control manager.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a step-by-step, non-mathematical approach to constructing and using realistic, workable groundwater models on a daily basis and offers practical examples and case studies to illustrate important concepts. This book provides much needed information on how best to apply numerical models and provides extensive, detailed drawings, case studies and sample models to illustrate important concepts.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Culture of Specialized Cells Culture of Immortalized Cells Edited by R. Ian Freshney and Mary G. Freshney The ability to develop immortalized cells in vitro is a powerfultool for the biological investigator. Most cells can only bereproduced unchanged for a limited number of cell generationsbefore the initial cell lines die. The immortalization of cellsestablishes continuous cell lines, playing an important role in thestudy of the biology of cell growth, differentiation, andsenescence. It also increases our understanding of aberrations inproliferative and positional control in malignant cells. Culture of Immortalized Cells provides the most up-to-date in vitromethods and safety procedures for the immortalization of primarycultures of various cell types. Coedited by one of the leadingfigures in the field, R. Ian Freshney, author of Culture of AnimalCells, Third Edition, Culture of Immortalized Cells is the latestvolume in the critically acclaimed Culture of Specialized CellsSeries. Preceding volumes in the series include Culture ofEpithelial Cells and Culture of Hematopoietic Cells. In this comprehensive handbook, leading experts offer the mostcurrent methods for the immortalization of cells, as well asspecific guidelines for the immortalization of kidney, and thyroidepithelia, hepatocytes, fibroblasts, chondrocytes, lymphocytes,astrocytes, and human umbilical vein endothelium. Each method isaccompanied by: \* Step-by-step protocols \* Detailed instructions for reagent preparation \* Current information on the latest specialized equipment andsupplies This concise bench-top manual is essential for any laboratoryinvolved in establishing continuous cell lines from primarycultures. Investigators, laboratory technical staff, and studentsin cell biology, immunology, hematology, cancer biology,toxicology, and molecular biology, will find this contemporaryguide indispensable to their research.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on an international symposium and workshop hosted by the University of Hull International Fisheries Institute, this new reference includes expert reviews of the advantages and shortcomings of all current techniques and management strategies used in assessment of freshwater fish stocks worldwide. In addition to the core reports, overview papers present a summary of the current status of our knowledge in each of the major subject areas, with a final chapter appraising present and future perspectives on the concept of stock assessment. All contributions are fully illustrated and referenced. Stock Assessment in Inland Fisheries is likely to become the international, standard reference for all fisheries departments--offering a single source of contemporary and definitive information. Moreover, it is also intended to serve as a course text for students learning about freshwater-fisheries management.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by one of the world s leading researchers and teachers inorganic chemistry, this book focuses on the living core ofchemistry, organic synthesis. A rational treatment allows aneconomical presentation of both the theory and the actualprocedures for synthetic pathways. Organic Reactions: Simplicityand Logic the student s and lecturer s ideal companion,provides: \* a superb overview of organic reactions \* a rigorous introduction to the underlying theoreticalconcepts \* insight into the logic and simplicity underpinning organicsynthesis \* biographies of, and mini-essays devoted to, great scientists whohave shaped chemistry and biochemistry \* examples of industrial organic chemistry \* an easy-to-read, well-written, highly illustrated text \* an essential learning tool for chemistry, biochemistry andpolymer science courses Organic Reactions: Simplicity and Logic presents a lucidintroduction to organic synthesis which will appeal to students andlecturers in organic, medicinal, pharmaceutical and industrialchemistry as well as biochemistry, polymer and materials science.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Because of their structural simplicity, bridges tend to be particularly vulnerable to damage and even collapse when subjected to earthquakes or other forms of seismic activity. Recent earthquakes, such as the ones in Kobe, Japan, and Oakland, California, have led to a heightened awareness of seismic risk and have revolutionized bridge design and retrofit philosophies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Quantitative modeling of Mendelian genetics Quantitative Genetics with Special Reference to Plant and Animal Breeding provides authoritative guidance on improving genetic material in breeding programs through the application of Mendelian genetics. Beginning with a brief background on genetic modeling and breeding programs, the book compares breeding procedures and selection approaches while offering expert guidance on mathematical and Mendelian representation of various schema. Highly detailed and practically-focused with clear guidance on methods and calculations, this guide provides invaluable reference for the design of breeding programs in the laboratory or agricultural industry.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Complete, Up-to-Date Introduction to Corrosion of StainlessSteels and Metallurgical Factors This fully updated Second Editionof Corrosion of Stainless Steels covers the tremendous advancesmade with stainless steels in recent decades, includingapplications in many new areas--from marine technologies andoff-shore oil production to power plants and the kitchen sink. Thisbook offers unique insights into the corrosion mechanisms affectingstainless steels, details problem-avoidance strategies, and helpsidentify corrosion-resistant capabilities for these remarkablealloys Sponsored by the Electrochemical Society, Corrosion osStainless Steels \* Provides a comprehensive introduction to the selection,development, and production of all types of stainless steels \* Emphasizes how metallurgical factors affect corrosionresistance \* Examines the limitations of stainless steels within the contextof a discussion on higher alloys \* Takes an interdisciplinary approach that demonstrates thecombined effects of metallurgy, chemistry, and electrochemistry oncorrosion resistance \* Provides baseline knowledge and testing standards for stainlesssteels, and facilitates failure analysis for industrial purposes orlitigation related to equipment failure This is a much-needed text for materials scientists, chemicalengineers, corrosion specialists, graduate students, and anyone whoneeds to be brought up to date on this subject.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The subject of operator algebras has experienced tremendous growth in recent years with significant applications to areas within algebraic mathematics as well as allied areas such as single operator theory, non-self-adjoint operator algegras, K-theory, knot theory, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics. This book makes recent developments in operator algebras accessible to the non-specialist. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advances in computer technology have conveniently coincided withtrends in numerical analysis toward increased complexity ofcomputational algorithms based on finite difference methods. It isno longer feasible to perform stability investigation of thesemethods manually--and no longer necessary. As this book shows,modern computer algebra tools can be combined with methods fromnumerical analysis to generate programs that will do the jobautomatically. Comprehensive, timely, and accessible--this is the definitivereference on the application of computerized symbolic manipulationsfor analyzing the stability of a wide range of difference schemes.In particular, it deals with those schemes that are used to solvecomplex physical problems in areas such as gas dynamics, heat andmass transfer, catastrophe theory, elasticity, shallow watertheory, and more. Introducing many new applications, methods, and concepts,Computer-Aided Analysis of Difference Schemes for PartialDifferential Equations \* Shows how computational algebra expedites the task of stabilityanalysis--whatever the approach to stability investigation \* Covers ten different approaches for each stability method \* Deals with the specific characteristics of each method and itsapplication to problems commonly encountered by numerical modelers \* Describes all basic mathematical formulas that are necessary toimplement each algorithm \* Provides each formula in several global algebraic symboliclanguages, such as MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, and REDUCE \* Includes numerous illustrations and thought-provoking examplesthroughout the text For mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, as well as forpostgraduate students, and for anyone involved with numericsolutions for real-world physical problems, this book provides avaluable resource, a helpful guide, and a head start ondevelopments for the twenty-first century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring an extensive 40 page tutorial introduction, this carefully compiled anthology of 65 of the most important papers on phase-locked loops and clock recovery circuits brings you comprehensive coverage of the field-all in one self-contained volume. You'll gain an understanding of the analysis, design, simulation, and implementation of phase-locked loops and clock recovery circuits in CMOS and bipolar technologies along with valuable insights into the issues and trade-offs associated with phase locked systems for high speed, low power, and low noise.…