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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The best of science in an extraordinarily readable style.'--Roy M. Pitkin, M.D., Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simple and fun activities that inspire understanding and respect for the environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develop your powers of public persuasion with the ultimate guide to great speeches and business presentations Do you get tongue-tied at the mere thought of speaking in public Would you rather swim with sharks or undergo a tax audit than face an audience Well, you're not alone. According to the Book of Lists' list of humans' greatest fears, the fear of death is our fourth greatest fear, while fear of public speaking commands a solid first place. Now from Roger E. Axtell, one of America's most accomplished public speakers, here's a book guaranteed to turn even the most stage-shy mumbler into a great communicator. Geared primarily, but not exclusively, for business people, this amusing and informative guide can show you how to possess the powers of public persuasion you've always dreamed of having. Whether it's making a pitch to the board of directors, or prepping the sales force, stating your case to the town council, or being interviewed on live TV, Do's and Taboos of Public Speaking can help you to be an intelligent, articulate, confident, and likable presence in front of any audience you'll ever face.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential grammar taught simply and directly 750 French Verbs and Their Uses gives you the backbone of language study -- correct verb usage -- by showing verb conjugations in their contexts. To understand the value of such an approach, consider the English verb 'to hold,' the meaning of which can change dramatically when used in expressions such as 'hold on,' 'hold up,' 'hold off,' and 'hold down'; in French, as students of the language have perennially learned to their frustration, the changes are far broader and apply to many more verbs. Now you won't have to guess how a verb is used in a sentence: 750 French Verbs and Their Uses gives you all the correct variations and grammatical interrelationships. Correct usages are illustrated in common phrases and idiomatic expressions. Unusual or troublesome expressions are emphasized throughout. And special attention is given to reflexive verbs (often difficult for English speakers) to make their usage clear. Perfect for students and travelers, ideal as a text, a grammar book and a reference, 750 French Verbs and Their Uses will help you not only to conjugate verbs, but also to use them correctly and comprehensibly. Series Editors: Jan R. Zamir, PhD, and Sonia Zamir, MA Also available in the series: 750 German Verbs and Their Uses and 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ICFP Personal Wealth Building Guides offer proven strategies and invaluable information for putting together the many pieces of a financial plan and reaching personal, long-term financial goals. Highly readable and interactive, these guides will help you establish clear-cut objectives and furnish you with the wherewithal for achieving them. How much money will I need for a comfortable retirement How will early retirement affect my pension Should I take a lump sum distribution or roll over my retirement benefits Your Retirement Benefits delivers clear, down-to-earth answers to these and hundreds of other frequently asked questions about the retirement planning issues and decisions facing employees and business owners alike. It explains what you need to know about every major benefits plan in existence, how to choose the right plan and make it work for you, and how to insure the best deal at retirement. What's more, this valuable sourcebook helps you manage your benefits plan while you're still employed and guides you step-by-step as you make critical retirement decisions. It's chock full of anecdotes, worksheets, and personal action plans for organizing your financial information and putting your own retirement plan to work today. As in other ICFP Personal Wealth Building Guides, this important work features Action Items alerting you to the bases that must be covered before proceeding with a given plan.Wealth Building Profiles that add a lively, human dimension to the financial principles discussed.Questions and Answers on top-of-mind issues.Checklists at the end of each section reviewing key points.and Wealth Building Worksheets that lead you step-by-step through important planning decisions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This book offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretative keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu s work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work.Firstly Loic Wacquant provides a clear and systematic account of the main themes of Bourdieu s work, outlining his conception of knowledge, his theory of practice and his distinctive methods of analysis. In the second part of the book Wacquant collaborates with Bourdieu to discuss the central concepts of Bourdieu s work, confront some criticisms and objections, and develop Bourdieu s views on the relations between sociology, philosophy, history and politics. Finally Bourdieu displays his sociological approach in practice: beginning with the practical demands of research, he moves, step by step, to a formulation of the principles of sociological reason.Supplemented by an extensive and up-to-date bibliography, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand Bourdieu s unique and outstanding contribution to contemporary social thought.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Applied Strategic PlanningThe Consultant's KitTimothy M. Nolan. Leanard D. Goodstein. & J. William Pfeiffer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These games cover a wide range of difficulty and can be used with all students at different levels of learning. What's more, self-checking features in most of the games help students work independently, and complete answer keys are provided for the teacher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential grammar taught simply and directly 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses gives you the backbone of language study -- correct verb usage -- by showing verb conjugations in their contexts. To understand the value of such an approach, consider the English verb 'to hold,' the meaning of which changes dramatically when used in such expressions as 'hold on,' 'hold up,' 'hold off,' and 'hold down'; in Spanish, as students of the language have perennially learned to their frustration, the changes are far broader and apply to many more verbs. Now you won't have to guess how a verb is used in a sentence: 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses gives you all the correct variations and grammatical interrelationships. Correct usages are illustrated in common phrases and idiomatic expressions. Unusual or troublesome expressions are emphasized throughout. And special attention is given to reflexive verbs (often difficult for English speakers) to make their usage clear. Perfect for students and travelers, ideal as a text, a grammar book and a reference, 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses will help you not only to conjugate verbs, but also to use them correctly and comprehensibly. Also available in the Series: 750 German Verbs and Their Uses and 750 French Verbs and Their Uses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Trying to keep those mental muscles in shape Search no further! Here s a book with hours and hours of IQ-busting fun to challenge your brain strength and test the very depths of your gumption. These innovative, witty, and utterly outrageous brainbusters engage your reasoning power while honing your problem-solving skills. Beginning with easier puzzles, then getting progressively more difficult, this tantalizing collection will increase brain power with each puzzle you conquer. Need help Don t worry we ve added a special 'Solutions' section that gives a detailed answer to each brainbuster. This ingenious volume offers more than 180 puzzlers including:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Corporate America tends to underrate the 'manager' and worship the 'leader'--to its own detriment. Now, the coauthor of the bestselling Creating Excellence shows why it is vital to integrate the strengths of both--the orderly, rational mind of the manager and the visionary, creative soul of the leader.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An insightful, compassionate account of the grieving process that helps us through the pain and isolation experienced with the loss of a loved one. We're never really prepared for the loss of someone we love. Thrown into a state of emotional chaos we experience rage, guilt, anxiety, and intense sadness all at once. It's the oldest story in the world, we tell ourselves -- millions of people have had to cope with this before -- and yet, we always believe that what we are experiencing is unique to us. We feel isolated in our anguish and often ashamed of what we are feeling. A profoundly compassionate and insightful book, Surviving Grief & Learning to Live Again offers you the support and understanding you need to get you through this difficult time. Written by Dr. Catherine Sanders, a therapist and researcher specializing in bereavement issues and one who has lived through the loss of close family members, it helps you to see that what you are feeling is part of a natural process of readjustment and renewal. According to Dr. Sanders, grieving, like any other natural regenerative process, must be allowed to run its proper course if we are ever to regain our equilibrium and continue on with our lives. To help us better understand the process, she describes the five universal phases of grief: Shock, Awareness of Loss, Conservation and The Need to Withdraw, Healing, and Renewal, and guides us through each. Drawing directly from her own experiences and those of her clients and her research studies, she delves deeply and compassionately into the different experiences of grief, and talks about what it means to lose a mate, a parent, or a child. And she discusses the factors that can have an influence on the grieving process, such as age, gender, and the circumstances surrounding the loved one's death.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Grocery store products packaged to deliver the most environmentally correct message. Large brokerage firms offering 'green' and socially responsible investment products. Even an environmental bank. If you'd imagined all this in college, and dreamed of a large socially screened mutual fund outperforming the S&P 500 by as much as 11%, your father would have said--'Nice idea, but it'll never happen!' It happened. As the junk bond era fades from the scene and deregulation turns Wall Street back into a prehistoric jungle, socially responsible investments are outperforming traditional investments. Not just sometimes--but consistently and reliably. Investing with Your Conscience tells you why--and how to participate in an increasingly profitable investment strategy. It analyzes the influences of apartheid; the global environment; corporate governance; women, health and family; domestic, social and economic justice; as well as Third World development on a corporation's value. And it gives you the knowledge, resources, and tools you need to manage your money well, increase your net worth, and make the world a better place--all at the same time. You'll find clear, demystifying discussions of measuring performance, setting goals, selecting an investment professional, and making investments based on sound financial, economic, and social analyses. And you'll discover how to pinpoint investment opportunities and identify those socially responsible stocks that will make the best investments. Let your conscience be your guide. Invest in Investing with Your Conscience right now.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Help work teams achieve new levels of trust, camaraderie, and productivity! Improve teamwork through trust building! The Power of Team Building supports trainers, consultants, and business leaders in leading experiential ropes techniques. Finally, a comprehensive, well-researched and carefully documented guide to one of the most misunderstood and underutilized tools in the training industry.--Larry Wilson, CEO, Pecos River Learning Centers Many techniques can be used indoors or outdoors! The facilitation skills and group problem-solving activities, known as initiatives, detailed in this book give you a solid template to conduct activities. Dramatically improve teamwork and communication skills with each session. Major organizations DuPont, Exxon, General Motors, and government agencies use these programs to maximize team effectiveness. Now you can too!

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MANAGING SUCCESSFUL SPECIAL EVENTS FROM ERNST & YOUNG.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. The book presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems. 'Designing and implementing an organization that is effective for a particular business is one of the most significant and highly leveraged responsibilities of senior executives. Organizational Architecture is unique in fully exploring the various structural options available in meeting this responsibility, while at the same time giving invaluable information on the implementation process itself.'-Roger G. Ackerman, president, Corning, Inc.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Futures markets can no longer be considered a high-risk alternative, only suited to the most aggressive investors. The $500 million under management in private and public managed futures funds in 1980 has grown quietly but exponentially to $20 billion today, with major pension funds, banks, and corporate players heavily committed. But, if you wanted to follow their trail you'd have to pick up what information you could find in newsletters, articles, and actual-risky-trading experience. Until now. In this book, Charles Epstein has set up a unique managed futures brain trust especially for those who want the complete picture of this hot new asset class. These experts provide both a broad theoretical basis and a full spectrum of practical applications to help you bring a managed futures account into your institutional portfolio to add diversification, decrease volatility, hedge against inflation and risk, and provide incremental return. You'll find complete analysis of the key theoretical aspects of managed futures, including their role as an alternative asset class, the new investment strategies they make possible, and a risk-return study using a multi-manager commodity portfolio. You'll also find detailed discussions of the practice of managed futures account investing and trading, from evaluating traders.organizing a commodity pool.avoiding ERISA problems.tax and accounting considerations.unleveraged futures as inflation hedges.to an eye-opening risk-return comparison of stocks. With some trading advisors already overseeing $500 million managed futures accounts, and with one manager posting a 75% compounded annual rate of return, Managed Futures in the Institutional Portfoliocould prove to be quite an asset to your portfolio.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the use of non-technical language it enables readers to understand the underlying dynamics of cost in order to facilitate effective decisions regarding products and services, workflows, capital investments and day-to-day monitoring of their business. Combining customer s needs and reactions with the financial awareness of a company s strengths and weaknesses, it ties into all current, major business concerns, including environmental awareness and international competitiveness. Features case studies, checklists and self-assessment techniques that will aid readers in initiating a total cost management program.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every futures, options, and stock markets trader operates under a set of highly suspect rules and assumptions. Are you risking your career on yours Exceptionally clear and easy to use, The Mathematics of Money Management substitutes precise mathematical modeling for the subjective decision-making processes many traders and serious investors depend on. Step-by-step, it unveils powerful strategies for creating and using key money management formulas--based on the rules of probability and modern portfolio theory--that maximizes the potential gains for the level of risk you are assuming. With them, you'll determine the payoffs and consequences of any potential trading decision and obtain the highest potential growth for your specified level of risk. You'll quickly decide: What markets to trade in and at what quantities When to add or subtract funds from an account How to reinvest trading profits for maximum yield The Mathematics of Money Management provides the missing element in modern portfolio theory that weds optimal f to the optimal portfolio.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reviews work in the area of communication and communication skills as they relate to the hearing-impaired child. Topics covered include: the aims of human communication; cognitive mechanisms; and speech intelligibility.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents a rigorous development of thermodynamic laws of phase equilibria beginning with fundamental principles, accompanied by a short description of the mathematics vital to a clear understanding of basic concepts as well as the practical methods used to calculate phase equilibria. Offers excellent explanations of well-established thermodynamic tools and novel, state-of-the-art techniques representing real fluid behavior. Models covered are relevant to the modeling of nonelectrolyte mixtures over wide ranges of pressure, temperature, composition and molecular diversity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the first edition of this book, David Peoples made the bold claim that he would show readers how to 'walk the road to glory'. Four years and fifty thousand copies later, Presentations Plus has become the most successful business presentations how-to book ever written, and at last report, traffic on the road to glory was bumper-to-bumper. Now, incredible as it may seem, this new edition is even better than the first! In addition to the 'battlefield-tested' techniques for becoming a great presenter and persuader found in the first, this edition includes all new chapters on the do's and don'ts of team presentations, presentations as marketing tools, using hi-tech vs. low-tech visuals, and a 'follow the bouncing ball' presentation planning guide. All new illustrations and checklists are also included. Based on David Peoples' 30 years as an IBM marketer, manager, and sales trainer, Presentations Plus, Second Edition shows you how to get ahead by getting on your feet, get those butterflies flying in formation, handle troublemakers, avoid the 'Seven Deadly Sins', get attention and keep interest, finish five minutes early, design the opening and the close, use the presenter's secret weapon, use a cheat sheet, create humor, and more. And for quick brush up, there's a chapter titled '60 Tips in 60 Minutes' that offers tips for just about every presentation problem you're likely to face. Loaded with dozens of real-life examples and the distilled expertise of the man dubbed the international expert's expert on presentations, Presentations Plus, Second Edition is your ultimate guide to presenting, persuading, and winning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This ready-to-use staff training manual covers three basic areas: safety and sanitation, food production skills and service ability. Discusses standard industry procedures and practices with instructions for customizing to individual restaurant operations. Presents 30 training outlines featuring ready-to-photocopy transparency masters and employee materials such as summaries, exercises and quizzes. Also includes a variety of suggested training techniques.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a comprehensive nonmathematical treatment regarding the design and analysis of experiments, focusing on basic concepts rather than calculation of technical details. Much of the discussion is in terms of examples drawn from numerous fields of applications. Subjects include the justification and practical difficulties of randomization, various factors occurring in factorial experiments, selecting the size of an experiments, different purposes for which observations may be made and much more.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the type and intensity of spills may vary, responders who are called upon to meet these emergency situations need a consistent, generic battle plan. That's exactly what they'll find when they read John Hosty and Patricia Foster's practical new guide on chemical spill response. They take readers from the planning stages, through actual first-response techniques, to disposal and cleanup methods, creating an airtight approach to spills that drastically reduces the possibility of error. A Practical Guide to Chemical Spill Response begins by addressing pre-incident activities, including the development of a contingency plan and personnel training that enhances responders' understanding of handling, storage, and disposal techniques. Here, the book acknowledges the many federal regulations -- including the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and relevant Canadian standards -- the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, Provincial Spill Legislation, and the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System -- to ensure that responders comply with these mandates. The book emphasizes the need for a coherent approach to spills, with coverage of the government and industry organizations that may be called upon to assist in an integrated response to specific situations. And it underscores the need for good public relations, stressing that personnel should be selected to deal with the media before incidents occur. The guide moves on to equipment review in light of U.S. and Canadian statutes, covering such areas as respiratory protection, protective clothing, and decontamination procedures. It then details the specific characteristics of hazardous materials, including flammability, corrosivity, toxicity, reactivity, and other incident risks. Readers are then fully prepared for the ensuing coverage of actual response techniques to the full range of emergency spills -- among them, ground spills, water spills, contamination of the air, rail and truck spills, and in-plant spills. Throughout, illustrations clarify the response methods discussed. Wide-ranging enough to serve first responders working in the U.S. and Canada, and detailed enough to point up differences in the regulatory mandates of the two countries, A Practical Guide to Chemical Spill Response is a reference all spill control managers, emergency response coordinators, and their workers will want to have at hand.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Value is something that everyone seeks in daily life. But is value ever clearly defined Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to guarantee value from the products and services that are our business There is. Value: Its Measurement, Design and Management offers a modern, interdisciplinary approach to using value management in product development. Building on the value analysis techniques that Larry Miles originated at General Electric, the authors describe how to maximize the value of any product or service by improving its ability to satisfy customer and company needs. The authors describe how to analyze the functions a product provides and how to measure its importance and cost. They define value and show how it can be measured and graphed. They show how to set numerical value improvement targets and how to use Quality Function Deployment, value planning and other value management techniques in new product development. They even show how to anticipate and handle hourly and seasonal value changes. Value covers every area in which value management can be used, from product development and manufacturing to quality control and scheduling. Plus, it introduces the latest techniques developed in the United States, Japan, and other nations. Moving logically from philosophy to practice, the book is divided into four sections: The Nature of Value, The Measurement of Value, The Design of Value, and The Management of Value. One entire chapter is devoted to Valuism, a worldwide industrial management movement that improves the performance of products and services while increasing the efficiency and lowering the cost of production and distribution. Packed with actual case studies and references, Value will be useful to engineers, designers, consultants, entrepreneurs, architects, economists, managers, politicians - and even government agencies that now require a value engineering analysis for most projects. For anyone who seeks the assurance of maximum value in their endeavors, this is a truly invaluable book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are the effects of industry upon the health of employees This enormously complex question involves historical, social, political, and scientific issues--and has a major impact on national policy decisions and regulatory activities. This unique book explores the history of occupational disease in the American workplace. Beginning with the centuries-old belief of disease as an acceptable and unavoidable by-product of industrial expansion, it moves to current methods of diagnosis, control and prevention. You will find in-depth coverage of:

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a must-have'' for anyone who desires to effectively and successfully sell their products, projects, ideas or services. The new edition has been revised and expanded to include detailed coverage of the current methods and procedures required by the government and used by commercial companies for bid preparation; the latest applications for identifying and tracking fund sources; new desktop publishing techniques for rapid proposal preparation along with available software; and storyboarding methods. The concept of straight-line'' control is presented for the first time and a complete case study provided to illustrate how to evolve a proposal from development through strategic marketing planning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides an introduction to the chemistry of the solid-water interface, progressing from the simple to more complex and applied. Discusses the important interfaces in natural systems, especially geochemistry, in natural waters, soils and sediments. The processes occurring at mineral-water, particle-water and organism-water interfaces play critical roles in regulating the composition and ecology of oceans and fresh waters, the development of soils and plant nutrient's supply, preserving the integrity of water repositories and in such applications as water technology and corrosion science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Of all the staff members in the hotel and hospitality industry the concierge is the one who has the most personal contact with the guests.