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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and moralsThe fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane AustenWant to know more about Jane Austen This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and hypocrisy, emotion and satire - still have meaning for us today.Discover\* Why Austen is so popular\* The impact on manners, courtships, and dating\* Love and life in Austen's world\* Her life and key influences\* Her most memorable characters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understand the techniques of hypnotherapy and put them into practiceFind a practitioner, set your goals, and get resultsIf you think hypnosis is just for stage tricks and party games, think again; this reassuring and responsible guide explains how hypnotherapy works and shows you how to use it to treat a wide range of problems. Whether you're seeking to overcome anxiety or depression, improve performance, lose weight, or beat an addiction, hypnotherapy can help you make the positive changes you need to achieve your goals.Discover how to\* Get the right professional help\* Set realistic personal goals\* Control phobias and manage pain\* Banish bad habits\* Practise self-hypnosis\* Become a hypnotherapist.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Four Vs are the cornerstones of both our work and personal lives.Vision: Who do we want to be What are our essential characteristics and how do we want to develop this vision of ourselves in our work, in our family and in our community Values: What are the values that shape and drive us How can we harness our values to help our own fulfilment and the wellbeing of those around us How do we ensure our values are our biggest assets and not our worst liability Value-Added: What are our unique strengths How can we develop them and use them to the best effect How can we add value in a wider range of different situations Vitality: What is at the heart of what gives us energy How can we grow this energy and extend it into different areas of our lives Peter Shaw provides a framework to help you grow and make a step change through reflection on what success is and the nature of courage and calmness. Be ready to be challenged and surprised.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if you've never coached before No worries! Coaching Football For Dummies is the fun and easy way to tackle the basics of coaching youth football. This friendly guide shows you how to teach your players effectively, regardless of their age or skill level, and lead your team to victory-even if you're a first-time coach. You'll discover how to: Develop a coaching philosophy Teach football fundamentals Encourage good sportsmanship Improve your team's skills Ensure safety on the field Communicate effectively with parents Packed with valuable information on preparing your game plan before you even step on the field, this hands-on resource gives you expert guidance in building your coaching skills, from evaluating your players and running enjoyable, productive practices to working with all types of kids-uncoordinated, shy, highly talented-at once. You'll find a variety of fun-filled drills for teaching everything from tackling and blocking to running and catching, as well as advanced drills to take your players' skills up a notch. You'll also see how to: Conduct a preseason parents' meeting-an often overlooked aspect of coaching Gather the necessary gear and fit the equipment to your players Raise the level of play on offense, defense, and special teams Take steps to avoid injuries Deal with discipline issues and problem parents Make critical half-time adjustments Transition to coaching an All-Star Team Complete with tips for working with parents, keeping your players healthy, and leading your team effectively on game days, Coaching Football For Dummies is all you need-besides a whistle and a clipboard-to navigate your players through a safe, fun, rewarding season!

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Exceptional Selling'Thull's leading-edge thinking makes this book extraordinary. This straightforward guide to communicating across all cultures with credibility and respect will give you a significant competitive advantage in a complex and crowded global marketplace.'-Guenter Lauber, Vice President, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., EA Systems'Exceptional Selling may be one of the most important books written on sales and marketing communications for high stakes sales. It shows you how to stand apart from your competition, communicate with great clarity, and position your solution as the most compelling choice for the long term.'-Rob Mancuso, Senior Vice President, Investors Financial Services Corp.'Thull has taken consultative and collaborative sales to new heights. The knowledge in this book is priceless. The trust and respect created by the diagnostic process is a must-have for success here in Asia and around the globe. It enables us to differentiate ourselves early and achieve long-lasting success.'-Tay Chong Siew, Major Customer Director, North Asia, BOC Gases'Having achieved exceptional success by working with Thull and implementing the strategy and process in his first two books, I'm astounded that his leading-edge thinking is captured in yet more detail in another brilliant book. The conversation examples of his powerful diagnostic approach will bring even greater success to our organization. Truly exceptional!'-Alberto Chacin, Director of On Demand Services LAD, Oracle USA'Exceptional Selling is a dramatic departure from the vast majority of sales books. It scares me to see all the ways in which we can self-sabotage our sales opportunities-but that's only chapter one. Throughout the book, Thull describes compelling examples of how to succeed in a cluttered marketplace.'-Steven Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Ceridian Corporation'Thull has again extended the concepts and thinking he developed in The Prime Solution and Mastering the Complex Sale. This is an essential read for anyone working to understand his customers in a complex world.'-Wayne Hutchinson, Vice President of SalesMarketing and Consulting, Shell Global Solutions International B.V.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Packed with drills and tips for practices and game days.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This unique guide provides a comprehensive, chronological treatment of the college experience through the eyes of those whove been there along with the author and a panel of 18 expert mentors. The group has been selected across gender, racial, socioeconomic, and academic lines, from a variety of colleges and universities. Written in a conversational style, the book includes chapters on every aspect of the college experience, including choosing the right college, setting goals, selecting classes and majors, roommate survival tactics, study abroad, sex, drugs, alcohol, and many other vital issues. Robert H. Miller (Manchester, NH), a graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the author of Law School Confidential (0-312-31881-2) and the coauthor of Business School Confidential (0-312-30086-7).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for FINDING THE HOT SPOTS'David Riedel's Finding the Hot Spots provides keen insights into the new reality of investing with a global perspective. Internationally diversified investment portfolios reduce risk while enhancing returns, as many American-based individual and institutional investors have discovered in recent years. Riedel succeeds in providing simple, effective tools and strategies.'--J. Craig Chapman Managing Director, Long-Term Asset Management (HK) Limited'Finding the Hot Spots simplifies and demystifies international investing and makes non-U.S. markets alluring and accessible . . . a must-read for all individual investors.'--John D. Meserve Chairman, BNY Jaywalk, Inc.'Anyone considering investing in emerging markets should begin by reading David Riedel's Finding the Hot Spots. This excellent book explains how to reap the benefits while avoiding the risks of investing in the world's fastest growing economies. Having worked with David in Thailand during the peak of the Bangkok Bubble in the mid-1990s, I believe few people are more qualified to write about this subject than he is.'--Richard Duncan Author of The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Real Estate Investing Guide Just for Agents.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hands-On Science Mysteries for Grades 3-6 is an exciting collection of lab-based programs that show students how to examine mysterious phenomena scientifically! Each lab is filled with intriguing mysteries and provocative exercises that will challenge students to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This thought-provoking and authoritative collection of papers tackles a subject of urgent international concern - migration, immigration and social policy. The volume's thirteen authors are drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, in social work, social policy, sociology, psychology, government and international relations, and bring a wide range of expertise to bear on the subject. They offer readers a broad spectrum of informed perspectives on this most challenging and multi-faceted of policy dilemmas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for MORE THAN A NUMBERS GAME.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If your students enjoy solving mysteries, they'll love the activities in Science Sleuths. Forensic science is an ideal vehicle for teaching the nature of science as well as basic science concepts. Besides teaching students to think like scientists, forensic science activities also help them understand, master, and apply science concepts. In addition, forensic science relies heavily on science process skills, manipulative skills, laboratory skills, and interpersonal skills, all emphasized by the National Science Education Standards.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Go Beyond 'Business As Usual' with Your Nonprofit.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learning in Real Time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Natural products have been a fertile area of chemical investigation for many years, driving the development of both analytical chemistry and of new synthetic reactions and methodologies. Many of the most important synthetic reactions in chemistry have been developed in the quest to characterise and synthesise these materials.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to Make Money as a Mediator (and Create Value for Everyone).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PRAISE FOR Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Resultssecond edition'As a practitioner and thought leader, Paul Niven is superbly bridging the gulf between BSC theory and application through hands-on experiences and real-world case studies. The book provides a practical road map, step-by-step, to plan, execute, and sustain a winning scorecard campaign. Easy to read . . . tells a powerful story with lessons learned/best practices from global customer implementations. Must-read for anyone interested in BSC or grappling with how to create a strategically aligned organization.'-Vik Torpunuri, President and CEO, e2e Analytix'In Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step, Second Edition, Paul Niven provides an intuitive and incredibly effective blueprint for transitioning strategic ambition to execution. Paul's pragmatic approach provides leaders with a tool for managing a company's journey from strategic ideas to world-class performance. The Balanced Scorecard is a masterful tool for guiding companies through transformation, and I speak from personal experience when I say Paul's blueprint works! It is the most effective guide I have seen. Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step will serve any leader well if their ambition is to efficiently engage their teams in achieving a set of strategic goals.'-Allan A. MacDonald, Vice President, Sales and Customer Solutions Bell Canada National Markets'Paul Niven has done it again!!! With this book, he has further operationalized the enlightened Balanced Scorecard concept into a fully functional system that optimizes business execution and performance!'-Barton Johnson, President, Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, The Reverse Mortgage Specialist.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Beat The Odds In Forex Trading'Beat the Odds in Forex Trading provides traders with tremendous value by disseminating the trading methods and philosophy of one of the most remarkable Forex success stories since Soros.'-Alexander De Khtyar, President, Forex International Investments, Inc.'Beating the odds in the Forex market is no easy task, but this book is certainly going to shift those odds in your favor. Mr. Toshchakov's outstanding performance in the Forex market is a testament to this.'-Val Sigaev, Director of Peregrine Financial Group, Eastern Europe Division'This book is an extremely revolutionary way to look at the market, and the author does not just provide you with real hands-on theories on how to make real, serious money, but actually lives and breathes them. Out of all of the books on the subject of Forex, I found this one to be a real gem. The author provides an absolutely brilliant approach on how to trade and be successful in the biggest market in the world.'-Gene Spektor, CEO, American Heritage Capital Group'Toshchakov's approach and strategy to trading Forex is reminiscent of the gambits utilized by great Russian chess masters. This is a primer for the novice or a useful guide to the professional trader.'-Joseph A. Boystak, President & CEO, Chopin Capital Partners, LLC.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beginning with the deceptively simple question 'What is law ' Philosophy of Law introduces readers to the basic analytical and normative issues in the field. The volume is a wide-ranging text that discusses the concepts of law, highlights key historical and contemporary thinkers who have shaped the discourse, and provides a unified treatment of the various issues in the philosophy of law.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For the last 15 years of his distinguished career, Gordon Baker was developing an original and radical vision of Wittgenstein's philosophical method in the later philosophy, one which constitutes a significant departure from his celebrated period of collaboration with P.M.S. Hacker and which shares affinities with the 'New Wittgensteinians' but is developed in much greater depth. Following his death in 2002, Baker's collaborator and partner Katherine Morris has collected together and edited the key articles he wrote on Wittgenstein's method during this period, and they are published here for the first time in one volume. Of the thirteen articles contained in this book, three were previously only available in French, one was published in a Brazilian journal and one was previously unpublished.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders which led the world in technological innovations; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a benchmark overview of current approaches and research in the study of international management and organizations, with a focus on implementation issues in a globalized context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Organization Development is a one-stop guide to the world of planned change. Newcomers to the field can read the book cover to cover and explore organization development's foundation, scope, focus, purpose, and methods. Experienced consultants and change agents will find chapters that capture best thinking on key topics-resources for fine-tuning skills, learning about intervention options, envisioning organization development's future, or reflecting on the larger issues in growth and change. Leaders and managers will find the resources they need to understand the route to organizational health and effectiveness, and to develop, launch, and nourish successful change efforts. Organization development has a powerful and influential heritage, solid core, evolving applications and approaches, and a vital role to play in today's global, fast-paced world of constant change. This volume immerses readers deeply in organization development's power and possibilities.Contributors include Billie AlbanChris ArgyrisRon AshkenasJohn R. AustinJean M. BartunekFranklin BeckerRichard BeckhardBeth BenjaminPeter BlockGene BoccialettiLee G. BolmanDavid L. BradfordBarbara BunkerW. Warner BurkeBernard BurnesJay CongerDavid L. CooperriderTerrence E. DealLinda DickensPeter F. DruckerJane E. DuttonPeter J. FrostMarshall GoldsmithJay GalbraithJoan V. GallosMarc S. GersteinLouis 'Tex' GunningPhil HarkinsStuart L. HartTodd JickJason M. KanovRosabeth Moss KanterSteve KerrJohn KotterJames KouzesEdward E. LawlerJacoba M. LiliusSally MaitlisRobert J. MarshakKeith MerronPhilip H. MirvisHoward MorganDavid A. NadlerGlenn M. ParkerBarry PosnerJoseph A. RaelinMichael J. SalesEdgar H. ScheinRoger SchwarzLeslie E. SekerkaPeter M. SengeFritz SteeleDavid A. ThomasWilliam R. TorbertDave UlrichKaren WatkinsMarvin WeisbordAlan WeissMonica C. Worline.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This concise book offers a nuanced introduction to Islam in the Middle East. It presentsIslam as both a unified tradition of theological dogma and practices that transcends cultural differences and a dynamic tradition that is historically informed, locally shaped, and continually reinterpreted. Using numerous ethnographic examples from the Middle East and North Africa, Islam in the Middle East: A Living Tradition offers a succinct overview of the Islamic tradition as practiced.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This guide provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of English Renaissance drama. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642, emphasising plays that can be read in modern editions and seen in modern productions. Shakespeare's plays appear as a vital but not dominating component of this repertoire.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The much discussed notion of postliberal theology developed from the writings of two theologians at Yale University, Hans Frei and George Lindbeck. In The Trial of the Witnesses, Paul J. DeHart provides a thorough analysis and critique of postliberal theology, beginning with an examination of the intellectual context of Frei and Lindbeck's thought and the controversies to which their work has given rise. The book scrutinizes the dogmatic underpinnings of Frei and Lindbeck's understandings of theology and investigates the key concepts taken from their work which have been used to construct the idea of postliberalism.