wiley jan 1995 (21 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fifth edition has been issued to incorporate two new tables - Data of Refrigerant 134a and a table containing for selected substances, molar enthalpies and molar Gibbs functions of formation, Equilibirum constants of formation, as well as molar heat capacities and absolute entropies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sabbatical may be just the change you need. More and more men and women are successfully taking an extended break from their jobs--a sabbatical. Once the exclusive preserve of academics, sabbaticals are revitalizing today's business world. Recognizing that the decision to take a sabbatical is a major step, Lisa Rogak mixes a wealth of practical how-to facts and advice with the real-life stories of over forty professionals detailing every aspect of the process. Whether you want the time off to travel, explore other careers, discover new interests, go back to school, stay with your family, do volunteer work, or simply slow down and recharge your batteries, you'll find information on:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The author of the enormously popular bestseller Career Anchors looks beyond the simple job description to the dynamics affecting the job. Schein explores the critical elements of an individual's job--now and in the future--and shows how to set appropriate priorities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive introduction to management accounting, enabling students to develop an understanding of the importance of accounting as a management tool, for example in:Using and interpreting accounting to allow rational decisions to be made.Making and implementing plans based on accounting decisions.Exercising financial control over organizations.Contents include: costs and decision making; investment appraisal; cost-volume-profit analysis, full costing; budgets and budgetary control; standard costs and variance analysis; evaluation of divisional performance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism s newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism s major theorists and commentators.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to combining two powerful management techniques to transform any business organization into a masterpiece of business efficiency. Lester Dean Thurow, Dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, recently stated that benchmarking combined with process engineering will be the most important management technique of the 1990s. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Gregory Watson describes how top corporations worldwide have already successfully implemented that powerful cutting-edge technique--which he calls 'business systems engineering'--to promote continuous improvement. More importantly, he clearly demonstrates how you can do the same in your organization.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The authors have produced a very readable, extremely well informedand comprehensive book that will add greatly to the knowledge baseof interested parents. This book is strongly recommended.'--Stewart Gable, MD Chairman, Department of Psychiatry TheChildren's Hospital, Denver, Colorado You supported and encouragedthem as they grew from toddlers to teens. Now you are confrontedwith one of the toughest challenges you and they will ever face .teenage depression. Adolescence is a period of peaks and valleys.Most teens negotiate these years with relative ease; yet for somethese times are treacherous with countless pitfalls. Whendepression ensues, it can interfere with much of your child'spotential. Clinical depression is now epidemic among Americanteens, and teen suicide can be a deadly consequence. Helping YourDepressed Teenager is a practical guide offering family solutionsto a family problem. This book will sensitize you to the hiddenstruggles of adolescents and assist you in understanding theirmultifaceted problems. The authors are experts in this field andhave helped countless youngsters confront and overcome theirdepressed mood. In a highly readable and gentle manner, they helpyou see behind the 'masks' of troubled teens who attempt to hidetheir true feelings. They help you distinguish the subtle andsometimes not so subtle signs that something is seriously wrong.And they help you provide the loving support and assistanceteenagers need to make it through this difficult life passage. Someof the useful information provided: \* What families can do to prevent teen depression \* How to tell the difference between moodiness and depression \* How to read the warning signs of a troubled teenager \* How to know when professional help is needed and where to findit \* How to choose the right treatment options for your teen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Quantitative Methods is part of a new national programme of highly developed texts and modules for undergraduate business programmes, to be published by Blackwell Business in association with the Open Learning Foundation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are the secrets behind such spectacular new product successes as Slim-Fast, Cellular One, and Phillips CD How did Snapple, MCI Friends and Family, MTV, and The Body Shop emerge from obscurity to become household names, seemingly overnight.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Dennett is arguably one of the most influential yet radical philosophers in America today. In this volume, Dennett is confronted by colleagues and critics, from philosophy, biology and psychology. His reply constitutes an extensive essay which clarifies, and develops further, central themes in his philosophy. The debate ranges over Dennett's whole corpus, but special attention is given to his major work on consciousness, Consciousness Explained.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing from recent archaeological and linguistic evidence, as well as more traditional literary and narrative sources, the author distinguishes between the initial phase of migrations in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the secondary period of settlement up to c. 1100 AD. He emphasizes, too, the differences in nature and intensity of the Viking impact on the societies that were slowly developing into the historic kingdoms of England and Scotland, and the more complex political structures of Wales and Ireland. Throughout the book, the effects of the Scandinavian invasions on Britain are set within the wider European context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A companion to the author's successful Art Psychotherapy that explores the rationales, methods and objectives of art therapy and extends the coverage into more advanced topics: materials to use, detailed consideration of the underlying principles, structuring the art therapy experience, the stages of art therapy and a variety of techniques. Devotes a chapter to applications with different patient populations, and also looks at social and political issues surrounding the use of art therapy as a therapeutic technique. Includes extensive photos of patient artwork and a diagnostic quiz.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The purpose of this book is to help educators increase their proficiency in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The text is organized into nine chapters. The first is the introductory chapter, the second provides a review of the various components of written language and the types of difficulties that students may have with handwriting, spelling, usage, vocabulary and text structure. The third chapter provides an overview of the writing process approach. The fourth chapter reviews the legal protections and various accommodations to which students are entitled. Chapters five, six and seven contain summaries of instructional strategies that may be used to enhance student performance in the areas of handwriting, basic skills and written expression. The eighth chapter presents analyses of writing samples from students in first-through eighth-grade levels that are reviewed within a diagnostic-prescriptive format. Chapter nine contains writing samples with guided questions that can be used for independent study, as assignments, or for in-class discussions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Five-step problem solving process. A five-step methodology for solving problems is used throughout the text. Each step is clearly identified to help students focus on the process of breaking a problem into smaller components and then addressing the smaller components throughout the text. The five steps are: State the problem clearly. Describe the input and the output. Work the problem by hand (or with a calculator) for a specific set of data. Develop a solution that is general in nature. Test the algorithm with a variety of data sets. Key Topics Covered - arithmetic computations, control structures, array processing, external procedures, and data types, and pointers. Includes real-world applications throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains a wealth of information previously scattered in research journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. Identifies more than 200 unsolved problems. Every problem is stated in a self-contained, extremely accessible format, followed by comments on its history, related results and literature. The book will stimulate research and help avoid efforts on solving already settled problems. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of references which will lead readers to original sources, important contributions and other surveys.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This laboratory manual utilizes an investigative approach which departs from the traditional format of providing experiments with predetermined solutions. Includes both microscale and macroscale experiments which cover topics such as biochemistry, polymer chemistry and materials science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his fascinating book, Jordan promotes the idea that conservation is a philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish. He stresses that an understanding of ecological economics, environmental policy and culture are paramount to achieving the goals of conservation. Despite the text s emphasis on humanities role in the environment, traditional conservation is not neglected. Resource management is updated and the chapter on biodiversity reviews the current controversy over the species versus the habitat approach in conservation biology. Four photoessays provide concrete examples of several problems and proposed solutions facing conservationists today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This popular reference offers a clear understanding of the scientific principles of ceramics processing required for the development and production of new advanced ceramics. In the latest edition significant new material has been added to the chapters on raw materials, liquids and surfactants, vapor deposition, printing, coating processes and firing. Contains several new features including processing flow diagrams, tables summarizing important points, 100+ new figures as well as descriptions of defects and their causes which are either itemized in the text or summarized in a table. Also includes numerous problems and examples following each chapter.An Instructor s Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This text will be of enormous value to anyone involved in the monitoring and investigation of adverse medical events occurring during the clinical trials, or during the post marketing period of a drug. The book reviews the biochemical and physiological abnormalities in each of the body s organ systems and helps the investigator decide if the problem is of drug-induced origin. Most of the information is presented as a series of observations with accompanying questions which should be addressed in order to make an accurate diagnosis. Easy-to-read with useful flow charts for the management of adverse drug events and examples of specific report forms, this text will be of interest to all those involved in drug monitoring in clinical medicine, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organisations or regulatory authorities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years the use of liquid--liquid extraction equipment has attracted widespread interest from all major chemical engineering, petroleum and pharmaceutical companies as well as university-based scientists and engineers. Liquid--Liquid Extraction Equipment presents: