wiley jan 1997 (54 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contiene métodos para aprender los puntos claves del español con rapidez y facilidad.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No five-year-old child would try to kill himself, right Contrary to popular belief, young children do get seriously depressed, and many try to kill themselves. Each day more than one thousand teenagers try to kill themselves, and every ninety minutes one succeeds. There is also a dramatic upswing in the number of children aged five to foutreen who try to take theeir own lives. but there is help for parents whose children are depressed and may be suicidal. In Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Shamoo and Patros show parents: How to lear to talk, listen, and communicate effectively with a depressed child What situations can cause a child or adolescent to wish to commit suicide\\ What signs to watch for Myths and misinformation about suicide How to determine the risk of suicide How to intervene.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traces the development of a very small elite university system of the late 1940s to the mass higher education system of the 1990s through the critical writings of distinguished scholars and university figures, mostly British and American. It illustrates how change took place, or was frustrated, what opportunities were missed and what successes were achieved, and how policy debates sometimes did and sometimes did not have an impact on the processes of change.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For classroom reading teachers and specialists, this unique resource is one of two volumes of 'Reading Stories for Comprehension Success' packed with ready-to-use story lessons and activities for building students' reading, comprehension, and writing skills in grades 1 through 6.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Health and the Sociology of Emotions offers an appraisal of the current lively debates which challenge the contribution of the sociology of emotion to health, and of sociology of health and illness to a sociological understanding of emotion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores different applications of Aristotle's hypothesis on the components of form, matter and pyschological states.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* Specifically written for students new to HRM. \* Very clear chapter format -- follows natural HRM cycle in structure. \* Suitable for a modular new university (semester style) course. \* Contains European material/perspective. .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This revised edition of Beyond Leadership focuses specifically on managing in the new paradigm from a global perspective with an entirely new chapter - Managing People at Work: Spiral Integration.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beyond the Numbers How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success William L. Simon 'This book stands at the intersection of management and money, the place where modern business fundamentals and current financial principles come together. Business managers have traditionally used accounting-based financials that looked backward, at the wake--showing where the organization had been; today, they are learning to use financials that look forward toward the horizon.' --from the Preface Businesses can't afford to have a financial system which only measures its past. In order to build a successful company, you need a financial system that also shows you how to plan your company's future. This must-have book for executives, managers, analysts, and other stakeholders, will show you how to refine your current financials or thoroughly overhaul them. In Beyond the Numbers, you have the opportunity to profit from the experiences of CEOs and CFOs at market leading companies in a variety of industries. You will learn how to build a truly effective corporate financial system--one that:

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The SUPERMEN'After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for their queries, but none came. When he left, the head of NCAR's computing division chided the programmers. 'Why didn't someone raise a hand ' After a tense moment, one programmer replied, 'How do you talk to God '' -from The SUPERMEN The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer'They were building revolutionary, not evolutionary, machines. . . . They were blazing a trail-molding science into a product. . . . The freedom to create was extraordinary.' -from The SupermenIn 1951, a soft-spoken, skinny young man fresh from the University of Minnesota took a job in an old glider factory in St. Paul. Computer technology would never be the same, for the glider factory was the home of Engineering Research Associates and the recent college grad was Seymour R. Cray. During his extraordinary career, Cray would be alternately hailed as 'the Albert Einstein,' 'the Thomas Edison,' and 'the Evel Knievel' of supercomputing. At various times, he was all three-a master craftsman, inventor, and visionary whose disdain for the rigors of corporate life became legendary, and whose achievements remain unsurpassed.The Supermen is award-winning writer Charles J. Murray's exhilarating account of how the brilliant-some would say eccentric-Cray and his gifted colleagues blazed the trail that led to the Information Age. This is a thrilling, real-life scientific adventure, deftly capturing the daring, seat-of-the-pants spirit of the early days of computer development, as well as an audacious, modern-day David and Goliath battle, in which a group of maverick engineers beat out IBM to become the runaway industry leaders.Murray's briskly paced narrative begins during the final months of the Second World War, when men such as William Norris and Howard Engstrom began researching commercial applications for the code-breaking machines of wartime, and charts the rise of technological research in response to the Cold War. In those days computers were huge, cumbersome machines with names like Demon and Atlas. When Cray came on board, things quickly changed.Drawing on in-depth interviews-including the last interview Cray completed before his untimely and tragic death-Murray provides rare insight into Cray's often controversial approach to his work. Cray could spend exhausting hours in single-minded pursuit of a particular goal, and Murray takes us behind the scenes to witness late-night brainstorming sessions and miraculous eleventh-hour fixes. Cray's casual, often hostile attitude toward management, although alienating to some, was more than a passionate need for independence; he simply thought differently than others. Seymour Cray saw farther and faster, and trusted his vision with an unassailable confidence. Yet he inspired great loyalty as well, making it possible for his own start-up company, Cray Research, to bring the 54,000-employee conglomerate of Control Data to its knees.Ultimately, The Supermen is a story of genius, and how a unique set of circumstances-a small-team approach, corporate detachment, and a government-backed marketplace-enabled that genius to flourish. In an atmosphere of unparalleled freedom and creativity, Seymour Cray's vision and drive fueled a technological revolution from which America would emerge as the world's leader in supercomputing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This program translates each style into a mode of thinking so groups and departments can realize the talents at their disposal to accomplish various goals. Using Enneagram personality styles, this program helps people: \* Recognize their strengths in resolving problems\* Tailor communication style to be most effective in various situations \* Optimize interactions with people of differing styles to deter conflict\* Understand their role in problem-solving processes . . . and more! This is an excellent tool for furthering process improvement, management skills, team development, and more! Be sure to give each participant a set of reminder cards to use as a daily and spur-of-the-moment reminder of behaviors as they work to improve their problem-solving skills.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a member of the board of directors of several major international financial services corporations, Patricia Pitcher was in a privileged position to observe the inner workings of the corporate world. What she witnessed was a crisis of leadership rooted in a misunderstanding of what leading is all about. Not content to simply offer an opinion-opinions come cheap-she embarked on an eight-year research project to document the reasons for the rapid collapse of a global giant. That collapse, she shows us, began with one critical succession error and was compounded by a chronic failure to understand the importance of personality in the leadership equation. One wrong person at the helm turned a dream into a nightmare.In The Drama of Leadership, Patricia Pitcher shares her findings and, in the process, explodes a number of popular myths about leadership, including the one that leadership and vision are qualities that can be taught in management seminars. She refutes the common belief that leaders are in short supply and proves that the corporate talent pool abounds with potential leaders whose talents either go unrecognized or are tragically undervalued. And she explains why, at a time when vision, innovation, humanity, and passion are so desperately needed, so many companies cast in leadership roles people who possess none of these qualities, and who distrust anyone who does.But who are the good and bad leaders, and how do you identify them In answer to this question, Patricia Pitcher identifies three types of leaders: Artists, who are people-oriented, open-minded, intuitive, and visionary; Craftsmen, to whom the adjectives 'humane,' 'dedicated,' and 'wise' best apply; and Technocrats - brilliant and well-schooled in the latest theory, they are detail-oriented, rigid, methodical, self-centered, and, when left in control, pose a serious threat to corporate competitiveness. The power struggles between these types are dramas being played out in companies everywhere. Whether the story has a happy or an unhappy ending depends entirely upon which type gets top billing.The author also offers her wise recommendations on what companies can do to protect themselves against a technocratic hegemony and how to cultivate the talents of Artists and Craftsmen. She also tells you how to determine what type of leader you are and how to interact with other types to achieve both personal and corporate success.The Drama of Leadership is an articulate, insightful, passionate appeal to develop the kind of leaders and organizations that can take us into the twenty-first century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All new resources . 24 activities, 6 instruments, 18 presentation and discussion resources\* Resources Experiential learning activities, instruments, and presentation and discussion resources covering a variety of topics. And all can be customized for your specific needs.\* Contributors All materials are written by active HRD practitioners. And just like you, they are consultants, university professors, and private industry professionals. You get a variety of perspectives from well-known and up-and-coming professionals from all over the world! \* Topics You get materials for a variety of needs, from team building to improving processes to implementing organizational change.Be prepared for the new training year with this must-have resource exclusively from Pfeiffer!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Incidences of aggression and physical violence in society are of growing concern to everyone, but those working in the caring professions are particularily at risk from the very people they are trying to help. Coping with Aggressive Behaviour looks at the incidence of attacks across professional groups and examines:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another. This volume brings together what is known about this fascinating neurological condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is one of the first in an exciting new series of tutorials in cognitive neuroscience, and provides a concise, readable and up-to-date review of cognitive and neuroscience studies of the representations for actions. The fundamental question addressed concerns the nature and role of different representations in the planning and execution of movements.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book gathers into one volume the most provocative philosophical writing on race produced by the luminaries of the European Enlightenment. There is no anthology that has so focused itself on exploring through primary texts the alliance between philosophy, anthropology and race.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents the results from the definitive study on how students are changed by their college experiences.From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Small Store Survival should challenge retailers' views of small store retailing by questioning key areas of business. What is the vision for the store in 10 years How have the customers changed over the past few years How current are the managers about what customers genuinely like and dislike What is being done to attract, educate, and motivate the best retail talent in the area How effective is the merchandising strategy What plans exist for succession.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Making the right career choice contributes substantially to an individual's welfare and psychological well-being. Few career counselors, however, are trained in psychological as well as vocational methods for assisting their clients. Elizabeth B. Yost and M. Anne Corbishley provide a much-needed approach to career counseling that integrates traditional career counseling techniques with psychological methods of assessment and intervention. Their clear, step-by-step approach applies to all types of clients, and it can be used successfully by practitioners with diverse professional backgrounds.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The nature of working relationships in the NHS is changing. The development of a market-oriented approach to health care delivery has been central to these changes, most noticeably seen with the advent of resource management, the development of the internal economy for health care and the development of Trusts and GP fundholders.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first comprehensive guide on maximum adverse excursion -- apowerful new tool for dramatically lessening trading risks 'Trading successfully, like everything else, is built upon solidpreparation. It is the well-prepared individual who will be able tocope in today's competitive market. John Sweeney's Maximum AdverseExcursion will provide you with the steps to perform the analyticalreview of your trading system that you should undertake before youever risk your capital.' -- Thomas Hartle, Editor TechnicalAnalysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 'Maximum Adverse Excursion deals with a much overlooked subject:how to minimize losses. If every trader took John Sweeney's adviceand learned how to minimize losses before trying to make profits,they would be financially ahead.' -- Martin J. Pring, President TheInternational Institute for Economic Research 'John Sweeney has done it again. As with Campaign Trading, he takesa complex set of ideas and explains them in a simple,easy-to-understand manner, in a form that traders can use to helpthem make informed and profitable buy-sell decisions.' -- CliffordSherry, PhD, author The Mathematics of Technical Analysis Most successful traders have a 'sixth sense' that alerts them toloss points and amounts. But what happens when intuitionfails When the potential loss incurred on a trade is significant, youneed more than guesswork. But is it possible to estimate the losspoint accurately--quantitatively With maximum adverse excursion(MAE), the answer is a resounding 'YES'. This innovative method ofrisk management enables traders to steer clear of potentiallydevastating results by pinpointing loss points before implementingtrading decisions. Now, in the first book to provide an in-depthexamination of this vital trading tool, John Sweeney, MAE developerand Technical Editor of the highly regarded Technical Analysis ofStocks & Commodities magazine, takes you step by step throughits various intricacies. In this comprehensive and accessible reference, Sweeney shows howthe key to successful MAE implementation lies in determiningwhether there is any consistency in market behavior. By measuringand charting price excursion from a set point of entry, you canestablish--quickly and easily--whether prices show consistentbehavior over a finite time frame. If, in fact, some regularity,some pattern in price changes is revealed, you can then exploit itwhile in the trade. The bottom line is a more reliable system fordiscerning whether your trade is going in your direction or not,and--in either case--what likely events are next. By replacingguesswork with statistical descriptions, you can objectivelydetermine when to cut off a loser, or put in a protective stop . . or take profits. Maximum Adverse Excursion can give you 'the elusive edge thattraders seek . . . a line all your own, from which profits can flowwith minimized, quantifiable risk.' This comprehensive, accessiblereference gives you the tools you need to employ MAE successfully,including detailed information on: \* Defining and calculating adverse, minimum, and maximum favorableexcursion (MinFE and MaxFE) \* Displaying MAE--aggregation, frequency diagrams, stop size \* Determining specific capital requirements--capital conservation,defining drawdowns \* Profit definition by stop level--profit tradeoffs, profit curves,interpretation \* Impact of volatility changes--tweaks, changing stops by range orvolatility \* Trading management--portfolio impacts, day-to-day management,elaborations Complete with sample calculations, practical examples, and EXCELprograms for creating your own charts, this is the definitive guideto using MAE effectively--and profitably.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This unique collection of the writings of Rudolf Klein - historian, journalist, political scientist and policy analyst - represents the products of his career as an observer of politics and society over the last four decades.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression. Complete texts, many never reprinted or anthologized, come from a wide range of both traditional and rediscovered genres, including: advice and manners, travel writing, myth, children's writing, sketch, utopia, journalism, humor, poetry, oral narrative, sampler verse, short fiction, thriller and detective, spiritual autobiography, letter, and diary.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Credit Union Investment Management provides an in-depth examination of the methods executives use to achieve investment objectives and maximize returns on invested capital, while measuring and minimizing risk. Complete coverage includes: detailed features of investment vehicles, yield measures and their limitations, total return analysis, and stress testing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This, the first book in the Wiley Series in Culture and Professional Practice, is designed as a practical guide for professionals who work with children from differing cultural backgrounds. It relates cultural differences in development to the problems and practice of child care with a special contribution from cross-cultural psychology. The book includes the main issues which professionals are likely to encounter, for example:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A complete blueprint for all types of restaurant development--from concept through constructionWhether you are planning a small neighborhood bistro or an expansive hotel eatery, Restaurant Planning, Design, and Construction provides you with the specific information and in-depth guidance you need to navigate the restaurant development process effectively. With easy-to-use worksheets, checklists, review procedures, and guidelines, this comprehensive manual can help you to avoid the pitfalls of miscommunication, omission, and faulty execution that can mean the difference between your success and failure. Taking you step by step through each phase of the development process, the book shows you how to: Assemble and manage your restaurant development team Prepare a marketable business plan to use when seeking financial backing Approach site evaluation, budgets, scheduling, and more Write a detailed operational plan of how the restaurant will function Prepare an effective design program to fulfill your operational requirements Coordinate key elements of planning and design Manage the construction phase, pre-opening activities, and follow-upNo matter what your business background--catering, marketing, management, or finance--this self-contained guide is one resource you will not want to be without.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedgingand arbitrage for professional traders and money managersWatch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The authors have done an admirable job.This book is a revealing and fascinating glimpse of the technologies which may rule the financial world in the years to come. -The Financial Times, February 1997.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive theoretical and practical presentation on the assessment and treatment of adult children of alcoholics.