wiley jul 2011 (74 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid'modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting forindividual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series ofchallenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutionsno longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as framesof reference for human actions and long-term life plans, soindividuals have to find other ways to organise their lives. Theyhave to splice together an unending series of short-term projectsand episodes that don't add up to the kind of sequence towhich concepts like 'career' and 'progress'could meaningfully be applied. Such fragmented lives requireindividuals to be flexible and adaptable - to be constantlyready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandoncommitments and loyalties without regret and to pursueopportunities according to their current availability. In liquidmodernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate thelikely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) underconditions of endemic uncertainty.Zygmunt Bauman's brilliant writings on liquid modernityhave altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In thisshort book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty whichshapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the readerwith a brief and accessible introduction to his highly originalaccount, developed at greater length in his previous books, of lifein our liquid modern times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals easy ways to build real wealthWith well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on how the wealthy act and think. Now, in Stop Acting Rich . and Start Living Like a Millionaire, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite.\* Puts wealth in perspective and shows you how to live rich without spending more\* Details why we spend lavishly and how to stop this destructive cycle\* Discusses how being 'rich' means more than just big houses and luxury carsA defensive strategy for tough times, Stop Acting Rich shows readers how to live a rich, happy life through accumulating more wealth and using it to achieve the type of financial freedom that will create true happiness and fulfillment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your hands-on, friendly guide to writing young adult fictionWith young adult book sales rising, and bestselling authors like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer exploding onto the scene, aspiring YA writers are more numerous than ever. Are you interested in writing a young adult novel, but aren't sure how to fit the style that appeals to young readers Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies gives you tricks of the trade and proven tips on all the steps to write a YA book, from developing an idea to publication.\* Unique writing exercises to help you find your own authentic teen voice\* Tips to avoid when submitting manuscripts\* How to break into the flourishing young adult marketWith the help of this step-by-step guide, you'll have all the skills to write an inspiring and marketable young adult novel.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your ticket to excelling in mechanics of materialsWith roots in physics and mathematics, engineering mechanics is the basis of all the mechanical sciences: civil engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and aeronautical and aerospace engineering.Tracking a typical undergraduate course, Mechanics of Materials For Dummies gives you a thorough introduction to this foundational subject. You'll get clear, plain-English explanations of all the topics covered, including principles of equilibrium, geometric compatibility, and material behavior; stress and its relation to force and movement; strain and its relation to displacement; elasticity and plasticity; fatigue and fracture; failure modes; application to simple engineering structures, and more.\* Tracks to a course that is a prerequisite for most engineering majors\* Covers key mechanics concepts, summaries of useful equations, and helpful tipsFrom geometric principles to solving complex equations, Mechanics of Materials For Dummies is an invaluable resource for engineering students!

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poetry. Like the wading birds of the title, the poems in this collection find their sustenance in the ground, tilling the earthly measure, even as they lift questions toward the heavens. Summoning the pastoral and the oracular by turns, the poems of SANDERLINGS achieve a preternatural rapture, both sensual and learned. 'What I love about SANDERLINGS, besides the ripening imagery, is the variety of expression. The poems don't fix on a single way to regard our sense of living. There's a powerful willingness to look into the natural diversity of thought and feeling, and Geri Doran's language is willowy and very fine'--Carol Frost.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.\* Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves\* Informed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can improve social abilities\* Explores traditional aspects of fiction, including character, plot, setting, and theme, as well as a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cues\* Includes extensive end-notes, which ground the work in psychological studies\* Features excerpts from fiction which are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thermodynamics For Dummies tracks to a typical thermodynamics course offered at the undergraduate level and assists readers in understanding the fundamental concepts of the subject and helps to develop problem-solving skills through practice in solving energy-related problems. Specific coverage includes:\* General balance principle (open systems, closed systems, rate balances, increment balances)\* Mass balances (specific volume, system mass, mass-flow rate)\* Zeroth law (thermodynamic equilibrium and temperature)\* First-law balances (internal energy, enthalpy)\* Second-law balances (availability, entropy)\* Cycles (Rankine, Brayton, vapor-compression)\* Non-reacting mixtures of ideal gases\* Reacting mixtures (mass balances, energy balances, heating values, standardized enthalpy).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The language of crisis is nothing new in higher education-for years critics have raised alarms about rising tuition, compromised access, out of control costs, and a host of other issues. Yet, though those issues are still part of the current crisis, it is not the same as past ones. For the first time, disruptive technologies are at work in higher education. For most of their histories, traditional universities and colleges have had no serious competition except from institutions with similar operating models. Now, though, there are disruptive competitors offering online degrees. Many of these institutions operate as for-profit entities, emphasizing marketable degrees for working adults. Traditional colleges and universities have valuable qualities and capacities that can offset those disruptors' advantages-but not for everyone who aspires to higher education, and not without real innovation. How can institutions of higher education think constructively and creatively about their response to impending disruption.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AMERICAN WHEELS CHINESE ROADS The Story of General Motors in China.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Designed for the individual investor looking ahead to retirement, Seven Steps to Financial Freedom in Retirement offers unfettered access to financial consultant Hank Parrott's twenty years of professional experience. For a fraction of the price you'd pay for a personal advisor, you too can learn the insider secrets that ensure a comfortable retirement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since its first issue in 1930, The Political Quarterly has provided afree-thinking platform for the leading voices of the progressive tradition in British politics. Its mission has been to bridge the divide between thought and action and to provide an intellectual foundation for practical reform and for progressive politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system.\* Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in Europe\* Compares countries comparatively less studied with the experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden\* Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and portrays a description and analysis of each system\* Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for an exceptionally broad perspective.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just as in society, the mortgage market may exclude people on the basis of place, as well as race. Place-based exclusion in the mortgage market often takes the form of 'redlining,' a tacit agreement among lending institutions to delineate sections of cities into areas where no home mortgages are to be issued. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Through a careful balance of comparative research and literature reviews, author Manuel B. Aalbers reveals how redlining, which is most visible at the urban level, is also constituted at the interaction of several spatial scales: neighborhood, urban, regional, national, and global. By utilizing several research strategies and presenting documented evidence from various urban sectors in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands, this book offers fresh insights and much needed analytical clarity to shape our understanding of redlining and other urban exclusion processes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The idea of justice has been central to political philosophy since its origin. Indeed, the two towering book-ends to Western political thought -- Plato's Republic and John Rawls' milestone 1971 publication, A Theory of Justice-- are both essays on justice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech.\* Newly updated to reflect the latest advances in the field\* Features a balanced and student-friendly approach to speech, with engaging side-bars on related topics\* Includes suggested readings and exercises designed to review and expand upon the material in each chapter, complete with selected answers\* Presents a new chapter on speech perception that addresses theoretical issues as well as practical concerns.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An effective framework for strengthening competitiveness by learning from past deals and applying insights derived from them.Every sales opportunity, whether won or lost, has useful nuggets of information that can be harvested and used to improve performance. When those pieces of information are aggregated, analyzed and made available for all to use, the organization's competitive position is greatly enhanced.\* Reveals how to turn field sales teams, a mostly underutilized resource, into net producers of competitive intelligence\* Exposes new and unconventional approaches for gathering and democratizing sales insights for a broad stakeholder audience\* Presents a proven knowledge sharing model that is being adopted by major companies worldwideWin/Loss Reviews shows how every company can improve top and bottom line performance by systematically capturing the key insights from deals that have been won, lost or delayed. While the book talks to decision makers and business strategists, the principles and disciplines explored are aimed at bridging the flow of competitive intelligence between sales and marketing, simultaneously providing insights and line-of-site to the dynamics affecting business performance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Department chairs who have asked themselves the question 'Who knows where the time goes' should ask Christian Hansen for the answer. His book, Time Management for Department Chairs, will help chairs maximize the investment of their most important resources their time, focus, and energy.' Don Chu, author, The Department Chair Primer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload.Based on surveys and interviews with successful online instructors, the book is filled with timely and comprehensive insight that is essential for online instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers, and anyone who wants to succeed in online learning.Praise for Managing Online Instructor Workload'Managing Online Instructor Workload breaks the pattern of prior distance learning books with its research-based orientation by including a broad range of experience. This is a valuable resource to encourage greater faculty persistence and adoption.'-Kathleen P. King, professor of higher education, University of South Florida, Tampa'This is a must-read for all online instructors who strive not only to provide a high-quality learning experience for their students but also maintain a quality life of their own!'-Rita-Marie Conrad, online educator and author'Do you teach online Do you need sleep Here is the first book that I know of that will allow you to do both no more endless hours wasted online attempting to be an effective instructor.'-Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New Mechanisms in Glucose Control presents a clear overview of the new drugs and treatment therapies that have been developed in recent years to help improve glycaemic management for the diabetic patient, namely the incretin mimetics (GLP-1 agonists) and DPP-4 inhibitors. It also considers other drug classes currently in development and undergoing clinical trials including the SGLT2 inhibitors and other pipeline products. In addition to pharma cotherapeutic agents, the role of bariatric as a management tool for diabetes is covered as well as consideration of the organisation of diabetes care with a community focus.This indispensable pocketbook details the newer treatments and offers a comparison with more traditional agents including sulphonyureas, glitazones and insulin. The pros and cons of traditional therapies are discussed as well as the epidemiology and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, helping to give the reader a better understanding of the disease area and its management.New Mechanisms in Glucose Control is essential reading for health professionals working in primary or secondary care and involved in treating diabetic patients.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical guidance for managers for getting projects started-and presenting the results when the project's doneThis book provides an integrated framework for communicating the value of business analytics, focusing on a four-stage methodology to help with: (1) communicating the value proposition, (2) building the business case, (3) creating the execution plan, and (4) measuring the value.\* Provides a plan for the execution of a successful business analytics program\* Reveals how to communicate the value of a project once it's done\* Presents an integrated framework for communicating the value of business analyticsTargeted toward the senior management team, this book explains what business analytics is and the value it can bring to your organization.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In order to enable the widespread adoption of online education, faculty must be trained in the pedagogy of teaching in this medium. This book offers an understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to an online learning environment. Through behaviorist, constructivist, and cognitive approaches it provides strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching practice. Each chapter contains reflection and discussion questions and, with the use of the accompanying CD, can be used for self-directed learning. It is ideal for new instructors or those new to online teaching. Effective Online Teaching is an essential resource that offers a clear understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to online learning. This much-needed resource provides specific strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching that gets results. The book includes strategies on motivation, tailored instruction, interaction, collaboration, monitoring and communication, time and information management, student concerns, and legal and ethical issues.Designed as a text for online instructors, the chapters can be used for self-directed learning or in a formal training setting in concert with the companion Training Manual and CD.'Tina Stavredes has done something sorely needed in the online teaching world -she has successfully combined solid theory and research with the practical application of instructor training. Both the book and the training manual are a 'must' for any online education organization. Bravo!'-Dr. Darcy W. Hardy, assistant vice provost for Technology Education Initiatives, University of Texas at San Antonio, and chair emerita, United States Distance Learning Association'Drawing from years of experience and solidly grounded in an understanding of the adult learner and learning, Stavredes offers dozens of helpful instructor strategies, activities, and resources to support adult learners' success in an online environment. Effective Online Teaching and its accompanying training manual is a 'must-have' set for online instructors in higher education, corporate, and government settings.'-Sharan B. Merriam, professor emeritus of adult education, University of Georgia, and coauthor, Learning in Adulthood'An eminently practical book that provides clear and unpretentious explanations of the learning theories that are essential knowledge for every online teacher, together with equally uncluttered and easy-to-follow guidance about how to apply this knowledge to achieve excellent teaching.'-Michael Grahame Moore, Distinguished Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, and editor, The American Journal of Distance Education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include:\* analysis of the financial crisis;\* the reasons for the global scale of the recession\* the failure of international risk management\* An overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice;\* new cases.Once again in the new edition of their textbook, Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow show clearly the role of corporate governance in making sure the right questions are asked and the necessary checks and balances in place to protect the long-term, sustainable value of the enterprise.Features 18 case studies of institutions and corporations in crisis, and analyses the reasons for their fall (Cases include Lehman Brothers, General Motors, American Express, Time Warner, IBM and Premier Oil.).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Introduction to Modern CBT provides an easily accessible introduction to modern theoretical cognitive behavioral therapy models. The text outlines the different techniques, their success in improving specific psychiatric disorders, and important new developments in the field.\* Provides an easy-to-read introduction into modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches with specific case examples and hands-on treatment techniques\* Discusses the theoretical models of CBT, outlines the different techniques that have been shown to be successful in improving specific psychiatric disorders, and describes important new developments in the field\* Offers useful guidance for therapists in training and is an invaluable reference tool for experienced clinicians.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Love's Vision' is a delight to read. Jollimore's sensitive, careful philosophical examination of the experience of loving, combined with insights from literature and social psychology, yields a compelling picture of love as a form of perception. Jollimore's view is original and offers a fresh and productive approach to some of the thorniest philosophical puzzles about love.'--Simon Keller, Victoria University of Wellington'This is a very important and interesting contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of love. Jollimore has an engaging style and his book is a real pleasure to read.'--Diane Jeske, University of Iowa.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few resources exist that teach mental health practitioners the building block skills of working effectively with parents. Based in research, theory, and years of experience in working successfully with all types of parents, John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan provide mental health professionals with the tools to build rapport and trust with parents. Filled with strategies for working with parents, this book covers the practical techniques of parenting such as problem-solving interventions, discipline, authority issues, and much more.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a very welcome tool, which will enable health professionals to understand the complexity, challenge and rewards of proactively managing long-term conditions. Putting this knowledge into skilled practice, in partnership with patients, will transform the lives of many individuals and their families, and thus fulfil the fundamental purpose of nursing.--From the Foreword by Professor Rosemary Cook CBE, Director, the Queen's Nursing Institute and Visiting Professor of Enterprise, University of NorthumbriaLong-Term Conditions: Nursing Care and Management is a comprehensive, practical guide for nurses and other health care professionals on the care and management of people with chronic illness. It explores case management, individual care and management, looks at the role of the 'expert patient', quality of life issues, counselling skills, self-management and optimum self-care. Long-Term Conditions discusses the three main physical long-term conditions currently resulting in most hospital admissions: diabetes, respiratory disease and coronary heart disease, with a focus on empowering the patient to self manage.Key Features:\* A comprehensive guide to the care and management of long-term conditions\* Focuses on the management of the conditions from the patients' perspective\* Practical and accessible in style.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.\* Introduces readers to key aspects of decision theory and examines how they might help us make better decisions\* Presentation of material encourages readers to imagine a situation and make a decision or a judgment\* Offers a broad coverage of the subject including major insights from several sub-disciplines: microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, social choice, statistics, psychology, and philosophy\* Explains these insights informally in a language that has minimal mathematical notation or jargon, even when describing and interpreting mathematical theorems\* Critically assesses the theory presented within the text, as well as some of its critiques\* Includes a web resource for teachers and students.