Wiley mai 1995 (56 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A ray of hope for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients Alzheimer's afflicts millions of people around the world, as well as the family members who care for them. Alzheimer's - Finding the Words: A Communication Guide for Those Who Care offers practical help for both the sufferer and their caregivers by easing paths of communication as the disease progresses. Faltering speech and language processing is often at the root of common behavioral changes that cause conflict; by showing you what to expect and how to work around the changes, this book provides a lifeline that can help make your time together more fulfilling on both sides.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Use writer's conferences to establish career-making contacts withagents, editors, and other writers Veteran writers and editors Steven and Lee Spratt offer savvyadvice on using writer's conferences as your primary networkingtool. They'll help you make strong and lasting connections withagents, editors, and other writers by showing you how to: \* Present yourself as a professional in any situation, even ifyou've never sold a word \* Follow up on new contacts to get the most out of every lead \* Find and evaluate hundreds of writer's conferences and workshopsthroughout the country \* Abide by the rules of publishing protocol when sending out queryletters, proposals, and manuscripts \* Transform you're conference contacts into book contracts With this essential guide, you'll make and keep the importantconnections that are a vital part of every professional writer'slife.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A proven program for increasing your management skills Managing Assertively has helped tens of thousands of businesspeoplebecome more effective managers by sharpening their people skills.Leading management trainer Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how you,too, can learn to resolve conflicts and defuse interpersonalproblems that invariably arise at work. Her step-by-steptechniques, clear examples, and competence-building exercises willimmediately improve your supervisory skills, sharpen yourself-awareness, and make you a more confident, assertive manager.You'll learn how to: \* Use eight building blocks to become a more effective manager \* Overcome self-defeating behavior \* Handle criticism to maintain and enhance self-esteem \* State limits and expectations to clarify assignments \* Become a more effective listener \* Receive and give positive feedback to enhance team building \* Handle conflict, stress, personal problems, and a wide range ofother difficult on-the-job situations \* By following the user-friendly, interactive, self-teachingformat, you can work at your own pace as you master managementessentials.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Make sure your child gets off to the right start in math! Help your child become more comfortable and confident with numbers Discover which mathematical concepts first-and second-graders should learn Enjoy helping your child master key math skills You can teach your child the basic skills that will lay the foundations for future success in math and science. Based on standard math curriculums, this book covers all the math that your first- and second-graders should be learning and gives you dozens of proven techniques for teaching these crucial skills. Steve Slavin, an educator with a special gift for math instruction, shows parents how to teach the fundamentals--counting, addition, subtraction, fractions, simple word problems, even the beginnings of multiplication and division--plus 'new math' principles such as grouping. Simple activities build these skills in a fun way, step-by-step. All concerned parents, including home-schoolers, will applaud this confidence-building guide.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complete profiles of today's most successful annuities. Experttips on how to maximize your returns. Variable annuities now outpace mutual funds as the number onechoice among street-smart investors--and it's easy to see why.Tax-deferred, commission-free, easy to purchase and redeem,carrying less risk than most other instruments, and exhibiting asuperb overall performance, they are an indispensable addition toany low-risk, high-yield portfolio. Now, in the first book of itskind, financial planning expert Gordon Williamson demystifiesannuities investing. Writing in a straightforward, down-to-earthstyle, he: \* Clearly explains how annuities work, profiles their returnpotential, and frankly assesses their relative advantages anddisadvantages \* Steers you to the 100 best annuities for your investment dollar \* Emphasizes risk reduction without sacrificing returns \* Supplies complete annuity profiles, including average annualreturns over the past 3, 5, and 10 years \* Ranks and evaluates today's entire spectrum of annuityproducts--aggressive growth/small cap, international, growth andincome, balanced, money market, and more \* Pinpoints the best performing variable annuities \* Includes investment options within each annuity recommended The word is out: variable annuities are one of the best investmentinstruments developed in this century. Now find out how you cantake full advantage of their unprecedented earning potential withThe 100 Best Annuities You Can Buy.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than a fad, teaming is proving to be a new way oforganizational life, with eight out of every ten employees nowinvolved in some kind of teamwork. But how exactly does one play ona team at work While there are plenty of manuals, trainers, andtheories that help managers create, lead, and reward teams, actualteam members are often left struggling without a handbook or acoach. With refreshing clarity and common sense, Maureen O'Brien, a teamexpert with more than twenty years of experience as a player,coach, and business consultant, offers one-on-one coaching tips toteam players in Who's Got the Ball The author covers all thebases, from setting a team's goals and articulating its noblepurpose, to banishing boring meetings, deciding how to makedecisions, and even using flip charts effectively. Friendly andconversational, O'Brien offers experience-based, easy-to-implementguidelines that are eminently practical and surprisingly fun. Herconcise coaching notes, wonderfully illustrated by real-lifeorganizational situations, address every aspect of daily team life,including: creating a workable team structure \* being a valuableteam member \* avoiding common teamwork traps \* running an effectiveteam meeting \* making and implementing decisions \* leading ateam. From developing a new team and determining just what kind of gameyour team is playing--individualistic baseball, interdependentbasketball, or tightly orchestrated football--to dealing withpersonality-based conflicts, knowing when to take a time-out, andhonoring a project's most valuable player, Who's Got the Ball isan invaluable guide to surviving--and thriving--on today's workteams.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first practical guide to using reengineering to dramatically improve the development and success of new products. Executives, product development teams and engineering design groups will see how to consistently execute successful new product launches. In a compelling, clear fashion, Hunt describes how companies can fully integrate their product development process by focusing on seven key initiatives. They include process understanding; broad-based process reengineering; establishing quality goals and multi-functional teams; using the right tools and techniques; and implementing ongoing continuous improvement.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Create workspace that supports business strategies Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet littleattention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today'sorganizations operate---teamwork, flattened hierarchies,telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Designshows CEOs and managers alike how to put aside and rethinkconventional, awkward notions of space utilization based onhierarchy and status--notions that pit people against each other inturf wars, tear apart teams, and tie up company cash. Usingillustrative examples from Digital Equipment Corporation,Steelcase, and others, the authors show how team environments,non-territorial offices and other strategies can support businessobjectives, energize employees, and produce a more competitiveorganization. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This step-by-step, hands-on guide explains how to reduce time to market for new products and effectively meet customer's needs. Demonstrates how to take advantage of the latest development tools and product design, use such proven techniques as robust design and QFD and assess and select the appropriate combination of tools, methodologies and strategies.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a leading expositor of testing methods, a practical, comprehensive, hands-on guide to the state-of-the-art black-box testing techniquesThis book fills a long-standing need in the software and general systems development communities to make the essential aspects of black-box testing available in one comprehensive work. Written by one of the world's most respected figures in the field of testing, it is both a valuable working resource for independent testers and programmers and an excellent practical introduction for students. Dr. Boris Beizer clearly explains the principles behind behavioral testing in general and behind the most important black-box testing techniques in use today, which involve testing a system based on its desired behavior or function and for conformance to its specifications. Then, with fully worked examples, he leads you step-by-step from specifications to finished test cases.Complete coverage of all important test techniquesæincluding those that apply to object-oriented software\* Up-to-dateæincluding the most recent breakthroughs in domain testing that now make this technique available to the working tester with no tools needed beyond a calculator or spreadsheet\* Examples based on the popular off-the-shelf tax preparation packages let you try the techniques on your favorite tax software\* Includes all necessary IRS tax forms\* Self-evaluation quizzes help you evaluate your understanding of the material.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including 'Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, ' and 'Daughters of the Dust.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The authors model practices that instructors at every level may use to get off to a good beginning, maintain motivation in the mid-semester doldrums, and achieve successful closure at the And. Each chapter opens with a vignette that illustrates challenges teachers encounter and the ways both they and their students respond to them.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This practical resource helps elementary classroom, remedial reading, and LD teachers make the best possible informal assessment of a child's specific reading, writing, and spelling strengths and weaknesses and attitudes toward reading. Written in easy-to-follow nontechnical language, it provides a multitude of tested informal assessment strategies and devices, such as 'kid watching,' retellings, journals, IRIs, writing surveys, portfolios, think alouds and more-- including more than 200 reproducible assessment devices ready for immediate use! You'll find a detailed description of each informal assessment techniques along with step-by-step procedures for its use and, wherever possible, one or more reproducible sample devices. Complete answer keys for each device are included with the directions. Among the unique topics covered are the innovative Individual Reading Inventory, San Diego Quick Assessment List, El Paso Phonics Survey, QAD Chart, Holistic scoring of writing and Reproducible devices for portfolio assessment. In short, Alternative Assessment Techniques for Reading and Writing offers a wealth of tested, ready-to-use informal assessment information and devices that should save the teacher a great deal of time and energy in making a useful assessment of any student's literacy ability.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking a page from the servant leadership ideas of AT&T's Robert Greenleaf--America's true business visionary--Spears encourages managers to act as facilitators and coaches who empower employees and lead by example, rather than beating them over the head with programs and inflexible demands.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Life in Fragments is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman s acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993). Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social theory, Postmodern Ethics subverted the pieties of subversion which rule the postmodern imagination, arguing for an ethic of being with the Other, beyond the fashionable imperative of anything goes or the deconstruction of identity through difference.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The authors present a dynamic approach to effectively link sales and marketing planning directly to the operations side of a business. Demonstrates how to create a connection between a company s business plan and each department s operations, accurately anticipate changes in customer s needs and significantly improve a firm s competitive position with an enhanced level of customer satisfaction.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Socio-Legal Studies in Context is the first attempt to take stock of the development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom. With an increasing awareness amongst legal scholars of the need for socio-legal research, this volume is essential reading for all teachers of law and law related subjects. It will provide rich ideas for young researchers wishing to involve themselves in the socio-legal approach. The volume also provides an opportunity for more experienced researchers to look back and re-assess their own work and help them form their own plans for the future.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A terrific book!' --David A. Nadler, chairman, DeltaConsulting Group Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams.Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components oforganizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research andconsulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard,Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and TexasInstruments, the authors shows you how to create new organizationdesigns that empower teams so that they make a real difference. You'll discover how to: \* Design new work teams \* Identify new roles and responsibilities \* Manage team performance \* Create an empowering team environment Over 50 tables, figures, and exhibits reinforce the practical text.Even if teams already exist at your organization, you'll use thiswell-researched guide to push your teams to higher levels ofperformance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develop customer-focused, market-driven strategies for today'scompetitive marketplace. . . Industrial Marketing Strategy Widely regarded as a classic text in the field, IndustrialMarketing Strategy, Third Edition shows you, as a practicingmanager, how to develop the marketing strategies your businessneeds to succeed in a rapidly evolving global marketplace. Thisimportant book covers: \* The basic concepts of customer analysis, buying behavior,buyer-seller relationships, market segmentation and targeting, andpositioning \* Proven, concrete, strategic management techniques--rather than arote enumeration of the functions and institutions of industrialmarketing \* Guidelines for implementing the value proposition throughdistribution and marketing communications \* The role of marketing in the broader context of business andcorporate-level strategic planning \* Special sections on product development, national accountmanagement, customer service, information technology, and pricesignaling.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a history of the Khmers, the people who for thousands of years inhabited the wooded interior of Cambodia. One hundred and fifty years ago the representatives of imperial France were astonished to find half-buried within the jungle the still magnificent ruins of vast temples. Justly described as one of the wonders of the world, these were the remnants of the once great Angkor empire. Since then archaeologists and historians have attempted to piece together its history. This book presents the result of these endeavours in the first account of the history of Khmer civilization to be published for many years.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An important addition to the library of anyone concerned with orinterested in the role of the university in today's society. Thoseof us who have devoted our life's work to improving the delivery ofeducational programs and services to students will appreciateBalderston's comprehensive view of our work setting.' --Journal of College Student Development.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an introduction to Judaism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for all students of Judaism and world religions, and covers major movements that have been developed. Written by a leading teacher and researcher, each chapter features a clear and authoritative introduction to its subject, accompanied by a reading by a specialist in the particlular field.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This timely collection of introductory essays provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to, and survey of, the major moral debates of today. - Wide coverage and introduction to the main issues and arguments of applied ethics - Each chapter specially commissioned to introduce newcomers - Comprehensive notes and reading guides.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This updated revision explains how to design, implement and manage a cutting-edge distribution system based on quick response/continuous replenishment concepts. Practical guidelines demonstrate how to dramatically improve the accuracy of product deliveries, reduce levels of inventory, lower operating costs and refine productivity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume provides an introduction to and review of key contemporary debates concerning connectionism, and the nature of explanation and methodology in cognitive psychology. The first debate centers on the question of whether human cognition is best modeled by classical or by connectionist architectures. The second centres on the question of the compatibility between folk, or commonsense, psychological explanation and explanations based on connectionist models of cognition. Each of the two sections includes a classic reading along with important responses, and concludes with a specially commissioned reply by the main contributor. The editorial introductions provide a comprehensive survey and map through the debates.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Headed by Bernstein, the quantitative equity and equity derivatives strategies group at Merrill Lynch is noted for their proprietary research on market segmentation and style investing. In this book, he highlights the macroeconomic, microeconomic and expectational factors that can affect equity market segment performance. The first section focuses on the definition and identification of market segments and reviews the major equity market segments that concern today's institutional investors. Part two analyzes the historical result of each segment of style strategy within the context of the economic and expectational framework. Lastly, it describes current issues and problems in equity markets and their implications for pension plan sponsors.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new series of readings from Conservation Biology gives easy access to some of the finest papers ever published in a range of important fields. Readings in Conservation Biology can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of the best, most representative papers available in a format students can use. Readings will also be invaluable for researchers and academics needing an update in a specific area.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Juran Prescription identifies the practical steps needed if clinicians are to build a quality program tailored to their individual organizations. Based on the highly effective management techniques of renowned Dr. Joseph Juran, this book outlines management strategies, techniques, and skills that are essential in transforming health care organizations. The author examines the principle at the heart of Juran's teachings--Total Quality Management--as reflected in such impressive management innovations as outcomes measurement, guidelines for practice, reengineering, and patient-focused care.…