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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership. In this collection of previously unpublished works, eminent writer, consultant, and lecturer Robert Greenleaf shares his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of fifty years, these essays and lectures touch on such key issues as power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood. And they offer the reader a wealth of practical suggestions and useful information garnered through the course of a remarkable career.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prominent activists, academics, politicians, journalists, mothers, and daughters celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American woman and reflect on what democracy means to women's lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of original essays expands on visionary Robert K. Greenleaf's servant-leadership theme. It offers thought-provoking ideas on how religious institutions and individuals can serve in a more caring way by applying the ideas and ideals of Greenleaf's servant-leadership vision.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sending an SOS when it comes to ROIs Help is on the way . . . UNDERSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT Return on investment (ROI) plays a major role in business, but itcan be a difficult concept to grasp. Understanding Return onInvestment shows you how to better utilize this essential tool bysimplifying and clarifying all its important points. Thisinvaluable guide includes information on: \* The effect of ROI on investment and disinvestment decisions \* The various forms of ROI and how they provide different measuresfor evaluating investment activities \* The relationship of ROI to ROE (return on equity) \* The use of ROI in evaluating investment centers in adecentralized operation \* How ROI is used to evaluate managers \* The use of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in makinginvestment decisions If you use ROI, but are confused or unclear about some of itsdetails, you'll definitely profit from Understanding Return onInvestment, a complete guide to this all-important performanceindicator.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Only in America could a would-be monk convince a faded televisionstar to pitch a rehabilitation device designed for Scandinavianskiers and create a nationwide sensation. The marketing strategyalone is worth the price of admission.' --Paul B. Brown Special Correspondent for the Business News Network(BNN) and coauthor of Customers for Life 'This is the first time the person behind a fad lays out the wholemarketing strategy he used. Even I learned a lot.' --Bob Rice Pet Rock Promoter 'Within a matter of months, Peter Bieler created a $100,000,000industry out of nothing. This fascinating book chroniclesstep-by-step how he did it.' --Steve Dworman Publisher, Infomercial Marketing Report 'As a jack, in an emergency, if you have a very small car . As arack to dry homemade pasta . Prop it on its side and presto! Twinpicture frames . Have it bronzed and claim it's a very earlyHenry Moore .' --Diane White columnist for The Boston Globe on alternate uses forthe ThighMaster See Inside for Exciting Contest Details.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The must-have book for all futures traders.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As statements of a company's financial condition, balance sheetscontain information vital to owners, investors, and financialmanagers who are charged with assessing company performance. Oftencomplex and difficult to interpret, balance sheets are nonethelessessential because they help pinpoint business problem areas.Understanding Balance Sheets explains in a clear and concise mannerall the major aspects of this important business tool, making ityours to implement easily and successfully. Written by two financial and accounting authorities, this hands-onworking reference enables you to understand a company's balancesheet within the context of its annual report. You'll find detailedinformation on: \* Exactly what a balance sheet is, how it works, and how it's usedto increase profitability \* The individual components: receivables, cash, inventory,long-lived assets, current payables, long-term debt, and equity \* How these different elements relate to each other, how they comeinto being, and how they should be controlled in your business \* How accounting data is created, accumulated, and used in thedevelopment of financial statements Whether you're new to balance sheets, need a quick refresher, orrequire a knowledge that goes beyond the basics, this guide has itall. Understanding Balance Sheets is a thorough, accessiblereference that you can't afford to be without if you need to get ahandle on this essential financial tool. Get a handle on balance sheets with this comprehensive referencethat gives you the basics and beyond From the authors who brought you indispensable guides to suchfinancial fundamentals as cash flow, income statements, and returnon investment comes a book that clarifies and explains theintricacies of another important tool: the balance sheet. Coveringall its major aspects, Friedlob and Plewa give you a broadunderstanding of its individual elements, the related disclosurescontained in an annual report, and the methods used to analyze acompany's balance sheet. Here's where to turn for valuableinformation on: \* Receivables, inventories, intangibles, short-term investments,and other components of a balance sheet \* How current liabilities create spontaneous financing when abusiness grows \* General purpose financial statements and widely acceptedaccounting principles \* The time value of money \* Analyzing the balance sheet through comparative and ratioanalysis Straightforward, comprehensive, and easy to follow, this is theguide you'll want for a complete overview of this vital businesstool.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership. In this collection of previously unpublished works, eminent writer, consultant, and lecturer Robert Greenleaf shares his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of fifty years, these essays and lectures touch on such key issues as power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood. And they offer the reader a wealth of practical suggestions and useful information garnered through the course of a remarkable career.Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstraße 12, 69469 Weinheim 416 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, Melamed tells the inside story of his remarkable life and career. A financial genius, a rags-to-riches hero, and a tyrannical power broker obsessed with immortality, Melamed is undeniably one of the most colorful and intriguing personalities of our time.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique Few mental health professionals are adequately trained to meet the unique needs of the 65-plus age-group. Written by experts--and in some cases pioneers--in the field, Treating the Elderly is filled with the most up-to-date information needed for developing the skills necessary to work with the special needs and sensibilities of this population. Filled with proven clinical techniques and strategies for helping clients deal with the most common emotional problems and issues of aging such as \* onset depression and anxiety \* the effect of physical decline and illness \* changing sexuality \* intermediate and long-term care \* problems of competence and cognitive decline \* insomnia.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Companies are finally discovering that their employees aren't just a cost of doing business, but their most valuable asset. The Reward Plan Advantage presents a model for designing performance reward systems that encourage information sharing, feedback, and employee involvement for improved individual performance and organizational success. The Reward Plan Advantage provides the tools to help you: \* Identify objectives and measurements \* Assess your current situation \* Create recognition plans \* Determine group and project team incentive plans \* Select the types of rewards \* Implement your reward and recognition plan The Reward Plan Advantage is filled with numerous charts, graphs, surveys, checklists, and other practical tools to create a reward and recognition system and group incentive plan.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Noted experts offer a comprehensive view of student, teacher, managerial, and organizational incentives and show how they are linked to school reform goals.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Let science set the stage The most valuable ally a change agent could want. Author Edwin Nevis and his coauthors leverage breakthrough behavioral and social science research to arrive at seven surefire methods for investing workers with an all-new mindset. The results: a powerful strategy for influencing behavior, minimizing resistance to change, and sustaining an organization that is continuously adapting and self-renewing. Filled with examples of both successful and failed change efforts -- and with numerous case studies from companies including Motorola and Xerox -- this is one how-to on effecting change you should definitely include in your arsenal. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The influence of Patricia and Paul Churchland's work on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science has been profound. The Churchlands have challenged nearly all prevailing doctrines concerning knowledge, mind, science, and language.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultivate the skills necessary to follow your business intuitionsNo matter how much background and training a trader or investor has, intuition remains the key personal asset to attaining financial success. Success depends on refining your intuition to a level that allows you to take the next step with unshakable confidence. But bringing yourself to this level is a daunting challenge--one that often requires you to override the logic of your acquired knowledge. With insights from industry success stories, exercises, and analysis from psychologists and psychiatrists, The Intuitive Trader shows traders and investors how to capitalize on their powerful intuitive skills so that they can take their trading to a new level.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current ClinicalTechnique Discusses clinical treatment, including cognitive therapy,psychodynamic therapy, short-term in-patient treatment, longer termhospitalization, and the correct use of hypnosis. Also discussed ishow the study of this controversial diagnosis reveals the innerworkings of the normal functioning mind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intended for an introduction or intermeduate course in corporate finance, Financial Management stresses a finance function orientation over the more traditional accounting orientation. Consistent with this approach, the text focuses on two main ideas: maximising shareholder wealth as the goal of financial management, and the persistent trade-offs confronting financial managers as they attempt to reach that goal.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reading and Understanding presents a review of current thinking about the psychology of reading, introducing the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from printed symbols. It is suitable for use as an advanced text for psychology, education and linguistics students. The volume includes a description of text and of the cognitive processes and changes necessary for transforming visible characters into meanings, and introduces the notion of the 'computational problem' facing the skilled reader - what kinds of information are available, and what are the processes necessary for recovering that information It also deals with the development of reading skills in readers of differing ability, including development dyslexics, poor readers, skilled readers and speed readers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Containing 26 entirely new cases from a wide range of countries, Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management vividly captures the crucial contemporary issues and trends in HR and strategic change management. Drawing on in-depth research by leading authorities in the field, each case, accompanied by analyses and lists of further readings, offers real life illustrations of modern theory and practice and includes pertinent discussion questions for students. In addition to all of the 'core' areas of resourcing, developing, IR, and equal opportunities, there is also coverage of process engineering, mergers and acquisitions, ways of limiting the need for redundancies and insight into how managers can learn to enact strategic change. Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM and change management.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teaches students and practitioners how to: understand the food chain as a single entity, collect and analyze data relevant to investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks, identify human health hazards in foods of animal origin, and principles of safe food.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive account of the cutlural history of English drama. Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Womack show how the character of a given theatrical 'age', as traditionally described, is packed with contradictions and uneven in development. Focusing on key historical moments and modes, they offer chapters on Medieval Theatre, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism, and conclude with accounts of Post-War British Theatre and the State, and Drama in the Age of Television.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Plasmids are closed, circular pieces of DNA that are able to self-replicate and are carried by many bacteria. They provide unique functions for bacteria by allowing them to sexually replicate and to pass on genetic material between each other. Plasmids are also responsible for the genetic factors that give resistance to antibiotics, and provide the enzymes needed to break down poorly metabolised food resources. The author has provided an updated treatment of the structure, function and application of plasmids suitable for undergraduates and medical students. Employing an original teaching perspective--examining plasmids as living organisms with either a symbiotic or parasitic mode of survival--this text provides an important framework for understanding the structure and function of plasmids in an evolutionary context. - The most up to date text on plasmids - An innovative teaching perspective makes for easy student understanding - Contains crucial chapters on the importance of plasmids for clinical and biological research.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative introduction to the world of professional gaming and casino management, from the authorities on the subject, the faculty of the UNLV International Gaming Institute: Vincent H. Eade, Director David J. Christianson, Dean William F. Harrah College of Hotel AdministrationContributing faculty members: Frank D. Borsenik Leslie E. Cummings Robert J. Martin John T. Bowen Bernhardt Fried Andrew Nazarechuk Pearl Brewer Zheng Gu John M. Stefanelli Anthony N. Cabot Jim KilbyThis is the book for anyone interested in pursuing or advancing a career in the gaming or casino industry, the ideal reference for hospitality students as well as professionals. Completely up-to-date and reflecting current academic and technological trends in the field, as well as the legislative developments permitting gambling casinos in almost every state, The Gaming Industry: Covers the historical background and regulatory aspects of gaming Explores all facets of casino operations--from food and beverages to cage operations, auditing, marketing, and reporting Examines the mathematics and utility analysis of gaming, including all newly introduced technologies and related practices for gaming and casino operations And much more.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book seeks to reflect the growing level of concern worldwide regarding the importance of ethical issues within the conduct of behavioral sciences research. Each chapter includes worldwide case studies of ethically controversial investigations which encourage students to more in-depth study.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership. In this collection of previously unpublished works, eminent writer, consultant, and lecturer Robert Greenleaf shares his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of fifty years, these essays and lectures touch on such key issues as power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood. And they offer the reader a wealth of practical suggestions and useful information garnered through the course of a remarkable career. 416 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book to focus on clinical work with lesbians and gays in family relationships This groundbreaking resource provides you with a wealth of fascinating research and case examples, as well as recommAndations and suggestions for working with gay couples and families. Joan Laird and Robert-Jay Green have gathered a distinguished panel of practitioners to create this comprehensive collection. The contributors address the experiences of lesbians and gay men as couples and as parents and examine their relationships with the families in which they were raised.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fascinating insights into what influences behavior on the job. Here, leading psychologists examine the entire spectrum of individual differences and show how they affect personality, vocational interests, job performance, and work dysfunctions. Cutting-edge theory and research no manager should miss.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernIn this age of microchips and deep space probes, it s hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. An astonishing series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world s mightiest industrial power. The Innovators tells the exciting story of the engineering pioneers whose discoveries so dramatically altered commerce, industry, and world history. The book takes readers into the workshops of America s early engineering geniuses, explaining how they came up with their ideas and later applied them in the marketplace. Devotees of history and technology will appreciate the finely drawn profiles of America s technical wizards, from the famous--including Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat; Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph; and Thomas Edison, inventor of the first electrical power network--to the lesser known, such as J. Edgar Thompson, who built the Pennsylvania Railroad. From the author of the critically acclaimed The Tower and the Bridge Features over 80 illustrations of the engineers and their inventionsDAVID P. BILLINGTON (Princeton, New Jersey), a professor of civil engineering at Princeton University, is the author of The Tower and the Bridge, and Robert Maillart s Bridges: The Art of Engineering, which won the 1979 Dexter Prize as the outstanding book on the history of technology.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Immunoassays are among the most widely used of analytical techniques and have been applied successfully to an extensive range of substances, from single molecules to whole cells. This book provides key data on all types of immunoassay, including RIA, ELISA and dry surface immunoassay, and on the use of photoluminescent and chemiluminescent labels in immunoassays. Essential information is also given on assay design and data processing. The Essential Data series provides rapid access to the core data required by researchers on a daily basis, in convenient pocket-sized volumes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive reference covers all aspects of cost planning and estimating for facilities maintenance: - A comprehensive approach to M & R planning and budgeting for all major building types in the private and public sector - Expert advice on M & R requirements for building components - Easy-to-follow tips & examples on assembly costs into a defensible budget - Understanding operating costsand exploring opportunities for improvement - Building a maintenance and repair cost profile - Addresses10 major building types, including corporate, hospitals, offices, more.…