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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Make your home COPD friendlyYour reassuring guide to understanding and managing COPD and getting on with your lifeWant to know more about COPD This straightforward guide provides clear information about this progressive disease, explaining how to recognize the warning signs, get diagnosed, and choose the best treatment. You'll see how diet, exercise, and medication affect your symptoms and make your life easier.Discover how to:\*Know your risk factors\*Find the right doctors\*Quit smoking, start exercising, and change your diet\*Improve your overall health\*Prepare for emergencies\*Help loved ones with COPD.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understand the beliefs, customs, and rituals of each faithThe fun and easy way to know the common elements of these widespread religionsWant to know more about the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam This plain-English guide traces their evolution from their commonorigin -- Abraham -- and explains their different, yet linked, beliefs.You'll see how each religion developed, endured setbacks, and became a fixture in modern society -- and you'll learn how members havedeveloped similar approaches to worship.Discover:\*How the belief in one God originated\*The roots of Abraham's family tree\*The sacred texts of each faith\*Major similarities and differences\*How these religions influenced the world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by J. Phillip Newell, one of the foremost experts on Celtic spirituality, this moving book offers a reflection on the 'forgotten' Jesus, the Christ of the ancient Celtic tradition. Drawing on the gospels of Thomas and the Acts of John and on the writings of Irenaeus, Eriugena, and Teilhard de Chardin, the author ignites us with the possibilities that can come from understanding this ancient spiritual tradition. The Celtic Christ offers new hope for achieving harmony, healing, and renewal for human beings and for all of creation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whatever you want out of life, you need a plan. While it might seem easier to put your trust in the cosmic order, a better way is to give fate a helping hand. It's your life, so take it personally!Don't Wait for Your Ship to Come in. takes three interweaving themes of insight, ownership and action to provide a complete course of accessible insights, tools and techniques. the themes represent:\* insight - Insight that things must change is the first step in creating positive lasting change.\* ownership - The ship belongs to you and it carries a cargo of your goals. Once you recognize that things need to change, its time to take stock of personal strengths and values and take control.\* action - Personal goals need personal action. Persistent positive action brings positive lasting change.By following these principles, you will be able to transform mere wishful thinking into well-formed goals. Don't Wait for Your Ship to come in. will help you make lasting positive change in your life and gives you the tool and techniques for doing just that.Don't just tread water. go on and make a real splash!

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door Home Staging For Dummies delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Navigate cultural differences in meeting styles and gift-givingThe fun and easy way to say and do the right thing in all business situationsWant to be on your best business behavior This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and successfully navigate today's culturally diverse business environment. You get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business.Discover how to:\* Make a great first impression\* Practice proper online etiquette\* Build your verbal and written skills\* Deal with difficult personalities\* Become a well-mannered traveler.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How real estate investors and speculators can take their business globalThe real estate boom has gone global, and those successful investors who want to keep up their profits are starting to look at emerging markets on other continents. Markets in South America, Eastern Europe, India, and Asia are currently experiencing the rapid growth that mature domestic markets experienced a few years ago. Based on the author s personal experience buying and selling dozens of overseas properties, this book provides all the relevant data investors need to evaluate properties and markets anywhere in the world.Colin Barrow (Hayle, Cornwall, UK) is a non-executive director of two venture capital funds and serves on the UK Government Task Force for Business.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity - as a result of war, terrorism, environmental catastrophe, or insecurity in the workplace - they often turn inwards. During previous phases of global insecurity we witnessed the rise of fascism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By introducing current debates in the field of critical thinking and posing new questions from contributing scholars, Critical Thinking and Learning examines the received wisdom in the field of critical thinking and learning.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Game-Changing Strategies'This is the most exciting book I have read in years! Clearly written and crammed with interesting ideas that are brought to life with real-company examples, Game-Changing Strategies will change the way managers approach strategy-making in their organizations. Should be required reading for top executives and anyone interested in business-model innovation.'-Peter Schou, founder and former CEO, Lån & Spar Bank A/S, Denmark; administrator and director, Lån & Spar Fond'Costas Markides really understands what it takes to innovate in a large corporation. This clear-eyed analysis cuts through the complexity that has muddied our understanding of strategic innovation, then does what so few other books on the topic have done: it provides practical guidance on how to implement the change. Academics will admire it for the powerful concepts, but executives will devour it for the practical insights. This is not a book for the corporate library; it belongs on the desk of any serious manager-and within easy reach.'-Christopher A. Bartlett, Thomas Casserly Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School'Business-model innovations can change the rules of an industry and unlock enormous sources of new value. Yet many companies find changing their business model a hazardous and sometimes fatal journey. Game-Changing Strategies provides a fresh and insightful perspective on how companies can navigate this journey successfully and profit from business-model change. Based on a decade of research and filled with real-world examples, the book shows how managers of both established and entrepreneurial companies can change, and raise, their game.'-Eric D. Beinhocker, author, The Origin of Wealth'By emphasizing the organizational challenges of implementing radical new business models, Game-Changing Strategies provides a useful road map to companies that aspire to innovate in their business model. I thoroughly recommend this book to those courageous enough to consider breaking the rules in their industries.'-Mark Price, managing director, Waitrose, United Kingdom.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Showing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight, this book moves from war films and historical works to television specials and popular magazines to define the image and influence of World War II.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here is the story of Faith in Action, the acclaimed nationwide grant program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that brings together Americans of all faiths to provide volunteer care and support to those in their communities who are confined to their homes because of a chronic health condition or disability.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rem Koolhaas has defined architecture as a chaotic adventure. Nothing could be more true than that of the last two decades. Never has architecture been so unbridled and so extraordinary: the architectural cast has never been so wide and their works so diverse. What though if you are new to the subject How is it possible to make sense of this seemingly unruly architectural landscape There are so many different types of architecture, so many designers with such varying and even contradictory approaches.This book is a much needed navigation guide for anyone interested in modern architecture. Organised chronologically, it enables you to find your way through one of the most prolific periods of building design. It looks at buildings in often contrasting styles that have been built almost simultaneously across the world with their roots in very different tendencies and schools of thought. A loose but effective framework is provided, which pulls all these multiple threads together, while key buildings are described individually with a unique clarity and precision.\* Covers seminal works, such as Guggenheim Bilbao and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.\* Features key architects: Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano\* Illustrated with more than 220 colour images.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is now in use worldwide, while hypnosis as a technique continues to attract serious interest from the professional community. Integrating the two, the field of cognitive hypnotherapy uses the natural trance states of clients to unlock unconscious thoughts and memory patterns that can generate and sustain problems. Cognitive hypnotherapists work within the client s model of the world, so that changes are more likely to be subconsciously accepted and become permanent. This practical guide shows how cognitive hypnotherapy can be used to treat a range of emotional disorders including depression, sleep disorders, anxiety, eating disorders and PTSD.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The extraordinary growth of creative businesses, such as film, video games, music, broadcasting, publishing and advertising, has shifted the traditional focus of management from the organization of skills and resources to the mysterious art of mining the imagination. Now the glacial predictability of corporate process has come up against the notorious unpredictability of the creative temperament, and business leaders are confronted with challenging paradox of managing the unmanageable.The resulting clash between control and creativity, between measurement and the immeasurable, between the ideology of growth and the growth of ideas, is exacerbated by the myths and misunderstandings that hamper our quest for innovation and originality.Drawing from the leading lights of creativity research and a lifetime of experience in creative businesses, Gordon Torr takes a scalpel to the institutionalized idiocy that is stifling the generation of ideas in today's corporations.The curse of the brainstorm, the commoditisation of creative talent, the deskilling of the imagination, the startling inadequacies of management theory - these and other horrors of idea-assassination are dissected and disembowelled in this cutting expose of the drama that unfolds every time a new idea slides across the boardroom table.'This is a fascinating, original and provocative book. As creative skills become increasingly critical to economic growth, a better understanding of how to manage these skills is essential. Torr digs deep in his exploration, dispelling popular myths, revealing new insights and clarifying the messy and muddled thinking about creative people and creative processes.' --Judie Lannon, Editor Market Leader'. a scholarly (and timely) appraisal of the genesis of ideas, from a practising creative professional. . a great deal of nonsense is at last debunked, and a great deal of sound advice - some of it counterintuitive - is conveyed.' --Derek Day, author of Creating Passion Brands'.like power-chugging a gallon of emotional caffeine.' --Dennis Ryan, Chief Creative Officer, Element 79, Chicago.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization.Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular musicDraws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studiesConsiders how global processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for othersProvides an original and stimulating overview of theories of culture and globalization, encouragingstudents think more broadly about the key issues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Six Sizzling Markets'Everyone knows that the globe is being changed by globalization, but what does it mean for the ordinary citizen or investor Pran Tiku offers a clear and informative account of the opportunities that exist in six of the major new global economies. The book sizzles with practical advice for the would-be global investor; but, more significantly, it includes important background material on the history and politics of the six countries -- material that is interesting in itself and also very practical.'--Sidney Verba, Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityIn Six Sizzling Markets, seasoned financial veteran Pran Tiku effectively outlines how you can profit from investing in six dynamic emerging market economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (collectively known as BRIC), as well as South Korea and Mexico. Tiku introduces each country by painting a picture of its historical and political landscapes and quickly moves on to provide you with practical applications and profitable strategies for these markets.This reliable resource skillfully addresses growth opportunities and describes sustainable investment strategies--based on vigorous research and investment experience--and provides a basis for investing in these markets by explaining the opportunities that are available. Six Sizzling Markets also argues that meaningful diversification is likely to reduce risk and enhance returns based on well-known principles of modern portfolio theory.Engaging and informative, Six Sizzling Markets will educate both experienced and aspiring investors on strategies for developing their international portfolios by capitalizing on emerging market opportunities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. - Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejecting answers based on stereotypes and fear - Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latino identity, touching upon anthropology, history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as philosophy - Written by Jorge J. E. Gracia, one of the most influential thinkers of Hispanic/Latino descent.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by leading experts in the field, The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism focuses on the methodology of research in this rapidly growing field.\* Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on bilingualism and multilingualism and offers a practical guide to the specific procedures and tools for collecting and analyzing data\* Specifically addresses methodological issues, discussing research topics, core concepts and approaches, and the methods, techniques and tools available\* Provides project ideas and practical advice on conference presentations and publication\* Brings together a team of leading international experts in the field\* Links theory to method, and to data, answering the market need for a volume on bilingualism and multilingualism that deals with its methodology in a systematic and coherent way.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Trauma Rules 2 retains its lively and fun presentation to help you remember the essential principles of trauma care and feel confident about handling and treating patients appropriately in the first hours of injury. Thoroughly expanded and updated, and now including military trauma rules, the second edition of this popular pocket book now offers: