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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finally, a Clear Introduction to Algebra -- Courtesy of Dr. Math ! You've made it through pre-algebra, but now things are getting harder in algebra class. Never fear! Dr. Math -the popular online math resource-is here to help you figure out even the trickiest of your algebra problems. Students just like you have been turning to Dr. Math for years asking questions about math problems, and the math doctors at the Math Forum have helped them find the answers with lots of clear explanations and helpful hints. Now, with Dr. Math Explains Algebra, you'll learn just what it takes to succeed in this subject. You'll find the answers to dozens of real questions from students who needed help understanding the basic math concepts in a typical algebra class. You'll find plenty of hints and shortcuts for working with unknown quantities. Pretty soon, everything from linear equations to polynomials to factoring will make sense. Plus, you'll get plenty of tips for working with all kinds of real-life problems. You won't find a better explanation of the world and language of algebra anywhere.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today's science fairs are more challenging than ever before, with projects that are much more sophisticated than your dad's old volcano model. That's why this follow-up to the classic Complete Handbook of Science Fair Projects, by Julianne Bochinski, presents 35 all-new, award-winning science fair projects developed and presented by actual students. More Award-Winning Science Fair Projects gives you the information you need to compete in today's science fairs. Each project includes: \* A detailed introduction, including the purpose and hypothesis \* A complete list of materials needed \* Step-by-step instructions on how to carry out the experiment \* Inquiry questions to help you evaluate your own results In addition, this book gives you a thorough introduction to developing your own science project, from choosing and researching a topic and finding a mentor, to organizing experiments and data and setting up a backboard, to delivering a top-notch oral presentation. Plus, you'll find over 400 ideas for science fair topics, 100 award-winning project titles, project supply sources, science fair listings, and more. Creating a successful science fair project can be an exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience. Get in on the fun and create an interesting, impressive project of your own. You'll be amazed at what you can accomplish with More Award-Winning Science Fair Projects. DiBiase, Judy (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Breakthrough' - Das Ziel dieses Buches ist einfach: Es will Führungskräften dabei helfen, ihre Teams zu einzigartiger Leistung anzuspornen und dem Unternehmen aussergewöhnliche Ergebnisse zu bescheren. Indem Führungskräfte ein groß angelegtes, scheinbar unrealistisches Ziel setzen - kein Ziel, das leicht erreichbar ist - können sie die Stärke, die Motivation und die Zusammenarbeit im Team fördern, um dieses unrealistisch erscheinende Ziel dennoch zu erreichen. Das Buch basiert auf einer 10-jährigen großangelegten Studie mit über 70 erfolgreichen Unternehmen, wie z.B. IBM, Dayton-Hudson, Progressive Insurance, EMC, American Standard, Charles Schwab, and Dell Computer. Es zeigt, wie diese Unternehmen sich unerhört hohe Ziele gesteckt haben und fast alle damit beachtliche Ergebnisse erzielt haben. 'Breakthrough' erhält Empfehlungen von Top-Führungskräften, die der Autor kennt, z.B. Lou Gerstner (IBM), Peter Lewis (Progressive Corporation), Emanuel Kampouris (American Standard), Charles Schwab (Charles Schwab Corporation), Jean Monty (BCE), Michael Dell (Dell Computer) and Dick Brown (EDS). Autor Bill Davidson ist ein angesehener Akademiker (ehemaliger Professor für Management an der University of Southern California), erfolgreicher Consultant (zu seiner Klientel gehören u.a. die Bank of America, Chevron, Lockheed, NASA, Pfizer, Safeway und Target) und Redner mit über 50 Redeverpflichtungen pro Jahr.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - European migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies. - - Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in France, Germany and the UK. - Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country. - Considers the implications of the new policies on other categories of migrants: asylum seekers, refugees and resident ethnic minorities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn practical electronics at your own paceWhat is a semiconductor How do you lay out circuits to avoid noise and interference What do inductors and transformers have in common How does a coaxial cable carry power to an antenna With Practical Electronics: A Self-Teaching Guide, you ll discover the answers to these questions and many more about the basics of electricity and electronic components.Thoroughly researched for our digital age, this easy-to-use guide makes familiar the workings of transistors, capacitors, diodes, resistors, integrated circuits, and more. Electronics expert Ralph Morrison starts you off with two of the simplest electronic components, showing you how to combine them into circuits and then add more components to create more complex circuits. He includes detailed 'learning circuits,' which are electronic circuits you can build yourself, even if you have had no prior electronics experience. The clearly structured format of Practical Electronics makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview for everyone from the student to the engineer to the hobbyist.Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Practical Electronics allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic electronics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thinking about getting up and telling the world what you stand for is daunting. Actually doing it is terrifying but the rewards are incredible. Imagine spending every waking hour doing what you love. Authentic shows how to do just that. In Authentic, Neil Crofts offers inspiration for individuals tired of career conformity. He shows how we arrived at a situation where many of us are tied to jobs we don't enjoy. He demonstrates the steps you need to take to find out who you are and what you want from life, and finally, he reveals how you can turn all that into a business idea that is Authentic to you.Authentic is a lifestyle book based on practical experience. Neil Crofts' vision of a role that allowed him to be true to himself and make a positive impact on the world around him convinced him to break out of a conventional corporate career. Authentic is about giving others the courage to follow their hearts in the same way.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori s life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai , starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. In this vibrant new biography, Mark Ravina, professor of history and Director of East Asian Studies at Emory University, explores the facts behind Hollywood storytelling and Japanese legends, and explains the passion and poignancy of Saigo s life. Known both for his scholarly research and his appearances on The History Channel, Ravina recreates the world in which Saigo lived and died, the last days of the samurai.The Last Samurai traces Saigo s life from his early days as a tax clerk in far southwestern Japan, through his rise to national prominence as a fierce imperial loyalist. Saigo was twice exiled for his political activities -- sent to Japan s remote southwestern islands where he fully expected to die. But exile only increased his reputation for loyalty, and in 1864 he was brought back to the capital to help his lord fight for the restoration of the emperor. In 1868, Saigo commanded his lord s forces in the battles which toppled the shogunate and he became and leader in the emperor Meiji s new government. But Saigo found only anguish in national leadership. He understood the need for a modern conscript army but longed for the days of the traditional warrior.Saigo hoped to die in service to the emperor. In 1873, he sought appointment as envoy to Korea, where he planned to demand that the Korean king show deference to the Japanese emperor, drawing his sword, if necessary, top defend imperial honor. Denied this chance to show his courage and loyalty, he retreated to his homeland and spent his last years as a schoolteacher, training samurai boys in frugality, honesty, and courage. In 1876, when the government stripped samurai of their swords, Saigo s followers rose in rebellion and Saigo became their reluctant leader. His insurrection became the bloodiest war Japan had seen in centuries, killing over 12,000 men on both sides and nearly bankrupting the new imperial government. The imperial government denounced Saigo as a rebel and a traitor, but their propaganda could not overcome his fame and in 1889, twelve years after his death, the government relented, pardoned Saigo of all crimes, and posthumously restored him to imperial court rank.In THE LAST SAMURAI , Saigo is as compelling a character as Robert E. Lee was to Americans-a great and noble warrior who followed the dictates of honor and loyalty, even though it meant civil war in a country to which he d devoted his life. Saigo s life is a fascinating look into Japanese feudal society and a history of a country as it struggled between its long traditions and the dictates of a modern future.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - True to Our Roots sets forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards under Paul Dolan to become one of America's biggest and best-known wineries even as it was turning into a model for sustainable businesses everywhere. Today, Dolan and Fetzer are leading the California wine industry toward profound change in how wineries and grape growers preserve their environment, strengthen their communities, and enrich the lives of their employees, without sacrificing the bottom line. This is truly a management revolution in one of the most globalized, competitive industries on Earth. The principles Dolan discovered and developed at Fetzer can be applied to any business and by leaders at every level: - A business is part of a much larger system - A company's culture is determined by the context created for it - The soul of a company is found in the hearts of its people - The future can't be predicted, but it can be created - There is a way to make an idea's time come Filled with personal anecdotes and practical wisdom, this book offers inspiration and guidance to business managers who see the compelling need to build and grow healthy, sustainable organizations. For all readers, True to Our Roots provides both a fascinating glimpse into the California wine industry and heartening proof that business can do well by doing good.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most challenging responsibilities of being a college department chair or dean is to effectively manage the diverse and independent intellectuals that form the typical college faculty. Many administrators not only complain about the amount of time they devote to grappling with problems between faculty and staff members-but many also feel inadequately trained for resolving the problems they with which they are confronted. Managing People helps administrators handle the challenges they face when dealing with everyday personnel management problems. A collection of 13 essays, this book is written by experienced chairs, deans, and vice presidents who offer sensible advice based on personal experience and scholarly research. Each essay tackles a different aspect of people management, explaining the dimensions and subtleties of the issue as well as offering targeted suggestions and resources. Topics include - An analysis of how self-understanding is essential to any leader - Strategies for working with faculty and staff in a sincere and authentic manner - Approaches to positive leadership - Tips on achieving consensus among faculty - Advice on conducting departmental or college meetings that create cohesion - The different types of detractors or difficult individuals, and how best to deal with them - An explanation of how to eliminate negative defenses - Evaluations as useful for enhancing faculty performance and satisfaction - Ways in which to build and maintain faculty morale This book offers readers a practical guide on how to better manage faculty and staff in order to realize shared visions and positively impact their institutions.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination,' humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject,Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.Brings together a sweeping collection of readings, drawn from a remarkable range of sources, that look at various conceptions and modes of violence.Juxtaposes the routine violence of everyday life against the sudden outcropping of extraordinary violence such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the state violence of Argentina's Dirty War, and organized criminal violence.Edited by two of the most prominent researchers in the field.Offers a thought-provoking tool for students and thinkers from all walks of life: an exploration of violence at the broadest levels: personal, social, and political.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Exceptional Teacher, veteran K-12 teacher Elizabeth Aaronsohn examines three important questions: What do our teachers really want our children to get out of school How do their own schooling experiences inhibit them from achieving these goals How can a teacher education program give beginning teachers a framework for thinking differently about the whole process of teaching The Exceptional Teacher offers the guidance that teacher educators need to help their students become teachers who are knowledgeable and skillful practitioners, while also developing the ability to be reflective, imaginative, courageous, and flexible in the classroom- a model for the students they are instructing. In this inspiring book, Aaronsohn shows that becoming an exceptional teacher can be a difficult but rewarding journey. She explains that success begins in understanding one's self and societal and cultural experiences. Based on qualitative research from student writings and workshops, the author offers practical advice to help begining teachers move beyond their own internalized assumptions, and become educators who will transform their classrooms. Aaronsohn encourages teachers to develop the practice of honest reflection on their attitudes, thinking, and practices, and especially to develop the capacity to assume the perspective of another person. These practices can be nurtured through the process of in-depth writing, which helps to make meaning of experiences and brings teachers to a new level of consciousnesses about themselves, the world, and the mission of teaching.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Find satisfaction and financial success with a new career in coaching Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching offers a go-to reference designed to help every mental health professional build, manage, and sustain a thriving coaching practice. Packed with hundreds of proven strategies and techniques, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all aspects of the coaching business with step-by-step instructions and real-world illustrations that prepare you for every phase of starting your own coaching business. This single, reliable book offers straightforward advice and tools for running a successful practice, including: \* Seven tools for making a great first impression \* Fifteen strategies for landing ten paying clients \* Seven secrets of highly successful coaches \* Ten marketing mistakes to avoid Complete with sample business and marketing plans and worksheets for setting rates and managing revenue, Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching identifies the fifteen biggest moneymaking markets to target and offers valuable recommendations for financing that get the most impact and mileage from every budget. Quick 'Action Steps' for applying ideas and techniques make this book useful right away. Get started in coaching today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dissolving Boundaries will explore whether and the extent to which the boundaries between comparative politics and international relations are and should be dissolved. - Edited by the International Studies Association immediate past-president Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. - Explores the relationship between and the issues separating comparative politics and international relations.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources-a girls' soccer team, a sinking ship, and the safety standards at NASA. Escape Fire takes its title from the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy in which thirteen young firefighters were trapped in a wildfire on a Montana hillside. The firefighter's leader, Wag Dodge, devised a creative solution for avoiding the encroaching fire. He burned a patch of grass and lay down in the middle of the scorched earth. His team refused to join him, and most perished in the fire. Dodge survived. Berwick applies the lessons learned from the catastrophe to our ailing health care system-we must not let ingrained processes obstruct life-saving innovation. Not content to simply define the problems with our flawed system, Berwick outlines new designs and suggests practical tools for change: name the problem, build on success, take leaps of faith, look outside of the medical field, set aims, understand systems, make action lists, and-the most fundamental of all-never lose sight of the patient as the central figure.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you want to:improve learning retentioncreate discovery learningmake training interactiveincrease participation, andmake training fun. .this book is for you! In this easy-to-use resource, author and training expert Jean Barbazette gives you 71 case studies to use instantly or modify to meet your specific learning needs. She defines the five types of case studies and their different purposes, shows the benefits of using case studies, and offers clear-cut suggestions for writing your own original case studies or customizing existing case studies. Barbazette also offers step-by-step instructions for processing each case study to maximizing the potential for learning. In addition, all of the 71 case studies and discussion questions in the second half of this book are contained on the book s companion CD-ROM for your use. Answers to all case study questions are provided in the book.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - European migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies. - - Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in France, Germany and the UK. - Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country. - Considers the implications of the new policies on other categories of migrants: asylum seekers, refugees and resident ethnic minorities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Für Studenten der Medizin, der Pharmazie und der Psychiatrie ist ein tiefgehendes Verständnis der Wirkmechanismen von Psychopharmaka auf das Gehirn und der Klassifikation der Wirkstoffe nach spezifischen Rezeptorbindungen unerläßlich. Hier finden Sie eine zusammenhängende Abhandlung, die Ihnen hilft, sich in der ständig zunehmenden Fülle verfügbarer Wirkstoffe zurechtzufinden.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As HR leaders know, successful staffing is about much more than just hiring qualified people. It s about hiring the right qualified people and keeping them. To help you do that, On Staffing covers the new and innovative business initiatives managers from leading companies are using to assess the potential of people and place them in positions in which they can maximize that potential. It analyzes the practices that work, offers strategies for dealing with rapidly changing business and hiring environments, and helps HR leaders prepare for the changes and challenges to come.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This valuable text presents methods and techniques for conducting an animal disease surveillance program, and developing an animal health moitoring system. The text is a 'recipe book' for these techniques as it explains modern techniques, while emphasizing the fundamentals and principles of using these techniques.The book is targeted to epidemiologists and other animal health authorities who are working in national, regional, and international programs. The book can be used as a text for professional and postgraduate training curricula. This text will be of value in veterinary epidemiology and regulatory medicine, where there is need for a concise collection of material on animal disease monitoring, surveillance, and reporting strategies. This need arises from a new era of international trade regulations based on animal diseases, new demands for accountability in utilization of research funds, and calls for prioritizing and economically justifying animal health regulatory and diagnostic activities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book provides a practical guide, with worked examples, to the Scottish Building Regulations. The new edition takes account of substantial revisions to the Regulations on fire and means of escape, structural stability, conservation of fuel and power, and drainage.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A thoughtful, complete, and very readable approach to robust engineering. It presents insights that correlate with those learned at Ford while developing and executing Design for Six Sigma. Having this book three years ago could've helped with that effort.'-David Amos, DFSS Deployment Director, Ford Motor Company Written by Anna C. Thornton, the well-known author who coined the phrase 'variation risk management,' this comprehensive book presents new methods and implementation strategies based on her research of industry practices and her personal experience with such companies as The Boeing Company, Eastman Kodak Company, Ford Motor Company, Johnson & Johnson, and many others.Step-by-step guidelines show howyou canimplement and apply variation risk management to real-world problems within the existing systems of an organization. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Market players put their jobs on the line with every position they take. Any fixed income investor in the circumstance of being granted one wish would probably want to know what interest rates are going to do in the future. Economists and others have constructed models of interest rate behaviour, but no model works in all circumstances. The main aim of this book is to straddle the different worlds of theoretical models and practical market experience, while offering an interdisciplinary framework for fixed income investing and trading.\* A focussed but very practical approach to fixed-income investment, aimed at practitioner market\* Contains investment checklists and interviews with market practitioners\* Offers an interdisciplinary framework for fixed-income investing and trading, and combines worlds of theoretical models and practical market experience.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. - Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. - Presents crucial 'moments' in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. - Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives. - Part of the New Interventions in Art History Series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* Sensor technology is an increasingly important area of research\* This will be the only book entirely devoted to the topic.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive resource on Verilog HDL for beginners and experts Large and complicated digital circuits can be incorporated into hardware by using Verilog, a hardware description language (HDL). A designer aspiring to master this versatile language must first become familiar with its constructs, practice their use in real applications, and apply them in combinations in order to be successful. Design Through Verilog HDL affords novices the opportunity to perform all of these tasks, while also offering seasoned professionals a comprehensive resource on this dynamic tool. Describing a design using Verilog is only half the story: writing test-benches, testing a design for all its desired functions, and how identifying and removing the faults remain significant challenges. Design Through Verilog HDL addresses each of these issues concisely and effectively. The authors discuss constructs through illustrative examples that are tested with popular simulation packages, ensuring the subject matter remains practically relevant. Other important topics covered include: - Primitives - Gate and Net delays - Buffers - CMOS switches - State machine design Further, the authors focus on illuminating the differences between gate level, data flow, and behavioral styles of Verilog, a critical distinction for designers. The book's final chapters deal with advanced topics such as timescales, parameters and related constructs, queues, and switch level design. Each chapter concludes with exercises that both ensure readers have mastered the present material and stimulate readers to explore avenues of their own choosing. Written and assembled in a paced, logical manner, Design Through Verilog HDL provides professionals, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates with a one-of-a-kind resource.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advances in optical fibre based communications systems have played a crucial role in the development of the information highway. By offering a single mode oscillation and narrow spectral output, distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser diodes offer excellent optical light sources as well as optical filters for fibre based communications and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. This comprehensive text focuses on the basic working principles of DFB laser diodes and optical filters and details the development of a new technique for enhanced system performance.\* Considers the optical waveguiding characteristics and properties of semiconductor materials and the physics of DFB semiconductor lasers.\* Presents a powerful modelling technique based on the transfer matrix method which can be used to improve the design of laser diodes, optical fibres and amplifiers.\* Examines the effect of the various corrugation shapes on the coupling coefficients and lasing characteristics of DFB laser diodes.\* Technical advice to improve immunity against the spatial hole burning effect.\* Extensive referencing throughout and a comprehensive glossary of symbols and abbreviations.\* Suitable for both introductory and advanced levelsThis is an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of electrical and electronic engineering and physics as it consolidates their knowledge in this rapidly growing field. As a technical guide for the structural design of DFB laser diodes and optical filters, the book will serve as an invaluable reference for researchers in opto-electronics, and semi conductor device physics.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discusses applications of failures and evaluation techniques to a variety of industries.\* Presents a unified approach using two key elements of structural design.