Wiley sep 1991 (80 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fascinating guidebook offers easy-to-follow instructions for the budding gardener. Provides 11 exciting plant projects dealing with foods found in the kitchen and includes recipes and craft projects relating to each plant discussed. Extensive, attractive line drawings and simple step-by-step directions provide lots of entertainment for its young audience.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do planets spin How hot is the Sun What keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth What are Saturn's rings made of What's a black hole in space Now you can discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about basic astronomy. In Astronomy for Every Kid you'll learn about the constellations using a shoe box planetarium. You'll chart the movement of the stars with nothing but a string, a marker, and a nail. And you'll use a toy magnet to simulate the Earth's protective force field. Each of the 101 experiments is broken down into its purpose, a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an easy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom or at home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave:Biology for Every KidChemistry for Every KidDinosaurs for Every KidEarth Science for Every KidGeography for Every KidGeometry for Every KidThe Human Body for Every KidMath for Every KidPhysics for Every Kid.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of startingwith a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the educationalstaff's existing strengths.' --The New York Times BookReview Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-takingamong adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadershipfor all.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With immunization against major childhood diseases widely available, parental concerns in the nineties are focused on safety issues. A handbook and working reference for parents of children from birth through high school. Using positive guidelines rather than a list of do's and don'ts, the book will help you provide your child with a sense of security and the ability to act and react in challenging situations. Topics covered include school, street, transportation, recreation and medical safety, spending time at home alone, sexual abuse and more. Parents and children will learn how to handle the hazards of today's complex world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Schlechty's common-sense approach to restructuring is combinedwith a strategic planner's vision and the translation of beliefsinto action. A wide audience, including principals andsuperintAndents, can find in this book practical outlines forrestructuring, and a distinctive and focused view of their role inthe educational system sof the twenty-first century.' --The School Administrator Schlechty provides an innovative, adaptable framework for helpingleaders in all areas of education to identify where change isneeded in order to make schools more useful and responsive tochildren and society.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written expressly for amateur archaeologists and archaeological volunteers to help them discover how they can become part of this increasingly popular field. Covers subjects ranging from excavation techniques, tools, site locations, archaeological methods, archaeology and the law to conducting your own dig. Besides providing extensive data on gaining experience as volunteers of professionally organized digs, it offers an extensive resource section that includes archaeology organizations, field schools and sites, archaeological musems and a bibliography of reading matter which deals with archaeology. A large variety of line-drawings and photographs also assist the would-be archaeologist. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Helps apprentice, journeyman, and master candidates prepare for state examinations covering general mathematics, installation principles, materials standards, and plumbing codes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How are mountains formed What makes the air we breathe What causes the ocean waves Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions aboutthe earth, sea, and air through 101 fun, safe, low-cost experimentsand activities that can be performed at home or in the classroom.In Earth Science for Every Kid, you'll use a tennis ball and amarble to demonstrate a solar eclipse. You'll make a peanut butterand jelly sandwich to understand sedimentary rock formation. And,with the assistance of a Slinky(r) and a helper, you'll learn aboutthe motion of water waves. Each of the 101 experiments is broken down into its purpose, a listof materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and aneasy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretestedand can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom orat home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave: \* ASTRONOMY FOR EVERY KID \* BIOLOGY FOR EVERY KID \* CHEMISTRY FOR EVERY KID \* DINOSAURS FOR EVERY KID \* GEOGRAPHY FOR EVERY KID \* GEOMETRY FOR EVERY KID \* THE HUMAN BODY FOR EVERY KID \* MATH FOR EVERY KID \* PHYSICS FOR EVERY KID.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Empowerment is essential! Self-directed work teams create an environment that empowersemployees to contribute to the improvement of products andservices. In the face of this challenge, employees experiencegreater opportunities and greater satisfaction. And they do abetter job! Successful work teams call for a new kind of leadership and a boldnew attitude about workforce organization. Self-Directed Work Teamsshows how this leadership style changes the role of the supervisorand the way that work is managed. You'll learn to help workers feel like partners in theirorganizations by contributing to the improvement of products andservices. Use these guiding principles, working models, key strategies, andaction steps to create successful self-directed teams.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR Detailed case studies reveal how nonprofits can achieve excellenceby applying basic qualities of outstanding leadership: a clearlyarticulated sense of mission, a dynamic leader, and involved andcommitted governing board, and the ability to raise funds andmotivate volunteers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first step-by-step guide to cover the entire probate process in plain everyday language. The Complete Probate Kit Over 5,000 estates enter the probate process every day in the United States--a process which you most probably will be involved in at least once in your lifetime. Each case, by law, requires either an executor or administrator to settle the estate. The Complete Probate Kit, the most comprehensive book of its kind, provides you with the basic knowledge of the probate process so that you and your beneficiaries can gain greater control of the financial fate of your estate. The Complete Probate Kit is comprehensive in scope--covering probate planning, settling an estate, probating personal property, probating real property, probating a business, taxes, and more. Along the way, you'll learn all the 'probate language' you'll need to know. And the book includes sample probate forms and outlines probate requirements for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Also by Jens C. Appel III and F. Bruce Gentry and available from John Wiley . The Complete Will Kit This comprehensive book gives you all the information, expert advice, detachable forms, and related documents you need to do your own will quickly, easily, accurately, and less expensively than if you used the full services of an attorney. It offers expert guidance on all aspects of estate planning--including wills, trusts, gifts, and special instructions--from the basics through in-depth considerations.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A complete how-to guide to a 100% financed business. How to Buy aGreat Business with no Cash Down Bestselling author Dr. ArnoldGoldstein has successfully purchased 12 companies--including retailstores to printing plants--and he did it without investing anymoney of his own! Using his proven formula for success, he also hasguided hundreds of other enterprising but financially limitedpeople into their own 100% leveraged businesses. Now, the master ofthe 'No Cash Down' takeover is ready to help you too. In thisimportant new book, he reveals all his secrets, including how tosuccessfully find, qualify, evaluate, structure, finance,negotiate, and take over any type or size business.using little orno cash of your own. In How to Buy a Great Business With No CashDown, you'll \* Get over 50 proven 'no cash down' techniques, strategies, andformulas that insure success through each phase of the buy-sellprocess \* Discover how to prospect the very best no-cash deals \* Learn how to avoid costly errors and common pitfalls \* Find out how to calculate what a business is worth \* Get all the same handy checklists, forms, and sample agreementsthe author uses \* Learn how to attract the right investment partners \* Discover how to negotiate a winning deal.each and everytime! \* Find out how to quickly sell the business for an unbelievableprofit.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Publication of the National Center for Nonprofit BoardsA concise yet comprehensive resource for the entire fund raising process. Shows why board members must take the lead in fund raising efforts, and show how this role can be personally satisfying.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, the authors attempt to show how a cognitive account of development can be derived from a biological basis, using the example of the development of face recognition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Electromagnetism Electromagnetism, Second Edition is suitable for a first course in electromagnetism, whilst also covering many topics frequently encountered in later courses. The material has been carefully arranged and allows for flexibility in its use for courses of different length and structure. A knowledge of calculus and an elementary knowledge of vectors is assumed, but the mathematical properties of the differential vector operators are described in sufficient detail for an introductory course, and their physical significance in the context of electromagnetism is emphasised. In this Second Edition the authors give a fuller treatment of circuit analysis and include a discussion of the dispersion of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetism, Second Edition features: - The application of the laws of electromagnetism to practical problems such as the behaviour of antennas, transmission lines and transformers. - Sets of problems at the end of each chapter to help student understanding, with hints and solutions to the problems given at the end of the book. - Optional 'starred' sections containing more specialised and advanced material for the more ambitious reader. - An Appendix with a thorough discussion of electromagnetic standards and units. Recommended by many institutions. Electromagnetism. Second Edition has also been adopted by the Open University as the course book for its third level course on electromagnetism. The Manchester Physics Series General Editors: D. J. Sandiford; F. Mandl; A. C. Phillips Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Properties of Matter B. H. Flowers and E. Mendoza Optics Second Edition F. G. Smith and J. H. Thomson Statistical Physics Second Edition F. Mandl Electromagnetism Second Edition I. S. Grant and W. R. Phillips Statistics R. J. Barlow Solid State Physics Second Edition J. R. Hook and H. E. Hall Quantum Mechanics F. Mandl Particle Physics Second Edition B. R. Martin and G. Shaw the Physics of Stars Second Edition A. C. Phillips Computing for Scientists R. J. Barlow and A. R. Barnett.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The complete guide to painless, mutually profitable performanceappraisals. How to do a Superior Performance Appraisal For anybodywho equates doing a performance appraisal with a dentalappointment, here's a complete guide to painless, mutuallyprofitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author andFortune 1000 consultant William S. Swan, it shows you how totransform what traditionally has been a source of potentialconflict among managers and staff members, into a productive andmutually profitable process for both employer and employee. \* A systematic, step-by-step guide to conducting appraisals thatreduces defensiveness and conflict while increasing quality andproductivity \* All the nuts and bolts of doing an appraisal: data collecting,avoiding errors, knowing EEO guidelines, and much more \* Packed with useful checklists, information sheets,and sampledialogues, including a model performance appraisal formincorporating what has been proven to be the most powerfulapproach \* Throughout, the emphasis is on performance management vs.simplistic 'report-card' type systems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other.' --Journal of Higher Education.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using examples from over eighty organizations, this practical guide to human resource development strategies shows how to attract, make the best use of, and retain employees of different skills and perspectives. The authors reveal the strategies successful companies are using to capitalize on today's increasingly diverse and nontraditional workforce and shows how organizations must change to mesh with the needs, preferences, life-styles, and values of contemporary workers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning describes the dynamics of how adults learn--and how their perceptions are transformed by learning--as a framework for formulating educational theory and practice. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which adults learn, how they make meaning of the learning experience, and how their lives can be transformed by it.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Involving Colleges details the extracurricular environments of fourteen diverse involving colleges and universities and shows how and where successful conditions and characteristics can be adapted to institutions to complement the institution's unique educational purpose and mission.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Combines a history of short selling with current strategies and applications to present a complete guide to this increasingly popular investment tool. Procedural and regulatory requirements are mixed with actual case studies and examples that readers can apply to specific situations. Risks and rewards of short selling are discussed in detail as are short selling as a tool for protecting other investments and for speculation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To become successful in the bond options market, it is important for professionals to gain a basic, yet thorough understanding of how options are priced, traded, and used in interest-rate risk and fixed-income portfolio management. Provides practical answers to questions that new participants will ask as they become more sophisticated in the bond option market. It describes the U.S. government bond options markets and discusses how options pricing and computer technologies are used in market-making, strategic trading, and value investing. After introducing standard options terminology, it provides background data on U.S. Treasury bonds, bond options pricing models, advanced pricing models, the fundamentals of bond options dealing, strategies driven by interest rate forecasts, the most widely used structured portfolio strategies involving options, and more.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential accounting advice for the nonprofit sphere Public and nonprofit organizations face as number of unique issues in areas related to financial management. From special accounting rules to unpredictable cash flow, there exist a host of opportunities to either succeed or fail - especially as regulations continue to evolve. Accounting and Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Manger's Guide provides much-needed guidance on all aspects of money management. Expert discussion details rules, regulations, best practices, documentation, and more, to help managers enable their organizations to further the mission and stretch donation dollars.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Geological Society of London Handbook Series Edited by KeithCox Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London has beenpublishing since 1845 and now distributes its journal to Fellowsthroughout the world. This Handbook is published as part ofa series of authoritative practical guides to field geology. The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks 'This handbook describes how metamorphic rocks and rock masses maybe observed, recorded and mapped in the field. Written at a levelsuitable for undergraduate students of geology, this book (as withits companion volumes in the series) has firmly established itselfas an essential tool for any geologist -- student, professional oramateur -- faced with the task of making a general description ofan area of metamorphic rocks. A clear, systematic frameworktogether with numerous diagrams, illustrations and checklistsenables readers to produce useful and broadly similar descriptions,despite possible differences of background or specialist interest.This well-written and well-produced little text will, I am certain,become standard reading for most geology undergraduates. It willalso interest many geologists who do not regularly work inmetamorphic terrains and will be particularly useful to engineeringgeologists and civil engineers who are often concerned withdescribing the fabrics of metamorphic rocks without being concernedabout their origins.' --M.E. Jones, Mineralogical Magazine Contents: \* Metamorphic Fieldwork and Mapping \* Names and Categories of Metamorphic Rocks and Rock Units \* Rock Banding \* Minerals \* Compositions \* Grade \* Textures \* Fabric Types \* Relations to Structures \* Undeformed Pods \* Augen \* Pseudomorphs \* Veins \* Igneous Contacts \* Metasomatism \* Reaction Zones \* Fault-Zones and Mylonites \* Reference Tables and Checklists.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Madanes' lucid, coherent, and practical guide for familytherapists is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature byfamily therapy theorists and practitioners. The book is concise,well organized and clearly written.' --Contemporary Psychology A classic work which uses imaginative techniques to help achievebalance within the family. It gives attention to specific problemssuch as violence, drug abuse, and depression, and seeks the hiddenmeaning in these symptoms, which are clues to the underlying familystructure.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A classic that teaches you how to think in a contextually sensitive, directive, and goal-focused way. A highly readable and practical volume that focuses on solving problems within the context of the entire social unit--the family, the school, the community.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Begins with an analysis of a typical U.S. dollar denominated Euroconvertible. Goes on to discuss international convertible securities and such related topics as currency fluctuation and foreign currency exposure. The characteristics of domestic markets in U.S., Britain, Japan, France, Australia, and Canada and their unique features and evaluation methods are examined. Finally, it looks at convertible hedging, breakeven analysis, risk profile, and rate of return. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With coverage of the management of a catering business and 201 expert recipes from The Culinary Institute of America, the new edition of this well-established book is an ideal basic text for students of catering.