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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The original and bestselling leadership book!Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries. Today they can still be applied to business, politics and life. The Art of War demonstrates how to win without conflict. It shows that with enough intelligence and planning, it is possible to conquer with a minimum of force and little destruction.This luxury hardback edition includes an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon that draws out lessons for managers and business leaders, and highlights the power of Sun Tzu's thinking in everyday life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The original guide to creating wealth!With this seminal book, Wallace Wattles popularized the Law of Attraction, the powerful concept that inspired The Secret. The Science of Getting Rich explains how to attract wealth, overcome emotional barriers, and apply foolproof methods to bring financial success into your life.This special 100-year edition contains the complete, original text, along with never-before published biographical information on Wattles, and a foreword by Catherine Ponder, the doyenne of modern prosperity writers. It also features an introduction from personal development authority Tom Butler-Bowdon, plus another Wattles classic, The Science of Being Great.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition is grammar First Aid for anyone wanting to perfect their English and develop the practical skills needed to write and speak correctly. Each chapter focuses on key grammatical principles, with easy-to-follow theory and examples as well as practice questions and explanations. From verbs, prepositions and tenses, to style, expressions and tricky word traps, this hands-on workbook is essential for both beginners looking to learn and practise the basics of English grammar, and those who want to brush up skills they already have - quickly, easily, and with confidence.English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition covers:Part I: Laying the Groundwork: Grammar BasicsChapter 1: Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper PlaceChapter 2: Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs CorrectlyChapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It The Lowdown on PronounsChapter 4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete SentencesPart II: Mastering MechanicsChapter 5: Exercising Comma SenseChapter 6: Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand AttentionChapter 7: One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: ApostrophesChapter 8: 'Let Me Speak!' Quotation MarksChapter 9: Hitting the Big Time: Capital LettersPart III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun UseChapter 10: The Case of It (And Other Pronouns)Chapter 11: Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky SentenceChapter 12: Travelling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense SituationsChapter 13: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood Part IV: All You Need to Know about Descriptions and ComparisonsChapter 14: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and AdverbsChapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions CorrectlyChapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming ComparisonsChapter 17: Apples and Oranges: Improper ComparisonsPart V: Writing with StyleChapter 18: Keeping Your BalanceChapter 19: Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your SentencesChapter 20: Steering Clear of Tricky Word TrapsPart VI: The Part of TensChapter 21: Ten Over-correctionsChapter 22: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everyone gets angry. And in a turbulent economy where finances are stretched, property prices waver and unemployment booms, blowing a fuse is par for the course. But you don't have to take it out on others! Anger Management For Dummies, UK Edition shows you how to work through feelings of rage, emerge from the red mist, and lead a healthier, happier and more positive life.This fully adapted UK edition guides you through ways to recognise and deal with the underlying causes of anger at work, in relationships and in your personal life - and teaches you how to stay positive in spite of all the stresses and strains life throws your way. From letting go of resentments, preventing new rage and dealing with the anger of others, to improving self-expression, honing spiritual calm and getting a good night's sleep, this user-friendly guide tackles the latest anger-busting exercises and therapies (including CBT) and demonstrates how to deal with anger constructively.Anger Management For Dummies, UK Edition includes:Part I: The Basics of Anger\* Chapter 1: Anger: A Natural Human Emotion\* Chapter 2: When Is Anger a Problem Measuring and understanding your anger\* Chapter 3: Is Anger Damaging Your Life Part II: Managing Your Anger Today\* Chapter 4: Taking Immediate Action\* Chapter 5: Speaking Out in Anger\* Chapter 6: Keeping Your CoolPart III: Preventing Anger Tomorrow\* Chapter 7: Adopting a New Outlook\* Chapter 8: Saying What You Feel\* Chapter 10: Balancing The Effects of Your Temperament\* Chapter 11: Using Anger HelpfullyPart IV: Handling Anger from the Past\* Chapter 12: Why Is Letting Go So Difficult \* Chapter 13: Looking ahead, moving forwardPart V: Lifestyle Changes That Improve Your Anger and Health\* Chapter 14: Managing Daily Stresses\* Chapter 15: Managing Your Body Chemistry\* Chapter 16: Adding Balance to Your Life\* Chapter 17: Getting a Good Night's Sleep\* Chapter 18: Your Spiritual Health\* Chapter 19: Staying in a Good MoodPart VI: Managing Anger in Relationships\* Chapter 20: With Strangers\* Chapter 21: At Work\* Chapter 21: At Home and In Intimate RelationshipsPart VII: The Part of Tens\* Chapter 23: Ten Ways to show Children Anger Balance\* Chapter 25: Ten Anger-Freeing Thoughts\* Chapter 25: Ten Anger-Freeing Actions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You don't need a marketing degree or intensive training to build an attention-grabbing brand; you just need this book - and 30 days.Simon Middleton shows you how to create, manage and communicate your brand profoundly and effectively, in just 30 days, by following 30 clear exercises. How you work through the book is up to you, the result will be the same: an authentic, compelling, and highly distinctive brand that will attract and engage customers and fans. You will learn how to:\* Establish your brand values and positioning\* Get the all-important name right\* Bring your brand to life\* Turn your customers into your advocates\* Manage your PR and use your marketing budget wisely\* Inspire your staff to live the brand too\* Deal with problems when something goes wrongBranding isn't about funky logos and expensive advertising. Your brand is what your company means to the world. Getting that meaning right is the most important thing you can do in business.'Passionate and persuasive, Simon Middleton has a natural instinct for uncovering the Wow! factor in every brand.' Dawn Gibbins MBE, Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year and Star of Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Schools for All Kinds of Minds.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive anthology of primary documents and materials explores the evolution and study of Christian ethical principles. It may be used independently, or alongside the accompanying textbook, Introducing Christian Ethics, for a complete overview of the field.\* Represents the entire canon of Christian ethics, including first-hand accounts from major figures in the theological and ecclesial tradition\* Introduces foundational figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; contemporary theorists including Jqrgen Moltmann, Stanley Hauerwas, and Wendell Berry; in addition to work by work by non-theoretical figures, such as Ghandi and Martin Luther King\* Features useful introductory material that demonstrates the significance of each extract and how they relate to each other\* May be used independently or together with the accompanying textbook, Introducing Christian Ethics; both books share the same structure and are cross-referenced for ease of use.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory\* Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as Pierre Bourdieu's 'Forms of Capital' (1986), Gilles Deleuze 'Postscript on Societies of Control' (1992), and Fredric Jameson's 'Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture' (1979)\* Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study --the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity\* Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author\* A large annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion\* Features a useful glossary of critical terms.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through selected articles LeVine demonstrates how psychological anthropology developed as a unified field of study that continues to influence our understanding of social theory, society, and self. Psychological Anthropology: AReader on Self in Culture presents a series of illuminating readings from recent and classical literature that offer a rich diversity of insights into psychological anthropology. First tracing the growth of the field, LeVine and the authors then explore the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence, and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology. Further readings address childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a scholarly textbook which should become essential reading for psychologists, educationalists and speech and language therapists. Kate Cain has an ability to present very complex issues with a degree of clarity that ensures the reader comes to a deep understanding of the issues and quality of the scientific evidence that she presents for analysis.' -Professor Rhona Stainthorp, Institute of Education, University of Reading.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ein Klassiker, aktualisiert und modernisiert.Sorgfältig strukturiert - mathematische Herleitungen werden bei den Grundlagen beginnend eingeführt.Mit vielen Anwendungen und neuen Informationen zu Funktionen, Pfadintegralen und Eichfeldern sowie zur Renormierungsgruppe.Die Kapitel zur elektroschwachen Wechselwirkung wurden überarbeitet und erweitert. Enthalten sind jetzt auch Ausführungen zur elektroschwachen Wechselwirkung von Quarks und zu Majorana-Neutrinos.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book has so closely matched the requirements of its readership over the years that it has become the first choice for chemists worldwide.Heterocyclic chemistry comprises at least half of all organic chemistry research worldwide. In particular, the vast majority of organic work done in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries is heterocyclic chemistry.The fifth edition of Heterocyclic Chemistry maintains the principal objective of earlier editions - to teach the fundamentals of heterocyclic reactivity and synthesis in a way that is understandable to second- and third-year undergraduate chemistry students. The inclusion of more advanced and current material also makes the book a valuable reference text for postgraduate taught courses, postgraduate researchers, and chemists at all levels working with heterocyclic compounds in industry.Fully updated and expanded to reflect important 21st century advances, the fifth edition of this classic text includes the following innovations:\* Extensive use of colour to highlight changes in structure and bonding during reactions\* Entirely new chapters on organometallic heterocyclic chemistry, heterocyclic natural products, especially in biochemical processes, and heterocycles in medicine\* New sections focusing on heterocyclic fluorine compounds, isotopically labeled heterocycles, and solid-phase chemistry, microwave heating and flow reactors in the heterocyclic contextEssential teaching material in the early chapters is followed by short chapters throughout the text which capture the essence of heterocyclic reactivity in concise resumés suitable as introductions or summaries, for example for examination preparation. Detailed, systematic discussions cover the reactivity and synthesis of all the important heterocyclic systems. Original references and references to reviews are given throughout the text, vital for postgraduate teaching and for research scientists. Problems, divided into straightforward revision exercises, and more challenging questions (with solutions available online), help the reader to understand and apply the principles of heterocyclic reactivity and synthesis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This text is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the wide range of mathematical and statistical tools needed by the forensic scientist in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of experimental measurements.From a basis of high school mathematics, the book develops essential quantitative analysis techniques within the context of a broad range of forensic applications. This clearly structured text focuses on developing core mathematical skills together with an understanding of the calculations associated with the analysis of experimental work, including an emphasis on the use of graphs and the evaluation of uncertainties. Through a broad study of probability and statistics, the reader is led ultimately to the use of Bayesian approaches to the evaluation of evidence within the court. In every section, forensic applications such as ballistics trajectories, post-mortem cooling, aspects of forensic pharmacokinetics, the matching of glass evidence, the formation of bloodstains and the interpretation of DNA profiles are discussed and examples of calculations are worked through. In every chapter there are numerous self-assessment problems to aid student learning.Its broad scope and forensically focused coverage make this book an essential text for students embarking on any degree course in forensic science or forensic analysis, as well as an invaluable reference for post-graduate students and forensic professionals.Key features:\* Offers a unique mix of mathematics and statistics topics, specifically tailored to a forensic science undergraduate degree.\* All topics illustrated with examples from the forensic science discipline.\* Written in an accessible, student-friendly way to engage interest and enhance learning and confidence.\* Assumes only a basic high-school level prior mathematical knowledge.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What Cinema Is!' offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our timeEstablishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older modeExamines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key filmsTraces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Fantasy Film' provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre.Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Harvey' to 'Spiderman' and 'Shrek, ' and blockbuster series such as 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy and 'The Harry Potter' filmsProvides in-depth historical and critical overviews of the genreFully illustrated with screen shots from key films.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fifth edition of this highly successful book provides students with an essential introduction to the molecular genetics of bacteria covering the basic concepts and the latest developments. It is comprehensive, easy to use and well structured with clear two-colour diagrams throughout.Specific changes to the new edition include:\* More detail on sigma factors, anti-sigma factors and anti-anti sigma factors, and the difference in the frequency of sigma factors in bacteria\* Expand material on integrons as these are becoming increasingly important in antibiotic resistance\* Enhanced treatment of molecular phylogeny\* Complete revision and updating of the final chapter on 'Gene Mapping and Genomics'\* Two-colour illustrations throughout.The focus of the book remains firmly on bacteria and will be invaluable to students studying microbiology, biotechnology, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and related biomedical sciences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging behaviours that are encountered daily in various care settings exact tremendous social costs - most significantly to individual service providers. The focus of Managing Aggressive Behaviour in Care Settings is to provide care givers with helpful guidance and the practical skills necessary to manage these aggressive behaviors.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through selected articles LeVine demonstrates how psychological anthropology developed as a unified field of study that continues to influence our understanding of social theory, society, and self. Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture presents a series of illuminating readings from recent and classical literature that offer a rich diversity of insights into psychological anthropology. First tracing the growth of the field, LeVine and the authors then explore the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence, and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology. Further readings address childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter. Contributors champion the rights of parents with intellectual disabilities, advocating their full participation in the society and culture in which they live, in spite of stigmatizing attitudes and exclusionary practices.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.\* Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of Byzantine society\* Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming the field of Byzantine studies\* Emphasizes Byzantium's social and cultural history, as well as its material culture\* Explores traditional topics and themes through fresh perspectives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The equine dentition (hypsodont) develops differently from that of humans and small animals (brachydont) yet many of the principles of general dentistry are applicable to the equine species. Some are not.Dr Klugh and his contributing authors identify, apply and evaluate the principles of equine dentistry in relation to the horse-their similarities and differences. Such a system is of value in terms of vocabulary, biology and disease process.The book's coverage ranges from anatomy, biomechanics and examination to radiology, anesthesia, trauma, disease and restoration. Top quality color photographs and diagrams illustrate the text throughout.Principles of Equine Dentistry is of value to equine dentists, equine practitioners, instructors and trainees, and to veterinary students.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volcanoes are essential elements in the delicate global balance of elemental forces that govern both the dynamic evolution of the Earth and the nature of Life itself. Without volcanic activity, life as we know it would not exist on our planet. Although beautiful to behold, volcanoes are also potentially destructive, and understanding their nature is critical to prevent major loss of life in the future.