Wiley sons wiley jan 2008 (84 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many of us, at the best of times, struggle for inspiration when it comes to cooking - and that's without a medical condition that may affect our eating habits and require careful management. The right diet is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and all the more important for the successful management of diabetes. Fully updated for a UK audience Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will include the latest dietary recommendations and medical information on diabetes and its management. Packed with over 100 delicious and easy to prepare recipes - for everyday eating and entertaining - alongside a brand new section on packing healthy lunches and picnics, this book will help make mealtimes interesting and healthy. The book also offers guidance on the glycaemic index, nutritional information, diabetic exchanges for each recipe and lifestyle advice to help readers take control of their condition and live life to the full. Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will feature: Part I: Thriving with Diabetes Living To Eat With Diabetes Eating To Live With Diabetes Planning Meals for Weight Loss Goals Eating What You Like (Within Reason) Stocking Up at the Supermarket Part II: Healthy Recipes That Taste Great Enjoying the Benefits of Breakfast Starting Well: Hors d'Oeuvres and First Courses Sipping Simply Divine Soups Taking a Leaf From the Salad Bar Being Full of Beans (and Grains and Pasta) Adding Veg to Your Meals Boning Up on Fish Cookery Flocking to Poultry Creating Balanced Meals with Meats Nibbling on Snacks Drooling Over Mouth-Watering Desserts Part III: Eating Away from Home Eating Out as a Nourishing Experience Packing a Picnic Lunch Part IV: The Part of Tens Ten (or So) Simple Steps to Change Your Eating Habits Ten Easy Substitutions in Your Eating Plan Ten Strategies to Normalize Your Blood Glucose Ten Healthy Eating Habits for Children with Diabetes Part V: Appendixes Appendix A: Investing in Food Supplements for Optimum Health Appendix B: Exchange Lists Appendix C: A Glossary of Key Cooking Terms Appendix D: Conversions of Weights, Measures, and Sugar Substitutes Appendix E: Other Recipe Sources for People with Diabetes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Want to get an MBA The Complete MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is the practical, plain-English guide that covers all the basics of a top-notch MBA program, helping you to navigate today's most innovative business strategies. From management to entrepreneurship to strategic planning, you'll understand the hottest trends and get the latest techniques for motivating employees, building global partnerships, managing risk, and manufacturing.This fun, easy-to-access guide is full of useful information, tips, and checklists that will help you lead, manage, or participate in any business at a high level of competence. You'll find out how to use databases to your advantage, recognize and reward your employees, analyze financial statements, and understand the challenges of strategic planning in a global business environment. You'll also learn the basic principals of accounting, get a grip on the concepts behind stocks and bonds, and find out how technology has revolutionized everything from manufacturing to marketing. Discover how to:\* Know and respond to your customers' needs\* Handle budgets and forecasts\* Recruit and retain top people\* Establish and run employee teams\* Use Sarbanes-Oxley to your company's advantage\* Negotiate with the best of them\* Build long-term relationships with clients\* Avoid common managerial mistakes\* Improve cash flow\* Market your products and services\* Make the most of your advertising dollarOnce you know what an MBA knows, the sky's the limit. Read The Complete MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and watch your career take off.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Create a safety net while you work out your major planIdentify critical IT systems, develop a long-range strategy, and train your peopleSome disasters get coverage on CNN -- some just create headaches for the affected organization. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you're hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here's how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep them updated.Discover how to:\*Select your disaster recovery team\*Conduct a Business Impact Analysis\*Determine risks\*Get management support\*Create appropriate plan documents\*Test your plan.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understand the principles and practical elements of BIChoose the right technology and implement a successful BI environmentYou're intelligent, right So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. This book makes BI understandable! You'll see how the applications and technologies work together to access, analyze, and present data you can use to make better decisions about your products, customers, competitors, and more.Discover how to:\*Determine what your business needs\*Compare different approaches to BI\*Build a solid BI architecture and roadmap\*Design, develop, and deploy your BI plan\*Relate BI to data warehousing, ERP, CRM, and e-commerce.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for The Entrepreneurial Investor'I very much enjoyed and recommend The Entrepreneurial Investor. The authors, highly successful entrepreneurial investors themselves, explain value investing in a clear and approachable way.'Whitney R. Tilson, founder, T2 Partners LLC, and Chairman of Value Investor Insight'A wonderful, insightful collection of common sense and uncommon wisdom, written in a pleasantly entertaining fashion.'Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA, Vice President/Portfolio Manager, Investment Management Associates, Inc., and author of Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets'An artfully written gloss on business and the market, drawing deeply upon the wit and wisdom of coauthor (and Kinko's founder) Paul Orfalea. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the inner workings of the nation's financial engine.'Larry Light, Senior Editor for Money and Investing, Forbes magazine'The framework used by the most successful entrepreneurs to allocate capital happens to be identical to the framework used by the very best value investors on the planet. Having Paul Orfalea's amazing entrepreneurial journey with starting and growing Kinko's into a household name as a backdrop to a book about investing is a wonderful gift. The Entrepreneurial Investor is one of those rare books that come along once in a long while. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking to become a better investor.'Mohnish Pabrai, Managing Partner of Pabrai Funds, and author of two highly acclaimed investing books, The Dhandho Investor and Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing'Paul Orfalea and his colleagues are brilliant investors. You can be, too, if you take to heart the lessons in this fun, easy to understand, little gem of a book.'John Davis, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes expert advice on changing direction in your careerGet out of the rut and into your dream jobThis hands-on guide takes you through every aspect of finding and securing the job you want. From searching for vacancies through to preparing for the interview and making a strong impression, this book has it covered. Key personal development techniques, such as Neuro-linguistic Programming, are featured alongside specific job-hunting advice, helping you to develop a winning mindset and foster skills to take with you into your new career.Discover how to:\*Find the job that's right for you\*Write a knockout CV and cover letter\*Prepare for the interview\*Give a great presentation\*Build your confidence and develop a successful outlook.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ethics of war is facing a profound and rapid transformation. A post-9/11 environment has generated many extraordinary changes domestically and abroad. The prosecution of the 'war on terror'; the prominance of 'asymmetric war' in combat operations; as well as a trend towards preventive wars, forcible regime change, detention without trial - and even torture, have placed legal institutions and ethical concepts under more strain than they have faced in over a generation.This collection of original essays represents the 'state of the art' of this topical and contested issue. Leading international scholars provide insightful and provocative analyses of some of the central moral problems of modern war. Under what circumstances is intervention in another state permissible Is assassination a permissible tactic in war Is there ever a justification for killing the innocent or torture This comprehensive book is accessible on many levels: as an excellent undergraduate teaching text, as required reading for scholars of military ethics, and as an introduction for non-experts to the modern debate on the ethics of war.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance. - Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques - Expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality - Examines under-studied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offers new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory - Includes a wide range of primary sources from visual and material evidence to archival documents.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, bringing together leading scholars representing an unusually wide range of historical approaches to the British Empire.The contributors tackle the core themes in the history of the British Empire, including economics, religion, ideology, migration, the state, foundations of empire, decolonization, colonial knowledge, and imperial culture and identities. The essays trace the trajectory of their subject and explore how current understandings of issues have developed, examining key debates among historians.The British Empire is essential reading for all students and scholars of imperial and colonial history.Contributors: Tony Ballantyne, John Darwin, Andrew Dilley, Elizabeth Elbourne, Kent Fedorowich, Eliga Gould, Catherine Hall, Stephen Howe, Sarah Stockwell, Andrew Thompson, Stuart Ward, and Jon Wilson.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through contributions from leading authors, Issues in Heterodox Economics provides a critical analysis of the methodology of mainstream economics. - - Challenges economists to abandon sterile formalism and develop new intellectual rigors to contribute to pressing contemporary issues - A series of cutting-edge articles provides a critical analysis of the dependence of mainstream economics on mathematical modelling and other methodologies - Topics discussed include sustainable development, worker control of firms, evolutionary growth theory, and more - Challenges economists to abandon sterile formalism and develop new intellectual rigors to contribute to pressing contemporary issues.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-'a writer whom few know.' Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels. Using the extraordinary 'Agatha' correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne as a key to Melville's writing practices, beliefs and inclinations, the volume introduces Melville as a writer who constantly reflected on his craft and experimented with new forms and genres.Arranged chronologically, the volume focuses on Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd, as well as other novels, short fiction, and poems as appropriate, to explore Melville's distinctive narrative style. A biography, summaries of key works, interpretation, commentary, and an extensive bibliography are all included.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China is rapidly becoming a world power. No longer a developing country, China's cities are undergoing transformations of historic proportions. This book, in the Studies in Urban and Social Change series, evaluates these multi-dimensional changes. With input from professionals in a variety of fields, including Sociology, Geography, Economics, Demography, Planning, Architecture and Anthropology, Urban China in Transition analyzes Chinese trends in diverse topics including:\* Migration,\* Crime,\* Gated Communities,\* Neighborhood Associations,\* Suburbanization, and\* Women's status.Chapters are co-authored by experts on urban Chinese life together with others whose expertise is on the particular topic. Comparisons to urban areas in the United States, Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America pose thoughtful questions about the possible trajectory of Chinese urban development, while underscoring its uniqueness. The result is a broad theoretical and historical perspective that sharply focuses the Chinese experience through alternative prisms, thus enriching theoretical discussion and debate.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund allows you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment. By focusing on the essential approaches of global macro long/short and aggressive growth, this book will help you create a fund that can take advantage of both bullish and bearish conditions across the globe.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration. They challenge the traditional apprenticeship model and offer an alternative in which students learn while apprenticing with several faculty members. The authors persuasively argue that creating intellectual community is essential for high-quality graduate education in every department. Knowledge-centered, multigenerational communities foster the development of new ideas and encourage intellectual risk taking.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Effective data presentation is an essential skill for anybody wishing to display or publish research results, but when done badly, it can convey a misleading or confusing message. This new addition to the popular 'How to' series explains how to present data in journal articles, grant applications or research presentations clearly, accurately and logically, increasing the chances of successful publication.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book takes the reader through the various aspects of a career in general practice from the time of applying to medical school until retirement. It will be a practical guide for anyone who is interested in the profession. There have been a lot of changes to medical careers over the last few years that are now coming to completion, making this a thoroughly up to date guide for all those thinking of going into general practice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ROI Fundamentals ROI Fundamentals is the first of six books in the Measurement and Evaluation Series from Pfeiffer. The proven ROI Methodology--developed by the ROI Institute--provides a practical system for evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis, and reporting. All six books in the series offer the latest tools, most current research, and practical advice for measuring ROI in a variety of settings. ROI Fundamentals outlines the basic ROI Methodology and shows why measuring return on investment is such a valuable process. The book highlights the benefits of implementing an effective ROI model and also reveals the challenges organizations face when incorporating the ROI Methodology. Using real-world examples from international companies, the authors explore the types of organizations that are best suited for the ROI Methodology and suggest the optimal time to implement it. The book also offers step-by-step information for planning an effective ROI evaluation. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Foundation and Endowment Investing, authors Lawrence Kochard and Cathleen Rittereiser offer you a detailed look at this fascinating world and the strategies used to achieve success within it. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this reliable resource profiles twelve of the most accomplished Chief Investment Officers within today's foundation and endowment community-chronicling their experiences, investment philosophies, and the challenges they face-and shares important lessons that can be used as you go about your own investment endeavors.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. - A major textbook on the impact of reality and lifestyle television on today's programming, and on broader social, cultural and political trends - Draws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife Swap - Argues that reality television teaches viewers to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Effective Operations and Controls for the Small Privately Held Business 'Rob Reider is the ultimate 'on-target' consultant to the small business. Whether you are just starting out or have been in a small business for years, this book is a must-read. It is concise, clear, organized and addresses the management, financial, and personnel issues that confront and often destroy small business--eighty percent of all the businesses in America.' --Tom Torgerson, CPA, President, Torgerson AssociatesManagement and Financial Consultants 'Dr. Reider's emphasis on first understanding the small business environment and then identifying and integrating individual business goals addresses a critical entry point for new business owners. His detailed advice around realistic issues emphasizes a solutions-based orientation that provides even the novice with keys to successful business practices.' --Linda Lippitt, PhD, Director, Learning Legacies 'Rob Reider is an experienced consultant, seminar facilitator, and author who has written an important book for small business owners and managers. The topics included are relevant to privately owned business managers who consider their organizations to be 'small businesses' regardless of their actual sales volume. This is a book that should be on the bookshelf of every businessperson with responsibility for the management of a small privately owned business.' --Peter B. Heyler, PBH Executive Services '(This book) is an excellent resource not just for the small business owner, but also for colleges and universities. Any higher education institution that has a business program entrepreneurial component will find this book invaluable.' --Steve C. Martinez, PhD, Director, New Mexico Highlands University, Santa Fe and Espanola Centers. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Psychology provides instructors with a practical handbook for teaching psychological research methods. The book - Discusses in detail many of the challenges and dilemmas that instructors often face when teaching this demanding course - Covers a wide range of topics - from pedagogical considerations and course preparation to reflection and course revision - Offers alternative strategies for teaching research methods with practical suggestions for their implementation - Accessible and informative to all current and future research methods instructors, from graduate assistants to seasoned classroom veterans.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. - Critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals - Brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way - Provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory.…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stop And Make Money'Dick Arms has produced one of the most interesting, innovative, and entertaining books on trading I have seen. He describes the difference between fundamental and technical analysis in the clearest terms and introduces his concept of 'Power Box,' a powerful tool for determining trades. Finally, his discussion of the great value of stop orders is long overdue in the literature. I unhesitatingly recommend it for the beginning trader as an excellent description of a specific trading method and for the professional as a reminder of trading basics that should never be forgotten.'--Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT, Editor, Journal of Technical Analysis, and coauthor, Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians'I say: go read the book that says Stop and Make Money. Dick Arms addresses the assumed risks in short-term trading. His expert application of technical analysis and the use of stops are the tools that will help you make money.'--Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, former director of technical research, Knight Equity Markets, LP'A splendid book! The first two chapters allow traders to quickly review Arms's methodology and techniques--and the drill-down concept in those two chapters allows them to quickly dig deeper on a particular topic. Everyone from novice to expert will find many nuggets of wisdom in these pages; even after forty-plus years, I certainly did!'--Walter Deemer, Publisher, Walter Deemer's Market Strategies and Insights.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This interdisciplinary commentary ranges from early midrashic interpretation to contemporary rewritings introducing interpretations of the only biblical book not to mention God.\* Unearths a wealth of neglected rewritings inspired by the story's relevance to themes of nationhood, rebellion, providence, revenge, female heroism, Jewish identity, exile, genocide and 'multiculturalism'\* Reveals the various struggles and strategies used by religious commentators to make sense of this only biblical book that does not mention God\* Asks why Esther is underestimated by contemporary feminist scholars despite a long history of subversive rewritings\* Compares the most influential Jewish and Christian interpretations and interpreters\* Includes an introduction to the book's myriad representations in literature, music, and art\* Published in the reception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. - Considers the most important elements of Heidegger's intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism - Provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger's work - One of the few books on Heidegger to cover his later work as well as Being and Time - Includes key critical responses to Heidegger's philosophy - Contributors include many of the leading interpreters of, and commentators on, the work of Heidegger.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Caring for people with heart failure is challenging and with the numbers of patients increasing every year, healthcare professionals are under pressure to provide appropriate, clinically and cost effective heart failure services. Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook offers practical information that considers concerns raised by patients, questions asked by student nurses and clinical issues that arise frequently. The introduction examines the epidemiology, physiology, causes and outcomes of heart failure, whilst continuing chapters explore:\* Diagnosis and assessment: past medical history, the role of clinical assessment, medication reviews and the use of investigations.\* Treatment: the impact of education and lifestyle, exercise physiology, the role of medicines and invasive procedures and end stage heart failure.\* Policy and service issues: the historical perspective, specialist services, funding and patient participation and caseload management.Also discussed is the setting up and running of a heart failure service - the processes, documents, staffing, costs, data handling and business case issues that need to be understood. Practical techniques and tips to support patient understanding, minimise adverse events and treat side effects are also given to help the reader in their practice.This concise handbook is ideal for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure, pre-registration nursing students, qualified nurses on cardiology courses and community matrons undertaking advanced practise courses.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This highly topical book provides a multi-disciplinary perspective, ranging from finance to psychology, on the subject of mergers and acquisitions. - - Each chapter introduces key frameworks that relate to a particular perspective and incorporates case studies where these frameworks can be used for interpretive and diagnostic purposes - Invites readers to apply the frameworks as maps or tools for analyzing their own organizational experiences via a series of general discussion questions. - Seeks to develop its perspective by offering analytical insights into actual experiences of mergers and acquisitions in different global contexts, successful and unsuccessful, presenting new empirically based evidence to support the arguments - Drawn from around the world, each author is a leading exponent in his or her perspective on mergers and acquisitions Part of the Images of Business Strategy Series which interrogates conventional categories in today's fast-changing business world. By applying new perspectives, books in the series redefine established territories and extend our view of important business phenomena. Select international contributions to each volume are integrated by the Editor to provide a richer insight into the business landscape and open up new conceptual horizons.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War. - Considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia's development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders, and civil servants - Illuminates the reality of absolute monarchy in Russia, with special emphasis on the mobilization of human and material resources, the search for regular government, and the persistence of personal-moral forms of authority - Traces the emergence of modern Russian culture out of and alongside Orthodox religious culture.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit, drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion. - Makes an important new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religion - Suggests that this junction is not just dictated by religion having to prove its credentials to rational philosophy, but that it is also a matter of philosophy wondering if religion is the ultimate partner in dialogue - Includes discussion of a wide range of significant thinkers, both traditional and contemporary, such as Plotinus, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche and his successors - Completes a trilogy of works by William Desmond, complementing its companion volumes, Being and the Between and Ethics and the Between.…