John wiley sons jun 2006 (78 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy's life. It's even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues boys face from a trusted source. The American Medical Association Boy's Guide to Becoming a Teen is filled with invaluable advice to get you ready for the changes you will experience during puberty. Learn about these important topics and more: - Puberty and what kinds of physical and emotional changes you can expect-from your developing body to your feelings about girls - The importance of eating the right foods and taking care of your body - Pimples, acne, and how to properly care for your skin - Your reproductive system-inside and out - Thinking about relationships and dealing with new feelings.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Understanding Accounts is the fast-track route to interpreting and using financial reports.It covers the key areas of accounts, from understanding a company's strategy and financial statements to making valid comparisons between organisations.It gives examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Nokia and Sony Ericsson, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Professor Sir David Tweddie, Warren Buffet, Jim Slater and Terry Smith.It includes a glossary of the key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.Understanding Accounts lays bare the essential techniques you need to interpret financial data and measure company performance.fast.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Adam Smith continues to dazzle and sparkle! With the passage of time, Supermoney has, if anything, added to its power to inspire, arouse, provoke, motivate, inform, illuminate, entertain, and guide a whole new generation of readers, while marvelously reprising the global money show for earlier fans.'-David M. Darst, author of The Art of Asset Allocation Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group'Nobody has written about the craft of money management with more insight, humor, and understanding than Adam Smith. Over the years, he has consistently separated wisdom from whimsy, brilliance from bluster, and character from chicanery.'-Byron R. Wien, coauthor of Soros on Soros Chief Investment Strategist, Pequot Capital ManagementSupermoney may be even more relevant today than when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. Written in the bright and funny style that became Adam Smith's trademark, this book gives a view inside institutions, professionals, and the nature of markets that has rarely been shown before or since. 'Adam Smith' was the first to introduce an obscure fund manager in Omaha, Nebraska, named Warren Buffett, and in this new edition, Smith provides a fresh perspective in an updated Preface that contextualizes the applicability of the markets of the 1960s and 1970s to today's markets. Things change, but sometimes the more they change, the more they stay the same.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The G Quotient identifies a management phenomenon that will change the way people view their professional roles in the workplace. Based on a landmark five-year study, The G Quotient redefines successful leadership for all managers. Organizations and working units under the leadership of white-collar gay males are collectively experiencing 35 percent higher levels of employee engagement, job satisfaction, and workplace morale in addition to reporting greater employer loyalty and individual productivity. It is proof that today's employees are responding to a new type of organizational leader.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside:'You have to be the scientist of your own life and be astonished four times:at what is, what always has been, what once was, and what could be.''The majority of products in most companies are cash traps . . . .[They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources.''Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business.''When information flows freely, reputation, more than reciprocity,becomes the basis for trust.''As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity,quality, even innovation.''When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department.''The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection ofjazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra.''Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity.''Rather than being an obstacle, uncertainty is the very engine of transformation in a business, a continuous source of new opportunities.''IP assets lack clear property lines. Every bit of intellectual property you can own comes with connections to other valuable innovations.'.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REITSGETTING STARTED IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTSReal Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) offer small investors the chance to participate in a broad range of real estate opportunities across most major property sectors and geographic locations. But to make the most out of this proven investment vehicle, you must first gain a firm understanding of it.Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts provides an accessible introduction to the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs and examines the role they play in a well-diversified investment portfolio.Divided into three comprehensive parts, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts covers a wide variety of issues within this field, including: The legal and financial history of REITs How REITs behave as an investment class and how they are best integrated into an investor s portfolio The fundamental economic issues that affect real estate and how they impact REITs Specific methods for analyzing REITs as an investment Different types of REITs: residential, office, industrial, retail property, and moreFilled with in-depth insight and practical advice, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts is a valuable road map to an investment that can help stabilize and grow your portfolio for years to come.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the 'social lives' of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes' jewellery, to miraculous painted images. - Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons. - Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of approaches.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The first two editions of Models of Democracy have provenimmensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In asuccinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides anintroduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greeceto the present and a critical discussion of what democracy shouldmean today.This new edition has been extensively revised and updated totake account of significant transformations in world politics, anda new chapter has been added on deliberative democracy whichfocuses not only on how citizen participation can be increased inpolitics, but also on how that participation can become moreinformed.Like its predecessor, the third edition of Models ofDemocracy combines lucid exposition and clarity of expressionwith careful scholarship and originality, making it highlyattractive to students and experts in the field. The third editionwill prove essential reading for all those interested in politics,political theory and political philosophy.A companion website to Models of Democracy provideslecturer and student resources; including a study guide, aninterview with the author and links to develop the reader'sunderstanding of the topics covered.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - With higher education's refocus over the last three decades on bringing greater recognition and reward to good teaching, the idea of peer review has gained popularity. One tool for documenting and reflecting on the quality of teaching and student learning is a course portfolio. A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created during a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates how faculty can integrate well-designed peer review into their daily professional lives, thus improving their teaching by incorporating a means for assessment and collaboration and revealing the student learning that happens with effective teaching within an institutional reward systems. This book offers a model of peer review intended to help faculty document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It features a rich collection of materials-including four dozen exhibits to help assemble a portfolio, reviewers' comments, and reflections drawn from more than 200 professors and portfolio authors in various disciplines and institutions-that faculty can use to develop their course portfolios to be used in their peer review of teaching.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Ethics of War is an indispensable collection of essays addressing issues both timely and age-old about the nature and ethics of war. - Features essays by great thinkers from ancient times through to the present day, among them Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, Russell, and Walzer - Examines timely questions such as: When is recourse to arms morally justifiable What moral constraints should apply to military conduct How can a lasting peace be achieved - Will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in morality and ethics in war time - Includes informative introductions and helpful marginal notes by editors. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Every manager of a professional firm realizes that generating leads and landing new clients are critical components of any successful business venture. But transforming accountants, architects, attorneys, consultants, engineers, and other professionals into client-generators is not always easy to do.Divided into two comprehensive parts-The Rainmaker Model and The Elements of Rainmaking-Creating Rainmakers outlines all the steps you should take to turn your professional staff into a powerful team of sales winners.Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, this book will show you how to:\* Generate leads\* Build a strong network of contacts\* Master a variety of sales techniques\* Develop capable successors to current rainmakers\* And much moreBased on more than 100 interviews with the principals of professional firms, including many of today's preeminent rainmakers, this valuable guide has the information you need to help your company succeed.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Combining an overview of current research literature and 23 engaging narratives, Faculty of Color invites deeper dialogue on the experiences of faculty of color teaching in predominantly white institutions. By raising issues for commentary and investigation, the book challenges its readers to adopt effective strategies for the recruitment and retention of faculty of color in higher education. The authors represent a variety of disciplines and share firsthand experiences that range from teaching, recruitment, research, mentoring, institutional climate, and administration, to relationships with colleagues as well as students. Through their stories, they are able to offer useful insights into - Teaching styles and how they affect promotion decisions - The impact of mentoring relationships - Collegiality in the campus and university setting - Separating self-identity from group membership - Managing service activities - Understanding and dealing with racism Faculty of Color is intended for senior administrators and policymakers, faculty development professionals, current faculty, and future faculty of color who are contemplating academia. Each chapter offers a variety of recommendations designed to guide predominantly white colleges and universities in working to ensure that their institutions continue to change in substantive ways. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. - Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods - Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations - Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art - Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - - What will happen during and after a clinical trial - How will a trial affect my quality of life - What are the benefits and risks of a trial - What does giving consent mean and what will it involve - Will I incur costs during and because of the trial These are the questions that should be raised every time a health care professional talks through with a patient the pros and cons of entering a clinical trial. Clinical Trials Explained has been designed in consultation with doctors and patients who have taken part in trials, providing an essential and detailed guide to the clinical trials process. It therefore helps both clinicians and patients make well-informed decisions on whether to take part in a clinical trial.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. - - Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas - Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together - The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present. - Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. - Provides students with the background to contemporary historical debates and approaches. - Serves as a useful reference for researchers and teachers. - Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) was founded in 1973 to address concerns about the portrayal of Black children in scientific research, the lack of participation of ethnic minority members in the governance structure of SRCD, and the perceived need for a mutual support system for minority scholars aspiring to productive careers in the child development field. In this monograph, early members of the Caucus describe its history through the first 25 years, 1973-97, in 15 chapters distributed among sections on Caucus history, teaching and mentoring, publications and research-related issues, and supportive academic institutions. The volume celebrates the accomplishments of the Caucus while also revisiting challenges that have arisen both internally and through membership in the SRCD parent organization. Key thematic issues include: cultural deficit versus cultural difference; linkages between poverty, race, and empowerment; advocacy versus objectivity in scientific research; and how the cultural or racial identity of the researcher informs scientific knowledge. The collaborations of Caucus members and others in SRCD modified the lens through which children of racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds are portrayed in the scientific literature.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. - An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. - Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history. - Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race and religion to the formation of gendered societies. - Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays. - Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as well as to the modern era. - Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and scholars for whom English is not their first language.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Moral Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume essays from leading scholars in law, leadership, psychology, political science, and ethics to provide practical, theoretical policy guidance. The authors explore key questions about moral leadership such as: - How do leaders form, sustain, and transmit moral commitments - Under what conditions are those processes most effective - What is the impact of ethics officers, codes, training programs, and similar initiatives - How do standards and practices vary across context and culture - What can we do at the individual, organizational, and societal level to foster moral leadership Throughout the book, the contributors identify what people know, and only think they know, about the role of ethics in key decision-making positions. The essays focus on issues such as the definition and importance of moral leadership and the factors that influence its exercise, along with practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior. Moral Leadership addresses the dynamics of moral leadership, with particular emphasis on major obstacles that stand in its way: impaired judgment, self-interest, and power. Finally, the book explores moral leadership in a variety of contexts business and the professions, nonprofit organizations, and the international arena. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The availability of a reliable supply of water is one of the most important determinants of human health, with the supply of clean drinking water being a multibillion dollar industry in the developed world and a key concern for less developed countries. Introduction to Potable Water Treatment Processes illustrates the link between raw water quality and treatment process selection and performance. Individual chapters concentrate on specific water treatment processes, detailing the chemical and engineering principles behind the process, and further illustrating process implementation by the use of process flow diagrams, photographs and case studies. The final three chapters look specifically at the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants and at the treatment and disposal of sludge. With introductory chapters covering both UK/European legislation and WHO guidance, and a general introduction to process flow diagrams, Introduction to Potable Water Treatment Processes is essential reading for anyone operating or managing a water treatment process, or carrying out research on water treatment processes. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. - Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. - Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level health psychology texts skim over these differences and assume our traditional biomedical approach will be appropriate for all. In this completely revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking book, Malcolm MacLachlan redresses the balance by showing how social and cultural aspects interact with the purely physical: from assessment and treatment all the way through to effects on rehabilitation.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Meeting the Innovation Challenge provides a balanced and integrated approach to creativity, innovation, change and leadership. It is organized around a new model of creative leadership andoffering a specific system that links people and situations with process and content.Essential reading for both practitioners and students, Meeting the Innovation Challenge moves beyond 'What is the difference between leadership and management ' to 'How do we use a full spectrum of creative leadership skills to improve our responses to the need for change ''Status and significance within organizations are often advertised, not simply by the size or position of a person's office, but by the size of their bookcase and the number of business books on display. Look closely, however, and most remain pristine, their pages crisply blocked and as solid as the day the printer's guillotine fell.Here's a book that'll be different: destined to be endlessly thumbed and dog-eared by real people engaged in transformation. They couldn't be in better hands. The authors are real people, bringing wisdom, insight and hard-won experience to that most difficult of tasks, leading transformation.'--Mike King, Ogilvy and Mather, London, UK'Professors Scott Isaksen and Joe Tidd remind us that change and success are ultimately human endeavors. They tear down the distinctions between leadership and management and innovation and creativity that lead us to focus on characteristics rather than character. Most importantly, Isaksen and Tidd offer a rigorous integrated model for creative leadership and provide concrete ideas and suggestions, bringing that model alive. This is an important book.'--Eugene J. McAllister President, University of Great Falls Montana, USA'As someone who has been doing research on organizational climate and leadership for the past forty years, I have particular interest in finding ways to stimulate and utilize the creative capabilities of people who work within organizations. This is a key challenge for those who seek both radical and incremental change. I am impressed that this book offers broader and deeper insights into such a relevant topic, and believe that it will be an excellent resource for both practitioners and scholars.'--Göran Ekvall, Professor Emeritus Organizational Psychology Stockholm, Sweden.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Helping Families with Troubled Children Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years. Drawing on social learning theory and cognitive behavioural principles, she provides a structured approach to intervention (ASPIRE Assessment, planning, implementation, review and evaluation) and guides practitioners to work supportively with parents. Updated with the latest research findings in a number of areas of children s difficulties, specific chapters address sleep problems, anxiety and depression, eating problems, wetting and soiling, serious behaviour problems and ADHD.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. - An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists - Texts range from Cicero's De oratore and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen's Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvellous Possessions - Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works - Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Participatory Action Research in Healthcare provides a guide to participatory action research in the community health setting. It draws upon the authors' experiences working, researching and engaging with people utilising collaborative, participatory approaches. The authors position participatory action research as a vital, dynamic and relevant approach that can be engaged by practitioners and health service providers. It is argued that participating with people is the way to move forward toward sustainable services that evoke human flourishing. Participatory Action Research in Healthcare explores the key issues surrounding participatory action research, and examines the benefits of this approach for community development and health promotion. It includes detailed guidelines on data generation and analysis.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Until recently COPD was largely neglected by health professionals and viewed as the Cinderella of respiratory conditions. Many patients were seen as heart-sink cases with a self-inflicted disease. But views are now changing and COPD, like other chronic conditions managed within primary care, has taken on a higher profile within the Government and NHS agenda. This book reflects that change. It looks at the treatment of COPD in primary care: in the GP surgery, in outpatient clinics, and through district and community nursing. COPD management does not depend on purely medical intervention; much can be done to help these patients from a psychological, social and holistic perspective to cope with their everyday activities. Patients lead a frightening existence, struggling to breathe and to cope with their symptoms. The book helps nurses and other healthcare professionals to support these patients.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. - Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe - Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole - Draws on a wide range of primary material, both textual and visual, from literary works, inscriptions and monuments - Offers insight into the religious world in which contemporary rabbinic Judaism and Christianity both had their origin.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Written by a leading authority on Baptist life and thought, this inclusive survey traces the development of the Baptist tradition in North America over the past 400 years. - Shows how from a handful of churches on the Atlantic Coast, the Baptist movement spread to become the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. - Considers the contribution of all Baptists, including those in the United States and Canada, men and women, Caucasians and non-Caucasians. - Includes statistical data, a timeline, lists of Baptist groups and related institutions, and a glossary of terms.…