Author solutions inc feb 2005 (15 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many people have considered volunteering but they simply don't know how to get started. In Giving from Your Heart, co-authors Dr. Bob Rosenberg and Guy Lampard share their expertise about the numerous volunteer opportunities available today. From determining your desired level of involvement to establishing realistic expectations, Rosenberg and Lampard offer practical information that will help you connect with the volunteer opportunity that's right for you. Advance praise for Giving from Your Heart, A Guide to Volunteering: 'Giving from Your Heart, A Guide to Volunteering is an excellent book to help motivate people of all generations and walks of life to engage in volunteer service. The book is a terrific guide for getting started, with educational and entertaining information, as well as real-life stories that provide powerful inspiration. Especially helpful for Baby Boomers--our largest rising population of volunteers.' --Michelle Nunn, President and CEO, CityCares 'Giving from Your Heart is inspired and inspiring--at once a wonderful resource recognizing ordinary Americans doing extraordinary work and a roadmap for all of us to become more engaged in the life of our communities.' --Marc Freedman, author of Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America 'In Giving from Your Heart, Bob Rosenberg and Guy Lampard provide us with unique insight and inspiration about the value of sharing through volunteering. Their inspirational stories and logical approach to effective volunteering will help to illuminate a path toward satisfying and effective experiences.' --from the Foreword by Robert K. Goodwin, CEO, Points of Light Foundation The authors have gifted Giving from Your Heart, A Guide to Volunteering to Volunteer For Good, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and assist in connecting people with volunteering.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Amish have a casino on the Las Vegas Strip (no electricity, of course); the Mormon Underground rescues people from the clutches of the federal government; the Pentecostals have joined the Aryan Nation ('they were the only church that had guns'). The United States has devolved into a feudal society; epidemics rage unchecked due to the collapse of the health system; ecoterrorists are bent on destroying every landmark in the book 1,001 Must-See Sites in North America; the population is ruled by conspiracy theories. America during the apocalypse is, in short, only a bit more twisted than it is today. Love in the Time of the Apocalypse invites us to explore a twisted view of the End Times where love and a good sense of humor can triumph over millennia of prophecy.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Performance Advantage(TM) provides managers at every level with the ability to understand how to take the right action, at the right time, to increase performance and create a motivational work environment. For years, the myth of traditional thinking was that creating high morale resulted in high performance. Think again! Arthors Rick Tate and Dr. Julie White destroy this myth and provide managers practical, applied methods, skills, and concepts that come directly from over 30 years of research in organizational effectiveness, not from some new management '?avor of the month.' With a concise, easy to remember model, managers will be energized to lead more effectively, with fewer resources and within tighter budgets. Imagine what it will be like to take action.the right action, at the right time to get bottom line results!The Performance Advantage Method(TM) focuses on the manager's role and actions to impact:- Employee Motivation- Performance Expectations- Employee Ability- Employee Attitude - Confidence- Desire and Motivation- Organizational Issues- Personal Issues- Meaningful Participation- Leadership Action: When the leader's action is aligned with the follower's performance results and attitude (rather than the leader's comfort zone), then performance, retention, and relationships all improve.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Are you a mom Are you bogged down and stressed out by bottles, diapers, doctor appointments, school assignments, sports activities, music lessons and carpool lines Just reading the day planner of a mom can be exhausting! It is easy to become consumed by the day-to-day task of motherhood! However, of all the things a mom must do, the most important part of parenting is to develop a strong spiritual foundation in the life of your child. Moms Are Ministers examines the role of motherhood and offers steps to implement that spiritual foundation of faith. In it the author, Emlyn Riggle, suggests that being a mom is in itself a ministry. It is the ministry of leading your children to the Lord and then nurturing them in that most important relationship. Moms Are Ministers combines a mother's personal journey of faith with the powerful foundation of Biblical teaching to bring a message of hope and inspiration to those confronting the challenging role of motherhood. This insightful book will uplift you with examples of God's work that will tug at your heartstrings while Emlyn's sense of humor will certainly bring a smile. Moms Are Ministers will bless, strengthen, encourage and empower the mothers of today and the mothers of tomorrow to carry out not only the most challenging job in the world, but also the most important job in the world! While a pastor's job is to help lead the church in its mission to evangelize the lost souls that come through its doors, a mom's mission is to evangelize the children that God places in her heart and in her home. It is to that end that Moms Are Ministers was written.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the exciting, fast-paced Western adventure sequel to Escape from Hell's Corner, crazed killer Amos Clarke (aka Amos Watson) will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his father.Amos Watson's admiration for his father and almost worship of the blacksnake-whip were all that remained from outlaw Watson Clarke's horrific reign of terror inflicted on the people of southwest Texas during Amos' formative years. During his youth, Amos developed a seething rage and designed an insidious plan to avenge his father's death. His hatred of those responsible for killing his father included three Darnel brothers, two county sheriffs, a Mexican Army captain and the leading citizens of Turtle Creek. Amos avoided work and spent his youthful years committing crimes-- mostly petty thievery- he felt capable of doing without having to pay the penalty. Amos learned all his killer father's sly and cunning tricks and acquired his hedonic desire for feelings of satisfaction and pleasure while abusing women, especially young girls. He always brought home to his mother the money and other valuables he robbed. Set in the picturesque Texas mountains, Return to Hell's Corner combines danger, romance, bravery, and good old-fashioned western justice to provide an exhilarating ride through the lawless wasteland of the Old West.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On her 13th Birthday, Carly is given a letter written by her Grandmother Liz on the day Carly was born. Now, with Grandmother Liz in an Alzheimer's care facility, Carly wants to communicate with her grandmother. This story, told through Carly's journal writing, is a year of friends, school, family, and reaching out to Grandmother Liz, who doesn't recognize Carly. Carly launches a plan to connect with her Grandmother. Carly discovers that there are ways to express love other than by speaking, and is surprised by the bittersweet results.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Six Chukkers of Love is more than Clark Hetherington's autobiography. It is a first-hand account of the history of polo in the United States post World War II. Clark knew all of the movers and shakers, great players and sundry characters that were responsible for polos growth and development. His book is filled with wonderful stories of these individuals and their enthusiasm for the sport. These pages portray not only his love of polo and his important role in its growth but also the influential roles played by each of many other individuals. At the National Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame part of our mission is to preserve, record, and archive the history and tradition of polo. Much of what Clark has written in these pages are anecdotes of personal experiences no where else previously documented. The anecdotes and stories convey what all of us who live the sport know to be the true flavor of its tradition. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to the author for preserving this history. Six Chukkers of Love is another chapter in Clark Hetherington's dedicated service to the sport of polo. In 2004, the National Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame recognized his lifetime contributions with the Iglehart Award. Some of these contributions are briefly outlined on the plaque in his honor at the Museum as follows: He spent a lifetime dedicated to polo. An avid player since age 7. He later captained the Oklahoma University team. He started Broad Acres Polo Club in 1954 and served four years as USPA circuit governor. At his own expense, he produced educational films such as Charlie Chukker and an umpire training presentation. Clark has been called by many, 'The father of professional umpiring'. He tirelessly promoted a uniform standard for all umpires to the USPA and to clubs around the country. After his appointment as USPA chief umpire, he developed umpire training programs and conducted numerous clinics across the nation, furnishing horses and equipment. More than 250 polo players, including several Hall of Fame inductees, claim Hetherington as their mentor. I know the many friends Clark has made over the years on the polo field will enjoy reading through these pages. Undoubtedly, they will arouse in each reader treasured memories of polo fun. For me and countless others in the sport, his career has been a wonderful influence and example. Stephen Orthwein Chairman National Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Often times the history of the Miss. Delta is lost in the effort to make more exciting and glamorize its past. The travail of the ordinary working classes, the plebeians and lower elements, who exerted most of the physical toil and sweat and anguish of clearing this land, draining its forbidding mosquito swamps, saving it from the raging river, then bringing some aspect of civilization to it, are painted over completely or glossed with an imperfect brush and sometimes left out entirely. These tales are about some of these people. How their ranks are encumbered by long generations of consanguinity, isolation, fear and superstition and how their disposition, character and religion are molded by this. They evoke a closeness and affinity to place and an almost palpable perception of some of their simple pleasures and fears, their cravings and needs and their response to the daily burden and elation of living. THIS PETTY PACE is the tale of the author's return to an aunts farm he frequented as a youth and while there was himself visited by a bizarre, spectral force and image from the distant past. ONE WITH NINEVEH is told by a nearly blind uncle, who sees his town as it existed eighty five years ago and recalls in bright detail a religious revival there thirty years later. THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT is an account of a refugee, expatriated from the hill country. Ambitious and beguilingly cunning, he brought with him the dark, inbred character of his people's religious and racial prejudices and anti-Semitism, already flourishing in the deep, fertile earth of the Delta.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the Great Depression of the 1930's forces the narrator's family to give up their conventional home in a respectable neighborhood and move to a flat on the wrong side of the tracks, for her parents it is a shameful descent into a temporary Hell; for their eleven-year-old daughter, the fall from financial grace drops her into a fascinating place where the Hart family, who rent the other half of the flat, speak candidly about life, love, and sex. The narrator immediately becomes Best Friends with Valentine Hart. The girls are drawn together by a mysterious magnet which they neither question nor doubt. Other than for being the same age and approaching the tremulous threshold between childhood and adolescence, their only common denominator is their love for the movies and their tendency to endow real life with the shining aura that the silver screen gives their romanced-drenched souls.The narrator's mother takes a dim view of the entire Hart family, and repeatedly cautions her not to get too close to them. She may as well have been speaking to the wind. The narrator is delighted when her mother decides it is her duty to use her skill in writing Gregg shorthand to fatten the family coffers and goes to work for a lawyer. With her mother absent all day, the narrator is free to experience the forbidden pleasure of living on the wild side of life.Lacey (Valentine's lively, lusty, beautiful mother) divides society into three categories: 'People Just Like Us,'; those who' Wouldn't Say Shit If They Had A Mouthful,'; and the 'High-Muckety-Mucks.' The narrator is honored to be accepted by the Harts as 'People Just Like Us,' who along with Lacey include Big Hart whose tough workdays are softened in Lacey's loving arms; Valentine's twin brother, Black, who will commit any sin but never tell a lie, a boy with a tender side which only the narrator discovers when he teaches her about sex in an alleyway; and little Broken, whose twisted body and mixed-up brain is a result of Lacey's foiled attempt to abort him. To the narrator, the difference between her respectable old world and her exciting new one can be summed up quite simply: she had moved out of the world of breasts and into the world of tits.As summer rolls around, Lacey forces Valentine to add to the family's small income by working for a family of former 'High Muckety-Mucks,' the Greys of Sycamore Lane. Mr. Grey is a handsome, charming man whose angry, bitter wife works in the five-and-dime. While Valentine baby-sits their young son, she and the narrator become aware of Mr. Grey's love affair with his child-like adoring young neighbor whose alcoholic long-distance truck driver beats her when he is home. The two young girls endow the forbidden love with the magical aura they view in their frequent visits to the local movie theatre. In their fierce loyalty and misconception of adult passion, they are blinded to the truth until, too late; they witness the reality of love and hate, betrayal and death, and become innocent co-conspirators in a terrible crime which will haunt them forever.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the midst of the American Civil War, Rita Goldstein, a beautiful, young cornetist, is abandoned in Cairo, Illinois by her faithless fiancé Butch Lassiter, but she is a fierce and determined young woman who is not easily rejected and not easily discouraged. She sets out at once to bring him back and follows The Army of the Cumberland across Tennessee to find him. She is pursued by her heart-broken father, Ira, who wants to bring her home again. On their separate journeys, Ira and Rita are caught up in the hatred and destructiveness of two huge armies, one from the North and one from the South. However, both Ira and Rita find consolation in the power of music.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Carrion is a disturbing tale of human manipulation and biological mutation revealing the startling similarities that all living organisms share, predator as well as prey. Three years ago, Naturalzyme Incorporated released their first generation animal feed and water-conditioning products. With the help of Dr. William Clayton, the University Extension Service Dean of Veterinary Medicine, the Naturalzyme field-control test animals passed all USDA and FDA regulations on their initial trial. What Dr. Clayton didn.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - RANDEE TAYLOR is unaware that her impulsive nature can lead to many devastating consequences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Carry me, Daddy. I can't walk'-six words that catapult the parents of three-year-young Kim into a quagmire of medical rhetoric as they seek answers to the reasons for her words. Touch me, courage, not softly becomes the high bar they cling to as they begin a journey that has no roadmap, no borders, except their own love. Would life at any cost be an unacceptable option Would refusing to subject Kim to extreme medical experimentation that would cause unknown devastating consequences be an acceptable option Would they be able to withstand the pressure from the medical profession to experiment for the sake of future children, but not for the benefit of Kim To save the village they may destroy Kim. Would you Little One Laugh Little One Run: creates new meaning to the words life and love.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Captured here for eternity are untold, heart wrenching stories from Korea to the Middle East, stories of a new generation of fighting men and women who were forgotten-as in the Korean War-or ignored, scorned, and rejected-the tragic legacy of the Vietnam War; the shame of an ungrateful nation and press.…