author solutions inc sep 2003 (102 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A tender but insightful true history of what makes the alumni of the University of Maryland, Munich Campus so special. This sequel to Bavarian Crème continues to be occasionally outrageous, sometimes hilarious, but always entertaining.Like its (younger) sister campuses in Augsburg and Mannheim, UMMC was a magical place created under unique circumstances. In 2004, after a 54-year tradition, the last of these extraordinary two-year residential campuses will fade away into history. Everyone affiliated with the University of Maryland overseas can't help but to have come away from the experience uniquely tied to a special group like no other. These are some of their stories.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After the northeast storm of 1992 destroyed the Ocean Grove Fishing Pier, Carol and Bob, a good friend, decided it would be a funny practical joke to put a dummy on the end of the ruins of the Fishing Pier. Bob named the dummy, Ralph. Neither Carol nor Bob thought that Ralph would last more than one week, but it turned out that he survived the summer, fall, and winter. When the pier was rebuilt in the spring, the members of the Fishing Club asked if Ralph could become a permanent fixture. To this day Ralph can be seen watching over South End Ocean Grove Beach.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Set in France in the 1930s, L'Art de vivre evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and scrapes by, earning a living from the few students he can still attract and the occasional sculpture he can sell.These worlds, which are physically only a mile apart, come together as a result of an improbable set of circumstances involving thefts, a suspected murder, and a high profile police investigation. Newspapers all over France report excitedly on the mystery surrounding the artist, as his friends try to understand what has become of him. Friends of the aristocratic couple never suspect the obsessive secret that drives them to risk their position and fortune through a daring crime spree.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Operation Anaconda and Beyond provides a controversial look at events that have affected the United States and many other countries throughout the world since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the United States Pentagon.This fictional book was written before most of the events had actually taken place and details the fate of modern day's two most terrifying men. Following the United States Military men in action, it details their accounts through recent conflicts.The reader will be transported into a special operations mission with a Marine sniper and Navy SEAL expedition. Operation Anaconda and Beyond depicts a minute-by-minute sequence of United States forces carrying out their assignments while engaged in armed conflict with Taliban, Al Qaida, and Iraqi enemy forces.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The end of the age is upon us. Soon the heavens will be shaken, and the battlefield of an ancient war will make its way to the earth. The fabric of time and space trembles full of fractures under the strain of warring battalions, yet we of earth sit in stillness, in a quiet sector of our universe, primarily unaware of the forces about to embark upon us.Through the thinning veil, both the darkness, and the light are penetrating. And while the world becomes subtly entrenched in clouds of darkness, speckled rays of prophetic light have been piercing through, fulfilling the prophecies of Joel 2:28-32.Over 20 years ago, one such ray of light struck me, an ordinary 12-year-old boy. In a vision, I saw an eagle whose countenance and power was unfathomable. Electricity pulsated throughout the feathers of His body, and while He glared at me with His glowing eyes, He stretched out His wings. A star of light formed between them, and struck me on my forehead. I am finally beginning to understand the knowledge that was imparted to me on that night so long ago.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cross-generational pain, drive to serve, the fear of failure, and chronic systematic problems will grip your heart as the truth unfolds. The story of one Missionary family caught in a cycle of unresolved grief leading to a seemingly fateful ending of a marriage. But was it fateful or a reprieve to break the cycle Paul is a missionary child who exposes the truth about the Missionary family during the 60's and 70's. His personal experience will make you laugh and weep. The ignorance of the sending community to his plight can make you angry. He is not alone. There are many who do not have the energy to tell their story. Healing is a long road for those who have suffered abuse resulting in broken relationships. Break the cycle. Become informed.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Visit the West Texas town of Acorn! Enjoy the German festival, a high school football game, homemade apple pie from the Turner Street Café, and the cool shade of a hundred-year-old oak tree. Meet dedicated teachers, unusual artists, shrewd business owners, closeted gays, and concerned neighbors. See how lives become intertwined in moments of humor or tragedy. Just be careful, because in Acorn, the sky is always falling!From romantic comedy to razor-sharp satire to moments of quiet reflection, Duane Simolke's award-winning tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences.'A well-crafted collection of short stories.'L. L. Lee, author of Taxing Tallula'It was a real pleasure to read about the fictional town of Acorn, Texas, and get to meet all the different and varied people that Mr. Simolke so eloquently fleshed out.'Mark Kendrick, author of Desert Sons.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Now this just isn't- Mrs. Klein you don't- you can't. I know you love it here but you're not being clear. I mean with the death and all, and the little ones. But think about it. Think of the numbers.' He pointed at her brown account book and wearily took off his glasses. 'Your family is just scratching, just scratching along. The families before you had the same troubles. They were hard workers too, but the land isn't rich, not like what's surrounding you: too many rocks, too steep of a grade. I may not own this place but I reckon I've worked here longer than anybody else has, probably since the Indians gave it up. I say you've had bum luck in picking your business. And now without a man--' It is turn of the century America in Upstate New York. In the fertile lands of the region a new widow with three young children must run their farm alone, defying sexual expectations of the time. From this seed the Klein family's story branches into a journey of growth that touches, sometimes violently, their community, with its servants, wealthy landowners, and farmers, eventually bringing them into the larger world of the city with its tenement slums, and mansions, immigrants, and laborers. The Runaway is a tightly knit study of a time when economic, racial, and sexual mores experienced a radical revolution, as well as a moving piece on human relations, as illuminating to the present day as it is to the past.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Amber is not only beautiful, but she sings like an angel. She's on her way to a promising country-singing career when tragedy strikes again.Hunter is a handsome but an arrogant hot-headed bounty hunter. He's out to catch his prey. When his past resurfaces and secrets are revealed, he is forced to face issues. Can he forgive Amber and Hunter are drawn together by attraction. Can their burning desires keep them together while the secrets unravel How will destiny affect their lives.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In All My Born Days -- Stories by a Sharecropper's Son, a historical autobiography, Kenneth R. Shipe looks back on his early life in the poverty-stricken hills of West Virginia, and recalls how his parents struggled during the Depression to scratch a living from the soil for a family of ten. He tells how a New Deal farm loan made it possible for his father to work as a sharecropper in Maryland and describes the primitive processes the Shipe family used for growing and harvesting crops, butchering animals and preserving meat.The Shipes were ruled by the forces of nature: bitter cold winters; a flood that washed over their West Virginia home; and a forest fire that surrounded their house in Maryland and had Ken and his family flat on their bellies, gasping for breath. Ken remembers humorous incidents from his days in a country schoolhouse, and how he almost lost his life when his new bicycle ran off a mountain road. And he writes about World War II, which snatched up his brothers and critical farm helpers, leading to failure of the Shipes' sharecropping venture and subsequently his own call to duty as a Marine in the Korean War.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Self-directed work teams aregaining popularity as an alternative to traditional work designs. This studyattempts to address what is the 'driving force' behind theinstallation of self-directed work teams. What stage have self-directed work teamsdeveloped within the various organizations How is the self-directed work teams 'governed' What are the stepsfollowed in installing self-directed work teams What problems are encounteredat each step of the installation What solutions are used to solve the problemsencountered, and what would be the results (effects on performance impact onsupervisors, productivity, costs, absenteeism, and job satisfaction) fromimplementing self-directed work teams The study used an organizationalguiding behavior survey. The survey was administered to workers on December 161998, at Becton-Dickinson when 56 surveys documents were distributed to eachdepartment #242 work cells and #272 non-work cells in Columbus, Nebraska, andall returned completed.This project incorporate, a studyof current trends in self-directed work teams programs, as they apply to themanagement-associates relations process.This study shows how managers are becoming more involved with their workforce, to empower associates to make their own decisions, decrease associatesjob dissatisfaction, and allow for flatter organizational charts.In today's work environmentthere is a need to change the way management and the associatescommunicate. The traditional way thatmanagement communicates with the associates is by telling them what to do, andhow to do their job. In years past the traditional democratic style ofmanagement was effective, but in today's work environment requires a flattercoaching style of management.Based on the project study oneobjective was established, to flattening management hierarchy and create acoaching atmosphere instead of telling.The self-directed work team transformation in today's workplace is inthe form of how managers are becoming more like mentors and coaches whencommunicating with associates.Tom H. WashingtonSummer 2000.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - De Posada shares motivational methods that he has used in seminars for such major corporations as IBM, Citibank, and Sprint--not to mention the L.A. Lakers and the Milwaukee Bucks.