John wiley sons sep 1991 (63 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This fascinating guidebook offers easy-to-follow instructions for the budding gardener. Provides 11 exciting plant projects dealing with foods found in the kitchen and includes recipes and craft projects relating to each plant discussed. Extensive, attractive line drawings and simple step-by-step directions provide lots of entertainment for its young audience.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Schlechty's common-sense approach to restructuring is combinedwith a strategic planner's vision and the translation of beliefsinto action. A wide audience, including principals andsuperintAndents, can find in this book practical outlines forrestructuring, and a distinctive and focused view of their role inthe educational system sof the twenty-first century.' --The School Administrator Schlechty provides an innovative, adaptable framework for helpingleaders in all areas of education to identify where change isneeded in order to make schools more useful and responsive tochildren and society.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written expressly for amateur archaeologists and archaeological volunteers to help them discover how they can become part of this increasingly popular field. Covers subjects ranging from excavation techniques, tools, site locations, archaeological methods, archaeology and the law to conducting your own dig. Besides providing extensive data on gaining experience as volunteers of professionally organized digs, it offers an extensive resource section that includes archaeology organizations, field schools and sites, archaeological musems and a bibliography of reading matter which deals with archaeology. A large variety of line-drawings and photographs also assist the would-be archaeologist. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Helps apprentice, journeyman, and master candidates prepare for state examinations covering general mathematics, installation principles, materials standards, and plumbing codes.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How are mountains formed What makes the air we breathe What causes the ocean waves Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions aboutthe earth, sea, and air through 101 fun, safe, low-cost experimentsand activities that can be performed at home or in the classroom.In Earth Science for Every Kid, you'll use a tennis ball and amarble to demonstrate a solar eclipse. You'll make a peanut butterand jelly sandwich to understand sedimentary rock formation. And,with the assistance of a Slinky(r) and a helper, you'll learn aboutthe motion of water waves. Each of the 101 experiments is broken down into its purpose, a listof materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and aneasy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretestedand can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom orat home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave: \* ASTRONOMY FOR EVERY KID \* BIOLOGY FOR EVERY KID \* CHEMISTRY FOR EVERY KID \* DINOSAURS FOR EVERY KID \* GEOGRAPHY FOR EVERY KID \* GEOMETRY FOR EVERY KID \* THE HUMAN BODY FOR EVERY KID \* MATH FOR EVERY KID \* PHYSICS FOR EVERY KID.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Empowerment is essential! Self-directed work teams create an environment that empowersemployees to contribute to the improvement of products andservices. In the face of this challenge, employees experiencegreater opportunities and greater satisfaction. And they do abetter job! Successful work teams call for a new kind of leadership and a boldnew attitude about workforce organization. Self-Directed Work Teamsshows how this leadership style changes the role of the supervisorand the way that work is managed. You'll learn to help workers feel like partners in theirorganizations by contributing to the improvement of products andservices. Use these guiding principles, working models, key strategies, andaction steps to create successful self-directed teams.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR Detailed case studies reveal how nonprofits can achieve excellenceby applying basic qualities of outstanding leadership: a clearlyarticulated sense of mission, a dynamic leader, and involved andcommitted governing board, and the ability to raise funds andmotivate volunteers.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first step-by-step guide to cover the entire probate process in plain everyday language. The Complete Probate Kit Over 5,000 estates enter the probate process every day in the United States--a process which you most probably will be involved in at least once in your lifetime. Each case, by law, requires either an executor or administrator to settle the estate. The Complete Probate Kit, the most comprehensive book of its kind, provides you with the basic knowledge of the probate process so that you and your beneficiaries can gain greater control of the financial fate of your estate. The Complete Probate Kit is comprehensive in scope--covering probate planning, settling an estate, probating personal property, probating real property, probating a business, taxes, and more. Along the way, you'll learn all the 'probate language' you'll need to know. And the book includes sample probate forms and outlines probate requirements for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Also by Jens C. Appel III and F. Bruce Gentry and available from John Wiley . The Complete Will Kit This comprehensive book gives you all the information, expert advice, detachable forms, and related documents you need to do your own will quickly, easily, accurately, and less expensively than if you used the full services of an attorney. It offers expert guidance on all aspects of estate planning--including wills, trusts, gifts, and special instructions--from the basics through in-depth considerations.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A complete how-to guide to a 100% financed business. How to Buy aGreat Business with no Cash Down Bestselling author Dr. ArnoldGoldstein has successfully purchased 12 companies--including retailstores to printing plants--and he did it without investing anymoney of his own! Using his proven formula for success, he also hasguided hundreds of other enterprising but financially limitedpeople into their own 100% leveraged businesses. Now, the master ofthe 'No Cash Down' takeover is ready to help you too. In thisimportant new book, he reveals all his secrets, including how tosuccessfully find, qualify, evaluate, structure, finance,negotiate, and take over any type or size business.using little orno cash of your own. In How to Buy a Great Business With No CashDown, you'll \* Get over 50 proven 'no cash down' techniques, strategies, andformulas that insure success through each phase of the buy-sellprocess \* Discover how to prospect the very best no-cash deals \* Learn how to avoid costly errors and common pitfalls \* Find out how to calculate what a business is worth \* Get all the same handy checklists, forms, and sample agreementsthe author uses \* Learn how to attract the right investment partners \* Discover how to negotiate a winning deal.each and everytime! \* Find out how to quickly sell the business for an unbelievableprofit.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Electromagnetism Electromagnetism, Second Edition is suitable for a first course in electromagnetism, whilst also covering many topics frequently encountered in later courses. The material has been carefully arranged and allows for flexibility in its use for courses of different length and structure. A knowledge of calculus and an elementary knowledge of vectors is assumed, but the mathematical properties of the differential vector operators are described in sufficient detail for an introductory course, and their physical significance in the context of electromagnetism is emphasised. In this Second Edition the authors give a fuller treatment of circuit analysis and include a discussion of the dispersion of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetism, Second Edition features: - The application of the laws of electromagnetism to practical problems such as the behaviour of antennas, transmission lines and transformers. - Sets of problems at the end of each chapter to help student understanding, with hints and solutions to the problems given at the end of the book. - Optional 'starred' sections containing more specialised and advanced material for the more ambitious reader. - An Appendix with a thorough discussion of electromagnetic standards and units. Recommended by many institutions. Electromagnetism. Second Edition has also been adopted by the Open University as the course book for its third level course on electromagnetism. The Manchester Physics Series General Editors: D. J. Sandiford; F. Mandl; A. C. Phillips Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Properties of Matter B. H. Flowers and E. Mendoza Optics Second Edition F. G. Smith and J. H. Thomson Statistical Physics Second Edition F. Mandl Electromagnetism Second Edition I. S. Grant and W. R. Phillips Statistics R. J. Barlow Solid State Physics Second Edition J. R. Hook and H. E. Hall Quantum Mechanics F. Mandl Particle Physics Second Edition B. R. Martin and G. Shaw the Physics of Stars Second Edition A. C. Phillips Computing for Scientists R. J. Barlow and A. R. Barnett.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The complete guide to painless, mutually profitable performanceappraisals. How to do a Superior Performance Appraisal For anybodywho equates doing a performance appraisal with a dentalappointment, here's a complete guide to painless, mutuallyprofitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author andFortune 1000 consultant William S. Swan, it shows you how totransform what traditionally has been a source of potentialconflict among managers and staff members, into a productive andmutually profitable process for both employer and employee. \* A systematic, step-by-step guide to conducting appraisals thatreduces defensiveness and conflict while increasing quality andproductivity \* All the nuts and bolts of doing an appraisal: data collecting,avoiding errors, knowing EEO guidelines, and much more \* Packed with useful checklists, information sheets,and sampledialogues, including a model performance appraisal formincorporating what has been proven to be the most powerfulapproach \* Throughout, the emphasis is on performance management vs.simplistic 'report-card' type systems.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other.' --Journal of Higher Education.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Using examples from over eighty organizations, this practical guide to human resource development strategies shows how to attract, make the best use of, and retain employees of different skills and perspectives. The authors reveal the strategies successful companies are using to capitalize on today's increasingly diverse and nontraditional workforce and shows how organizations must change to mesh with the needs, preferences, life-styles, and values of contemporary workers.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning describes the dynamics of how adults learn--and how their perceptions are transformed by learning--as a framework for formulating educational theory and practice. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which adults learn, how they make meaning of the learning experience, and how their lives can be transformed by it.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Involving Colleges details the extracurricular environments of fourteen diverse involving colleges and universities and shows how and where successful conditions and characteristics can be adapted to institutions to complement the institution's unique educational purpose and mission.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Combines a history of short selling with current strategies and applications to present a complete guide to this increasingly popular investment tool. Procedural and regulatory requirements are mixed with actual case studies and examples that readers can apply to specific situations. Risks and rewards of short selling are discussed in detail as are short selling as a tool for protecting other investments and for speculation.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - To become successful in the bond options market, it is important for professionals to gain a basic, yet thorough understanding of how options are priced, traded, and used in interest-rate risk and fixed-income portfolio management. Provides practical answers to questions that new participants will ask as they become more sophisticated in the bond option market. It describes the U.S. government bond options markets and discusses how options pricing and computer technologies are used in market-making, strategic trading, and value investing. After introducing standard options terminology, it provides background data on U.S. Treasury bonds, bond options pricing models, advanced pricing models, the fundamentals of bond options dealing, strategies driven by interest rate forecasts, the most widely used structured portfolio strategies involving options, and more.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Essential accounting advice for the nonprofit sphere Public and nonprofit organizations face as number of unique issues in areas related to financial management. From special accounting rules to unpredictable cash flow, there exist a host of opportunities to either succeed or fail - especially as regulations continue to evolve. Accounting and Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Manger's Guide provides much-needed guidance on all aspects of money management. Expert discussion details rules, regulations, best practices, documentation, and more, to help managers enable their organizations to further the mission and stretch donation dollars.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Madanes' lucid, coherent, and practical guide for familytherapists is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature byfamily therapy theorists and practitioners. The book is concise,well organized and clearly written.' --Contemporary Psychology A classic work which uses imaginative techniques to help achievebalance within the family. It gives attention to specific problemssuch as violence, drug abuse, and depression, and seeks the hiddenmeaning in these symptoms, which are clues to the underlying familystructure.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Begins with an analysis of a typical U.S. dollar denominated Euroconvertible. Goes on to discuss international convertible securities and such related topics as currency fluctuation and foreign currency exposure. The characteristics of domestic markets in U.S., Britain, Japan, France, Australia, and Canada and their unique features and evaluation methods are examined. Finally, it looks at convertible hedging, breakeven analysis, risk profile, and rate of return. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A classic that teaches you how to think in a contextually sensitive, directive, and goal-focused way. A highly readable and practical volume that focuses on solving problems within the context of the entire social unit--the family, the school, the community.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With coverage of the management of a catering business and 201 expert recipes from The Culinary Institute of America, the new edition of this well-established book is an ideal basic text for students of catering.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows--very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You'll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As a key step in the selection of processors, operating systems, database, systems networks, and languages, performance analysis plays an integral role in the design and procurement of new computer systems. Presenting a unique blend of measurement, simulation, and modeling methods in a straightforward, problem-oriented fashion, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis is a computer professional's treasure trove for practical performance analysis techniques. Integrating essential queueing theory with simulation, measurement techniques, data analysis, and experimental design, the book is divided into the following comprehensive parts:Overview of Performance Evaluation-addresses common mistakes in the evaluation process, criteria for selecting evaluation techniques and performance metrics, and the establishment of performance requirements - Measurement Techniques and Tools-examines workload selection and characterization, monitors, capacity planning and benchmarking, data presentation, and ratio games - Probability and Statistics-discusses the summarization of measured data, the comparison of systems using sample data, and regression models - Experimental Design and Analysis-provides the maximum amount of information with the minimum number of experiments - Simulation-clarifies the analysis of results, model verification, validation, and random-number generation - Queueing Models-models and techniques for the solution of a wide variety of common performance problems.Analysis techniques are supported by more than 150 examples and case studies-all from the computer science field-and many are summarized with results in handy reference boxes. In addition, common mistakes in the application of various techniques are descussed, and a host of special tricks to demonstrate system superiority are revealed. The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis is an essential tool for performance analysts, designers, purchasers, and users of computer systems.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Retaining Your Foodservice Employees is the second in a series of three books by Karen Eich Drummond on Foodservice Employee Management. The other two titles are Staffing Your Foodservice Operation and Disciplining Your Foodservice Employees. Employee turnover represents a major concern for foodservice operators--particularly when you consider that half of all restaurant employees leave their jobs within the first 30 days. With firings or resignations come costs: expenses for recruiting and training a new candidate as well as overtime costs incurred while the position is vacant. And beyond the immediate dollar loss, high employee turnover reduces employee morale and job performance, which can result in a significant loss of customers--and profits. Retaining Your Foodservice Employees recognizes that successful foodservice operations can no longer treat employees as disposable assets, especially in light of today s dwindling pool of workers. This quick-reference guide shows you a wide range of strategies for increasing a staff member s employment period and keeping turnover to a minimum. This innovative volume identifies what today s employees want out of their jobs. You ll get a clear understanding of workers needs that include interesting work a manager who respects, trusts, and cares about them clearly communicated performance goals good pay and benefits and comfortable working conditions.You ll also find specific actions you can take to meet these employee needs such as listening to your employees, coaching them for better performance, and using your supervisory skills to encourage positive, motivational teamwork. You ll learn how to inform and involve employees and use reward programs and career ladders to retain productive employees. Practical worksheets at the end of each chapter help you idenfity--and correct--specific areas where your business can improve. Actual on-the-job examples of improved communication and successful reward programs will help you generate ideas that you can apply to your own program. As a complete guide to a critical industry-wide problem, Retaining Your Foodservice Employees will be essential reading for all commercial and institutional foodservice managers and owners.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A veteran human resources manager and consultant shares his firsthand experience to show human resources professionals in the design field how to attract, develop and retain the best people. Demonstrates how the nature of the design profession lends itself to special strengths and weaknesses in the human resources management area. Shows managers how to break out of traditional American styles of management and into the participative management style in which design professionals thrive. They'll also learn how to define their firm's mission, determine strategy, agree on common goals plus many other techniques that will contribute not only to their human resources management goals but also to their corporation's goals as a whole.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fundamentals of Building Construction Materials and Methods Second Edition Edward Allen This remarkably complete introduction to the art of building sets the materials and building systems in an historical context. This unique evolutionary approach to building construction includes a description of how materials are obtained and processed, an outline of the people and organizations who work with each material, their tools and working methods, and the role of one building system in relation to others. Chapters include a listing of key terms and concepts useful in enlarging a technical vocabulary, review questions that underscore key concepts, and exercises that apply lessons to real-life situations. 1990 (0 471-50911-6) 803 pp. Understanding Infrastructure A Guide for Architects and Planners George Rainer This landmark reference--written for concerned professionals--describes the basic mechanisms essential to city function. Each element of infrastructure is discussed--from water supply, sewers and storm drainage, solid and hazardous wastes, energy, telecommunication, streets, bridges, to water-front infrastructure, rail/transit and aviation, buses, and parks--and set in a context familiar to the design professional. Includes an extensive discussion of standard and innovative solutions as well as relevant environmental, legal, and economic considerations. 1990 (0 471-50546-3) 278 pp. Construction Specifications Writing Principles and Procedures Third Edition Harold J. Rosen and Tom Heineman The classic guide to the principles and practice of specifications writing has been fully updated to reflect the latest AIA and CSI standards, the newest computer applications to spec writing, and the linkage of key databases to specifications. Retaining the format of its successful predecessors, this Third Edition outlines the basic principles, concepts and uses of specifications, showing how they relate to contract documents developed by the architect and engineer. Specific guidelines include methods for establishing the scope and general requirements of the project specification, evaluating and specifying building materials, and writing specifications that conform to industry standards in style and format. 1990 (0 471-61892-6) 286 pp.…