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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Your hands-on guide to real-world applications of linear algebraDoes linear algebra leave you feeling lost No worries -this easy-to-follow guide explains the how and the why of solving linear algebra problems in plain English. From matrices to vector spaces to linear transformations, you'll understand the key concepts and see how they relate to everything from genetics to nutrition to spotted owl extinction.\* Line up the basics - discover several different approaches to organizing numbers and equations, and solve systems of equations algebraically or with matrices\* Relate vectors and linear transformations - link vectors and matrices with linear combinations and seek solutions of homogeneous systems\* Evaluate determinants - see how to perform the determinant function on different sizes of matrices and take advantage of Cramer's rule\* Hone your skills with vector spaces - determine the properties of vector spaces and their subspaces and see linear transformation in action\* Tackle eigenvalues and eigenvectors - define and solve for eigenvalues and eigenvectors and understand how they interact with specific matricesOpen the book and find:\* Theoretical and practical ways of solving linear algebra problems\* Definitions of terms throughout and in the glossary\* New ways of looking at operations\* How linear algebra ties together vectors, matrices, determinants, and linear transformations\* Ten common mathematical representations of Greek letters\* Real-world applications of matrices and determinants.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling author of Catch! shares the innovation secrets that helped Boeing turn itself around from the brink of collapseThe Rudolph Factor tells the story of Boeing's spectacular turnaround through a discussion of principles and qualities that are transferable and replicable to any size or type of organization in any industry. Authors Cyndi Laurin and Craig Morningstar use the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as an analogy to explore a corporate culture that managed to avoid disaster through progressive leadership; a highly participatory team-based culture; the development of an organizational constitution; and an alternative, aligned employee rewards structure. Using real-world lessons from Boeing's inspiring story, The Rudolph Factor shows companies how to nurture a culture centered around their 'Rudolphs'-those out-of-the-box, creative employees who can serve as shining lights to lead organizations in accomplishing their goals. Applicable to anyone who runs a business of any size, this book shows readers how to find, nurture, and leverage the creativity of its employees to achieve a long-term competitive advantage.Cyndi Laurin, PhD (Phoenix, AZ), is an author, international keynote speaker, and founder of Guide to Greatness, LLC. Craig Morningstar (Phoenix, AZ) is an experienced senior-level executive whose background includes positions at Southwest Airlines and Charles Schwab.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How to leverage ordinary greatness to create a competitive advantage for any organizationEnabling readers to maximize leadership skills, no matter the venue, Ordinary Greatness helps those who are in leadership positions to optimize their organizational results by improving their ability to recognize and create greatness in those who they lead. Featuring real-world stories, this practical guide helps readers relate to both famous and everyday heroes and shows leaders how to improve their immediate environment. In addition, actionable tips and insights are included to equip business leaders to remove the blinders that keep them from seeing their organization's ordinary greatness.Pamela Bilbrey and Brian Jones are organizational consultants, executive coaches, and international speakers and workshop facilitators.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Full-color guide to everything you need to get the most out of your Nikon D5000!The Nikon D5000 packs a lot of punch into a camera that beginners will love, and now you can pack an equal amount of punch into the digital photographs you take with your new Nikon. Whether you want to understand the D5000's new exposure settings or learn photography basics such as aperture, shutter speed, and downloading photos, this book delivers.\* Walks you through the new Nikon D5000's features, including a 12.3 megapixel sensor, 19 auto-exposure modes, and a swivel viewfinder\* Shows beginners who may be new to DSLR cameras how to take good digital photographs-from using the right settings for things like sunsets, candelight, or portraits-to downloading to your computer and printing\* Demonstrates beginning to advanced techniques with over 200 full-color photos, giving you plenty of great ideas of what you can accomplish\* Offers practical tips and ideas from two expert digital photographers and authorsDon't be intimidated by your new digital camera! This friendly For Dummies guide will get you up and running in no time.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An indispensable guide to dealing with challenging, childish boss behavior and building a great career. Based on extensive interviews and research, Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant(TM) helps employees understand their managers and how to cope with them when they are difficult and frustrating. It reveals the most common irritating boss behaviors, including childish and bullying antics. Most people simply endure the tirades, mood swings, and incessant questions of their tyrannical bosses, but this book shows readers how to build positive relationships with even the most out-of-control boss, and still thrive in their jobs.The key to success lies in dealing with a Terrible Office Tyrant (or TOT(TM)) much like a parent deals with a troublesome toddler. From brats to little lost lambs, virtually every kind of boss is covered here. With true stories and time-tested solutions, this is the perfect guide for dealing with managers who slip into their Terrible Twos. These bosses may be distracted, whiny, fickle and moody, bullying and demanding, needy, stubborn, or just plain self-centered. Taylor takes employees behind all the bossy blustering, so that they can achieve their goals, and career excellence.Bosses will also benefit from this guide to gain insight on what not to do with their team. CEOs know instinctively that Terrible Office Tyrants (TOTs) wreak havoc in their companies, harming the bottom line. A special section helps them mitigate TOT behavior - for a more productive workplace.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An innovative approach to winning more profitable sales in the growing professional services industryIn recent years, professional services providers have had to rethink their sales methods and adapt to profound changes in the way clients buy services. In response, Winning the Professional Services Sale argues for fundamental changes in the seller's mindset and sales strategies. Rather than pressing the sale, salespeople must help clients buy--the way that works best for each client. This new approach gives buyers what they now want in a services seller: a consultative problem solver, change agent, and solution integrator, all rolled into one. Author Michael McLaughlin presents a strategy for winning new business with a holistic approach to each client relationship. Only by fully understanding a sale from every angle, including its impact on the client's business and career, can salespeople thrive in the new era of the service economy.Michael W. McLaughlin is the coauthor of Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants and a principal with MindShare Consulting LLC, a firm that creates innovative sales and marketing strategies for professional services companies. Before founding MindShare Consulting, he was a partner with Deloitte Consulting.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Joyful Reading Resource Kit.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A great way to get started on this new, FREE, Web-based productivity and collaboration toolZoho is a very cool-and free-alternative to Microsoft Office. Known as 'cloud' computing because it's totally Web-based, Zoho provides 18 different applications to help you write documents, create spreadsheets, send e-mail, and much more. People love it, but what it doesn't offer are extensive help files, so that's where this practical book comes in.Zoho For Dummies shows you how to use Zoho's most widely used applications, including Zoho Writer, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Show, Zoho Sheet, Zoho DB, Zoho Mail, Zoho Planner, Zoho CRM, and Zoho Projects. You'll get thoroughly up to speed on all common tasks and discover enough tips and tricks to get you power-using Zoho in no time.\* Zoho is a free, Web-based alternative to Microsoft Office launched in 2007; it is considered to be 'cloud computing' because it is categorized as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Web-based\* The book guides you through common tasks and provides tips and tricks to maximize your productivity and minimize hassle\* Covers Zoho Writer, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Show, Zoho Sheet, Zoho DB, Zoho Mail, Zoho Planner, Zoho CRM, and Zoho Projects\* Also provides information about sharing content, scheduling, and moreGet your head in the clouds with this friendly guide to the exciting new Zoho 'cloud' alternative to Microsoft Office.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection critically engages with a number of recurrent themes from the work of G.A. Cohen, and most especially with arguments and positions advanced in his Rescuing Justice and Equality.\* A critical discussion of the work of the contemporary political theorist G.A. Cohen, an egalitarian and a critic of John Rawls\* Offers a critical perspective on his significant work on equality and constructivism, including his eagerly anticipated new book Rescuing Justice and Equality\* The contributors to this volume are noted for their own work on these topics\* Challenges Cohen's view of the centrality of equality to justice, of the scope for free choice of occupation and economic incentives, as well as his view that fundamental principles of justice are insensitive to facts.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Creativity is not about taking chances, it is about ascertaining success. In Creativity Unlimited , you will learn that creativity is not about being crazy, and that creative breakthroughs are not exceptions to the rule. The rule is that creativity leads to success. Based on research and documentation of thousands of companies, Micael Dahlén shows how and why creativity is fundamental to success.Creativity Unlimited is not so much about how other companies and people have been creative, as it is about how you yourself and your company can be creative. All winners train hard, and it is up to you to train your way to creativity.Remember that Einstein had a surprisingly small brain.'Micael Dahlén has skillfully crafted a masterpiece that should be carefully read and digested by all new and seasoned executives alike. Through interweaving current knowledge about product innovation, branding, psychology and evolutionary biology, this book will challenge your thinking about creativity and the product innovation process and if implemented as intended, will no doubt enhance the impact of your product development efforts. Highly recommended.'James H. Leigh, Texas A&M University'Micael Dahlén shows with his book Creativity Unlimited not only what creativity is about but also relates creativity to our daily work as managers in both being creative and building up creativity in our own organisation. I personally found Micael's book very valuable for my own work. It gives me a lot of practical hints how to develop my and my teams' creative power.'Dr Jens Effenberger, Volkswagen Light Commercial Vehicles, Hanover, Germany, Director International Sales.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire, or interpreted as a result of the unexpected annihilation of the Spartan army by the Boeotians at Leuktra. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League, accompanied by a general awakening of ethnicity in various areas of the Peloponnese. A series of regional case studies is combined with thematic contributions focusing on topics such as the relationship of religious cults and ethnicity and of democracy and ethnicity, the use of archaeological evidence for ethnic phenomena, and comparative approaches based on social anthropology.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors is the first ethics book designed to engage students and psychotherapists in the process of developing a professional identity that integrates their personal values with the ethics and traditions of their discipline. Anderson and Handelsman present positive discussions accompanied by a variety of thought-provoking exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to introduce readers to all the major ethical issues in psychotherapy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Reinventing Talent Management.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This fourth edition of Metric Pattern Cutting for Children's Wear and Babywear remains the standard text book but has three majorimprovements.First, the sections have been re-organised to reflect changes in producing and marketing children's clothes. Today's popularity of easy-fitting styles and knitted fabrics means that basic 'flat' pattern cutting is used to construct the majority of children's wear and babywear and this type of cutting is therefore emphasised in this new edition. Shaped blocks and garments, cut to fit the body form, are still included, and are placed in chapters covering some school uniform garments or more expensive fashion or formal clothes. The book now clearly separates the sections useful to student beginners (Parts One, Two and Three), and also offers more advanced or specialist sections for students who wish to pursue a career in children's wear or for designers working in the different manufacturing sectors of the trade.The second change in this fourth edition is the introduction of colour coding to the sections; this makes it easier to identify specific processes in the book and enhances the illustrations.Finally, the size charts have been revised to reflect the changes in body sizing. The clear division of the boys' and girls' measurements in the charts has been in response to the way clothes are marketed and to co-ordinate with European size charts. 'Plus' charts for heavier children have also been added.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional 'touchy-feely' teambuilding.To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in 'How NASA Builds Teams'--an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This '4-D' process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineering teams, and management teams, including the people responsible for NASA's most complex systems -- the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. How NASA Builds Teams explains how the 4-D teambuilding process can be applied in any organization, and includes a fast, free on-line behavioral assessment to help your team and the individual members understand each other and measure the key driver of team performance, the social context.Moreover, these simple, logical processes appeal strongly to technical teams who eschew 'touchy-feely' training. Pellerin applies simple, elegant principles from his physics background to the art teambuilding, such as the use of a coordinate system to analyze the characteristics of team performance into actionable elements.The author illustrates the teambuilding process with entertaining stories from his decade as NASA's Director for Astrophysics and subsequent 15 years of working closely with NASA and outside business teams. For example, he tells how the processes in the book enabled him to initiate the space mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope's flawed mirror.Free downloadable resources will help you:\* Identify your teammates' innate personalities\* Diagram your culture (And compare it to your customer's)\* Measure the coherency of your project's paradigm (Get this wrong and you will be fired!) and\* Learn to meet people's need to feel valued by you.Further, you can download and use Pellerin's most powerful tool for influencing the outcome of any difficult situation: the Context Shifting Worksheet.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART alliance(TM) estimates that up to fifty percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that commonly results in dissatisfied customers and frequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Important contributions on the European Mesolithic and Neolithic, with a stress on Northern Europe: Novel methods and studies, and very important finds. The main contribution, on Ezero-Kale in Bulgaria (a sequel to Acta Archaeologica Supplementa VI, 2005 on the Lîga Copper Age settlement), should be singled out; it gives a superb explanation of the collapse of Balkan Copper Age societies and the long transition to the Bronze Age, with re-orientation towards the new centres of the Mediterranean and the Near East: indeed, the dawn of civilization.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the bestselling books Shaping School Culture and The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook were first published, Kent D. Peterson and Terrence E. Deal described the critical elements of school culture--the purposes, traditions, norms, and values that guide and glue the community together. The authors showed how a positive culture makes school reform work and the companion Fieldbook included the tools needed to bring out the best in students, teachers, and the surrounding community.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An insightful collection of studies into the Viking, Neolithic and Bronze Ages of the Nordic world exploring both the domestic and the regal in the rise to civilization. Highlights include an investigation into the prominent Migration Period building at Alby, Sweden and an exploration into the meaning of women's ornaments. Randsborg has brought together studies from key contributors, such as Wolf Meyer-Christian, Anne Carlie and Palle Eriksen.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, millions of people have been forced to flee their homes. The causes and consequences of this and international responses to displacement lie at the very heart of world politics; however, these important issues have been largely neglected by its primary discipline: International Relations.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Each year several thousand students receive a doctoral degree in psychology. Most graduates are likely to be confronted by such questions as 'Must I complete a postdoctoral placement ', 'Should I establish a private practice ', 'Will I be able to pursue both my teaching and research interests ', 'What steps must I take to get licensed ', and 'At what type of institution do I want to work ' Without proper preparation to deal with these and other issues, the resulting frustration and anxiety are not surprising.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bullying Prevention for Schools A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful ANTI-BULLYING Program.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An understanding of medical law is increasingly important for all health professionals and this new ABC provides a basic introduction to the legal issues faced in health care that is accessible to anyone without any legal knowledge. The ABC of Medical Law provides ideal guidance to the practicing physician - covering just what you need to know without becoming embroiled in complicated legal discussion.The ABC of Medical Law has up-to-date coverage of the legal issues to be found in daily medical practice, including confidentiality, research, consent, negligence, organ donation and human rights, as well as more contentious issues such as tissue retention and withholding/withdrawing treatment. Well illustrated and presented in a user-friendly format, chapters include summaries and cases to help clarify the points made.Written by practising clinicians with expertise in medical law and a medical barrister, the ABC of Medical Law will help keep a practice within the constraints of the law and is ideal for GPs, junior doctors and medical students, and anyone wanting to understand the broad basics of medical law.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field.\* Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary\* Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family\* Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language\* Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter\* Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A holistic approach to harnessing a company's processes to achieve true customer satisfactionEvery move that a corporation makes is a mixture of input, action, and output-in short, a process. To keep customers, employees, and shareholders happy, corporate management must juggle conflicting priorities. These competing priorities result in conflicting processes. To help achieve true customer satisfaction, manage-ment needs tools that allow for a holistic approach to analyzing these processes. This book provides that tool. It shows corporations how to analyze and enhance their critical processes in order to deliver the highest level of service to their internal and external customers. Providing a clear understanding of what process mapping can do for a company as well as practical applications for each step in process mapping, this useful guide outlines a proven method for assuring better processes and building a more customer-focused company.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Clinical Psychology in Practice presents an authoritative introduction to the issues facing clinical psychologists in practice, and how these issues are applied in a range of clinical settings with varied client groups across the life-span. Reflecting the editors' belief that clinical psychology is an integration of evolving theory, research and clinical practice, delivered within an ethical and reflective framework, contributors are drawn from both academic and clinical contexts.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is written to assist those who have responsibility for the nutritional and gastrointestinal care of children with neurodisability. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of multidisciplinary care. It is concerned with the problems surrounding the nutritional management of children with neurological impairment who have difficulty swallowing and feeding. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by a group of authors with considerable clinical and research experience in this area, it covers: The epidemiology of feeding disorders in children with cerebral palsy Nutritional assessment Evaluation of oral-motor function Dietetic management Nursing issues in the nutritional care of the disabled child Tube feeding Gastrointestinal problems and their investigatio.