wiley sep 1991 (66 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Why do planets spin How hot is the Sun What keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth What are Saturn's rings made of What's a black hole in space Now you can discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about basic astronomy. In Astronomy for Every Kid you'll learn about the constellations using a shoe box planetarium. You'll chart the movement of the stars with nothing but a string, a marker, and a nail. And you'll use a toy magnet to simulate the Earth's protective force field. Each of the 101 experiments is broken down into its purpose, a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an easy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom or at home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave: Biology for Every Kid Chemistry for Every Kid Dinosaurs for Every Kid Earth Science 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 - This amply illustrated, step-by-step activity book is sure to win the hearts of children and parents alike as it shows how to turn the fruits and vegetables found in most kitchens--carrots, popping corn, potatoes, peanuts, apples, beans, and others--into wonderful plants, fun crafts, and delicious treats.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With immunization against major childhood diseases widely available, parental concerns in the nineties are focused on safety issues. A handbook and working reference for parents of children from birth through high school. Using positive guidelines rather than a list of do's and don'ts, the book will help you provide your child with a sense of security and the ability to act and react in challenging situations. Topics covered include school, street, transportation, recreation and medical safety, spending time at home alone, sexual abuse and more. Parents 'and' children will learn how to handle the hazards of today's complex world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A humane blueprint for school reform that-instead of starting with a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them 'inservice' workshops ad infinitum-would build on the educational staff's existing strengths.'-The New York Times Book Review.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Schlechty's common-sense approach to restructuring is combined with a strategic planner's vision and the translation of beliefs into action. A wide audience, including principals and superintendents, can find in this book practical outlines for restructuring, and a distinctive and focused view of their role in the educational system sof the twenty-first century.' -The School Administrator.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the Mayan ruins of Guatemala to the Etruscan sites of Central Italy, whether you're an old hand or have never participated in a professional dig, here is the only up-to-date, comprehensive 'how-to' and 'where to' guide written for the thousands of amateur archaeologists and archaeological volunteers. Photos, drawings, and maps.

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 - Empowerment is essential! Self-directed work teams create an environment that empowers employees to contribute to the improvement of products and services. In the face of this challenge, employees experience greater opportunities and greater satisfaction. And they do a better job! Successful work teams call for a new kind of leadership and a bold new attitude about workforce organization. Self-Directed Work Teams shows how this leadership style changes the role of the supervisor and the way that work is managed. You'll learn to help workers feel like partners in their organizations by contributing to the improvement of products and services. Use these guiding principles, working models, key strategies, and action steps to create successful self-directed teams!

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employee involvement and brings together the best of each approach into a comprehensive model for implementing participative management at all levels in organizations. Drawing from his twenty-five years of research and practical experience, Lawler provides case examples of employee involvement programs at such companies as Procter and Gamble, Honeywell, General Motors, IBM, and Ford.'A balanced, temperate account of the merits and problems of participation in organizations.'--National Productivity Review.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR Detailed case studies reveal how nonprofits can achieve excellence by applying basic qualities of outstanding leadership: a clearly articulated sense of mission, a dynamic leader, and involved and committed governing board, and the ability to raise funds and motivate 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.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Publication of the National Center for Nonprofit Boards A concise yet comprehensive resource for the entire fund raising process. Shows why board members must take the lead in fund raising efforts, and show how this role can be personally satisfying.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bestselling author Arnold Goldstein has successfully purchased 12 companies on his own--from retail stores to printing plants--without using any of his own money. This book reveals his secrets--including how to find, qulaify, evaluate, structure, finance, negotiate, and close a business acquisition using little or no cash down.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'An important contribution to the field of adult education. Brookfield says what many have felt but been reluctant to voice and he does it with eloquence and grace.'.

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 - 'One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of university academic organization and leadership in print. This book is significant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and based on careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership and governance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable the author to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on one hand, 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.'The bottom line: Buy and read this book!'-American Journal of Health Promotion.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The complete guide to painless, mutually profitable performance appraisals How to do a Superior Performance Appraisal For anybody who equates doing a performance appraisal with a dental appointment, here's a complete guide to painless, mutually profitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author and Fortune 1000 consultant William S. Swan, it shows you how to transform what traditionally has been a source of potential conflict among managers and staff members, into a productive and mutually profitable process for both employer and employee.

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--whether a small liberal arts college or an urban campus--to complement the institution's unique educational purpose and mission.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Britain has been a member of the European Community since the start of 1973, but it is only recently, with the publicity given to the plans for the creation of the single market in 1992, and the role of the community in environmental and social policies, that the mass of the population of Britain have begun to notice the possibilities that membership holds. Mrs Thatcher's government has played down and resisted the increased integration that seems to be taking place in Europe, but it is unlikely that Britain can stand apart from this process much longer.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this revised and enlarged edition of their established textbook, Gavin Drewry and Tony Butcher bring their wide-ranging, critical survey of the British civil service fully up-to-date, concluding with an examination of the nature and significance of the 'Next Steps' programme which is currently transforming the structure and management of the civil service.

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 - Essential accounting advice for the nonprofit sphere.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In uncertain times like today's, one of the most popular yet misunderstood investment techniques is 'short selling'. Here is the first guide to fully explain the rewards and risks involved in short selling. Walker covers procedures and strategies for short selling stocks, stock options, index options, interest rate options, currency options, and commodities. Charts and tables.

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, itprovides 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.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A 'startling and pragmatic book'.

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.

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.

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.