wiley sep 2004 (84 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Free Yourself from THE ANGER TRAP.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This important new book deals with the changing nature of war in the post--Cold War era and the emergence of new forms of warfare in which warlords, mercenaries and terrorists play an increasingly important role.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A new edition of the do-it-yourselfers guide to selling a home Yes, homeowners can sell their homes without paying a brokers fees. But its a tricky business. How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker, Fourth Edition, informs homeowners of all they need to know and walks them step-by-step through the entire selling process. This new edition is updated and revised to include new information on seller financing and second mortgages, as well as any and all recent tax law reforms. With worksheets, tax forms, sample contracts, and other valuable documents, as well as all the latest on using the Internet to sell a home, How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker is a reliable, comprehensive guide for homeowners who want to get the best deal possible. Bill Carey (Bedford, TX) has been a Realtor in both California and Texas, as well as a public speaker. Chantal Howell Carey (Bedford, TX) is a Texas real estate broker. Suzanne Kiffman (Fargo, FL) is a professional writer.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can either provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities, or trap and prevent their further development. The good thing about these rites of passages is that they're predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can weather them but also become more effective leaders as a result. This book lays out specific 'leadership passages' based on the authors' research, interviews, and coaching experiences in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of these passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with failure or the loss of a job, losing faith in 'the system,' understanding the importance of family and friends, and the impact of personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve leadership skills, along with real-life examples from well-known leaders.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Your Financial Action Plan outlines twelve simple steps that will improve your level of financial literacy as well as help you forge the financial future you desire.Today, financial knowledge means financial power, and in Your Financial Action Plan, you ll be introduced to the important personal financial issues that affect your life.With this book as your guide, you ll learn how to: Make the most of your mortgage Maintain a good credit rating Build your retirement savings Negotiate with your local bank to get the best deals Navigate the ins and outs of insurance Create a will Handle tax deductions and credits And much moreFilled with practical guidance and extensive expertise, Your Financial Action Plan will help you build the type of financial life you ve always wanted.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Most marketing and branding books fall into one of two camps: either they are about leaders or they assume that brands can be managed by process alone. The Pirate Inside is different. It forwards the idea that brands are about people, and Challenger Brands are driven by a certain kind of person in a certain kind of way. Challenger Brands don't rely on CEOs or founders, but on the people within the organization whose personal qualities and approach to what they do make the difference between whether the brand turns to gold or falls to dust.In line with this thinking, The Pirate Inside forwards two key questions: what does it take to be the driver or guardian of a successful Challenger Brand, and what are the demands made by this on character and corporate culture Building on his answers, Adam Morgan then explores the critical issue of whether big, multi-brand companies can create Challenger micro-climates within their companies, and the benefits that they might achieve by doing so.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A twenty-first-century update to the modern business classic . . .For more than fifteen years, this handy guide has provided entrepreneurs and small business owners with a simple, step-by-step plan for buying or selling a business-without their own special team of lawyers and accountants. Written by leading business attorney Robert Klueger, this up-to-date guide now includes everything you need to know about recent tax law changes, as well as an entirely new chapter on limited liability companies. It answers all your critical questions, covering everything from the valuation of a business through the negotiation stages to closing the deal.Packed with the kind of real-world guidance you can only get from a professional, Buying & Selling a Business, Second Edition shows you how to: Choose a business that s right for you Evaluate the business, determine why the seller is selling, analyze the seller s operations, and analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow Negotiate effectively-including negotiating for price, timing, stock and asset agreements, noncompetitive agreements, and more Buy a franchise-key considerations that make a franchise different Ensure a hassle-free closing with no surprises.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This practical, real-world guide gives investors all the tools they need to make wise decisions when weighing the value and potential of investment properties. Written for old pros as well as novice investors, this friendly, straightforward guide walks readers step by step through every stage of property analysis. Whether you're buying or selling, investing in big commercial properties or single-family rentals, you'll find expert guidance and handy resources on every aspect of real estate finance, including:

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With Support, Humor, and Perspective, This Provocative Book Outlines New Options for Businesswomen.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Boardroom Excellence, author Paul Brountas, a corporate attorney with more than forty years experience, discusses the qualities and components of effective boards in today's post-Enron environment. Written in a concise format, the book is filled with informative practical advice for board members of private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Boardroom Excellence contains an informed discussion of fundamental corporate governance issues, including the duties and responsibilities of directors and the proper interaction of the board with the CEO and management. Brountas reveals how board members can be most effective when they are independent, possess integrity, are well-informed and involved, and are proactive. Boardroom Excellence offers timely information about\* Establishing the values and qualities that board members should possess\* Developing an environment in the boardroom where skepticism and serious discussion are encouraged\* Understanding what the CEO expects of the board and what the board expects of the CEO\* Creating effective independent audit, compensation, nominating, and governance committees\* Formulating guidelines for periodic evaluation of the performance of the board and individual board members.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The same critical information top business schools teachBased on Professor Stralser's popular seminar series, MBA in a Day is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepreneur/small business owner, who needs to know about the 'business-side' of their practice, organization or business. With comprehensive coverage of vital business topics, important concepts and proven strategies taught at top graduate schools, this handy book offers a complete business education without the hassle of enrolling in an MBA program. Divided into four sections covering management and policy; economics, finance, and accounting; marketing; and systems and processes; this straightforward guide is easy to navigate and simple to use. Packed with illustrative examples, helpful anecdotes, and real-world case studies, this commonsense guide covers everything busy professionals would learn at the very best business schools-if they only had the time.Steven Stralser, PhD (Phoenix, AZ), is Clinical Professor and Managing Director, The Global Entrepreneurship Center at Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management and founder and CEO of The Center for Professional Development, Inc., an organization dedicated to post-graduate training and education of today's professionals.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Packed with fun-filled word scrambles, categorization tasks, and writing activities, 'Whats Up in Science will develop critical thinking and analytical skills in your students. While solutions are provided for the puzzle exercises, some of the problems are open-ended and have no definitive answers, showing that scientific inquiry generates tough questions and that knowledge changes as new evidence becomes available.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How companies turn value-added into real profitsThe Dollarization Discipline shows organizations and marketers how to effectively communicate the economic value created by their products and services. Too often, when companies compete using conventional sales and marketing approaches, they force customers to make financial decisions (how much to spend), based on non-financial arguments (product features and benefits). On this playing field, the company that can show true financial advantage in real dollars and cents wins every time. This book offers a step-by-step strategy for doing just that.Every day, good companies suffer because they create value for customers but aren't able to keep their fair share. This is because most marketers can't fully explain the value customers get from their products, and the argument falls to the lowest common denominator-price. The solution is an approach to sales and marketing that goes beyond articulating features and benefits, but calculates the monetary value a customer receives from a product or service. This enables the seller to price the product as a true reflection of its value-and also let's the seller prove it to the customer!With real case studies and detailed, step-by-step guidance on effective dollarization, The Dollarization Discipline finally offers a practical, straightforward way for marketers and business leaders to prove the value of their 'value-added.'Jeffrey J. Fox (Gilford, New Hampshire) is the founder and President of Fox & Company, Inc., a marketing consulting firm. Fox is also the author of the bestsellers How to Become a CEO, How to Become a Rainmaker, and How to Become a Great Boss. Richard C. Gregory (Farmington, Connecticut) is a Senior Consultant with Fox & Company.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Intelligence: A Brief History is a lively and accessible look at the origins of the field of intelligence. The book explores the nature and measurement of intelligence, examines approaches to teaching intelligence, and discusses individual and group differences in intelligence. Readers will receive an historical overview of the field as well as a good understanding of its major ideas.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - \* Shows film and video makers new to Final Cut Pro how to get down to work with this complicated, professional-level video editing software\* The Macintosh platform, which includes Final Cut Pro, owns 58 percent of the video editing software market\* Topics covered include working with new program features, organizing media, using advanced editing tools, harnessing audio and video filters, applying transitions, creating motion effects, compositing, rendering, and outputting to tape, CD, DVD, or the Web.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Get current costs for your location on projects like these: - Room additions, garages and sunrooms- Decks, patios, porches and pergolas- Landscaping, sprinkler systems and outdoor lighting- Fences, walls, driveways and walkways- New windows and doors- Roofing, siding and painting.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Now more than ever, prospective clients want to invest and protect their hard-earned money with financial professionals who are viewed as the respected experts in their local areas. Investors are worried about the stock market, baby-boomers are focused on retirement planning, and everyone wants to make the best decisions to maximize their wealth. How can you easily attract these ideal clients who are looking for help By becoming a financial expert in your local media!

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Heres the real plumbers friend This fully revised guide gives you plumbing essentials, illustrations, tips, shortcuts -the lowdown on brazing, soldering, pipe fittings, commercial water coolers, automatic bathroom systems, and more. All this and much more.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Home wiring is serious business Thats why, especially if youre not an electrician, you need the clear, well-ordered guidance in this book-the same one you may have seen in your fathers toolbox. Now fully updated to cover home networking and other 21st century developments, this all-new edition gives you the guidelines, rules, and step-by-step instructions you need to do the job safely and with confidence.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Corporate Governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. Gone are the days when CEOs set agendas and earned 500 times more than average employees. Now, transparency rules. Corporations must establish new systems of accountability, and encourage long-term participation in decision-making by both shareholders and staff. Those that succeed will be better equipped to create wealth, solve complex problems, and compete in global markets.The role of the directorate and the need to ensure an effective framework for its accountability to owners is paramount to success. In line with this thinking, Mastering Global Corporate Governance argues that one of the key responsibilities of the Board is leadership, and that the root of good corporate governance lies in the strength of a corporate leader. In particular, it focuses on two 'burning issues' for senior executives: how can the boards of global companies best lead their companies through the fundamental dilemmas that face all boards ; and how can Boards, entrusted with ultimate responsibility for the way a company exercises leadership, provide that leadership.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Extending the scenario method beyond interface design, this important book shows developers how to design more effective systems by soliciting, analyzing, and elaborating stories from end-users Contributions from leading industry consultants and opinion-makers present a range of scenario techniques, from the light, sketchy, and agile to the careful and systematic Includes real-world case studies from Philips, DaimlerChrysler, and Nokia, and covers systems ranging from custom software to embedded hardware-software systems.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of today's business world. Face-to-face meetings between people of similar backgrounds have given way to increasingly complex working relationships. Organizations must be able to gain rapid access to knowledgeable people to meet constantly changing conditions and demands. More fluid, flexible, and easily reconfigurable collaborative relationships are necessary to produce the innovations that can make or break organizations3/4even entire industries3/4 and provide the opportunities that attract the talented and motivated employees who will make the difference between success and failure.Business Without Boundaries helps managers address these challenges. The authors explore a number of wide-ranging, real-world cases to identify hands-on principles for successful collaboration. They offer managers and executives practical steps and tools for creating, facilitating, and supporting complex collaborations throughout their organizations. And they explain how to 'team' across boundaries in the new global economy. The recommendations are specific enough to apply to particular forms of complex collaboration (for example supply chains, global product development teams, interorganizational alliances) but general enough to apply to new forms that have yet to emerge.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900.Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read.Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology, law and biology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Research-Productive Department is an innovative, eminently practical book that provides readers with two critical tool sets: a user-friendly summary of over 40 years of literature on the essential characteristics of research-productive organizations, plus a wealth of descriptive examples of how these characteristics are actually manifest in a large number of highly research-productive academic departments and schools. The strategies presented here are based on the literature on research productivity and on interviews with chairs and deans of 37 departments, colleges, and schools in the University of Minnesota system, all highly ranked nationally for their research capacity and accomplishments, yet representing diverse disciplines, college types, and community settings. The end result is an engaging exposition of best practices and lessons learned that readers can adopt as is or otherwise adapt to best fit their own institutional settings.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Literature and Film is a superb collection of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. Bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field, this guide contains astute and readable contributions - both theoretical and thematic - on the translation of literary into filmic texts.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Medieval Lyric is a lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written primarily between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of the ballads. The volume introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English poetry and includes poems of mourning and of celebration, poems dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and to Christ, poems inviting or disparaging love, poems about sex, and more.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader demonstrates the centrality of the complicated relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Although heterosexuality has been interrogated and demystified, it retains normative dominance. By drawing on the multiple fresh and illuminating perspectives of anthropology, this landmark collection moves beyond other lesbian and gay studies readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities by presenting the lives of a range of individuals across cultural and temporal domains.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by a leading figure in film and literary studies, this accessible textbook offers a first-rate analysis of the process and the art of literature-to-film adaptations.Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from 'Don Quixote' and 'Robinson Crusoe' up to 'Lolita' and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptationsExamines numerous literary trends - from the self-conscious novel to magic realism - before exploring the cinematic impact of the movementReinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theoryBrings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.