wiley apr 2009 (108 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The greatest motivational book of all time!Napoleon Hill's thirteen step programme will set you on the path to wealth and success. Think and Grow Rich reveals the money-making secrets of hundreds of America's most affluent people. By thinking like them, you can become like them. This powerful 1937 classic, with analysis from self-development authority Tom Butler-Bowdon, will continue to be read through the decades of economic boom and bust, proving that the magic formula for making money never changes. 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'If you have an interest in optimum mental health, this book belongs on your shelf!' --AMY WEINTRAUB, author of Yoga for Depression.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written in Irv Yalom s inimitable story telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an 'awakening experience' a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A detailed look at the worst M&A deals ever and the lessons learned from themIt's common knowledge that about half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions destroy value for the buyer's shareholders, and about three-quarters fall short of the expectations prevailing at the time the deal is announced. In Deals from Hell, Robert Bruner, one of the foremost thinkers and educators in this field, uncovers the real reasons for these mishaps by taking a closer look at twelve specific instances of M&A failure. Through these real-world examples, he shows readers what went wrong and why, and converts these examples into cautionary tales for executives who need to know how they can successfully navigate their own M&A deals. These page-turning business narratives in M&A failure provide much-needed guidance in this area of business. By addressing the key factors to M&A success and failure, this comprehensive guide illustrates the best ways to analyze, design, and implement M&A deals. Filled with in-depth insights, expert advice, and valuable lessons gleaned from other M&A transactions, Deals from Hell helps readers avoid the common pitfalls associated with this field and presents them with a clear framework for thinking about how to make any M&A transaction a success.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Covers all the essential skills needed to improve academic performance, including speed-reading, note-taking and essay writing, for students at A-level through to university.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's 'owners,' whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.Evaluating CEO and Board Performance offers board members information on the importance of evaluation as part of a greater systematic view of governance. The guide includes principles for effectively and honestly evaluating CEO and board performance.The Policy Governance model is based on the functions rather than the structure of a governing board. It outlines commonsense principles about governing that fit together into an entire system. The practices of the Policy Governance board, which are consistent with the principles, allow it to control without meddling, focus on long-term organizational outputs, powerfully delegate to a CEO and staff, and discharge its fiduciary responsibility in a visionary, strategic manner. Because the model is a total system, the Carver Policy Governance Guide series offers boards a complete set of principles for fulfilling their various obligations.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's 'owners,' whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Evidence is something that all anthropologists must possess, and the collection of evidence in the field is still one of the main ingredients of what Bronislaw Malinowski once referred to as 'the ethnographer's magic'. And yet, despite this, the concept of evidence has received little sustained attention in print - especially when compared to related concepts, such as 'fieldwork', 'truth', 'facts', and 'knowledge'. All anthropologists use evidence, but precious few reflect on what it is - or isn't. This volume goes some way to correcting this state of affairs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's 'owners,' whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's 'owners,' whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There's no doubt about it: every conflict in every relationship involves two people with two different perceptions, and every solution requires two partners to arrive at a single shared perception. You can't repair a damaged relationship by yourself, and you can't change your partner into someone else. Does that mean the situation is hopeless Absolutely not!

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Insightful, fun, and transformative, Kimberly Douglas weaves practice and analogy into chapters that will spark the creativity of individuals, leaders, teams, and their organizations!' Marshall Goldsmith, NYT and WSJ #1 bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are cyborgs our friends or our enemies Was it morally right for Skynet to nuke us Is John Connor free to choose to defend humanity, or not Is Judgment Day inevitable The Terminator series is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever created, captivating millions with its edgy depiction of the struggle of humankind for survival against its own creations. This book draws on some of history's philosophical heavy hitters: Descartes, Kant, Karl Marx, and many more. Nineteen leather-clad chapters target with extreme prejudice the mysteries surrounding intriguing philosophical issues raised by the Terminator series, including the morality of terminating other people for the sake of peace, whether we can really use time travel to protect our future resistance leaders in the past, and if Arnold's famous T-101 is a real person or not. You'll say 'Hasta la vista, baby' to philosophical confusion as you develop a new appreciation for the complexities of John and Sarah Connor and the battles between Skynet and the human race.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joyful Reading.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is no doubt that innovation is an important topic, but it is a topic where boundaries have shifted in recent years. Companies need to understand the changes that have taken place, and how to keep pace with these changes so that innovation remains relevant and of value to their business.Innovation is one of the least well-managed areas in most companies. It is not, however, the amount of effort that companies put into innovation that decides success - instead it is how firms go about doing innovation that decides success or failure. In particular, how well the various parts of the organization collaborate on key tasks.The Innovation Manual is about identifying the key tasks and showing how organizations can collaborate on these tasks better. The author suggests frameworks and tools that can promote the right collaboration at the right time. Surprisingly, organizations will learn that most of the knowledge on how to innovate successfully exists - the real challenge is not to learn more but to bring this knowledge to bear more effectively.The unique approach taken in this book empowers the reader with a sharper and more usable understanding of knowledge on successful value innovation, as well as the tools to enable them to apply this knowledge in their company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that yield bottom line results.\* Practical step by step guidance and examples\* Realities associated with implementing best practices and avoiding common pitfalls\* Jobs and circumstances where common practices will and will not work well\* Proven approaches from leading organizations\* Insights for everyone involved in performance management through senior leadership.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres.\* Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction\* Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre\* Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences\* Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more\* A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is Meaning Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works.\* Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory\* Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language\* Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a lively, non-technical, and up-to-date account, this book addresses the core questions that surround the issues of agricultural subsidies.\* Explores these questions: Why do we have subsidies How did they evolve What is the present and possible future of subsidies What is their impact on a typical African farmer \* Written for the general public, this book will also be useful for courses in Agricultural Policy\* Provides a detailed examination of subsidy histories and the current policies of the United States, various European countries, Australia and New Zealand, and Korea and Japan\* Includes a discussion of how these policies affect developing countries--examining, in particular, their impact on many African farmers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fifth edition of this bestselling text instructs students on the basic styles, principles, and techniques of radio and TV newswriting. It makes an ideal supplement to basic newswriting texts or radio and TV industry texts.\* Offers clear instruction, examples and exercises to guide beginning students in correct radio and TV news style\* Fully updated and with even more examples, exercises and tests\* The author has extensive radio and TV news experience, both on-the-air and behind the scenes as a producer, news writer, videographer, newscaster, sportscaster, host and reporter.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leading for Learning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through a collection of new, previously unpublished essays, The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics addresses diverse topics crucial to our understanding of Kant's moral philosophy and its implications for the modern age.\* Provides a fresh perspective on themes in Kant's moral philosophy\* Addresses systematically Kant's foundational work, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and his more specific treatment of justice and virtue in The Metaphysics of Morals\* Includes essays by both established scholars and rising stars\* Identifies common misperceptions of Kant's thought and challenges some prevailing interpretations\* Shows how Kant developed and supplemented his earlier ethical thought with specific discussions of practical issues in law, international relations, personal relations, and self-regarding virtues and vices.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discursive Practice is a theory of the linguistic and socio-cultural characteristics of recurring episodes of face-to-face interaction, episodes that have social and cultural significance to a community of speakers. This book examines the discursive practice approach to language-in-interaction, explicating the consequences of grounding language use and language learning in a view of social realities as discursively constructed, of meanings as negotiated through interaction, of the context-bound nature of discourse, and of discourse as social action. The book also addresses how participants' abilities in a specific discursive practice may be learned, taught, and assessed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following the GMC's call for greater social and behavioural science input into undergraduate medical education,this brand new title in the Lecture Notes series provides an understanding of how education, social class, family, economics and occupational circumstances, as well as cultural and ethnic influences, shape patients and health professionals alike. A deeper appreciation and understanding of these issues can have a positive effect on clinical diagnosis and practice.Emphasising clinical relevance at all times, the book features photographs and line drawings to illustrate key points, and case studies that provide real-life illustrations of the points discussed. It also contains 'points of view' boxes which encourage critical thinking and challenge the reader to come up with their own explanations for the phenomena described. Lecture Notes: The Social Basis of Medicine provides information and materials useful not only for undergraduate medical students, but also for recently graduated and practising doctors who wish to have a greater understanding of, and to develop their skills in, this area.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By combining excerpts from key historical writings with commentary by experts, Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology provides a comprehensive history of the philosophy of science from ancient to modern times.\* Provides a comprehensive history of the philosophy of science, from antiquity up to the 20th century\* Includes extensive commentary by scholars putting the selected writings in historical context and pointing out their interconnections\* Covers areas rarely seen in philosophy of science texts, including the philosophical dimensions of biology, chemistry, and geology\* Designed to be accessible to both undergraduates and graduate students.