Author Steven Brown, a nationally recognized professional trainer and consultant, provides the essential guide for effective managers and provides suggestions for getting the best performance from employees.
"The gumshoe go-toarevised and updated." Easy-to-use and fantastically inclusive, this is the book on private investigation, whether you want to establish yourself as a professional or just use some of the tools of a P.I. for your own business. Youall get the low-down on pre-employment research, tenant screening, adoption searches, safeguarding ...
This is a celebration in word and image of the birds who return each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest - and how they link every point on the globe. 200 colour photos from award-wining nature photographers, Subhankar Banerjee, Steven Kazlowski and Arthur Morris are included. Essays by noted writers, biologists and ...
An accessible introduction to applied linguistics. This clearly-written, easy-to-understand book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works - such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists - but who do not intend to become linguists. "Understanding Language ...
Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas - nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself. The primary purpose of the ...
What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by scholars on ...
More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but the United States has yet to reach a consensus on a coherent approach to the international use of American power. The essays in this volume present contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy. US policy options include primacy, cooperative security, selective ...
When his mother is too busy to give him a bath, a little boy observes how a variety of wild creatures clean themselves. But will splashing in a puddle (like a bird), or licking his hands (like a cat licking its fur) make the little boy cleaner? Color illustrations accompany the text.
This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and ...
In today's changing political and economic environment, it is increasingly important that companies learn to properly use the various trading instruments to protect themselves against price volatility. In this 2nd edition of their best-selling primer, authors Errera and Brown explain how exchange traded futures and options markets work, and how ...
This thematically arranged anthology of thought-provoking philosophical readings helps students construct a moral view on individual questions of life values. Unusually wide coverage of topics makes students think about issues affecting them directly (religion, friendship, sexual relations) as well as broader concerns (world hunger, capital ...
Current debates about the nature of international politics have centered on the clash between supporters and critics of realism. This work brings together a number of recent essays written in the realist tradition. It includes realist interpretations of the collapse of the Cold War order and of the emerging order that has replaced it, the sources ...
The most feared undead in existence, the Sabbat are the primary foes of Vampire characters. This book provides extensive information on this terrible sect, including history, new clans and rules for running one of the Sabbat.
Feng shui practitioner Saunders and restaurateur Brown show readers how to manipulate chi energy to bring about positive changes through balanced meals--including the selection of ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and table decoration. More than 100 feng shui-inspired recipes are presented. Color throughout.
This book is the first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right In litigating cases regarding religion using the Free Speech Clause of the United States Constitution. Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts ...
Providing readers with additional, previously unreleased information about the War of Souls time period in the Dragonlance( series, this guide offers insight into the everyday lives of the characters. Original.
Bill Holm is internationally recognized as a leading expert on Northwest Coast, Plateau, and Plains Indian art. As curator emeritus of Native American art at the Burke Museum, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Washington, and author of numerous books and articles, including the classic work "Northwest Coast Indian Art: An ...
A collection of works by 20th-century poets who were all born or raised in the American South. Along with an acknowledgement of the contributions of the most popular figures in southern poetry, attention is given to under-recognized poets such as Anne Spencer and John Beecher.
Consumers are bombarded with competing health-care suggestions. Too often, decisions are made from emotions, peer pressure, or marketing, rather than through careful investigation. Steven L. Brown guides readers through issues impacting medical choices, weaving a Christian worldview throughout his approach. Beginning with the positive and negative ...
The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to listen through a careful balance ...
This is a training book for runners at all levels and a text for fitness running classes. It contains 60 easy-to-use, colour-coded running workouts that add variety to exercise routines, and instructions on using the workouts to set up a personalized running programme. In the first part readers learn how to: choose running equipment and clothing; ...
"Persona" combines striking photographic portraits of drag queens, cross dressers, and female impersonators with interviews that illuminate the fun and the freedom, the motivations and the magic of these "gender illusionists". Provocative and free of judgment, "Persona" offers a glimpse into a vibrant, fascinating world known only to a few. 80 ...
This completely revised and updated fourth edition of the "Handbook of Counseling Psychology" presents a cross-disciplinary survey of the entire field combining a scholarly review of important areas of counseling psychology with current and insightful analyses of topics. The new edition equips you with a leading resource containing the latest ...
Human Feelings provides a comprehensive overview of the role of emotions in human life. Growing out of the research and writing of members of the Harvard Affect Study Group, the volume brings to bear different disciplinary outlooks and different modes of inquiry on various aspects of human affective experience. The book opens with an section of ...
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