A gentle stuffed bear who wears a pair of green overalls, Corduroy sits on a shelf in the toy section of a large department store, eagerly awaiting the day that someone will decide to buy him and bring him home. He thinks that day has finally come when a young girl named Lisa picks him up and declares that he's the very bear she's always wanted. ...
Is there more to yoga than toning and strengthening? What are the roots of our popular yoga culture? How can I learn more about the spiritual side of yoga practice? For anyone who has asked these questions, here are the answers-and for anyone else who wants to know more about the vast and intriguing world of yoga beyond the poses, this book is an ...
This title outlines a set of principles and analytical methods that can be adapted to different assessment scenarios designed to enable readers to construct their own effective methods for assessment. Guidelines for design and methods of planning, choosing and implementation are provided.
Chilton's original line of model-specific information covers older vehicles. Each manual offers repair and tune-up guidance designed for the weekend for the weekend mechanic, covering basic maintenance and troubleshooting. For the hobbyist or used car owner, this information is essential and unavailable elsewhere. All books are paperback.
A concise edition of Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George Washington. Brash and overly ambitious in his youth, George Washington is shown to have been reserved and selfless as general and President.
In 1996, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the findings of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. One million children were victims of substantiated child abuse and neglect in 1995, the most recent year as reported to HHS by state child protection services agencies. According to the ...
This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the lore and symbolism fragrance enjoyed in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe. By the early twentieth century, perfume's place as ...
In this study, Elliott and Freeman move beyond the debate on the relative merits and risks of a social clause in trade agreements and focus on practical approaches for improving labour standards in a more integrated global economy. The authors examine both what is being done in these areas, and what more needs to be done to ensure that steady and ...
The creator of Corduroy introduces a shy groundhog named Gregory, who feels brave only when his friend, Shadow, is close by. They become separated the day before Groundhog Day, and everyone will be waiting to see them both. Will they find each other in time? Full color.
Chilton's original line of model-specific information covers older vehicles. Each manual offers repair and tune-up guidance designed for the weekend for the weekend mechanic, covering basic maintenance and troubleshooting. For the hobbyist or used car owner, this information is essential and unavailable elsewhere. All books are paperback.
First published in the 1970s, this rediscovered gem is the evocative tale of a boy who takes on the monster lurking in his grandmother's home. Includes a new Introduction by Peck. Illustrations.
This analysis of the Sloan Foundation's survey of workplace democracy examines managers' and workers' attitudes toward cooperation, participation, representation, and regulation.
In the topsy turvy world of The Singing Bone, Richard Austin Freeman presents us with a solution. The reader is asked to deduce how different mysteries were solved rather than whodunit. Freeman introduces five distinct tales of intrigue, romance, mutiny and murder. The ingenuity of these detective stories lies in their fresh and original approach ...
"Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century" provides the first indepth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union ...
'For anyone starting a degree this is a useful concise guide to what's in store throughout the first year and beyond' - "The Psychologist". "Study Skills for Psychology" has been shaped around a typical Psychology student's journey. Beginning with an overview of the nature of the degree and advice about what needs to be sorted out in the first few ...
A book in the New Democratic Forum, published in conjunction with the "Boston Review", this volume addresses the problems of the new economy of the United States and clearly assesses the possibilities of narrowing these extremes.
The fifteen studies in The Youth Labor Market Problem detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our presents standard statistics as applied to youth unemployment: they point out the error in many commonly accepted views of the problem: and they show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood.
The author of this text concentrates on the management and support systems needed in open and distance learning, to help the reader decide whether an open learning system is appropriate for their given situation. The book, covering what learners, tutors/mentors and managers need from an open learning system, is a practical guide giving an overview ...
In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the world, marked by transformed welfare and industrial ...
Prompted by the growing internationalization of the U.S. labor market since the 1970s, contributors of this book provide an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the labor market impact of the international movements of people, goods, and capital.
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